Rose looked at herself in the mirror and roared at another woman.

"Shut up! I'm his woman! Why are you?

Bai Ruoxian smiled and said, "Why should I? Didn't you see everything? He likes me! And I like him too, so I won't leave my man!!"

"Bai Ruoxian, you are shameless!" Hua Rose shouted frantically with tears in her eyes. Bai Ruoxian looked at the flower rose that was out of control, and the unhappiness in her heart disappeared. After a long time, Hua Rose looked at Bai Ruoxian and said, "If I can't get it, you Bai Ruoxian will never think of it! Since he doesn't love me, I'll destroy him with my own hands! I'm going to destroy the person he loves!" Suddenly, Hua Rose looked at the air and said, "Do it!"

As the words fell, the sky twisted. This is a sign of the hand of distraction.

Bai Ruoxian looked at Hua Rose and smiled, "Do you really think that your Hua family is invincible? Let me tell you! Your Hua family is nothing in my eyes! You Hua Rose is even more rubbish! I want to die! I want to destroy my Hua Ling clan, I want your Hua family to pay a heavy price!" Behind Bai Ruoxian, a loud bang came from the sky in the distance, and then it continued to distort.

Hua Rose looked into the distance, trembling and said, "Bai Ruoxian, where did you get your confidence?"

"Because I'm not afraid of death! I'm not afraid of death! Is this reason enough?"

In the distance, more and more people landed here, watching the battle between the two women and the upcoming battle from afar. The Hua family is now the master of the mainland, and the Hua Ling clan is the ancient soul race! Although it is not the dominant family of the mainland, it is also the top living soul race on the mainland! If the two top families go to war, it will be a big war, and the mainland will fall into war again, and the living beings will be ruined! The war between the two will once again change the current pattern of the mainland.

Jiuzhou City Flower House. in one room. An old woman sits in front of the window. Five meters in the air behind the old woman, a future realm emerged. In the realm of the future, there is a rivalry between Flower Rose and Bai Ruoxian.

Deacon Hua respectfully stood behind the old woman and looked at the future realm. The old woman took a deep breath and said, "Hua Rose, Hua Rose, worthy of being my daughter, I almost fell for you! Let the Hua family be in a place of no return! It's just that you are still a little tender! If you want to play, I will let you live as well as die! Order! Recall Hua Qiang! Remove Hua Qiang Rose from the Hua family!"

Deacon Hua frowned and hurriedly left the room.

Outside the city of Zhongzhou. Hua Rose looked at Bai Ruoxian and said with a wicked smile, "If you want to destroy my Hua family, it's not enough to rely on not being afraid of death, you also need to have enough power! Since the Hua Ling clan wants to go to war! My Hua family will accompany me to the end!" Flower Rose looked at the sky and shouted, "Do it, don't leave a single one!"

The words fell, and there was a bang in the distorted space in the far sky! A distracting hand was stretched out! Then, the distracting hand disappeared into the air. The moment when the distracted hand is out of space. The far sky behind Bai Ruoxian's place also stretched out a distraction. It then disappears. There was a deafening sound......

The crowd watching from afar kept fleeing the scene after being distracted from the space. It's nice to be lively, but you have to have that life to watch.

There was a constant deafening sound in the sky. More terrifying than the sound of thunder. That's because of the whistling sound of the distracted hand attacking through space and being subjected to spatial resistance.

A wicked smile flashed at the corner of Hua Rose's mouth, and she looked at Bai Ruoxian and said, "This big battle was provoked by you Bai Ruoxian! It was provoked by your Flower Spirit Clan! The misery of the living beings on the mainland, you Bai Ruoxian, the Flower Spirit Clan pays all the responsibility! You Bai Ruoxian, the Flower Spirit Clan is the sinner of the mainland!"

"Where there is a war, there will inevitably be death! Whoever is the instigator of this great war will be judged by the living beings on the mainland!"

The deafening sound is getting closer. The time of the three breaths. Bang! A distracted hand grabbed the flower rose and disappeared into the air, and at the same time, a voice came: "Please don't worry about the affairs between juniors! Hua Rose has been removed from the Hua family! Hua Qiang Rose can't represent the Hua family!"

Bai Ruoxian frowned, this is not the Hua family's style of doing things! What's going on? How did Hua Rose get removed from the Hua family? The person who was removed from the family is not a member of the family. The person who was removed from the family will be tortured to death! What did Hua Qiang Rose do, and the Hua family wanted to remove Hua Qiang's name? Or is it a play performed by the Hua family?

The deafening sound behind Bai Ruoxian became smaller and smaller. until it disappears......

Bai Ruoxian looked at the old man behind him and said, "What's the matter?"

The old man shook his head, "Go back to the clan hall first!"

Bai Ruoxian picked up Yetian City and disappeared in place. Leave the flying bat that can't come back to its senses for a long time. The Flying Bat was still thinking about the terrifying distraction in his mind. The Flying Bat had been staying in the Demon Beast Valley before, and had never seen a distraction hand, so the shock that the distraction hand brought to the Flying Bat was too great......

Somewhere in Zhongzhou City, in a room. A flower rose appears out of thin air. Slowly landed. One of the people sitting on the main seat said, "Immediately open the teleportation array and send the Flower Rose to the Flower Mansion of Jiuzhou City!"

In Jiuzhou City, a woman with a disheveled hair is locked in a cell with leg irons. The woman's clothes are ragged and her body is not complete,

Suddenly, a mirror of the future appeared above the cell. In the mirror of the future, the back of an old woman sitting in front of a window emerges.

"Rose, how does it taste, does it feel good?" a voice came from the realm of the future.

Rose shuddered and slowly looked up at the mirror of the future. The corners of the rose's mouth are dry, and there is clotted blood on her lips. Rose looked down and smiled, laughing a little crazily. After a long time, he said, "I enjoyed it!"

In the mirror of the future, the old woman's body trembled and said, "Enjoy? huh?"

Hua Rose, who lowered her head, smiled, "Yes, I enjoy it, this is what I deserve!"

"You earned it yourself! You don't blame anyone, you killed Bodhi! You killed your master! It's all your responsibility!" The old woman in the mirror of the future trembled violently.

Suddenly, Hua Rose looked up at the mirror of the future, and the back of the old woman sitting in front of the window shouted frantically, "You killed Master! It's you! You devil!"

The old woman's body in the mirror of the future trembled violently, "Shut up!

"Are you killing fewer people? no more than me, no less than me! Anyway, this is my fate!" said Flower Rose's withered lips as she moved, and said with a smile.

"No! You had a better fate, a better future, and a better future, but you ruined it all yourself! You buried your fate!"

Rose smiled, laughing so ridiculously and helplessly. "This is the most ridiculous joke I've ever heard, it turns out that a chess piece can also have a future, a future!"

The sound of an old woman taking a deep breath was heard in the mirror of the future. After a long time, the voice of the old woman came: "Philistine disturb yourself! Bury yourself!"

Hua Rose looked at the back of the old woman in the mirror of the future and said, "Then tell me, what is my future?

The old woman took a deep breath and said, "Among the three daughters, you are the most favored person in my life, and I will try my best to satisfy you in whatever you do! You could have had a better future and a better destiny, but you buried all this yourself! Originally, I intended to pass on my position to you! Originally, you had the opportunity to become the new ruler of the mainland! However, you personally buried your future!"

"Is this the future? Is this the future that a chess piece should be, and shouldn't the chess piece be imprisoned like it is now?" said Rose with a smile.

The old woman in the mirror of the future trembled: "This is the punishment you deserve! You actually betrayed me! I am your mother! You are a member of the Hua family! You are not the Ye family, and you are not the daughter-in-law of the Ye family! The face of the Hua family has been lost by you!"

"I betrayed you? hehe, who betrayed whom? Hua Mei'er, if you are afraid of the Flower Spirit Clan, just say it. I just want to ask you, are you old and afraid?"

"Rose, you are presumptuous!" the voice fell, and a wave of power poured out from the mirror of the future. Turned into a giant palm and landed on the flower rose. Rose exhaled. Slammed into the thick stone wall.

Rose spat out a mouthful of blood again. A pair of eyes stared at the back of the old woman in the mirror of the future.

The voice of the old woman taking a deep breath came from the mirror of the future, "Flower Rose, you are worthy of being my favorite person, with my wisdom, I was almost calculated by you!

Hua Rose wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and said, "I don't know what you're talking about! I just know that you betrayed me! You captured me back at a critical moment, and missed the opportunity to destroy the Flower Spirit Clan! Hua Mei'er, are you old? Can you endure the open provocation of the Flower Spirit Clan? Is this the style that a mainland master should have? Is this your previous style? Are you still the Hua Mei'er I knew before? Do you want to know what the mainland creatures say about you and the Hua family? They will definitely say that the Hua Ling clan openly provoked the Hua family, the dominant family of the mainland, but the Hua family retreated without a fight, because, the owner of the Hua family, Hua Mei'er, is old, the Hua family's qi is exhausted, and the Hua family is not worthy of being the master of the continent!"

"Shut up!" the voice fell. A giant palm shot out of the mirror of the future and attacked the flower rose. With a bang, the giant palm landed on the flower rose. There was the sound of bones shattering. Flower Rose's face is distorted. I couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of blood. Rose slowly closed her eyes and fell to the ground motionless.

in one room. An old woman sat in front of the window, trembling, and inhaling deeply. Five meters behind the old woman. Deacon Hua knelt there, head bowed, motionless.

After a while, the old woman calmed down and said, "Don't let her die!"

The kneeling flower deacon nodded and left the room.

The old woman said to herself, "Am I wrong? Where am I wrong? Who is not a chess piece on the mainland? I used to be a chess piece, and I suffered worse than you! But did I retreat! No, I know that I am a chess piece, I am smarter than you, and I have done everything that a chess piece cannot do!" This is the gap between you and me, the same chess piece, but you hate yourself as a chess piece, you get rid of the chess piece identity in the wrong way, you could have gotten rid of the chess piece identity gorgeously, but you didn't, not only did you, you also fell in love with him, you became his chess piece, you helped him calculate me, a chess piece that became someone else's chess piece, what should her fate be?"

Seven days later.

The flower family lying on the ground slowly opened his eyes. Rose's left foot moved, and there was the sound of chains clashing. Both of Rose's feet are shackled. The other end of the shackles was nailed to a thick boulder wall. Her hair covered her face with a full hair. After a long time, there was the faint sound of a flower rose crying.

Amagi, how are you? Are you still alive? I'm sorry I failed to live up to your expectations. I failed to get my mother to go to war with the Flower Spirit Clan, and I failed to complete your plan. I've hurt you, I've hurt you. Are you still alive?

A mirror of the future emerges in the cell. The mirror of the future gradually shows the back of an old woman sitting in front of the window. "Flower Rose, how does this feel? You want to die! I won't let you die! I want you to be tortured to death!" came the voice of the old woman in the mirror of the future.

Hua Rose lay on the ground and said motionlessly, "Hua Mei'er, for the sake of mother and daughter, give me a good time!"

The old woman's body trembled in the mirror of the future, and then she said, "You still know that I am your mother? You still know that you are from the Hua family? Why should you give you a good time? Why should I give you a good time if you calculate me together with Night Sky City?"

"Is Night Sky City dead?" said Rose Flower.

"Hahaha, I really raised a good daughter, more than ten years! I have raised a white-eyed wolf in the past ten years! A white-eyed wolf who unites enemies to calculate his mother!"

"How's Night Sky City?"

The evil laughter of the old woman came from the mirror of the future: "Yetian City is dead, you can't die anymore! After death, she was taken away by Bai Ruoxian, and it is estimated that she was made into a dry corpse by Bai Ruoxian! There will be no reincarnation forever!"

Rose shuddered, tears running through the corners of her eyes. The flower rose curled up and lay there trembling slightly. It's like a beggar shivering from the cold.

"Hua Rose, I have to admit that you are very good, I calculated the entire continent, and released the eagle for a lifetime, but I was almost calculated by you and Yetian City, you and Yetian City almost ruined my reputation! You made the Hua family almost fall into a place of no return! I really admire you, I also admire Yetian City, the people of the Ye family are really not idle people! A teenager almost calculated me, almost calculated the Hua Ling clan, and almost let the Hua family and the Hua Ling clan go to war! More importantly, that kid from the Ye family almost had to take revenge without much effort! A single plan almost completed his great plan of revenge! A single plan almost brought down the Hua family and the dominant family of the mainland! I am afraid that such a plan is also unique!"

Hua Rose laughed at herself, "But we are still defeated, and we have no chance to turn over!"

"You two? Hehe? It's ridiculous, you actually fall in love with an enemy! You actually plot against me with an enemy? I just want to know why? I love you so much, why do you want to plot with him? Am I not good to you?"

"I'm just a pawn in your eyes, and I'm his lover in the eyes of Night Sky City, and he will not hesitate to sacrifice himself for me! And you, in order to achieve your goal, will not hesitate to abandon me! That's why I calculated you with him!"

The old woman's body in the mirror of the future trembled violently, took a deep breath, and said after a long time, "Who is not a chess piece from the mainland? Do you think he loves you? No, he pretended all this! You are just a chess piece in his eyes, a chess piece used to contain the Hua family, and a chess piece used to deal with the Hua family!"

"I know he used me, but he also loves me, when I was attacked by Bai Ruoxian, where were you? Did you care about my life and death? You didn't, in order to achieve your goal, you chose to be silent and chose to abandon me. When I was attacked by Bai Ruoxian and was on the verge of life and death, it was he who risked his life to save me! He would rather sacrifice himself than see me die! And this is why I fell in love with him and betrayed you, and this is why I chose him, because he loves me and I love him!"

"You've disappointed me!"

"I just want to ask you, how did you see through it?"

The old woman in the mirror of the future took a deep breath and said, "I promised you to withdraw the marriage contract because I knew that Yetian City was not dead, and I also knew that you fell in love with that kid, and you didn't want to marry Dong Zhuo, so I took the marriage contract between you and Dong Zhuo to force you to take the bait, and in order to see Yetian City again, you agreed to my conditions." Actually, I know that you can't kill Night Sky City, you promised me just to escape captivity and go to see Night Sky City,"

"Then why did you let me go?"

"Because I want to see you thoroughly! After seeing you, I can make a choice!"

The flower rose was flustered, "What choice to make?"

"As long as you keep your promise to kill Night Sky City, I want to pass on my position to you, but once you don't kill Night Sky City, I will imprison you! What I didn't expect was that not only did you not kill Yetian City, but you also calculated me with him, calculated me and the Hua Ling Clan, and almost let the Hua family and the Hua Ling clan go to war, once the war started, the continent would be turbulent again, and the Hua family might be destroyed as a result, once the Hua family and the Hua Ling clan went to war, Yetian City's plan would work, and he could complete his revenge plan without blood! A teenager, is this his proper thinking? A plan almost made the Hua family fall into a place of no return! A ploy almost caused the mainland to be turbulent again! I have to admire him, I have to admire the Ye family!"

"How do you see through it?"

"This ploy pays the price of death in Night Sky City, and you finish the show. Originally, everything was so normal, but after Yetian City was killed by Bodhi, your reaction made me suspicious, Yetiancheng has been killed by your order, why do you still want his corpse! What is the use of his corpse to you? What is the use of a dead person's corpse? I have to say that the kid in Yetian City pondered people's minds, and pondered thoroughly enough, he knew that after his death, Bai Ruoxian would definitely snatch his corpse from you. As long as Bai Ruoxian grabs his corpse with you, you can compete with Bai Ruoxian and arouse Bai Ruoxian's dissatisfaction. And based on the foreshadowing he made before, coupled with your strength, Bai Ruoxian really took the bait and couldn't compete with you, and openly provoked the authority of the Hua family, at this time, the purpose of you and Yetian City was achieved, with Bai Ruoxian's provocation, you can have enough reason to start a war against the Hua family. Annihilation of the Hua Family! However, just as you ordered the destruction of the Flower Spirit Clan, I suddenly remembered an important piece of news, so that I saw through this plan of yours and avoided a war between the Hua Family and the Flower Spirit Clan!

Flower Rose frowned, "What's the news?"

"Just when you ordered a war with the Flower Spirit Clan, Deacon Hua said that the kid in Night Sky City might not be dead. When you were attacked by Bai Ruoxian, it was Yetian City who saved you, and Yetian City died after saving you, and when Bai Ruoxian attacked you again, it was Deacon Hua who saved you, and after Deacon Hua rescued you, in order to avoid Yetian City not dying completely, he attacked Yetian City, but two days later, that kid came back to life. How can a dead kid survive the attack of a dead powerhouse?"

"Combined with the rivalry between you and Bai Ruoxian, I always feel that something is wrong, I always feel that this is a conspiracy, a conspiracy to provoke the Hua family and the Hua Ling clan to start a war! If my guess is correct, Yetian City is not dead, it is estimated that he can still come back to life, and it is because of his ability to resurrect the dead that he designed this plan with you! That's why I said. This plan pays the price of death in Night Sky City, and you complete the performance, complete the ultimate goal of this plan, provoke the Hua family and the Flower Spirit Clan to start a war, provoke turmoil in the mainland, and thus complete the bloodless revenge plan of Night Sky City! What a perfect plan, but unfortunately, you have fallen short after all. I guess those fools of the Hua Ling Clan haven't seen through your plan yet! They still think that it's my Hua family who is afraid of them! Hehe, after this time, I will let them know and let the mainland know that the authority of the Hua family is sacred and inviolable!"

Where is the flower rose? She was right. Everything was as she said. Night Sky City used the curse technique to bring the dead back to life, paying the price of death, and I completed the whole scheme. Just when she was about to achieve her goal, unfortunately, she still saw through it......

If she hadn't seen through it, the entire continent would have been in turmoil by now......

If she hadn't seen through it, I would have been with Yetiancheng, Yetiancheng would have been able to avenge his grandfather and the Yetian family, and after the destruction of the Hua family, we could get married and have children together, and grow old, but unfortunately, she still saw through it. I and Nightsky City have all this ploy, gambling everything, but we still lost, lost so completely......

The flower rose lying on the ground kept the sound of gnashing her teeth. Did he come back to life? He said that the curse exercise could bring him back to life, and when he was attacked by the flower deacon and the strong man of the wood spirit clan, he relied on the curse technique to bring him back to life. But he wasn't sure if it was the curse technique that brought him back to life, and he wasn't sure if it would come back to life this time. In fact, he is also gambling, betting that the curse exercise can bring him back to life, as long as he can still come back to life, even if he loses this time, he can still make a comeback, and he still has a chance.

The mirror of the future fades away. "Flower Rose, you can stay here forever with the idea that Night Sky City can come back to life! You will stay here forever with the idea that he can come back to life and save you, you will stay in this never-ending demon prison with your last hope and obsession, but can he still come back to life? Does he have such good luck to come back to life every time? Even if he comes back to life, will he come to save you? As far as he breaks through the autumn realm, does he dare to come to save you? hahahaha...... If he does come back to life, I'll take him and reunite you!"

Zhongzhou City, the hall of the Hualing clan. in one room. The dead man Night Sky City lay silently on the bed, motionless. Bai Ruoxian sat on the edge of the bed and pondered something. The day after tomorrow is the assessment day of Zhongzhou College. Can he come back to life?

Lying on the bed, Night Sky Castle remained motionless. Without the slightest breath of life, it is no different from a dead person. But in another pitch-black space, Night Sky City wasn't completely dead. This space is the soul of Night Sky City. In his own soul, there was still a faint breath of life in Night Sky City. A finger-sized stream of red electricity flowed through Night Sky City's body. Suddenly, a red light flashed over the pitch-black space. The red light gradually brightens, gradually illuminating the pitch-black space. The red electricity flowing on Night Sky City's body emitted a subtle sound of thunder and lightning, speeding up the flow. When the entire dark space was illuminated by red light, there was a bang! A red thunderbolt descended from the sky, striking on the red electricity flowing on the body of Night Sky City, and the motionless Night Sky City suddenly moved his fingers. Red thunder and lightning enveloped Night Sky City, and the red electricity the size of a finger flowing on Night Sky City gradually increased until it covered Night Sky City, and the terrifying red electricity covered and flowed all over Night Sky City. Night Sky City's faint breath of life seemed to have strengthened a bit.

Suddenly, boom! A black force descended from the space, and there was a terrifying curse power in the black power. The power of the black curse fell on Night Sky City, enveloping Night Sky City. The red thunder and lightning power and the black curse power that stood in this space slowly fused and fused into a force that was intertwined with red and black! The red thunder power and the black curse power were constantly intertwined and intertwined with each other, making a beautiful sound. After four breaths, a green force descended from the space, falling on the body of Night Sky City and enveloping Night Sky City. The green power swells with the terrifying breath of life. When the green power landed on NightSky City, Nightsky City's fingers moved. Night Sky City's breath of life recovered at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Suddenly, the power of green and the power of red and black slowly merged. In the time of a breath, the green power and the red and black intertwined power completely merged, turning into a force containing three colors and three forces intertwined!

A huge intertwined power containing red thunder and lightning power, black curse power, and green life force stood in this space, enveloping Night Sky City. The three forces are intertwined and intertwined with each other, and they continue to flow on Night Sky City. Night Sky City's breath of life seems to have strengthened a bit.

There was a loud boom. A thick, pitch-black ancient book descended from the space. The huge ancient book with a black body is written with two big black and glowing characters, curse!

Suddenly, the ancient book automatically turned the pages, and with each page, the page would turn into a black spell and disappear into the night sky.

An hour had passed, and by the time the ancient book was halfway opened, the breath of life in Night Sky City had become much stronger. Night Sky City gradually opened its eyes, and smiled as it looked at the three intertwined forces that enveloped it and the huge ancient book in the air.

Curse Exercises, Red Thunder and Lightning, Curse Power, Green Life Power. I bet right, one of these powers can make me reborn! I bet right, I will come back to life again! Heaven will never stop me! Every time I am attacked by the hand of distraction and die, every time I wake up from the dead, it is these forces that envelop me!

Night Sky City lay on the ground and closed his eyes in contemplation, I was attacked by the hand of distraction, it stands to reason that my soul should be scattered, but every time I die, my body and soul are well preserved! Then I come back to life! What the hell is going on? Night Sky City opened his eyes. Looking at the three powers and curse exercises that envelop me! What kind of power are these powers that protect my soul and body, and then bring me back to life? I am attacked by the hands of distraction, and it is normal for me to die, but it is an incredible thing that I can still save my body and soul after I die! What kind of power protects my body and soul and then brings me back to life? And every time I wake up, I am in my own soul. What was it that brought me back to life?

Night Sky City in the Divine Soul was thinking when a voice came. "Are you really dead? Are you really not going to come back to life? Didn't you say you wanted me to wait for you? Are you lying? How can you lie as a man?"

Ye Tiancheng looked confused, "Damn, why is it Bai Ruoxian? Why is it Bai Ruoxian? What about Hua Rose? Shouldn't Hua Qiang be by my side? Could it be that the plan failed?"

Bai Ruoxian looked at Yetian City and said, "You said you like me, is it true? In a few days, it will be the appointed day, and when the appointed day comes, I will have a life-and-death battle with Long Fu, don't you want to watch me win the game? Actually, I don't hate you that much, I just don't like you every time you suddenly appear." And then you will seal me up and despise me! You are braver than many others. And I'm not afraid of death! People who like me are at most just tongues. But you, hey, do you really like me?" Bai Ruoxian fell into deep thought.

"Hmm!"

How could there be a voice? Could it be that this kid has come back to life? But the night sky city on the bed was motionless, without the slightest breath of life. Bai Ruoxian shook his head, maybe it was an illusion! Bai Ruoxian sighed and left the room.

A wicked smile flashed at the corner of Ye Tiancheng's mouth in the soul, why does this Bai Ruoxian care so much about herself? Does she like me? This is interesting. Is it just that my plan failed? What about Hua Rose? Didn't the Hua family and the Hua Ling clan go to war? Why is Bai Ruoxian so leisurely? Isn't she supposed to fight with the people of the Hua family? Why did she have the leisure to spy on me? And why did she flash a ray of light when she left the room? Could it be that this room was shrouded in formation? No, I was imprisoned! I was imprisoned before I could come back from the dead.

How many days have I been dead?When is the assessment day of Zhongzhou Academy?What will happen to Flower Rose if the plan fails?Night Sky City's left hand flickered, and then calmed down again. I can't move, Bai Ruoxian must have found someone to spy on me! As soon as I move, I will be exposed! But I can't pretend to be dead forever and lie here, right? What should I do?

Jiuzhou Mansion, Flower Mansion.

An old woman sat in front of the window, stunned at a pot of roses. Deacon Hua stood respectfully not far from the old woman.

"Who will accompany the flowers when they bloom and fall?"

"There is news from Hua Jiuxi that there is no news that Night Sky City has come to life!"

"Being attacked by a powerhouse in the Dead Realm!Can he survive?However, since he can survive twice, he may survive three times! Let Hua Jiuxi follow up and pay attention! If there is a mistake, I am the only one who asks!"

Deacon Flower nodded and left the room.

The old woman looked at the rose in front of the window and said, "One flower, one Bodhi, one grass and one world!" Bodhi, have you seen it? Have you seen what your disciple has done? Is she worthy of your careful teaching for more than ten years? Or is it your problem?" The old woman suddenly laughed: "I don't blame you for your problem! You have been with me for a year! I have calculated you! Even if it is a resist!"

Jiuzhou City, Flower House, Demon Cell.

Rose sat there like a wooden figure. His face was like ashes, his lips were dry, and he had lost his former appearance.

Amagi, you're going to come to my rescue, aren't you? Now I'm left with you, and I have nothing but you. You're going to come back and save me, right? As long as you come and save me, no matter how long I wait, I'll keep going. I'll be waiting for you, waiting for the day we meet again.

Above the cell, a mirror of the future gradually emerged, "Flower Rose, Night Sky City is dead, he has been refined into a dried corpse by Bai Ruoxian!

Rose shuddered, stood up and looked at the mirror of the future, and roared wildly, "You lied to me!How could he die?He won't die!He will definitely come to save me!He will!" Rose burst into tears and trembled.

"Why should I lie to you? You saw with your own eyes, he was thin and white Ruoxian, do you think Bai Ruoxian will bypass him? hahaha"

"No, he won't die! He told him he'd come back to life! he told me to wait for him! he won't die!" said Rose in an incoherent voice.

"That's just him lying to you! If he doesn't say that, will you follow him to calculate me? Don't fool yourself! Hua Jiuxi sent news that he had been made into a dried corpse by Bai Ruoxian, and he would never be reincarnated!"

"No!" Rose spat out a mouthful of blood and fell to the ground. Staring wide-eyed at the figure of the old woman in the mirror of the future. Blood streaked across the corners of Rose Flower's mouth, and Rose twitched in pain and kept crying.

The old woman took a deep breath, "Look at your current appearance, are you still the flower rose you used to be? Are you still the second lady of the flower family? Are you still my favorite flower rose?"

Hua Rose twitched and said slowly, "I'm fine, because I'm no longer a chess piece! I have someone I love, I have someone who loves me, he won't die, he will definitely come to save me!"

The old woman's body trembled and shouted, "Waste! A chess piece is a chess piece, you will always be a chess piece! A chess piece that can never turn over!"

Three days later. An old woman sat in front of the window and looked at a pot of roses in a daze.

After a while, Deacon Hua walked in, looked at the back of the old woman and said, "Master, Hua Jiuxi has sent news that there is no news that Night Sky City has come to life!"

The old woman took a deep breath and said, "Well, it should be dead! Also, Bodhi is a strong man in the Death Realm, and he is only breaking through the Autumn Realm, and he was hit by Bodhi's full strength, how can he come back to life? I am relieved that he is dead!"

"Congratulations to the owner for fulfilling his last wish!"

The old woman waved her dry hand: "This kid is worthy of being a descendant of the Ye family! He is worthy of being a descendant of the cursed family! A single plan almost completed his revenge plan! Now, with the death of Yetian City, the Ye family has completely disappeared from the mainland! The last cursed person has disappeared from the mainland! The cursed family has disappeared from the mainland! It has been ten years, and it has taken ten years for the Chinese New Year's Eve family to disappear from the mainland and withdraw from the mainland stage!"

After a long time, the old woman said, "Night Sky City is dead! A heavy stone in my heart has also been put down, and I have enough time to deal with the Flower Spirit Clan!

Deacon Hua nodded, "Bai Qianyu seems to have been visiting the Mangniu Spirit Clan and the Jiaolong Clan recently! Some time ago, Bai Qianyu also visited the Feng Clan and the Dragon Clan. ”

"Bai Qianyu is really taking precautions!" the old woman took a deep breath and said after a long time, "I'm going to visit the Ancient Whale Clan, the Ancient Peng Clan, and the Thunder-loving Lion Clan tomorrow!

Deacon Flower nodded.

The old woman's withered hand tapped lightly on the rose petals, and with each blow, a rose petal fell. Suddenly, the old woman raised her dry hand and said, "Go and call the East Protector and the South Protector!"

Deacon Flower nodded and left the room.

The old woman let out an evil laugh: "Bai Qianyu, Bai Qianyu, you want to fight with me! You are still a little tender! After I die, the mainland may be yours! But as long as I am still in the day! The mainland is my Hua family! Whoever dares to be disobedient! I will die! Zhulian Nine Clans!"

Devil's Cell. Rose curled up on the ground, her lips moving slightly, and occasionally a small voice was heard. It's like muttering something.

A mirror of the future gradually emerges, and the back of the old woman is presented in the mirror of the future. "Rose, are you having a good time like this? Why are you shaking? Are you caught the cold?"

Flower Rose moved, and made a small voice, "Flower Girl!"

"Presumptuous!" The old woman's back trembled violently in the Mirror of the Future, and suddenly, a terrifying palm shadow shot out of the Mirror of the Future and landed on the flower rose. When the Palm of Fear was shot out of the mirror of the future, even the entire cell trembled violently!

When the shadow of the palm fell on the flower rose, there was a sound of bones breaking from the flower rose. Rose spat out a few mouthfuls of blood, and then a small voice came "I, finally, liberated!, God, city, I'm in the afterlife, wait, you!" Then Rose lay there motionless, and Rose quickly lost her life.

When Rose lost her life, a middle-aged woman walked into the cell and gave Rose a pill.

After four breaths, the vitality of the dying flower rose gradually recovered.

Three days later. A middle-aged woman with a meal walked into the cell. Just as the middle-aged woman stepped out of the cell, Hua Rose moved and said, "Hua Gu, can you talk to me?" where Hua Rose sat with her cloak. Her face was covered by long, dirty hair. There is no difference between a whole person and a beggar.

Hua Gu paused for a moment, then came to sit down next to Hua Rose, and used her hands to brush away the long hair that covered Hua Rose's face, revealing Hua Rose's face like dead ashes. Hua Gu said with a distressed face, "Rose, why are you doing this?"

Rose shook her head, "Instead of being a pawn with no life support, it is better to stay here and wait for him to save me!

Hua Gu shook her head, wanted to say something and endured it again. Bow your head and say nothing.

Hua Rose looked at the hesitant Hua Gu and said, "Hua Gu, tell me, is Night Sky City dead?"

"I'm sorry, Rose!"

Hua Rose suddenly grabbed Hua Gu's hand and said, "Hua Gu, please, tell me, okay? I just want to know if he is still alive, I just want to know if my persistence is still meaningful!"

Hua Gu looked at Hua Rose with a distressed face, and after thinking for a long time, she said, "He is not dead, hold on, and the current situation is very beneficial to you!"

Hua Rose's lost eyes were instantly full of hope, and Hua Rose smiled, smiling so happily.

"Is there something going on out there?"

Hua Gu nodded, "A big war is about to happen, the high-level of the Hua family has gone to visit the major ancient spirit clans, and your mother is brewing a big war!"

Flower Rose pouted, "In order to destroy the Flower Spirit Clan?"

"One Flower Spirit Clan wouldn't be so aggressive!The Flower Spirit Clan, the Ancient Shenmu Clan, the Ancient Stone Spirit Clan, the Ancient Wind Spirit Clan, and the other five major living spirit clans are all in your mother's plan to destroy you!"

The rose in place. After a long time, he said, "The Flower Spirit Clan has received the support of so many living soul clans?"

Hua Gu nodded. In order to contend with the Hua family, the Hua Ling clan has indeed attracted many allies. Today, there are no less than seven living soul clans on the mainland standing in the camp of the Hua family. And there are four ancient families among them!

"I really hope that the Flower Spirit Clan can destroy the Flower Family," Hua Rose said with a demented look in her eyes.

Hua Gu shook her head, "She has calculated the mainland all her life, how can she sit still?"

Rose frowned, "Has she done anything lately?"

"She's gone to visit the Ancient Whale Clan, the Ancient Peng Clan, and the Ancient Thunderthirst Clan! She's also sent Deacon Hua and the others to visit the other Creature Clans!" said Hua Gu with a sigh.

"How many creatures do you think are willing to stand on the side of the Hua family?" said Rose Flower.

"With your mother's calculations, at least there are more than those who stand in the camp of the Flower Spirit Clan!" said Hua Gu, shaking her head.

The two were silent, each thinking about it.

After a long time, Hua Rose said, "When is the assessment of Zhongzhou College?"

"Tomorrow!"

Hua Rose was stunned for a moment, and there were still four or five hours before the sky was dawn. As soon as the morning dawns, the assessment of Zhongzhou College will kick off. Millions of living beings will start their journey to the strong, and whether they can become strong depends on whether they can cross the single-plank bridge that millions of people compete for at the same time. But Rose believes that Nightsky City can be the lucky one among the millions. Through the single-plank bridge, he became a disciple of Zhongzhou College. Only by crossing the single-plank bridge can he grow up quickly and save himself earlier. Save yourself from the demonic cell......

Hua Gu looked at Hua Rose who was deep in thought, and said, "Because I had a similar fate to you when I was young, I don't want to see this kind of tragedy happen again. So, keep at it, and I'll save your life if necessary!" Hua Gu came out of the cell. Disappear.

Hua Rose looked outside the cell, where Hua Gu disappeared, and thought: Could it be that Hua Gu when I was young also suffered a similar experience to me?

The flower rose gradually closed her eyes. Night Sky City's face, which always had a wicked smile, came to mind. As long as he passes the academy assessment, he will have a shelter and a chance to grow up, and when he grows strong enough, he will definitely come to my rescue! Certainly! Moreover, he has the same calculations and scheming as his mother! He has the same resourcefulness as his mother who dares to calculate the mainland! With this, he can become a strong man! A strong man must not only be strong in his own realm, but also have his own strength, and he must have the wisdom to calculate everything! Only by combining the three can we succeed! Only then can we become a feared existence! Only by standing up to this cruel continent can we be undefeated!

For him, I want to persevere, I want to try to live. I believe that one day he will come back to save me!

Flower Rose fell asleep with the last expectation, the last obsession. Everything in the dream is so beautiful, in the dream, you can be with the person who loves you, and you can live happily with the person who loves you.

A month later. Hua Rose remained motionless and meditated with her eyes closed, faint mana fluctuations flowing through Hua Rose's body. Suddenly, a mirror of the future appeared above the cell, and the mirror of the future showed the figure of an old woman sitting in front of the window.

"You've all put your mind to practice! It seems that your mentality is very good!" came the old woman's voice from the mirror of the future.

Flower Rose gradually opened her eyes, looked at the back of the old woman in the mirror of the future, and said, "I haven't seen you for so many days, where have you been?

"Do you miss me?"

A smile flashed at the corner of Rose Flower's mouth, "Miss you, did I hear you right?"

The old woman in the mirror of the future took a deep breath and said, "Don't you want to know how he is?"

"Didn't you say he was dead, what is there to think about a dead man, I just want to live well now and avenge him!" said Rose with murderous intent.

"Is that why you insist, but so what? you're going to spend the rest of your life here......!"

The flower rose fluttered, and after a long time said, "Unless what?"

"Unless you make a heavenly oath, you will always obey me! Never betray! If you make an oath, you will still be my good daughter! You will still be the future heir of the Hua family! The future continent will still be yours!" The old woman took a deep breath and continued, "For the sake of a dead person, it's not worth it! After all, you are still young, and I don't blame you! Think carefully about my proposal!"

Rose smiled as she looked at the old woman's back. Suddenly, Rose yelled, "I'd rather die here, I won't let you be at your mercy again!

Ten days later. The shackled Rose stares at a mirror of the future in her cell. In the mirror of the future, Night Sky City is participating in the first assessment of Zhongzhou College. And the situation in Night Sky City is very dangerous.

In the mirror of the future, the picture of the assessment of Zhongzhou College suddenly disappeared, and the back of an old man sitting in front of the window gradually appeared. The old woman coughed and said, "Do you think he can survive this situation?"

The somewhat thin Flower Rose nodded, and said with a firm look in her eyes, "He will survive!

The old woman in the mirror of the future took a deep breath and said, "What a naïve! A person who has broken through the autumn realm, why is he? He is facing more than 40 kinds of living beings on the mainland! Why did he survive? Even with the constraints of Zhongzhou's divine training! He could not survive! He slaughtered more than 30 kinds of assessors of the Soul Clan! He also wiped out the assessors of the Thunder Lion Spirit Clan and the Bronze Spirit Clan! Not to mention anything else! Do you think the Thunder Lion Spirit Clan and the Bronze Spirit Clan will bypass him? Is it possible? Moreover, there are more than 30 kinds of creature races! However, the more he is like this, the more I like it, and it would be even better if he could slaughter the more than one million living beings who were assessed in this assessment, because only in this way will the mainland creatures reprimand him, the cursed family, and the cursed ones!"

"You are despicable! it must be Tongren and Shi Yu who you instructed to deal with him!"

"That's right, I basically said hello to all the creatures who participated in the assessment! I just didn't expect him to be so powerful! He actually learned the Nether Curse! He used the Nether Curse to summon more than 300 Nether creatures and created an unprecedented massacre! He actually learned the Nether Curse! How could it be? How did he awaken the Nether Curse? You must know that the Nether Curse is one of the ten great divine curses of the curse technique! Did he also learn or awaken other divine curses?"

Nether Curse?One of the Ten Great Curses of the Curse Technique?Hua Rose frowned, that Netherworld Massacre is called the Netherworld Curse?And it is also one of the ten major curses of the Curse Technique?

"However, even if he awakens the Nether Curse, what can he do? He is just a person who has broken the autumn realm, and even if he learns the ten great curses of the curse technique, he will still die! Because he is just a curser of the Breaking Autumn Realm! And this, he is doomed to die!" The old woman took a deep breath and continued, "Once the assessment is over, the cursed family and the cursed person will be completely wiped out on the mainland! ”

"No, he can't die! he has the secret art of bringing the dead back to life! he won't die!" said Rose with a tear in her eyes, snarling as she looked at the old woman in the mirror of the future.

"Childish! Flower Rose, the facts are in front of you, don't deceive yourself!"

Rose trembled and roared, "No, he can't die! He hasn't come to save me, how can he die?"

"It's ridiculous! You believe what a game controller says! You are willing to do things and sacrifice for yourself in order to make the game pieces! What kind of things will you not say? Do you really think that what he says to you is true? Do you really think that he likes you? Will he come to save you? Don't dream! You have lost your value! You have become a waste chess! That game controller will save a waste chess?"

"Shut up! I'm not a pawn! no!" Rose roared madly.

The old woman's laughter came from the mirror of the future: "Don't you see what he said to Xi Shiyu? He said that he only likes Bai Ruoxian! He only likes Bai Ruoxian, do you understand? He doesn't even look down on Xi Shiyu, do you think he will fall in love with you, or fall in love with you? Do you think it's possible?"

"Pawns!They're all pawns!I'm the one he really loves!I'm the one I am!," Rose growled in confusion.

"Maybe you're right, but aren't you the best proof of that? After he uses you, you'll become a waste chess piece! Maybe Xi Shiyu and Bai Ruoxian are just his pawns!"

Hua Rose burst into tears, kept shaking her head and said, "I'm not a pawn, I'm not!"

"I've investigated and found out that the people he really loves are Meng Furong and Jin Jia, but they are dead. You, Xi Shiyu, and Bai Ruoxian are just pawns on his chessboard!" The old woman took a deep breath and continued, "He is worthy of being the descendant of the Ye family, and the descendant of the former ruler of the mainland! He has the wisdom to calculate everything! What is even more valuable is that he has wisdom and means that are not in line with his age! Who else dares to calculate the mainland but him? Dare to calculate me? Moreover, only the Ye family can cause such an unprecedented massacre! He has done what all his peers cannot! And he is impeccable! It's a pity that he is not from the Hua family! He is from the Ye family! And this dooms him to death!"

Suddenly, Hua Rose raised her head, looked at the back of the old woman in the mirror of the future, and shouted, "You said this just to cover up your selfishness! The Ye family has been destroyed, what ending can he change alone? Hua Mei'er, you and I know each other! You can't lie to me!"

The old woman was silent for a long time and then said, "Maybe!"

Hua Rose stood up and looked at the old woman's back and said, "Tell me, what happened back then, what role did the Hua family play in the fall of the Ye family?"

"That's not what you should know!"

"You were involved in the fall of the Night House, right?"

"Flower Rose, pay attention to the way you speak! don't forget that you are a member of the Hua family!" said the old woman with some anger.

Rose smiled. "I'm sorry, I don't have a surname from now on, I don't have a surname! I'm not a family member!"

"Shut up! Do you know how bitter I was back then? Do you know what? You have humiliated me again and again for that kid, do you still have a little conscience? Are you worthy of me? I am your mother, the mother who gave birth to you and raised you!"

Hua Rose burst into tears and shouted, "Since you have a hard time, you can tell me what happened back then! Whether you have a hard time, or the Ye family is wronged, I have my own decision!" Hua Rose remembered the rumors in the mainland, which rumored that her mother was once a woman in the flower shop. But I am her daughter, so why didn't she tell me?

The old woman in the mirror of the future took a deep breath and said, "You won't understand! You will never understand my suffering! Flower Rose, one day you will regret it! One day you will think that I am right! It's just that when you wake up, maybe, I will be gone!" The old woman's voice seemed to have been eroded by time......

Hua Rose trembled slightly: "Unspeakable hardship is not bitterness! I don't want to use your past to influence me to do things for you again!"

The old woman sighed and said, "Whatever you want, but it doesn't matter anymore!

Rose shook her head, and said with a firm look in her eyes, "He won't die! I will wait for the day he rescues me! I will wait for the day when he marries me!"

The old woman sighed. Fade into the mirror of the future.

The Mirror of the Future continues to present the Night Sky City in the assessment of the Zhongzhou Main College.

"One flower, one world, one leaf, one Bodhi, Bodhi, have you seen it in the sky, have you seen the rebellion of the rose, how have you taught her all these years, or is she the way she is?"

The old woman looked at the petals between her fingers and said, "Rose, why did you do this to me? Am I not good enough for you? I have given you what I can give, what do you want from me?"

Deacon Hua hurriedly walked in, looked at the old woman and said, "Master, what you have ordered has been done!"

The old woman paused for a while, slowly closed her eyes, and said, "Do you think I did this right or wrong?"

Flower deacon "This ......"

"Tell the truth!"

Deacon Hua nodded, "For the overall situation, the master is right! But for the young lady, this ......"

The old woman took a deep breath, "The one who achieves great things is not informal!

After a long time, the old woman said lightly, "How old is Xiaotian?"

Deacon Hua was stunned, "He is eighteen years old this year!"

The old woman nodded, "Grown up." The reason why the Hua family has been able to get to this day is all due to you, after this incident, if you take Xiaotian with you, he should also learn to stand alone!

A gleam flashed in Deacon Hua's eyes, and he bowed slightly, and said respectfully, "Director Xie is very kind!"

The old woman took a deep breath, sighed and said, "We are all old, it's time to cultivate them!

The demon cell, where Rose sat leaning, staring at the mirror of the future with her eyes motionless. In the mirror of the future. Xi Shiyu smiled and snuggled in the arms of Night Sky City. Night Sky City stroked Xi Shiyu's long hair, pointed to the distant sky, and said something.

The heavy cell door creaked, and a middle-aged woman walked in with a plate of food. "Rose, it's time to eat!"

Hua Rose slowly turned her head, showed a smile and said, "Hua Gu, I have worked hard for you, if it weren't for you, I might ......"

Hua Gu stroked Hua Rose's face and said, "Silly boy! Look at you, you are so thin that only bones remain! Listen to me, cheer up, okay? Everything will be fine!"

Flower Rose forced a smile and said, "Well, I'll listen to you!"

"Here, these are your favorite foods! Hurry up! It's not good when it's cold!"

A tear crossed the corner of Hua Rose's eyes, and she bowed her head and trembled. I'm afraid there are only three people in this world who know about Hua Rose. One is the master of Flower Rose, Flower Bodhi. One is a flower girl who regards Hua Rose as her own daughter. One is Night Sky City, the person loved by Flower Rose. Hua Bodhi was punished by the Heavenly Dao for killing Night Sky City! Now, the only people who know Hua Rose best are Hua Gu and Night Sky City.

Hua Rose said to Hua Gu with a divine soul transmission, "Hua Gu, please save him, please"

Hua Gu was stunned for a moment, looking at Hua Rose with tears in her eyes, and she didn't know how to speak.

The mirror of the future gradually emerged the figure of the old woman, "Hua Gu." Just let them do these things!"

Hua Gu got up and looked at the back of the old woman in the mirror of the future and said, "I grew up watching Rose grow up, I just miss her, come and see her"

"Hey, I don't deserve to be a mother! My three children grew up under your watch! I haven't even fulfilled my responsibilities as a mother!"

Hua Gu shook her head and said, "Why are you talking about this, are you jealous?"

The old woman sighed, "Don't you know me, after so many years, you have brought the three of them, I should thank you!"

"Sister Mei, are you going to be like this forever?" said Hua Gu, looking at the old woman in the mirror of the future.

"Don't ask me, you ask him, it's all her own doing! Do you say you have a daughter like her? He actually helped an outsider deal with me, and I was almost calculated by her and her little lover! The Hua family was almost calculated by him! You ask her, ask her!"

"What about you? Have you ever treated me as a daughter? You have been calculating me! Treat me like a pawn, a pawn of life and death! Is this what a mother should do?" said Rose growled.

"Shut up! I'm right, it's you who are too cowardly, and the strong man in the world is not a life of death? How can a weak person be the master of the Hua family? How can he be the master of the continent?"

Rose burst into tears and roared, "Are you right? Could it be that I was wrong? When I was treated as a pawn by you and on the verge of life and death, did you care about my life and death?

The old woman in the mirror of the future trembled and inhaled deeply.

"Have you ever taken care of my life and death? Yes? What do you say? Tell all the past in front of Hua Gu today!"

The old woman said angrily, "The weak, the mud can't support the wall!"

"Weak? Yes, I admit that I am weak, and of my three daughters, have they experienced life and death? Yes? And me? I have been sent on a mission by you every time, and every time I have died in my life! Have you ever taken care of my life and death? Even once, have you?"

The old woman took a deep breath and said, "I was wrong about you before! I didn't expect you to be so cowardly!

"In your eyes, I am nothing but a chess piece! And in my eyes, you are nothing but a pseudo-mother! A pseudo-mother who will do whatever it takes to achieve her goals!"

"Stop!" the words fell, and there was a loud bang! A terrifying palm shadow shot out of the mirror of the future, and attacked the flower rose. Hua Gu frowned, and slapped a palm shadow, defusing the old woman's palm shadow attack! Hua Gu looked at the old woman with a cold face and said, "You are too much!"

"Whatever I say is nonsense. Just now, if it weren't for Hua Gu, I would have been killed by you! Is this a mother's behavior? A tiger poison does not eat children, how poisonous should your heart be? Is this what a mother should do?"

"I will imprison you forever!

"Hua Mei'er, you're going too far!" Hua Gu said coldly!

The old woman took a deep breath and said, "You don't care about our business!"

"It's not your business anymore! I watched Rose grow up, and what did you think you tortured her into?"

The old woman was silent for a long time and then said, "Are you on her side now?"

"I only trust my eyes!" Hua Gu said coldly

"Ling'er, you've changed! You weren't like this before!"

Hua Gu said, "I haven't changed, it's you who have changed! You have become unreasonable! Rose is right, tiger poison does not eat children! You don't regard Rose as a daughter anymore!"

The old woman trembled violently, "What do you mean now?"

Hua Gu was silent for a long time and then said, "I want you to fulfill the promise you made!"

Hua Rose stood behind Hua Gu and looked at the two of them with a puzzled expression.

"Ling'er, don't you know the current situation?" the old woman's tone became a little angry.

"I know, but Rose shouldn't be your sacrificial bargaining chip, you shouldn't do this to her, she's your daughter!'s own daughter!" Hua Gu roared.

The old woman trembled for a while, and after being silent for a long time, she said, "Ling'er, what do you think, when I fulfill my wish, I will fulfill my promise!

Hua Gu said coldly, "I'm going to say no?"

"I've worked hard for so many years! Can you bear to watch me die?

Hua Gu was silent for a long time and said, "I'll give you two years, but I'm going to take the rose!"

The old woman took a deep breath, "Thank you! I will keep my promise in two years!" The words fell, and the shackles on Rose Flower's feet disappeared. Hua Gu pulled Hua Rose out of the demon cell. Just as the Mirror of the Future was about to disappear, Rose turned around and said, "I will remember what you did to me! I hate you!"

In one room, the old woman's sunken eyes looked at the roses in front of her motionlessly. "Flowers bloom and fall!

The voice of the ancient toad came, "It was Aunt Hua who saved you!, or you might have been tortured to death by your mother!"