The strongest Liuyun spearman in Shuyue!

But these spearmen are only guards, not the protagonists of this battle.

The real protagonist is in the carriages, and in each carriage sits an old man dressed in black with thin limbs.

Behind them were painted the same blood python pattern as the black-robed people outside, and they wore necklaces made of snake bones around their necks, Chu Xianzhao couldn't see their faces, but he could feel the extremely terrifying qi on their bodies, as if they were the same as the great priest Guo Yu in his memory.

The Blood Python Gang, a mysterious organization that appeared almost at the same time as Shuyue, walked in the mezzanine of Shuyue's history, serving the royal family on the surface, but rarely acting publicly.

The members of each generation of them have infiltrated the power and magic organs of Shuyue, and those conspiracies that do not see the light flow in every corner of Shuyue, and the people at the bottom of Shuyue are afraid of this organization, and one out of every ten people who seem to be afraid is a member of the Blood Python Gang.

During the reign of the Sui and Emperor of Shuyue, the royal family tried to reconcile with this mysterious organization, and this organization was trusted by the royal family for the first time, and the emperor even let their blood python flag and Shuyue's white python flag hang on the court of Shuyue, and openly let the members of the blood python gang serve as the ministers of the dynasty.

"Black-clothed Prime Minister" Shen Taisui as the patriarch of the Blood Python Gang above the court of Shuyue, during the reign of Emperor Sui He, they let the followers gather in the city of Lijing, the entourage can see the banner of the Blood Python Gang, they also tried to build a higher building than the palace "Blood House", in the period of the lowest power of the organization, the entire Shuyue population of more than 800,000, and the followers have nearly 150,000.

After the death of Emperor Sui He, the unbearable crown prince Yutai Deqing was finally dissatisfied with the country's power falling into the hands of the Blood Python Gang, and executed Su Jinnan, one of the veterans of the Blood Python Gang at that time, in front of hundreds of officials, and threw all the Blood Python Gang flags in the palace on the street, and re-erected the white python flag symbolizing imperial power in Lijing City.

Even so, the Blood Python Gang still opposed the war waged against them by the royal family, but the Emperor still gathered most of the nobles who supported them, and executed most of the high-ranking members of the Blood Python Gang who lived in the Blood Residence, and burned the building to the ground, so that at the same time, the most elite members of the Blood Python Gang were annihilated by the Deqing of the Tai, and it also meant the beginning of the civil war.

In the Battle of Lê Bridge, the armies of the two armies dyed the river a terrible blood, and the royal army and the members of the Blood Python Gang engaged in a terrible battle, which lasted for three days and two nights, until the blood of the last of the rebels flowed into the river, and the battle was completely ended.

Wang Jun finally won the victory, and Tai Deqing also killed the "kneeling emperor" Xu Mingshuo and the "black-clothed prime minister" Shen Taisui, most of the members of the blood python gang surrendered to the royal family, He Nai's number of members of this organization is too large to be cut off for Shu Yue.

In the end, Tai Deqing decided to keep this organization alive, but the members of the Blood Python Gang were never allowed to participate in political affairs, but the Blood Python Gang was more high-profile than before, and then completely changed its appearance and participated in the changes of each dynasty in Shuyue with a low-key attitude

, continue to use their own strength to penetrate every corner of Shuyue.

Chu Xianzhao frowned, he had heard the story of the Blood Python Gang many times, and he had also fought with the members of the Blood Python Gang once outside Lin'an City before, but the people in the carriage were by no means idle people, at least they were also elders and high priests and the like, and the Empress of Shuyue had told him the difference between a secret magician and a warlock.

In the past wars, the Yin army relied on the terrifying strength of the warlock to change his life, and the strength of the mystic is no less than that of the warlock, and the lifespan is the same as that of ordinary people, and the source of their power is the heavens and stars, not the breath of nature used by the warlock.

The mystic ancestors, who had mastered the power of harnessing the light of the stars, found that the power of the stars seemed to be never-ending and inexhaustible compared to the use of nature's breath.

The mystical masters have refined the know-how of many occult arts, and many schools have been created during this period, and even formed some kind of religious-like organization, which is the essence of the Blood Python Gang.

But without the power that comes for nothing, although the warlock has a short lifespan, he can still live and love and marry like ordinary people, and the power of the mystic eroded their souls, replacing the "human" part of human nature with the power of the stars.

They can even compete with swordsmanship, and every one of them is a god-like presence on the battlefield.

Chu Xianzhao was finally scared at this time, this time the Blood Python Gang dispatched four extremely precious high priests, afraid that they would take advantage of their fatigue after the battle with the Danyang cavalry to wipe them out in Danyang City.

The young man looked at the mystics of the Blood Python Gang in the rain, presumably the sudden flame just now was released by these mystics. The four carriages with black flags slowly came to the east gate.

At this time, although there are more than 10,000 Yinguo iron cavalry and more than 20,000 Shuyue soldiers in the city, plus a military god like General Meng Yu, and there are many strong people in the army, it stands to reason that more than 2,000 mystics cannot threaten them.

But now the Yinguo Iron Cavalry can't be dispatched, and at this time the heavy rain is pouring, and the rain will make the land soft and wet, such a terrain can't make the Yinguo Iron Cavalry charge, no matter how brave they are, once they lose the advantage of the terrain, they are just a group of iron cans waiting to be slaughtered.

At the same time, a white dress lightly landed on Chu Xianzhao's right hand, Guan Ju also looked at those secret magicians with solemn eyes, and the sword roared in the sword box behind him.

And Meng Yu looked at the dense Blood Python Gang mystics under the city, those soldiers who defended the city were slaughtered by them, and their bodies were nailed to the stakes.

The man's face became extremely ugly and said: "Tantai Ninghua likes to nail corpses to wooden stakes to deter his enemies, they want to take advantage of our current exhaustion and lack of food and grass to carry out a military attack on us, and so many mystics have been dispatched, but none of our army can fight against them, I can even feel the strength of the mystics in those four carriages, it is as powerful as the great priest Guo Yu!"

"They're forcing us to retreat!"

Chu Xianzhao finally came to his senses, now there is a shortage of food and grass in the city, according to their initial plan, they immediately moved westward after eliminating the cavalry of Danyang City, but the quiet illness of the Tai Tai slowed down the decision of the empress, these secret magicians are not those Danyang cavalry, if there is enough food and grass in the city, no matter how the enemy attacks the city, they will not be harmed.

But it was clear that the food and grass in the city were no longer enough to support them to hold on, and these mystical masters could carry out long-range and large-scale arcane strikes, which was a very dangerous thing for the soldiers.

"They came for me and my daughter. ”

The empress didn't know when she came behind Chu Xianzhao, and she was still carrying a bloody head in her hand and said indifferently: "They set the fire just now, and they also sent someone to assassinate my daughter, they thought I would personally go to fight the fire, if I wasn't too sad and confused, I'm afraid my daughter would be dead now." ”

"Tranquility, why would they attack a little girl!" Chu Xianzhao was shocked: "She's just a child, she doesn't have any combat ability......"

Tantai Ningsu glanced at Chu Xianzhao sharply: "Xuanzhao, if you want to rule the Yin Kingdom in the future, you have to learn to think about this kind of problem, Ning Jing She is the princess of Shuyue and my only heir." ”

"Shall we evacuate then?"

Chu Xianzhao muttered, the empress wiped the blood from her hands, Wang Xi was healing her wounds, she shook her head and said: "Since Tantai Ninghua should use the Blood Python Gang to do something to my daughter, and even the Great Elder has already been dispatched, then all the Liuyun spearmen in Tianxian City may have gone to Lijing City." ”

The sadness and weakness just now disappeared at this time, and the expression on the empress's face became very calm, such a change made Chu Xianzhao feel unfamiliar.

The empress said softly: "If it was put in the past, and then give Tantai Ninghua two people who dare not use the Blood Python Gang, the current situation is more complicated than you think, maybe the cycle of this war is longer than we imagined, and he still has more wrists that he has not used." ”

"But now the cavalry of the Yin Kingdom can't attack immediately. ”

"We need your iron cavalry to capture Tianxian City, once we retreat with our troops, it will only be a matter of time before they intercept them, and we need your army the most now. ”

The empress turned her head to look at Chu Xianzhao and Meng Yu, and laughed softly: "I know what you are thinking, what we need most now is time, once the heavy snow falls and the road is frozen, and we are now short of food and grass, even if we can attack the city of Lijing?"

"If we can lead the troops to attack Lijing City, we will be the most feared force for him, and Tantai Ninghua does not have any allies, an isolated and helpless king, but Tantai Ninghua also thinks of this very well, so he did not send troops to Danyang, just to weaken our overall military strength with the help of Danyang cavalry, and now he will spare any strength to intercept and kill us here in Danyang City. ”

Chu Xianzhao was silent for a while, and said in a deep voice: "Kill them all, this is the only way."

Is it?"

Meng Yu couldn't help frowning, but Guan Ju looked radiant, in fact, they all understood what the empress said, except for the empress, none of the three of them had ever fought with the mystic, so the difficulty would increase greatly.

The empress dropped her bloody head and looked at the four carriages with black flags, a chill flowed in her beautiful eyes, and her eyes seemed to be able to kill.

She came to kill people, to kill those who hurt her daughter.

Guan Ju said with a solemn expression: "Why don't you let me give it a try?" Just like when I was in Storm Valley. ”

"No, the mystics are too dangerous. You are not allowed to go anywhere if you stay here, I promised the master to take care of you. ”

Chu Xianzhao interrupted her words, which made the girl swordsman very discouraged.

Meng Yu said in a deep voice: "The strength of these secret magicians is too unfamiliar to us, if we attack rashly, it is likely that we will be overshadowed by the other party, so let's do it, His Royal Highness the Third Prince and Miss Guan will sit at the head of the city and use the sword breath to help us, and there are hundreds of breath practitioners in the Wind Eagle Iron Horse, let them kill!"

The empress shook her head and said, "No, you are my greatest help to regain the throne, I can't let your life stay here in Danyang City, don't sacrifice in vain." ”

There was silence on the head of the city, the soldiers obeyed Meng Yu, Meng Yu obeyed Chu Xuanzhao, Chu Xuanzhao obeyed the Empress of Shuyue, and then the soldiers of the Yinguo Kingdom of course respected the Empress very much, but now in this situation, if the Empress of Shuyue does not let them go out of the city to fight, what can the Empress do for them?

The soldiers always treated her as a weak woman, but they forgot that she was the same as Chu Xiaohua, and she was also a king.

The wrath of the king can destroy the city, break the army, burn the sky, split the earth, slay the dragon, and kill the immortals!

Tantai Ning Su looked at the mystics under the city, took the Heavenly Halberd handed by Guo Changfeng, and then whispered an incredible word.

"I came alone and killed two thousand with my own hands. ”

Chu Xianzhao blinked, thinking that he had misheard, he subconsciously stretched out his hand to the empress, but only touched the corner of her skirt.

The empress clenched her halberd and stood on tiptoe, jumped up to the city, and then her white skirt flew, and the soldiers thought it was a heavenly immortal who came to this world, but the woman suddenly disappeared from the city.

She jumped!

Chu Xianzhao was stunned, along with Meng Yu and Guo Changfeng, they were also stupid, and the generals of the two armies rushed to the top of the city and looked down, thinking that they would see the picture of the empress falling to the ground and dying.

But their cries stopped abruptly, and the image in front of them made them feel incredible, even thinking that it was the rain that blurred their vision to see such an illusion.

The empress did not die, but fell slowly, her sleeves flying like wings, like a breeze.

She held a halberd in one hand, her eyes turned as pale as falling snow, and there was a white qi surging between her bodies.

The surging of the qi machine is distinct, hovering in turn, like a small white snake, like the water flowing from the sky, and the surging of the qi machine does not have the meaning of surging.

Its gushing is like water, its sound is like thunder, and its color is like snow.

This picture that shocked Meng Yu only happened in an instant, for a battlefield warrior like him, it was definitely not shocking, but it was definitely the most beautiful picture he had ever seen.

Together with Guan Ju, he was also shocked, but Chu Xianzhao's expression was still calm, but his eyes turned black at some point.

The empress slowly fell in the air, like a white lotus dancing in the wind, although she said that she was the empress of Shuyue above 10,000 people, but the clothes she wore have always been very simple and elegant, because Chu Xiaohua once told her that it is better for girls to wear simpler, so that men can remember your face, not the clothes on your body.

They remembered her face, but not her anger.

She eventually landed on the ground, her eyes serene, her feet on the soft ground.

She examined the mystics in front of her, as if she had been inspecting her courtiers in the court.

Until now, she is still the empress of Shuyue.

In an inconspicuous carriage, there sat an old man with a withered face, and a beautiful woman holding warm tea in her hand.

The old man opened his eyes and asked, "Finally, let them kill Tantai Ningsu." ”

The woman in the red robe nodded calmly, and the old man said expressionlessly: "By the way, the life of the third prince of Da Yin is also left in Shuyue, do you know what I mean?"

The woman in the red robe smiled skillfully: "I know what to do, for the sake of my father's great cause." ”

The old man slowly clenched his fists and said: "Tan Tai Ning has abandoned me for his own selfish feelings, and the people of Shuyue Dawn are in dire straits, so he used her death to repay his stupidity, and he can't let her continue to live no matter what." ”

The woman in the red robe put down the teacup, tilted her head to look at the snow scene outside the carriage, and said softly: "Sad." ”

......

......

A dry hand stretched out the curtain of the carriage, and the old man of the big pavilion led by him stood out of the carriage and looked at Ning Su silently, the old man stood in the pouring rain, and squinted at the empress.

There was a mocking smile on the corner of the old man's mouth, and his two thin hands seemed to have flashes of iron light, and in that instant, the old man had already completed the drawing of the secret art, and suddenly rose a bright flame of light, and the heat dispersed the rain around him.

"Dage old Jin Chunshan said: "You shouldn't come back to Shuyue, but since you are back, then your end point is death!"

"The end point of each of us is death, since you want to turn the entire Shuyue into a Shura field of civil war, then I, Tantai Ningsu, declare war on you, this time I will completely exterminate your Blood Python Gang, no matter the old and the young, women and children!"

"Stupid!" another veteran stepped out of the carriage, and a burst of extremely strong qi suddenly burst out from his body.

"Is it her who killed our people with the iron horses of the Yin Kingdom? It's just a big rebellion!" the speaker raised a pitch-black spell staff, which was almost an artifact in the hearts of the Blood Python Gang people

The staff of "Ember of Damnation." "This spell staff has absorbed the light of the stars, and this weapon has absorbed the power of the stars, which is the symbol of the Blood Python Gang, and the power attached to it is powerful and strong, like the weapon held in the hands of Hades.

"The second elder of the Blood Python Gang, Xu Junjian. ”

The old man took a step forward and raised the spell staff in his hand, and the light of the stars on it jumped.

The empress muttered, "Xu Junjian, I wanted to kill you for a long time, but I couldn't find a reason to get rid of you." ”

At the same time, the spears in the hands of the Flowing Cloud Spearmen burst into flames, and they jumped out of the carriage to form a triangular formation with the elders.

The eyes they looked at the empress had no respect in the past, only anger and fear, and from this moment on, they decided to pierce the gun in their hands into the woman's black heart and end this Shuyue war.

The empress took a deep breath, and her body flashed on the ground as quickly as she moved, so fast that it was impossible to see clearly with the naked eye, and everyone could only see an afterimage dragged out from behind her!

The droplets of water from the pouring rain were brushing her cheeks backwards at this moment.

The white hair fluttered in the wind, each strand trembled slightly, and the plain white and simple robe formed a hard white line in the wind and rain.

Only then did the mystics in the front row react, but they were shocked and dazed by the empress's incredible attack, and their throats were stabbed by the halberd, and blood splashed on their companions behind them, causing the horses under them to neigh.

Python crack!

The empress struggled to swing the halberd in her hand, killing all the mystics on horseback with halberd blades, and at the same time, the mystics in the rear accurately judged the empress's attack, and the light in her hands shrouded the empress's figure like a moth to a fire.

The empress's lips were slightly raised, and with a mocking smile, she continued to charge.

The light flame slammed heavily on the empress's body with extremely strong and terrifying power, but at this moment, the snow-white qi machine around the empress was filled with qi.

These flames of light that can destroy a room in an instant, like stones thrown into a river, all disappear into the snow-white qi, and none of them can cause harm to the empress.

The king's breath rises to the sky!

The Nine Stars of the Heavenly Pan - the Star of the Giant Gate.

The Empress of Shuyue told Chu Xianzhao a lot about the use and skills of Wang Xi, but she did not tell the young man what his astrology was, compared to Chu Xianzhao's extremely angry and vicious ink star that belonged to the dark gods, the empress's astrology was called the Jumen Star, the five elements belonged to the earth, located in the second palace of Kun in the southwest, and it was the star of great evil, and it also represented the spread of disease.

Tianrui Xing's yin and evil spirit is very sufficient, representing insidious and greedy, because the Kun hexagram has the nature of Kun soil, Kun soil can breed all things, so Tianrui Xing also represents the mother of heaven and earth, people who seek learning and seeking immortals.

Compared to the purity of Chu Xuan's summoning of the ink star king's breath, the empress's king's breath has a wisp of immortal energy that cannot be captured, and the earth is her power

The source, the power of the stars and the breath of nature, which is the same origin as it, can't hurt her at all!

Seeing that the power of the stars she was most proud of couldn't hurt her, the expressions of the Blood Python Gang became extremely frightened, and the flickering light of the secret seal in her hand also faded, and her right hand subconsciously clenched the iron spear on the right side of the horse, and her hands were covered with sweat.

Whether it is the people of Shuyue, or the soldiers of the Yin Kingdom who get along with her these days, they will feel that Tantai Ningsu is a fairy-like soft woman, and her beautiful face always makes people treat her as a weak woman, which makes people subconsciously have a desire to protect, even if it is Chu Xianzhao and Emperor Yin.

But if a woman is too beautiful, then people's impression of her is beautiful, and it is easy to ignore some other characteristics of her.

At this moment, this woman, who seemed to them to be extremely weak, charged at the entire Blood Python Gang Mystic with one halberd, and no one on the other side could stop the empress's attack.

Meng Yu and Guo Changfeng swallowed their saliva, slowly sobered up from the shock, and looked at the women in the city with complicated eyes.

Since Tantai Ning Su has been the Empress of Shuyue for nearly twenty years, she must also have a king's breath, this is only the king's breath of the power of the gods and Buddhas, they have seen the shocking picture of Chu Zhaozhao charging and fighting more than once, not to mention the enemy army, even friendly troops do not dare to get too close to him, for fear of being injured by the ethereal qi on his body.

Chu Xuanzhao slowly drew out the Dragon Bird Sword and pointed at the carriage with the black flag: "What are you still doing in a daze? Hurry up and organize the soldiers to go out of the city to help her kill the enemy."

Meng Yu and Guo Changfeng glanced at each other, and quickly left the city wall to organize soldiers to go out of the city to help the empress.

The speed of Tantai Ning Su was extremely fast, like a female ghost who broke into the world in Huangquan, and the halberd blade had an unstoppable momentum, and the mystical magicians found that the power of the stars could not cause damage to her at all, and those secret techniques that could destroy mountains and seas could not even hurt her by the ability to hurt a single hair.

Her whole body turned into an extremely long white lightning bolt, coming and going freely among the Blood Python Gang Mysticists, easily penetrating the hearts of five or six Mystics, but her ultimate target was still those Grand Elders.

The white qi around her looked ethereal and weak, but it floated radially, and those mystics who dared to approach her with weapons suddenly flew to the ground in the distance as if they had been hit in the chest by a battering ram, and fell to the ground.

The Liuyun cavalry began to rush out, and the speed of the empress's attack was so fast that it was difficult to fight against these secret magicians who had to spend half a day casting a secret spell.

They were armed with flaming silver spears, and quickly captured the empress's difficult to track qi machine, and thundered when they attacked, the empress had long expected that when she fought against the mysticist, these Liuyun spearmen would chase her, but she did not deliberately choose the target of the attack as the Liuyun spearmen, she slammed on the ground with her right foot, and the white rainbow beside her suddenly exploded an extremely long spear rainbow, and the white spear rainbow came as promised and hit the Liuyun spearmen.

The slightest difference in the duel of the master of spearmanship can make the difference between life and death, and there is a qi

The spearman who was not fast enough was hit in the chest by the white rainbow, and the extremely violent spear rainbow broke out, like a great river flowing eastward, at the same time, the empress swept away with a spear, and a spear rainbow was cut out in a semicircle, and the momentum was extremely majestic!

Like a bright moon rising from the sea, forcing those Liuyun spearmen who came for the siege to retreat more than 20 zhang one after another, they all landed beside the great elder, the horror on his face had not yet faded, and an extremely fine gun mark appeared on the silver armor on his chest.

The old-looking pavilion elders, looking at the woman who was forced to kill, still had no expression on their faces, Xu Junjian raised the spell wand in his hand and kept shaking, and his dry fingers kept tapping on the spell stick.

As the staff swayed, the dark clouds in the sky became denser, and there was a faint sound of lightning and thunder.

Xu Junjian said softly: "You are not worthy of being the king of Shuyue, today I will use the power of the stars to end you, the king of traitors!"

The old man held his staff and drew a circle towards the sky.

This seemingly simple action, drawing a pattern that even a child can easily draw, suddenly made the pouring rain stop!

The rain is starting to pick up and go away!

The dark clouds have dispersed, replaced by the incomparably brilliant Great Wall of the Milky Way, and each star seems to have a very fine silk on it, which makes people fascinated.

Tantai Ning Su looked at the extremely gorgeous galaxy of stars, and his heart beat repeatedly like a drum.

Under the stars, thunder shrouded.

A red blood python appeared in the sky, which was getting bigger and bigger, staring at a pair of dark green eyes, spitting out cores that were redder than blood, and there was electric light lingering around the blood python, sneering.

The empress raised her head and looked at the blood python in the night sky.

What is the Empress of Shuyue above 10,000 people, and what is the most powerful woman in the West.

She lost her father, her brother, her mother, and even her daughter was almost killed.

She sacrificed all her youth for this country, watched the people she loved leave her, and guarded the country for the people of Shuyue, if she can do it, it is naturally the best, if she can't do it, no one is qualified to condemn her.

But no one wants to hurt her daughter, she can lose her qualification to be an empress, but she must not lose her qualification as a mother.

This is her only bottom line.

The blood python formed by the power of the stars above his head was vaguely divided into seven blood pythons, causing a brilliant heavenly might, so that the dead things in the vicinity, like stones and branches and fallen leaves, could float with the qi machine tilting.

She was suspended in the air, with a python above her head and a halberd in her hands.

She lifted the halberd in her hand, and the halberd pointed at the terrifying seven-headed blood python.

The four elders of the Blood Python Gang chanted in a low voice, and the stars in the sky became brighter and brighter, as if they were about to compete with the scorching sun of the day, and white thunder as thick as a hugging tree appeared next to the blood python and rolled wildly.

Xu Junjian, who held his spell staff high and shook it repeatedly, said softly: "Since you dare to return to Shu."

The more you seek your own death, today I will send you, the Empress of Shuyue, all the way to Huangquan!"

The old man suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood and splashed it on the staff.

The empress suddenly dropped the halberd, and the halberd blade fell gently into the dirt, like a needle in the sea.

She stretched out her white left and right hands, and clasped them together.

Her hands seem to be small and delicate, such cute and soft hands are not suitable for holding a sword or a scepter, only for a man's ears and temples to caress gently.

Tantai Ningsu is a compassionate Guanyin phase.

Wisps of blood dripped from where their palms met, and the blood fell on the halberd's edge, dyeing the dense lines on it into wisps of red silk.

Chu Xianzhao stared at the seven-headed blood python in the sky, and the body of the blood python was already as long as fifty zhang.

Under such terrifying pressure, Chu Xianzhao and Guan Ju could only stick their swords on the city wall, supporting each other to support their shaking figures.

At this time, the mythical creature became a reality in front of him, the seven-headed blood python showed its sharp teeth, those slender necks curled and stretched like wicker, and the inky eyes like eight pairs of palace lamps lit up in the air, this is the monster composed of the power of the stars, obviously there is no entity, but it looks so real and intimidating.

Chu Xianzhao muttered in a low voice, "Oh my God...... This!"

But the next moment, he watched as Tantai Ningsu rose into the sky, staring at the seven-headed blood python from afar.

Until this moment, the young prince's eyes widened, and the unbelievable scene shocked him, and he didn't even know that he was still in the world.

Beside Ning Su Zhou, a giant python with a snow-white body and a length of 100 zhang appeared.

Vertical and horizontal, the white snake landed.

Collapse and decide, snow practice pouring river.

Tantai Ningsu stood on the python's head with his hands folded.

Double python staring!

It was like a mountain behemoth, roaring at the seven blood pythons in the sky.

Two giant pythons are entrenched overhead, and the weather is so majestic at this time.

(End of chapter)