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

[In the year 173321 of the Extraordinary Calendar, the size of the group that worships the True God and its illegal activities have grown to a point where the higher-ups of the Red Heart Society can no longer ignore them.]

Although the Path of Faith has brought a considerable number of newly ascended true gods, superficially strengthening the Red Heart Society's elite fighting force, its side effects, such as internal corruption, the collapse of laws, and ideological conflicts, are becoming increasingly apparent.

The Supreme Council and related oversight bodies of the Red Heart Society have intensified their investigations and crackdowns on those who illegally use faith in the true God to support and exploit humanity, with increasingly frequent arrests.

However, carrying out this task itself has fallen into a certain awkward predicament.

[Due to the specialized and clandestine nature of matters involving faith, and the fact that violators are often members of the same system.]

Therefore, the teams responsible for the specific pursuit, investigation, and evidence collection are often led by relatively innocent demigods or true gods of the rules, who have less involvement with networks of religious interests.

The reason is obvious: if those who believe in demigods or the true God were to be responsible for investigating and arresting their peers, it would be tantamount to investigating themselves.

Given the potential for cover-ups, collusion, and the transfer of benefits within a belief system, as well as unique methods such as soul contracts and faith intuition, what can such an investigation possibly uncover?

[What is ultimately submitted may very well be carefully selected, embellished, and insignificant cases, or minor figures pushed out to take the blame.]

The investigation results will always be the processed parts of the truth that the group that believes in the true God wants the higher-ups of the Red Heart Society to know, and will never reach the deeper networks and key figures.

This situation, where law enforcement officers and potential offenders belong to the same power system and have inherent vested interests and information barriers, means that while arrest operations are frequent, they are often more bark than bite, failing to fundamentally curb this unhealthy trend.

On the contrary, to some extent, it exacerbated the distrust, antagonism, and potential factional conflicts between practitioners of the rule-based system and those of the belief system.

Within the Red Heart Society, the rifts caused by differences in path choices and ideologies are quietly widening.

In the year 182143 of the Extraordinary Calendar, the power balance within the Red Heart Society began to tilt irreversibly as the number of believers in the true god grew almost exponentially.

This emerging power group may initially be content with acquiring resources and developing itself within the existing system.

However, as its overall size expands to a certain extent, and internal cohesion strengthens due to shared interests, a grander and more fundamental desire inevitably arises.

They began to yearn for a truly decisive voice in the overall decision-making process of the vast Red Heart Society.

The ordinary membership in the Council of True God, serving as an advisory or executive body, has become meaningless to them, failing to satisfy their ever-growing ambitions and demands.

What they want is the supreme, absolute governing power of the Red Heart Society, the power to determine the course of civilization!

Only by firmly grasping supreme power can they fundamentally and legitimately amend the "Red Heart Law," which is seen as a shackle.

Those clauses that severely hinder the mass emergence and free development of faith in the true God should be completely abolished or rewritten!

A strong sense of relative deprivation and resentment permeated the group that believed in the true God. Why could those ancient, rule-based true gods comfortably enjoy the massive resources provided by the Red Heart Society and freely comprehend the unclaimed rules of heaven and earth?

[Is their path of growth considered righteous and highly respected?] [And these people who believe in the true god are merely trying to gather scattered faith power—which, in the eyes of those on the path of faith, is a natural resource and useless to the Red Heart Society as a whole—yet they have to go through such difficulty, sneaking around like rats in a sewer?]

It's one thing to act in secrecy and evade detection before becoming a god, but after going through so much hardship to ascend to the throne, do they still have to continue to do so stealthily?

[Then wasn't this godhood created for nothing?]

This long-suppressed resentment and yearning for recognition are like lava beneath a volcano, constantly accumulating the energy for an eruption.

[A public power struggle erupted between the faction that believes in a true god and the faction that has long held sway over the highest levels of power, the right to interpret and amend laws, and the right to guide the future development of civilization.]

This struggle, centered on the highest decision-making level of the Red Heart Society, quickly spread to all aspects of civilization.

The two sides engaged in a heated exchange of words and accusations in parliament.

In the battle for discourse power, the faith-based faction touts the efficiency and accessibility of its approach, while accusing the rule-based faction of monopolizing resources, having a narrow path, and hindering the progress of civilization.

The rule-based faction, on the other hand, upholds the purity of its core principles, criticizing the path of faith as essentially enslavement and exploitation, a regression and degeneration of civilization, and warning that it will tear society apart and sow the seeds of enormous hidden dangers.

In specific areas such as resource allocation, preferential treatment in scientific research funding, and talent cultivation policies, both sides are fiercely competing for every inch of ground, leveraging their respective influence to vie for dominance.

This silent yet far-reaching internal strife plunged the Red Heart Society's leadership into a state of inefficiency, infighting, and internal friction, causing the course of civilization to waver unsettlingly amidst the fierce disputes.

[In the year 204462 of the Extraordinary Calendar, a bloody and resolute final chapter arrived.]

After tens of thousands of years of cultivation, infiltration, alliances, and power accumulation, the factions that believe in the true god have finally grown strong enough to no longer be satisfied with fighting from afar; they have chosen the most direct and violent method.

[Entering the inner sanctum!]

[Through a meticulously planned coup, they completely overturned the original power structure, propelling their own faction into the highest core of the Red Heart Society.]

The specific details of this dramatic change were deliberately concealed and embellished by the victors, but the outcome was shocking.

[Under a series of swift and decisive blows, a large number of highly respected and powerful veterans, who may have been relatively isolated or had not anticipated such ruthless actions from their opponents, were brutally ousted from key positions under various pretexts.]

[Meanwhile, they were collectively exiled to the most remote, desolate, and resource-scarce areas within the Red Heart Society's territory, ostensibly for regional defense, but in reality, it was a political purge and a stripping away of their power.]

The most famous and symbolic event in this power transition was the joint action of eight hundred believers in the true God.

These eight hundred true gods of faith chose a crucial moment and launched a sudden, overwhelming attack on a group of true gods who adhered to the rules.

Finally, they successfully imprisoned these true gods of the rules, severing most of their connections with their own divine kingdom, the origin of the rules, and even the outside world. (End of Chapter)