In the Wild Flash Passage, after Ning Fan collected Si Ming's storage bag, he urged the Black Star Technique to heal the blood hole in his chest while performing the Soul Searching Technique on the face of a dead head in his hand.

After searching for the soul, Ning Fan spit out with the power of his palm, shattering the skull into a blood mist, and his gaze changed.

After many years, the Immortal Emperor who calculated him was finally found out by him, and after further confirmation, there is no doubt that the enemy is the Immortal Emperor of Zhangyun.

From Si Ming's memory, Ning Fan learned that the Palm Yun Immortal Emperor had calculated thousands of monks in his life, among them, there were junior and ancient immortals, and Ning Fan was just one of them

"Unexpectedly, the Palm Fortune Immortal Emperor calculated against me, just to make me a Dao corpse of his disciples"

"Palm Fortune Immortal Emperor, one of the four great palm Immortal Emperors of the Southern Heaven Immortal Realm, the cultivation of the eighth tribulation of eternity is based on my cultivation, and it is enough to kill Si, but if you want to take revenge on the Palm Fortune Immortal Emperor, it is far from enough."

"In Si Ming's memory, it is also mentioned that the special identity of the Palm Yun Immortal Emperor seems to be inextricably linked to the wilderness and the Taicang Tribulation Spirit, but the memories related to it have been erased by the palm luck, and it is impossible to see that this method of erasing memories is clearly consistent with the method of erasing my father's memory, and it is impossible to restore my father back then, so he lost his memory."

Ning Fan's eyes showed a look of remembrance, and he suddenly clenched his fists fiercely, but closed his eyes helplessly.

He has always been willing to take revenge, and this revenge will be returned to the Palm Yun Immortal Emperor, but now that his cultivation is insufficient, it is not the time to ask for it, so he can only endure it

"One day, I will kill the Palm Luck Immortal Palace and settle old accounts with the Palm Luck Lao'er, but before that, it is not appropriate for the Palm Luck Elder to know that I killed him in vain"

Ning Fan's eyes flickered, and he bent his palm and grabbed the air in front of him, which was actually from the blood mist remaining in the air. Draw out the inextricable threads of cause and effect.

These blood lines are the cause and effect caused by Ning Fan's killing of Si Ming.

In the past, Ning Fan naturally couldn't see the causal blood line, but now, he is a rare few Heavenly and Human Second Realm cultivators in heaven and earth, and it is not difficult to see the causal blood line.

Naturally, with his true cultivation, at most, he can only see cause and effect and touch cause and effect with the ability of the unity of heaven and man. But it is impossible to separate cause and effect.

Fortunately, he still has an innate ghost face, but this ghost face has the power to strip cause and effect.

Ning Fan waved his hand and wiped it on his face, summoned the ghost face, and urged the power of the ghost face to peel off all the causal blood lines wrapped around his body.

In this way, no matter how strong the Immortal Emperor's deduction technique is, he will not be able to deduce who the real culprit of this cause and effect is.

The stripped-off causal blood line was not thrown away by Ning Fan, but was sealed by the power of the ghost face. Leave it for other purposes.

From Si Ming's memory, Ning Fan learned that before the Palm Luck Immortal Emperor did anything, he would go to the stargazing platform to deduce three times. It is a habit he has cultivated over the years, and if the murderer can be found by deduction, he will never send someone else to investigate.

But if the Palm Luck Immortal Emperor can't deduce the murderer, maybe he will use other methods to find out the murderer.

I learned about the habit of the Palm Luck Immortal Emperor. Ning Fan had a plan

He temporarily put away the causal blood line in the sealed state, and Shen Nian swept towards Si Ming's storage bag.

In the storage bags, there are things commonly used by some Xuan monks. It was useless to him, but there were a few Brute Flash Jade Talismans, which aroused Ning Fan's interest.

Those Wild Flash Jade Talismans can open the Wild Flash Passage at any time, leave the Wild Ancient Domain, and return to any Immortal Realm in the Four Heavens Immortal Realm.

"With these jade talismans, I can leave the wilderness and return to the Eastern Heaven at any time if necessary. ”

Ning Fan erased the prohibition in the jade talisman and planted a new prohibition with his own essence blood, only in this way can he activate the power of the jade talisman.

After putting away the puppet and the jade talisman, Ning Fan dispersed the ghost face and escaped from the barbarian channel.

Not long after Ning Fan left, in the heaven and earth of the Wild Flash Channel, a colorful eye suddenly appeared in the sky!

Inside that eyeball, the anger was raging, and as soon as it appeared, the killing intent immediately turned into a substantial colorful divine light, and spread wildly in all directions!

It's a pity that the colorful divine light didn't find anyone in this wild flash channel, and it couldn't deduce who the real murderer was.

This is the first deduction of the Palm Fortune Immortal Emperor, and the deduction of cause and effect fails

Although Ning Fan didn't see the appearance of the colorful eyeballs, he had a trace of induction at the moment when the Palm Yun Immortal Emperor deduced the cause and effect

In the Palm Yun Immortal Palace, on the top of the Wind and Thunder Mountain, after the Palm Yun Immortal Emperor deduced to no avail, he threw the wooden sword in his hand into the incense case, looking shocked and angry.

"Hmph! can actually cover cause and effect, presumably the person who killed the commander must have some kind of secret treasure to shield cause and effect. ”

"Every other moment, you can only calculate once, and after a moment, the old man can carry out the second deduction, and the next time, the old man will use the two forces of brute and robbery to bless the deduction at the same time, and he doesn't believe that the deduction will not be a murderer!"

Outside the Snow Valley of the Yellow River, at this moment, seven demon clans had poured in, fighting with Earth Demons, Iron Crows and others.

The seven demon clans are in the air, and there are two people at the peak of the empty space alone, three people in the early stage of the empty space, and two people in the middle stage.

These demon cultivators are all demon cultivators of the turtle clan, holding the secret talisman of the turtle clan, they can ignore the power of the forbidden sky of the blood river and directly enter the snow valley, and they are the first demons to enter the snow valley.

The rest of the clans rushed to the aid of the demon cultivators, separated by the blood river, unable to come to the Snow Valley, and temporarily guarded on the periphery.

The Earth Demon and the Iron Raven Daoist each faced a peak turtle demon who gave up the sky, after all, the two were only the bodies of the remnant gods, and they had to be distracted to keep the passage stable, and they couldn't defeat the opponent for a while, so they could only fight for a draw.

The Four-Eyed Demon Lord has summoned three early stage corpse golems, stopped the three early stage turtle demons alone, and controlled the three early stage golems at the same time, which is a little powerless.

The Han Dance Fairy faced two turtle demons in the middle of the sky alone, one was a thin and tall old man, the other was a short and fat old woman, and the two demons were actually a pair of Taoist couples.

The two turtle demons in the early stage of Shekong cooperate tacitly, and when they join forces, they can also fight in the late stage of Shekong.

The Cold Dance Fairy was already injured, and she was even more distracted to urge the supernatural powers, maintaining the opening of the Wild Flash Channel, naturally she was not the opponent of the two turtle demons, and she had only fought in a few rounds, and three or four wounds had fallen on her body.

Even so, the Cold Dance Fairy did not forget Ning Fan's entrustment, and always remembered to keep the entrance of the passage stable, waiting for Ning Fan to return safely.

Seven points of mana are used to keep the entrance of the passage stable, and three points of mana are used to fight against the two Turtle Demons of the Void Period.

I can't tell what mood it is, probably just to repay Ning Fan for saving his life, if the entrance disappears, Ning Fan will not be able to come out.

The tall and thin old man was silent. It's an indifferent character, the Taoist soldier is a poisonous knife, and the short and fat old woman keeps making hoarse and ugly laughs, urging a black mist flying sword, and the trick goes straight to the key point of the cold dance, and laughs and laughs from time to time,

"Old poison, you see that this human race is so delicate, do you want the old woman to catch her back and play with her as a poison tripod for you?"

"No need, just kill her! I'll just take her Yuan Shen to refine poison. The tall and thin old man said coldly.

"Huh. It's exactly what I want! Her Yuan Shen sent you to refine poison, but her corpse has to be left to the old woman to feed the corpse turtle! Speaking of which, this Terran Nizi doesn't know what kind of madness she is doing, she is obviously seriously injured, and her strength is obviously inferior to you and me, but she dares to fight us with only three points of strength, but she has left seven points of strength. Steady the entrance of the passage, is there any important person in the entrance?"

The short and fat old woman laughed darkly, and suddenly changed the direction of the flying sword, not attacking the cold dance fairy. Instead, he slashed towards the Wild Flash Passage, trying to kill the entrance to the passage.

The cold dance fairy's heart tightened, and she stopped in front of the entrance of the passage. Wielding the moonlight, he blasted the flying sword and protected the flash channel. But because of this, the flaw was exposed, and the thin and tall old man seized the opportunity, slashed horizontally with a poisonous knife, and added a deep wound to the arm. At the wound, black blood was constantly left, and it was obvious that he had been poisoned.

"Damn! it's the secret poison of the Corpse Turtle Clan."

The cold dancing fairy's lips began to turn purple, and the blood spilling from the corners of her mouth carried a trace of sweet fragrance, which made her heart sink secretly.

If it weren't for the protection of the entrance to the passage, she would definitely not have been slashed by a poisonous knife. Now that he has been poisoned by the corpse turtle, it is quite troublesome. If she urges ten percent of the mana, she can also force out the demon poison, but she has no time to force the poison at this moment.

Under the erosion of the demon poison, her consciousness was blurred a little bit, and her mana was weakened a little, but she still didn't forget to guard the entrance of the passage for Ning Fan.

Obviously, she only has a few relationships with Ning Fan, but she doesn't want Ning Fan to be in any danger, this mood may be to repay the grace of saving her life.

"He entered this flash passage, he didn't know whether he was alive or dead, if he lost the entrance, it would be difficult to return, and his life might be in danger."

"The entrance must be stabilized, and the entrance must not be allowed to disappear! these two turtle demons must not be allowed to continue to attack the entrance!"

The cold dance fairy lotus steps are becoming more and more vain, her pretty face is getting paler and paler, and her breathing is getting heavier and heavier, all supported by a will, and she does not allow herself to faint.

The short and fat old woman smiled, and suddenly used a turtle tendon magic weapon, tied up one of the wrists of the Han Dance Fairy, and stabbed his dantian with a sword.

"It's not bad"

The cold dance fairy couldn't break free from the shackles of the turtle tendons, and was about to be stabbed by the old woman, and her heart was nervous, when she suddenly saw a flash of golden light in front of her, and a figure in white appeared, her heart was immediately relieved, and she actually smiled.

It was him, and he came back safely

The old woman who took the cold dance fairy with a sword suddenly saw a white-clothed figure in front of her, and she was shocked.

Before the old woman could react, she was forced to retreat by the Dao sword that the young man in white waved his hand, and her expression immediately became solemn!

The white-clothed young man was none other than Ning Fan, who had returned from the Wild Flash Passage, and with another sword, he cut off the turtle tendons that bound the Cold Dance Fairy.

As soon as they saw Ning Fan returning, the earth demon and the iron crow were overjoyed, knowing that reinforcements had appeared.

The eyes of the seven demon clans have changed, and at this moment, Ning Fan has not yet sealed the power of rain and battle yin and yang, and has only dispersed the soul extraction technique and the secret method of the god of war that cannot be maintained for a long time, and his momentum is still comparable to that of shekong, which should not be underestimated by everyone.

"Your injury, it doesn't matter" The Cold Dance Fairy said to Ning Fan, her tone was flat for a long time, but Ning Fan heard a hint of concern.

Ning Fan was seriously injured by Xingluo chess pieces, and although the blood hole in his chest was healed, his breath still did not recover to its best state. This can't be hidden from the eyes of the Dancing Fairy.

"I'm fine, I'll stop these two people, you can rest on the side and suppress the demon poison in your body. ”

Ning Fan sighed slightly, if he was one step late, even if the Cold Dance Fairy didn't die, he would be hit hard by the sword of the old woman turtle demon.

With Ning Fan's eyesight, he could naturally see that the Cold Dance Fairy was defeated so quickly in order to stabilize the barbarian flash channel and divide the mana.

Even if this woman knows how to repay her kindness, she doesn't seem to have to work so hard.

"Old woman, be careful! Although this son is a self-sacrificing cultivator who has been promoted by a secret method, he is not really a sacrificial cultivator, but he is not weak and should not be underestimated!" The taciturn tall and thin old man looked at Ning Fan with a solemn gaze. Suddenly, he said.

"Old poison, you are too cautious! Even if this son casts a secret method, he only has the initial strength of the void, which is not worth mentioning! You deal with this son, I will kill that little girl first!"

The short and fat old woman smiled, took the lead in urging the supernatural power, and the black mist flying sword in her hand immediately turned into the shadow of a giant turtle, and rushed towards the Cold Dance Fairy, not preparing to give the Cold Dance Fairy a chance to force out the demon poison.

While attacking the Cold Dance Fairy, he actually sacrificed a black cold light in the direction of Ning Fan. Straight towards Ning Fan's eyebrows.

It was a turtle tooth poisonous nail, and if it was nailed to the center of the eyebrows, even a monk in the middle of the sky would be killed by sealing the mud pill.

She was distracted and plotted against Ning Fan, because she didn't put Ning Fan in her eyes, but she didn't know that Ning Fan also didn't put her in her eyes!

Time was pressing, Ning Fan had other things to do, and he didn't want to stay here for a long time, so he directly took out the Broken Nian puppet.

There was a puppet in front of Ning Fan. The Turtle Tooth Poison Nail only drove into the puppet for a fraction of a minute, and did not cause substantial damage to the puppet.

But seeing that Ning Fan's mind moved, a Xia magic net immediately appeared between heaven and earth, covering the old woman in it. Only the old woman's sword passed through the net and continued to slash towards the cold dance fairy.

On the side of the puppet's body, a punch blasted out, only one punch. But an unimaginable howling wind was immediately formed, and it lightly smashed the flying sword of the short and fat old woman, and punched again. Directly across Xia Shuluo, the old woman vomited blood and flew away, and the turtle bones were broken!

The third punch fell, and the puppet directly destroyed half of the old woman's head, and the blood flowed straight and stained the ground red!

With one more punch, the old woman's demon soul did not escape, and was directly killed by the puppet in the net of Xia Shu, and there were no bones!

No one in the Shekong Demon Cultivators present expected that Ning Fan would have such a terrifying puppet, and with just a few punches, he killed a Shekong Stage!

The breath of the puppet in the middle of the broken thought made all the demon cultivators' hearts tremble, and their complexions changed greatly.

Earth demons and iron crows are just people, and they have already seen Ning Fan's broken thought puppet, so naturally they will not be surprised.

However, the Four-Eyed Demon Lord and the Cold Dance Fairy saw this puppet for the first time, and they were both surprised.

With the participation of Ning Fan and the Shattered Nian Puppet, the confidence of the Earth Demon and the Iron Crow Daoist has greatly increased, and the remaining six Shekong Turtle Demons were destroyed by everyone without any suspense, and none of them escaped.

"Earth Demon, you seem to know a kind of earth escape technique called 'Earth Cave', take them away first, and go here to wait for me. ”

Ning Fan's eyes flashed, and he glanced at the Earth Demon, and with just one glance, it seemed to have penetrated all of the Earth Demon.

Casually throwing the earth demon a map jade slip, Ning Fan's tone could not be refused.

Swept by Ning Fan's gaze, the earth demon was secretly frightened, and he had a ridiculous feeling of being seen through, and nodded, but he didn't mean to disobey Ning Fan's order.

The earth old monster once used a soil cave technique, and directly led everyone to sneak into the snow valley, which was extremely secretive.

The Earth Cave Escape Technique is actually the signature magic power of the Earth Demon, and with this magical power, it may not be so difficult for the Earth Demon to leave the Snow Valley without anyone knowing.

"Aren't you going to evacuate with us?" asked the Dancing Fairy with a worried look at her.

"I have some business to do, and I'll meet you later. Ning Fan didn't explain too much, what he wanted to do was to solve the problem of causal blood line, which was a matter of importance.

Although he had a slight affection for the Dancing Fairy, that affection was far from enough to tell all the secrets.

"I understand Ning Xiaoyou, you should be careful, finish your work, and meet with the concubine and the others earlier. ”

The cold dance fairy sighed faintly, she also understood that it was impossible to speak deeply, Ning Fan had reservations about her, it was the right thing to do, but for some reason in her heart, she was a little inexplicably sour.

She finally followed the earth demon and others, and quietly left the Yellow River enchantment with the earth cave magical powers.

After everyone left, Ning Fan took the puppet, waved his hand to summon the ghost face, danced wildly with silver threads, stepped on the golden rainbow, flew vertically, and flew over the blood river savagely, urging the ghost face to steal, and directly smashed the Yellow River enchantment and left.

Many demon clan powerhouses noticed the movement of the collapse of the enchantment, but Ning Fan directly urged the ghost face to become invisible, and no one knew what happened.

At the same time, it began to rain heavily in the entire Barbarian Ancient Domain, and that rainstorm was Ning Fan's urging to peep at the sky and rain technique.

With the help of the Sky Rain Technique, Ning Fan quickly found the traces of the Poisonous Dragon Ancestor in the Fourth District of the Wilderness!

Without any hesitation, Ning Fan sneaked all the way and went straight to the fourth district.

The Forty-two Domains of the Wilderness, the Fourth Region, the Great Tent of the Demon Army.

At this moment, the Poison Dragon Ancestor was kneeling cross-legged in the tent of the front-line military camp, closing his eyes and pranayama.

He had heard something about what was happening in the Snow Valley of the Yellow River. But he didn't take it to heart, and only transferred some people to support Snow Valley.

His responsibility now is to sit in the big tent of the demon army, but he can't leave lightly.

While he was pranayama, outside the big tent began to rain heavily, and the rain was pouring like a torrential downpour, and the sound of the rain was so loud that he had a feeling of panic for no reason, as if something bad was going to happen.

The Poison Dragon Ancestor didn't know. At this moment, Ning Fan had already urged the ghost face to stealth and sneaked into the big tent.

The distance of thousands of zhang is already the limit of Ning Fan's infiltration, if he gets closer, even if there is a ghost face hidden, he will be discovered by the Poisonous Dragon Ancestor.

"Old man of the poisonous dragon, you shot me with a candle bow and colorful arrows that day, and I will give you a big gift today."

Ning Fan waved his hand and took out the causal blood line of the sealed state. Unseal it and throw it towards the Poison Dragon Ancestor's tent.

As soon as those blood lines approached the big tent, they were immediately discovered by the Poisonous Dragon Ancestor, but he wanted to hide. It's too late, it's already entangled in those causal bloodlines.

"Hmm? This is the line of cause and effect? It's weird, the old man didn't kill anyone at the moment, why did he provoke cause and effect on his body. Wacky and really quirky"

The Poison Dragon Ancestor muttered to himself three times, and his old eyes suddenly darkened. Urging the anti-spirit technique, he swept towards the demon army camp, but he didn't find anything abnormal, and he couldn't help frowning.

"Didn't outsiders sneak into the big tent, is it the old man's delusion?"

With that, the Poisonous Dragon Ancestor closed his eyes again and meditated on pranayama.

He didn't know that he had been contaminated with the cause and effect of killing Si Ming, and had been used by Ning Fan as a scapegoat.

Far away, Ning Fan stood on top of a low mountain, pinching his fingers, urging the rain technique, and observing the wind and grass in the demon army camp.

The first time the Palm Luck Immortal Emperor deduced cause and effect, he was sensed by Ning Fan. If Ning Fan's expectations were correct, it would not be long before the Palm Fortune Immortal Emperor would deduce cause and effect for the second and third time.

When the Palm Luck Immortal Emperor deduced the cause and effect for the first time, the cause and effect were stripped off and sealed by Ning Fan, so the deduction failed.

This time, the cause and effect had been unsealed by Ning Fan and contaminated with the Poison Dragon Ancestor.

If the Palm Fortune Immortal Emperor calculates it again, it will most likely come up with such a result

'The one who slays the commander is the poisonous dragon ancestor of the True Dragon Clan!'

This is naturally the result that Ning Fan wants to see the most, the Poison Dragon Ancestor is his enemy, and the Palm Luck Immortal Emperor is also an enemy, the two enemies pinch each other, no matter how good.

At this qiē, the Poison Dragon Ancestor was kept in the dark, and the Palm Yun Immortal Emperor did not know.

A moment passed, and the Palm Fortune Immortal Emperor once again evoked wind and thunder on the Wind Thunder Mountain, and deduced it.

At the time of the second deduction, the neck of the Palm Luck Immortal Emperor came out, and two heads grew one after another!

If anyone is here, they will definitely notice that the two heads grown by the Palm Yun Immortal Emperor are actually the same as the heads that the seven generations of barbarian ancestors once had!

It's just that the Palm Luck Immortal Emperor is a little different from the Seven Generations of Barbarian Ancestors, that is, the Palm Luck Immortal Emperor has a third head, which is his original head.

In his body, there is even more blood flowing, and the power of tribulation is also used by him in deduction.

This time, he integrated the power of robbery and brute flash, and the accuracy was several times stronger than the first time.

In the fourth area of the Savage Ancient Domain, above the demon army camp, a colorful eye suddenly appeared!

This eyeball was swept away, and immediately in the big tent of the Chinese army, he found the Poisonous Dragon Ancestor, his eyes sank, and the murderous opportunity was revealed!

"The poisonous dragon son of the True Dragon Clan! I can't imagine that the one who kills the commander is not the Immortal Emperor, but the Demon Clan Immortal Venerable!"

"Okay, good, good! If you kill my apprentice, the old man will definitely make your dragon soul fall forever!"

The Southern Heavenly Immortal Realm, the Palm Fortune Immortal Palace, the top of the Wind and Thunder Mountain.

The Palm Luck Immortal Emperor slowly closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, he was already fierce!

At this moment, the demon army camp in the fourth region of the wilderness was completely sensational, and countless demon cultivators looked up to the sky and looked at those colorful eyes in horror.

The Poison Dragon Ancestor also rushed out of the big tent at the first time and raised his head in shock.

From those colorful eyes, he sensed a killing intent and locked on his body!

If he didn't perceive the mistake, the killing machine came from a Terran Eight Tribulation Emperor!

Before the Poison Dragon Ancestor could react, within those colorful eyes, ten thousand divine lights suddenly shot out. In the next moment, above the eyebrows of the Poisonous Dragon Ancestor, there was suddenly an extra colorful blood mark!

At the moment when this blood mark was born, the Poison Dragon Ancestor's demonic power was suppressed by as much as thirty percent!

"This is the Palm Position Blood Seal! Only the Palm Immortal Emperor can plant a tracking mark, the number is limited, under normal circumstances, the Palm Position Immortal Emperor can only plant a blood mark on several monks at the same time! Once this seal is planted, even if he hides in the heavens and the earth, he can't escape the perception of the Seed Seal Immortal Emperor! And this seal also has the effect of suppressing cultivation, with the realm of the Poison Dragon Ancestor Immortal Venerable, it has also been suppressed by three percent of the cultivation, this blood seal, it is so good"

Far away, in the midst of the rainstorm, Ning Fan's eyes flashed and he recognized the origin of the blood mark.

After all, the wilderness is a thousand worlds, no matter how strong the Palm Fortune Immortal Emperor is, he is not a saint after all, and it is impossible to kill an Immortal Venerable across countless interfaces.

Therefore, the Palm Luck Immortal Emperor retreated and planted a blood mark for the Poison Dragon Ancestor.

As long as the blood mark is there, the Palm Luck Immortal Emperor has time to chase and kill the Poison Dragon Ancestor anytime and anywhere!

At this moment, the Poison Dragon Ancestor looked terrified, wanting to cry without tears, and his heart was full of grievances.

He didn't understand what he had done, how he had angered a Terran Eight Tribulation Emperor, and he didn't hesitate to plant a blood seal on himself

"It's not good! This is the blood seal of the palm position, and the old man was targeted by an Eight Tribulation Immortal Emperor!"

"You can't stay in the wilderness, you must return to the land of demons immediately! it's too dangerous to stay here, the Eight Tribulation Immortal Emperor may come to the wilderness at any time to find the old man's bad luck!"

"Damn! Damn! Why was the old man targeted by an Eight Tribulation Immortal Emperor! Who can tell the old man, what the hell is going on!"

On the stargazing platform of Wind Thunder Mountain, the Palm Luck Immortal Emperor closed his eyes, and his initial anger gradually calmed down.

His sanity gradually returned, and he suddenly had a strange feeling.

I always felt that something was wrong, but when I thought about it, I didn't see anything wrong.

"No! There's something wrong with this cause and effect!"

"The one who kills the commander is not a poisonous dragon, someone wants to blame the poisonous dragon and deceive the old man!"

"It seems that it is necessary for the old man to borrow the power of the causal chessboard to deduce the person who killed the priest for the third time, you can't escape!" (to be continued......)