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Besides sharing this information with Zhou Qing, Guilliman's other task was to inform Zhou Qing that they could now begin their journey.
Guilliman: "My army is ready and can depart now."
Upon hearing this, Zhou Qing gave Guilliman an OK sign.
"Okay, your compensation will be delivered to you in two hours."
"If you can't wait these two hours, you can set off first. I'll catch up with you quickly, since your faster-than-light travel speed is just too slow."
"No problem, it's only two hours. The Imperial fleet is just right and can prepare to depart."
With so many supplies available to receive, why wouldn't Guilliman be willing to wait? Of course, he was willing to wait.
After exchanging those last words, the two parted ways. Zhou Qing chose to return to his cruiser to begin production of the orders.
Guilliman, on the other hand, regrouped his troops and gave a final pre-departure speech.
However, he was full of confidence at this moment. He believed that with Zhou Qing's presence, the success rate of this Terra expedition would definitely not be as difficult as his previous missions to aid Terra.
An hour later, after Zhou Qing had given all the supplies he needed to the Ultra Warriors to the Ultra Warriors, the expeditionary fleet set sail.
The fleet plunged headlong into the turbulent subspace to begin its voyage.
The turbulent waves of the subspace were negligible to Zhou Qing, but not to the Imperial fleet.
Therefore, the only option on the way to Terra is to continuously make short to medium-distance jumps.
Even so, the risks are still very high, with several ships going missing every time they enter or leave subspace.
Some warships also malfunctioned in their Geller force fields, and in an instant, Nurgle, covered in disgusting slime, appeared on the ships.
These Nurgle demons began a fierce battle with the human crew.
Zhou Qing was enraged when he sensed that familiar yet disgusting subspace energy within his perception range.
Guilliman was not on any of the other Imperial warships, but rather on Zhou Qing's cruiser with Zhou Qing.
After all, his safety needs to be guaranteed.
Nowhere in the entire fleet was it safer than Zhou Qing's patrol ship.
On Zhou Qing's Wanli-class patrol ship, there were not only his 20,000 planetary defense troops and 400 psionic legion soldiers, but also a full 600 space marines and various armies of the Inquisition. The defense here was the strongest.
This only describes the ordinary troops, not to mention Zhou Qing's mechanized legion.
The dark matter shield that was constantly working on the warship also demonstrated that all this chaotic energy could not penetrate the warship, not even a fraction of it.
Even the energy of chaos was being continuously absorbed by the warship's subspace generator. For Zhou Qing, subspace energy was not something to be avoided; rather, it was simply a source of high-quality energy.
Of course, none of this prevented Zhou Qing from sensing that disgusting energy.
When that disgusting energy appeared within Zhou Qing's perception range, Zhou Qing held up a huge psionic lightning bolt in his hand.
Along with this psionic lightning bolt, psionic lightning also appeared on the warship.
The one inside was just a shadow; the one outside was the main attack method. But the moment that huge psionic lightning appeared, the Great Demon Nurgle was stunned.
The terrifying aura emanating from the lightning directly destroyed some ordinary Nurgles.
When Nurgle's great demon saw the psionic lightning bolt aimed directly at him, he was completely distraught.
He could sense the destructive aura contained within the psionic lightning; if he were struck by it, its entire existence would be erased.
The next second, all the Nurgle demons vanished instantly, choosing an escape route.
Just as they began to flee, the psionic lightning slipped from Zhou Qing's hand and struck his position.
The archdemons sent by Nurgle vanished without a trace, and all the demon units that had invaded the human empire's warships were also annihilated.
Immediately afterwards, Zhou Qing's powerful spiritual energy surged forth, enveloping all the Imperial warships. The warm power dispelled the influence of the subspace.
When the imperial army witnessed this scene, they all knelt down in reverence and shouted.
"By the Divine Emperor, this is a miracle."
This is a miracle; to anyone from any empire, it is a blatant miracle.
After all, what other explanation could there be besides a miracle to explain the warp demons being wiped out so easily and not daring to approach the warship?
Under Zhou Qing's protection, the Imperial Fleet completed this small-scale jump, and when they reappeared in the real universe, Zhou Qing withdrew his power.
The next time Zhou Qing entered the Greater Subspace, he found Guilliman and shared his ideas with him.
"These warp demons are more disgusting than I expected, and the energy here is also disgusting. I can't squander my energy, so for safety's sake, I'm going to make some other plans."
"What you see is that I have a psionic legion at my disposal. I plan to deploy this psionic legion inside every Imperial warship to deal with these warp demons."
"At the same time, I will also send my planetary defense forces, along with your Ultramarines, to form Space Marine combat squads and deploy them on every warship to protect them."
"While my power can protect you, it needs to be used to deal with other threats, so I can't keep spending it so carelessly. What do you think?"
Zhou Qing's proposal was clearly extremely reasonable, and Guilliman had no reason to object.
Therefore, Guilliman agreed to the proposal the moment Zhou Qing brought it up.
The Ultramarines began to mobilize, and the Planetary Defense Forces also began to mobilize.
The Psionic Legion was mobilized directly, with each Psionic Legion soldier able to carry 50 Space Marines.
When these soldiers were transferred to other warships of the Empire, Zhou Qing's cruiser became empty.
But no one felt panicked because the sense of security remained.
The powerful dark energy shield still protects the warship. At least from the current situation, unless the Chaos God personally intervenes, the dark energy shield can withstand the attack.
As for why the Chaos God himself couldn't withstand it, it was mainly due to the problem with the energy core; the core's energy generation power was insufficient.
Chapter 63: Guilliman must have just had terrible interpersonal skills.
Under Zhou Qing's protection, the Empire's fleet was quite safe.
After re-entering the warp, they did not sense any attacks from the warp demons. The psionic legions used their psionic powers to intimidate the surrounding warp demons.
That powerful psychic ability made even ordinary warp demons think it was a Greater Demon. And if there was a Greater Demon, how could ordinary demons possibly appear?
The fleet is in a very safe state.
However, it is clear that this is not what the warp demons want to see.
The resurgence of the Primarch excited the demons of the warp, who were eager to corrupt the 13th Primarch, Robert Guilliman.
Guilliman, the most unpopular Primarch among the Primarchs, known as the ambitious Guilliman, is about to receive a warm welcome from his brothers.
Just as Guilliman and Zhou Qing's combined fleet was about to reach the center of the galaxy, the loyalists were pulled into a great vortex by the evil magic of the traitorous Primarch Magrus.
Zhou Qing's cruiser was naturally unharmed.
But the Empire's warships were different. They were completely unable to resist such chaotic magic and were swallowed up by the vortex.
Faced with this situation, Zhou Qing had no choice but to enter as well.
There's nothing we can do; they have their own troops inside.
At the same time, everyone else is also human.
To the best of his ability, Zhou Qing will naturally do everything he can to save them.
"The warship is preparing to enter the great whirlpool. And Guilliman, what grudge do you have against your brothers? Why do they all want to kill you?"
Zhou Qing glanced helplessly at the somewhat embarrassed Gene Primarch standing next to him.
"I just don't understand why all your brothers want to kill you. Oh well, what can we do? Since it's already happened, we'll just have to deal with it."
Zhou Qing's words were tinged with helplessness. He couldn't understand why the Primarch next to him was so hated.
Guilliman didn't dare to speak, and just stood to the side with an innocent look on his face.
Now he dares not say or do anything.
The cruiser accelerated rapidly, rushing into the vortex at faster-than-light speed, and soon appeared around its own fleet.
Beside them were large fleets of Chaos.
The Chaos Astartes have begun their boarding operations, with large numbers of them jumping into Imperial warships and attempting to slaughter the crew.
In general, or theoretically speaking, tactics like Chaos Astartes should be effective in the Empire's operations.
Moreover, once they boarded the Imperial warships, the ordinary Imperial Navy was indeed no match for them.
But it was clear that they were destined to be disappointed this time. When they excitedly jumped into the warship, they were met with canned goods from the psionic legions and planetary defense forces deployed in various warships.
In order to capture Guilliman, the Chaos Astartes gathered more than 6000 Chaos Astartes from several warbands.
Such formidable combat power would theoretically be enough to capture Guilliman.
The Red Pirates thought so; they believed they had virtually no chance of failing.
After all, the battle has come to this point, how could they possibly lose?
However, things often don't go as planned, and all sorts of unexpected events can occur, like what's happening now.
When 6000 Chaos Space Marines directly confronted Zhou Qing's 400 Protoss Legion soldiers and 2 Planetary Defense Force soldiers, a great battle was imminent.
Faced with the Planetary Defense Force's phase bayonets and power swords, the Chaos Space Marines encountered an unprecedented Waterloo.
The phase bayonet pierced the Chaos Space Marines' terracotta armor without any resistance, cleaving them in two.
The planetary defense forces fought in groups of three, bayonets at the enemy, and Gauss rifles fired incessantly, inflicting blows on these Chaos Space Marines that they had never imagined.
The Gauss rifle's powerful firepower was enough to let these Chaos Space Marines experience what high-tech weaponry truly meant.
The ceramic armor that the explosive rounds couldn't penetrate was easily pierced by the Gauss rifle, and in close-quarters combat, their ceramic armor was no match for the phase bayonet.
The phase bayonet easily sliced them in half.
Their chainsaws failed to inflict much damage when they struck the opponent's power armor.
Despite their best efforts, the Chaos Space Marines were powerless to break through the defenses of the Planetary Defense Forces, no matter how they launched counterattacks or how hard they tried.
These PDFs are practically an impenetrable fortress.
Not to mention the psionic legions behind these troops.
The soldiers of the Psionic Legion unleashed powerful and fierce psionic lightning across the entire battlefield, turning every Chaos Space Marine they struck into ashes with a single blow.
The unfolding of the Great Rift not only caused the Empire an unprecedented Waterloo, but also left its army in a desperate situation.