The winner's men accompanied several turtle sea tribes to explore the surrounding area, and finally discovered this suspicious mountain, which had traces of being melted by the flames.

It is about 100 miles away from the Xuanhuang River Valley.

However, at this distance, the arrow shot was able to melt the Dharma Body of the Protector Venerable on the two people in the Ten Thousand Immortal Palace, and one arrow caused the Spirit Body of the Ten Thousand Immortal Palace to fall!

The power of that arrow is truly terrifying!

Perhaps, at least they are all the existence of the peak of distraction.

The two distractions of the Xuangui Sea Clan had gloomy expressions, and after careful investigation, they found no other traces except for some melted rocks, trees, and so on.

They looked at the winner's person and said, "Can you ask Daoist friends to send someone to check and see if there are any suspicious people around." ”

"My Xuangui Sea Clan doesn't have such archery powerhouses, besides, our Xuangui Sea Clan is proficient in water supernatural powers, what does that arrow have to do with our Xuangui Sea Clan?"

The winners are silent and half-paid.

That being said.

But at that time, the Xuangui Sea Clan found the spirit body of the Ten Thousand Immortal Palace, and it was true that they wanted to do something to them, and they still watched in front of everyone, which could not be relied upon.

Now that the spirit body of the Ten Thousand Immortals Palace has died because of this matter, no matter whether the murderer is found or not, the Xuangui Sea Clan will have to carry this account.

The Venerable who led the team of the winner bowed slightly, and said, "Okay, it's not a hassle to send someone to investigate this matter, but over there in the Ten Thousand Immortals Palace, Daoist friends think about how to deal with it." ”

The Xuangui Sea Clan was aggrieved when he heard this.

But he didn't dare to stay outside the Canggu Immortal City for a long time, and soon followed the winner's people back to the Immortal City.

After all, they were the strongest and were no more than two distraction demon venerables, but the Ten Thousand Immortal Palace had a Cave Void Dao Lord nearby, and they didn't know if they were gone, so they naturally didn't dare to act rashly.

The other side.

When the mana Dao body was destroyed, the Marquis Li Batian, who was far away in the Great Yan Immortal Dynasty, and the Gu Yan of the Ten Thousand Immortal Palace, both of them sensed it, their faces changed suddenly, and they hurriedly walked out of the retreat.

Before anyone could ask what was going on outside, the elder who was in charge of guarding the soul card had already found it, and he was extremely panicked, and after seeing them, he trembled and reported that Gu Shaokun and Lord Rumeng, the soul cards of the two were shattered!

"The soul monument is broken?" Gu Yan and Li Batian stood on the spot, their bodies trembled, and they even staggered back two steps unsteadily, almost falling to the ground.

The shattering of the soul card means that the soul of the person has dissipated and fallen!

Neither could accept it.

"Shaokun and Old Ancestor went to Canggu Immortal City, how could the soul card be shattered? What the hell is going on! Gu Zhen's heart trembled, and the whole person seemed to have aged a lot all of a sudden.

He gritted his teeth and braced himself so that he would not sit on the ground.

Gu Shaokun is the most talented junior in their ancient family! Not one of them!

Similarly, it is also one of the most beneficial, gifted in the Ten Thousand Immortals Palace over the years.

O spirits!

If Gu Shaokun can grow up, maybe he will be more demonic than the Red Moon Dao Lord of the Earth Immortal Mansion, even if the Earth Immortal Mansion has the advantage now, what if it in turn suppresses the Ten Thousand Immortal Palace?

Give them some time in the Ten Thousand Immortal Palace, and they will definitely be able to press the Earth Immortal Mansion under their feet again!

But—

Now the demon of their ancient family, the Daozi of the Ten Thousand Immortal Palace, has fallen because he went to Canggu Immortal City!

How can this be acceptable to Gu Yan?

"Ahhh

After enduring it for a long time, Gu Yan still couldn't bear the sadness in his heart after all, and roared angrily, and that sad roar shook the entire Ten Thousand Immortal Palace, and all the immortal cultivators in the Ten Thousand Immortal Palace were alarmed.

The other side.

Great Yan Immortal Dynasty.

Hou Ye Li Batian's closure of the city, at this moment is also a change, the wind is fierce, the clouds cover the entire sky in an instant, thunder bursts, and the terrifying immortal power erupts from the depths of the Hou Mansion, shaking the entire Decepticon Immortal City.

"Like a dream!"

Li Batian gritted his teeth and endured the pain of losing his daughter, but his voice of gnashing his teeth still spread to the ears of the immortal cultivators in the entire Immortal City, making countless people's hearts tremble and panic.

Master Hou, what's the matter!?

It didn't take long.

The people in Xiancheng saw the guards under the command of the Deceptive Marquis gathered, and a total of three fourth-order warships and seven third-order warships of the 5,000-strong army passed through the Xiancheng teleportation array platform, leaving with an extremely oppressive aura of slaughter.

This kind of movement caused an uproar among the people of the city, who were all talking about what was going on.

Time passed slowly.

More than two years later.

The news of Gu Shaokun's fall in Canggu Immortal City had only just reached the Great Qianxiu Immortal Realm, and this news shocked many people and forces.

The only spirit body in the Ten Thousand Immortals Palace, Tianjiao-Gu Shaokun, who doesn't know!

This is definitely the treasure bump of the Ten Thousand Immortals Palace, there is no one.

I didn't see that this person made a big fuss in the Dixian Mansion before, and in the end, there was nothing to do, and he left safely.

It can be said that if anyone dares to touch Gu Shaokun, it will basically stab the entire Ten Thousand Immortal Palace.

It's definitely an undying mortal enemy.

Dixian Mansion.

The current mansion owner, Fan Xiao, was shocked: "I went to Canggu Immortal City, but I died over there?" Who is so bold that he actually broke the lifeblood of the Ten Thousand Immortal Palace! ”

Huang Shitao said: "It is said that it is the Xuangui Sea Clan, and the Xuangui Sea Clan also appeared on the side of Canggu Immortal City not long ago, and I don't know what happened to have a conflict with the Ten Thousand Immortal Palace, and the result was that the Xuangui Sea Clan killed Gu Shaokun, the spirit of the Ten Thousand Immortal Palace. ”

"Perhaps, it's because the Xuangui Sea Clan doesn't care, or even the Xuangui Sea Clan's hand specifically targeting the Ten Thousand Immortal Palace."

Is it?

Fan Xiao, Huang Candle, and some Venerable Ancestors and Yuanying True Monarchs of the Earth Immortal Mansion were silent, silently digesting this unexpected surprise.

Although they felt that this matter was a bit strange, if the Xuangui Sea Clan chose to do it, then why didn't they come to the Great Cadre Cultivation Immortal Realm, but chose to slaughter a Daozi of the Ten Thousand Immortal Palace on the side of Canggu Immortal City?

Moreover, the Xuangui Sea Clan was so powerful that they didn't let Gu Shaokun run away.

From this point of view, it seems that the Xuangui Sea Clan had already premeditated, and laid a net against the Ten Thousand Immortal Palace on the side of Canggu Immortal City!

The Heavenly Fool Daoist took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "The Xuangui Sea Clan, more than a hundred years ago, they once pushed the Demon Clan to attack the Human Race of the Great Immortal Cultivation Realm, and now they have ambushed and killed the Spirit Dao of the Ten Thousand Immortal Palace, cutting off the root of the Ten Thousand Immortal Palace. ”

"They, they haven't given up on my great cultivation immortal realm!"

"Mansion Master, we have to guard against this matter, we must keep an eye on the Xuangui Sea Clan, don't they sneak into the Great Qianxiu Immortal Realm to ambush our Earth Immortal Mansion or other immortal sects Tianjiao, we will be alert."

"When the time comes, there will be no people, and everything will be late!"

Fan Xiao shook his head heavily, feeling that what the Heavenly Fool Daoist said made sense.

Suddenly, she glanced at the Xianmen Hall and didn't see her little uncle.

Fan Xiaolian asked, "What about Uncle Junior?" Where did he go? ”

Huang Zhuyu reported: "He said that he went out for retreat, but he didn't let me follow, and I don't know where he went. ”

Fan Xiao was immediately worried when he heard this: "Find the little uncle as soon as possible, the Xuangui Sea Clan is so crazy, don't target the little uncle at that time!" ”

They discussed for a long time, and they also planned to convene a meeting of the Great Qianxian Alliance, so that all the Great Qianxian Sects would begin to guard against the attack of the Xuangui Sea Clan.

Regarding the attack and fall of the Spirit Body Daozi of the Ten Thousand Immortal Palace, the news that the Ten Thousand Immortal Palace may be targeted by the Xuan Turtle Sea Clan, the happiest one is the Nine Spirits Immortal Mountain.

Jiuling Immortal Mountain was robbed of two large immortal cities by the Futu Buddha Gate before, and it was also bloodbathed by the Futu Buddha Gate.

Two more immortal cities fell into the hands of the Ten Thousand Immortal Palace, and they were not taken back.

all these years.

Although the Futu Buddha Sect was expelled by the Great Qianxian Alliance, the loss of the Nine Spirits Immortal Mountain was irreparable.

Besides.

The Ten Thousand Immortal Palace has never stopped plundering and invading the Nine Spirits Immortal Mountain, and the matter between the Ten Thousand Immortals Palace and the Nine Spirits Immortal Mountain, the Great Qianxian Alliance doesn't care, or it can't be managed.

It can be said that even if the Futu Buddha Gate was expelled, the situation of the Nine Spirits Immortal Mountain did not improve.

It's even worse than when they formed the Immortal Alliance before.

At this moment.

In the Immortal Gate Hall of the Nine Spirits Immortal Mountain, the mountain lord Nine Spirits Fairy was discussing the fall of Gu Shaokun with a group of elders.

"Mountain Lord, although the fall of the Spirit Body Daozi of the Ten Thousand Immortal Palace can make the Ten Thousand Immortal Palace without a potential threat, but that is only a potential threat, even if he is still alive now, it will not cause any damage to my Nine Immortal Mountain."

"What we should consider is how to deal with the invasion and plundering of the Ten Thousand Immortal Palace as a whole!"

"If it goes on like this, without the strong attack of the Ten Thousand Immortal Palace, our Nine Spirit Immortal Mountain may collapse by itself!"

The Great Elder of the Nine Spirit Immortal Mountain said with a sad face.

Now the Ten Thousand Immortal Palace is taking a gradual encroachment method, poaching the people of the Nine Spirits Immortal Mountain little by little and plundering the resources of the Nine Spirits Immortal Mountain.

From the roots, it will collapse the Nine Spirits Immortal Mountain little by little.

In this way, the price paid by the Ten Thousand Immortals Palace is the smallest, but the gain is the greatest!

And in this way, the Nine Spirits Immortal Mountain can't deal with it at all, the disciples, elders, and the families and forces in the original Nine Spirits Immortal Mountain territory are now all rebelling and fleeing from the Nine Spirits Immortal Mountain region little by little.

If this continues, the Nine Spirits Immortal Mountain will be empty.

Without the strong attack of the Ten Thousand Immortal Palace, the Nine Spirits Immortal Mountain itself will perish first.

The joy in the heart of the Nine Spirit Fairy suddenly disappeared, and the sadness appeared on her face again, she glanced at the elders in the Immortal Palace, and asked in a deep voice, "Do you elders have any proposals?" ”

The Great Elder replied: "I still mean that, only when the Earth Immortal Mansion is over, can the Ten Thousand Immortal Palace be stopped." ”

His vicissitudes of life glanced at everyone present, and finally landed on the Nine Spirit Fairy, and said in a condensed voice: "Maybe the Earth Immortal Mansion also has bad intentions towards my Nine Spirit Immortal Mountain, but even if the Earth Immortal Mansion is greedy, it can't compare to the Ten Thousand Immortal Palace wanting to swallow our Nine Spirit Immortal Mountain." ”

"Instead of going on like this and waiting for death, it's better to completely fall to the Earth Immortal Mansion now and lead the Earth Immortal Mansion to the end."

"We, the Nine Spirits Immortal Mountain, need to have the consciousness of putting them to death and then be born."

These words caused heated discussions and debates among the elders of the Nine Spirit Immortal Mountain.

Some elders felt that he was alarmist, no matter what, their Nine Spirits Immortal Mountain was also an immortal gate, with the Cave Void Dao Lord Ancestor in charge, even if the Ten Thousand Immortals Palace came to attack with all its might, it would be impossible to destroy their Nine Spirits Immortal Mountain.

In that case, what about a hard encounter with the Ten Thousand Immortals Palace?

Even if it is really gone in the end, it is a big deal to fight to the death with the Ten Thousand Immortal Palace, if you can't fight, then you can still transfer to secretly assassinate the younger generation of the Ten Thousand Immortal Palace.

However, it was indeed time for the Nine Spirit Immortal Mountain to make a change.

The matter of fully falling to the Earth Immortal Mansion failed to get the approval of the Nine Spirits Dao Lord, but other plans, such as preparing for a death battle with the Ten Thousand Immortal Palace, and making plans to die with the Ten Thousand Immortal Palace, were all agreed by the Nine Spirits Dao Lord.

Before it came to a desperate situation, how could Jiuling Immortal Mountain choose to hand over the foundation to others!

Half a year later.

Jiuling Immortal Mountain once again collapsed with Wanxian Palace, and Jiuling Xianshan began to carry out an assassination plan against Wanxian Palace.

In the same month, the Ten Thousand Immortals Palace announced an all-out war against the Nine Spirits Immortal Mountain.

The frontal monks and body refining army besieged the immortal city of the Nine Spirits Immortal Mountain, and seized the resources and territories of the Nine Spirits Immortal Mountain.

Secretly, the Ten Thousand Immortals Palace is also assassinating and co-opting the people of the Nine Spirits Immortal Mountain.

The two Xianmen forces officially began a battle to the death.

In this battle, one of them will fall.

The situation in the Great Qianxiu Immortal Realm has also been turbulent again because of this matter.

Canggu Immortal City.

The Inner Domain is a third-order small cave mansion.

Su Yu closed his eyes in the talisman room for a long time, and there was a fifth-order low-grade talisman paper in front of him, as well as the corresponding talisman ink, talisman pen and other things, and the spiritual light of the inheritance of the Ten Thousand Shadows talisman in his mind kept emerging.

The fifth-order low-grade Ten Thousand Shadow Talismans contain seventeen rune paper figures for different purposes.

Flying swords, war knives, war spears, bows and arrows, fairy ropes, shields, and even psychedelic substitution of death, dormant assassination, poisoning, self-explosion, and so on.

Now Su Yu is comprehending the fifth-order lower grade bow shadow talisman.

A few years ago, he had drawn a large number of talismans in the Dixian Mansion, and the proficiency of the fourth-order top-grade Ten Thousand Shadow Talismans had increased to more than seventy or eighty percent, which was not far from consummation.

Now you can already try to draw a fifth-order low-grade Ten Thousand Shadow Runes.

Perhaps, the power of a fifth-order low-grade Ten Thousand Shadow Talisman is nothing.

But what if he controls dozens, if not hundreds, at once?

With Su Yu's current cultivation of the Golden Cicada Divine Soul Power Realm, the fourth-order top-grade Ten Thousand Shadow Talismans, he had tried, and he could barely manipulate nearly two hundred, manipulating them to cast spells against the enemy, just like his own incarnation.

If it's a fifth-order low-grade Ten Thousand Shadow Runes, then it shouldn't be a problem to control at least ten, right?

And the combat power of a fifth-order low-grade Ten Thousand Shadow Talisman was enough to threaten the early stage Venerable of the Distraction Realm.

Ten fifth-order lower-grade Ten Thousand Shadow Runes joined forces to form a formation, and he felt that there was no problem in suppressing and defeating the Ordinary Distraction Realm Early Stage Venerable.

Airplanes.

Su Yu opened his eyes, the golden cicada method was running in his mind, and in an ethereal state in his mind, he lifted the fifth-order lower grade rune pen on the jade platform, dipped it in the special rune ink, and the mana and divine soul power in his body were integrated into the rune ink through the rune pen in a unique way.

With the faint fairy light blooming with the rune ink, the tip of the rune pen fell on the rune paper.

It seems that the rune is made with a rune pen, but in fact, the rune pen is just an introduction, and the real rune technique is to use the spirit as the 'pen', attracting special rune ink to outline the rune on the rune paper.

Seal a Dao method on the talisman.

If it is a Dao method, it may have the magic of sprinkling beans into soldiers, but if it becomes a talisman, it is a talisman like the Ten Thousand Shadows Talisman.

The Dao method behind the Ten Thousand Shadows Talisman, Su Yu currently has a little understanding in his heart, but because he does not have the inheritance of that Dao method after all, he always feels a lot worse.

Perhaps, behind this talisman that can be appreciated by Yue Xian, the Dao contained in it is not simple.

Time passed slowly.

A little bead of sweat appeared on Su Yu's forehead, and his soul and mana power were rapidly consumed, and he was also invaluable to his invincible foundation and still a fellow practitioner of the Five Elements.

Otherwise, how can you be qualified, and try to draw a fifth-order lower grade talisman at the level of the Yuan Infant Realm?

Ordinary people, even if they have cultivated to the late stage of the Yuan Infant Realm, it is not easy to draw a fourth-order high-grade rune, and it takes a lot of energy and financial resources to have a chance to become a fourth-order high-grade rune master.

Now, Su Yu is going to rely on the cultivation of the Yuan Infant Realm to draw a fifth-order low-grade talisman.

More than two hours later.

With the brilliant golden light blooming on the rune paper on the jade platform, a wave of aura fluctuations between heaven and earth swept in all directions, and vaguely, it seemed that the space of heaven and earth was rippling and fluctuating, and the power of heaven and earth came.

Su Yu took two steps back, waved his hand and took out a large number of spirit stones, catalyzing a massive amount of spiritual energy to supply the fifth-order lower-grade bow shadow talisman on the jade platform to swallow and form.

And the movement of the formation of the fifth-order low-grade talisman was all covered by the illusion stone's manipulation of the large array space, and there was no news of this small 'third-order cave mansion'.

More than a quarter of an hour passed.

The movement of the fifth-order lower-grade bow shadow talisman on the jade platform finally subsided, and the immortal light was restrained.

A palm-sized, like a paper figure holding a longbow, appeared in front of Su Yu's eyes.

Feeling the immortal aura on this fifth-order lower grade talisman, Su Yu's expression was awe-inspiring, and he said secretly: "It seems that it is already comparable to the Venerable at the peak of the first layer of the Distraction Realm." ”

If he is more familiar with the materials and the materials are better, maybe he will be able to draw a Ten Thousand Shadow Talisman comparable to the second-layer Venerable of the Divided God Realm!

"Go on."

Su Yu put away the talisman, and then sat down cross-legged to recover his mana and soul power.

After his mind recovered, he tried to draw the bow shadow talisman again.

It's just that this time, when I was halfway through the painting, it was destroyed because of the slightest fluctuation of the aura of heaven and earth.

Shaking his head, Su Yu did not continue to try, but began to operate the Five Elements Technique, cultivating Heavenly Immortal Alchemy Technique, Heavenly Alchemy Divine Technique and other Dao methods, completing today's daily practice and accumulating proficiency.

The next morning.

Su Yu reined in the Dao Domain of the Years, stopped the use of the Cicada Chrysalis Dao Method, and turned his cultivation into the seventh layer of the Dan Realm, and then went out to the Linglong Fu Pavilion.

Three years after Gu Shaokun's fall, a piece of news related to the Great Qianxiu Immortal Realm and the Xuangui Sea Clan spread in Canggu Immortal City.

The Great Qianxiu Immortal Realm Ten Thousand Immortal Palace joined forces with the Great Yan Immortal Dynasty to ask the Xuangui Sea Clan for an explanation.

As a result, he was tragically besieged and killed by the Xuan Turtle Sea Clan.

The Great Yan Immortal Dynasty and the Ten Thousand Immortal Palace each lost a late stage of the Distraction Realm Dao Body and an early or mid-stage Dao Body of the Distraction Realm, and they suffered heavy losses.

The Xuangui Sea Clan said that if the Great Yan Immortal Dynasty and the Ten Thousand Immortal Palace dared to set foot in the Covered Mountains Sea for half a step, the Sea Clan would definitely set off a beast tide to attack the shore and kill them all over the world.

At this time, Su Yu found out that the group of Xuan Turtle Sea Clans in Canggu Immortal City had already left here and disappeared.

On this afternoon, the young lady of the Gongsun family, Gongsun Zixiao, came to Fu Pavilion, and when she saw her, Su Yu suddenly asked: "Miss, do you think the Sea Clan dares to attack the territory of our human race?" ”

Gongsun Zixiao was slightly stunned, and seemed a little surprised that Su Yu would ask such a question.

However, she didn't think much about it, after all, now there were rumors outside about the Xuangui Sea Clan, the Great Yan Immortal Dynasty, and the Wanxian Palace, and there were more people talking about it.

Gong Sun Ziyao chuckled and said, "Although the Xuangui Sea Clan is strong, it is only in the sea area. ”

"If they dare to go ashore, then they are not far from destruction."

"However, if they join forces with other sea clans and demon clans to make a move, and only fight with the Great Yan Immortal Dynasty and the Ten Thousand Immortal Palace, and no longer spread, then it is really hard to say what the result will be."

This judgment is similar to what Su Yu thought in his heart.

Therefore, even if the Xuangui Sea Clan were to start a war with the Great Yan Immortal Dynasty and the Ten Thousand Immortal Palace, there was a high probability that it would not affect other forces.

As for the Great Qianxian Alliance

What needs to be interfered in, what things do not need to be interfered in, Su Yu believes that his senior brother Red Moon Dao Master has his own judgment, and basically there will be no big problem in the Earth Immortal Mansion.

"Then let's fight, preferably for a few hundred years." Su Yu whispered in her heart.

At that time, he will be able to clean them up one by one!

Another half a year passed.

A gorgeous woman came to the Linglong Fu Pavilion with her maid, and the shopkeeper called Su Yu out, and the two of them entertained this distinguished guest from the winner of the first family of Canggu Immortal City.

The winner's daughter is proud and young.

"You still can't draw a third-order top-grade Ten Thousand Shadow Talisman?" Ying You looked at Su Yu, the light in his eyes flashed, and in that moment, Su Yu felt a hint of snooping.

Fortunately, he practiced the Taoist rhyme contained in the immortal text of the word 'yin', and had a unique means of concealment and introverted breath.

The winner's Tianjiao probably didn't see through his disguise.

Su Yu was a little cramped and nervous, and said in a panic: "Not yet, not yet, my talent is not very good, and my current cultivation is only the seventh layer of the Dan Realm." ”

Ying You thought for a moment and said, "Your Fu Pavilion's third-order mid-grade Ten Thousand Shadow Runes, prepare a hundred for me each, and give you a year to prepare, how about it?" ”

The shopkeeper looked at Su Yu, there are also seventeen kinds of third-order middle-grade Ten Thousand Shadow Talismans, one hundred talismans of each kind, that is one thousand seventeen hundred!

It's only been a year.

Su Yu took a deep breath and was a little embarrassed: "I'll do my best." ”

After Ying You left the deposit and left, the shopkeeper was both relieved and a little headache and said: "You promised too quickly, 1,700 third-order middle-grade Ten Thousand Shadow Talismans, it's only been a year, how can you draw it." ”

Su Yu sighed and said, "I can only squeeze in time to take a look, and then take out the little inventory I saved before and see if I can make it up." ”

Maybe it was because Su Yu made a big list, the shopkeeper was in a good mood, and he said in a low voice: "You did the right thing, if you can get on the relationship with Miss Yingyou, it will be good for you and the pavilion master!" ”

Su Yu didn't pay attention to these, and he could easily complete the talisman that Ying You needed.

But of course, this point cannot be leaked.

Another year passed.

The list of talismans in the Linglong Fu Pavilion was all delivered, but during this year, the prices of pills, talismans, magic weapons and other materials in the Canggu Immortal City rose sharply, and the Great Yan Immortal Dynasty and the Wanxian Palace officially declared war on the Xuangui Sea Clan, and began to purchase materials and resources everywhere to prepare for war.

Half a month later, Gongsun Ziyao came to Fu Pavilion to summon the apprentice shopkeeper and Su Yu and said: "One of the overlords of the demon clan, the Long Qi clan, has gathered more than ten big demon clans in the Cangzhou region. ”

"Not long ago, they issued an invitation to Canggu Immortal City, inviting the Terran Tianjiao to go to the Immortal Ancient Land to experience the competition."

"Starting in one year, the period is ten years, and the age limit is five hundred years old for the human race and demon race, and the number is unlimited."

"Entering the ancient land to experience life and death, but the demon clan and the human race will take out a lot of resources to invest in it, and there are countless opportunities."

"In addition, there are countless inheritances of the ancient human race and demon race in the ancient land itself, perhaps, I will go to the ancient land to give it a try."

"And during this time, Fu Pavilion will be handed over to the two of you to be in charge."

(End of chapter)