Warhammer begins in 2026

Post-war order was steadily rebuilt, the military and political handover was completed, and the war in the star field was completely quelled. Huang Feng temporarily put aside his military duties and left the temporary command fortress alone, intending to travel alone to these planets that had returned to the empire after the war, to conduct on-site investigations of the star field's ecology, topography, and unique local relics, and to find out the true details of this old night-dominated star field.

She traveled to the desolate wasteland on the edge of the main planet of the Vilentis Federation. This area had been barren for a century due to the war of the Old Night, industrial pollution of the Federation, and psionic disorder. The atmosphere was toxic, the soil was barren, and radiation was everywhere. It was completely unsuitable for human survival. Even if people were to forcibly settle there using technology, it would be difficult for them to reproduce and survive in the long term.

But the scene that came into view made Huang Feng glance to the side, feeling a sense of surprise.

The once barren, cracked, and radiation-exceeding land is slowly recovering at a visible pace. The highly toxic smog is quietly dissipating, the hardened and compacted soil is becoming soft and moist, and sporadic weed shoots are breaking through the soil. The radiation levels in the air are continuing to decrease, and the once desolate wasteland is gradually coming back to life.

She focused her mind and spread her spiritual senses, carefully probing the underground, and quickly detected the unusual activity.

Beneath the soil of this wasteland, countless tiny, translucent, and almost invisible planktonic organisms, each the size of a grain of rice, roam freely. They are neither ferocious nor aggressive; they neither plunder resources nor breed mutations. Their sole instinct is to modify the planet's ecology and purify the harsh environment.

Countless tiny organisms traverse the soil, atmosphere, and rock strata in groups, silently decomposing industrial toxins, neutralizing residual radiation, solidifying harmful impurities, and repairing broken ecological cycles. Individually, they are extremely small and almost negligible, but when billions of them coexist and reproduce generation after generation, they can gather an incredible power to transform the landscape.

Based on the progress of the transformation of this area, it is estimated that in just one hundred years, this wasteland, which was originally impossible for humans to settle in, will be completely free of toxicity, its ecology restored, its atmosphere stabilized, and transformed into a fertile land suitable for human reproduction, cultivation, and settlement.

Huang Feng observed quietly for a long time, and had already finalized her plan. This was a naturally gifted species comparable to the top-tier ecological STC, possessing irreplaceable value for the Empire's expansion of barren planets, transformation of dead star regions, and revitalization of abandoned colonies. She immediately secretly recorded the creature's survival habits, reproductive patterns, and ecological transformation principles, and ordered the Mechanical Cult and Biological Research Institute in the rear to subsequently collect and preserve samples, artificially cultivate them, and breed them on a large scale, for future use in transforming the vast number of abandoned dead stars in the galaxy.

Walking slowly forward through the revitalized forest transformed by microorganisms, passing through newly grown low grass and trees, Huang Feng encountered a lonely little girl by a clear stream.

The girl looked no more than seven or eight years old, dressed simply and cleanly, squatting alone by the stream, playing with her hands in the water. Unlike the raging and controllable psychic energy of the Imperial Think Tank, the chaotic and violent psychic energy of the warlocks, and the twisted and filthy psychic energy of the Chaos Believers, the psychic energy surrounding her was extremely special—a layer as thin as a cicada's wing, warm and translucent, pale silver light, flowing slowly along her skin, without the slightest aggression or warp energy, as clear as a newborn star and pure moonlight.

Unlike the spiritual energy honed by Legion warriors or the chaotic spiritual energy tainted by cult warlocks, the little girl's spiritual energy was innate, pure, and flawless—a natural, top-tier spiritual talent.

Sensing someone approaching, the little girl timidly looked up, her eyes filled with a hint of confusion and wariness, but without any fear. She needed no silent prayers, no hand seals, no mental exertion; with a mere thought, the pale silver spiritual energy around her naturally expanded. The scattered pebbles, floating leaves, and babbling water along the stream all stopped, floating lightly in mid-air, arranged in a staggered yet stable manner, without the slightest tremor. Her control over spiritual energy was seamless and exquisitely precise.

Even more rare are her unique psychic traits: a natural affinity for ecology, the ability to purify disorder, and the capacity to soothe the mind.

The trace amounts of residual radiation and the faint energy disturbances dissipating after the war that remained in the entire stream area where she crouched were being absorbed and neutralized by her psionic energy at a visible rate. The murky stream water became clear and transparent, the withered weeds on the banks sprouted new shoots, the soil hardened by the scorching heat of war softened slightly, and even the surrounding turbulent air currents became gentle and peaceful. Her psionic energy did not possess any offensive or destructive power, but it had an ultimate natural purifying and restorative effect on the natural environment, mental disorders, and residual pollution in the subspace.

At the same time, she possesses an unconscious, all-encompassing calming force field. Within a hundred-meter radius around her, all insects, birds, and beasts become docile and dormant, with no living creatures stirring or fleeing. Even the faint resentment left on the distant battlefield and the violent remnants of the fallen warriors are slowly soothed and dissolved by her spiritual energy.

What alarmed Huang Feng the most was the nature of the psionic energy: it was primordial dimensional psionic energy completely detached from the warp channels. Conventional human psionicists all need to channel warp energy to cast spells, which inevitably carries the risk of contamination and backlash. However, the little girl's power originated from the planet itself, from the vitality of all things, rooted in the real universe, and was not bound by warp rules. Evil gods could not perceive it, could not corrupt it, and could not plunder it.

She could even unconsciously connect with the micro-ecological organisms that had previously mutated the planet. The micro-mutated organisms within a certain radius gathered from the soil and air, swirling around her as if worshipping the source of symbiosis, forming a unique "psychic-ecological" symbiotic system.

Huang Feng slowed his pace, his tone gentle, the ruthless aura of a battlefield commander gone: "You can control these powers?"

The little girl nodded gently and spoke in a soft, childlike voice, "I don't know what they are... They've been following me and obeying my commands."

Huang Feng took out the Zero Eagle Flag, summoned a ball of spiritual light, and handed it to the little girl. "Take this," he said. The little girl looked at Huang Feng, obediently touched it, and her spirit was directly taken by Huang Feng to the small divine kingdom of the subspace humans.

Huang Feng observed that the little girl was not suppressed by the human race's spirit, and her spirit and soul did not have any sense of subspace.

It must have appeared naturally. When Huang Feng saw it, he thought it was the appearance of Nurgle.

Huang Feng understood. This was a natural psionic chosen one born on this land after the war in the Valentis Federation. The chaos of the old night, the fluctuations in the warp, and the ecological changes of the planet had accidentally given birth to this pure psionic seed. She was not corrupted by chaos, nor was she contaminated by evil forces. Her psionic energy was gentle and stable, and her mind was pure and clean. She was an extremely rare innate psionicist.

In the grand scheme of the Great Crusade, such pure psionic talent is invaluable. They can be sent to the Terra Psionic Academy for specialized training to become the Empire's top think tank and guardians of the psionic barrier, or they can be incorporated into the Fifteenth Legion's psionic system and the Grey Knights' reserve force to become a new force to counterbalance the chaos of the warp.

"Do you want to go to school to do biological modification?" Huang Feng sat next to her and said, "In the future, you can modify the human world so that humans can live in it."

Huang Feng slowly crouched down, looking directly at the little girl in front of him, his tone gentle yet solemn: "Don't be afraid, I'm from Terra. I can take you away from here, teach you to control your power, so that this talent won't hurt others, nor will it harm you."

Looking into Huang Feng's eyes, where he seemed gentle and composed, and sensing the calm and powerful aura emanating from him, the little girl subconsciously lowered her guard and nodded gently.

She set off with the little girl, intending to bring this pure seed of psionic energy back to Terra, incorporate it into the Imperial psionic cultivation system, and nurture it carefully so that this unique talent could ultimately protect humanity's myriad stars.