The Supergod Space Station is a full-fledged spaceship with a sheer size that allows it to shape various facilities inside, including metal smelting and forging.

It is even possible to shape a larger furnace externally through local shapes.

The various energy metals that were initially separated from the moon were put into the furnace for further purification, and then fused with many special metals brought from Douluo Star to form many types of alloys, and finally the shaping and fusion of the soul guide array and the morphological structure, and finally assembled the manufactured modules one by one.

Tian Hao was only responsible for the construction of the core energy furnace, and the rest of the torso, head and limbs were handed over to many disciples to complete, while he focused on the weapons and armor of this soul guide mecha.

The armor is not only the external armor on the soul guide mecha, but also the energy shield, he adopted the shape and setting of the sun and moon essence wheel in the Shushan movie, attacking and defending.

In addition to defense, the Nismine Wheel can also absorb solar energy to assist in energy supply, and at the same time gather energy to launch laser cannons for ultra-long-range Daji, which also refers to Kong Deming's Silver Moon God Light Mask.

As for the Moon Spirit Wheel, it is very easy to shape, it is a pure attack weapon, not only is it sharp and hard, but it can also cut out the Moon Blade, it can control attacks remotely, and it can also be held in close combat in your hand.

However, unlike the Shushan movie, he created a three-month fine wheel, one large and two small, the small arc is not so large, it can be held in the hand like an egg knife in close combat, and the big one is free to assist remotely.

Together, they form the perfect tactical match.

When shaping this celestial-level soul guide mecha, the five-year soul fighting competition began again, and this year it was the turn of the Sun and Moon Empire to hold it, but the White Tiger Empire and Shrek did not participate, but held a soul fighting competition in White Tiger City, inviting all the higher soul master colleges in the country to participate.

At the same time, Bei Bei brought people to participate on behalf of the Tang Gate, which also showed that the Tang Gate appeared again, and it was a strong posture.

However, these are only superficial work, the powerhouses of Shrek Hao Heavenly Sect and Ontology Sect secretly infiltrated the Sun and Moon Empire, and temporarily hid them with the help of the characteristics of the Fighting Soul Competition's large number of people.

And they learned to be obedient, with the help of a living storage soul guide hidden inside, only an ordinary soul master took into the Ming Capital, so as to avoid the many soul guide induction devices in the Ming Capital.

"That's a hundred-meter-tall big guy, can you take it?"

In the storage soul guide, the poison immortality still feels incredible.

You must know that it is a hundred-meter-huge behemoth, and it is not easy to take it away, he has never heard of such a large storage soul guide.

Huo Yuhao didn't say anything, he was going to use the Spirit Sea to steal the No. 2 Sun Furnace this time, and only by bringing it into the Spirit Sea could he start to operate it.

Although the space inside that star sapphire was large, it was very fragile and could not withstand too strong energy impact.

And he can't get into the living creatures, he can't go in and control it.

If he is included in the Spirit Sea, he can not only form a consciousness body to enter the internal control stability, but also use the Baolian Lantern to suppress it.

However, the premise is to be able to grab the second solar furnace, which is difficult to do.

In fact, he wanted the furnace of his uncle's planet engine even more, but unfortunately it was too big for him to put away even with his current spiritual sea.

And that thing now belongs to my uncle, if I really want to take it away, I'm afraid that my uncle will kill it immediately, and it will be a disaster for Shrek, so I can only settle for the second best thing and choose the No. 2 solar furnace that was moved by the Sun and Moon Empire.

At the same time, he has to solve the technical mysteries of the solar furnace, master it, and then create it.

Of course, the most important thing is to supply energy to the soul guide cabin that transforms the ontological martial soul, that thing consumes too much energy, even the soul power reserve of an Extreme Douluo is not enough to transform a person, because of this defect, the number of ontological martial souls transformed by the academy is not very large, and this defect must be completed.

"The Sun and Moon Empire will inevitably retaliate after the future, how can we resist it?"

Dai Jinhu asked another question, he didn't want to be retaliated by the Sun and Moon Empire.

"Not in a short period of time, the people of the Super Divine Academy have basically gone outside the world, and they will definitely not come back in a short time, this time is enough for us to study clearly, and the big deal is to return the solar furnace when the time comes."

Yan Shaozhe analyzed that he had hesitated for a long time to make this decision, but they had to control the technology of the solar furnace.

Only by obtaining the Sun Furnace and its supporting new soul guide instruments, as well as the supercomputer of the Sun and Moon Empire, can Yu Hao learn the new soul guide system from the Dead Song Academy be truly implemented.

Besides, your Sun and Moon Empire has reduced our Shrek City to ruins, so won't we be allowed to enter your Ming Capital?

"Elder Xuan, Elder Long, you protect Yu Hao to get the Sun Furnace, we go to attack and kill Xu Tianran and Xu Jinghong, we must make the Sun and Moon Empire chaotic."

Yan Shaozhe's eyes turned to his grandfather Long Xiaoyao and Xuan Lao, Yu Hao's side is the focus, and their side is only secondary, especially Yu Hao's safety.

The mission can fail, but Yu Hao must not be fine.

"We'll protect him."

Xuanzi nodded solemnly, Mu Lao could have the consciousness of sacrificing for the academy back then, and his Xuanzi would not be bad.

Everyone didn't delay, Huo Yuhao took out a living storage soul guide, and he and Xuanzilong entered it.

The soul master outside took out the living storage soul guide and handed it to his companion, and took the original living storage soul guide to the competition venue.

At this time, Xu Tianran, who was in the main stand of the competition venue, did not know that he had been targeted, and at this moment he was enjoying the game in the field with relish, and exchanged words with his ancestors from time to time.

"The innocent girl said she was going to participate before, but now she doesn't even see a shadow."

Xu Tianran complained funny, that girl is really a noisy person.

"Although the first celestial-level soul guide mecha built by Mr. on the moon will be used for a while, it will definitely belong to that Zhang Lexuan in the end, and the little girl also knows that she is in a hurry."

Xu Jinghong said with a smile, his own naughty little girl finally knew that she was in a hurry, which was a good thing.

"I really can't imagine what kind of existence the thousand-mile-high soul guide mecha is?"

As soon as he thought of the celestial-level soul guide mecha that Mr. was planning, Xu Tianran felt as if he was in a dream.

He is no stranger to the soul guide mecha, not only has he seen the original soul guide mecha body of Mr., but he has also visited the half-finished soul guide mecha in Mingde Hall.

But even the soul guide mecha they made in Mingdetang was only fifteen meters high, which was completely incomparable with the soul guide mecha with a height of 10,000 miles like Mr.

If nothing else, that size alone is enough to crush everything, even if God has to kneel against that size.

"It is used to fight against the Divine Realm, and we must not let the Divine Realm merge into our plane, otherwise there will be no way to fight, and then we can only leave our homeland and wander in the starry sky."

With a grim face, Xu Jinghong knew that the ultimate use of the Heavenly Body-level Soul Guide Mecha was all built to fight against the God Realm.

And that's just the first one, and there will be more celestial-level soul guide mecha to be created later.

The most important point is that the celestial-level soul guide mecha is still a spaceship, in case the war with the god realm is unfavorable, they can also leave in the soul guide mecha, and the power of the soul guide mecha is enough for them to survive in the starry sky.

Wait until you escape from the sphere of influence of the God Realm, find another planet to hide and develop slowly, and when you accumulate enough strength, you will make a comeback.

"I will take care to prevent the retention of the new soul guide system within the empire, even if we are defeated and flee in the end, we will never leave the new soul guide system to the gods of the divine realm."

Xu Tianran has enough consciousness that even if he dies, he will not let the enemy gain benefits.

It is better to be a broken jade than a complete tile, which is a style of conduct that must be possessed as an emperor, even if you defeat me, you will not expect to get any spoils.

"Engineering satellites have to continue to be built, the more the better, the current scale is only enough to smelt moon-like moons, and the scale required to smelt planets like our world in the future will be even more exaggerated."

Xu Jinghong talked about engineering satellites, smelting the moon is only the first step, and then they will smelt other planets, the first step is to extract energy materials and continue to build celestial-level soul guide mechas, and the second step will be to directly inject the molten magma into the underground magma of this world through the space channel, so as to expand the size of the planet.

Only by expanding the size of the planet to a certain extent can they dare to give it a go with the Divine Realm, otherwise it will be embarrassing to accidentally blow up their own planet.

"The stability of the continent is also very important, and it is necessary to form a barrier so as not to cause a catastrophe."

Compared with the engineering satellites that have formed assembly lines, Xu Tianran is more concerned about the stability of the mainland.

The expansion of the planet is not easy, with the size of the planet, the slightest movement is a natural disaster for them humans, and they must take precautions.

"This matter... Be careful! ”

Xu Jinghong was about to say something, when his complexion suddenly changed drastically, and he opened the martial soul as soon as possible, and cast the Natal Soul Guide Sun God Fire Cover, enveloping the entire main stand.

At the moment when the Sun God Fire Cover appeared, a dark green fist smashed into it, and in an instant, it turned into a viscous juice that enveloped the Sun God Fire Cover, and corroded and sneered.

"Poison doesn't die!"

Seeing the dark green venom, Xu Jinghong was shocked and angry.

This thing still dares to appear in front of him, can't he find death?

"Eighth Soul Technique: Death Realm!"

didn't care about Xu Jinghong's blocking, Poison Immortal performed the eighth soul technique, and a dark green light burst out from his body, instantly enveloping the entire competition venue.

That's right, poison immortal is here to slaughter, these will be their future enemies, naturally they have to take the opportunity to die, and the pressure in the future can be reduced a lot.

And the eighth soul skill is his strongest group attack skill, coupled with the strength blessing of his own hundred-level god, the power of the soul skill has reached a limit, as long as it is not Super Douluo's, the middle one will definitely die.

At the same time, Yan Shaozhe and Feng Ling, who had already reached level ninety-eight because of taking immortal grass and ontological martial soul transformation, performed the martial soul fusion technique, and turned into a light and dark phoenix and crashed into Xu Jinghong and the others who had just rushed out, blocking them from death, preventing them from blocking the release of the poisonous immortal soul technique.

Dai Jinhu also fused with a partner to form the Netherworld White Tiger, facing the other Super Douluo of the Sun and Moon Empire.

The strong men in the rear also kept up, for this attack and killing plan, the four of them can be said to be the strongest ones, from the poison immortal to the group attack, they are responsible for solving those Super Douluo, so as to hit the four empires, especially the Sun and Moon Empire.

Otherwise, if you really want the four empires to follow the development of the Super Divine Academy, the gap between them and them will become bigger and bigger, and when the time comes, people don't have to do anything, and their side will have to collapse first.

So the attack plan itself is also a kind of helplessness, and they have no choice.

It's just that although the idea is beautiful, the reality is cruel.

There has always been a protective shield in the venue to isolate it, which was previously to prevent the contestants' soul skills from reaching the audience area, but now it is just blocking the poisonous immortal poison skills.

Although the strength of the poison immortal is very strong, and the poison skill has reached the extreme, the energy shield arranged by the Sun and Moon Empire is not bad, and it is powered by the No. 2 solar furnace, unless there is a righteous god with a god position, it cannot be broken, at least the poison is not dead.

"The human heart is indeed the most complicated thing in the world."

Karl, who was hidden in the audience, was stunned and shook his head with emotion.

He didn't expect Shrek to come over at this time to attack and kill, and he didn't know how to describe the thoughts of these people.

"It was supposed to be a vacation, but I didn't expect to have to work!"

With a grit, Carl was ready to receive the soul martial souls that pulled those dead.

He's short of a revenant to shape an engineering mech!

As for the battle on this side, he didn't intend to stop it, and his father had also told him not to get involved in the battle between empires, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble.

The emperor's mind is the most difficult to guess, and it is much more complicated than a woman's mind.

"That's what the target was."

Suddenly, he turned his head to look in a direction as if he had a feeling, and Carl sensed Huo Yuhao's breath, as well as Long Xiaoyao and Xuanzi.

That location is the Imperial Palace, to be precise, the location of the Royal Offering Hall, where the No. 2 Sun Furnace is located, and it is also linked to the latest soul guide instruments of the Royal Offering Hall, including the newly made Ontology Martial Soul Transformation Soul Guide Cabin.

It seems that those forces want to rob again, a group of greedy barbarians.

After complaining, Carl still didn't participate, but soon regretted it a little.

"I'm grass, don't toss around if you don't understand!"

Sensing the deadly threat coming from there, Carl quickly understood what was going on and hurried away.

Not to mention Carl, who ran away decisively here, in the royal worship hall on the other side, Huo Yuhao was so anxious that he was sweating profusely.

He thought that everything would go well, but after all, it was the first time he came into contact with this kind of solar furnace, and he needed to slowly explore and try, and then he tried it wrong, and injected all the fuel in the furnace into the fission sun, which made the reaction intensify, and he couldn't suppress it even if he wanted to.

In this state, he didn't dare to enter the spiritual sea, once it exploded, the spiritual sea would have to be shattered.

"Can it be done?"

Feeling the increasingly terrifying energy fluctuations of the Sun Furnace, Xuanzi asked eagerly.

Even if he is a hundred-level god, he still feels his insignificance in the face of the energy in the solar furnace, and if he really wants to explode, he will definitely be bombarded into slag.

This kind of power is too terrifying, it is countless times more powerful than the dozens of ninth-level fixed soul guide cannons that the Sun and Moon Empire dropped together last time, and it is definitely not something they can resist.

Huo Yuhao didn't say anything, but it could be seen from the sweaty head that he was definitely not optimistic.

"Let's go!"

Long Xiaoyao saw that Huo Yuhao couldn't handle it, so he decisively grabbed it and rushed out.

Xuanzi followed closely behind, running wildly at the expense of divine power, and the increasingly powerful energy fluctuations behind him made him more and more terrifying.

Going to die, going to die!

"Run!"

Passing by the competition venue, the dragon roared wildly, and his body kept passing and continued to soar.

The poisonous immortal who was pressed and beaten by Xu Jinghong was stunned, but they could hear Long Xiaoyao's anxiety, and they ran away without thinking about it.

They all clearly heard that Long Xiaoyao was about fleeing, not retreating, obviously the problem was not small, and it was really possible to die if he stayed.

"Shrek!"

Xu Jinghong seemed to understand something and roared angrily, threw Xu Tianran down and flew to the royal worship hall, saw the sun furnace that had begun to melt, and without thinking about it, he integrated his sun god fire cover with the sun martial spirit, and while suppressing, he flew up against the sun furnace and flew to a lake outside the imperial city.

The Sun Furnace must not be allowed to explode in the Ming Capital, otherwise the entire Ming Capital will be destroyed, and they cannot afford the loss of the Sun and Moon Empire.

"Give it to me!"

Sensing that the fission sun was expanding dramatically, Xu Jinghong's eyes were about to split, and he decisively burned all his blessing sun god fire cover, just hoping to buy a little more time.

With all this effort, coupled with the extreme burst of willpower, the fission sun crashed into the lake outside the city.

Immediately after that, everyone saw the appearance of a second sun, a sun that appeared on the earth.

The sun swelled rapidly, engulfing everything in it, and finally engulfing it towards Mingdu.

In the face of this catastrophic power, manpower is pitiful.

Soon half of the Mingdu was swallowed up, and then the ball of light exploded and turned into a shockwave, destroying the remaining half of the Mingdu building, and then a huge mushroom cloud rose, allowing everyone on the other side of the moon to notice.

"What's going on?"

Tian Hao turned his head to look at the bright spots that appeared on Douluo Xing's side, very confused.

What's wrong?

"It's Mingdu there, something must have happened!"

The orange that was busy not far away also turned his head to look over, compared the proportion of land, and finally roughly determined that it was Mingdu.

"That's supposed to be a nuclear explosion, could it be that your Sun and Moon Empire is trying to create nuclear weapons?"

Tian Hao's mind was wide open, pondering that the Sun and Moon Empire might be making nuclear weapons.

After all, even the solar furnace and the fission sun have been tinkered with, and with mature technology, it is much easier to tinker with nuclear weapons.

In particular, the Sun and Moon Empire also invited Nan Shuishui to visit for a period of time last year, and I heard that he bought a lot of soul power, obviously planning to make nuclear weapons.

It's just that there's no need to detonate near Mingdu, right?

Wouldn't it work in the desert or the ocean?

"Something happened!"

The white-eyed and unobtrusive teacher, Tangerine hurriedly ran to the Chaoshen Space Station, and Xu Tianzhen, who was controlling the core of the Sun Spirit Wheel Soul Guide over there, also realized that something big had happened, and hurriedly ran to the Chaoshen Space Station, returned to the ground along the space channel placed inside, and then used the big clock to open up the space portal, and went straight to Mingdu.

But the scene in front of them made them dumbfounded, the entire Ming capital had almost disappeared, half of it had become a big pit, full of hot lava, half of it had become ruins, and there was not much breath of life, almost becoming a dead city, or purgatory on earth.

How so?

"You're not going to make a nuclear weapon and store it in the imperial capital, are you?"

Tian Hao followed out of the space portal, looking at the human purgatory in front of him and couldn't help but feel speechless.

At first glance, you can see that it is the scene of a nuclear explosion, but the Sun and Moon Empire is too violent, put this kind of big killing weapon in the national capital, once the explosion of the entire national capital has to be finished, just like the ammunition depot that was detonated by Huo Yuhao in the original destiny trajectory, it blew up and erased one-third of the Ming Capital, and half of the buildings in the capital became dilapidated buildings......

Wait a while, this shouldn't be Huo Yuhao's doing, right?

The arrangement of fate?

Suddenly thinking of a possibility, Tian Hao frowned, and became more and more sure of this guess.

"Fate!"

With a sigh, Tian Hao stretched out his palm, enveloping the entire Ming Capital and a radius of 100 miles with super computing power, and the nuclear radiation of the nuclear explosion converged.

The explosion of nuclear weapons is only the first wave of damage, and the subsequent nuclear radiation is equally deadly.

Although I have no chance to stop this catastrophe, I can help a little.

Of course, I didn't forget to collect the souls and martial soul origins of those deceased, and then give them a new life, and when I have time in the future, I will figure out the origin plan and arrange brainwashing and rebirth.

"Your Majesty!"

Tangerine followed the special induction formed by practicing the martial soul fusion technique with Xu Tianran, found Xu Tianran who was hiding in the ground, and hurriedly helped him up.

"Shrek!"

Xu Tianran, who was embarrassed and badly injured, looked at the tragic situation of Mingdu, and was so angry that blood sprayed wildly, and his eyes were about to split.

He wants Shrek dead!

"It's Shrek!"

Xu Tianzhen was also stunned, and gritted his teeth with hatred for Shrek.

"Teacher, you can't keep Shrek and the White Tiger Empire anymore!"

Tangerine held back her anger and looked at her teacher, they must take revenge.

"I won't get involved in the inter-empire war, but if you want to do it, try to hurry up and don't fight a protracted war."

Tian Hao did not refuse, but asked everywhere.

Wars can exist, but they must be resolved quickly and with the greatest possible reduction of casualties.

Of course, even if there are indeed large-scale casualties, as long as the soul is still there, it will not have much impact, and the transformation into an intelligent engineering mecha will still be able to work anyway, and the work efficiency will be higher.

"Tangerine, you go and personally build space-based satellites, destroy White Tiger City and Shrek City, and I will send a legion to march into the White Tiger Empire."

Xu Tianran, who had eased up a little, ordered that this time he would completely remove the White Tiger Empire and Shrek!

"The concubine is ordered!"

Tangerine saluted slightly, and then walked to the space portal with a frosty face and came to the Super Divine Academy, where he personally made a strategic satellite with space-based weapons.

In the past, there were only conceptual and calculated drawings for this kind of satellite, but they did not make them, because they thought that they would not be able to use them in a short time.

After all, that kind of satellite can only be aimed at the ground, not outer space, and it is not very useful to make it.

But Shrek's current behavior annoys her and hates her, and she must erase it, even if Shrek hides deep underground, she will bombard it to slag.

Although Xu Tianzhen is also extremely resentful, she understands that the imperial brother needs herself more now, and Mingdu also needs herself, and she wants to stay and guard.

Mingdu is gone, and she and the empire can't live without the imperial brother.

Tian Hao casually healed Xu Tianran's injury, and immediately went to the core of the explosion, closed his eyes and sensed carefully, and stretched out his palm with surprise.

Points of light converged from all directions, and finally turned into a ball of light, with a faint figure inside.

"There can still be this kind of creation!"

Karl appeared on the side at some point, staring earnestly at the blob of light and the figure inside.

That light cluster is the origin of Xu Jinghong's Sun Martial Soul, and the figure in it is Xu Jinghong, to be precise, Xu Jinghong's divine soul.

The current state of Xu Jinghong is very peculiar, he has separated from the human body and has become an existence similar to an elemental life, and his soul has also transformed into a divine soul.

"Thank you, sir, for the rescue!"

After the soul was gathered completely, Xu Jinghong, whose consciousness had recovered with it, sensed the changes in himself and the surrounding situation, and saluted Tian Hao.

"You're a god now!"

Tian Hao sighed with emotion, he didn't expect Xu Jinghong to become a god through this method, the divine soul and the sun martial soul were fused together, and it was also fused with nuclear energy, breaking through the limit and reaching the god-level level.

The gods themselves are a kind of energy life similar to elemental lifeforms, beyond the limitations of the mortal body of the flesh, and it is better to add some rules, such as those righteous gods who have god positions, and those who are almost those priests and sky survey hunters.

Xu Jinghong is now a god-level life form, and it can be regarded as a blessing in disguise.

Otherwise, with its heritage, it would be difficult to survive the Nine Heavenly Tribulations without being able to condense the supergod core, even if he obtained the inheritance left by Ning Fengzhi, he would have to cultivate for many years.

"The old man wants to break through, but it is definitely not this way to break through!"

Xu Jinghong's divine soul walked out of the Sun Martial Soul, and incorporated the Sun Martial Soul into his body to form a flame figure, staring at Mingdu, who was like purgatory on earth, extremely resentful.

While it's a good thing to take the opportunity to break through, it's too costly.

"Your current state is not stable, first go to the fission sun inside the planet engine to stay and recuperate."

Tian Hao opened a space portal that went straight to the planet engine and motioned for Xu Jinghong to go over.

This kind of transformation is too rough and direct, and naturally there will be many problems, which must be solved slowly.

Xu Jinghong held back his anger and entered the space portal.

Although he has completed the transformation this time, he does have many hidden dangers, and he can't exert much strength, so he can only stabilize his state first, and then find a way to enhance himself, and only with real god-level combat power can he be qualified to take revenge.

"What's the situation?"

Closing the door of the space, Tian Hao asked his cheap son.

He only had a guess, probably related to the eldest nephew, but it was not clear what was going on.

"I came to see the game to relax, and suddenly the poison didn't die and it was killed, I didn't feel it before, it should have been mixed in with a soul guide that can store living things......"

Carl didn't hide it, he told what he saw, and he became more and more wary of Shrek.

That's a bunch of ruthless people, a bunch of crazy people!

Their Holy Spirit Sect used to be ruthless, but compared to what Shrek did, it was nothing more than a drop in the bucket, and it was worthy of being an academy that could be passed down for thousands of years and maintained the number one for thousands of years.

"Dogs can't change their!"

Tian Hao complained, thinking that Shrek's repeated blows would change, who would think that he would still be that virtuous.

"Arrange to collect the souls of the war as soon as possible, what can be used directly by me, and cannot be used by the diehards who can be used by me, we need more intelligent engineering soul guide mechas, the more the better."

After giving the order, Tian Hao returned to the moon and continued to build the Moon Spirit Wheel.

He has almost built the Sun Spirit Wheel, only the shell is handed over to the disciples under his command to make it, and now he is making the Moon Spirit Wheel, those two melee type are easy to tinker with, and they don't need to have too many functions, just pay attention to the strength of the edge.

But the big Moon Essence Wheel is much more complicated, even more complicated than the Sun Essence Wheel.

The most important thing is that according to his vision, the power must at least be able to slice through the planet, and it is a real star-facing weapon.

Just like the Sky Blade No. 7 in the supergod universe next door, the blade at the bottom can even split the earth, and it is still the kind that can be easily split.

And what he wants is not only to split ordinary planets, but also to be able to split the divine realm, at least to split the shield of the divine realm.

This needs to be carefully crafted, and it is also necessary to shape Zhang Lexuan's fifth soul ring fusion martial soul origin into the soul guide core of the Moon Spirit Wheel, driving the upgrade of this Moon Spirit Wheel, and finally becoming an artifact.

It's a big project!

"What's going on?"

At this time, Zhang Lexuan flew over, she had just noticed the bright spots that suddenly flashed on Douluo Star, and then Xu Tianzhen and Tangerine left in a hurry, and it didn't take long for Meng Hongchen and the teacher and others to leave, something big must have happened.

It's just that she was restricted from returning to Douluo Star, and she doesn't know what happened now.

(End of chapter)