Chapter 302: The Battle Begins

After the Great Elder of the Gu Family dodged the attack of the Heavenly Remnant Old Man, he suddenly felt an extremely strong aura fluctuation gushing out behind him, and his heart was suddenly shocked, knowing that he had fallen for the trick, he hurriedly released his body protection aura. When he reacted, Yu Feiyu's attack came violently, and his entire body crashed into the Gu family's Great Elder in an extremely strong posture, and the first type of Bajiquan Tie Shan!

At the moment when the Great Elder of the Gu Family released the body protection aura, a red halo violently emanated on Yu Fei's body, and the powerful qi and blood power was directly released, and the surging qi and blood power exuded extremely amazing fluctuations in the breath of life, directly shattering the body protection aura released by the Gu family elder, seeing this scene, a look of shock welled up in the eyes of the Gu family elder, and his eyes were full of incredible eyes, he was already a strong man who had stepped into the half-step Immortal Monarch level, and the body protection aura released by himself was easily shattered by a strong man whose strength had just reached the early stage of the Yuan Heaven Immortal。

Before he could react, in the next second, he only felt an extremely huge force crashing towards his chest, and the powerful energy burst out, and a sneer slowly appeared on the face of the Great Elder of the Gu Family, even if he smashed his body protection aura, the remaining strength was not enough to pose any threat to himself. Seeing the sneer on the face of the Great Elder of the Gu Family, the corners of Yu Fei's mouth raised slightly, and seeing Yu Fei's expression, the Great Elder of the Gu Family looked slightly stunned, and a bad premonition suddenly rose in his heart. In the next second, a terrifying aura fluctuation erupted from his chest, and he felt this power The expression of the Great Elder of the Gu Family changed drastically, and he spurted out a mouthful of blood, and his gaze towards Yu Fei was full of incredulity.

How is this possible? The Great Elder of the Gu Family was already in turmoil in his heart, his own half-step Immortal Monarch-level powerhouse was actually injured in the hands of a person whose strength was only in the early stage of the Yuan Heaven Immortal!

Suddenly, the violent aura fluctuations rose up behind the Great Elder of the Gu Family, and suddenly the Great Elder of the Gu Family was alarmed in his heart, but now it was too late to react, and the sound of a sharp weapon rubbing against the flesh came, and the Great Elder of the Gu Family looked at his abdomen in shock, where there was a fairy sword piercing straight through.

"No!"

The Great Elder of the Gu Family only had time to let out a terrible scream, and then a powerful aura fluctuation erupted, it was the Heavenly Remnant Old Man who detonated the formation in the Immortal Sword, and blew up the Dantian of the Great Elder of the Gu Family! Seeing this, Yu Fei grabbed the ring in the hand of the Great Elder of the Gu Family, and directly took off the ring, but he remembered clearly, this old boy had auctioned a lot of good things at the auction, and he couldn't waste it!

Once the strength reaches the level of Yuantian Immortal or even the Immortal Monarch, there is basically no special fancy, life and death are often instantaneous, which is why the strong people who have reached this level of strength do not make a move easily, this is already linked to their own lives, who will make a move easily, and the one who will shoot is only the two families who have a life and death feud, like Yu Feiyu, the big boss who comes up and directly wants your life, and the entire fairy world can't find the second one!

After solving the Great Elder of the Gu Family, before he had time to rejoice, he felt an astonishing aura fluctuation suddenly coming from in the distance, and felt this aura fluctuation Yu Fei's expression changed slightly, and he looked into the distance, where is the Dan King Wu Chen afraid to fight with those people.

At that moment, Yu Fei's face sank and shouted, "Let's go!" The first to fly towards the place where the breath fluctuations came from.

The strange atmosphere is shrouded in the mountains and forests, and there are several figures shuttling here at a very fast speed in the forest, and these figures are a few people led by Danwang Wu Chen! And at this moment, the sound of the squirting in the forest suddenly became unusually quiet, and in the moment of silence, in front of several of them, more than a dozen figures with gloomy faces slowly appeared, and a cold aura fluctuation emanated from their bodies, this aura fluctuation was different from other cultivators, and there was a touch of fierceness and weirdness in the aura fluctuation, more like an executioner walking on the tip of a knife all year round, which made people know at a glance that it was obviously not a master to be messed with!

For the dozen or so figures that suddenly appeared, the large group of ill-intentioned people who had been hanging behind Danwang Wu Chen in the back saw these dozen figures, but they stopped slowly, and then looked at the dozen or so figures with strange eyes, and even a look of fear appeared in the eyes of some people, as if they were afraid of the dozen figures.

These dozen or so figures with gloomy expressions seem to be a group of people, although the clothes they wear are very different, but the aura fluctuations emanating from their bodies fully explain all this! However, the strength of this group of people is extremely not weak, and the leading man is thin and thin, and his whole body is shrouded under the wide robe, and he looks extremely difficult to mess with. What's even more shocking is that the aura fluctuations emanating from this person's body are extremely huge, so powerful that the people around him are shocked, because the aura fluctuations on this person's body are infinitely close to the Immortal Monarch level! In addition, among the dozen or so figures, nearly half of the people's strength is at the half-step Immortal Monarch level.

After they appeared, they immediately put the figures of Danwang Wu Chen and others behind them, and stopped those who were chasing Danwang Wu Chen, but everyone couldn't help but change their faces when they saw this scene. They have been fighting in the Tiandu for so many years, and they have long seen that this gang is not easy to provoke, as long as there is a place where they appear, even those terrorist forces in the Seven Heavens have to avoid a few points, but what they didn't expect was that these people actually came to help Dan King Wu Chen!

However, even if many people knew that when they were about to face a team with a reputation in your Heavenly Capital, there was a powerhouse whose strength was comparable to that of the Immortal Monarch level, and when there were six powerhouses whose strength was at the level of a half-step Immortal Monarch, the greed in their hearts still drove them to stay here and be reluctant to leave! Even, some of them secretly retreated backwards, chasing in the direction of Danwang Wu Chen and the others.

However, the thoughts of these people have already been picked up and seen through, and just when they just made a move, one of the dozen or so figures moved instantly, and the half-step Immortal Monarch-level aura fluctuations were suddenly released, and the huge aura fluctuations instantly locked the group of centaurs. Feeling the explosion of this aura fluctuation, the group of people also changed their expressions, and the battle started instantly, they didn't expect this group of people to shoot so decisively and directly, which made them unexpected.

After the Great Elder of the Gu Family dodged the attack of the Heavenly Remnant Old Man, he suddenly felt an extremely strong aura fluctuation gushing out behind him, and his heart was suddenly shocked, knowing that he had fallen for the trick, he hurriedly released his body protection aura. When he reacted, Yu Feiyu's attack came violently, and his entire body crashed into the Gu family's Great Elder in an extremely strong posture, and the first type of Bajiquan Tie Shan!

At the moment when the Great Elder of the Gu Family released the body protection aura, a red halo violently emanated on Yu Fei's body, and the powerful qi and blood power was directly released, and the surging qi and blood power exuded extremely amazing fluctuations in the breath of life, directly shattering the body protection aura released by the Gu family elder, seeing this scene, a look of shock welled up in the eyes of the Gu family elder, and his eyes were full of incredible eyes, he was already a strong man who had stepped into the half-step Immortal Monarch level, and the body protection aura released by himself was easily shattered by a strong man whose strength had just reached the early stage of the Yuan Heaven Immortal。

Before he could react, in the next second, he only felt an extremely huge force crashing towards his chest, and the powerful energy burst out, and a sneer slowly appeared on the face of the Great Elder of the Gu Family, even if he smashed his body protection aura, the remaining strength was not enough to pose any threat to himself. Seeing the sneer on the face of the Great Elder of the Gu Family, the corners of Yu Fei's mouth raised slightly, and seeing Yu Fei's expression, the Great Elder of the Gu Family looked slightly stunned, and a bad premonition suddenly rose in his heart. In the next second, a terrifying aura fluctuation erupted from his chest, and he felt this power The expression of the Great Elder of the Gu Family changed drastically, and he spurted out a mouthful of blood, and his gaze towards Yu Fei was full of incredulity.

How is this possible? The Great Elder of the Gu Family was already in turmoil in his heart, his own half-step Immortal Monarch-level powerhouse was actually injured in the hands of a person whose strength was only in the early stage of the Yuan Heaven Immortal!

Suddenly, the violent aura fluctuations rose up behind the Great Elder of the Gu Family, and suddenly the Great Elder of the Gu Family was alarmed in his heart, but now it was too late to react, and the sound of a sharp weapon rubbing against the flesh came, and the Great Elder of the Gu Family looked at his abdomen in shock, where there was a fairy sword piercing straight through.

"No!"

The Great Elder of the Gu Family only had time to let out a terrible scream, and then a powerful aura fluctuation erupted, it was the Heavenly Remnant Old Man who detonated the formation in the Immortal Sword, and blew up the Dantian of the Great Elder of the Gu Family! Seeing this, Yu Fei grabbed the ring in the hand of the Great Elder of the Gu Family, and directly took off the ring, but he remembered clearly, this old boy had auctioned a lot of good things at the auction, and he couldn't waste it!

Once the strength reaches the level of Yuantian Immortal or even the Immortal Monarch, there is basically no special fancy, life and death are often instantaneous, which is why the strong people who have reached this level of strength do not make a move easily, this is already linked to their own lives, who will make a move easily, and the one who will shoot is only the two families who have a life and death feud, like Yu Feiyu, the big boss who comes up and directly wants your life, and the entire fairy world can't find the second one!

After solving the Great Elder of the Gu Family, before he had time to rejoice, he felt an astonishing aura fluctuation suddenly coming from in the distance, and felt this aura fluctuation Yu Fei's expression changed slightly, and he looked into the distance, where is the Dan King Wu Chen afraid to fight with those people.

At that moment, Yu Fei's face sank and shouted, "Let's go!" The first to fly towards the place where the breath fluctuations came from.

The strange atmosphere is shrouded in the mountains and forests, and there are several figures shuttling here at a very fast speed in the forest, and these figures are a few people led by Danwang Wu Chen! And at this moment, the sound of the squirting in the forest suddenly became unusually quiet, and in the moment of silence, in front of several of them, more than a dozen figures with gloomy faces slowly appeared, and a cold aura fluctuation emanated from their bodies, this aura fluctuation was different from other cultivators, and there was a touch of fierceness and weirdness in the aura fluctuation, more like an executioner walking on the tip of a knife all year round, which made people know at a glance that it was obviously not a master to be messed with!

For the dozen or so figures that suddenly appeared, the large group of ill-intentioned people who had been hanging behind Danwang Wu Chen in the back saw these dozen figures, but they stopped slowly, and then looked at the dozen or so figures with strange eyes, and even a look of fear appeared in the eyes of some people, as if they were afraid of the dozen figures.

These dozen or so figures with gloomy expressions seem to be a group of people, although the clothes they wear are very different, but the aura fluctuations emanating from their bodies fully explain all this! However, the strength of this group of people is extremely not weak, and the leading man is thin and thin, and his whole body is shrouded under the wide robe, and he looks extremely difficult to mess with. What's even more shocking is that the aura fluctuations emanating from this person's body are extremely huge, so powerful that the people around him are shocked, because the aura fluctuations on this person's body are infinitely close to the Immortal Monarch level! In addition, among the dozen or so figures, nearly half of the people's strength is at the half-step Immortal Monarch level.

After they appeared, they immediately put the figures of Danwang Wu Chen and others behind them, and stopped those who were chasing Danwang Wu Chen, but everyone couldn't help but change their faces when they saw this scene. They have been fighting in the Tiandu for so many years, and they have long seen that this gang is not easy to provoke, as long as there is a place where they appear, even those terrorist forces in the Seven Heavens have to avoid a few points, but what they didn't expect was that these people actually came to help Dan King Wu Chen!

However, even if many people knew that when they were about to face a team with a reputation in your Heavenly Capital, there was a powerhouse whose strength was comparable to that of the Immortal Monarch level, and when there were six powerhouses whose strength was at the level of a half-step Immortal Monarch, the greed in their hearts still drove them to stay here and be reluctant to leave! Even, some of them secretly retreated backwards, chasing in the direction of Danwang Wu Chen and the others.

However, the thoughts of these people have already been picked up and seen through, and just when they just made a move, one of the dozen or so figures moved instantly, and the half-step Immortal Monarch-level aura fluctuations were suddenly released, and the huge aura fluctuations instantly locked the group of centaurs. Feeling the explosion of this aura fluctuation, the group of people also changed their expressions, and the battle started instantly, they didn't expect this group of people to shoot so decisively and directly, which made them unexpected.

After the Great Elder of the Gu Family dodged the attack of the Heavenly Remnant Old Man, he suddenly felt an extremely strong aura fluctuation gushing out behind him, and his heart was suddenly shocked, knowing that he had fallen for the trick, he hurriedly released his body protection aura. When he reacted, Yu Feiyu's attack came violently, and his entire body crashed into the Gu family's Great Elder in an extremely strong posture, and the first type of Bajiquan Tie Shan!

At the moment when the Great Elder of the Gu Family released the body protection aura, a red halo violently emanated on Yu Fei's body, and the powerful qi and blood power was directly released, and the surging qi and blood power exuded extremely amazing fluctuations in the breath of life, directly shattering the body protection aura released by the Gu family elder, seeing this scene, a look of shock welled up in the eyes of the Gu family elder, and his eyes were full of incredible eyes, he was already a strong man who had stepped into the half-step Immortal Monarch level, and the body protection aura released by himself was easily shattered by a strong man whose strength had just reached the early stage of the Yuan Heaven Immortal。

Before he could react, in the next second, he only felt an extremely huge force crashing towards his chest, and the powerful energy burst out, and a sneer slowly appeared on the face of the Great Elder of the Gu Family, even if he smashed his body protection aura, the remaining strength was not enough to pose any threat to himself. Seeing the sneer on the face of the Great Elder of the Gu Family, the corners of Yu Fei's mouth raised slightly, and seeing Yu Fei's expression, the Great Elder of the Gu Family looked slightly stunned, and a bad premonition suddenly rose in his heart. In the next second, a terrifying aura fluctuation erupted from his chest, and he felt this power The expression of the Great Elder of the Gu Family changed drastically, and he spurted out a mouthful of blood, and his gaze towards Yu Fei was full of incredulity.

How is this possible? The Great Elder of the Gu Family was already in turmoil in his heart, his own half-step Immortal Monarch-level powerhouse was actually injured in the hands of a person whose strength was only in the early stage of the Yuan Heaven Immortal!

Suddenly, the violent aura fluctuations rose up behind the Great Elder of the Gu Family, and suddenly the Great Elder of the Gu Family was alarmed in his heart, but now it was too late to react, and the sound of a sharp weapon rubbing against the flesh came, and the Great Elder of the Gu Family looked at his abdomen in shock, where there was a fairy sword piercing straight through.

"No!"

The Great Elder of the Gu Family only had time to let out a terrible scream, and then a powerful aura fluctuation erupted, it was the Heavenly Remnant Old Man who detonated the formation in the Immortal Sword, and blew up the Dantian of the Great Elder of the Gu Family! Seeing this, Yu Fei grabbed the ring in the hand of the Great Elder of the Gu Family, and directly took off the ring, but he remembered clearly, this old boy had auctioned a lot of good things at the auction, and he couldn't waste it!

Once the strength reaches the level of Yuantian Immortal or even the Immortal Monarch, there is basically no special fancy, life and death are often instantaneous, which is why the strong people who have reached this level of strength do not make a move easily, this is already linked to their own lives, who will make a move easily, and the one who will shoot is only the two families who have a life and death feud, like Yu Feiyu, the big boss who comes up and directly wants your life, and the entire fairy world can't find the second one!

After solving the Great Elder of the Gu Family, before he had time to rejoice, he felt an astonishing aura fluctuation suddenly coming from in the distance, and felt this aura fluctuation Yu Fei's expression changed slightly, and he looked into the distance, where is the Dan King Wu Chen afraid to fight with those people.

At that moment, Yu Fei's face sank and shouted, "Let's go!" The first to fly towards the place where the breath fluctuations came from.

The strange atmosphere is shrouded in the mountains and forests, and there are several figures shuttling here at a very fast speed in the forest, and these figures are a few people led by Danwang Wu Chen! And at this moment, the sound of the squirting in the forest suddenly became unusually quiet, and in the moment of silence, in front of several of them, more than a dozen figures with gloomy faces slowly appeared, and a cold aura fluctuation emanated from their bodies, this aura fluctuation was different from other cultivators, and there was a touch of fierceness and weirdness in the aura fluctuation, more like an executioner walking on the tip of a knife all year round, which made people know at a glance that it was obviously not a master to be messed with!

For the dozen or so figures that suddenly appeared, the large group of ill-intentioned people who had been hanging behind Danwang Wu Chen in the back saw these dozen figures, but they stopped slowly, and then looked at the dozen or so figures with strange eyes, and even a look of fear appeared in the eyes of some people, as if they were afraid of the dozen figures.

These dozen or so figures with gloomy expressions seem to be a group of people, although the clothes they wear are very different, but the aura fluctuations emanating from their bodies fully explain all this! However, the strength of this group of people is extremely not weak, and the leading man is thin and thin, and his whole body is shrouded under the wide robe, and he looks extremely difficult to mess with. What's even more shocking is that the aura fluctuations emanating from this person's body are extremely huge, so powerful that the people around him are shocked, because the aura fluctuations on this person's body are infinitely close to the Immortal Monarch level! In addition, among the dozen or so figures, nearly half of the people's strength is at the half-step Immortal Monarch level.

After they appeared, they immediately put the figures of Danwang Wu Chen and others behind them, and stopped those who were chasing Danwang Wu Chen, but everyone couldn't help but change their faces when they saw this scene. They have been fighting in the Tiandu for so many years, and they have long seen that this gang is not easy to provoke, as long as there is a place where they appear, even those terrorist forces in the Seven Heavens have to avoid a few points, but what they didn't expect was that these people actually came to help Dan King Wu Chen!

However, even if many people knew that when they were about to face a team with a reputation in your Heavenly Capital, there was a powerhouse whose strength was comparable to that of the Immortal Monarch level, and when there were six powerhouses whose strength was at the level of a half-step Immortal Monarch, the greed in their hearts still drove them to stay here and be reluctant to leave! Even, some of them secretly retreated backwards, chasing in the direction of Danwang Wu Chen and the others.

However, the thoughts of these people have already been picked up and seen through, and just when they just made a move, one of the dozen or so figures moved instantly, and the half-step Immortal Monarch-level aura fluctuations were suddenly released, and the huge aura fluctuations instantly locked the group of centaurs. Feeling the explosion of this aura fluctuation, the group of people also changed their expressions, and the battle started instantly, they didn't expect this group of people to shoot so decisively and directly, which made them unexpected.

After the Great Elder of the Gu Family dodged the attack of the Heavenly Remnant Old Man, he suddenly felt an extremely strong aura fluctuation gushing out behind him, and his heart was suddenly shocked, knowing that he had fallen for the trick, he hurriedly released his body protection aura. When he reacted, Yu Feiyu's attack came violently, and his entire body crashed into the Gu family's Great Elder in an extremely strong posture, and the first type of Bajiquan Tie Shan!

At the moment when the Great Elder of the Gu Family released the body protection aura, a red halo violently emanated on Yu Fei's body, and the powerful qi and blood power was directly released, and the surging qi and blood power exuded extremely amazing fluctuations in the breath of life, directly shattering the body protection aura released by the Gu family elder, seeing this scene, a look of shock welled up in the eyes of the Gu family elder, and his eyes were full of incredible eyes, he was already a strong man who had stepped into the half-step Immortal Monarch level, and the body protection aura released by himself was easily shattered by a strong man whose strength had just reached the early stage of the Yuan Heaven Immortal。

Before he could react, in the next second, he only felt an extremely huge force crashing towards his chest, and the powerful energy burst out, and a sneer slowly appeared on the face of the Great Elder of the Gu Family, even if he smashed his body protection aura, the remaining strength was not enough to pose any threat to himself. Seeing the sneer on the face of the Great Elder of the Gu Family, the corners of Yu Fei's mouth raised slightly, and seeing Yu Fei's expression, the Great Elder of the Gu Family looked slightly stunned, and a bad premonition suddenly rose in his heart. In the next second, a terrifying aura fluctuation erupted from his chest, and he felt this power The expression of the Great Elder of the Gu Family changed drastically, and he spurted out a mouthful of blood, and his gaze towards Yu Fei was full of incredulity.

How is this possible? The Great Elder of the Gu Family was already in turmoil in his heart, his own half-step Immortal Monarch-level powerhouse was actually injured in the hands of a person whose strength was only in the early stage of the Yuan Heaven Immortal!

Suddenly, the violent aura fluctuations rose up behind the Great Elder of the Gu Family, and suddenly the Great Elder of the Gu Family was alarmed in his heart, but now it was too late to react, and the sound of a sharp weapon rubbing against the flesh came, and the Great Elder of the Gu Family looked at his abdomen in shock, where there was a fairy sword piercing straight through.

"No!"

The Great Elder of the Gu Family only had time to let out a terrible scream, and then a powerful aura fluctuation erupted, it was the Heavenly Remnant Old Man who detonated the formation in the Immortal Sword, and blew up the Dantian of the Great Elder of the Gu Family! Seeing this, Yu Fei grabbed the ring in the hand of the Great Elder of the Gu Family, and directly took off the ring, but he remembered clearly, this old boy had auctioned a lot of good things at the auction, and he couldn't waste it!

Once the strength reaches the level of Yuantian Immortal or even the Immortal Monarch, there is basically no special fancy, life and death are often instantaneous, which is why the strong people who have reached this level of strength do not make a move easily, this is already linked to their own lives, who will make a move easily, and the one who will shoot is only the two families who have a life and death feud, like Yu Feiyu, the big boss who comes up and directly wants your life, and the entire fairy world can't find the second one!

After solving the Great Elder of the Gu Family, before he had time to rejoice, he felt an astonishing aura fluctuation suddenly coming from in the distance, and felt this aura fluctuation Yu Fei's expression changed slightly, and he looked into the distance, where is the Dan King Wu Chen afraid to fight with those people.

At that moment, Yu Fei's face sank and shouted, "Let's go!" The first to fly towards the place where the breath fluctuations came from.

The strange atmosphere is shrouded in the mountains and forests, and there are several figures shuttling here at a very fast speed in the forest, and these figures are a few people led by Danwang Wu Chen! And at this moment, the sound of the squirting in the forest suddenly became unusually quiet, and in the moment of silence, in front of several of them, more than a dozen figures with gloomy faces slowly appeared, and a cold aura fluctuation emanated from their bodies, this aura fluctuation was different from other cultivators, and there was a touch of fierceness and weirdness in the aura fluctuation, more like an executioner walking on the tip of a knife all year round, which made people know at a glance that it was obviously not a master to be messed with!

For the dozen or so figures that suddenly appeared, the large group of ill-intentioned people who had been hanging behind Danwang Wu Chen in the back saw these dozen figures, but they stopped slowly, and then looked at the dozen or so figures with strange eyes, and even a look of fear appeared in the eyes of some people, as if they were afraid of the dozen figures.

These dozen or so figures with gloomy expressions seem to be a group of people, although the clothes they wear are very different, but the aura fluctuations emanating from their bodies fully explain all this! However, the strength of this group of people is extremely not weak, and the leading man is thin and thin, and his whole body is shrouded under the wide robe, and he looks extremely difficult to mess with. What's even more shocking is that the aura fluctuations emanating from this person's body are extremely huge, so powerful that the people around him are shocked, because the aura fluctuations on this person's body are infinitely close to the Immortal Monarch level! In addition, among the dozen or so figures, nearly half of the people's strength is at the half-step Immortal Monarch level.

After they appeared, they immediately put the figures of Danwang Wu Chen and others behind them, and stopped those who were chasing Danwang Wu Chen, but everyone couldn't help but change their faces when they saw this scene. They have been fighting in the Tiandu for so many years, and they have long seen that this gang is not easy to provoke, as long as there is a place where they appear, even those terrorist forces in the Seven Heavens have to avoid a few points, but what they didn't expect was that these people actually came to help Dan King Wu Chen!

However, even if many people knew that when they were about to face a team with a reputation in your Heavenly Capital, there was a powerhouse whose strength was comparable to that of the Immortal Monarch level, and when there were six powerhouses whose strength was at the level of a half-step Immortal Monarch, the greed in their hearts still drove them to stay here and be reluctant to leave! Even, some of them secretly retreated backwards, chasing in the direction of Danwang Wu Chen and the others.

However, the thoughts of these people have already been picked up and seen through, and just when they just made a move, one of the dozen or so figures moved instantly, and the half-step Immortal Monarch-level aura fluctuations were suddenly released, and the huge aura fluctuations instantly locked the group of centaurs. Feeling the explosion of this aura fluctuation, the group of people also changed their expressions, and the battle started instantly, they didn't expect this group of people to shoot so decisively and directly, which made them unexpected.