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Their attacks do not involve drawing energy from the subspace to launch any kind of attack; their attacks are all initiated by themselves.
The only cultivation methods and psychics who can be compared to them are the Emperor himself and those immortals.
The Emperor felt more at ease when a million psionicists arrived on Terra.
He sat comfortably on his golden throne, his daily entertainment consisting of watching his troops fight each other and the psionicists wreaking havoc and annihilating the Chaos Demons.
As he watched his Imperial Guard grow larger and larger, and then be deployed to battlefield after battlefield, and as the situation of humanity improved, the Emperor felt immense satisfaction.
He had rarely felt this good since he sat on the Golden Throne, and now he was experiencing this wonderful feeling again. It was absolutely fantastic!
Besides eliminating demons every day, another job of the Psionic Legion is to purify the Emperor's toxins.
Although these psionicists are not particularly powerful, there are enough of them.
Although the Emperor's toxins continued to increase steadily under their purification, the rate of increase had decreased by a full third compared to before.
The reduction of toxins means that the emperor's suffering while sitting on the golden throne will also be greatly reduced.
The pain was reduced by a third, which was a great relief to the emperor.
If Zhou Qing could send two psionic legions to help him purify, then he would no longer be suffering torture while sitting on the golden throne.
Life immediately improved, and the body also became more comfortable under the evolution of the psionic legion.
Everything in the human empire seemed to be thriving, even though the empire was split in two by the Great Rift, but that didn't matter.
The human empire is getting better and better, but Abaddon has been having a really frustrating time lately.
God knows how he got through that year, with the situation critical on all fronts.
Guilliman's Unyielding Expedition forced the Black Legion to retreat repeatedly.
But if that were all, it wouldn't be so bad. What made him even more upset was that he encountered a truly absurd planet.
Imperial Industrial World Palo Stefan.
This is a world in the dark side of the empire, and when he saw this world, his first thought was to bring it under his rule.
After all, the industrial world can provide an abundance of output.
The Black Legion also needs supplies, and the dark mechanical cult alone cannot provide sufficient supplies. Therefore, when Abaddon saw this industrial world, he was extremely envious.
But for some reason, when he launched his attack on this world, more than 1 Space Marines fought him against him.
The war lasted for two whole months.
The Black Legion's fleet controls the airspace above orbit, but they are unable to penetrate this small industrial world.
For some reason, the enemy Space Marines seemed to multiply as the battle progressed. If he hadn't turned into the wind, a warning in his mind would have told him to run.
He was genuinely worried that the Space Marines would fly up in their shuttles, melt through his warship, and board him in a righteous act.
This was not the most frustrating thing he encountered in the dark side of the empire. He had encountered more than ten similar incidents in the dark side.
The Space Marines, Abaddon, clad in silver-white power armor, were filled with hatred.
Unfortunately, when he put everything together, he tragically discovered that the number of Space Marines on this planet alone was at least 20.
In addition, he also received messages from other military units and warbands of the Chaos forces.
After adding up the Space Marines he had encountered with other factions, he arrived at a number that made his head spin.
1100 million!
Yes, he discovered 1,100 million Space Marines and deployed them on the dark side of the Empire to fight him.
With such a massive force, Abaddon had reason to suspect that if they hadn't lacked warships, he would have been soundly defeated.
Even though Abaddon subconsciously rejected the number after calculating it.
But it's no use.
Because numbers don't lie, he did indeed calculate 1,100 million Space Marines.
Now, as the war commander jointly promoted by the four Chaos Gods, he is quite certain that the number he calculated is without any error.
In other words, he now has to face at least tens of millions of Space Marines on the dark side of the Empire.
According to his plan, after the Black Crusade was completed, the human empire should now be divided in two and begin to decline gradually, but what the hell is this?
He was unsure of the current situation of the Imperium of Man, but he was certain that the Imperium now had a large number of Space Marines deployed in the dark side of the Imperium.
Even though these troops haven't been deployed to all the planets yet, Abaddon still gasped in shock.
Chapter 119 Astral Army Astartes Force
The news that the main force of the Black Legion had launched an attack on an industrial world was bound to be public knowledge, so Zhou Qing received such news after the Black Legion withdrew.
"You mean a man named Abaddon, the commander of the Black Legion, led his forces to attack an industrial world of the Empire?"
We happened to have a unit stationed there at the time, and that's how we clashed with them.
Zhou Qing was somewhat confused by the news, so he repeated it and then asked his soldiers for confirmation.
"Yes, Grand Marshal, in that industrial world, our forces encountered Abaddon of the Black Legion. He personally dispatched troops to attack that industrial world, but they were intercepted by our Planetary Defense Force."
Zhou Qing felt a strange sense of beauty, though he didn't know what to say. To date, he had a total of 28 core colony planets under his command, and these 28 planets were being modified and developed by him according to the standards of the Human Federation.
In addition, over the course of more than a year, he also brought 108 Imperial Worlds into his protected area, and the Imperial territories in the four star sectors surrounding Zhou Qing were also brought under his protection.
The Federation of Humanities' patrol fleets do not patrol these Imperial worlds, but in order to ensure that these Imperial worlds can be protected to some extent, Zhou Qing still sends about four chapters of Space Marines to these worlds.
The number of these battlebands was not planned according to Guilliman's Astartes Grand Ceremony, but rather according to Zhou Qing's own battlebands, with each battleband having 3000 people.
Although these 108 outer imperial worlds were not directly under Zhou Qing's rule, their reputation had already spread in the dark side of the empire, and they were known as the 108 Worlds of the Hazy Starfield.
Legend has it that in these 108 worlds, in the dark territories of this empire, the planetary governors of these worlds are exceptionally wise.
In this world, ordinary people, even those at the bottom of society, all have houses to live in and enough to eat.
Legend has it that in these 108 worlds, each world has 1 Space Marines, and the Imperial Angels protect them with absolute safety.
This is the news that has been circulating in the imperial world surrounding Zhou Qing.
Without a doubt, under Zhou Qing's protection, these 108 worlds became the benchmarks that the darker side of the empire aspired to and looked forward to.
In the course of a year, Zhou Qing only added one patrol fleet, which was then dispatched by Zhou Qing to the solar system to patrol the solar star region.
Regardless, the war on the network is the most important war to hold back the demons, so Zhou Qing chose to send a patrol fleet to the solar system to deal with any trouble that might arise.
If a unit appears within the network that even his military robots cannot deal with, then the Titan fleet will completely destroy the enemy.
Compared to Terra's strategic importance, the 108 unofficial colonies that Zhou Qing recaptured seem less significant.
This is why Abaddon did not encounter a patrol fleet attack directly after attacking an industrial world.
Abaddon's attack was just a minor incident. After sorting things out, Zhou Qing shifted his attention to something else.
"Has this year's tithe been collected? Have the various planets sent their Astral Armies here? I need to expand our forces."
It was clear to Zhou Qing that the more important thing was the expansion of the army, given that Abaddon was such an insignificant fellow.
"Reporting to the Grand Marshal, the tithes for each planet have been recruited, and we have received a total of 1,200 million Astral Army troops." The Minister of Internal Affairs standing next to Zhou Qing quickly reported the situation of the Astral Army this year to Zhou Qing.
“Very good. Take these Astral Army soldiers to the genetic clinic to perform genetic modifications on them, so that they can also become qualified IG.”
Zhou Qing was very satisfied; the Star Realm Army now had an additional 1,200 million troops.
Although Zhou Qing possessed the technology to transform ordinary Imperial citizens into planetary defense forces capable of fighting in Astartes, the cost of doing so was simply too high.
Ordinary people are just ordinary people after all.
Although the modifications and enhancements made to them met Astartes' standards, their fighting spirit was far inferior.
At the same time, their combat effectiveness is also significantly lower than that of ordinary Astragalus troops transformed into Space Marines.
Therefore, under such circumstances, Zhou Qing changed the recruitment standards for PDF after acquiring enough Imperial World.
Ultimately, it's a world of interstellar warfare, and a large number of space warriors are actually unnecessary.
Therefore, after careful consideration, Zhou Qing changed his standards.
All subsequent genetically modified individuals will be selected from the Astral Army.
One of the most important things in the 108 worlds is to provide Zhou Qing with soldiers, and to provide these high-quality soldiers.
Don't be fooled by the fact that the Star Guardians appear to be just cannon fodder on the battlefield; that's actually an insult to them.
The main reason was that the battlefields they experienced were too brutal, not the kind of place they should be, which is why they performed so poorly.
In reality, the Astronautical Army is the most elite combat force on a planet, equivalent to special forces or elite soldiers in the 2K era. They are the absolute elite selected from billions of people.
Just like the 108 worlds under Zhou Qing's rule, even the world with the smallest population among the 108 worlds has a population of hundreds of billions.
However, with a population of hundreds of billions, each world can only provide a mere 100,000 troops per year.
Every member of the Astral Army is one in tens of millions!
Under such circumstances, by modifying ordinary Star Guardians, their combat capabilities could directly reach the mid-to-high level of Space Marines.
There might even be a few beings capable of unleashing their full potential, like Titus. Similarly, there will be some exceptionally powerful Space Marines.
This level of quality cannot be achieved by modifying ordinary PDFs.
This cannot be achieved by using a regular PDF for gene modification.
Only beings like the Star Guardians, who can select around ten thousand individuals from a world population of hundreds of billions, are qualified to accomplish such a miracle.
After all 1,200 million Astronauts were upgraded to Space Marines, Zhou Qing, excluding the PDF force he handed over to Guilliman, would have a total Astronaut force of 6,000 million.
As the number of them increased, Zhou Qing felt that he should fulfill his responsibilities as the Sun Lord of the Empire.
For example, should the empire send more troops to protect the darker side of the world?
With a total strength of 6000 million Space Marines, he could once again protect 6,000 Imperial worlds!
Based on the current situation, and considering the planetary defense forces already present on the planetary surface, deploying 1 Space Marines should be sufficient to protect an Imperial world.
Chapter 120 The Punishment Expedition for Abaddon
Although Zhou Qing intended to fulfill his duties as the Lord of the Sun and send troops to protect more of the Imperial World, he had his sights set on Abaddon before that.
Abaddon's attack on the industrial world successfully brought him into Zhou Qing's view.