Chapter 669
The Red Heart Society will gain a large number of true gods!
[In the mind of the Heart Demon God, a concrete sign that Chi Xin will become stronger is the realization of the demigod era that you mentioned, but believed would require a natural progression.]
[This means enabling most members of the Red Heart Society to become demigods of the rules, creating a glorious era composed of demigods with an incomparably powerful basic combat force.]
To achieve this goal, and to contend with the ever-present threat of the world's watchful eyes and the looming impending annihilation, He deemed a gentle, laissez-faire approach too extravagant and inefficient.
Time is of the essence; the crisis is imminent.
Therefore, He adopted a ruling strategy that was completely opposite to yours, one that could be described as ruthless and extreme.
[He directly rewrote the core laws of the Red Heart Society, elevating the two offenses—wasting the extraordinary resources provided by the organization and being passive and lazy in cultivating and advancing despite having clear demigod potential—from a matter of moral condemnation to a violation of the law.]
The new laws are ruthless and rigorous!
[Any member of the Nine Revolutions deemed to have the potential to advance to demigod status has a strict goal.]
[If, under conditions of sufficient resource supply, the divine fire fails to be ignited within a certain period, and the investigation reveals that the cause is not force majeure but other reasons.]
[Those who are subjectively uninterested in cultivation, passively slack off, or deliberately waste resources on pleasure or other non-combat-power-enhancing methods will face severe punishment.]
Not only will the individual be subject to penalties such as deprivation of resources, forced labor, or even disqualification from spiritual cultivation, but their immediate family members, mentors, and even the leaders of their assigned teams may also face varying degrees of collective punishment.
The reason given was inadequate supervision and failure to fulfill the responsibility of oversight.
[When the Demon God implemented this strategy, his will was as firm as iron, brooking no doubt.]
In His view, the threat of the wider world is like a sword of Damocles hanging over their necks, leaving the Red Heart Society no time to attend to those tender human rights and free choices.
Survival is the first priority!
So-called human rights and individual freedoms can only be discussed after we survive and win the war.
[If He, the only transcendent being at present, dies in battle, and the Red Heart Society, due to its lax training environment, fails to cultivate enough strong enough successors capable of carrying the banner.]
[Then the glory of a sincere heart will be extinguished in an instant, never to be regained.]
The minor discomfort and complaints of individuals are insignificant in the face of the survival of the race and the organization.
Driven by such high-pressure, highly efficient, and resource-intensive policies, the demigod era envisioned by the Heart Demon God has become a reality at an astonishing pace.
Within the Red Heart Society's camp, the number of rule-based demigods has grown exponentially, with demigod patrols visible everywhere. The rule-based fluctuations unleashed during joint exercises are enough to tremble the starry sky.
On the surface, the Red Heart Society's military strength had reached an unprecedented peak.
Every member is striving to become a demigod or even a true god; the organization is disciplined and operates efficiently.
[But even amidst this scene of success, the Demon God's keen perception detected something amiss that made Him increasingly uneasy.]
That wasn't just simple complaining or exhaustion, but a collective psychological shadow born from the forced distortion and stifling of humanity and diversity under extreme suppression and a unified goal.
It's that numb feeling of training only to meet standards and advancing only to avoid punishment.
It's that suffocating feeling of losing personal choice and having your life completely planned out.
[It's the fear and guilt that relatives and friends might be implicated because of one's lack of effort.] [It's also the underlying doubt and resistance towards this seemingly glamorous, but actually singular and cruel path of forced promotion.]
These emotions are deeply suppressed by strict laws and a powerful organizational machine, and are never revealed in public.
But in the private corners of my heart, in the nightmares of the night, and in the occasional ripples of my uncontrolled mental turmoil, the inner demons can clearly feel them, like magma beneath the earth's crust, silently accumulating pressure and heat.
That's not the vitality a healthy organization should have; it's a distorted, deformed prosperity.
[A sign of an extreme anomaly, about to erupt completely under extreme suppression.]
The era of universal demigods has been achieved.
[This massive, forcibly created demigod population did not, as He had anticipated, produce more true gods capable of supporting the future of the Red Heart Society.]
The threshold for advancement to demigod status has been forcibly lowered through technology and resources, but the qualitative leap from demigod to true god requires genuine enlightenment, a spiritual transformation, and a profound understanding of the essence of the rules.
These are precisely the things that repressive policies find hardest to impose, and may even stifle.
Gazing upon this unprecedentedly large but ultimately ineffective army of demigods, the Heart Demon God fell into a profound and unprecedented period of reflection.
When facing an ultimate conflict on the scale of a great world, empowered by transcendent beings and the will of the world, no matter how many demigods there are, without the guidance of true gods or even transcendent beings, they are nothing more than a vast but fragile cannon fodder, unable to influence the core balance of the battle.
Without becoming a god, it's all for naught.
This cold reality, like a heavy hammer, pounded against the beliefs He had forged with iron and blood.
Could it be that the path I've chosen, which I've poured all my energy into, even at the cost of distorting the organization's foundation, is fundamentally wrong?
[Once this seed of self-doubt is planted, it quietly grows in His rock-solid heart.]
In the year 23681 of the Extraordinary Calendar, the Red Heart Research Institute, which brought together the top researchers from the Red Heart Society who had been on the run for ten thousand years, made a groundbreaking discovery during a routine experiment involving captured abyssal creatures and abyssal magical energy.
Researchers were astonished to observe that, under a highly purified and controlled concentration of abyssal magical energy, several demigods in the experimental subjects who were at a bottleneck stage showed a statistically significant increase in the speed and depth of their comprehension of the rules they governed.
[Although preliminary calculations indicate that this enhancement efficiency is closely related to the concentration and purity of the abyssal magical energy, as well as the characteristics of the subjects themselves.]
Furthermore, the total amount of abyssal magical energy required to create a true God of Rules using only this method would be unimaginably vast, almost astronomical.
But for the Demon God, who possesses the power of a transcendent being and is currently struggling to break through the bottleneck of true godhood, this is nothing short of a ray of dawn in the darkness.
[Is it really that important that it's just abyssal magical energy?]
This thought instantly took root in His heart.
In His view, energy itself is never the problem.
The chaotic world created by the will of the Abyss Great World contains an almost inexhaustible amount of omnipresent abyssal magical energy.
Therefore, if the abyssal demonic energy can give birth to true gods of rules, it means that the Crimson Heart Society will have a large number of true gods descending! (End of this chapter)