Chapter 182: Trading

"I can be received by the witch gods, and I can even enter the witch god temple to meet those ancient witch god elders, and the weather is fierce...... He is worthy of being our loyal courtiers of Great Xia!"

I went to Heaven for a walk around in a daze, and got a black jade block with some news recorded, and was violently thrown down by Xiang Liusan. Xia Jie felt that he was very shameless, especially when he saw Bai Bian's surprised expression, as if he was wondering why Xia Jie did not die in the Heavenly Court, Xia Jie became more and more depressed.

Therefore, the obviously insincere praise of the head of the four major witch families also made Xia Jie a little more comfortable.

After obtaining the black jade block, Lu Qi immediately summoned no more than ten people, and Daxia, who was absolutely at the pinnacle, slipped to the secret hall deep underground of the palace to discuss things. Xia Jie received some raw jade, jade money and other things that he was rewarded indiscriminately, and went straight to the Li Wu Temple outside the city to find Han Xin.

However, when Xia Jie took out the spirit grass in the bracelet, the entire Li Wu Hall fell into a state of madness!

It is not calculated by one or two plants, but by the area of how many square miles, and the spirit grass, the green god grass, and the wood god mushroom...... When Xiang Liusan ran out of the Witch Temple with Xia Jie, Xia Jie still asked Xiang Liusan to help him collect a lot of grass root bark along the way. These grass-roots bark, which were littered on the ground in the Heavenly Court and ignored by no one, were enough to drive any witch who studied witch medicine crazy in the Nether Realm!

The spirit herb elixir in the bracelet was scavenged clean, and then Xia Jie was kicked out of the Li Wu Palace, and everyone seemed to forget that he was the biggest hero. Xia Jie had no choice but to wander around Wushan, and instinctively noticed that some of the great witches of the Wudian Hall were a little ill-intentioned around him, so he immediately left Wushan and returned to Anyi City. He didn't believe it, he lived in the big courtyard of Xingtian's house, and the white man's subordinates dared to rush into Xingtian's house to attack him.

"Yue'er~~~Bend~~~According to that~~~ Kyushu~~~"

Humming an out-of-tune song, with white on his head, sitting cross-legged on the Xuanwu back armor that was running wildly, Xia Jie looked up at the sky with a bright moon, and his heart was full of emotion. Moon, Kyushu, Witch, Qi Refiner, Heavenly Court, Tongtian Daoren...... What magical words these are! When they come together, they make up this amazing world. I am under such a moonlit sky, I am in Kyushu, and the big city in front of me is Anyi!

"The bright moon of the Qin period and the Han time, the bright moon of ancient and modern times, this is one!"

With a long sigh leisurely, Xia Jie's heart had a ridiculous feeling that was faintly echoing. The moon in the sky is an instrument of war with devastating power. Is there a necessary connection between this time and space and the time and space when I came? Could it be that the time and space in my previous life, the moon, is it a fortress of doom? So, those people who have landed on the moon, have they ever seen something strange? Ridiculous, really ridiculous.

Xia Jie sighed again, and the nervousness and fatigue of his body seemed to dissipate with a sigh. Bai who was squatting on Xia Jie's head didn't know where to find a bright red fruit, he quickly divided the fruit into three pieces, took the largest one himself, stuffed the second size into Xia Jie's mouth, and then jumped on Xuanwu's back and fed the smallest fruit to Xuanwu.

Xuanwu glared at Bai depressedly, swallowed the piece of fruit into his stomach, and said angrily: "Xia Jie, why don't you stay in Wushan and wait for you?" Are you afraid of that woman called Bai Python?"

Angrily patted the ground, Xuanwu ran forward for a distance, and said aggressively: "If she dares to provoke you, I will slap her into a pulp! Are you afraid of her?"

patting Xuanwu's head vigorously, Xia Jie smiled bitterly: "Bai Ant, well, I'm not afraid of her, but it's not that simple! ”

Xuanwu's head shook from side to side, his long neck poked out, and he laughed 'hum': "What do you know about people? ”

Xuanwu stopped talking, and ran forward with his head stuffed, and the gate of Anyi City was in front of him. Xia Jie smiled leisurely, snatched a piece of fruit from Bai's hand, stuffed it into his mouth and slowly licked it with his tongue, licking the flesh off little by little. Bai Python, a woman who has not officially dealt with her, made two shots, and both times directly put Xia Jie in a desperate situation, which is not easy to deal with. Xia Jie was a little looking forward to her next move.

The woman's identity was too embarrassing, she was the princess of Great Xia after all. Before she knew the hole cards in her hand, it was not a wise thing to stay in Wushan and watch Xuanwu smash the big witches she sent out.

It was already late at night, and the gates of Anyi City had been closed. Opened the city gate with his waist card, and marched into the city under the admiring gaze of the city guards, Xia Jie casually took out a handful of golden bear money from his sleeve and threw it to the general who greeted him at the city gate. This can be regarded as an unspoken rule of Anyi City, the children of the Great Witch Family often enter and exit the city gate in the middle of the night, and the hard work for these city guards is always indispensable.

After casually talking to the general who commanded the soldiers to reclose the city gate, Xia Jie had just walked more than ten zhang away, and a black shadow popped out of the shadow of a building on the side of the road. The short man greeted Xia Jie quickly: "But is it a fierce weather? My master, Hei Mingsen, sent us to wait for you here." ”

While speaking, the man rushed to Xia Jie's side, knelt on the ground and kowtowed, and said with a smile: "Fierce weather, several masters of the Xingtian family are having fun in the powder." I heard that you ...... from above" He stretched out his finger and pointed to the dark passage of heaven and earth in the sky in the distance, and said with a look of awe: "You just came down from above, and went to the palace, and then went out of the city to Wushan, and specially asked the villain to wait for you here." If you go back to the city tonight, I want you to go over to Fan Yinze to drink and have a good time. ”

"Uh...... That's it!" Xia Jie was stunned for a moment, and scolded his mother in his heart.

Bai Ant proposed to Lu Gui to let Xia Jie go to Heaven alone to inquire about the news, and they returned to Anyi from the central part of the country under the pretext that they were not worried about Xia Jie's safety. I see, but they are here to fan Yinze and be happy. Although the central territory is their territory, but because Xia Jie's style of acting is completely different from that of the great witches, these people from the Xingtian family can't do the same thing as Xiang Liurou and them to harm the people.

"Damn, why are you worried about Lao Tzu's safety?" Xia Jie scolded in a low voice: "When I went up, I didn't see any of them going up with me?"

However, this is just a casual complaint, and Xia Jie also knows that even if they take the initiative to ask to go up, Xingtian and the others will not let them go. After all, the death of a friend and the death of a direct heir are two different things.

Grinning, Xia Jie waved his hand and said, "Lead the way ahead." Your master's luck is good, when Anyi City was destroyed, he actually hid it?" At the same time, he was also a little curious, since the Doomsday Fortress attacked Anyi, there has been a continuous war, and Hei Mingsen is not Xia Jie's friend, and he didn't deliberately inquire about him, but he didn't expect that this guy's life is so big.

The man quickly ran ahead to lead the way, and at the same time turned back to Xia Jie and smiled: "This is also the luck of our master, when those damned ten thousand seamen attacked Anyi City, it happened that he stayed in the team and went to Dongyi to buy a batch of Dongyi beauties, so he was lucky to escape......!

He laughed a few times strangely, and said secretly: "So, Fan Yinze is now a hundred times more prosperous than before, and you will know the benefits when you go." ”

Xia Jie shook his head and snorted noncommittally. The man was also interested, and when he saw that Xia Jie's interest was not here, he shut up and stopped talking, and ran all the way, leading Xia Jie to the door of Fan Yinze. He was just a civilian, and the commoner did not have the right to ride a mount in Anyi City, and he was tired of running all the way, but he was also tired and sweaty. Xia Jie took out a jade coin and threw it to him as a reward, so happy that the man kowtowed again and again to thank him, and then shouted loudly into the gate of Fan Yinze: "Xia Jie is here, the sisters in the door hurry up to welcome the distinguished guests!"

"Yo, hehe!" A series of goosebump-making shrill laughter came, wearing a pink long skirt and waving a big red handkerchief in his hand, surrounded by more than a dozen tall and fair-skinned girls, with a fragrant hot wind rushed out of the door, almost missing Xia Jie's body. Xia Jie instinctively leaned to the side, but was hugged by the black underworld, and shouted loudly and exaggeratedly: "Fierce weather, you are a distinguished guest! In the past few years in Anyi City, the most prominent person is you!"

Glancing at the jade light that flickered between the fingers of the man who was still kneeling on the ground, Hei Mingsen looked at Xia Jie in surprise and said, "The boss of Xingtian said, you can get rich! That's right, give him a cheap product and reward him with jade money, and you have to take care of your little brother a lot!"

Like a coquettish chick, Hei Mingsen hugged Xia Jie's arm, and his body writhed. Xia Jie only felt that his scalp was numb, and hurriedly shouted: "Take care, take care, you must take care of it! Where are they, big brother Xingtian? Damn, what are you worried about my safety, worried about my safety, can they still be in the mood to have fun here?"

Hei Mingsen stomped his feet in disgust, and said with a smile: "You can't say that, it's because they're too worried, they can only use wine to kill their sorrows! Hehe, come on, come on, the weather is fierce, I'll tell you, this time I went to the Dongyi people, but I got a group of good goods among the overseas islanders, and there will be a good show to watch later, hehe!"

Xia Jie struggled to pull out his arm, but Hei Mingsen's guy was probably a kraft candy, and the whole 'delicate body' was stuck to Xia Jie's arm, where could he get out? If it weren't for the fact that Hei Yingsen was also an acquaintance of Xingtian Gale, Xia Jie would have the urge to stun him with a punch.

Inherited the title of the Black Styx family, became the patriarch of the Black Styx family, and then pushed one of his uncles to the position of the head of the palace, and the Black Styx had more money, more resources, and more channels to arrange Fan Yinze. And the powder sound that often changes its own style, the most popular thing recently is obviously those furniture and decorations from the territory of the sea people.

All the buildings in Fanyinze have been transformed into the delicate and slender small spired cottages in the territory of the sea people, with large swaths of rigid and rigid grass and almost identical shrubs and ornamental trees, replacing small bridges and pavilions, ornate wallpaper, luxurious wainscoting, exquisite carpets, chairs and long tables inlaid with gold and jade, replacing the cold stone utensils of Great Xia. At the same time, in order to be more in line with the daily habits of the sea people, a hot fireplace is burned in the house, although in this season, the sun will dry the oil.

In one of the most luxurious rooms, the Xingtian Dafeng brothers, together with the red starlings, were lying on the white pure wool carpet in rags, surrounded by piles of beautiful girls from Dongyi, Nanban, and Huxi. Seeing Xia Jie walk into the house, Xingtian Gale with eight ** girls hanging on his body straightened up with a little difficulty, and said with a smile: "Xia Jie, come, sit here...... Ah, we're so glad you're back from Heaven safely!"

Several of his brothers also poked their heads out of the waves of their breasts and buttocks with great difficulty, and with pink marks on their faces, they cried out loudly: "Yes, we are so happy! I just heard that the king has rewarded you with 100,000 jade coins, and I will take them all out so that we can be happy!"

"100,000 jade coins?" Xia Jie was stunned for a moment, and said angrily: "You are not waiting for my news in the palace, but how do you know what my bounty is?"

Hei Mingsen on the side smiled and tapped Xia Jie's forehead with his finger, and he smiled: "Why is the eldest brother Xia Jie confused for a while? The old man of my family is dead, but how can I say that the head of the palace is still from my Hei Ying family! Don't forget, your bounty was handed over to you by my own uncle." Patting Xia Jie's majestic body vigorously, Hei Mingsen said triumphantly: "100,000 jade coins! Say, Brother Xia Jie, where do you want the girl?"

Shaking his head vigorously, Xia Jie snorted coldly with a stinky face: "Brother Hei Ming, have you forgotten? I don't touch women." ”

With a shake of his arm, he easily pulled his arm out of Hei Mingsen's embrace, and Xia Jie ran to a corner of the room as if he had fled, and sat heavily on a soft couch. He angrily shouted to Xingtian Gale: "You all ran back to Anyi, what should you do with the territory?"

Xingtian Gale raised his head, and he smiled: "Xia Jie, it's not important to be in the middle of the territory now, what matters is what you should do with your piece of clan land." The patriarch said, the name of the governor of the central consul is still in your name, and someone from the family will send someone to take over. And the most important thing for you and our brothers now is to choose the fattest piece of clan land and swallow it in peace. ”

While enjoying the gentle soothing of the girl beside her, Xingtian Xuanleech grabbed a delicate crystal bottle that was obviously from the territory of the sea people, and poured the fruit wine inside in a gulp. He sneered: "Just because this time the king agreed without hesitation to let Xia Jie go up there to explore the road, I know that there are many people who want you to die, so we must get that piece of clan land as soon as possible." ”

After being stunned for a moment, Xia Jie frowned and laughed coldly: "Yes, now some people wish I was unlucky." He pulled out a wine bottle from his side, uncorked it and took a few sips of wine, and suddenly scolded: "But you, righteousness, where is your righteousness? I took a great risk to go up to investigate, and none of you took the initiative to accompany me?" Let's watch the fantasy channel of the literary network, more exciting content is waiting for you!)

Xingtian Aolong poked his head out of the entanglement of the two jade arms with difficulty, and laughed loudly: "You can't blame us for this. Mr. Tongtian told us that he promised that Xia Jie would be safe and sound, so we didn't pay attention to it. You really don't have any heart at all, you go to Heavenly Court and other places to find out the news, can we play with women here with peace of mind?"

The starling hurriedly raised his hand and shouted, "That's right, that's what Mr. Tongtian said to us. Therefore, no one accompanies Brother Xia Jie. ”

Eh, did the Tongtian Dao people speak inside? Thinking that the four immortal swords of the Tongtian Dao people were still on his body, Xia Jie was speechless for a moment. He shook his head, and sighed with a gloomy face: "If you are not careful, get more fruit, and two roasted bulls, and ten barrels of good wine." Bai, and Xuanwu, they are all hungry. He patted his sleeve and took out a blanket from his sleeve, and Xia Jie casually threw the heavy blanket towards the Black Underworld.

"There are 100,000 jade coins in it, so I will deposit it in your Fan Yinze's account first. In the future, whoever of our brothers comes to have fun will be directly removed from the account. ”

Xia Jie's hand was generous, Hei Mingsen's eyes narrowed into a line with a smile, and he praised: "Brother Xia Jie is really generous, unlike some bastards who borrow money to come to me to have fun!" He glared at the Xingtian Gale viciously, and threw the bag of jade money to a beautiful girl behind him, and said with a smile: "Go to the account and write it down, the fierce sky is waiting for the account, one million jade money." ”

Xia Jie picked his eyes in surprise: "One hundred thousand!"

Hei Mingsen smiled and said: "One million! Hei Mingsen has something here to ask Meng Tiantian for help, and the nine hundred thousand jade money is just a little bit of Hei Mingsen's heart." ”

Help?Xia Jie looked at Hei Mingsen in confusion.

After laughing a few times, Hei Ying Sen walked to Xia Jie's side and said softly: "As long as the fierce weather takes care of the caravan that my Black Hades family goes to the central part of the country in the future, what is this mere 900,000 jade money?

Xia Jie's heart sank, thinking of the business that Hei Mingsen did, he suddenly slapped his palm on the soft couch, stood up angrily and shouted: "Fart! Lao Tzu doesn't do the business of selling people!" He brushed Hei Mingsen away, turned around and was about to leave Fan Yinze.

Hei Mingsen hurriedly shouted: "Listen to me! I, Hei Mingsen, don't ask you to do that kind of thing, this thing, Xiangliu Lao Liu, they agreed." I begged for the fierce weather to give me more mines and other businesses for the Black Underworld family!" He grabbed Xia Jie's arm with one hand and shouted loudly: "I didn't ask Brother Xia Jie, you go and help me catch women and sell them to me Fan Yinze, don't you?" I just want Brother Xia Jie, you take care of my family's caravan more, don't let other caravans take advantage. You won't agree to this?"

As long as you don't sell human beings, what else do you do with your caravan? These are things that the Black Underworld family doesn't do, and there are other people who do. Xia Jie's face became a little better, he looked up and down for a while, and sneered: "I'm not happy to see those dirty things, no matter what you do elsewhere, but if you run to my territory to do human flesh trading, hehe." ”

Yin laughed a few times, Xia Jie sat back on the soft couch, crossed Erlang's legs and said with a smile: "As for other transactions, I don't care, if you want to send me money, I accept it." With a long breath, Xia Jie shook his big feet and said, "But what, I have an additional condition. ”

Hei Mingsen slapped his chest vigorously, and said loudly: "What are the conditions, say! If my Hei Hades family can do it, it will definitely be done." ”

Xia Jie nodded, and said lightly: "It's very simple, what's going on with this woman Bai Python? Your Black Immortal Family has been the head of the palace for generations, don't you know these things?"

Xingtian Xuanlee, who was drinking on the side, suddenly shouted: "Hei Mingsen, you want us to help you, you have to think about it." What is a little bit of money? My Xingtian family is not a master who is short of money. What is the involvement between Bai Ant and the Xia Jie brothers, you have to make it clear. I don't believe it, you don't know that Bai Ant once assassinated Xia Jie in the Central Collar. ”

Hei Mingsen blinked desperately a few times, slapped his hand casually, and suddenly all the girls in the room jumped up and walked out of the door quietly. Bai shrewdly jumped off Xuanwu's back armor, rushed to the door and closed the door tightly, Xuanwu's mouth opened, and he spit out a yellow light mist, enveloping the entire room.

"Ouch, it's really difficult to make a deal with your Xingtian family! Look at Xiangliu Lao Liu, don't they all agree to the slightest benefit?" Hei Mingsen shook the sleeve on his hand angrily, and sighed weakly: "Alas, who told me to know a few of you? Alas, I am careless in making friends! I beg you Xingtian family to take care of my family's business, it is so difficult?"

Sitting next to Xia Jie, Hei Mingsen, who had been putting on a delicate appearance, also cocked Erlang's legs very ungracefully, snatched the wine bottle in Xia Jie's hand and poured a few sips, scolded and wiped the wine stains on the corner of his mouth, looked at Xia Jie with a sneer: "The one who died in the hands of Meng Tianhou is Bai Python's younger brother, and the two have the same mother." Therefore, Bai Ant has a maternal uncle who is the weather, and she has a lover in the Liwu Palace, who is the grandson of Huo Wuliang, one of the three major witch worshippers in the Liwu Palace. The wife of Huo Wuliang is the hall master of the Water Witch Hall under the current Force Witch Palace. ”

Is the hall master of the Water Witch Temple?

Xia Jie's and Xingtian Dafeng's brows all furrowed. The strength of the opponent's hand is very strong.

Hei Mingsen sneered and said, "And the current Lord of the Water Witch Palace, her name is Panxing. How did Anyi Ling's whole family die? In the end, there was only one Panhua left, hehehehe, Brother Xia Jie, your troubles are still to come. If you ask the master of the Xingtian family, you can also inquire about these things, but the Xingtian family can't and doesn't dare to touch the people of the witch hall. ”

Shaking the big red handkerchief, Hei Mingsen looked at Xia Jie with almost gloating and smiled: "So, in the future, Boss Xingtian, as well as Xia Jie, you should bring more guards when you travel! ”

Xingtian Gale slammed his palm to the ground, shattering a large piece of carpet, and he sneered: "She dares to attack us?"

Hei Mingsen sighed, twisted his body and said lightly, "In Yi Feng Danlu, didn't she do it?"

"She'......" Xia Jie looked at Hei Hadesen and frowned.

She ...... Do you think that just the remnants of those sea people can lead such a big movement in the middle of you?" Hei Mingsen shrugged his shoulders and sighed faintly: "What is the most terrible thing in the world? It's not the fist of the great witch, it's the heart of a woman!"

He said very resentfully: "I'm afraid of women, so I always fantasize that I'm also a woman!" narrowed his eyes, and Hei Mingsen laughed a few times charmingly.

Xingtian Xuanyu said coldly: "Okay, you are a black underworld, we are still friends, you didn't tell us these things earlier?"

Waving his handkerchief lightly, Hei Mingsen said lightly: "These news are also what the new palace chief has just seen from the top-secret scroll of the palace dark division. I just found out that two days later, and you are not in Anyi City, could it be that I sent someone to send you this news......? Is it that good?"

He blinked his eyes in a very amorous manner, and the big red handkerchief swept across Xia Jie's face.

Xia Jie suddenly laughed, he looked deeply at the Black Immortal and said, "If I guarantee that your Black Immortal Family will have thirty percent of the profits in the central territory, then ......"

Hei Mingsen's eyes turned a miserable green, and he hugged Xia Jie affectionately, and shouted loudly: "Then, we are brothers in life and death! The news I can know, you can know in two nights at most! For example...... The news that Xingtian Huaying was raped by Xuan?" Hei Mingsen's subtle gaze lightly swept over the faces of the Xingtian Gale brothers.

The faces of the Xingtian Gale brothers turned black at that moment. They took a long breath at the same time, staring at the Black Stygian Forest fiercely, like a group of ferocious wild tyrannosaurus rexes seeing a pink domestic pig. The most grumpy Heavenly Desolate Tiger simply pulled out his saber and took a few steps closer to the Black Immortal Forest in a gloomy manner.

Hei Mingsen shook his head lightly, and said lightly: "I didn't do it, Xingtian Desolate Tiger, what are you doing with that thing to me?"

He suddenly laughed, and said to Xia Jie, who also looked ugly, with a smile: "Okay, fierce weather, remember, the business of the central leader Sancheng, and the news that my family can know in the future will definitely let you know." After a pause, he hurriedly added: "Of course, it can't just be for your Xingtian family. If the other witches give enough benefits, they can also know about this news, don't say that I won't be trustworthy at that time!"

Xia Jie was so angry that his teeth itched, an intelligence peddler, this kind of person was the most angry kind of person in his previous life. However, the more this kind of person, the stronger the ability to survive, and you still have nothing to do with him!

Hei Mingsen waved the big red handkerchief in his hand very proudly, and said with a soft smile: "The old man of my family is dead, so the agreement he once had with your Xingtian family is just null and void." I'm now the head of the Black Underworld family, so I'm going to find a few people who are worthy of me?"

He stretched out his hand towards Xingtian Gale and said with a smile: "Brother Xingtian, what do you think? Of course, I still have the most basic reputation. Xingtian family species, I found you, and I won't hook up with Xingtian and Xingtian anymore. At this point, you can definitely rest assured~~~"

After a moment of silence, Xingtian Gale reached out and took the hand of the Black Immortal. Xingtian Dafeng glared at him with an unhappy face, and scolded: "No wonder you specially invited our brother here today, damn, the central part of the business is thirty percent! How much can you earn?"

"It's difficult, my Hei Ying family, I also have a big family to raise!" Hei Mingsen grinned a few times, stood up and nodded at Xia Jie and Xingtian Dafeng, and said with a smile: "It's so decided, you guys are so happy, today, all of them are invited by me." ”

Hei Mingsen, who was full of smiles, walked to the door, looked at the large yellow mist at the door, and looked at Xuanwu helplessly. Xuanwu squinted his eyes at him for a while, slowly opened his big mouth, and slowly swallowed the cloud of yellow mist back. Hei Mingsen nodded with a smile, and just opened the door, suddenly a crimson long sword grazed his face and shot into the room, and a voice shouted coldly: "Xia Jie, you stinky southern barbarian, get out of this day!"

With a 'sonorous' sound, Xia Jie smashed the long sword with a punch, he slowly stood up, and asked in a stern tone: "Which one, Xia Jie, has I offended another hero in the past few days?"

Hei Mingsen, who was standing at the door, screamed: "Yi Hao~~~! In Anyi City, who dares not to give me Hei Mingsen's face?"

'Bang', a thigh the thickness of an ordinary man's waist swept the lower abdomen of the Black Styx, kicking him into the room like a straw handle.

He barely raised his head, opened his mouth and was about to speak, when suddenly a mouthful of blood spurted out, and his face turned pale for a while. He snorted weakly: "You, you, Yi Hao, you have a kind of wait for me!" 'Wow', the loud roar once again mistook the injury of the internal organs, and the black underworld spurted out a mouthful of blood again.

With a loud bang, the house where everyone was sitting suddenly shattered, countless broken bricks and tiles rushed into the sky, and a giant man who was two heads taller than Xia Jie held a long knife that was extremely long, wide, and heavy.

The surrounding void was shaken by this knife, and everyone's eyes turned black, as if the sky was cracking, and the ground in a radius of dozens of zhang suddenly sank several zhang, and the cold killing intent permeated the Fan Yinze compound. In many small buildings that were originally filled with the sound of frolicking and laughter, suddenly there was silence, and I don't know how many people were quietly watching this knife.

"Get out of here!" Xia Jie swung out his right arm and met the straight punch with a knife that was enough to tear through the void.