Warhammer begins in 2026

During the Great Expedition, Huang Feng ordered the 15th Army Corps to be deployed to the main fleet's ships to stand by.

Thousands of Space Marines, their bodies enveloped in a faint aura of psychic energy, stood in neat rows. All of them were born psychics. At the very front of the line, Ahriman, the current commander of the Fifteenth Legion, strode forward and knelt on one knee in salute.

"My lord, the entire 15th Legion has assembled." Ahriman bowed his head and awaited orders. At present, the legion only had a few thousand members and had not yet been expanded on a large scale.

Looking at the exceptionally talented psionic progenitor before him, Huang Feng did not reveal the Grey Knights' full plan beforehand, but simply gave the order: "Ariman, lead the entire Fifteenth Legion back to Terra to participate in the special assessment and selection."

Although Ahriman had doubts, he did not ask any further questions, bowed and accepted the order, and immediately began to arrange the fleet's return journey.

Huang Feng had already made up his mind to use the genes of the naturally highly resistant psionicists of the 15th Legion as a blueprint, and to cultivate the genetic seeds of the Gray Knights using Huang Feng's bloodline.

Huang Feng possesses an innate talent that is uniquely endowed: he can suppress all enemy psionic energy, chaos magic, and demonic power over a wide area, yet he will not suffer any backlash or suppression when releasing his own psionic energy. His psionic energy characteristics on both offense and defense are perfectly suited to the Grey Knights' forces that hunt demons, making him an essential asset for the legion that controls the pollution of the warp.

"There should be about a hundred people who can reach the standard of Grey Knights," Huang Feng thought to himself, looking at the thousands of men in the 15th Legion.

She simultaneously established a new rule applicable to the entire legion: from now on, all think tanks of all legions must participate in the Grey Knight-specific assessment. Those who pass the assessment can return to their original legion to perform their duties, and all assessment results, psionic resistance data, and demon combat experience will be archived and permanently recorded under the unified management of Macardo.

Once a large-scale chaotic invasion erupts across the galaxy and demonic rifts appear, all think tanks that have passed the Grey Knights' assessment and registration will be uniformly mobilized to cooperate in combat, becoming the backbone of the reserve force against the warp threat.

As the Great Expeditionary Fleet ventured deep into the outer edge of the western spiral arm of the Milky Way, a hundred-man reconnaissance squad guarded by the Nineteenth Legion's Dark Raven Guard sent back urgent intelligence: a desolate planet enveloped by deathly gray fissures, devoid of any ecological cycle, atmospheric activity, or any signs of civilization, its surface covered with neat obsidian prisms, was a complete, dormant necropolis world of space.

Huang Feng immediately halted the recapture of the nearby star field and dispatched her main force to encircle it. This was the first ancient necromancer tomb she had encountered on her expedition that was extremely intact, undamaged by war, and untouched by aliens. It was an excellent sample for analyzing Blackstone technology and reverse engineering necromancer black technology.

The moment the fleet approached the orbit, the Tomb World's global defense system automatically activated.

The obsidian runes covering the entire planet's surface simultaneously glowed with a ghostly green light, and layers of invisible phase shields appeared in the void orbit. Conventional macro cannons and plasma barrages hitting the shield's surface were completely neutralized by the dimensional phase shift, not even causing a ripple. Tens of thousands of dormant tomb gates beneath the earth unlocked one after another, and the undead army, silent for sixty million years, slowly awoke.

Huang Feng ordered the entire army to advance steadily, tearing through the technological barriers of this ancient civilization head-on. In just half a day, humanity faced the complete set of top-notch technology systems of the undead for the first time.

All Necromancers, Immortals, and Heavy Constructs are forged from living metal, neither conventional machinery nor flesh and blood, possessing molecular-level self-healing capabilities. Damage to their bodies, shattered armor, and severed limbs can instantly regenerate and repair themselves. As long as their core energy storage matrix is ​​not completely destroyed, they will never truly die in battle. Ordinary Space Marine missile weapons and plasma firearms are completely ineffective in suppressing their sustained combat power.

Huang Feng directly summoned two Emperor-level Titan legions to carry out large-scale demolition.

The Necromancer's basic individual Gaussian rifle and heavy Gaussian cannon do not rely on explosions or high temperatures to kill, but rather use an antimatter force field to peel away the atomic structure of the target layer by layer. Whether it's power armor alloys, tank armor, or ship hull steel plates, they will all be disintegrated and reduced to ashes, ignoring conventional physical defenses and resistances. The advanced tomb turret is equipped with a giant Gaussian annihilation array, and a single salvo can melt the alloy fortifications of an entire landing site.

The entire crypt is riddled with phase gates and spatially folding corridors, allowing undead forces to teleport point-to-point for reinforcements without regard to terrain or battle lines. While the surface pyramids appear to have a limited volume, their internal space, utilizing dimensional geometry technology, far exceeds their external volume, housing massive armories, hibernation pods, weapons workshops, and sealed chambers. Even if the surface fortress is breached, the underground remains an endless, three-dimensional labyrinth.

High-level tomb engineers possess secondary time manipulation capabilities, which can trigger time rewind loops in localized battlefields, resetting destroyed constructs, turrets, and fortifications, forcibly locking in a stalemate on the battlefield, making conventional tug-of-war battles impossible to win.

The core of the tomb possesses a built-in Void Silence Matrix, capable of shielding psionic signals, warp coordinates, and communication links, suppressing large-scale warp fluctuations. Conventional psionic strategists cannot cast spells here, and ship warps will be forcibly deflected or locked, perfectly countering most human and Eldar psionic and warp tactics.

This high-level tomb contains fragments of a Star God's artifact, which, while not reaching the level of galactic destruction, can distort local physical laws, alter gravity, disintegrate energy shields, and paralyze ship propulsion. It is a strategic-level black technology far beyond human current understanding.

The core tower base of the entire tomb is cast from a single, massive block of black stone, serving as the energy source for the entire tomb's defenses, void sealing, and phase technology. The black stone naturally isolates subspace, suppresses chaos, and absorbs disordered psionic energy—a core technology that Huang Feng has long coveted.

Conventional offensives have reached a complete stalemate. The undead are multiplying, destroying and repairing themselves, their self-healing and time-reversal abilities propelling them into endless combat. Huang Feng immediately activates his exclusive counter-tactics: Huang Feng's Legion's psionic suppression field is fully activated, countering the Tomb's Silence Matrix; Zero Eagle Banner spreads out across the entire area for reality anchoring, forcibly locking down the enemy's time reversal and phase shift abilities; the Mars Titan cluster focuses on the molten core, precisely melting and severing the living metal circuits around the Black Stone base.

Without the protection of space and time, the undead guards quickly collapsed. Massive numbers of tomb guardians, immortals, and colossal constructs were annihilated one after another. The surface pyramid defenses collapsed layer by layer, and the gates of the underground labyrinth were breached one by one.

Just as the human army was about to touch the core black stone foundation and prepare to completely dismantle the tomb's central hub, the smoke of battle suddenly stopped.

A gentle yet timeless whisper resounded throughout the entire planet. Countless tiny silver grains of sand gathered and recombined in the air, eventually coalescing into a necromancer lord draped in time-space light and wielding a dimensional scepter—Tarashin the Endless One—who appeared in the center of the battlefield.

He did not summon an army or activate any lethal weapons; he simply stood quietly atop the collapsing pyramid, his gaze clear, seeing through all of Huang Feng's intentions.

"Guardian of humanity, you have not come to destroy dynasties, but to seek the Black Stone and the authority over the anti-warp."

Taracin's voice was devoid of emotion, transcending millions of years of slumber, and bluntly revealed Huang Feng's core desire.

Huang Feng raised his hand to halt the entire army's offensive. The Eagle Banner's psionic energy slowly receded as he calmly looked directly at his opponent: "You've got it right. I need Blackstone's complete craftsmanship, anti-subspace technology, and the method for constructing the void barrier."

Tarasin chuckled, sand swirling around him: "Blackstone is not an ordinary mineral; it is a remnant of the war between the ancient saints and the star gods, the original medium of the cosmic barrier between reality and illusion. Ordinary tombs only have basic uses for energy storage and shielding. The advanced Blackstone technology that can truly seal rifts, suppress chaos, solidify subspace territory, and build safe passageways is not found in ordinary tombs."

He offered a fair and equivalent deal:

"I can tell you about the three top-tier Blackrock core strongholds in the Milky Way, the complete hierarchical technology framework, and the formula for constructing the anti-subspace matrix."

"The price is: you must not completely erase this tomb, preserve all my collections and relics, and allow me free access to your human empire's territory, without being hunted or sealed away."

Huang Feng made his decision in an instant.

A complete assault to destroy this tomb would at most yield low-level Blackstone application technology; however, Talasien, with his millions of years of accumulated galactic knowledge, knows where to find high-level undead who have mastered the complete Star God Wars, Ancient Saint technology, and the advanced Blackstone system. This deal is a sure win.

"Alright." Huang Feng nodded in agreement. "I grant you free passage through the Imperial Starfield and will never ambush or blockade you. The main structure of this tomb will be preserved; I will only dismantle and replicate the technology, without destroying the foundation of the dynasty here."

The deal was struck, and Tarachin, no longer holding back, revealed the three top-secret coordinates:

First, the ancient Blackstone fortress complex at the core of the Milky Way: a giant artificial Blackstone star field left over from the Star God War, capable of mass-producing combat Blackstone and constructing a global anti-subspace force field.

Second, the Silent Tomb at the Edge of the Eye of Fear: a special black stone tomb specifically designed to suppress the overflow of chaos, possessing the core technology to seal giant subspace rifts.

Third, the abandoned network fulcrum of the ancient saints: the only remaining point where Blackstone and network technology were combined, perfectly suited to Huang Feng's plan to build a secure network exclusively for humans.

At the same time, Tarachin fully explained the core principles of Blackrock:

Blackstone is essentially a solidified medium representing the boundary between the real and virtual worlds of the universe. It can actively devour subspace disorder, neutralize chaotic energy, isolate the perception of evil gods, and lock in spacetime stability. Low-level blackstone is used for shielding and energy storage; high-level combat blackstone can directly tear apart demonic bodies, disintegrate chaotic rifts, and suppress the authority of evil gods.

The most crucial point is that the black stones can be artificially stacked to construct an artificial subspace sanctuary, perfectly matching the human faith orb that Huang Feng had previously condensed. The combination of the two can forcefully carve out an eternal divine kingdom for humanity in the galactic subspace that will never fall.

After the intelligence exchange was completed, Tarasim transformed into a shower of silver sand and vanished into the void, continuing to travel through the galaxy and collect ancient relics.

Huang Feng stood at the core of the tomb, gazing at the giant black stone base before him.

To reclaim the human star sea, quell the alien rebellion, and accumulate the faith and will of the human race, we will then use the triple system of Blackstone Technology, Eagle Banner's global suppression, and the collective will of the human race's divine kingdom to completely eradicate the galactic chaos calamity.

She immediately issued an order: the entire army should temporarily suspend the recapture of the star field, all members of the Mechanicus should move into the tomb to dismantle and replicate it, prioritize mastering the basic black stone technology, and mark the coordinates of three top black stone locations as the highest priority strategic objectives of the Great Expedition.