Xu Qi'an drew out the Zhenguo Sword, and the energy was poured into the brass sword. The full energy made the Zhenguo Sword look like a red soldering iron, and the surrounding sea water boiled quickly.
He waved his arms and slashed out yellow sword lights randomly, slashing into the trench.
The first sword light hit the edge of the trench, raising countless dust-like mud, and knocking down huge rocks.
The second and third lines... More than a dozen sword lights disappeared into the deep and dark trench. After a few seconds, the entire seabed vibrated, and the mud that had settled here that had been raised up.
The soft mud layer burst open, and the clear sea water instantly turned into a turbid mud soup.
Chen Xiong's roar came from the trench, which was even more terrifying because it was twisted by the sea water.
The evil monster sleeping in the trench was irritated.
The next moment, five tentacles rushed out of the deep trench, carrying millions of tons of undercurrents, and slapped Xu Qi'an hard.
At this time, the same thick snow-white fox tail pierced from behind Xu Qi'an, slapped with the tentacles in a tit-for-tat way, and the water in the entire sea began to shake at this moment.
If this place is close to the coast, it will definitely be a terrible disaster for the sea-side towns.
The tsunami caused by the battle will destroy everything.
The snow-white fox tail is wrapped around six tentacles, and the two sides are like intertwined lines, tight and straight.
The silver-haired charming girl Subai's face turned red in an instant, and her forehead was bulging with blue veins. She urged her to say:
I can last at most one cup of tea.
Xu Qian stopped talking nonsense and swooped violently, like a torpedo launched, dragging boiling bubbles into the trench.
He swooped in the darkness for a long time, occasionally throwing out a shell to detonate, illuminating the surroundings.
There are no fish here, and there are few water plants such as seaweed. Xu Qi'an shuttled between the six giant pillar-like tentacles. Soon, his divine thoughts sensed the body of the god and demon who fell here.
He threw out dozens of shells at once and detonated them at the same time.
Bang bang bang...
In the dull explosion, the fire element expanded into a ball of fire, bringing the first light in a long period of time.
It illuminated the harm of the ancient god and demon.
This is an unimaginable monster with a look that looks like an octopus. Its body almost fills the entire trench, its body is incomplete and full of traces of gnawing.
It only had a gray-white one-eyed eye embedded on its scaled head. When the fire illuminated, in this deadly deep sea, Xu Qi'an was no more than a hundred feet away from it.
The gray-white eyes stared at Xu Qi'an in silence, just like staring at a speck of dust in the air.
This is the size difference between the two.
Fortunately, I don’t have deep-sea phobia... Xu Qian, with the slowly extinguished firelight, found that this monster should have more than a dozen tentacles, but it had long been torn apart.
Without the fluctuation of the soul, He had already died. How did he spend this long time... After the preliminary exploration, Xu Qi'an was a little troubled.
If you want to set up a formation plate to refine His essence, you must subdue the enemy. At this level, killing enemies is the only choice.
But he was already dead, and he had been dead for endless years.
what to do?
Xu Qi'an looked at the octopus monster's body silently, and he suddenly understood.
He died in ancient times, and what remains was his unyielding will and fearless fighting spirit, which was his obsession that allowed him to survive across endless years.
When he died at the hands of that enemy, this ancient god and demon was unwilling to accept it and was unwilling to accept it. The way to eliminate obsession was very simple.
What he wants to do is not to kill Him, but to defeat Him...
Above the trench, the nine-tailed fox, who was struggling with tentacles, received a voice transmission from Xu Qi'an:
Lord, you go up first, don’t have to interfere in this battle anymore.
……
Irbu had never had such a fast flight experience. In his eyes, mountains, rivers and earth flashed vaguely. When the great wizard's magic power was exhausted, he found that he had passed through the territory of Dafeng and came to the Western Regions.
I'll send me a jade seal, isn't this going to kill me?Irb flew cautiously in the sky of the Western Regions, recalling the path he had walked, a question came to his mind:
Why are I always running errands?
Since the Zhenbei King’s Blood Refining Pill, he has always played the role of running errands and thugs.
Another spiritual wisdom master, Wuda Pagoda, has never seen Xu Qi'an so far, and he has dealt with Xu Qi'an several times.
Irbu was very cautious and did not go deep into the Western Regions. After discovering an ordinary corpse, he manipulated the corpse to fly in the wind and let the corpse go to Alanta instead of him.
If I go deep into the Western Regions, I will definitely be swallowed by the Buddha.
It's just right that you can use the puppet to explore and see what the Western Regions are like now.
With his Linghui Master's level, controlling a corpse alone can probably exert 50% of its power.
Yilbu flew quickly for a while, and his biggest feeling was desolation.
There is no one in the world, desolate and silent.
The villages and towns passing by are all empty.
It's really gone. Hundreds of thousands of miles of the Western Regions, the extinction of creatures and the struggle for changing the sky is really cruel... The idiots in Dafeng may not even know what happened.
They have no super-level position in the world and cannot know the secret of the great disaster.I don't even know how to die in the future...
If the Buddha replaces the way of heaven, our wizard system will not, all systems in the world will disappear and become dust in history. I really can't figure out why the great wizard sent the energy of the Yan Kingdom to the Buddha.
Irbu's puppet flew towards Alanta while thinking.
Mahayana Buddhism separates the Buddha's fortune, preventing him from becoming the Western Regions completely.But with the Buddha's magic power and the foundation of Buddhism, it will definitely not stop there, there must be other methods.But it may take a lot of time, which is good for the witch god.
The great wizard gave the fortune of Yan Kingdom to the Buddha. If the Buddha follows the trend and becomes the Western Regions, the next step is to swallow the Central Plains...
Thinking of this, Ilbu flashed with inspiration and continued to analyze it according to his ideas:
Dafeng's extraordinary will definitely fight to the death. Faced with the Buddha's attack, the half-step martial god in southern Xinjiang may not be able to stand by and watch. In addition, the extraordinary strong man will be injured when the two tigers fight.In this way, my Witch God Sect can reap the benefits of the fisherman.
No, even a half-step martial god can't stop the super-grade one with his own strength.The great wizard is playing with fire Ah, which does not conform to his personality. Why does he think that Dafeng can block the Buddha? Xu Qi'an is overseas and the supervisor is also sealed...
Irbu was stunned, and he suddenly understood the true intention of the great wizard.
Although the old boy in the supervisor capsized the gutter and was sealed by Xu Pingfeng Galashu and others, he was the destiny master Ah, the destiny master who was best at layout.
The surveillance is calculating everything, but he can't calculate the great disaster?
He must have left behind the corresponding means, an unknown trump card.
In this way, the Buddha was their wayfinder.
This is the real battle between snipe and clam, and the fisherman will benefit. If Dafeng still loses to the Buddha, he will never be able to form an alliance with the Gu God in the future to fight against the Buddha...
At this time, Irbu saw the towering holy mountain appear at the end of the horizon and Alanta arrived.
He immediately stopped thinking, manipulated the puppet, and turned into black light to sweep towards Alanta.
Before he got close, a white shadow flashed in front of him, his facial features were delicate and three-dimensional, and his white clothes were barefoots. The blue-skinned Bodhisattva, who was like a waterfall, blocked his way.
This stunning beauty with Western Regions style said lightly:
Irbu of the Witch God Cult, what are you doing in Alanta?
The zombie puppet was stunned and blurted out:
How did you know it was me?
The Bodhisattva of Glazed Glazed is as beautiful as peach blossoms, but as cold as ice, and his voice has no ups and downs:
Aren't you responsible for running errands?
Although I am basically going out to do business, it does not mean that I am running errands. I am Linghui Master... Irbu cursed in his heart, looked aloof and cold on the outside, and said lightly:
The great wizard asked me to send my luck to the Buddha.
In order to win over respect and highlight his status, he did not use words such as dispatch and command.
Bodhisattva Liuli raised his eyebrows and said after more than ten seconds:
Saren Agu wants me to charge into battle and fight for the extraordinary power of the Central Plains?
This woman is very smart... Irbu said coldly:
You can refuse!
Bodhisattva Liuli closed his beautiful eyes, listened with his ears for a moment, and opened his eyes and said:
Where is the stuff!
Buddhism is indeed confident.Ilbu shouted and said:
The jade seal is in my body. If you want it, just follow me.
Bodhisattva Liuli shook his head:
No, just take the jade seal to the west.
After saying that, she disappeared and returned to Alanta.
Irb pondered for a moment and cut off the manipulation of the puppet.
On the border of the Western Regions, Irbu, wearing a wizard robe, opened his eyes and asked me to send it over?
He thought about it, stretched out his robe with his right hand and made a snatching action in the distance.
A camel was caught by him and died of bleeding from all seven orifices. Then, the camel turned into a walking puppet.
The camel walked up, picked up the jade seal from Yilbu's hand, kicked his four hooves and flew away.
The camel flew and finally arrived at the deserted area. Suddenly, it saw the sand below and opened its eyes.
Immediately afterwards, a huge mouth cracked in the sand, and the earth waves soared into the sky, pushing the mouth to bite the camel and swallowing it.
After swallowing the camel and the Yan Kingdom Jade Seal, the earth wave did not fall back, but was stimulated and continued to soar. In a blink of an eye, it turned into a huge wave a hundred feet high, rolling towards the east.
The Buddha obtained new certificates and continued to assimilate the rules, replace them, and swallowed everything along the way.
On the other side, Irbu bounced up, trembling while shaking, and leaping into the sky.
Through sharing his vision, he clearly and intuitively felt the terrifyingness of the super product, the trembling aura, and the unconsciously humble thoughts, especially the latter, which Irbu had never experienced before.
Even when facing the Witch God, despite being trembling and facing the abyss, Irbu will not feel humble.
Too scary, too scary...
……
Southern Xinjiang.
Li Lingsu drank camellia tea of 100,000 specialties from the mountains and glanced at the beauties who were gathered together to discuss important matters not far away.
In addition to Xu Qi'an's concubine Ye Ji, there are three fox beauties who are not inferior to their appearance, temperament and figure.
She wore a light green long skirt, a gauze mask, and a reserved and cold temperament. She reminded Li Lingsu of the cold and dignified lady, who was well-educated and well-educated.
Be polite to everyone, and be cold and warm to anyone.
The beautiful woman wearing a pitch-black and complex long skirt is called Youji. She has both the mature charm of a forty-year-old woman and the charm and beauty of a twenty-year-old woman.
With every frown and smile and looking back, the girl's youth has faded, like a noble lady who has lived in a deep house for a long time.
She has a kind and gentle motherly nature, and also has a charming charm like other fox women.
The third girl is Ling Ji. Her liveliness and cheerfulness reminds Li Lingsu of the new supervisor of Si Tianjian, Chu Caiwei.
The difference is that the supervisor was lively and cheerful, carefree and innocent.
The fox girl Ling Ji is more quirky, cunning and cute.
At first glance, he is a little witch who likes to tease people.
My love is here again... Li Lingsu thought to herself, then touched her waist and added two in her heart: Probably!
The king and Xu Lang have been going to sea for several months and have not returned yet, and the situation in Jiuzhou is becoming increasingly serious.
Ye Ji frowned with her delicate eyebrows and looked worried.
If Xu Yinluo could not be promoted to the Martial God half-step, he would be a waste of time to go out to sea. Dad Shenshu alone could not stop the super quality.
Ling Ji held her cheek with both hands, opened her bright eyes and said with a smile:
Sister Ye Ji is missing her lover. She has been lonely for a long time.When will you lend your lover to someone else to play with?
Ye Ji glanced at the girl's tender body that had just begun to take shape and sneered disdainfully.
The relationship between the nine sisters is not all about love. Except for the fact that Youji, who is overwhelmed with motherhood, won the unanimous respect of the sisters, Baiji, who is soft and cute, cannot transform, won the unanimous love of the sisters, there are more or less intrigues between the other sisters.
You Ji bounced her fingers against the girl's smooth forehead, and said with a gentle tone:
Talking about serious business, don't mess around.
Ling Ji covered her forehead, pouted her mouth, and hummed and said:
Anyway, we will marry Xu Ningyan sooner or later. Sister Qingji said that the empress may not be able to escape Xu Yinluo's claws.If that empress followed Xu Yinluo, we would have to marry a dowry.
Qingji's face changed slightly:
Nonsense, I never said such things.
What?
Are they also the concubines of Xu Ningyan, who was appointed by Xu Ningyan? How could this be done? Xu Ningyan, a dog thief, has never seen such a lustful person before. It was too much, too much... Li Lingsu's face slowly froze.
At this time, he felt familiar palpitations.
Take out the fragments of the earth book and check the letter.
2: Senior brother, something is not good, let Shenshu come to Leizhou to help...
He waved his arms and slashed out yellow sword lights randomly, slashing into the trench.
The first sword light hit the edge of the trench, raising countless dust-like mud, and knocking down huge rocks.
The second and third lines... More than a dozen sword lights disappeared into the deep and dark trench. After a few seconds, the entire seabed vibrated, and the mud that had settled here that had been raised up.
The soft mud layer burst open, and the clear sea water instantly turned into a turbid mud soup.
Chen Xiong's roar came from the trench, which was even more terrifying because it was twisted by the sea water.
The evil monster sleeping in the trench was irritated.
The next moment, five tentacles rushed out of the deep trench, carrying millions of tons of undercurrents, and slapped Xu Qi'an hard.
At this time, the same thick snow-white fox tail pierced from behind Xu Qi'an, slapped with the tentacles in a tit-for-tat way, and the water in the entire sea began to shake at this moment.
If this place is close to the coast, it will definitely be a terrible disaster for the sea-side towns.
The tsunami caused by the battle will destroy everything.
The snow-white fox tail is wrapped around six tentacles, and the two sides are like intertwined lines, tight and straight.
The silver-haired charming girl Subai's face turned red in an instant, and her forehead was bulging with blue veins. She urged her to say:
I can last at most one cup of tea.
Xu Qian stopped talking nonsense and swooped violently, like a torpedo launched, dragging boiling bubbles into the trench.
He swooped in the darkness for a long time, occasionally throwing out a shell to detonate, illuminating the surroundings.
There are no fish here, and there are few water plants such as seaweed. Xu Qi'an shuttled between the six giant pillar-like tentacles. Soon, his divine thoughts sensed the body of the god and demon who fell here.
He threw out dozens of shells at once and detonated them at the same time.
Bang bang bang...
In the dull explosion, the fire element expanded into a ball of fire, bringing the first light in a long period of time.
It illuminated the harm of the ancient god and demon.
This is an unimaginable monster with a look that looks like an octopus. Its body almost fills the entire trench, its body is incomplete and full of traces of gnawing.
It only had a gray-white one-eyed eye embedded on its scaled head. When the fire illuminated, in this deadly deep sea, Xu Qi'an was no more than a hundred feet away from it.
The gray-white eyes stared at Xu Qi'an in silence, just like staring at a speck of dust in the air.
This is the size difference between the two.
Fortunately, I don’t have deep-sea phobia... Xu Qian, with the slowly extinguished firelight, found that this monster should have more than a dozen tentacles, but it had long been torn apart.
Without the fluctuation of the soul, He had already died. How did he spend this long time... After the preliminary exploration, Xu Qi'an was a little troubled.
If you want to set up a formation plate to refine His essence, you must subdue the enemy. At this level, killing enemies is the only choice.
But he was already dead, and he had been dead for endless years.
what to do?
Xu Qi'an looked at the octopus monster's body silently, and he suddenly understood.
He died in ancient times, and what remains was his unyielding will and fearless fighting spirit, which was his obsession that allowed him to survive across endless years.
When he died at the hands of that enemy, this ancient god and demon was unwilling to accept it and was unwilling to accept it. The way to eliminate obsession was very simple.
What he wants to do is not to kill Him, but to defeat Him...
Above the trench, the nine-tailed fox, who was struggling with tentacles, received a voice transmission from Xu Qi'an:
Lord, you go up first, don’t have to interfere in this battle anymore.
……
Irbu had never had such a fast flight experience. In his eyes, mountains, rivers and earth flashed vaguely. When the great wizard's magic power was exhausted, he found that he had passed through the territory of Dafeng and came to the Western Regions.
I'll send me a jade seal, isn't this going to kill me?Irb flew cautiously in the sky of the Western Regions, recalling the path he had walked, a question came to his mind:
Why are I always running errands?
Since the Zhenbei King’s Blood Refining Pill, he has always played the role of running errands and thugs.
Another spiritual wisdom master, Wuda Pagoda, has never seen Xu Qi'an so far, and he has dealt with Xu Qi'an several times.
Irbu was very cautious and did not go deep into the Western Regions. After discovering an ordinary corpse, he manipulated the corpse to fly in the wind and let the corpse go to Alanta instead of him.
If I go deep into the Western Regions, I will definitely be swallowed by the Buddha.
It's just right that you can use the puppet to explore and see what the Western Regions are like now.
With his Linghui Master's level, controlling a corpse alone can probably exert 50% of its power.
Yilbu flew quickly for a while, and his biggest feeling was desolation.
There is no one in the world, desolate and silent.
The villages and towns passing by are all empty.
It's really gone. Hundreds of thousands of miles of the Western Regions, the extinction of creatures and the struggle for changing the sky is really cruel... The idiots in Dafeng may not even know what happened.
They have no super-level position in the world and cannot know the secret of the great disaster.I don't even know how to die in the future...
If the Buddha replaces the way of heaven, our wizard system will not, all systems in the world will disappear and become dust in history. I really can't figure out why the great wizard sent the energy of the Yan Kingdom to the Buddha.
Irbu's puppet flew towards Alanta while thinking.
Mahayana Buddhism separates the Buddha's fortune, preventing him from becoming the Western Regions completely.But with the Buddha's magic power and the foundation of Buddhism, it will definitely not stop there, there must be other methods.But it may take a lot of time, which is good for the witch god.
The great wizard gave the fortune of Yan Kingdom to the Buddha. If the Buddha follows the trend and becomes the Western Regions, the next step is to swallow the Central Plains...
Thinking of this, Ilbu flashed with inspiration and continued to analyze it according to his ideas:
Dafeng's extraordinary will definitely fight to the death. Faced with the Buddha's attack, the half-step martial god in southern Xinjiang may not be able to stand by and watch. In addition, the extraordinary strong man will be injured when the two tigers fight.In this way, my Witch God Sect can reap the benefits of the fisherman.
No, even a half-step martial god can't stop the super-grade one with his own strength.The great wizard is playing with fire Ah, which does not conform to his personality. Why does he think that Dafeng can block the Buddha? Xu Qi'an is overseas and the supervisor is also sealed...
Irbu was stunned, and he suddenly understood the true intention of the great wizard.
Although the old boy in the supervisor capsized the gutter and was sealed by Xu Pingfeng Galashu and others, he was the destiny master Ah, the destiny master who was best at layout.
The surveillance is calculating everything, but he can't calculate the great disaster?
He must have left behind the corresponding means, an unknown trump card.
In this way, the Buddha was their wayfinder.
This is the real battle between snipe and clam, and the fisherman will benefit. If Dafeng still loses to the Buddha, he will never be able to form an alliance with the Gu God in the future to fight against the Buddha...
At this time, Irbu saw the towering holy mountain appear at the end of the horizon and Alanta arrived.
He immediately stopped thinking, manipulated the puppet, and turned into black light to sweep towards Alanta.
Before he got close, a white shadow flashed in front of him, his facial features were delicate and three-dimensional, and his white clothes were barefoots. The blue-skinned Bodhisattva, who was like a waterfall, blocked his way.
This stunning beauty with Western Regions style said lightly:
Irbu of the Witch God Cult, what are you doing in Alanta?
The zombie puppet was stunned and blurted out:
How did you know it was me?
The Bodhisattva of Glazed Glazed is as beautiful as peach blossoms, but as cold as ice, and his voice has no ups and downs:
Aren't you responsible for running errands?
Although I am basically going out to do business, it does not mean that I am running errands. I am Linghui Master... Irbu cursed in his heart, looked aloof and cold on the outside, and said lightly:
The great wizard asked me to send my luck to the Buddha.
In order to win over respect and highlight his status, he did not use words such as dispatch and command.
Bodhisattva Liuli raised his eyebrows and said after more than ten seconds:
Saren Agu wants me to charge into battle and fight for the extraordinary power of the Central Plains?
This woman is very smart... Irbu said coldly:
You can refuse!
Bodhisattva Liuli closed his beautiful eyes, listened with his ears for a moment, and opened his eyes and said:
Where is the stuff!
Buddhism is indeed confident.Ilbu shouted and said:
The jade seal is in my body. If you want it, just follow me.
Bodhisattva Liuli shook his head:
No, just take the jade seal to the west.
After saying that, she disappeared and returned to Alanta.
Irb pondered for a moment and cut off the manipulation of the puppet.
On the border of the Western Regions, Irbu, wearing a wizard robe, opened his eyes and asked me to send it over?
He thought about it, stretched out his robe with his right hand and made a snatching action in the distance.
A camel was caught by him and died of bleeding from all seven orifices. Then, the camel turned into a walking puppet.
The camel walked up, picked up the jade seal from Yilbu's hand, kicked his four hooves and flew away.
The camel flew and finally arrived at the deserted area. Suddenly, it saw the sand below and opened its eyes.
Immediately afterwards, a huge mouth cracked in the sand, and the earth waves soared into the sky, pushing the mouth to bite the camel and swallowing it.
After swallowing the camel and the Yan Kingdom Jade Seal, the earth wave did not fall back, but was stimulated and continued to soar. In a blink of an eye, it turned into a huge wave a hundred feet high, rolling towards the east.
The Buddha obtained new certificates and continued to assimilate the rules, replace them, and swallowed everything along the way.
On the other side, Irbu bounced up, trembling while shaking, and leaping into the sky.
Through sharing his vision, he clearly and intuitively felt the terrifyingness of the super product, the trembling aura, and the unconsciously humble thoughts, especially the latter, which Irbu had never experienced before.
Even when facing the Witch God, despite being trembling and facing the abyss, Irbu will not feel humble.
Too scary, too scary...
……
Southern Xinjiang.
Li Lingsu drank camellia tea of 100,000 specialties from the mountains and glanced at the beauties who were gathered together to discuss important matters not far away.
In addition to Xu Qi'an's concubine Ye Ji, there are three fox beauties who are not inferior to their appearance, temperament and figure.
She wore a light green long skirt, a gauze mask, and a reserved and cold temperament. She reminded Li Lingsu of the cold and dignified lady, who was well-educated and well-educated.
Be polite to everyone, and be cold and warm to anyone.
The beautiful woman wearing a pitch-black and complex long skirt is called Youji. She has both the mature charm of a forty-year-old woman and the charm and beauty of a twenty-year-old woman.
With every frown and smile and looking back, the girl's youth has faded, like a noble lady who has lived in a deep house for a long time.
She has a kind and gentle motherly nature, and also has a charming charm like other fox women.
The third girl is Ling Ji. Her liveliness and cheerfulness reminds Li Lingsu of the new supervisor of Si Tianjian, Chu Caiwei.
The difference is that the supervisor was lively and cheerful, carefree and innocent.
The fox girl Ling Ji is more quirky, cunning and cute.
At first glance, he is a little witch who likes to tease people.
My love is here again... Li Lingsu thought to herself, then touched her waist and added two in her heart: Probably!
The king and Xu Lang have been going to sea for several months and have not returned yet, and the situation in Jiuzhou is becoming increasingly serious.
Ye Ji frowned with her delicate eyebrows and looked worried.
If Xu Yinluo could not be promoted to the Martial God half-step, he would be a waste of time to go out to sea. Dad Shenshu alone could not stop the super quality.
Ling Ji held her cheek with both hands, opened her bright eyes and said with a smile:
Sister Ye Ji is missing her lover. She has been lonely for a long time.When will you lend your lover to someone else to play with?
Ye Ji glanced at the girl's tender body that had just begun to take shape and sneered disdainfully.
The relationship between the nine sisters is not all about love. Except for the fact that Youji, who is overwhelmed with motherhood, won the unanimous respect of the sisters, Baiji, who is soft and cute, cannot transform, won the unanimous love of the sisters, there are more or less intrigues between the other sisters.
You Ji bounced her fingers against the girl's smooth forehead, and said with a gentle tone:
Talking about serious business, don't mess around.
Ling Ji covered her forehead, pouted her mouth, and hummed and said:
Anyway, we will marry Xu Ningyan sooner or later. Sister Qingji said that the empress may not be able to escape Xu Yinluo's claws.If that empress followed Xu Yinluo, we would have to marry a dowry.
Qingji's face changed slightly:
Nonsense, I never said such things.
What?
Are they also the concubines of Xu Ningyan, who was appointed by Xu Ningyan? How could this be done? Xu Ningyan, a dog thief, has never seen such a lustful person before. It was too much, too much... Li Lingsu's face slowly froze.
At this time, he felt familiar palpitations.
Take out the fragments of the earth book and check the letter.
2: Senior brother, something is not good, let Shenshu come to Leizhou to help...