Chapter 297: Abomination Evolved by Devouring (Complete)

On the other hand, they are short in stature, a bit like a dwarf body type. The degree of anthropomorphism is high. The whole body is gray-white creatures.

Their heads are huge, almost about the size of their bodies, but their limbs have no flesh. The hand-like front thighs were made up entirely of bones and more like claws, and after the battle began, the few such creatures waved their claws and let out a terrible roar.

Although this creature's cry is not as sharp as that of the shebish. But. Under their roar, the abyssal creatures that attack the abomination will have an extra layer of dark red light, albeit weak. But Ye Yinzhu clearly felt that the abyssal creatures attached to the earth by this kind of light would be even more fearless of death. Recklessly rushed to abomination. There is also a slight increase in attack damage.

If the ability of the female demon land is bewitchment, then. This short monster's land ability is supposed to give courage and increase attack power. And the memory of abhorration. It's very fond of this creature. The names of their places are from the abyss plane language and then through Ye Yinzhu's understanding. These short, gray men should be called shamans.

On the continent of Ryuzanus. The orcs also have a shamanic group, but the number is pitiful, and they can increase the warriors to a certain extent by attracting the power of their own totems. Just compared to human magicians. Not only are they scarce in number, but they also have to be too small, so. The original three tribes did not include them in the battle sequence.

By careful analysis of previous battles. Ye Yinzhu discovered. The creatures of the abyss on that hill were like an army of thousands.

Thereinto. The abomination that is controlled by oneself is like a general in the army. And the sheblins are bewitching military advisors, and those shamans are magicians. The other races are just ordinary warriors.

With this discovery. Ye Yinzhu couldn't help but gasp, it seems. This abyssal plane is not as simple as you think. Perhaps these low-level abyssal creatures don't have much intelligence of their own. But to be able to carry out such a combination of troops and command them to come here is not so simple.

Come to think of it. Ye Yinzhu was already a little impatient to see if the situation on the other hills was the same, and he immediately reconnected his spiritual power with the abomination. The perspective shifts to abomination.

When he finished all this, Ye Yinzhu couldn't help but be taken aback. The abomination in front of him was very different from the abomination he had seen before.

Originally, the abomination was only about six meters tall. Now, his height has risen to eight meters. The skin on the surface of the body has changed from a nearly pink color to a dark red, and the waist circumference has increased more than the height. Moreover, his fat head was also tilted towards the shoulder, and next to this head, a bulge grew. The aura emanating from his body visibly became more bloodthirsty. Also more manic. What surprised Ye Yinzhu the most was that the big iron hook on the right arm of this abomination was gone. Instead, it turned into a giant fist. His fist has only four fingers. Keep opening the boudoir. The fists are also dark red, but noticeably darker than the skin on their bodies, with a faint metallic sheen.

At this time. The "hand" of abomination was holding the front strand of the strongest scythe to cut through the food in front of him, and he was enjoying it.

He seems to have become critical. Only those abyssal creatures with relatively strong strength will enter his belly, and for those broken souls. He was unceremonious. Absorb them all.

With such a strong ability to evolve, Ye Yinzhu's heart was cold. Two hours, only two hours of time. The strength of this abomination has obviously been raised a notch. If it was said that it was equivalent to a seventh-level demonic beast before. So. At this time, this abomination had definitely reached the level of the eighth level of demonic beasts.

Although it is not like the magical beasts on the continent of Ryuzanus, all of them are aided by magic, but his plague abilities are even more terrifying than magic in some cases.

Although the abomination has evolved, his soul has already been completely controlled by Ye Yinzhu. There would be no problem, but from his body, Ye Yinzhu saw the epitome of the abyss plane.

If in the Abyssal Plane, the evolution of all living beings is like this abomination, then. If a shemale king died in the first place, can't he evolve one or several more?

The speed at which they evolved was terrifying. Although it was a thousand abyssal creatures sacrificed, it made a seventh-level abomination become an eighth-level, and if it continued to evolve like this, it would continue to devour. So. It's not impossible to evolve to the god level.

Thinking of this, Ye Yinzhu's heart was cold, but he also quickly thought of the problems that evolution would encounter. First of all, whether it is through cultivation or through the simplest devouring to evolve, there will be bottlenecks. The abomination was born and evolved by obtaining a large number of flesh and soul of the same kind.

And judging from the improvement of its previous strength, it should become more and more difficult to evolve as its strength increases, and if it wants to evolve in the future, it must devour stronger abyssal creatures.

When encountering a local opponent, he will naturally become stronger, and the danger will be greater, if it weren't for his own control and assistance, he would have died before.

Every world has its own unspoken rules, and this is no exception. And. Is this simple evolutionary method of abyssal creatures really good? Could there be any problems?

Think of these. Ye Yinzhu immediately decided to let the disgusting devouring continue. He had to find something to explain the doubts in his heart.

So, under the control of Ye Yinzhudi, Abomination shook his huge body and staggered down the hill where he was. Head to the hill on the other side.

This time

Ye Yinzhu wants him to do it,

It's to challenge the creatures of the abyss on another hill.

Scouting through psychic powers. There are at least a few hundred thousand creatures in the abyssal on the outskirts of this hilly area. A thousand less is nothing. Therefore, Ye Yinzhu is not afraid of causing too much turmoil and exposing himself and Xiaolongnu.

The abomination seems to have fully recovered with the devouring of flesh. Under the control of Ye Yinzhu. He soon came to the bottom of the adjacent hills. More evil and furious than before, the aura continues to be released. The green plague on the body is also kept around the body. Step by step, he shook his body and walked down the hill.

The appearance of abomination immediately attracted the attention of the abyssal creatures on the adjacent hills, for a while. The creatures of the abyssal on the hill quickly dispersed to both sides, and an atmosphere of panic immediately appeared.

And at this moment, a cold and hostile message pierced directly into the mind of the abomination.

"Get out of my territory. "The cold signal expresses the most direct meaning.

Under Ye Yinzhudi's control, the abomination still walked towards the top of the mountain as if he hadn't heard it. The abyssal creatures on this hill are in different positions according to their different strengths, and the weak abyssal creatures below naturally dare not fight against Abomination, and the plague on Abomination alone is already something they can't afford. But. When Abomination reached the halfway point of the mountainside, some creatures of the Abyssal that they thought were powerful finally rushed up.

An attack was launched against him.

The abomination's left arm was still in the shape of a large iron hook, while the hand on his right arm held the scythe of the previous scythe. With this weapon, which is more than two meters long, it is definitely a tiger for him. The evil scythe of the wind power coupled with his own strong defense, his strength in all aspects has been greatly improved, and he has a weapon, and the martial arts that Ye Yinzhu can control him use have naturally increased a lot.

The scythe shimmered with a terrifying chill. When more than a dozen abyssal creatures with no weak strength were dismembered in front of the abomination, and were unceremoniously devoured by him, the weak abyssal creatures around him no longer dared to step forward, but just surrounded it from a distance, looking at it with fierce eyes.

The cold message reappeared in the abomination mind, this time more angry and murderous than before.

No need to ask. Ye Yinzhu also knew where this cold information came from, it must be the most powerful abyssal creature on this hill who had discovered the threat posed by abomination.

He immediately controlled the abomination and sent a provocative message to the other party. Then unceremoniously continued to devour the flesh in front of him.

Ye Yinzhu found that the species of abyssal creatures on this hill were almost the same as those on the previous hill. Moreover, although these abyssal creatures take refuge on this hill, they will not directly obey the orders of the most powerful creatures on the top of the mountain, otherwise. Before, when he hated killing the abyssal creatures on his own hills, he would not have encountered such a strong counterattack.

It's just that he wonders a little why the abyssal creatures on this hill don't attack the abomination now?

This doubt did not arise for long. It was quickly resolved, and the cold message came again, "Do you want to swallow my territory? ”

The abyssal creatures above quickly separated, and a tall figure appeared at the end of the passage. Slowly pressed in the direction of the abomination.

Looks like. This kind of territorial scramble is common here, and the surrounding abyssal creatures don't attack. Apparently hated to challenge the abyssal creatures on the top of the mountain. It seems that this is also an unspoken rule.

Slowly descending from the top of the mountain was a vicious sickle with an exceptionally large body. It was already more than five meters tall, more than the earth scythe on the hill that it had hated before, and the two scythe-like front strands had reached a terrifying four meters in length, slanting deep above its head. The scythe shone with a faint blue light, and this scythe was not only larger, but also noticeably thicker. The edge is extremely sharp. Just a light wave. It will also bring a hissing sound of breaking the air. You can see the horror of its attack power.

Moreover, the body of this evil scythe is obviously not as fragile as that of ordinary evil sickles, and on the surface of the body, there is a layer of fine keratin CJ force I0

Although the evil scythe walks very slowly. But judging from his steady lower limbs, the aura on his body, and Ye Yinzhu's previous understanding of the evil scythe, the speed of this evil scythe should be very amazing. After all. He is much more powerful than ordinary evil scythes, and his speed and attack power as a survival instinct naturally increase simultaneously.

Abomination looked coldly at his opponent. The green plague on his body spread rapidly, covering nearly a hundred square meters around his body, and the thick green mist came into contact with the black rocks on the ground. Make a popping sound. Corrosiveness increases significantly as abomination evolves.

The Scythe had small, blue eyes that were out of proportion to his body, and if you didn't look closely, you wouldn't even be able to see them.

When his eyes saw the bulge on the ground on the shoulders of Abomination, the glow in his eyes shrank significantly. The pace of progress has also stopped.

"Get out of my territory. "The scythe's aura is noticeably less powerful than it used to be.

In terms of his size, Ye Yinzhu called him the Lord of the Evil Scythe.

Ye Yinzhu didn't control his hatred and replied. The determination to fight was expressed with actions. Shaking his body, he slowly walked towards the evil scythe. The green mist on the ground has also reached its thickest level.

There was a cold glint in the eyes of one big and one small. The scythe in his right hand swung lightly. The same hiss. The large hook in his left hand is raised to protect his chest.

Just when the abomination was still about thirty meters away from the evil sickle. The scythe finally moved. Just as Ye Yinzhu judged. The scythe had a speed that matched his level, and the huge scythe suddenly unfolded. The body lunged forward, and in an instant, it leapt behind the abomination, and two huge scythes slashed down. One slashed at the neck of the abomination. The other slashed at his scythe-wielding arm.

with abhorrious obese degree. Obviously not as agile as the Scythe, the Scythe Lord's intelligence was obviously much higher than that of ordinary abyssal creatures.

If it is the pre-evolution abomination against this evil scythe lord, it is obviously impossible to win, and he will only die in the opponent's attack, but the abomination in front of him has not only evolved. And. Controlling other lands is still extremely experienced in combat, and has the advanced wisdom of human beings, Qin Emperor Ye Yinzhu.

The body does not turn around in disgust with fatness. He's too fat after all. Even if you turn around, you won't have time to block the opponent's attack. Under the control of Ye Yin Zhudi. His massive body lunged forward suddenly, and in the process of rushing forward, he turned around. This situation made it impossible for him to stabilize his body due to the continuation of his strength. Immediately sat down in the direction of the evil sickle.

Because of this, the two huge scythes of the Scythe, which had slowed down as it entered the green mist, swept in front of the abomination. And it didn't hurt him in the slightest.

With a sonorous sound, the two sickles slashed directly into the black rock, and even Ye Yinzhu was a little surprised that the hard rock was cut out of two huge gaps like tofu. And the Scythe Lord also used all his strength because of his momentum. For a moment, the body suddenly fell into a temporary stiffness. I tried hard to pull my ground scythe out of the rock.

It was at this time. Sitting on the ground, the Earth Abomination took advantage of the opportunity of the Scythe Lord to draw the scythe and bounced off the ground, rushing towards the opponent like a mountain of meat.

The ground scythe in his hand suddenly swung. He looked straight at the Scythe, and the large hook of his other hand slashed at the root of one of the Scythes.

Time is in a hurry,

The scythe can be pulled out of the ground.

There is only one scythe,

He didn't have that much defense as an abomination. In order to protect himself, he hurriedly held the huge scythe in front of him. One big and one small, the two scythes suddenly collided together.

There was a loud bang on the ground, and the sickle in Abomination's hand suddenly shattered. However, the powerful momentum also shook the Scythe Lord's body out of the air.

As one of his scythes was still in the rock, his roots had been struck by a large hook wielded by the abomination of great power. Although he destroyed the abomination of a murderous stab. However, the root of his other scythe still broke instantly. Remaining in the rocks, only the body of a scythe flew out dozens of meters, crashing into the abyss creatures watching the battle before stopping.

Abomination throws away the broken blade in his hand. The right hand is outstretched. Holding the end of the Scythe Lord's scythe embedded in the ground, he pulled out the huge scythe that was four meters long. Compared with the previous two-meter scythe, this scythe is more suitable for his body shape. The faint blue light shone, and the hideous hatred was like a butcher at this time. Looking at the Scythe Lord with fierce eyes. Slowly pressed towards him.

The battle was won and lost in the first moments of the engagement. None of the Twin Bladed Scythe Lords were able to damage Abomination. At this time. The strength is stronger than him, I don't know how many times the hatred holds his scythe. And only one of his two scythes remained. There is no suspense left in the battle.

Ye Yinzhu controlled the abomination and only used the simplest horizontal slashing technique. It shook the scythe in the hands of the Evil Scythe Lord and split his body in two.

The creatures of the surrounding abyss didn't move, they just watched in panic as Abomination devoured the body of the Scythe Lord bit by bit. For them. It's nothing more than a hill changing owner. To use human adjectives to describe these abyssal creatures, it is fitting to be silent.

Pity. Ye Yinzhu didn't have any pity for these abyssal creatures, and when the abomination devoured all the ** and soul of the evil sickle lord, only those two huge scythes were left, without warning. A killing charge was launched.

Detachment of mental power. Ye Yinzhu's thoughts returned to him, and he no longer needed to command the battle on the hills. After evolving, he has the evil scythe lord scythe and the abomination If he can't solve those low-level abyssal creatures, he is not worthy of becoming an evolutionary body, with his strong ** power. The creatures of the abyssal on that hill were simply not spared.

Ye Yinzhu just doesn't like to see that kind of bloody scene. to take back the thoughts. At the same time, he had to think more seriously. A detailed analysis of the observations of the Abyss Plane in the past few hours.

When the leaf sound bamboo

When you open your eyes,

I just found that the little dragon girl was looking at her.

He immediately told the little dragon girl in detail about his judgment of the abyssal creatures, hoping to hear her advice.

After listening to Ye Yinzhu's narration. The little dragon girl groaned for a long time. "If that's what you say." The evolution of creatures in the abyss depends entirely on devouring. This is similar to my judgment, they invaded our continent not because the environment is better there than here. Rather, it is to devour all kinds of living beings that we have living beings to achieve the purpose of strengthening ourselves. If I'm guessing correctly, there must be some constraints in this abyssal plane. So that the creatures of the abyss cannot devour each other infinitely, as the superior. Even the abyssal plane's above-ground superiors. Nor would they want to see their deployment threaten themselves by devouring a large number of abyssal creatures, and how did the abyssal creatures come into being? There must be a special method, but no matter how it is born, it will cost a lot of energy. And this energy consumption may produce a greater consumption in the engulfment of each other. The inability to form a harmonious cycle has resulted in the fact that if devouring is prevalent, the overall energy of the Abyssal Plane will only become weaker, so. They want to put the Devouring Earth in our land. That's why the war happened 10,000 years ago. ”

Ye Yinzhu nodded and said, "What you said is very reasonable, although it is not certain now, but this possibility is very high, but, the battle 10,000 years ago." It is true that a large number of abyssal creatures have died, but there should be some of them who survived and returned to the abyssal plane. These abyssal creatures must have devoured many of our earthly races on the Dragon Gazinus Continent in the war with us. It will naturally produce a certain amount of evolution, so. The Dragon King's judgment may not be entirely correct. There is a good chance that this abyssal plane will be even more powerful than we think. Maybe there is a level of existence like the Mother Demon King, which has appeared because of the evolution of the earth over the past 10,000 years. ”

Xiaolongnu thought for a while and said, "It's pointless to say anything now, only seeing it with your own eyes is the best way to understand, what are you going to do?

Ye Yinzhu nodded. "If according to your judgment." Killing like this will only upset the balance of the Abyssal Plane and weaken the overall power of the Abyss Plane, which is only good for us. And, I wanted to see if his unbalanced killing would lead to something, or even more powerful creatures of the abyss. Isn't that better than if we went to find it ourselves?"

Xiaolongnu said: "Whatever you want." At least a little bit better here. It's close to the exit of the channel. Even if we come to exist like the Shemale King, we still have time to return, but. No matter how you do it. Don't let me see those disgusting guys again, just call me when you're ready to leave. ”

As she spoke, the little dragon girl waved her hands lightly. A faint golden light condensed beneath her feet. The hard black rock melted rapidly like ice and snow meeting flames, and the little dragon girl's body was wrapped in a layer of golden light, slowly blending into the ground. In addition to the spiritual aura still connected to Ye Yinzhu, her whole person seemed to have disappeared out of thin air.

Ye Yinzhu shook his head helplessly. He knows. The little dragon girl hated the environment of this plane, so she chose to go underground to cultivate. Anyway, life energy in this world is very scarce. Now Ye Yinzhu doesn't need her help with anything.

Do dragons like to sleep so much? Whether it's the big lizards that were originally found in the West Dragon Continent. Or the divine dragon of our Eastern Dragon Continent. Seemingly. They all have the same habits. Indignant.

Sleep and sleep. Without the little dragon girl by his side, Ye Yinzhu felt that he was more relaxed, at least he didn't need to explain anything to who he was doing.

With Ye Yin Zhudi's spiritual power, he could completely control more abyssal creatures to kill, but he didn't do that. It is quite normal for an outlier to appear in a group. But at the same time, there are a lot of outliers. That is, there is obviously a problem, and now Ye Yinzhu doesn't want to be concerned by the abyss plane, so. He just put his experience on the great abomination, and didn't control the creatures of the Abyss Plane much more.

The abomination grows in stature. Devouring flesh and soul land speed has also increased significantly. When more than an hour later. Ye Yinzhu felt the hatred of the information over there again. He found that he had completed a sweep of the adjacent hills. Not only did they kill all the creatures of the abyss, but also. He also devoured enough flesh and soul, and was sitting there slowly digesting it.

The way the abyssal creatures digest is significantly different from the various creatures on the continent of Ryuzanus, and they are digested through a form of energy decomposition. As soon as the flesh of the Devoured Land entered his body, it would immediately be disintegrated into energy and integrated into his body, and the more powerful the Devouring Earth creature became. This process of decomposition will naturally become a little slower. On this second hill. With the exception of the Scythe Lord, the other abyssal creatures had already decomposed almost as soon as they were devoured.

This time. The abomination evolution is obviously not as obvious as before. After devouring almost as many abyssal creatures, and even having a Scythe Lord of the same strength as he was before he evolved. There was just a change in his body. It's the arm.

The iron hook on his left arm had also disappeared, and he had also become a four-fingered hand. Ye Yinzhu couldn't help but smile bitterly, he didn't expect it. The hatred under one's control is the same as one's. It also became eight fingers, but. His eight fingers are not used to play the piano. It's used to kill.

A faint light flickered. The smell of blood was very strong in the air. The smell was hard to describe, at least Ye Yinzhu would never go over and smell it himself, the aura of plague in the air was not only from the abomination, but also from those dead abyssal creatures. Ye Yinzhu discovered. Almost all creatures of the abyssal have toxins on them. It's just that the strength is different.

Like Abomination, you can unleash the plague. Obviously a strong toxin.

What to do next?Naturally, he continued to kill, and with both hands, he unceremoniously held the two giant scythes of the Evil Scythe Lord in his hands, and with a flick of both hands, the two large scythes were carried on his shoulders. It looked even more violent, and under Ye Yinzhu's order, he went directly towards another hill.

According to Ye Yinzhu's judgment, the outermost part of these hills. Although it is not known who commanded and controlled the land, each hill has a similar land strength. And the evolved Earth Abomination has two evil scythes. Even if you don't control it yourself. It's enough to sweep a hill like this, so. This time he didn't take control. Just give orders to the abomination of killing. He was left to his own devices.

The creatures in the abyssal plane, it seems that their existence is born for killing and blood, although this abomination soul has been shattered by Ye Yinzhu, but when Ye Yinzhu ordered it to kill the ground. Ye Yinzhu could still feel an almost hysterical pleasure from it, without the slightest rejection, and even went towards the next hill with extreme excitement,

This kind of killing ground characteristic is not possessed even by the most murderous land demonic beasts on the Dragon Zanus Continent. This is the Abyssal Plane. Even if the overall strength of the abyssal creatures is not as good as that of the Dragon Uzinus Continent. However, if you really let the creatures of the Abyss Plane come to the continent of Ryuzanus and use it as a battlefield. Ye Yinzhu didn't dare to imagine what kind of fear and panic would appear.

When Ye Yinzhu first commanded Abomination to fight instinctively, when he saw Abomination begin to devour the creatures of the Abyss, he had already made up his mind to do his best. The earth-possessing creatures of this terrible plane must be completely destroyed. They simply have no meaning to exist.

The killing began again, and as the strength of the abomination increased, the speed of the killing ground also increased significantly. Ye Yinzhu's judgment was very correct. Each of these hills has a land similar to a lord, and the strength of the lords is obviously about the same. Unable to resist the abomination attack of the street with a pair of giant scythes. In less than one human world, four more hills have been "baptized" by that abomination.

Ye Yinzhu's control is not needed at all. This abomination that tasted the sweetness of evolution had already erupted into an extremely bloody attack. Everywhere I went, there was hardly a single living mouth left. Strange to say, the creatures of the abyss on every hill don't seem to run away at all. I'd rather be killed by this abomination than leave the hill.

If the first and second hills are just a coincidence. After the slaughter of the six hills, Ye Yinzhu had already clearly discovered this problem.

Constraint, it is a constraint, there must be some force that restricts these abyssal creatures from daring to leave their territory, and as a lord of the land of abomination, there is obviously no such restriction, which can be seen from the time he attacks each hill to challenge the other party's lord.

These abyssal creatures should be restrained to stay here to protect this hilly land, Ye Yinzhu thought of the key to the problem, they are to protect the exit of the passage or the entrance from the abyss to the Longqi Nus Continent, and protect the two thousand double-headed abominations in the innermost.

After the slaughter of the six hills. After continuous devouring, the abomination controlled by Ye Yinzhu finally evolved again. This time. It's not just his body that evolves. The bulge on the shoulder finally grew. turned into another head. The head, which was slightly smaller than the original one, officially became a member of the Two-Headed Abomination.

The strength of the two-headed abomination Ye Yinzhu briefly assessed it from this abomination, this is already close to the existence of ninth-level demonic beasts, this discovery immediately made Ye Yinzhu a little surprised, that is to say, at the exit of the passage, there are two thousand ninth-level demonic beasts of the same race guarding them. Although their strength may not have really reached the level of the ninth level. But because of the same family. When launching an attack at the same time, the attack power that can be generated must be extremely terrifying, even stronger than the strength of two thousand ninth-level demonic beasts of different races together, and sure enough, the abyss level attaches great importance to the passage.

The slaughter continued, and the two-headed abomination, which was constantly devouring flesh, did not know tiredness at all. The death in his body is constantly enhanced by devouring. Make up for the consumption. Evolution itself, and when he reached the level of Two-Headed Abomination, evolution came to a noticeable halt. After slaughtering another hill, there was no noticeable change in the body. It's just that death can be more abundant.

And it was after the Double-Headed Abomination slaughtered the seventh hill. What Ye Yinzhu was looking forward to finally came.

The slaughter is over. Devour your favorite flesh and soul. Double-headed abhorrence sits on the top of the mountain for a short break. It's a process of digestion and absorption, and it's worth mentioning that those two scythes from the Evil Scythe Lord are like the Scythe of Death. Countless lives have been harvested, but it is still smooth as a mirror, not only is it not half damaged, because of too much killing, it seems to exude a cold murderous aura on it. Just on either side of the two-headed abhorrent body. With these two scythes, it is definitely a tiger with wings for him. It makes the destructive power he can produce in a killing even more terrifying, at least. Until now, no creature had been able to withstand his two scythes attack.

"Who gave you the power to devour the land?" A yin and yang weird voice sounded, this time. It's not ringing in the hateful minds of the two heads. But in the air, the sound seemed to come from all directions, rolling waves, making the hills tremble.

From the instinct of the double-headed abomination, Ye Yinzhu immediately felt the emotion of fear, and the double-headed abomination had already subconsciously grabbed the two giant sickles. Got up from the top of the hill.

Ye Yinzhu immediately used his spiritual power to control the two-headed hatred. Feel the breath around you calmly.

A black streamer of light came rapidly from the distance in the sky, and in a few moments, it had reached the top of the mountain, through the eyes of abomination. Ye Yinzhu saw. It was a monster in the shape of a bird.