You want me to take out a loan to practice cultivation? I'll just pay off the debt physically.

【what? 】

Has the Abyss gone mad?

In that instant, the boundless perception of the spirit realm's will, which covered the entire universe, was utterly bewildered.

His core deduction matrix, composed of countless laws of order, like an overloaded precision instrument, utterly collapsed into chaos before the abyssal will's earth-shattering declaration.

Looking at the embodiment of the will of the abyss, radiating chaos and madness, He felt for the first time a bottomless sense of bewilderment and confusion.

Throughout His long, almost eternal years, there were always true gods whispering behind His back that His ways were unfathomable and difficult to understand.

After all, the subtle manipulations of the spirit realm's will sometimes defy comprehension even for true gods, who remain unaware of the spirit realm's intentions.

But at this moment, the Spirit Realm's will was absolutely certain that compared to the Abyss's will, which had completely let loose, its own decisions based on maximizing order and self-interest were practically exemplary.

He simply couldn't understand! He couldn't comprehend why the abyss would so frantically aid the enemy.

[It's incomprehensible what kind of twisted, chaotic, and irrational logic lies behind this almost suicidal generosity.]

The actions of the Abyss's Will completely overturned the Spirit Realm's understanding of the Great World's Will's fundamental survival principle of seeking advantage and avoiding harm.

This is no longer just incomprehensible; it's utter madness, a madness that makes even the fundamental laws of the universe tremble.

[And that determination to drag the wills of the three great worlds down with him before his death caused a slight tremor in the spirit realm's will.]

As the oldest, most powerful, and most order-conscious of the three great worlds, its ultimate goal is naturally to devour the Abyss and Hell, completely submerging chaos and disorder under the radiance of order.

However, His philosophy of annexation is one of slow assimilation, like boiling a frog in lukewarm water, through the gradual infiltration of rules and subtle influence, aiming to achieve the greatest territorial expansion at the lowest cost.

What He least wants to see is either the Abyss or Hell, driven to the brink, resorting to a suicidal, reckless attack aimed at causing maximum destruction, disregarding both survival and the consequences!

This extreme behavior, which injures the enemy by 800 while harming oneself by 1000, or even harms the enemy by 1000 while harming oneself by 2000, completely violates the cost-benefit principle carefully calculated by the spirit realm's will.

The reason is simple: the world is a tripartite balance of power.

[If one side were to fight Him recklessly to the point of mutual destruction, even if the spirit realm ultimately triumphs, it would certainly be a Pyrrhic victory.]

[Having suffered a severe blow to its very essence, what will the cunning and calculating Will of Hell, which has been lurking in the shadows, do?]

[It will be like the most greedy vulture, swooping down to tear apart and devour the wounded victor and the defeated corpse together.]

This outcome of benefiting others is absolutely intolerable to the will of the spirit world.

In that instant, an extremely rare urge to end things even quietly crept into the core of the spirit world's will.

[Ending this escalating and increasingly out-of-control battle of wits, allowing all three parties to go home and lick their wounds, and maintaining this fragile triangular balance, may be the most rational choice at present.]

However, when His vast will swept across the main battlefield, a scene of carnage resembling a cosmic meat grinder, this impulse to retreat was immediately thwarted by the enchanting sight before Him.

He saw that, under the precise command of the God of War and the valiant fighting of the gods, the elite legion of true gods in the spirit world was like the sharpest spearhead.

Despite occasional setbacks caused by attacks from True Gods of Rules like Ye Lingtian, they were still able to seize fleeting opportunities, repeatedly tearing apart the Abyss's riddled defenses and pouncing into the heart of the Abyss's core region like hungry wolves.

Every successful incursion is accompanied by a near-predatory plunder of the abyss's very essence.

Although each attempt was repelled in a very short time, the plundering during this period was meant to sway the will of the spirit realm.

The primordial substances containing the power of chaos were continuously purified like sweet rain, transforming into nourishment for the spirit realm's territory and rules.

[Let's do a simple estimate of the potential gains: if He can ultimately defeat the Abyss and completely devour and transform its essence.]

The benefits of this war will not only replenish the depletion of authority and essence lost to the parasites in the god-making project, but will also allow the spirit realm to expand further and become even more stable.

Even more remarkably, the vast majority of the depletion and loss of vital energy caused by this brutal divine war fell entirely on the shoulders of the Abyss. The Abyss was like a bull being continuously bled dry, growing weaker and more frenzied.

This is perhaps the fundamental reason why the Abyss's will is now exhibiting a desperate, suicidal tendency; it has been driven to the brink and has no choice but to drag others down with it.

Not far away, the will of hell, embodied in countless interwoven runes of contracts, precisely captured the subtle fluctuations of the will of the abyss, filled with despair and madness, and the will of the spirit realm, weighed with cold rationality.

However, faced with this high-level dialogue concerning the survival of the world, the Will of Hell chose to remain silent.

His scarlet light flickered slightly in the void, conveying an almost detached indifference.

The continued weakening of the Abyss signifies a sharp decline in the overall strength of the Chaos faction. The fragile dynamic balance that was previously barely maintained with the Order faction has been completely shattered, and in the future, it may very well face a situation where it is completely suppressed by the Order.

From the perspective of the overall factional conflict, this seems to be very disadvantageous for Hell.

But to be honest, deep down, the will of hell is absolutely ecstatic.

This joy even outweighed any lingering anxieties about the future.

[Because of the Abyss's Will, that damned mad dog, for those incredibly long and outrageous years, relying on its slightly greater strength, it practically treated Hell as its backyard and blood bank.]

They fight when they want, rob when they want, and launch wars every now and then to harvest the essence and souls of hell.

This humiliation, this oppression that gnaws at your bones, has been endured by the will of hell for far too long.

Now, watching the Abyss get beaten black and blue by the combined forces of the Spirit Realm and those True Gods of Rules, its essence leaking out wildly, and even forced to self-destruct, the Will of Hell feels a sense of pleasure.

Yes, the future may be tough for the chaotic faction, but at least the mad dog that chased and bit it every day has finally been chained and had its claws broken.

The current situation, while somewhat exceeding Hell's initial projections, ultimately aligns perfectly with Hell's core objective: to sacrifice fellow Daoists rather than oneself.

Most importantly, He believed that Chixin would inevitably stand in opposition to the spiritual realm in the future.

In this way, the strength of the chaotic faction has not actually decreased by much.

[The Red Heart Society is the weakest, and the Abyss, in order to replenish its own losses, will inevitably target the Red Heart Society.]

Only then can He profit from this internal strife.

Of course, it would be even better if Hell could take a big bite at the crucial moment at the end!

In February of the 388th year of the Extraordinary Calendar, a momentous event shocked the entire universe atop the highest point of the God War.

Lord of Wisdom!

This ancient being from the spirit realm, a powerful true god born at the very edge of the universe, was actually killed on the spot by Ye Lingtian during his pursuit.

After Ye Lingtian killed a top-tier True God, the mysterious rules of slaughter swirled around him.

Normally, when Ye Lingtian enters a state of enlightenment, that's the most suitable time to attack.

The Lord of Death, being an ancient being of the same kind, should not let this opportunity slip by.

But the Lord of Death made no move at this moment.

[Because this person is also contemplating death.]

[Obviously!]

The Lord of Death also played a significant role in the fall of the Lord of Wisdom. (End of Chapter)