Chapter 658
Ideological Cleansing of the Great World
To preserve their power as much as possible, the gods of the Red Heart Society will transform into ghosts throughout the universe, drifting through the endless void and lurking in the cracks of time.
[And in a completely safe interval, through an extremely secretive one-way channel, maintain a minimal connection with those seeds that have scattered into the spirit world.]
In that state of extreme seclusion, with the divine realm tightly closed and almost completely isolated from the world, the channels for obtaining information from the outside world were compressed to the limit.
Even the true gods of rules can only perceive the blurry flow of time, but have no way of knowing the changing winds and clouds in the outside world.
The communication among the remaining forces of the Red Heart Society has thus become exceptionally difficult and clandestine.
Therefore, they developed several sets of one-way, intermittent, covert communication methods based on rule-based resonance.
Information flow is as faint as a candle flickering in the wind, and can only be briefly delivered within an absolutely secure spacetime rift.
[Some have jokingly remarked that the Red Heart Society's method of communication is strikingly similar to that of extraterrestrial evil gods in spirit world myths and legends.]
This jest didn't elicit laughter, only a deeper silence, but beneath that silence surged an iron will.
So what if they're similar?
[So what if he's called an evil god?]
In a desperate situation where even survival has become a luxury, any means necessary to keep the flame burning and to preserve even a sliver of hope for a reversal of that distant future are both reasonable and essential.
To survive, to live, and to recapture or even surpass their former glory at some crucial juncture in the future, they are willing to bear any title and adopt any posture that allows them to hide in the dark forest.
The sacrifices have never ceased.
Any desire to move forward or even innovate requires bloodshed and sacrifice.
[In the year 7013 of the Extraordinary Calendar, the bloodshed and sacrifices of the Red Heart Society continue.]
Every exposure of an external seed, every instance of the divine kingdom's drifting trajectory being rubbed by peripheral tentacles resulting in transfer and loss, signifies the eternal silencing of some members.
But a subtle change began to be detected by the vast and acute sensory network of the wills of the three great worlds.
The efficiency of the manhunt for the Red Heart Society is significantly decreasing.
The initial sense of accomplishment from periodically locating a stronghold and uncovering a hidden agent has disappeared.
Previously, despite their secrecy, the Red Heart Society still needed to carefully probe the outside world to obtain the minimum resources necessary to maintain the operation of their divine kingdom and the cultivation of their members.
[This interaction with the outside world, however subtle, will always leave some trace that is difficult to completely erase, allowing the hounds of the three realms to follow its trail.]
But now, even these subtle traces have been completely eradicated.
The abyss's violent will roared and scanned across endless dimensions, the hellish demonic intent sifted through every suspicious shadow, and the clear light of the spirit realm cleansed all areas under its jurisdiction.
[But what came back was an unsettling cleanliness.]
Soon, the three great worlds understood.
The true gods of the Red Heart Society have adopted the most decisive strategy of concealment: absolute silence and isolation.
They completely abandoned any proactive exploration of the outside world, ceased all forms of resource extraction, and transformed their divine kingdom into a silent coffin operating entirely inward.
[Maintaining only a basic existence through the rules of the divine kingdom itself, ceasing all form of energy or information exchange with the universe.] [This approach is tantamount to sacrificing all future development potential and halting all cultivation progress in exchange for the ultimate, near-perfect concealment in the present.]
This is undoubtedly a desperate gamble, betting on whether the Three Realms have enough patience to conduct a massive, silent search that could last tens or hundreds of thousands of years.
The answer, as time goes by, gradually becomes clear.
For the three great worlds, maintaining that high-intensity, indiscriminate global scanning is itself a huge burden.
[Especially under the framework of the "Great World Covenant," where mutual distrust prevents both sides from going all out.]
When the prey completely disappears from perception, the cost and benefit of the hunt begin to imbalance.
In the year 7369 of the Extraordinary Era, an even more intense purge swept across the three great worlds simultaneously.
The target is no longer specific members of the Red Heart Society, but all those who may know the rules, the true god, and the methods to achieve divinity, and who have been exposed to the core concepts of the Red Heart Society, and all potential sources of knowledge.
This is a thorough cleansing of thought and memory, starting from the very root.
[In the Abyss, a demon race that had traded with early members of the Red Heart Society, or even merely expressed curiosity about alternative paths to godhood, was directly marked by the will of the Abyss.]
Without judgment or warning, a violent, destructive energy erupted from the core of the abyss, instantly reducing the dozens of planes containing that race, along with its billions of demons, to nothingness in chaos.
The blinding, destructive light became its final epitaph.
In hell, the cleansing process is even more systematic and brutal.
All recorded demon lords and their forces that had contact with the Red Heart Society were eradicated.
Not only were living beings slaughtered, but the realms they ruled, the territories they managed, and even their related historical records and legends were meticulously purified by the demonic fires of hell.
[Ensure that not a single word about the Divine Path of Rules remains.]
Even though most of those who came into contact with the demons did so at the behest of the will of hell.
But any contact will result in death.
Times have changed, and so have the times!
However, in the spirit world, this purge seemed to be all bark and no bite.
The will of the spirit realm, in its unique way, conducted dozens of extremely detailed deep-sensory scans of the vast territory it governed.
Each scan is like using the finest comb to examine every corner of the spirit world, from the bustling core of the pantheon to the desolate frontier dimensions, from the active seas of consciousness of living beings to the silent information fields of ancient ruins.
The feedback results were highly consistent, with no active, systematic traces of the Red Heart Society, and no unusual, self-consistent rule fluctuations unique to the True God's Kingdom were detected.
There are even zero signs of organized ideological dissemination related to the "loyalty to the cause" ideology in the near future.
Most importantly, the founder of the Red Heart Society is dead, and its core forces, under joint pursuit, have entered a costly period of absolute silence and seclusion, severing all contact with the outside world.
Under such circumstances, the Red Heart Society has lost all practical channels for spreading its doctrines, recruiting new members, and making a comeback.
It may still exist as a historical term and the memory of a few survivors, but as an organization or ideology capable of influencing the global landscape, its era has completely ended. (End of Chapter)