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Chapter 722 Victory Parade
Terra, Lionsgate Airport.

The space port of the throne world has returned to its former busy scene, with various ships shuttling back and forth and docking.

The wreckage of the alien satellite still remained in Terra's orbit, but no one took it seriously. The people no longer felt fear and anxiety when they saw the strange moon in the sky, because they knew that the race that created the moon had been wiped out by the imperial army led by Qingshan Khan.

Word has it that the wise men of Mars are hatching a plan to remove the Profaned Moon from the solar system altogether.

At this moment, among the many huge warships anchored in the airport, an ancient and huge Emperor-class battleship was particularly eye-catching. Its black base with gold edging paint indicated that it belonged to the Astartes Regiment with the best record and the most powerful momentum in this war - the Iron Pagoda Regiment.

The deeds of this chapter have long been passed down by word of mouth: the first chapter to destroy the battle moon, the first chapter to reach the solar system, the first chapter to land on Ullanor, the first chapter to enter the Garden of Gogo... and so on.

The commander of the Iron Pagoda Regiment is Qingshan Khan, the actual commander-in-chief of the human expeditionary coalition.

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Battleship HMS Rectification, captain's room.

In the spacious and luxurious cabin, Fu Qinghai, wearing the Blue Shell ceremonial armor, stood in the middle with his hands spread out, motionless, while servants in robes were busy coming and going around him.

Three servants half-knelt and half-crouched at his feet, carefully polishing and painting the edges of his boots. Two servants circled around his hands, looking them up and down, as if they wanted to check every gap in the gauntlets. Four more servants stood in front of and behind Fu Qinghai on the shelves, holding various tools and redoing his hairstyle and repairing his facial appearance.

The ceremonial armor is undoubtedly a work of art.

The main body is dark black, with gilded edges and dotted with bright red lines. Black, gold and red are the main colors of the armor. The carved shape of the armor surface imitates the concave and convex armor plates in the shape of a mountain. The wide cape woven with extremely fine gold threads unfolds behind the power armor. The spear-pointed helmet tassel on the top of the helmet and the dark gold phoenix wings on the side are also unique decorative elements.

The entire right shoulder armor is an exaggerated dark gold beast-swallowing shape—the ferocious and angry beast head opens its mouth wide and bites the arm armor.

The circular plastron in the middle of the waist is in the shape of a dark gold beast bite - the beast's fangs hold a wide weapon belt.

The entire set of Playboy ceremonial power armor presents a majestic and gorgeous classical oriental aesthetic style.

A good set of armor needs to be paired with a good sword. Fu Qinghai conventionally chose the Blue Blade as his sword this time.

The long straight handle is wrapped with gold and silver twisted wires, and the metal blade guard is hollowed out with a steel chisel in a regular hexagon. The folded forging pattern creates a variety of light and dark patterns on the blade. In addition, the blade has been treated with blueing to form a dense oxide film, which presents the kind of sky blue after the rain. The gorgeous enamel sheath has gorgeous glaze decoration.

Not only was Fu Qinghai surrounded by servants, several other senior officers of the Chapter were also being dressed by ceremonial officials from Terra to ensure that they could display the spirit of the Astartes and the solemn military might of the Imperial Army when participating in the parade.

Zhang Yuning, wearing a black off-shoulder evening gown, walked into the captain's room. The dark fabric made her cold white skin look even more delicate. Seeing Fu Qinghai standing there frozen in place, letting the servants do whatever they wanted to him, she couldn't help but smile and said jokingly:
"Why are you being so handsome? Who are you trying to seduce?"

Fu Qinghai raised the corner of his mouth and was about to speak. The servant who was carefully shaving off the stubble on both sides of his cheeks and around his mouth with a knife immediately frowned and said seriously:

"Please don't move, my lord."

Fu Qinghai could only return to his expressionless look.

Zhang Yuning crossed her arms and couldn't help laughing. She tilted her head to look at Fu Qinghai's new hairstyle and nodded with satisfaction.

The servant put hair wax on his hands and was giving Fu Qinghai a standard slicked-back hairstyle. This hairstyle was designed for him by Zhang Yuning. It wasn't that she liked this hairstyle very much, but she just enjoyed the feeling of casually messing up her boyfriend's image.

While remaining motionless for a few minutes, Fu Qinghai was silently reviewing the major events of this plot line in his mind.

After the death of the "Green Emperor", the Beast among Beasts, the major plot event "Beast War" came to an end.

At that time, the Orcs on the entire planet formed a giant psychic network to provide energy for the Beast. However, before the Beast could use this huge psychic energy to brew some world-destroying trick, it was stabbed to death by the Spear of Longinus that penetrated its shield. The psychic disorder when the Beast died spread along the network back to every Orc on the planet, causing all the Ork creatures on the planet to die instantly.

In other words, Fu Qinghai killed billions of Orks on Ulanno with just one attack.

At that moment the assimilation points exploded.

In the original novel of Beast Wars, after the Sister of Silence killed the Beast of Beasts at the cost of her own death, the greenskins on the entire planet also died with her. Fu Qinghai had anticipated this result, the difference being that the assimilation points awarded for direct and indirect kills were different. So even though he was unsure whether the replica of the Spear of Longinus could penetrate the psychic shield, he still had to try, to kill the Beast of Beasts himself.

Regarding the reward settlement of the reincarnation world.

The difference is huge.

Thinking of this, Fu Qinghai opened the property panel.

[Assimilation points: 2938671653 points]

Serfs rose from the assimilation trap and became rich overnight. You should know that before the major event of this plot line officially started, Fu Qinghai's assimilation points in the attribute panel were only 3 points. Yes, 3 points, because he spent too many assimilation points preparing war resources for the Beast War, assimilating the Spear of Longinus, the Water of Life Sample, the Eternal Fire and the Ancient Winter Treasure Box...

In order to bring these powerful artifacts that could change the course of the war to the Warhammer 40K universe, Fu Qinghai used up all the assimilation points accumulated from major events in the previous plot lines.

Facts have also proved that only high investment can bring high returns. With sufficient planning and preparation, Fu Qinghai can be said to have pushed through the entire major plot event smoothly. There were some minor twists and turns in the process, but basically the strategic goals of each stage were achieved, and the assimilation points consumed before were all earned back in this major plot event.

The winning camp in the original Beast Wars was originally the Emperor's camp, but it was a tragic victory after paying a heavy price. Fu Qinghai is a reincarnation, with various means from the multiverse. The Warhammer 40K universe is Fu Qinghai's base, and he has worked hard here and has deep roots. In terms of emotion and reason, he should not have won a tragic victory like the original plot, but should have surpassed the original plot and won a big victory.

In fact he did.

Compared to the plot of the original novel, in this major event of the plot line, Kurland was not killed, Vulkan was not missing, the Sisters of Silence were not killed, and millions of Terran citizens and even more Imperial soldiers avoided the fate of death because of Qingshan Khan's exquisite command and forward-looking layout.

The logic of rewarding assimilation points in the reincarnation world is to "push the plot towards the ending expected by the faction." If 60 points are enough to achieve victory according to the original plot, then Fu Qinghai's score is 120 points, which is enough to be called a "perfect clearance achievement."

After the major events of the plot line ended, the current period is a gap in reincarnation. The orcs of Ullanor are all dead, but there are still many orcs in other star systems and even other star regions. During the Beast War, the Orks wreaked havoc in the galaxy, sweeping and occupying a large area. After the death of the Beast, he left behind a huge and fragmented orc empire.

In the original novel, it took more than a hundred years for Sean to lead the final High Wall Space Marines to wipe out the remaining orcs.

However, since there will no longer be any assimilation point rewards for killing orcs after the major events of the plot line are over, Fu Qinghai is not very interested in continuing the expedition to clear out the remaining orcs.

Moreover, after losing the beasts, the orcs will soon fall into a long-term division and infighting without a leader, until a new boss is decided. In the short term, they will no longer pose a threat to the empire.

After Fu Qinghai handed over the position of commander-in-chief of the human coalition forces to Kurland, he led his regiment back to Holy Terra.

The reason why Fu Qinghai was in such a hurry to rush back to the throne world was not to promote himself or gain praises.

The major events of the plot line have ended, but Fu Qinghai cannot just walk away after earning enough assimilation points like other reincarnations. The Warhammer 40K universe is his base, and for the faction he has been tied to for a long time - the Emperor's faction, the affairs of the Human Empire are the affairs of Qingshan Khan.

Beast Wars is over.

But what happened after the war was just as important.

Maybe even more important.

"All right, sir."

The servant's words interrupted Fu Qinghai's thoughts.

Coming back to his senses, he found that the servants around him had already taken down their shelves and were leaving one after another. Fu Qinghai turned his head and glanced at his appearance in the floor-length mirror. He looked majestic and noble. The complexity and magnificence of his ceremonial armor was comparable to the power armor of the Primarch.

Fu Qinghai turned around and waved, and several senior officers of the regiment immediately followed him out of the captain's room. They would take the space elevator of Lion's Gate Airport to the surface of Terra, and then directly start the most grand victory parade.

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Terra, Guard Avenue.

Flags of various colors are waving and colorful pieces of paper are dancing.

There were huge crowds of people everywhere and the cheers were deafening.

The entire planet celebrated this victory.

Ever since the Beast Wars broke out.

Throneworld held three victory parades.

The first time, the Imperial Navy destroyed a battle moon at the Sanctus Starport in the Vesperils System. The Imperial Navy paid a heavy price for this, and three main fleets were almost wiped out. Even so, the Supreme Lord Admiral Lanson still celebrated this tragic victory.

The second time, the White Scars and Last Wall Space Marines jointly captured the Battle Moon that descended into Terra's orbit, relieving the crisis of the Orks at the gates of the capital. Udo, then the Supreme Commander of the Empire and Lord Guilliman, ordered a grand parade to boost morale.

The third time, which is this time.

Celebrating the final end of the Beast Wars.

In Fu Qinghai's opinion, only this victory parade was truly meaningful. The threat of the beast was completely ended. The previous two victory parades were somewhat like popping champagne at halftime. They were eager to publicize and celebrate before the final victory was won. The political show was more important than the practical significance.

This victory parade was also the largest ever.

The protagonists of the previous two victory parades were the Imperial Navy and the Space Marines, but this time, almost all military sequences of the human empire appeared. The various chapters of the Space Marines, the fleets of the Imperial Navy, and the various regiments of the Imperial Guard all sent representatives to participate in this parade, including the representatives of the Knights and Titans of the Mechanicus.

It fully demonstrated the grand military might of the human empire.

The most special group in the parade was the 80-plus-member all-female group at the front of the parade. They wore dark gold power armor, held two-handed swords or other weapons, and wore masks covering half of their faces. They looked mysterious, yet also familiar.

"...Sister of Silence!"

Finally someone among the crowd of spectators remembered.

They pointed at the group of Silent Sisters and said in surprise.

The crowd immediately began to talk. The Sisters of Silence and the Imperial Guards were once famous as the right-hand men of the Emperor. Later, for some unknown reason, the Sisters of Silence gradually faded from the sight of the people of Terra, and the Imperial Guards also hid in the deep palace and never appeared again. This was the first time in more than a thousand years that the Sisters of Silence participated in the victory parade and appeared in the sight of the people of the Throne World.

And this is Fu Qinghai's purpose.

This decision was questioned by many imperial officials, but he still insisted that the Sisters of Silence should join the parade and march in front of all the imperial troops. The Sisters of Silence were the biggest contributors to the victory of the Beast War, and Fu Qinghai wanted to use this method to announce the return of this special force that was once exiled by the High Lord.

Sister Vigilance, Knight of Oblivion, Karel Cassolin, as the highest-ranking existing Sister of Silence, naturally walked at the head of the team of nuns as a representative.

Facing the gazes of millions of people crowded on both sides of the Guards Avenue, the silent sister who had faced countless demons could not help but feel her breathing quicken. Her emotions were difficult to express in words. Her body was still moving forward mechanically, but everything in front of her eyes began to blur. Hot tears filled her eyes uncontrollably.

They dedicated everything to the Imperium and the Emperor, and fought desperately with the demons of the Warp and illegal psykers, but in the end they were exiled. Only the Untouchables themselves knew the anger and sadness of being betrayed, the grievances and pain in their hearts. The Sisters of Silence were too loyal for not rebelling directly.

Now, all the humiliation has been washed away.

Qingshan Khan, as the de facto commander-in-chief of the human coalition forces, did not walk at the front of the parade, but instead gave the highest glory of victory to the Sister of Silence.

At this time, for this group of exiles, the Emperor came first and Qingshan Khan came second. Their loyalty to Qingshan Khan surpassed all institutions and departments of the Human Empire.

Following closely behind the Sisters of Silence was the Iron Pagoda Regiment. Qingshan Khan walked in the front, surrounded by the Iron Pagoda Terminators of the First Company who served as their guard of honor and personal guards. Their gorgeously carved and exquisitely decorated tactical dreadnought armor and their huge power lances with blades piercing the sky gave people a feeling of majesty and domineering, as if their armor clanged like mountains and their swords and halberds swung like a forest.

And behind this group of Iron Pagoda Terminators was what truly frightened and shocked the Terran people who were watching.

A large tracked engineering trailer, the bed is a wide flat plate, on which lies a huge green alien corpse more than ten meters long. The chest cavity and armor of the corpse were flattened into a thin piece by some unknown force, which may be the cause of its death. Even so, the huge size of the whole corpse still exceeds many people's inherent perception of Orks.

"What on earth is that, my Lord?"

"Could it be... the legendary beast?"

"It's unbelievable, it's just horrible."

There were bursts of exclamations from the crowd.

An Ork, a creature that survives in normal terrestrial gravity and an aerobic atmosphere, can grow taller than a Knight mech? This discovery overturns people's traditional understanding of biology and physics.

Although this giant orc was lying on the trailer flatbed and no longer moving, just by looking at this alien corpse covered with bulging green muscles and rough and heavy armor, one can roughly imagine what a terrible enemy it is on the battlefield and what kind of terrifying destructive power it has.

The appearance of the huge beast's corpse added a sense of fear to the festive atmosphere of the parade.

And this is also one of Fu Qinghai's goals.

According to Vera Nora's description, in the original novel, after the human coalition returned triumphantly, they also brought back an ordinary orc who was specially captured. After the parade, Sean ritually beheaded the orc in front of millions of Terran people, thus declaring the complete end of the Beast War.

Fu Qinghai does not plan to hold a similar ceremony.

He also disagreed with Sean's approach.

He directly displayed the most complete corpse of a wild beast nakedly in front of the people of Terra - if the beast among beasts had not been annihilated in the uncontrolled explosion of Ork's psychic energy, he even wanted to display the corpse of the "Green-skinned Emperor".

As for the other beasts, their bodies were not particularly complete. They died from black hole grenades or psychic brain explosions, and were missing part or all of their heads. Only the body of the beast that was luckily killed in the battle moon above the Endin hive world was the most complete, and had the best display effect.

Looking back at the human empire's propaganda during the entire Beast War, whether it was blocking the news of the Imperial Fists' annihilation, even resorting to fraud, or choosing to behead an ordinary orc as a symbol and sign of the end of the war, the internal logic of all propaganda calibers was the same:

Only report good news, not bad news.

They would only continue to exaggerate how powerful and invincible the empire was, and how fragile and vulnerable the enemy was. Even though they had won the final victory in the war, they did not dare to show the enemy's true face to the people. The reason was nothing more than the same logic that Udo had repeated over and over again:

They were worried about the spread of panic, about rumors, about this and that, about people losing confidence in the Human Empire and this war... and so on.

In Fu Qinghai's view, this way of thinking reflects the fact that the high lords lack the most basic confidence in ruling the country. They are afraid of all negative news because they believe that these will shake the foundation of their rule and government authority. All news that appears in the newspapers must be a win, the only difference is whether it is a small win, a medium win or a big win.

It seems that such a huge human empire is an empire of lies built entirely on the illusion of continuous victory.

Fu Qinghai's ideas are different from those of Lord Gao.

The sense of crisis of "born in worry, die in comfort" appeared in his value culture system very early. Many ancient philosophers even believed that having an "enemy country" was one of the necessary conditions for the long-term survival of a country. Fu Qinghai showed the beast's corpse naked to the ordinary people and the ruling class of the throne world. This move was to tell them:

Peace is always temporary. In this cruel universe, wars never end and threats never disappear. If you still indulge in internal intrigues and power struggles, powerful and terrifying enemies like beasts will sooner or later make a comeback.

Of course, from another perspective, even such a powerful enemy was eventually killed by the Space Marines, which proved to the people that the Astartes still had the ability to defend the Empire from any foreign invasion.

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Himalayan region, inner city of Terra Palace.

The biting wind mixed with cold snow particles scraped the face and skin painfully. Fu Qinghai led the parade to the end of the Guard Avenue. Representatives from various military ranks of the human empire stopped in front of the stairs. Fu Qinghai stepped onto the endless stairs alone, his large adamantine cloak dragging folds on the stone steps behind him.

Finally, he stopped in front of the palace gate, turned around and looked back. The long and crowded hive city spread out before his eyes. He could vaguely see several colorful trails remaining in the sky and the gorgeous fireworks that bloomed from time to time.

Fu Qinghai withdrew his gaze and turned to look forward. The magnificent Eternal Gate was slowly opening inward. The Imperial Guards, wearing gorgeous golden power armor, held spears in their hands and lined up neatly on both sides of the gate, as if they had been waiting here for a long time.

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(End of this chapter)