Chapter 123

"Ah!!!"

Mephiston fell on the bridge of the Vengeful Blade.

In Dante's shocked gaze, his Chief Librarian, who had always seemed to have everything under control, began to twitch and tremble.

Mephiston's face was full of deep fear, as if he had seen some extremely terrifying thing.

"Blue..."

Mephiston said in a hoarse voice:

"A blue, mechanical figure that looks like a raccoon dog..."

Mephiston's voice was full of wavering, as if even he himself couldn't understand what he had just seen.

He only knew that that thing was exactly the same as what he had seen on the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang's Tarot.

The Hua Hua Hua Di Huang's will expressed through the Tarot didn't seem to be asking Mephiston to be wary of him.

But the aura revealed on that thing was truly so terrifying that it made Mephiston tremble.

In the days when Mephiston fell into the Black Rage,

He had seen Horus corrupted by the Four Gods in endless illusions.

That blue figure was even more terrifying than Horus!

That blue figure seemed to carry pure ending and destruction, foreshadowing the end of the entire universe.

That figure also seemed to be a collection of many unimaginable technological artifacts, symbolizing the ultimate of creation and invention.

That figure also seemed to be some kind of Eternal Dragon longing to devour everything, longing to take everything as food.

Mephiston almost wanted to vomit because of the fear.

But...

But what was eerie was that although the blue figure had taken something away from the entity suspected to be Sanguinius,

That entity suspected to be Sanguinius seemed to have no hostility toward the blue figure.

That entity seemed to just feel some "fucking" and helplessness toward the blue figure's behavior of intercepting his power...

Dante helped Mephiston up.

Mephiston tried his best to keep his language rational and complete, informing Dante of what he had seen in the Warp.

Even Dante, a commander who had fought through countless years, fell into bewilderment and confusion when faced with Mephiston's words.

"Should we continue to head to the Underworld System?" Mephiston said with lingering fear.

He was called the Lord of Death, but compared to that blue figure, he only felt that he was so insignificant.

Dante pondered for a moment and then shook his head:

"Regardless of whether this is some kind of illusion or if there really is a more terrifying Warp existence lurking in the Underworld System, we must rush there to support."

"If the scene you saw is real, then... we must determine what that blue figure is."

"Since you have already found Ashford's location, we should rush there at the fastest speed."

Dante patted his old partner's shoulder with sorrow and fatigue, saying in a low, hoarse voice:

"... May Sanguinius protect us."

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Zhou Yun looked at the winged figure in the half-blue, half-white light cursing and swearing with a bewildered expression.

He had just seen the winged figure in the white light being eroded by a burst of blue light.

Then he seemed to start resisting, and the white and blue lights blended and infected each other bit by bit, finally becoming what it was now.

The winged figure in the white light looked as if he had been polluted and eroded by something.

And Zhou Yun himself...

Zhou Yun couldn't help but scratch his back.

Hiss... his back was so itchy, it seemed like wings were about to grow out...

And on the defensive line not far away, that white light floating in mid-air was also completely infected into blue.

The figure within was also stained with a peculiar metallic blue, and seemed to have become a bit fat, becoming round and rolling...

General Droste and Xiang Xiang Leina looked at this change with a bewildered expression.

They looked at Zhou Yun with bewildered eyes and pointed at the figure in mid-air that clearly didn't look much like Sanguinius—

As if asking Zhou Yun what kind of situation this was.

"Yeah, what kind of situation is this?" Zhou Yun asked the winged figure in the blue-white light.

Zhou Yun vaguely understood that this might have something to do with him, but he couldn't explain it clearly himself.

"You ask me? You ask me!" The winged figure in the blue-white light asked back in an extremely defensive tone.

His tone was as if Zhou Yun had raped the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang in front of his face...

After a few seconds of silence, the winged figure in the blue-white light took a deep breath and said: "You... you corrupted me to a certain extent."

"Me?" Zhou Yun pointed at himself, full of bewilderment: "I'm not a god, how could I corrupt you..."

"Don't you slander me!"

"..." The winged figure in the blue-white light was silent again.

Zhou Yun's mouth twitched; he really wanted to know exactly what was going on, but now was not the time to argue about this.

The winged figure in the blue-white light obviously understood this point: "The portion of my power that I tried to infiltrate into the reality universe was intercepted by you."

"My power will be able to manifest in reality through you; use it and utilize it according to your instincts."

Zhou Yun nodded as if he understood, and he could vaguely feel that some kind of power that didn't belong to the reality universe had indeed appeared within his body.

That power was mixed with strands of devout prayers, praying for Sanguinius to come and save them...

And Zhou Yun could respond to these prayers.

"Ahhhhhh!!!!!"

Wails rang out from the psykers beside Xiang Xiang Leina; their bodies began to burn, and soul fire burst out from their eye sockets, nostrils, and mouths.

As if sensing danger, those Zoanthropes obviously increased their psychic power output.

Especially that Neurothrope leading them, it was frantically venting its terrifying psychic power onto the defensive line.

The blue light floating behind everyone was indeed still amplifying Xiang Xiang Leina's psychic power and weakening the Zoanthropes' psychic power.

But Xiang Xiang Leina was still in an absolute disadvantage, almost unable to resist.

General Droste's remaining Cadian assault troops launched a charge again.

They roared the name of Cadian, venting lasers at the Zoanthropes, attempting to disperse the Zoanthropes' psychic power. General Droste withstood the swarm's attack, standing on the defensive line composed of toppled statues, directing the Cadian soldiers to resist the swarm's attack like a pillar of the sea.

Suddenly, the psychic power exerted on Xiang Xiang Leina decreased significantly.

Xiang Xiang Leina discovered that the Zoanthropes were looking at General Droste...

"Be careful!!!!" Xiang Xiang Leina roared at General Droste.

General Droste didn't hear Xiang Xiang Leina's voice; in an instant, he only felt thousands of voices roaring and screaming in his mind.

Powerful psychic power was frantically tearing at the old general's mind; he felt his head was about to explode.

"The Hua Hua Hua Di Huang above... Sanguinius above... Cadian above..."

General Droste gritted his teeth; he could clearly perceive that his will was being torn into pieces bit by bit...

No, no, no.

He knew he couldn't fall here, but his knees couldn't help but soften, and he knelt on the ground on one knee.

Save... Droste looked at the figure in the blue light behind him.

Now he wasn't sure what that was, but no matter what it was... come and save this battlefield that was about to collapse.

Then, Droste saw wings sweeping across the sky.

Wings of pure white mixed with a bit of blue pierced through the sky, and the blue-white light full of hope radiated onto his face.

He saw that holy figure.

"Sanguinius?" Droste exclaimed.

Then, as his eyes gradually adapted to the light, he saw the face of that figure clearly.

"Zhou Yun?" General Droste muttered in bewilderment.

"Ah????" Xiang Xiang Leina, who was on the side, looked at Zhou Yun, who had grown wings and was flying in mid-air, and a series of question marks also appeared on the top of her head.

Only to see the blue light floating in mid-air surging toward Zhou Yun.

Then, in the bewildered and shocked eyes of Xiang Xiang Leina, Droste, and the crowd of Cadian soldiers,

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A pair of wings of pure white mixed with blue light unfolded on Zhou Yun's back.

Those wings appeared out of thin air, causing Zhou Yun to float in the air in a form that violated the laws of physics, releasing light like the sun in deep space.

It was just that the light was blue-white, like light reflected by some kind of metallic artifact.

"What did you do?" Xiang Xiang Leina asked, unable to help herself, with bewilderment and surprise.

She could feel that the psychic power gathered on Zhou Yun had already far exceeded her own, and even exceeded the Zoanthropes approaching not far away.

Clearly, Zhou Yun hadn't possessed any psychic talent at all before.

Zhou Yun's eyes were burning with scorching psychic flames as he looked at Xiang Xiang Leina.

"Yes, actually I am Sanguinius himself."

"Come, hurry up and kowtow to me respectfully."

"Ah????" Xiang Xiang Leina looked dazed.

In the bewildered, fearful, and surprised gazes of the crowd, Zhou Yun vibrated the wings behind his back slightly.

His figure instantly disappeared from where he stood, leaving only a residual image.

Whether it was the Ratling snipers with strong observation skills or Xiang Xiang Leina, the psyker, none of them had seen Zhou Yun's movements clearly.

Even the Tyrant, one of the top creations in the Hive, only saw a residual image left by Zhou Yun when he tore through the sky.

"Screech!!!!"

The Zoanthropes let out sharp roars, and powerful psychic power gathered into strands of lightning, stabbing toward Zhou Yun.

And Zhou Yun just flashed his body lightly, and these lightning bolts were dispersed by the wings beside him.

Strands of psychic light burst out from the Neurothrope leading the Zoanthropes.

All the psychic power on the Zoanthropes gathered together, forming a psychic spear of light on the Neurothrope's crown.

This spear of light was burning with scorching flames, and the powerful psychic power seemed to be about to tear reality nearby.

That famous sword, the "Electric Dian Dian Guang Wan," which had run out of power, was taken out from the Four-Dimensional Pocket and appeared in Zhou Yun's hand.

Scorching psychic flames instantly ignited this 22nd-century children's toy.

The psychic power flashing with dazzling white light gathered into a pole, using the famous sword "Electric Dian Dian Guang Wan" as the blade, turning into a spear.

Zhou Yun vibrated his wings and raised the spear in his hand high.

The Cadians all around couldn't help but let out an exclamation, and some even couldn't help but pray toward Zhou Yun's figure.

Just because Zhou Yun's posture of holding the spear and vibrating his wings at this moment overlapped with the statue of Sanguinius behind him.

"Ya!!!!"

The Neurothrope roared, and the sharp psychic spear tip stabbed toward Zhou Yun, rolling up waves in the Warp.

Zhou Yun, with eyes burning with psychic flames, looked down at the Zoanthropes, and threw the spear in his hand with an unstoppable posture...

Slash!!!

The spear easily pierced through the Neurothrope's psychic spear tip, heavily piercing into the Neurothrope's crown, penetrating its brain marrow—

(End of chapter)