Since Ning Fan escaped into the Crape Myrtle Arctic Palace, several months have passed in the blink of an eye.

For a few months, the Ancient Overhaul of the Boundary River Ten Thousand Clans did not chase after this place, as if they did not care about Ning Fan's whereabouts.

Ning Fan naturally didn't know that all this was because the omniscient old man had turned the world upside down in the Jiehe.

I don't know: because of his successive actions, a temporary truce agreement was signed between Beitian and Beijiehe; the Liubo Chess Meeting held by the Relics Palace was postponed indefinitely; the disciples of the Pure Yang Sect could not wait for the return of the Pure Yang Patriarch for a long time, and it had become a pot of porridge; the Water Sect, which lost the True Monarch of the Beihai Sea, was divided by many Northern Heaven forces; within the Siming Sect, the lack of Lei Ze Ancestor to monitor the operation of Zhou Tian Xingchen caused a lot of chaos...

I don't know how loud the prestige of Zhao Jian in the ancient overhaul of the Northern Heaven and the Land of the Northern Boundary River after a series of major events has become.

The days suddenly calmed down.

Time suddenly became abundant.

So Ning Fan found all the fragments of Duowen Wushuang and began to repair this thing - naturally Ji Fuyao, Nuluo and others were also indispensable to find the fragments.

Duowen Wushuang is one of the four artifacts of the Ziwei Immortal Domain, the four artifacts are one, comparable to the opening of the sky, and the high grade does not need to be detailed;

With Ning Fan's skills, he failed five times in a row, and he still couldn't repair this thing.

Today is Ning Fan's sixth retreat to repair the unparalleled.

I don't know how long it took, but when I heard an explosion in the stone pass, the stone gate of the retreat was directly blown to pieces by a burst of impact, and then there was billowing black smoke coming out of the stone pass, and then, Ning Fan, who was blown to the ground, walked out in embarrassment with black and messy hair.

"I didn't expect it would be so difficult to repair this thing..."After the sixth repair failed, Yi Ning Fan's determination couldn't help but sigh.

"It's not good! Brother Ning's repair this time shouldn't fail again!"

Why did the Pure Yang Patriarch wait outside the Stone Pass?

But there is a reason for this.

Sensing that the Boundary River Ancient Overhaul had not chased into this place, Ning Fan released Lei Ze Old Ancestor, Pure Yang Ancestor, and Fish Master from Feng Bo's pocket, allowing them to recuperate in the Ziwei Arctic Palace and recuperate from their injuries.

After all, this place was once the Immortal Emperor Cave Mansion, even if it has been abandoned for countless years, the aura of heaven and earth is far richer than the outside world, and healing in this place can get twice the result with half the effort.

Coupled with Ning Fan's many anti-heaven healing methods to assist him, the recovery of his injuries was extremely fast.

Not to mention how shocked these three people were when they first entered the Arctic Palace.

Then, after hearing that Ning Fan wanted to repair one of the four artifacts of the Ziwei Immortal Domain, among the three of them, the one who was most interested in this matter was the Pure Yang Patriarch.

"Well, failed again. Ning Fan took a deep breath, and his mind returned to his previous calm, as if he had never been hit by the failure of the sixth artifact repair.

"How much is the loss of this repair?" asked the Pure Yang Patriarch.

"There are still two pieces of Cold Spirit Stone left, nine taels of Dragon Blood Sand left, half of the Red Water Demon Candle left, and the rest of the materials are exhausted. Ning Fan replied calmly.

It's as if the things used in this artifact repair are not very precious treasures.

But in fact, each of these things can be sold for more than dozens of gold when placed in the Tongtian Sect, which was bought by Ning Fan with real money and silver, and if it is placed in the Purple Dou Fantasy Dream Realm, which is scarce in resources, it can be several times more expensive, and its preciousness is enough to make the quasi-saints compete for it.

"It's only been repaired once, but so many immortal materials have been used..."Pure Yang Patriarch was distressed.

He was helping Ning Fan feel distressed!

Six times! Six times! Six times repaired, six times failed! The immortal materials wasted by each failure are equivalent to the entire net worth of an ordinary quasi-saint!

Six times of attrition is enough to bankrupt the six quasi-saints!

It's too expensive, it's so expensive...

With so much money, you can't do anything, why waste it so much.

"Hey, Brother Ning listens to my advice. This thing is too badly damaged, there is no hope of repairing it, it is not worth wasting immortal materials on this thing..."Pure Yang Patriarch.

"Thank you Brother Lu for your kind words, but I don't plan to change my mind and will continue to do so. Fortunately, every time I fail, I can find some clues, and if I want to try more than a dozen times, I should be able to understand more..."Ning Fan.

What?

Are you going to fail dozens of more times?

Even if you have money, you can't squander it like that!

It's a pity that no matter how the Pure Yang Patriarch persuaded him, Ning Fan still didn't change his mind.

So in the following days, Ning Fan was still repairing the unheard of it, and then suffered the seventh failure, the eighth failure, the ninth failure, the tenth time...

Gradually, the Pure Yang Patriarch got used to it and became numb.

He has lived all his life, and it is not that he has never seen a person who treats money like dung, but he has never seen a person as wealthy as Ning Fan.

This son has a lot of money, rich and generous, decisive, ruthless, extravagant and wasteful, stubborn, spending money like water, and spending money like dirt.

I really can't persuade him!

Speaking of which, it is obvious that he, Lu Chunyang, is the one who holds the title of [God of Wealth], but compared to Ning Fan, he is not bullshit at all.

Judging from Ning Fan's expenses these days, it is obvious that Ning Fan is richer than him, and he is not half a star!

Judging from Ning Fan's courage to spend money, he is not as heroic as Ning Fan.

This incident made the Pure Yang Patriarch quite devastated.

After the blow, it also brought new insights to the Pure Yang Patriarch.

What he has cultivated all his life is the title of [God of Wealth], and his cultivation is the way of money.

In the past, he was too obsessed with money itself, he was keen to make money and save money, and in his life, he had entered the world countless times, learning the art of making money as a mortal businessman.

He knows how to make money.

He also understands that it is not easy to make money.

Because he understands this, he is born with the character of thrift (stingy).

If he wants to be like Ning Fan, for the sake of an ethereal artifact repair possibility, spending money like running water, he will probably never be able to do it.

But why, Ning Fan's attitude of spending money like flowing water, but not sparing, brought him so many touches.

"What I have cultivated in this life seems to be incomplete..."

"The way of money is not only the way to make money, but also the way to raise wealth, but also the way to scatter wealth..."

"I make money with a tenth of my heart, and I raise wealth with a twelveth heart, but I am too stingy in the matter of scattering wealth, looking forward and looking backwards..."

"People should be frugal, but as the god of wealth, he is not born to accumulate wealth, let alone have too much obsession with money itself..."

"Generate wealth and then raise, raise wealth and then disperse, scatter and return to use and then resurrect, reciprocate... Yes, yes, that's how it should be!"

Day by day.

Ning Fan's number of failures has accumulated to nineteen.

Pure Yang Patriarch actually gained great insight from Ning Fan's failures again and again.

In the body, the cultivation that was sealed by the coffin of the heavens, again... Flowing!

"My stagnant mana has actually increased again with my comprehension!..."The Pure Yang Patriarch was pleasantly surprised.

After a normal person is sealed in the Heaven Shelter Coffin, he will not be able to continue to improve his cultivation.

In the past, the Pure Yang Patriarch could only use the particularity of the God of Wealth title to absorb the power of Heavenly Dao gold and silver to continue to improve his mana.

Now, with his own understanding, he has really achieved a cultivation improvement!

I think the title of the God of Wealth is too special, and even the Heaven-Avoiding Coffin can't completely seal this matter, or maybe because he is the inventor of the Heaven-Avoiding Coffin, he can do this.

"My cultivation, because of the coffin of avoiding the sky, has been stagnant for too long, too long... Countless years of sedimentation, stagnant water coalescing into glaciers, once melting, resuming flow, can never be just streams, but... Torrent!"

The Pure Yang Patriarch's perception continues to deepen!

The same improvement, as well as... Cultivation that should have stagnated!

In the following days, his mana began to skyrocket, and that kind of skyrocketing could not be suppressed even by the power of the Heaven Avoiding Coffin!

It was actually at an astonishing speed, approaching towards the second-order quasi-saint!

It's a pity that at the moment when he was about to break through to the second-order quasi-saint, the feeling of the torrent surging had slowed down, and it was even more random, and there was a situation of breaking the flow.

Can't you break through the second-order level in one go... Isn't it enough to feel something?

I have to comprehend more ways to scatter wealth in order to break through to a deeper level!"

The Pure Yang Patriarch decided to break through the second-order quasi-saint in one go!

...

This is Ning Fan's twenty-sixth repair failure!

As usual, Ning Fan walked out of Shiguan with a disgraced face.

Pure Yang Patriarch, as always, waited outside Shiguan.

Chunyang: "Brother Ning, is this another failure?"

Ning Fan: "Yes, but after this failure, I have more clues..."

Chunyang: "Are you really not going to give up?"

Ning Fan: "Why give up?"

Chunyang: "Sure enough, do you still want to continue, Brother Ning is a person with a firm will, which is admirable! Or, Brother Ning actually deliberately mentioned this matter to me? Let me understand the true meaning of scattering wealth? If so, it makes Brother Ning bothered." ”

Some Ning Fan, who didn't understand well: "???"

I always feel that the recent Pure Yang Patriarch is a little strange and wrong, and I can't say what is wrong.

"Brother Ning didn't want to give this thing to Brother Ning in the past. While speaking, the Pure Yang Patriarch gave Ning Fan some jade slips.

Back then, in order to improve the purity of his mana, Ning Fan bought a formula called "Refining Pure Formula" from the Pure Yang Patriarch.

However, he didn't buy them all, Ning Fan only bought these formulas for the Six Tribulations of the Ages.

What the Pure Yang Patriarch gave to Ning Fan this time was all the remaining formulas.

"Give it to me? "Ning Fan didn't want to take this thing for nothing.

He still remembered the price that the Pure Yang Patriarch had set for refining the Pure Recipe back then.

The purity mantra of the five tribulations of the immortal king, 500 gold, 6 eons, 1,000 gold, 7 eons, 1,500 gold, 8 eons, 2,000 gold, 9 eons, 2,500 gold, 1st order quasi-holy formula, 3,000 gold, 2nd order, 3,000 gold, 3,000 gold...

The follow-up mantra sent by the Pure Yang Patriarch this time was worth 15,000 Heavenly Dao Gold.

With such a preciousness, how could Ning Fan take it for nothing, not to mention that he had been helped by the Pure Yang Patriarch some time ago.

He should not have taken the gift of the Pure Yang Patriarch in vain.

Instead, it should be him giving a thank you gift to the Pure Yang Patriarch.

"Brother Ning looked hesitant, could it be that he wanted to give me money?" Seeing that Ning Fan was slow to accept the gift, the Pure Yang Patriarch joked.

"Naturally not..."Ning Fan sighed secretly, and after thanking the Pure Yang Patriarch, he accepted the gift.

He lied.

This item is too valuable, he just hesitated, but in fact he really planned to pay.

But in the end, he didn't.

It's not that he is reluctant to pay 15,000 gold, but he is unwilling to take a small amount of gold and silver to measure the mind of the Pure Yang Patriarch.

However, considering that gold and silver were of great significance to the Pure Yang Patriarch, Ning Fan would have made a note of this matter in his heart.

In the future, there will be other rewards, but they will not be deliberately mentioned at this time.

Pure Yang Patriarch seemed to see through Ning Fan's thoughts, and said with a smile, "Brother Ning really doesn't have to be so outside! In the previous battle of life and death, Lu Mou came at the risk of death, where the righteousness lies, and his life can be sacrificed, why not pity gold and silver!

"Thank you. Ning Fan was upright, hugged his fists and thanked him.

Pure Yang Patriarch only waved his hand indifferently, and then said embarrassedly, "And... This refining recipe is actually not worth much. To tell you the truth, this mantra was actually made up casually when I was very bored in the past, and in terms of cost alone, it only cost me half an hour's time and a little empty jade. With such a cheap thing, I actually offered Brother Ning a price of tens of thousands of gold back then, and even defrauded Brother Ning of thousands of gold. I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed! In the past, I cherished my money as my life, and I didn't feel anything wrong with this, and every time I thought about it, I only felt complacent. Now that my Dao heart has gone further, I realize that today is and yesterday is not, and when I think about it again, I am ashamed to speak, ashamed to speak... What kind of treasure can be sold for ten thousand heavenly gold, as a god of wealth, but there is no reverence for money, only know the sky-high price, sit on the ground to pay the money, I am wrong, all wrong!"

Ning Fan: "???"

Ning Fan: "!!"

Ning Fan: "..."

Pure Yang Patriarch: "Brother Ning's expression seems to be a little mixed?"

Ning Fan: "I just didn't expect that such a subtle mantra was made up casually by Brother Lu..."

Pure Yang Patriarch: "I didn't expect that someone would really give me a casual asking price back then..."

Ning Fan was offended.

The implication is that I was actually a person in your eyes back then... Idiot?

"Uh, I'm sorry for the momentary gaffe. Pure Yang Patriarch said embarrassedly.

"It doesn't matter, back then, you and I didn't know each other in our lives, and it was normal for us to calculate and slander each other. In any case, how amazing and brilliant Daoist friends are, I can realize it today. Ning Fan praised sincerely.

casually invented such anti-heaven things as the coffin that avoided the sky.

When I have nothing to do, I write a wonderful mantra such as "Refining Pure Formula".

It is not a lie to say that the Pure Yang Patriarch is amazingly talented!

Such a person is trapped in the realm of dreams, and his luck is not good, so he is only a first-order quasi-saint, and if this person lives in the real realm and worships a saint as a teacher, I don't know what kind of future it will be.

said that the Pure Yang Patriarch had the qualifications to become a saint, and Ning Fan was convinced.

"Speaking of which, Brother Lu's mana has improved a lot recently, I'm afraid it won't be long before he will break through to the second-order quasi-saint, right?" Ning Fan asked after putting away the Pure Recipe Jade Slip.

"Uh, can you see that my cultivation has improved?" Pure Yang Patriarch was startled.

He used the power of the God of Wealth title to cover his breath, even if it was an ancient overhaul, he shouldn't see through his cultivation to be refined.

Why was Ning Fan see through it!

This kid's perception is simply monster-level meticulous!

"Hmm. ”

"When did you see through it? This kind of thing, it will take some time to see through it, right? It should be that I was close to breaking through the second-order quasi-saint in the past few days, and I neglected to cover my breath, so you saw through it, right?" The Pure Yang Patriarch was devastated and asked.

Ning Fan didn't know how to answer.

Do you want to say that I saw the clues from the first day of your cultivation? I just haven't found a chance to ask in detail?

"You boy, what a monster. "Pure Yang Patriarch saw through Ning Fan's thoughts, and he was even more shocked.

"I've heard that when a quasi-saint breaks through the second order, he will often call friends and ask for help. When Brother Lu is fully prepared and decides to break through, don't forget to give a notice. "Ning Fan.

"Hehe, if it really comes to the day of breaking through the second order, it is naturally indispensable to ask Brother Ning for help. People say that they are friends who are born, and when they die, I have lived too long, and there are few Taoist friends of my time. Except for Brother Ning, I really don't know who to invite..."Pure Yang Patriarch sighed for a while, only to feel the vicissitudes of the world. In the vicissitudes of life, those who can't wait for them to return, really... It's lonely.

"The day of the breakthrough of Taoist friends will come. ”

"Hehe, you don't have to, if there is something important at that time, it doesn't matter if Brother Ning doesn't come. "Having said that, Patriarch Chunyang knows that since the person in front of him said that he will come, there is a sword mountain and a sea of fire in front of him, and he will definitely come.

It's really good, in this lonely world of cultivation, you can still find true Taoist friends.

"Okay, okay, you keep busy, it's time for me to go find Yu Jizi!" said Pure Yang Patriarch.

Yu Jizi is the real name of the fish owner.

“... So I go with you. Ning Fan said.

"Don't! I'm going to find Old Man Yu to share his wealth, what is the matter with me? And Old Man Yu seems to be still angry, he may not want to see you! You better concentrate on studying your artifact repair!"

...

The fish owner is indeed angry with Ning Fan.

But in fact, it was only when I learned the whereabouts of Jiu Xiaojiu at the beginning, I was angry.

After figuring out the cause and effect, he would not be angry with Ning Fan again, but felt a little sorry for Ning Fan.

Yes, the fish owner already knows that the reason why the wine demon he regards as his granddaughter is unknown is because he was captured by Ning Fan.

How did the fish owner know about this?

This also started with Ning Fan inviting the fish owner to heal in the Arctic Palace.

Time went back to that day, and the fish owner said goodbye to Ning Fan, Chunyang, and Lei Ze.

Ning Fan: "This place is the Immortal Emperor Cave Mansion, which is the most suitable for healing, Brother Yu might as well stay here for a while to recuperate from his injuries, why are you in a hurry to leave?"

Fish owner: "I have urgent business, don't stay for long." ”

Chunyang: "If you have any difficulties, you might as well talk about it, maybe we can help some." ”

Fish owner: "Hey, that's right, I know a little guy who I watched grow up, just like my granddaughter." This little guy has never been away from me for too long, but recently, she has disappeared. ”

Razor: "Missing? ”

Fish Owner: "No. I planted a mark on her, but now I can't feel it. I don't know if she's trapped in some ancient ruins, or if she's in some danger... Or, in fact, I hate that I always steal her wine? I was so angry that I deliberately hid?

Ning Fan: "Do you have her life card?"

Fish Owner: "Yes." The life card is not broken. ”

Ning Fan: "She has your quasi-saint mark on her, and it is unlikely that ordinary people will attack her, but if your enemy seeks revenge... As for the possibility of being trapped in the ancient ruins, it can't be said that there is none..."

Fish Owner: "In the Dream Realm, I shouldn't have any enemies. ”

Ning Fan: "So sure?"

Fish owner: "The enemies with cause and effect have all been killed." ”

Ning Fan: "..."

Fish owner: "It's very possible to be trapped in a special space such as ancient ruins, this girl, she usually jumps out of her temperament, and often loves to drill into ancient ruins..."

Razor: "That's a bit dangerous. Although Beitian has the laws of heaven to maintain law and order, there are also many demonic characters. These demon cultivators love to build the cave mansion in the ancient ruins, and your granddaughter is not going to be captured by some greedy and lustful demon when she was exploring the ruins, and she was imprisoned in the Ding Furnace space to raise her. ”

Fish Master: "It's hateful! I'll go to the Beitian Ruins to look for them one by one, and I'm going to save Xiaojiu!"

Chunyang: "Don't go!" Old man Lei just said casually, do you really believe it? Those demon cultivators just grabbed the Ding Furnace, and they didn't dare to catch people related to quasi-saints, didn't Brother Ning also say this before?"

Lei Ze: "Old man Lu, what you said is not right! People who are anxious, how can they look ahead and backward, what if there is really a hungry ghost who is not afraid of death? You see that Brother Yu is majestic, and his granddaughter must also be a shy flower..."

Chunyang: "They are not grandchildren..."

Lei Ze: "In short, the granddaughter of the old man Yu is right to close the moon and be ashamed. ”

Chunyang: "But you haven't seen it, how can you assert this?"

Lei Ze: "Intuition! The old man has acted all his life, after several lives and deaths, and every time a great disaster comes, he relies on his intuition to turn evil into good." ”

Fish owner: "Hehe, I really let Old Man Lei say it right." My granddaughter is very handsome. My granddaughter, Brother Lei and Brother Lu may not have seen it, but Brother Ning should have seen it. At that time, this girl was secretly watching and wanted to make a move on Brother Ning, I said a few words to her, she should have listened..."

While speaking, the fish owner took out the portrait of the wine and showed it to everyone.

And after that...

Time comes back to the present.

"Grandpa Fishmaster! You don't know how hateful Ning Fan is! After he arrested me, he locked me up with his Ding Furnaces! Do you know how many Ding Furnaces he raised, 100,000, no, maybe 1 million, 10 million... I didn't count them because I couldn't count them! I was shocked by how lustful he was! I was really scared stupid!"

"Brother Ning's bones are still shallow, he is young and strong, and he has a hundred and eighty thousand Ding furnace, but it is normal. The fish owner said disappreciatively.

"It's... Is this normal?"

"Do you know how many fish eggs our fish clan lays at a time? It is an ordinary grass carp, which can also produce 400,000 at a time, and if it is some special fish, it is hundreds of millions of eggs at a time..."

"These are clearly two different things!"

"Then we'll settle the matter. It is already righteous that you have acted against others first, and although they have imprisoned you, they have not harmed your life or touched you in the slightest. If it were me, if there was a short-sighted person who came to the door to cause trouble, he would be killed directly with a sword, how could there be so many reasons to talk about. So, be content, have this lesson, and don't get into trouble again in the future. "Fish owner.

"But...", the wine is a little wine.

"Find a chance to apologize to Brother Ning. "Fish owner.

"What! He took me, and I have to apologize to him?"

"Hehe, if you don't go, he will arrest you next time, and I won't ask anymore. "Fish owner.

"Well, then I'd better find a chance to apologize to him... There are a lot of adults, and they will definitely not remember my villain's fault. The wine whispered.

While speaking, the Pure Yang Patriarch came to the door.

As soon as they met, they gave gifts to the fish owner.

This is the so-called scattered wealth of the Pure Yang Patriarch, in his opinion, as long as he scatters his wealth a lot and comprehends the way of scattered wealth, he will definitely be able to break through the realm of the second-order quasi-saint.

After sending the fish master's house, the Pure Yang Patriarch went to Lei Ze again and also gave a big gift.

This really scared Razor Ancestor.

This thing is mysterious!

The pure yang patriarch who never pulls out a dime on weekdays comes to the door to give gifts for the first time, and what he gives is still something of great value, no matter how you look at it, it is terrifying.

...

Jiu Xiaojiu decided to apologize to Ning Fan.

I don't know if I really know that my mistakes can be changed, mainly because of her, cowardice. This time she was captured by Ning Fan, she was really afraid, if she had the support of the fish owner's grandfather, she would still have three points of confidence not to be afraid of Ning Fan, but now...

In order not to be retaliated against by Ning Fan, she had to go out in person and end this cause and effect.

Moreover, Ning Fan seems to have something in his hand that the fish owner's grandfather is looking for, and she wants it.

As a sign of sincerity, this apology certainly cannot be left empty-handed.

"Excuse me, where can I find the best brewing materials here?" asked Jiu Xiaojiu, holding an Arctic Palace demon.

"Go, go, go, grandpa has to patrol the mountains, I don't have time to take care of you!" the little demon said impatiently.

"Hey, hey, before I say you're arrogant, let's see if the difference between you and my cultivation is good. I'm a dignified and powerful person in the real realm, and you're a Jindan little demon, okay!" Jiu Xiaojiu said speechlessly.

"Just you?" the little demon looked at Jiu Xiaojiu with mentally retarded eyes.

No matter how you look at it, I don't think this second-class girl in front of me looks like any great power.

"If you don't believe me, I'll put some coercion on you to show you the horror of Duzhen's power. In order to prove his identity in the true realm, Jiu Xiaojiu decided to release some coercion for the other party to see.

However, as soon as she wanted to release her coercion, there was an invisible star force that dispersed her coercion in the heavens and the earth.

It didn't fall on the little demon's head at all.

Can't be left behind!

Because... Crape Myrtle Arctic Palace is not allowed!

This is the former Immortal Emperor Cave Mansion, and there are only a few monks who come to Duzhen, and they don't even have the qualifications to release coercion here!

"What's the matter, I'm scared!" The coercion of the wine was only put away for a moment, mainly because he was afraid that if he put it too much for too long, he would directly kill the little demon. She thought that she had shocked the other party, and she didn't notice the fact that her coercion was dispelled, mainly because the moment the coercion was dispelled, it was too fast.

"It turns out that it's really a great power to cross the real realm, hey, it really scares me to death... Okay, okay, aren't you looking for brewing materials? Go, go over there, and ask our commander. Poor, what a good girl, how can she hurt her brain at such a young age. In the end, the little demon still showed the way to Jiu Xiaojiu.

Probably sympathizing with this girl's bad brain.

Jiu Xiaojiu doesn't mind the criticism of the little demon.

The main thing is that she didn't hear that the little demon was saying that she had a bad brain.

After she left.

The little demon looked up at the sky, looked at the ethereal dome of Ziwei Arctic Palace, and muttered.

"At that moment just now, how could I have a feeling of being protected by heaven and earth, that feeling is like the [Guardian of Crape Myrtle Doushu] described in the book. It's warm and warm, and people feel at ease and sleepy. I guess it's just an illusion. ”

"The old venerable is gone, the new venerable has not arrived, and it is impossible for the crape myrtle guardian to reappear. ”

"I really want to see what the Crape Myrtle Arctic Palace looks like with its owner. ”