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The situation was this: the seven Duel Arenas had produced seven eighth-revolution powerhouses. All seven had gone to the Grand Fortress, where Grand Inquisitor Oluka had killed them.
Their blood had been poured into the Brass Cauldron, filling it seven-eighths of the way.
Once the remaining eighth was filled, the eight would become one, and Blood Demon would be summoned into realspace. He would utterly destroy the planet and drag it into the domain of the Chaos God Khorne, turning it into another terrarium under Khorne's rule.
But something unexpected had happened. Li Qinwu's arrival had interrupted the duels in one of the Duel Arenas.
Firearms had been banned across the entire planet. Everyone could only fight like primitive humans, using their own bodies as weapons.
But Li Qinwu had simply teleported in another divine artifact: the Bolt Pistol personally crafted by the God-Emperor.
This Bolt Pistol possessed an extremely high level of authorization. It ignored Khorne's gun-banning domain and shot dead the seven seventh-revolution fighters who had finally clawed their way to the top, invalidating the ritual.
At that point, Blood Demon's plan could be considered a failure. Without all eight becoming one, his body could not enter realspace at all.
But Khorne had infused Li Qinwu with a portion of his power and marked him for close attention.
By slaughtering his way through the Arena, Li Qinwu had effectively entered Khorne's domain and been noticed by him.
Khorne suddenly found this very entertaining, and an interesting idea arose in his mind.
He exercised his mighty power, tore open a veil in the Warp, and channeled his power into realspace to do one thing.
Inside the Grand Fortress, the Brass Cauldron, seven-eighths full, suddenly erupted with an immense geyser of blood, like