As Qin Mo and the Emperor carried out genetic modifications on Bandis and the others, they discussed matters while they worked.
"What do you have in mind for humanity's evolution?" the Emperor asked as he adjusted the genes.
"Humanity needs to evolve, without question." Qin Mo assisted the Emperor in modifying the complex machinery shaped by the C'tan's power. "I haven't really figured out exactly how they should evolve yet..."
"Anyway, I already have a plan. I just don't know whether it's as reliable as yours."
The Emperor then laid out the evolutionary path he had devised for humanity.
Psychic ascension.
Since humanity was already bound to the Warp, they might as well sprint headlong down the path of Psychic Power.
At the very end, perhaps many years after the great plan combining the Webway Project and the Imperial Truth succeeded, after the Primarchs and Astartes had completed their missions and retired, the flourishing human race would undertake a monumental project.
The entire species would ascend through something akin to a ritual, or an enormous psychic scientific experiment, becoming a psychic race like the Old Ones.
Then, like the Old Ones, they would calm the Warp.
The Webway created by the Old Ones left even the Four Gods helpless when it had no hidden dangers. The protections of this faster-than-light travel method served the same purpose as the Veil enveloping the Real Universe—the natural defensive mechanism preventing the Four Gods from descending into the Real Universe.
As long as humanity became like the Old Ones, they should be able to use their understanding of Psychic Power to create means similar to the Webway's defenses, isolating the Four Gods. Even if they could not destroy the Four Gods, at the very least they could create a wonderful world where there was