Chapter 35: The Three Clears are on top, and the Dragon's Rebellion (typo fixed)
There are two main paths to take in the advancement of martial arts, one is the right path, which is mainly based on one's own hard training, supplemented by fighting against the enemy, step by step, and finally to completion.
One is the evil way, in fact, it is the extraordinary way that the two have been transferred, mainly fighting against the enemy, supplemented by their own hard training, advancing by leaps and bounds, thousands of miles a day, but the foundation is unstable, and one day will encounter an insurmountable realm of the world.
The sorcerer's refinement is actually similar, through the accumulation of conventional meditation methods day and night, and the superposition of spiritual power is finally suddenly a channel, fighting people day and night, and polishing one's spiritual will with the terror between life and death, which is also another channel.
Of course, there are more paths for wizards than martial artists, and they/they can often achieve similar effects to life and death through experimental research with their whole body, that is, safety, and diligence, which seems to be very beautiful, but in fact it is not the case.
This kind of experimental research is usually not as fast as normal meditation, and the danger factor itself is not low, there are not a few wizards in the wizarding world who die due to experimental accidents every year, and there is almost no rank, even extraordinary wizards have accidents and kill themselves. Therefore, this is just a neutral path, and it is not necessarily more intelligent.
Zhu Peng's martial arts, generally speaking, are mainly based on the righteous way, supplemented by the evil way, the foundation laid by Zhang Yuanfang for him back then was really strong enough, pure yang qigong, pure yang immortal heart, Zhu Peng has been eating until the legendary rank There are still leftovers, and then he has practiced in the spy world several times, integrating hundreds of schools, and gradually reaching today's realm.
However, his wizard path, Zhu Peng from the beginning of the line of heaven, the extraordinary way of life and death, inherited from the ghost of the dark wizard system, so that Zhu Peng's spiritual power from the beginning of the nourishment from death and killing, if the nutrients are insufficient, will be forced to be drawn to the meditation mental image world to complete further battles and killing.
Later, Zhu Peng's killer successfully killed the ghost-shaped man and saved his fate, but his path had already been laid, and he obtained the nutrients for his own growth in death, killing and destruction.
Especially after coming to the world of the Misty Ancestor, the sale of transcendent behemoths in batches, and the twenty years of forgetting to the death have gradually increased Zhu Peng's spiritual power to the extreme of demigods, and the transcendent lifeforms that died directly or indirectly in his hands are too many, so that the Shadow Mask, which others practice as a giant pit, has become a sharp weapon for rapid promotion in Zhu Peng's hands.
Of course, this rapid promotion is also relative, from the peak of demigods to the complete saturation of spiritual power in twenty years, this progress is indeed ten times faster than that of regular demigod wizards, and the most rare thing is that Zhu Peng did not go crazy or suffer from any obvious mental illness because of this.
Maybe it's because they have gone too far on the road of spiritual power and soul and explored too deeply, there are a lot of mental patients in the wizarding world, some of these mental patients are distorted, some are simply congenital, and some wizard families pursue the so-called bloodline purification, and these wizards from wealthy families are often even more crazy.
The Maze of Machinery, a bedroom enclosed in the center of a bookcase.
Deep red carpets, golden walls, goose-yellow sofas, neatly arranged tables and chairs, thick curtains and soft and warm beds.
The room was lit up brightly, and in such a room, one would suddenly forget that one was in the Misty Ancestral World.
Zhu Peng sat cross-legged on the futon, in front of the statue of Sanqing.
The wizarding world does not pay attention to individual beliefs, or the belief in the god system itself is very difficult to emerge in the wizarding world. What's more, the beliefs of the Daomen elite are still a little different from ordinary beliefs, even if the Sanqing is above, it is only the forerunner on the Great Dao, and the Pangu Heavenly King gasifies the Sanqing, which is just a means of educating the stupid village husband and wild woman.
Lao Tzu Li Er is a human being, Yuan Shi Tianzun is a human being, and the Tongtian Sect Master is also a human being.
This is also the difference between the cultural connotations of the East and the West in the Earth Age: the difference between being born as a god and preaching as an immortal.
Although there is a solemn and solemn statue of Sanqing on his head, Zhu Peng only cares about reminding himself and motivating himself, but does not really want to visit the shrine every day.
With the operation of the meditation method, Zhu Peng's cheeks gradually had a golden-red burning aura shrouded and condensed, the shadow mask was originally pure black, but after Zhu Peng's continuous polishing and modification according to his own characteristics in the past hundred years, the shadow mask meditation method fused part of the holy flame flame effect and Zhu Peng's own characteristics, and gradually formed a golden-red dragon mask, sacred, terrifying, and majestic, completely covering his entire face.
This meditation lasted for more than a week, and the human form under the statue of Sanqing was already blurred, as if suddenly it had become a three-headed and six-armed dragon-headed human body sitting on the futon, and the huge energy converged, and then slowly collapsed.
"After all, it's still not good, I'm different from ordinary demigod wizards, it's not that I can try to break through if my mental power is saturated, and I can't fully recover from injuries on my body, and my promotion success rate will always be greatly reduced. Holding his chest, although it didn't look unusual, when the energy was gathered just now, Zhu Peng could feel the cracks faintly appearing between the bones in his chest.
Although even in the injured state, Zhu Peng's physique is thousands of times stronger than most demigod wizards, but the total energy of his breakthrough load is also even greater, and if the injuries on his body cannot be fully restored, there is no certainty of success after all.
(If Charlotte succeeds in breaking through, her transcendent nature will definitely be a great complement to me...... It's a pity that far water can't quench the thirst of the near, why don't you just catch a transcendent ancestor and forcibly collect it?) Female half-dragon people, harpy banshees, lizardmen poisonous women and other objects that have been fought over the years flashed in his mind, and in an instant, Zhu Peng only felt that his stomach was tumbling with strong discomfort, and he really did this kind of thing, not to mention the negative impact of forcibly collecting and replenishing himself, and the reputation he had accumulated for hundreds of years could be regarded as ruined.
Good things don't go out, but bad things spread thousands of miles. This thing can't be done after all, not to mention that he really doesn't have such a good mouth for half-man and half-beast.
"Oh, what's there to be afraid of. If you can't let me come, get promoted to transcendent as soon as possible, breathe a sigh of relief as soon as possible, and if you drag it out like this, you really might hang here. "In the secret room, there is only Zhu Peng, but unfortunately, Zhu Peng does not just have a head.
Demon Zhu Peng is cold, or if he really has no choice to do this unspeakable thing, he is indeed the best choice, the demon indulges wantonly, he may really be able to feel the unique beauty of those ancestors who are half-human and half-beast.
"In a way, we're also half-dragon/half-demon/half-human hybrids. Most of the Huaxia ethnic group are also half-dragon/half-human hybrids, but their bloodline is already very weak, so your scruples are really unnecessary. "It's not just the demon Zhu Peng who fell into the well, Ying Long Zhu Peng, who looked indifferent on the side, also opened his mouth to help, Ying Long Zhu Peng represents his own absolutely rational thinking, and he thinks that the top priority now is to be promoted to the fifth-order transcendent realm as soon as possible.
To be honest, sleeping with a half-human, half-beast transcendent ancestor can advance to the fifth-order transcendent realm, and if this condition is opened in the wizarding world, the female transcendents of the misty ancestor world can be slept to the point that they can't stand it. Compared to the promotion of the fifth order transcendent, the price that needs to be paid is too small.
“...... Alright, alright, alright. You hurry back, don't worry, it's really going to be that time, Lao Tzu will never enjoy it alone, you have one of you TM don't want to run. In fact, Zhu Peng didn't know that the top priority now was his own promotion, but the level of psychological cleanliness was really a little unavoidable.
didn't worry for too long, Zhu Peng still came out of the retreat room to deal with the work of the twin towers, and a large number of mineral spars have been accumulated in the warehouse, so it can be said that pulling back to the wizarding world is a large amount of income, but the will to resist in the plane of the fog ancestor world is still very strong, and the connection between the two universes is very unstable, not to mention that many people on their own witch tower are infected with the death fear meme, although they are suppressed, they can't teleport back, and Zhu Peng can't give up these people and escape back by himself.
For now, it would be easy for Zhu Peng to escape back by himself in the Witch Tower, but as soon as he left, just the lack of pure yang immortal heart radiation, just the erosion of fear and despair, could make all the people left here die and die.
While Zhu Peng was dealing with the government affairs accumulated over the past week, the indicator light on his desk flashed, indicating that there was A-level intelligence that needed to be accessed and asked for instructions.
"Your Highness, F97 is fluctuating with the spatial jump, it is suspected that the Elven Alliance Witch Tower is coming, and it is being besieged by the Transcendent Ancestor, do you want to support it?"
"Which Witch Tower?"
"Suspicious...... The Red Queen's Witchship under Her Highness Silver Moon. ”
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At the same time, on the other side, Ewen's Red Queen and her companion Purple Blue Hanging Garden Witch Tower encountered an accident during the cross-dimensional jump, not only did the advent coordinates deviate greatly, but also almost crashed headlong into a nest of the Transcendent Ancestor.
I don't know if it's because low intelligence is conducive to fertility, outside the Misty Ancestor World, it can be said that almost all transcendent life forms are difficult to procreate, or since they already have an almost infinite individual lifespan, it is difficult to have the prosperity of their children.
This is a bit like the theory that people should not be too smart, the predecessors are too smart, and the descendants who are left behind may have many fools, and the number of predecessors is too long or even until eternity, so naturally there is no room for the survival of the descendants.
However, this group of extraordinary beasts in the Mist Ancestor World is different, it seems that because of their high update frequency, they still maintain a high fertility compared to high-level lifeforms.
Five multi-headed dragon snake-like extraordinary beasts, three young beasts plus their parents, the fierce beasts in the nursery period are all very irritable, and the multi-headed dragon snake is no exception, although Yiwen and Zi Youlan's reaction speed is fast enough, as fast as possible away from the nest range of the multi-headed dragon snake, but they are still chased by the two parents of the three-headed young beast...... First, they are worried that they will come to find out and go back to move reinforcements. Second, the child is so hungry that there is no reason not to want the supplements sent to the door.
The parents of the two multi-headed dragon snakes are almost bigger than the Witch Tower, and their three young sons are already mountain-like in size, chasing the Red Queen and the flying saucer in the disc-shaped hanging garden under the protection of their parents.
The dragon, including the knight above, was bitten by the juvenile dragon snake, and the mouth burst with a click, click.
It is both nutritious and delicious, and the largest dragon snake on the side is a little hungry, and it also wants to taste it, but it is smashed on the head by the daughter-in-law on the side, and can only retreat.
Among the Dragon Knight Corps under Yi Wen, there is also an extremely elite Yanhuang Dragon Knight Corps, some have died in battle over the years, some have been promoted to demigods, and most of the remaining ones are already the elite of the old elites, because of the relationship between a certain guy, Yi Wen has always taken care of this force, and it can be said that it has always been supported as an ace wizard group.
However, after the order to attack was issued, Yi Wen did not see the attack of the Yanhuanglong Knight Regiment.
Immediately afterwards, Yiwen received the news of the rebellion of the Dragoon Regiment that she had been supporting for hundreds of years!
From all angles, it is difficult to tell who is right and who is wrong on both sides, Yi Wen's order is obviously to let the Yanhuanglong Knight Regiment go out and send them to death, as long as they still want to live, they will subconsciously want to turn their backs on this order, and the desire to survive is shared by living beings, which is understandable and understandable.
But from the perspective of the Elven Alliance, from Yi Wen's point of view, I have spent a lot of money to cultivate and support you for hundreds of years, and finally at a critical juncture, you repay me like this? It is completely conceivable that once what happened here is transmitted back to the Elven Alliance, what kind of severe punishment will those Huaxia Yan Huangshi Clan dragon blood people who live in the Elf Alliance face.
Of course, this is also the power of the Elven Alliance's greedy dragon blood first, after all, it is rare to have such a pure but gentle dragon blood inheritance that has been polished for many years like Huaxia Yan Huang Dragon Blood.
"Sister Zi, I'm afraid I'm going to die here. The Red Queen will break off for you, you can run quickly!" After saying this, the silver-haired female elf Yiwen turned off the phone, she closed her eyes in the main control room of the Wu Tower and stood still for a moment, and then clenched her Moon Blade, at this moment, there were already powerful qi machines coming from all directions.
Rumble!!
The room was blasted open by a huge force, and then several men and women who had become half-dragons walked in with weapons in their hands, it was really ironic, the equipment that Yiwen spent a lot of money to purchase for the Yanhuang Dragon Knights Regiment was pointing at herself at this moment.
"Your Highness, I'm really sorry that I have been taken care of by you for so many years, but my old bones are dead, and the children are still young. "A strong old man with a heavy sword and a white beard strode into the main control room, for so many years, these children of the Yanhuang clan seem to have been waiting for this day to come, all the countermeasures in Yi Wen's hands have failed, coupled with the difficulty of information exchange between the Misty Ancestor World and the main world, if these guys in front of them are ruthless and clean enough, Yi Wen and the Red Queen Witch Tower will be destroyed cleanly, and the truth will be deposited in the darkness forever.
In the sky, because of the rebellion of the Yanhuang Dragon Cavalry Regiment, the Red Queen Witch Tower had a faint non-stop explosion, and the speed slowed down, before Yiwen wanted the elite Yanhuang Dragon Cavalry Regiment to break off the two Witch Towers, and now the Yanhuang Dragon Cavalry Regiment wants to let the Red Queen Witch Pagoda break for all of them, theoretically speaking, it seems that there is no one who is more despicable, they all want the other party to die for themselves.
Of course, in order to leave room for the clan behind them, the Yanhuang Dragoon Regiment must also kill Yiwen here, and try to ensure that the Red Queen Witch Tower is destroyed and no one survives, after all, the Yanhuang Dragoon Regiment still has a large number of clansmen living in the Elven Alliance.
However, at this moment, a purple-gold double-pupiled dragon that was not much smaller than the largest dragon snake descended from the sky, and closely followed by Ying Long's tail wing was the Dark Forge Witch Tower, which had been storing energy for twenty years and burning with dark magic all around it.
"That's ...... His Royal Highness Wusheng of the Chinese Warriors Association!?" Looking at the video screen that popped up in the void, one of the dragon knights who were besieging Yi Wen exclaimed. In fact, there is no need for her to say that as long as the entire wizard world is a remnant of the earth in the past, there is no one who does not know Zhu Peng, the deputy sect leader of the Chinese Warrior Association, especially as a person with the blood of Yanhuang Dragon, and no one will not know Li Jingxuan's candle dragon form and Zhu Peng's Ying Dragon form!
"What should I do? What can I do about this? Yinyue is the sister of Princess Charlotte, and the sister-in-law of His Royal Highness Wusheng!"
"Shut up, what's the panic? He Zhu Peng is also a Yanhuang Dragon Blood, could it be that he would be so heavy on color and light on righteousness as to slaughter his fellow clansmen?" When the words came here, Zhang Hanchen, who had been full of vicissitudes of life for many years, paused in his words, and then he continued: "Of course, in order not to make it difficult for the deputy sect master, let's send His Highness Yinyue on the road first." ”
As he spoke, Zhang Hanchen, who was covered in crimson heavy dragon armor, stepped on his feet and attacked with a sword, the combat effectiveness of the dragon vein warlock was already high, even if he didn't work hard enough, the talent could make up for them to the point of being comparable to the sword master, weapon master, and legendary wizard, if he cultivated the sword saint, weapon master, and legendary wizard with the body of the dragon vein, it was really strong and strong, and it was the capital that could be at the same level, invincible, and even leapfrog the challenge.
Outside the Red Queen Witch Tower, as soon as he discovered the appearance of the huge Ying Dragon and the Dark Forge Witch Tower, the Purple and Blue Hanging Garden Witch Tower of the Elf Alliance Wood Elf flew back decisively.
In fact, there was no need for it to fly back at all, how could Zhu Peng not be fully prepared when he rushed to support, the ancestor of the parasitic giants wearing heavy armor, and the ancient snake Tiphoos, who was enslaving two transcendent bones at this moment, were all dispatched.
If it weren't for the injuries on his body, it would be difficult to unfold the true body of the Flood Ancient Witch who was overloaded, and Zhu Peng wanted to leave the two big, three, and small families in front of him...... Family, the most important thing is to be neat and tidy.
Zhu Peng's Trinity True Body Ying Long Transformation, the Dark Forge Witch Tower, the Parasitic Giant Ancestor, the Ancient Serpentine Typhos, and even the Hanging Garden Witch Tower, which had just flown back, and even the Red Queen Witch Tower, had not yet lost their combat effectiveness, and if they were to be counted, the number and combat power of this side were not inferior to those of the opponent.
Especially when Zhu Peng opened his mouth, he sprayed the dragon breath on those multi-headed dragon snake cubs, their parents are extraordinary, they are not, the multi-headed dragon and snake parents with extremely high intelligence blocked the cubs from retreating, and Zhu Peng did not pursue.
Even's Red Queen Witch Tower is now about to fall from all sides exploding, which is obviously something wrong.
The Chiyang Dan Fire Tribulation on the huge Ying Dragon's body was burning, and the next moment, Zhu Peng directly transformed from the demigod true body state into a ball of flames that penetrated the Red Queen's defense domain field, which had weakened a lot in the Red Queen's Witch Tower, and quickly ran towards Yi Wen's main control room...... There is no need to wonder why he knows the way, because he has been here a lot before.
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When Zhu Peng's flame incarnation rushed into the main control room of the Red Queen Witch Tower, all he saw was the bloody corpses all over the ground and Yi Wen, who was seriously injured and crumbling.
The Yfrit family is already the most outstanding among the younger generation of the elf clan, but the dragon blood of the scholar clan in Huaxia Yanhuang is by no means a weak person, otherwise it is not worthy of the acceptance of the entire elf alliance, and it is a house and a woman, and they also want to create a dragon blood elf branch that belongs to the elf alliance.
In fact, this epic achievement has been achieved by a man who created a race of men from an independent NTR elf. It's just that because of the sequence problem of the Babel Witch Tower, the void tunnel connecting the two worlds has not yet been completely built.
Zhang Hanchen, who was already in his hands to win, slashed down with a sword aimed at Yi Wen, but at the most critical juncture, he was disturbed by the power of the Chiyang Dan Fire Tribulation, feeling the terrible killing contained in the crimson and golden flames, Zhang Hanchen was shocked and retreated, and the next moment Yi Wen's whole person was already in the arms of Zhu Peng, who had emerged from the flames, and wanted to kill people in the arms of this guy, and the full Yanhuang Dragoon Regiment was all killed, and it was not enough.
"Your Highness Wusheng, you are protecting this woman now, hundreds of thousands of ethnic groups of the Huaxia clan in the Elven Alliance are about to be slaughtered, how can Your Highness bear it?" As soon as Zhu Peng landed to suppress the situation, a female dragon knight standing behind Zhang Hanchen spoke.
“...... I don't care what happened before, and now that I'm here, I'm going to stop it. Although it was a whisper, the entire small city-like Red Queen Witch Pagoda could be heard up and down clearly, in fact, with Zhu Peng's intelligence and deduction ability today, he could already know what was going on at a glance when he came in.
In the face of this kind of bad debt, the more you want to hide, the more you avoid, the more you have no beginning, no end, endless entanglement, what should be killed, what should be judged, and what should be dealt with is the correct way to deal with it. Just like carrion grows on a human body, only decisively cutting it off and throwing it away is the right way to deal with it, otherwise the poison of carrion will invade the whole body, and the harm will be even more intense.
I don't know how long I was unconscious, but when the silver-haired and snow-skinned elf girl woke up from the nightmare, she saw a pair of black and white eyes, and the owner of these eyes looked down and smiled at herself. Yiwen did not deny that she was sweet in her heart, and almost forgot that her serious injury was caused by this guy's clan.
"What are you going to do with me?"
"For me, let your hundreds of thousands of people die, or for your hundreds of thousands of people, let me die?" Because of her weak body, it seemed that even her willpower was weak, and Yiwen, who was dressed in a dark purple silk robe, struggled symbolically, and then let her weak self lie in that wide embrace and drink the medicinal porridge.
"You know I'm proficient in pharmacy, and if you eat what I make, I'll be in control of your life. Zhu Peng said while feeding the porridge, in the past week, he has dealt with everything almost, many things are difficult because of fear to face, and this weakness almost never appears in Zhu Peng.
"Poison me, and make me a full ghost. I remember the first time you invited me to dinner, and I was served egg fried rice...... The first time I invited a big beauty like me, you actually invited me to eat egg fried rice. Elbowed back and bumped the man behind her, and Yiwen said with some indignation.
"Hehe, I was just polite, who knew you were really not polite at all, I made egg fried rice for two, and pickles that you could eat for a week, you ate them all. As he spoke, Zhu Peng smiled evilly and bit Yiwen's pointed ear, which made the girl's whole body tremble, and her eyes were full of tears.
"What's wrong, what's wrong, crying about, kidding with you. ”
"Bullying me, you bullying me, you've been bullying me since I knew you. "Wen Xiang nephrite ears and sideburns grinding, the fatigue of years of fighting and fighting, has been resolved at this moment, if he can, Zhu Peng really wants to keep holding the lovely person in his arms, ignoring the group of bastards who kill a thousand knives outside.
"I know that it is very difficult to ask Yiwen to block the news, even if it is blocked for a short time, it will definitely break out in the future, and you will be reprimanded by the Council of Elders. ”
"Therefore, don't hide it at all, and report it as it is. ”
"How can it be done? If it is really reported, the Yanhuang Dragon Blood in the Elf Alliance will really die. "Zhu Peng is not in a hurry, but Yiwen is in a hurry first. She didn't want to die that much, especially since she knew how much her man loved the race.
"If you report this to the Council of Elders alone, of course, it will have irreparable consequences. But if it's with me, it's different. Anyway, this mission is that the Elven Alliance has bullied my Chinese Warrior Association, and I am the deputy sect master of the Chinese Warrior Association, so the matter of the Mist Ancestor World can be big or small, especially under the premise that four of the six demigod wizards died, do you guess that the Mystery Academy and the Heart of Spell Calling Academy will lose together with the people and the Witch Tower, to what extent will they hate it?"
"As long as the Elf Alliance agrees to me to extradite the Yan Yellow Dragon Blood Clan, I will no longer pursue this matter, and I don't want to make the difficult situation that the Elf Alliance is already facing further worse. "The current Chinese Warrior Association is no longer a small guild organization, two extraordinary powerhouses, a powerful demigod with one hand upward, the most terrifying thing is that the cohesion and sharpness of such an emerging sect are flourishing, which is what an old force like the Elven Alliance is most unwilling to face.
Taking a step back, Zhu Peng, the master of the Dark Forge Witch Tower and the Mechanical Maze City Witch Tower, is now the core and main force in the development of the Mist Ancestor World, and for a slaughter that is not beneficial to itself, it is unacceptable for the Spirit Alliance that is now in turmoil.
What's more, Zhu Peng is not a person who does things absolutely and leaves no room for anything, in the message he sent, he expressed his willingness to kill all the members of the Yanhuang Dragon Cavalry Regiment on the Red Queen Witch Tower to punish them for their treachery.
In other words, the group of dragon bloodies of the Huaxia Shi clan, Zhu Peng himself did not dare to control the use of them, when the entire clan was the most difficult and bitter, these owners of the most profound power joined the elf alliance without looking back, and today, hundreds of years later, they once again have to help wipe their butts because of the crime of betrayal.
Zhu Peng is really disgusted by this group of people in his heart, no wonder it is said that there is no thousand-year-old dynasty but there is a thousand-year-old family, and the technique of pressing the rudder on all sides is really too skillful. However, even if it is disgusting, it must be endured, if Zhu Peng is based on his own temperament, I am afraid that there will be no good-looking female creatures in the entire Dark Crucible Witch Tower, and he has already passed the stage of paying attention to love, and even the pros and cons.
Yi Wen finally reported the situation to the Elven Alliance Elders Association in accordance with the method of Zhu Peng's teaching, that is, she clearly stated the rebellion of the Yanhuang Knight Legion, and also said the timely rescue of Zhu Peng, the deputy sect leader of the Chinese Warrior Association, and took the initiative to add a sentence similar to it: "The rebels should die, but the young son's family is innocent." ".
Although the connection between the two planes is very unstable, the Elven Alliance Elders' side did not let Zhu Peng and Yi Wen wait for too long, they directly agreed with Zhu Peng's disposal opinion, and went further, even Yi Wen's Yan Huanglong Knight Regiment did not ask for disposal, and was directly transferred to Zhu Peng's hands.
"It seems that the situation facing the Elven Alliance is even worse than I thought. This is not even the most basic face, and the mutineers can actually be let go and not dealt with!?"
"The Elven Alliance is huge, but there are also many enemies, when it is strong, it is beautiful to sing and dance, and when it is weak, there are bursts everywhere, and there are flaws everywhere. Yiwen smiled bitterly and whispered, looked at the virtual reply, and said this.