Chapter 381

Blood is flowing everywhere on the Eternity Wall.

Those blasphemous rioters who once lurked in the darkness were like those light-fearing bugs that emerged from the mud when the dark clouds obscured the sun.

They surged out from the smallest cracks in the Hive Worlds, surged out from all directions of the planet that had already fallen,

The churches that once served the God-Hua Hua Hua Di Huang were desecrated by blood; the corpses of nobles, supervisors, workers, and mutants were piled up in them, and those bones that were once worshipped as holy relics released blood-colored flames. The flames surged out from the churches on the tops of the Hive Worlds, finally igniting the entire Hive World.

It was not just one Hive World that was ignited, but every Hive World was ignited.

Xiang Xiang Leina stood on the towering Eternity Wall and could see the blood-colored thick fog rising on the Hive World spires in the distance, like candles placed on a scarlet altar for sacrifice to the Blood God, dyeing the entire sky blood-colored.

Lightning was constantly falling from those blood-colored clouds, whipping the mother planet of the human Empire like a vicious brass whip.

"God-Hua Hua Hua Di Huang and Saint Doraemon above, what a blasphemous scene."

Xiang Xiang Leina couldn't help but mutter to herself.

"Mortals are always emotionally unstable, and psykers and fanatical believers are even more so."

Shield-Captain Valerian, who stood beside Xiang Xiang Leina, asked with some curiosity:

"You are a mortal, a psyker, and a fanatical believer, yet your performance in the face of this scene can be called calm."

Valerian had been selected to become an Adeptus Custodes since the day he was born, and had spent almost his entire long life in the Imperial Palace.

But in the Imperial Palace, he had also seen fanatical believers, psykers, and even mortals; he understood that the minds of these people were imperfect, full of flaws, and unable to match the minds of the Adeptus Custodes that had been tempered for a long time.

But Xiang Xiang Leina, a person who simultaneously held the identities of a fanatical believer, an Alpha-level psyker, and a mortal, was only sighing that it was blasphemous when facing these blasphemous scenes full of Warp aura.

"... Used to it." Xiang Xiang Leina's tone was a bit strange: "Some of Zhou Yun's words are even more blasphemous than the scene in front of us."

Valerian tilted his corn-like head slightly, seemingly asking what Zhou Yun had said.

Xiang Xiang Leina thought for a while, trying her best to find a joke from the blasphemous jokes Zhou Yun had told that was not so blasphemous and wouldn't anger the Adeptus Custodes.

"Zhou Yun claimed that he had no faith, and he believed with all his heart..."

Xiang Xiang Leina brewed for a while, imitating the tone Zhou Yun once had and said:

"I believe with all my heart in the following truth: there are no ghosts or gods among the stars, no supernatural phenomena, and no magic or witchcraft. Everything can be interpreted through scientific means. Humanity can overcome everything by relying on the light of reason. Nothing should be worshipped. A rational galaxy needs to completely eliminate the backward concept of religion."

"Isn't it funny? I really can't understand how he could call this lie, which even Hive World children wouldn't believe, a truth."

"If he can make up such a lie, he should be called one of the top scammers in the galaxy."

"..." Valerian responded with dead silence.

Xiang Xiang Leina blinked in confusion; she could feel that this Adeptus Custodes wanted to say something, but didn't know how to open his mouth.

"... It is indeed very... funny." Valerian said to Xiang Xiang Leina stiffly, stuttering word by word.

Xiang Xiang Leina blinked in confusion; she could feel that this Adeptus Custodes seemed to want to say something, but didn't know how to open his mouth.

"... I'm going to kill a few fallen mortals." Valerian suddenly said, and then rushed to the edge of the wall without looking back.

Xiang Xiang Leina was even more confused.

Didn't this Lord Valerian emphasize that his duty was to monitor and assess? How could he participate in the battle so directly now?

But Xiang Xiang Leina didn't have much time to think about those minor details.

The Eternity Wall spanned the center of the entire Eurasian continent, extremely wide.

And those fallen ones were like endless, surging from all directions of the Imperial Palace.

Xiang Xiang Leina almost felt like she was fighting against everything on Terra except the Imperial Palace.

The Lucifer Blacks, the Hundred-Old Regiments, the Cadian 184th Regiment, and other Astra Militarum units had to be dispersed to every corner of the wall.

And those Ultramarines and Blood Angels who came from Macragge were also dispersed to various parts of the battlefield, guarding different sections.

Xiang Xiang Leina could only rely on herself to deal with the situation of that year...

Her gaze fell on the priest who was shouting blasphemous words.

Clearly, in the section Xiang Xiang Leina was guarding, that fallen Ecclesiarchy priest was the core of the rioters.

And that fallen priest was clearly protected by the power of the Blood God; neither Titans nor defensive artillery could harm him at all.

But the Blood God would never refuse a cruel and bloody battle; only close combat, only primitive and bloody slaughter could kill him.

Scorching psychic sparks burst out on Xiang Xiang Leina's body, and her figure almost disappeared on the wall in an instant.

The magnificent long stairs extended under Zhou Yun's feet, extending all the way to the sanctuary that revealed a brilliant golden light.

If there was one place on Terra that had not been invaded by war, blood, and blasphemy, and still had sunlight shining on it, it was the Wang Zuo Room in front of Zhou Yun.

Huge stained-glass windows bathed in the sunlight, casting seven-colored luster on the black marble corridor beside Zhou Yun, illuminating those exquisite carvings.

The most peculiar thing was that this sunlight didn't seem to come from the sky, but from the depths of the Wang Zuo Room.

Zhou Yun's gaze skimmed over the carvings around him, which were full of records of the past.

From the grayness of the Age of Strife to the brilliance of the Great Crusade era, from the anger of the Great Heresy to the sadness of the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang's fall, the epic full of hope and despair, sacrifice and redemption, depravity and greatness ten thousand years ago were all carved on it.

Zhou Yun's gaze stopped on the carving of Sanguinius guarding the Eternity Gate; the traces of time made the carving fade a bit, but it still couldn't diminish the impact it brought to people...

In the carving, Sanguinius was shirtless, wrestling with an Hua Hua Hua Di Huang-class Titan.

Sanguinius had indeed defeated an Hua Hua Hua Di Huang-class Titan, but his method was to fly into the Titan's command room and behead all the pilots directly, rather than having a close-quarters wrestling match with an Hua Hua Hua Di Huang-class Titan like in the carving.

This carving was a bit abstract.

"Facts will become stories, stories will become legends, and legends will finally become epics."

Sanguinius said softly:

"In this process, the original facts will be constantly exaggerated, distorted, and become postures completely different from the original."

"If you want to say which one is the most exaggerated, it is this one." Roboute Guilliman heard the conversation between Zhou Yun and Sanguinius and looked up at the magnificent giant door in front of him.

This giant door forged of refined gold stood at the end of the heavenly stairs like a mountain of metal, embedded between cumbersome and complex marble carvings and Roman columns, shining with gold and dazzling.

Standing on its two sides were two Warhound Titan guards, but even the God-Machines of the Adeptus Mechanicus looked very small in front of this giant door, not even one-tenth of its height, and the Adeptus Custodes guards standing under the giant door looked even smaller like ants.

The Eternity Gate, the last door between the Wang Zuo Room of the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang, was shining under the brilliant lights.

On the refined gold door stood the magnificent figure of the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang.

He wore a laurel crown, wore shining gold power armor, held an Aquila giant shield in one hand, and a power spear in the other, with a red-and-white interwoven battle flag fluttering beside him, on which was depicted the emblem of the Aquila grabbing lightning.

And under the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang, a ferocious and terrifying giant dragon with a metallic luster was coiled among the stars, roaring and spitting out poisonous flames.

And the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang's spear was heavily pierced under the left wing of the evil dragon, penetrating its mercury-like flowing body.

"I once told my father, and also told Malcador, that the carving on the Eternity Gate is too religious and full of mythological flavor."

Guilliman sighed lightly and said:

"But the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang and Malcador just smiled at each other, and then shrugged and fooled around."

Zhou Yun and Sanguinius also looked at each other, and then couldn't help but shrug their shoulders too.

"Not mythology." Zhou Yun hesitated for a moment and said to Guilliman.

"Hmm?" Guilliman looked at Zhou Yun somewhat blankly.

"But the carving on the door is indeed not a fact."

Zhou Yun said with a somewhat strange tone:

"The Hua Hua Hua Di Huang back then was... riding a pitch-black steed, wearing armor made of refined iron, holding the best cavalry spear of the Middle Ages..."

"What was his enemy? A Nile crocodile? A giant beast? Or a Greater Daemon?" Guilliman raised his eyebrows slightly and asked.

"... It was the Dragon of Mars, generally considered to be the pinnacle of the material universe, a fragment of the Void Dragon Mag'ladroth, the greatest and most terrifying C'tan in legend."

"A transcendent energy-state existence that can distort, reshape, and erase physical laws just by moving its fingers, and feeds on stars."

"..."

Guilliman couldn't help but look up at the Eternity Gate in front of him again, looking at the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang who pierced the giant dragon's left wing with one spear:

"You mean the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang defeated a C'tan fragment with just a medieval cavalry spear?"

"Yes, the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang pierced its weak point with a medieval cavalry spear, tied it up with a flag, rode a steed, and sealed it on Mars." Zhou Yun said gloomily: "But He said He is not a god."

"He also said He is not a god." Sanguinius also said gloomily: "Then this must be the great power of the Father."

Guilliman froze in place as if struck by lightning, and his expression became very strange.

(End of chapter)