Chapter 421: True 0.3 Source-level Terror!

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"... In other words, because of the Warp's conspiracy and corruption, the Emperor's Great Crusade failed completely, because half of the Primarchs betrayed Him, especially the betrayal of Horus, whom He positioned as the Warmaster, which was the most fatal. This Horus also received the simultaneous blessings of the Four Chaos Gods and became super powerful, even comparable to the Emperor, right?"

Wu Pifu learned the general outcome of the Great Crusade from the three demon Primarchs: betrayal. Half of the Primarchs betrayed the Emperor, led the traitorous Space Marines to march on Terra, and reached the Solar System, almost forcing the Emperor into a desperate situation.

The three demon Primarchs all nodded. Of course, Angron couldn't nod, but his face also revealed an expression of agreement.

Wu Pifu rubbed his temples and said, "I have two doubts. The first doubt is, what was the Emperor doing? According to your description, He was a person of great talent and strategy. Whether in strategy, tactics, or even combat power, He was the pinnacle of the material universe, right? Then why did He sit and watch you Primarchs betray Him? If it were me, I would have gone straight to your door once I knew you were rebelling, killed you one by one, or knocked you down. In any case, according to the previous description of the Emperor, I don't think you had the qualifications to step into the Solar System."

Mortarion and Angron looked at Ma Genusi at the same time, and Ma Genusi laughed awkwardly, almost whistling.

Wu Pifu looked at Ma Genusi in surprise. He was now a man with red skin. He said in amazement, "No, from my emotional perception, you are a person who thinks fast but would never do anything decisive, nor are you a brave person. Could it be that you dared to assassinate the Emperor at that time!? And succeeded?"

"No, no." Ma Genusi finally spoke: "How could I dare to assassinate the Emperor? It's not a question of whether I wanted to..."

Mortarion helped Ma Genusi: "It's a question of whether he dared... In fact, he didn't go to assassinate the Emperor. If it were really an assassination, things wouldn't have turned out this bad. He did something even worse than assassination..."

In the three people's narration, they explained that the reason the Emperor hurriedly returned to Terra and handed the army to Horus was because the Emperor wanted to create a Webway belonging to humanity.

"The greatest public hazard and the most terrifying threat in our universe is the Warp, none other. As long as the Warp exists, all life in the material universe is a plaything for the existences in the Warp. All life in the material universe can win ten thousand times, one million times, but as long as they lose once, the entire race might be wiped out, and then their souls will fall into the Warp to become playthings for the demons inside, suffering eternal torture..."

Mortarion explained: "And the Emperor can see the future. Humanity might be able to reclaim lost homelands, and might be able to move toward glory again under the Emperor's leadership, but as long as the Warp exists, humanity will sooner or later face the fall of the Golden Age again. And this time, humanity will never have another Emperor. So, what He has always wanted to do is to isolate humanity from the Warp!"

"One is faster-than-light travel, one is the subtle pollution of the Warp, one is the influence of the Four Chaos Gods on the material universe, and even the threat of the Chaos Gods and demons to material life. The Emperor intended to isolate and sever all these threats. The method He thought of was the Webway!"

Wu Pifu thought for a moment, pulled a sheet from a pile of manuscripts, and looked at the text on it: "Aeldari?"

Three... no, two heads nodded at the same time.

This was an alien race in the galaxy, the Aeldari. From the description, they were somewhat similar to the Elves in the magical worlds Wu Pifu knew.

In the information about the Aeldari provided by Kethia, it was said that the Aeldari were once very awesome and powerful, worthy of being called the overlords of the galaxy. But precisely because they were too awesome and powerful, they began to indulge, indulging without limit, to the point of entering forbidden realms. Various evil, vicious, and completely unimaginable behaviors were used by them as entertainment. Slaughter and torture were already considered minor things.

Then... the huge malice gathered by the Aeldari formed a projection in the Warp. After the original three Chaos Gods—Khorne, Nurgle, and Tzeentch—the fourth Chaos God was born, which was Slaanesh, who had fixed its gaze on Wu Pifu.

At the moment Slaanesh was born, the central position of the galaxy was torn apart by Warp storms, and the curtain separating the material world and the Warp was completely shredded, causing the Warp to be able to enter directly through spatial means in that area. That place was called the Eye of Terror.

Kethia recorded all of this. At the same time, the manuscript described the Aeldari's unique means of transportation. Because of the relationship between Slaanesh and the Aeldari, once the Aeldari entered the Warp, their souls would be taken away by Slaanesh and tortured for eternity. Therefore, the Aeldari absolutely dared not enter the Warp. Fortunately, the Aeldari had a means of communication called the Webway. It was an isolation layer between the material world and the Warp, a kind of curtain-like thing, in which they could quickly cross light-year distance units, and at the same time, isolate the prying and pollution of Warp demons and the Four Chaos Gods.

Mortarion said: "The Emperor wanted to create a Webway belonging to us humans. He might have borrowed from the Aeldari Webway, or perhaps He directly took the Aeldari Webway as a carrier. In any case, the Emperor's Great Crusade seemed to be reclaiming lost territory, but perhaps He was collecting Webways, collecting technology, and collecting resources along the way. And when He had collected everything, He hurried back to Terra to start creating the Webway belonging to us humans... And the Emperor was the most powerful psyker in the material universe, perhaps even including the Warp, besides the Four Chaos Gods. He must have foreseen the betrayal of the Primarchs and foreseen the joint blessing of the Four Chaos Gods. He had to build the Webway before that."

Hearing this, Wu Pifu generally understood why the Emperor didn't take the initiative during the Great Heresy. But he still asked doubtfully, "But even if the Webway is important, the enemy is at the doorstep. Wouldn't it be better to suppress and eliminate the rebellion first and then continue building?"

Ma Genusi laughed bitterly at this time: "This is my problem. I didn't want to rebel at the time. I was a loyalist. When I discovered that a Primarch had been corrupted by the Chaos Gods and led to rebellion, I was extremely panicked, so I used psychic power... I'm not being arrogant, I am the one with the strongest psychic power among all the Primarchs, and in the galaxy, it is very likely that I am second only to the Emperor. I used psychic power at that time to send a warning to Terra from across half the galaxy, and because the psychic power was too powerful, it caused the Webway the Emperor was building on Terra to be broken by me, leaving a large gap..."

Wu Pifu was dumbfounded.

He now generally knew the world structure of this 0.5 Dream World. The dark side of the material universe was the Warp, which was the pollution from the Source. And what isolated the material universe from the Warp was a curtain. Once this curtain was lost, demons and Chaos Gods from the lower-layer Dream World could enter the material universe unscrupulously and destroy everything... just like those four arms easily tore apart the planet earlier.

If there was really a Webway built by the Emperor on Terra, and it was broken by Ma Genusi, leaving a large gap, then countless demons would pour out of it endlessly, and even the Chaos Gods would take action...

Wu Pifu thought silently for a long while and said, "So when the Great Heresy happened, the Emperor was guarding the broken Webway on Earth, blocking the Warp demons?"

Two heads nodded, while Angron remained silent.

Wu Pifu nodded in understanding. He asked again, "Okay, this doubt is answered. Then I have a second doubt, which is that the Emperor defeated Horus, who was blessed by the Four Chaos Gods, and blew him to ashes, so that even the demons couldn't sublimate, right? Then why did He enter the stasis field for ten thousand years? That is, the life-support system, maintaining His life. Isn't He an Immortal? Even if He was blown to ashes, He could recover. Then why was He trapped for ten thousand years?"

Angron spoke: "Let me say it. On the surface, the Emperor was severely wounded by the Four Chaos Gods through Horus's hand, and the Webway gap problem required the Emperor to guard it personally. But this is only the surface reason, not that the Emperor was on the verge of death... For an Immortal, there is no concept of death, nor is it that the Webway gap made Him unable to solve it forever. These are not the main reasons. The real main reason is that He was plotted against by the Four Chaos Gods on another level... Ascension!"

Wu Pifu immediately stared at Angron and said, "Explain in detail, what is Ascension?"

Angron looked at his two brothers, then looked at Wu Pifu and said, "Perhaps because my essence is most closely combined with Khorne, I know many truths they don't know... The Four Chaos Gods are not individual entities. They are the manifestation of a more magnificent and terrifying existence. Perhaps it can also be said that the four of them are actually part of the same existence. This existence is magnificent, terrifying, unimaginable, incomprehensible, and indescribable. The Four Chaos Gods are all part of Him, and the entire Warp is also part of Him. He is so vast and magnificent that His very existence violates the logic and causality of existence..."

"He comes from the bottom of the terrifying abyss, and is not something that existed in this universe from the beginning. When He floated up, He touched our universe, and thus a small part of His main body unfolded in our universe, turning into the Warp hidden on the back of the material universe, and then by absorbing the consciousness and souls of all life in this universe, absorbing the negativity and distortion within, He finally manifested His essence into the Four Chaos Gods. These Four Chaos Gods seem to have been created by the consciousness and souls of the intelligent life in our universe, but in reality, they were born from this more magnificent and huge object. The fighting between the Four Chaos Gods is actually just a manifestation of His chaos."

Wu Pifu keenly sensed the information in these words. His martial arts intuition, sixth sense, instinct, etc., were all sounding alarms. The "He" mentioned in these words...

Perhaps He was the true Source-level terrifying existence of the 0.3 Dream World!

Angron continued: "He is chaotic and indescribable. His essence is fundamentally not something the Four Chaos Gods can fully manifest. As far as I know from the time I fused with Khorne's essence, a total of eight Chaos Gods are needed, eight Chaos Gods of the level of Khorne, Nurgle, Slaanesh, and Tzeentch, to piece together His full picture. Only then can He struggle out of the terrifying abyss. Not only our universe, but He will also spread and devour toward the infinite universes outside the universe. Only then... will He truly fully manifest!"

"And the decisive battle between the Emperor and Horus, and the entire process of the Great Heresy, was a ritual process arranged by the Four Chaos Gods to forcibly ascend the Emperor!"

"When the Emperor defeated Horus, He had already realized that His essence was merging into the Warp. He would sublimate into the Fifth Chaos God of the Warp in a short time. All His essence would be devoured by 'Him' in the original terrifying abyss, and all humans would die and go extinct because of His ascension. So He chose to put Himself into stasis, and then through the huge torture device called the Golden Throne, He extracted His psychic power, strength, and essence, constantly radiating the great power of His own ascension, which delayed this ascension ritual... This is the reason why the Emperor has not appeared for ten thousand years."

"He is preventing Himself from becoming the Fifth Chaos God, and also preventing the original 'Him' from climbing higher out of the terrifying abyss!"

Wu Pifu was silent, shocked, and felt a kind of incredulity.

He had already overestimated the Source of the 0.3 Dream World as much as possible. When the Four Chaos Gods tore apart the planet earlier, he thought he had already seen the terrifying strength of the 0.3 Dream World Source.

And until now, he knew that what he saw was only a part of the 0.3 Dream World Source existence...

A negligible small part!!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 422 =====