Chapter 286

"I am irreconcilable with those Keepers of Secrets!!!!"

Xiang Xiang Leina watched the data pad for the eighth time as her own delicate form cooed sweet nothings to Zhou Yun, her teeth clenched tight.

Watching this scene, Zhou Yun could barely hold back the smile tugging at the corners of his mouth.

Guilliman, sitting beside him, also couldn't help but let out a soft chuckle.

Only Roboute Guilliman himself maintained a serious demeanor as he carefully observed the fake Xiang Xiang Leina in the data pad speaking sweet nothings to Zhou Yun.

"A Keeper of Secrets actually infiltrated Macragge. If it hadn't been trying to deceive you by stuffing itself into an unsuitable physical body, what kind of disaster could it have caused?"

Hearing Guilliman's words, Zhou Yun raised an eyebrow slightly: "Wouldn't it be more dangerous for it to appear directly in its daemon form? Did it want to try the Spear of Victory or the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang's Sword?"

"Joining forces to slay the invading Great Daemon during the ritual symbolizing our return would make for excellent propaganda," Roboute Guilliman nodded in slight agreement.

"A Slaanesh Great Daemon infiltrating in such a form is even more dangerous to mortals than its normal state. In the process of interacting with Zhou Yun, it constantly tempted him with sloth, love, protectiveness, friendship, and pure lust. If Zhou Yun had accepted that final kiss, he might indeed have suffered some harm."

Guilliman put away his smile, his expression becoming slightly more serious as he spoke slowly:

"After all, your physical body in the material universe is no different from a mortal's. I cannot even predict what consequences would arise if you lost your physical form, nor can I imagine the destruction your unbound Warp essence would cause. Fulgrim must have been so high on drugs that he ruined his brain, actually trying to corrupt you directly."

"It's fine, I'm very vigilant," Zhou Yun said, shrugging his shoulders and tugging at his own face.

A layer of clay was pulled off his face, revealing a metallic head with a small mustache; it was the Phantom Thief DX Suit.

Seeing this, Xiang Xiang Leina looked completely baffled, and even Roboute Guilliman was slightly surprised.

"My true body has been hidden inside this Phantom Thief DX Suit. Even if I were kissed, my real body wouldn't be touched."

"If it weren't for the plan to capture it alive, I was actually planning to get a free kiss from Xiang Xiang Leina... oh no, get a free kiss from the Keeper of Secrets."

"Huh?" Xiang Xiang Leina let out a confused "Ah?": "Clay works too?"

"I paid close attention to the details when I molded it. Everything you need is there."

Zhou Yun said this to Xiang Xiang Leina while continuing to mold his own face.

The corner of Xiang Xiang Leina's mouth twitched slightly. She wanted to make some snide comment, but she couldn't bring herself to say it in front of the two Primarchs.

"He was so bored he even molded two of them," Guilliman said with a flat expression.

The air instantly fell silent for a moment, and Zhou Yun couldn't help but chuckle softly twice.

Roboute Guilliman coughed slightly twice, steering the conversation back on track.

"What I'm worried about is Fulgrim. He is someone who cannot accept failure; he is arrogant and proud."

"He will definitely come again, because giving up would mean admitting his failure, which he cannot tolerate."

Guilliman cast a glance at Zhou Yun, reminding him to remain vigilant.

Zhou Yun, however, stroked his chin, recalling the original course of history.

Then Zhou Yun took a blue cross and a red ring out of his four-dimensional pocket and placed them on the table in front of him.

"Fulgrim's next target in Macragge is me," Zhou Yun asked directly.

In an instant, the blue cross jumped up from the table and hovered in mid-air.

This meant that what Zhou Yun said was wrong; Fulgrim's next attack target was not Zhou Yun.

This made Roboute Guilliman pause slightly. He had previously heard Zhou Yun and Guilliman mention the Truth-Seeking Divination Machine and knew the utility of this artifact.

But this didn't look like a failure for Fulgrim.

"If he doesn't strike against Lord Zhou Yun, then who will be Fulgrim's next target?" he murmured to himself.

Instantly, everyone turned their gaze in unison toward Roboute Guilliman.

"The fact that you are still alive is Fulgrim's greatest failure," Guilliman reminded him gently.

"Under normal circumstances."

Zhou Yun stroked his chin and spoke:

"Fulgrim would corrupt a mortal Arbiter and propose that you hold a grand victory parade."

"And during the parade, he would place a Slaanesh artifact named the Crown of Glory upon you, which would show you many glorious illusions in an attempt to corrupt you."

"Then he will face another failure," Roboute Guilliman said, his expression sinking slightly.

"You can indeed resist the corruption of that artifact, but Fulgrim will not give up. He will use this to curse you so that for the rest of your life you can never derive even a shred of joy from honor," Zhou Yun explained.

"Fits his style," Roboute Guilliman said in a lowered voice.

"No, no, no. Since we know this in advance, why not turn the tables and screw over Fulgrim?"

Zhou Yun said while stroking his chin, telling Guilliman and Roboute about the idea he had come up with while zoning out during the ceremony.

But hearing Zhou Yun's plan, Roboute frowned slightly: "This might put you at risk."

"To be honest, I don't think your value is worth taking that risk."

"I actually think the risk isn't that great."

Zhou Yun shook his head. If there were truly a risk, he wouldn't have proposed it:

"First, Fulgrim's corruption is targeted at you. The illusions he weaves actually hold no temptation for me."

"The mental risk isn't great," Guilliman said, raising an eyebrow slightly: "But the physical body might not be immune to the effects of corruption."

"If it were direct corruption from the Warp, even Fulgrim would be eroded by your essence, but with a material medium, it's a different matter."

"I could do this plan myself, but under Slaanesh's protection, the damage I could inflict on Fulgrim would be far less than yours... of course, provided your current physical body can withstand Fulgrim's corruption on the material plane."

Guilliman's tone was not as serious as Roboute's; instead, it carried a hint of keen interest.

He knew Zhou Yun well and knew that Zhou Yun was definitely up to something devious.

"So I don't plan to appear in person myself. I have something interesting I want to try," Zhou Yun grinned, looking into his four-dimensional pocket.

Inside the four-dimensional pocket, a burly figure with a buzz cut, wearing a yellowish-brown shirt and brown pants, resembling a human but composed entirely of the Warp on the inside, was slowly, bit by bit, taking shape.

Beside him, the daemon weapon "Sanguinius" snatched from Angron and the Keeper of Secrets just captured by Zhou Yun hovered nearby.

They seemed to be struggling, but were held fast by the large hand extended by the burly buzz-cut figure, unable to move.

This buzz-cut figure was a being born from the mixture of death cast by Khorne and the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang under the "re-education" of the four-dimensional pocket. Zhou Yun could feel that this figure was essentially an extension of his own existence, a daemon-like Warp entity forged by him using Khorne as the base material.

Or rather, this is the Great Demon that belongs solely to Zhou Yun.

Moreover, the more one looks at this Great Demon's form, the more it resembles Fat Tiger?

Previously, this "Fat Tiger" was already on the verge of birth; casting Nurgle into it would trigger its initial birth, and adding the Keeper should allow it to be fully born.

It's just that before, Zhou Yun's awakening of his Warp essence was not high; he always felt hesitant, unsure of what would happen if he let this Great Demon Fat Tiger be born.

But after devouring the Dark Angel and resurrecting Guilliman, Zhou Yun felt that the smoothness with which he drew power from the Warp had improved further; he must have awakened his Warp essence on a deeper level.

At the very least, instinctively, he believed he could perfectly control this newborn Great Demon, this extension of his own existence.

Sanguinius looked at Zhou Yun, his expression shifting slightly.

He knew of the existence of that Great Demon Fat Tiger; it was also he who had previously advised Zhou Yun to be somewhat cautious before further awakening his essence.

"It is worth a try." Sanguinius nodded and said, "You should now be able to let your power in the Warp enter the material universe directly."

Listening to the conversation between Zhou Yun and Sanguinius, Guilliman's expression was slightly strange.

"You... are you going to perform some Warp sorcery on my Macragge?"

"How can you call it just your Macragge?" A smile rose at the corner of Sanguinius's mouth: "You have shared the power of this planet with me twice; this is the capital of our Second Empire!"

"But rest assured, we are not going to perform any Warp Xie Fa."

Zhou Yun also nodded in agreement and said, "We just want to create a Great Demon."

"... Oh, so it's just creating a Great Demon." Guilliman's expression tightened, and two or three green veins appeared on his head.

(End of this chapter)