Although the half-step quasi-saint is only a trace away from the quasi-saint, that trace is like an insurmountable gap.

At this moment, Ning Fan faced the Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree, this was the feeling, although his cultivation was only an immortal king, his combat power could definitely crush most of the demi-saints in the end of the law era.

Rao is like this, when Ning Fan faced the Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree, he still felt that his momentum had gone up and down.

The momentum of the Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree swept across the entire True Thunder Realm, Ning Fan was better with the powerful word secret, and Aphro and the others were directly rushed out of the extreme distance by the momentum of the Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree, which was quite embarrassing.

"One-fifth of the cultivation can be so powerful, is this the power of the quasi-saint, it is really not within my reach today... But in this battle, I have four major advantages, and I don't have a chance to really kill this tree!" Ning Fan's eyes narrowed.

The first advantage is that the Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree can only use one-fifth of its cultivation.

The second advantage is that Ning Fan's side is overwhelming.

The third advantage is that the Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree is a tree, and it is the Avenue of Wood! Ning Fan's identity as the Father of Wood has absolute restraint against the existence of trees!

The fourth advantage is, of course, that there is also the black magic as a hole card...

With these four advantages, Ning Fan was still very confident in defeating the Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree, but in the next moment, the Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree wiped out one of Ning Fan's advantages.

"Ancient Demon Lost Technique, Dryad Clone!"

With the display of the Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree's magical powers, its body suddenly became demonic, and in the sky-rushing demon qi, four doppelganger wooden figures were conjured. Not only are those clones the same as the deity, they are the same size, but even the aura of cultivation they exude is the same, and they are all one-fifth of the quasi-saint cultivation!

"Want to besiege the old man?"

The body of the Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree snorted, and the four clones immediately killed towards Aphro and the others, and their bodies killed all the way towards Ning Fan.

The numerical superiority does not exist ...

Fortunately, Aphro and the others are not easy to match, even if they face a dryad clone alone, they can fight without falling behind, but it is difficult to win, and they obviously can't take time to help Ning Fan.

"Is it the ancient demon loss technique of the clone type, this is the first time I have encountered this technique, and it is indeed practical..."

Eternal real!

Ning Fan turned into a golden flame giant body, facing the Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree's body is a punch of the Ancient Demon Mountain Breaking Attack.

However, the bark of the Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree is a quasi-holy bark, and Ning Fan's ancient demon mountain breaking attack that has not achieved a combo is simply an itch for the Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree.

"Is that all there is to it... Demon Technique, Ye Dance Technique!" The body of the Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree snorted disdainfully, but he didn't know that the Ancient Demon Mountain Breaking Attack that he looked down on was actually an extremely terrifying Ancient Demon Body Technique.

It's a pity that Ning Fan has used illusions many times, and his mental consumption is too huge, so it is not appropriate to use more cross halos at this moment; without opening the cross aura, Ning Fan will not be able to achieve unlimited mana, nor is it suitable to use a large number of ancient demons to break through mountains to form combos, so he can only find another way to deal with the Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree.

But seeing the Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree shaking its crown, millions of Heavenly Demon Tree leaves as sharp as flying swords swept towards Ning Fan, and everywhere he looked, the sky was full of leaf dances.

Ye Dance Technique is an extremely common small demon technique of the demon clan, and its status is similar to that of the basic sword art of sword cultivation. The level of this technique is obviously very low, but when it is performed by the Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree, its power is enough to kill the weaker Immortal Emperor in seconds, it is really incredible!

It's a pity that this technique is obviously not suitable for dealing with Ning Fan.

Palm wood field, open!

As soon as Ning Fan's realm opened, all the wood breath of the entire heaven and earth seemed to be under Ning Fan's control!

Those millions of Ye Wu who attacked Ning Fan couldn't hit Ning Fan at all, there was an invisible godhead power that didn't allow them to do so!

"It's actually a wooden palm! It's a problem..."

The body of the Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree was taken aback, if Ning Fan really had the power of the Wood Palm Position, its body of Wood Divine Power would basically be abolished, and it could not be used to attack Ning Fan.

In charge, it's so incomprehensible, it's so unreasonable!

"If God can't get through, let's use the magic weapon to divide the victory and defeat! Shennong Ding, now!"

In an instant, a green light shot out from the body of the Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree, turning into an ancient tripod covered with patina, and headed Ning Fan down.

This tripod is actually a congenital magic weapon, used by the Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree of the quasi-saint realm, the power of a town, as if the heaven and earth overturned, shaking a realm!

"Do you want to spell a magic weapon..."

Ning Fan summoned the Reverse Sea Sword, and the golden flame giant body held the sword and slashed the Ding, and slashed the Shennong Ding with a sword.

But Ning Fan was also uncomfortable, he was smashed into the ground by the power of Juding's suppression, and the entire Golden Flame giant body was smashed into the ground more than average.

Downwind! This magic weapon Dao soldier's bombardment, Ning Fan fell behind!

It's not that the Reverse Sea Sword is weaker than Shennong Ding, but that Ning Fan's strength is too much inferior to the Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree, and he loses to Ning Fan!

"It's... Chaos Saint Sect Disciple Sword!" "The Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree seemed to be very experienced, and as soon as he saw the Reverse Sea Sword, he was taken aback.

But the next moment, all the surprise turned to anger.

What about the Mixed Kun disciples!

He killed the Chaos Disciple!

Those damn bastard disciples should be killed!

"Shennong Hundred Grass Flame!"

Of course, Shennong Ding is not as simple as smashing people, this is an alchemy pill tripod, and the tripod contains innate flames, which is extremely good.

With the urging of the Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree, the grass-green Shennong Hundred Grass Flames poured out from the Shennong Ding, and if the Nine Heavens Divine Fire fell from the sky, it attacked Ning Fan.

"Is the flame of the innate middle grade..."Ning Fan's eyes lit up, and he opened his mouth to spew out a rolling thunder fire, burning towards the Shennong Hundred Grass Flame.

Shennong Baicao Flame is a flame specially used for alchemy, and the fire is ancient and warm. Ning Fan's Flame of Thunder is different, it is born to attack and kill, and its power is even more domineering!

After a firefight, it lasted for a whole stick of incense!

As a result, Shennong Baicao Yan was defeated, and fled all the way back to Shennong Ding, and was frightened by Ning Fan's fire and thunder.

"Waste! Shennong's Hundred Grass Flames were so frightened that they ran away!"

The Heavenly Demon Lei Shu was so angry that he scolded, seeing that Shennong Ding couldn't help Ning Fan, he didn't have much hope of killing Ning Fan.

Shennong Ding is the only innate mid-grade magic weapon on his body, and it is also the only powerful attack method that he can use after many of his wood-based divine powers were suppressed by Ning Fan's divine personality.

Shennong Ding can't use it, God can't use it, do you want him to be a quasi-saint and fight hand-to-hand with Ning Fan?

Although his quasi-holy bark defense was good, his attack power was not flattering, and Ning Fan's eternal true body defense was also not low, even if he fought hand-to-hand combat, there was no possibility of killing Ning Fan...

What's even more troublesome is that as soon as Ning Fan's palm realm was opened, the Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree found that he couldn't absorb the power of heaven and earth wood, which means that after his demon spirit power was consumed, he couldn't recover...

I didn't see the problem for a short time.

But if he fights a protracted war and a war of attrition with Ning Fan, he will definitely run out of demonic power in the end...

The more the Heavenly Demon Lei Shu thought about it, the more scared he became, he didn't want to fight Ning Fan anymore, and he didn't want to fight Ning Fan anymore.

He wanted to make peace with Ning Fan, but Ning Fan ignored his words of peace.

On this Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree, Ning Fan sensed countless causes and effects, all of which were the causes and effects of the True Thunder Clan!

This tree has eaten hundreds of billions of True Thunder Clan people for countless years!

This tree, damn it!

"Junior, do you have to persecute the old man like this! If you force the old man, the old man will die with you!" the Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree threatened.

"Then you're all right!"

Ning Fan's killing intent has been decided, although he has not opened the cross aura at this moment, he has a strong attack method to deal with the Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree.

More black treasures, [King Kong Armor Breaking Bead], now!

On the same day, Ning Fan obtained a large amount of treasures from the body of the blood god Gengwu, and among the many treasures, the most important thing for Ning Fan was the innate middle-grade Vajra Armor Breaking Bead!

This is a magical magic weapon, which is not very lethal in itself, but it has an armor-piercing effect against the sky.

Ning Fan injected a large amount of mana into the Vajra Armor Piercing Bead, and hundreds of ancient Buddhist characters suddenly appeared on the surface of the bead. Those words were only the size of ants, and they seemed to be some kind of high-level Buddhist script, and Ning Fan didn't know it.

The more mana Ning Fan injected, the stronger the golden light emitted by this bead became. When that golden light strengthened to a certain extent, Ning Fan suddenly raised his hand and sacrificed the Vajra Armor Piercing Bead and hit the body of the Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree.

Boom!

The few attack power of the Vajra Armor Piercing Bead can't penetrate the quasi-holy bark of the Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree.

Seeing this, the Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree was disdainful, and he didn't notice that his bark defense, the moment he touched the Vajra Armor Breaking Bead, was weakened by this bead by ninety percent.

The armor-piercing supernatural power of the Vajra Armor-Piercing Bead is rarely noticed, unless it is the kind of first-order quasi-saint who specializes in perception. If it weren't for that, it wouldn't be able to show the ability of the Vajra armor bead.

"It's sad that you've been broken and you don't know it... This tree body no longer has quasi-saint-level bark defense, and it can kill him with one blow!" Ning Fan's eyes sharpened, and at this moment, he said to Aphro and the others.

[Close your eyes!Collect your thoughts!]

Aphro and the others obediently closed their eyes, blocking out their visual perception and retracting their thoughts.

At this moment, Ning Fan sacrificed the Taigu Lei Ding. The dazzling thunder light covered all the colors of the world in an instant.

Yes!

The defenseless Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree was blinded by the thunder light of the Ancient Thunder Ding, and burned out his divine thoughts.

He has lost the ability to perceive the outside world!

He was in a panic!

Then I felt a sharp pain from the huge tree.

The body of the Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree was too huge, so that even if Ning Fan closed his eyes, he could roughly identify the direction, and in the thunder light, a sword pierced through the body of the Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree.

At this moment, the Anti-Sea Sword easily pierced through the weakened bark of the Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree's defenses and pierced into its vital point.

At this moment, all the Heavenly Hook Jade of the Reverse Sea Sword was detonated in the body of the Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree!

Rumble!

A loud bang came out, and the body of the Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree was directly blasted off by Ning Fan's sword!

At the moment when the dazzling thunder light dissipated, Ning Fan caught the true spirit of the Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree from the body of the Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree, and it was another sword that pierced its true spirit.

Bang bang bang!

The true spirit of the Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree was attacked, and the four dryad clones he summoned were suddenly unable to maintain it, and they all turned into demon mist and dissipated.

Aphro's eyes were full of brilliance, and she couldn't have imagined that this quasi-saint battle had not been around for long before it had already begun. Ning Fan seems to have gotten stronger again...

The true spirit of the Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree was caught in Ning Fan's hand and coughed violently.

Although his true spirit was captured and attacked by Ning Fan, is the true spirit something so easy to destroy. In particular, this is still a true spirit of a quasi-holy demon cultivator, and it is even more difficult to destroy.

"Ahem, ahem... I can't imagine that the old man will be planted in your hands in the end... Tell me, what are you going to do to let the old man go!"

"Let you go, why!" Ning Fan sneered, he had finally caught the true spirit of the Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree, how could he let him go.

After releasing the Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree, so many True Thunder Clan people who were eaten by this tree, how can their souls rest in peace...

"Hmph, since you don't let the old man go, the old man will go by himself!"

The Thunder Tree True Spirit Monster laughed, and the entire True Spirit suddenly began to wither sharply, this scene was the same as when he was hit by Ning Fan's illusion before.

He was like this before, destroying the true spirit by himself, and then regenerating the true spirit to avoid Ning Fan's illusion.

At this moment, Lei Shu True Spirit wanted to repeat his old trick again, using the rebirth after death to escape from Ning Fan's palm.

It's a pity that his true spirit withered to a certain extent, so he couldn't continue to wither, but instead consumed a lot of vitality and became even weaker.

"Impossible! My rebirth ability has been sealed!" Lei Shu True Spirit was taken aback, and cold sweat broke out all over his body.

Turning to something, he roared angrily, "No wonder! No wonder you wanted to stab me with a sword after capturing my true spirit, but it turned out that you actually took the opportunity to inject the power of your wooden palm into my true spirit, forming a seal!"

"Yes, you have no chance to be reborn after death, don't want to escape from Ning's hands!" Ning Fan sneered.

But of course, he wouldn't explain to the Thunder Tree True Spirit that what he had was not the Wood Palm Position, but a higher-level Wood Godhead.

"Hmph! The old man has confessed to planting! But if you think that if you capture the old man's true spirit, you can easily kill the old man, you are very wrong! Do you think that the old man is just a heavenly demon thunder tree, the old man said, the old man will die with you today!"

Soul Sucking, activate!

Ning Fan's eyes changed, he had clearly sealed the rebirth ability of the Thunder Tree True Spirit, but for some reason, the Thunder Tree True Spirit gradually faded from his hands and disappeared.

Did this demon escape?

No!

The tree did not run away.

He actually had the audacity to invade Ning Fan's sea of knowledge!

At this moment, in Ning Fan's sea of divine consciousness, the true spirit of the thunder tree suddenly appeared, and took root in Ning Fan's sea of consciousness and stayed.

Among the Dao Soul Ten Thousand Clans, there is such a clan, which is called the Soul Sucking Tree Clan.

This clan is all tree cultivators, and the clan is born with a natural ability to die together, called the Soul Sucking Tree, which can sacrifice their own bodies, cultivate, occupy the enemy's sea of knowledge, and devour the enemy's soul step by step, turning it into their own.

At this moment, the Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree in front of him launched a soul-sucking technique against Ning Fan.

His body is not the Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree at all, but a Soul Sucking Tree!

Many years ago, the Soul Sucking Tree at that time was not in the form of the Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree at this moment, and at that time, his cultivation was still weak, and at that time, he encountered a Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree that was slightly higher than his cultivation.

Of course, this soul-sucking tree couldn't defeat the Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree, and in desperation, he detonated his soul-sucking tree body, launched the soul-sucking technique, occupied the enemy's sea of consciousness, and devoured the enemy's soul step by step, possessing the enemy's body, soul, and body.

From that day on, he was no longer a soul-sucking tree, but a heavenly demon thunder tree.

This time, this soul-sucking tree was unlucky enough to hit Ning Fan's hands again.

This time, he planned to repeat his old tricks, abandon everything from the Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree, occupy Ning Fan's sea of knowledge, and swallow Ning Fan's soul step by step.

As long as he succeeds, in the future, there will be no such person as Ning Fan in the world.

In the future, he will be the new Ning Fan!

"Haha! Your sea of consciousness has been rooted in me, and now, I will occupy your consciousness... Well, what's going on?"

The Soul-Siphoning Tree was taken aback.

Zhihai was originally the weakest point of the monk, and he thought that it would be easy to occupy Ning Fan's Zhihai.

But he was wrong, wrong!

Ning Fan's sea of knowledge is too strong, too perverted!

Although he took root in Ning Fan's sea of knowledge, his roots were very shallow, and he couldn't go deep into the deepest part of Ning Fan's sea of knowledge.

And the reason why he was able to take a shallow root in Ning Fan's Zhihai was thanks to Ning Fan's Zhihai being injured at the moment, and he collided with the will of the Purple Dou Immortal Emperor before, and Zhihai was knocked out of seven cracks...

His grandmother's, this is simply a sea of knowledge that cannot be occupied, okay!

He wouldn't be able to devour Ning Fan's soul any further at all, okay!

How can there be such a perverted sea of consciousness in the world, it is simply a natural nemesis of soul sucking!

"Is this what you used as a Dao Soul Clan! It's a very powerful method, very similar to the Snatching Technique, but it's not a level at all, it's different from the Snatching Technique, and it won't have any side effects. If it weren't for the fact that I knew the sea and was different from ordinary people, I might really be swallowed up by you, taken away by you, and replaced by you. It's a pity that in this world, there are no ifs..."

Ning Fan gave it a try.

If he wanted to, he could easily recapture the Soul Sucking Tree in the Sea of Knowledge.

But if he did this, it would make Zhihai, who was already injured, worsen his injuries.

After all, the roots of the Soul Sucking Tree had already penetrated into his sea of consciousness, and even if it was very shallow, it was still harmful after all.

If there was no black devil by his side, Ning Fan would probably be injured and forcibly pull out the soul sucking tree from the sea of knowledge.

But since there are dark devils, why not ask the dark devils for some tricks?

"Hmph, did the master finally remember to find the black devil?" the kitten was resentful, still aggrieved that Ning Fan did not send her to the war.

"Okay, don't be willful, be nice. Let's talk about how you can pull out this tree without injury. Ning Fan said helplessly.

"Unless the master fights later and takes me with him, the dark devil won't say anything. ”

Ning Fan smiled, this little cat is no longer as obedient as when he first met, and he actually knows how to bargain with him.

That's a good thing, it means that the kitten is closer to him, isn't it? Compared with the kitten who blindly obeyed orders, Ning Fan felt that the naughty kitten at the moment was more cute.

"Is the master angry? The black devil is wrong, the black devil shouldn't bargain with the master..."The little cat only said that Ning Fan was angry, and he was so anxious that he was about to cry, and hurriedly told Ning Fan the way to deal with the soul sucking tree.

Of course, Ning Fan was not angry, and comforted the kitten a few words, and began to use the method given by the black devil to deal with the soul sucking tree.

There is a secret technique in the cultivation realm, which can take away the enemy, but it is risky, and if it fails, it may be swallowed by the enemy.

The same goes for soul sucking.

The method given by the kitten is a special method for dealing with soul sucking techniques, which can in turn devour the soul sucking trees that invade the sea of knowledge.

"According to the Black Devil, if I swallow the Soul Sucking Tree in the Sea of Consciousness in turn, I can greatly increase the power of my mind. That's a good thing, whether it's casting powerful illusions or using the cross aura, the mind is essential... Then swallow the tree!"

And so.

The Soul Sucking Tree, which was rooted in Ning Fan's Sea of Knowledge, was horrified to find that his consciousness was beginning to blur and was being devoured by Ning Fan little by little.

He wanted to resist, but to no avail!

The method given by the kitten cracked his soul sucking technique cleanly, he was powerless to resist, he didn't understand why Ning Fan knew so much about his soul sucking technique, he could crack it so perfectly, and he could use and devour it in turn...

"Who are you!Why do you know so much about the weaknesses of my Soul Sucking Tree!" The Soul Sucking Tree asked reluctantly as he was dying.

"It's not that I know anything about you Soul Sucking Tree Clan, it's that my kitten knows you very well. ”

"Kitten, what kitten..."The Soul Sucking Tree's consciousness became even more blurred.

"It's me!" the kitten's voice rushed into Ning Fan's sea world at the right time.

"What, what, the nine raccoons of the royal family, it's impossible, this can't be! Possibly..."

With infinite shock, a generation of quasi-saints fell like this.

If it weren't for the Soul Sucking Tree giving up all his cultivation as a Heavenly Demon Thunder Tree and using the Soul Sucking Technique, Ning Fan would never have been so easy if he wanted to kill the Soul Sucking Tree, and it would have taken some trouble.

Now that these troubles have been saved, Ning Fan has also gained a lot of benefits from it, devouring all the mental power of the Soul Sucking Tree.

This is the full mental power of a quasi-saint!

directly made Ning Fan's mental strength, on the original basis, more than tripled!

It can be said that his mental strength at the moment is even stronger than many first-order quasi-saints, and it will be easier to use the Ancient Rainy Night Illusion Technique or the cross aura in the future.

One more bonus...

All the wood-based perceptions of the soul-sucking tree, the wood-based supernatural powers, actually followed the mind and introduced to Ning Fan's sea of knowledge.

It will take a lot of time to absorb and comprehend the content. Once he fully receives all the wood-based perceptions and supernatural powers of the Soul Sucking Tree, Ning Fan's combat power will definitely improve a lot, that's for sure.

"This is the first time I've killed a Quasi-Saint. He is not in his full bloom, only one-fifth of his strength, all his wood supernatural powers have been restrained by me, he has been plotted by my Vajra Armor Piercing Bead, and his defense has been broken, and his soul sucking technique happens to be useless to my Divine Consciousness Sea... I have an absolute advantage, but it still took a lot of effort to destroy this demon. If it were another quasi-saint, it would be difficult to have a chance to take advantage of it..."

"Killing this demon is not the end. Next, there's one more thing to do..."

Ning Fan began to use the power of the Underworld Ghost Flower to make the immortal ghost pawn of the Soul Sucking Tree.

This is the first time he has used a quasi-saint as a material to make an immortal ghost pawn, and the success rate is pitifully low, only half of it.

Fortunately, the number of sacrifices he used was large, and thirty percent of the True Thunder Realm cultivators who were burdened with blood debts became sacrifices. Even, in order to ensure the number of sacrifices at this moment, he did not make the Immortal Ghost Pawn of the Half-Saint Lei Venerable.

The number of sacrifices reached 80 million!

In this way, the success rate of the immortal ghost pawn has also risen from the initial half percent to nearly one percent.

With such a low success rate, it's impossible to succeed...

Although Ning Fan was also looking forward to having an immortal ghost pawn who was a quasi-saint cultivator, he had experienced failure and had a very correct mentality.

I'm very happy if it's a success.

If it fails, I'll accept it.

In short, do your best, try not to make mistakes in your technique, and reduce human error.

Ning Fan didn't expect miracles, but life is always like this. The more you pursue something, the harder it is to get something, but you don't want to plant willows, and miracles often happen.

When the Immortal Soul Sucking Tree of Quasi-Saint Cultivation officially joined Ning Fan's ghost pawn camp, Ning Fan couldn't close his mouth in surprise.

At the beginning, there was a seventy or eighty percent chance of failure, but now one percent of the chance is successful!

Is... So lucky!

"With the quasi-saint ghost pawn joining the battle sequence, in the future, I will face the first-order quasi-saint head-on, and I can also fight, and the odds of winning are very great!"

"The only pity is that the Soul Sucking Tree itself is good at saving lives and being good at rebirth, and although its attack is not weak, it is not a strong point. This is a bit inconsistent with the policy I determined before... Forget it, it's rare to have a quasi-saint ghost, it's not good to ask for so much. ”

"The people of the feudal clan have already learned a lesson, and the blood debt should be collected for the real thunder clan, and there is only one thing left to do..."

Shatter the interface seal of the True Thunder Realm and release the True Thunder Clan to the outside world! Without the will of the Purple Dou Immortal Emperor, the seal of this realm can no longer be maintained, and it can be shattered with one blow!

Finally, to fulfill all the promises of the year, Taisu senior, you can rest in peace in the spirit of the sky, from today on, the true thunder clan is no longer anyone's slave...

"The Immortal Soul Sucking Tree, from today onwards, you are Ning's slave. The first task that Ning gave you was to strike with me and break the seal of this realm!"

"Obey!" the Immortal Soul Sucking Tree said respectfully as it lowered the head of the wooden man, and said with a blank eye.

He actually took the quasi-saint as a slave...

Aphro felt that the impact that Ning Fan brought her today was a little bigger...

Ning Fan not only killed a quasi-saint, but also easily turned this quasi-saint into a ghost slave, if this matter came out, the entire Dharma Cultivation Realm would be shocked...