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

In the year 168899 of the Extraordinary Calendar, a silent yet profound evolution occurred within the Red Heart Society's power structure and social trends.

[The path of faith, once considered unorthodox and potentially misguided, has, under the catalysis of the concept of nurturing all worlds and the successful examples set by some practitioners, exhibited a strange, almost abnormal, vigorous development.]

Many members of the Red Heart Society, whether due to limited talent for understanding their own rules, a desire for faster power acquisition, or simply the attraction of the relatively easy path of growth through faith, devoted themselves to the study and practice of their faith and divine way.

They improved the divine rune system and optimized the rituals for collecting and purifying faith, quietly establishing faith experimental zones of varying sizes, some overt and some covert, on the fringes of the Red Heart Society's vast territory or in some newly conquered areas with relatively lax supervision.

What follows is an unavoidable and increasingly acute contradiction.

Although the sources of faith can be diverse, including reverence for natural phenomena, worship of powerful individuals, and unwavering commitment to a particular ideology, etc.

However, through extensive comparative experiments and data analysis, practitioners arrived at a conclusion that excited them but also required them to treat with caution.

The power of faith generated by humankind, in terms of quality, purity, and efficiency of absorption and transformation, far surpasses that of any other known intelligent race or non-intelligent object of worship.

The emotional spectrum and spiritual fluctuations inherent in human faith seem to resonate almost perfectly with the modified divine rune system, resulting in a faith power with minimal impurities.

[At the same time, the side effects of shaping divinity are relatively controllable, and the output of faith per unit population is stable and considerable.]

In short, human faith is the most cost-effective of all known sources of faith.

However, the Red Heart Law contains clear and strict provisions prohibiting the shepherding, enslavement, or exploitation of human beings to extract the power of faith in any form.

This law stems from the defense of the dignity of life and aims to prevent exploitation and alienation based on caste within civilization. It is a concrete manifestation of the sincere ideal of equality in the extraordinary realm.

Faced with the allure of the highest form of human faith and the rapid power boosts offered by the path of faith, many practitioners of this faith begin to take risks, repeatedly crossing this red line.

Their methods have become increasingly covert and sophisticated. Since the law forbids them from doing so within the core territory and clearly defined jurisdiction of the Red Heart Society, they operate far from its heartland.

They turned their attention to nascent worlds and untamed regions that were not yet fully under direct administration or had just been discovered and lacked a well-established order.

Even more extreme, some have exploited the complex, unpredictable, and difficult-to-monitor spacetime environment deep within the Star Abyss, secretly establishing completely independent divine kingdoms of faith in some profound void rifts or dimensional interlayers, expending considerable resources.

Then, they came from some ordinary life-bearing planets, unrecorded by the Red Heart Society, which had naturally given rise to primitive humans.

[Afterwards, under the guise of divine revelation, redemption, and migration, they lured or directly abducted a group of humans as the initial seeds of faith, transplanting them into these hidden divine kingdoms.]

There, they provided these humans with a relatively safe living environment, abundant basic resources, and even secretly guided them to develop primitive religions or worship cultures conducive to the formation of stable beliefs.

[Anyway, as long as the seeds are sown and food and land are provided, these wild humans can easily thrive!]

Especially in the divine realm environment, where there are no natural enemies, no large-scale epidemics, and extremely low survival pressure, the number of these domesticated human populations has increased almost exponentially.

The population explosion directly translates into a massive output of faith power.

[From the perspective of violators, this is a highly profitable deal with theoretically avoidable risks.] [Driven by enormous profits and the侥幸心理 (a gambler's mentality) that the law will not punish everyone, naturally many practitioners of the faith path secretly engage in such activities, forming a vast and intricate underground network of interests.]

The emergence and spread of this phenomenon stems from deeper issues beyond mere greed for power; it is also closely related to the subtle transformation of the overall ideology within the Red Heart Society.

As the Red Heart Society conquers countless worlds, expands its territory to an unprecedented level, and grows in power, a latent sense of doubt and alienation towards one of the core tenets of the Red Heart Society's ideology—human rights and equality—is quietly growing among its new generation of members.

In their view, so-called human rights equality is more like an old, outdated, and even somewhat hypocritical political correctness slogan.

Their real-world experience and understanding of power told them that this was simply a matter of understanding the underlying principles.

[A demigod who can crush hundreds or even thousands of ninth-tier professionals with a single finger—how can there be any equality between him and a ninth-tier professional?]

What equality can there be between a true god of rules, who can obliterate a demigod with a single thought, and a demigod?

Since higher-dimensional forces possess absolute power of life and death over lower-dimensional beings, and can annihilate them at will, why would the powerful genuinely care about the lives of ants and so-called equal rights?

As for the possibility that one might be treated as an ant and easily annihilated by a higher-level being in the future?

Many emerging powerhouses harbor a peculiar indifference or wishful thinking about this; they don't care!

[Or rather, they believe it's a distant and low-probability event, insufficient to justify current self-discipline.]

[Influenced by this power-first rhetoric, some radical new-generation elites have begun to openly or semi-openly advocate that the Red Heart Society should undergo an ideological reform, shedding its outdated egalitarian views that are no longer suitable for the new era.]

[Let the Pure Heart return to the most authentic and naked laws of the universe, namely, the pure state of strict hierarchical division based on power levels.]

The strong should rightfully enjoy more resources, greater power, and even a certain degree of control over the weak; this is the order that aligns with the natural order and the truth of power.

This social movement, aimed at overthrowing the very foundation of the Red Heart Society, has not yet become mainstream, but its ideology has already begun to permeate society.

[This objectively provides a distorted theoretical basis and a potential increase in social tolerance for the behavior of those who believe in a true God who illegally shepherd humanity and treat humans as resources for their faith rather than equals.]

The Red Heart Society has existed for hundreds of thousands of years!

[After such a long period of time, the Red Heart Society should undergo profound reforms!]

Furthermore, the Red Heart Society has been destroyed several times already.

[Is the new Red Heart Society, built upon the ruins of the old Red Heart Society, really going to care about the order established by a bunch of old fogies?]

That was the old order!

[And they want a new order!] (End of Chapter)