Chapter 806: The Immortal Lord of Bones, Jun Changdong

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Withdrawing his spiritual thoughts, Ning Fan's eyes changed unpredictably.

Looking at the back of the woman in purple, there is a vague meaning...

"Luo Xiao has repeatedly reminded me that Luo Xuan, the young master of the Luo family, has a bad character and must not be offended...she has the qualifications to decide the number of tombkeepers of my Luo family..."

Ning Fan had known about Tomb Bi before, and he also purchased a lot of Zhong Ji's information from the Shang Pavilion. Although there was no confidential information, it was enough for Ning Fan to understand the meaning of the word 'sacrifice'.

The Shenxu Pavilion in the Dongming Star Territory will hold a bell ceremony on the Void Star every long period of time.

Before the Bell Ceremony, a tomb ceremony will be held on Shenkong Star.

During the tomb competition, the many forces that make up the Shenxu Pavilion will each select their own tomb guards to participate in the competition.

Only forces at level seven or above are qualified to select tomb guards to participate in this event.

Gravekeepers who participate in the tomb competition can receive different rewards based on their ranking in the competition.

If you achieve the top fifty results, you can also obtain different amounts of Nihility Orders.

If you can get the top ten results, you will not only get the Order of Nothingness, but you can even get a seal from the Shenxu Pavilion, and get a glass of soul wine from the subsequent Bell Festival.

The Order of Nothingness is the certificate to enter the last three floors of the God's Tomb, and it is also the key to obtaining opportunities from the last three floors.

As for Yuanshen wine, it is a great tonic.

If a Mingxian monk in the Human Mystery or Ghost Mystery realm takes one cup and goes into seclusion for a hundred years, there is a great chance that his cultivation level will skyrocket by a small realm!

Even the true immortals such as Du Zhen, She Kong, and Suin Nian can greatly improve their cultivation by taking Yuanshen Wine.

Even the Immortal Lords, Immortal Kings, and Immortal Emperors throughout the ages can all benefit greatly from Yuanshen Wine.

Zhong Ji has attracted the attention of countless old monsters in Dongtian because of the existence of Yuanshen Wine.

Tomb Bi has also attracted much attention because of its rewards such as Yuan Shen Liquor and Void Order.

"The Bell Sacrifice... is a list of sacrifices drawn up by various forces in the gods. Finally, one person is selected from the list and sacrificed to the Heaven-Suppressing Bell. After the sacrifice falls, the soul will turn into fairy wine for some powerful people to drink. .When the sacrifice is made, all cultivators participating in the sacrifice will have the opportunity to uncover a big secret left by the Eastern Heaven Ancestral Emperor in the Heaven-Suppressing Bell..."

"The Shenxu Pavilion has been passed down for many years, and the Bell Sacrifice has been held countless times. However, no one has been able to reveal even a little bit of the secrets in the Heaven-Suppressing Bell... Nowadays, the Bell Sacrifice is simply a 'murder sacrifice. The immortals share the wine. 'A grand ceremony, nothing more..."

"The woman Sen Luo loved was once a sacrifice. She was sacrificed to the Heaven-Suppressing Bell by the powerful Shenxu, and her soul was eaten by the immortals..."

"Aci's name. Is it also on the list of sacrifices in Shenxu Pavilion..."

From the tomb comparison, Ning Fan once again thought of the relevant information about Zhong Ji, and there was a faint anger igniting in his eyes, silent, but hot and frightening.

On the surface, the little demon girl is the respected young master of the gods.

Secretly, the little demon girl's name is on the list of sacrifices in Shenxu Pavilion. If she is not careful, she may be chosen as a sacrifice and die as a sacrifice.

Fortunately, Senluo destroyed the Tianzhen Bell. As a result, this Bell Festival that Shenxu Pavilion had painstakingly prepared had to be cancelled.

Ning Fan doesn't need to worry for the time being. The little demon girl may become a sacrifice and her soul will be divided among the immortals.

From the moment he fully understood the identity of the little demon girl's sacrifice, Ning Fan could no longer have any good impressions of Shenxu Pavilion.

"In the Killing Hall, although they are ruthless and killing each other, that kind of killing is still in line with the concept of 'the strong survives and the weak' perishes in the world of cultivation. There, killing is for training, and it is for each disciple to learn from While fighting each other, they developed a strong ability to survive. Although the methods are extreme, the murderer is not necessarily happy, but just helpless. He just has to kill, that's all. As for Shenxu Pavilion... they held a bell festival, and the group Immortals actually take pleasure in sharing other people's souls. They take pleasure in killing..."

"If the person who sacrifices has nothing to do with me, maybe I will ignore all this. After all, it is almost common in the world of cultivation to sacrifice. However, if one day, the Zhentian Bell is repaired and the Bell Sacrifice is reopened, and Aci just If I am chosen as a sacrifice, on that day, I am afraid that I will do something crazy like Sen Luo."

"There's just one thing. Now I'm far inferior to Sen Luo, and that's my cultivation. Sen Luo dares to fight Dongtian alone because of his superb cultivation. And I'm just Gui Xuan, and I've just entered the second level. Bu's Life Immortal...Beyond the Life Immortal, there are three levels of True Immortals: Duzhen, Shekong, and Suinian, as well as Immortal Lord, Immortal King, and Immortal Emperor in the eternal realm... Senluo can use the power of one person Fight against the Twelve Emperors alone, and I..."

"Now I am the body of the Immortal of Destiny, standing above ten thousand people, but there are still ten thousand people above me..."

Ning Fan's eyes were deep, and after the purple-clothed woman entered the third floor, she also walked towards the third-floor teleportation array.

He will work hard to obtain the other half of the ancient inheritance at the bottom of the God's Tomb, all in order to further improve his cultivation and strength.

There are two ways to obtain the inheritance of the last three floors of the God's Tomb.

The first is to obtain the help of Emperor Shen Kong and personally start the inheritance for the monks to understand.

The second is to obtain the quota of tombkeeper and start the inheritance by using the Order of Nothingness.

What he wanted to choose was the second one. The first one... was difficult to achieve no matter how he thought about it.

Generally speaking, level seven forces have one to two tomb-guard quotas, level eight forces have three to four places, level nine forces have six to eight places, and level ten forces have twelve places.

The Luo family has Suinian in charge and is a ninth-level force. In this tomb competition, a total of eight places were obtained.

Ning Fan had a deep conversation with Luo Xiao that day, and Luo Xiao's words made Ning Fan's heart beat.

Any Luo family guest minister, as long as he has the status of a Dongming monk and has successfully cultivated the first transformation of the God of War, is eligible to participate in the competition for the position of Luo family tombkeeper.

Naturally, the final allocation of the quota requires the joint consent of the Luo family head and the young master.

"This Luo Xuan and I have almost no interaction, and I will never quarrel with her for no reason... And although I agreed to Li Xiaoxiao to help her buy the lava core, I only need to buy top-grade products, and there is no need to get involved in this top-grade product. In the fight for the lava core. This thing is of no use to me. It is not a wise move to fight with Luo Xuan and other tomb guards for a useless thing..."

Ning Fan made a decision in his heart and used the power of the teleportation array to reach the third floor of the merchant pavilion.

The third floor is smaller than the second floor, with only one shop. There are many rare treasures in the shop, most of which are needed by true immortals.

Only true immortals would visit this third level occasionally.

At the counter. There is only one boy here, responsible for reception.

This boy has a Broken Void cultivation level, his expression is casual, and he is making random calculations.

When he saw Ning Fan walking into the store. His eyes moved.

He sensed Ning Fan's ghost-mysterious mid-stage aura again, shook his head and muttered,

"Why did the Ghost Xuan monk come to the third floor..."

After muttering, he saw Ning Fan approaching. The boy still asked very politely,

"I wonder what you want to buy, senior, when you come here?"

Ning Fan's eyes swept across the treasures in the shop, calm as water.

The merchant pavilion here was built on a superior cultivation star. Although there were many natural and earthly treasures in the pavilion, there were few that could tempt him.

After a moment, he replied, "I want high-grade lava core, two taels will be enough."

"Wha...what! Senior actually wants to buy a high-grade lava core!"

The boy's expression suddenly changed, the top grade lava core was a valuable thing. Here, one tael can be sold for four billion Dao crystals.

This kind of precious thing is something that many true immortals cannot afford.

Immediately, the boy knew that he had made a mistake.

The senior in white in front of me may not have reached the usual standards for entering the third level, but his net worth is quite high.

The boy pondered for a while, then suddenly remembered something, and asked Ning Fan again,

"Senior, are you sure you want two taels of high-grade lava cores? Are you not here for those one taels of top-grade lava cores?"

"No, I just want top quality."

"That's it. Senior, let's go directly to the warehouse on the fourth floor of the Merchant Pavilion. The big shopkeeper of our pavilion is there. All transactions over one billion yuan need to be personally presided over by the big shopkeeper. Seniors can purchase this item directly from the big shopkeeper. But there is one thing .Seniors, be careful. Outside the warehouse on the fourth floor, several seniors competing for the best lava core are currently fighting. Seniors, please be careful not to get involved in this trouble."

After saying this, the boy took out a formation order. Playing a trick on the token, a teleportation array shimmering with golden light immediately appeared in the store, leading directly to the warehouse on the fourth floor of the merchant pavilion.

After doing all this, the boy took out another sound-transmitting instrument, and seemed to be talking to someone through the instrument.

After a moment, he said respectfully to Ning Fan,

"Junior has informed the big shopkeeper of senior's intention. Senior, please go to the warehouse on the fourth floor."

"The fourth floor warehouse..."

Ning Fan looked slightly surprised. As far as he knew, the first three floors of a business pavilion were generally open to customers, and the fourth floor was the warehouse, which was rarely open to customers.

Is it because someone was fighting on the fourth floor, leaving the big shopkeeper of the Merchant Pavilion with no time to do anything, and giving him the opportunity to enter the fourth floor of the Merchant Pavilion...

Without further words, Ning Fan stepped into the teleportation array. As the array light changed, he appeared on the fourth floor of the Shang Pavilion.

The fourth floor of the Shang Pavilion is an endless void, with two huge islands floating in the void.

On one of the islands, there is the warehouse of the local merchant house. Outside the door, there is an old man in linen with a sighing face sitting on a gold ingot, looking at the other island, sighing again and again.

On another island, there is a fighting platform. At this moment, two Duzhen monks are fighting with all their strength on the stage, while more than ten people are watching.

Ning Fan used the power of the formation to teleport to the island where the warehouse was located.

The moment Ning Fan appeared, the monks around the fighting stage all swept their spiritual thoughts towards Ning Fan, but after realizing that Ning Fan was only in the middle stage of Ghost Mystery, no one paid attention to him.

Only Luo Xuan, who was dressed in purple, frowned and glanced at Ning Fan, but in an instant she no longer paid attention to Ning Fan.

"Haha, are you the fellow Taoist who wants to buy a high-grade lava core? The timing of your arrival is a little unlucky... I'm afraid you won't be able to buy a high-grade lava core. I can only sell you one or two low-grade lava cores at most. ..”

The old man in sackcloth sat on the gold ingot and smiled bitterly at Ning Fan.

This person's name is Shang Long, he is the chief shopkeeper of Tianmu Xing Shang Pavilion, and he has a cultivation level in the late stage of Du Zhen.

"Can't buy it? What do you mean?"

Ning Fan glanced at Doufa Tai and then at Shang Long, frowning slightly.

"If fellow Taoist came an hour earlier and wanted to buy two taels of high-grade lava cores, it wouldn't be difficult. But now, hey..."

Shang Long raised his finger towards the fighting platform and said,

"The two people who are fighting on the fighting platform, among them the white-haired young man, have bought all the middle-grade and high-grade lava cores in our pavilion an hour ago, and are still competing for the top-grade lava cores here. Because I haven't yet He told his subordinates about this, but no one told his friends that the lava cores had been sold out...there were only one or two low-grade lava cores. This person did not buy them, as if he was disdainful. I could only buy these two low-grade lava cores. Sold to Taoist Fellow... If Fellow Taoist wants it, you can trade it with me for one or two low-grade lava cores. The price is 500 million Dao Crystals."

After saying this, the old man's eyes were once again attracted to the fighting platform, and he murmured to himself,

"Who is this white-haired young man? He dares to compete with many tomb guards for the best lava core. His strength is certainly not weak. His courage is also not small... This person should not be from the Dongming Star Region, or even someone who often travels in the East The monk walking around in the sky, his appearance gave me a feeling of familiarity, as if I had seen it somewhere before, but I couldn't place it..."

Ning Fan's frown deepened. He never expected that after arriving on the fourth floor, he couldn't even buy two taels of high-grade lava cores.

Ning Fan said calmly to Shang Long without glancing at the fighting stage. "Low-grade lava core, Ning doesn't want it, leave."

After saying that, Ning Fan took advantage of the teleportation array and left.

Ning Fan didn't force himself if he couldn't buy what he needed, and he had no intention of getting involved in the trouble here.

If you can't buy it here, the worst thing you can do is go to the commercial pavilions of other cultivation stars and buy it.

When Shang Long saw that Ning Fan didn't want low-grade lava core, he sighed slightly, but didn't say anything, just smiled apologetically.

Just when Ning Fan was about to leave. Something unexpected happened on the fighting stage!

On the fighting stage, there were two people fighting. One of them was a white-haired young man with a cultivation level close to the middle stage of Duzhen.

The other one looks like a zombie. There is overwhelming demonic energy all over his body, and he is dressed in a black monk's robe. At the same time, he is in the early stage of transcending the truth, but his cultivation level is inferior to that of the white-haired young man.

The white-haired young man had been fighting with the zombie man for a long time, and it was hard to tell the winner. Suddenly. The white-haired young man used a very strange magical power to pull out the spinal bones from his body, used it as a bone whip, and whipped it hard at the zombie man.

With this blow, all the bones of the zombie man's body were shattered, and then his entire body collapsed. With a loud bang, he exploded into countless pieces of flesh and blood!

Only Yuanshen was lucky enough to survive. Apparently, the white-haired young man showed mercy.

"Qin Hong, you are not Jun's opponent, but if you were your elder brother, you would still be a bit respectable!" The white-haired young man said with a cold expression and disdain.

"It's him! The 'Immortal Lord of Bones' who ranked ninth in the last tomb competition, Jun Changdong! It is said that in the last competition, if this person was not plotted in advance, there would be great hope for him to get the top three places. !”

Under the fighting stage, as soon as they saw the white-haired young man's magical power and heard the white-haired young man's words, several monks immediately exclaimed and recognized the white-haired young man's identity.

"He is not Jun Changdong himself. I'm afraid he is a clone of some bone that Jun Changdong has recently cultivated. No wonder his appearance is so strange." Shang Longze, the chief storekeeper of Shangge, said with a serious look.

With his cultivation in the late stage of Duzhen, he was quite afraid when talking about Jun Changdong.

And after the zombie man's soul was destroyed by the white-haired young man's bone whip, he immediately showed a look of shock and anger after recognizing the identity of the white-haired young man.

"Jun Changdong! It's you again! How dare you destroy my body, my elder brother will never let you go!"

After saying this, the zombie man glanced viciously at the entire fighting stage, and then at Shang Long and Ning Fan.

When he saw Ning Fan, his eyes suddenly lit up.

"Junior, lend me your body for a fight, and Qin will reward you with tens of millions of Dao Crystals afterwards!"

After saying this, the zombie man's soul suddenly turned into little black lights and disappeared.

Suddenly, a second shadow strangely appeared next to the shadow at Ning Fan's feet.

And his body suddenly felt like he was out of control.

As for the second shadow, a grimace suddenly appeared, dictating to Ning Fan,

"Junior, don't be afraid. Qin will not do anything to your body, let alone take away your body! As long as you are obedient and let Qin control your body with a stick of incense, there will be many benefits for you! It will teach you one or two things Supernatural powers are not impossible!”

Qin Hong's words are arrogant, and he has the qualifications to be arrogant.

He is the tombkeeper of the eighth-level sect in Dongming, the Shadow Binding Sect, and is a powerful true immortal in the early stages of Du Zhen.

In his eyes, Ning Fan is just a ghostly junior.

To a junior, he thought he was being very polite.

Ning Fan's eyes were sharp. While he was surprised by this man's strange magical power, he also saw the mystery of this magical power.

With his eyesight after the union of heaven and man, he could tell at a glance that Qin Hong's magical power should be to control the body of others by controlling shadows.

This Qin Hong was only in the early stage of transcending reality, and was not so strong that Ning Fan could not compete with him.

Ning Fan had never seen this kind of shadow-controlling power before, so he fell into Qin Hong's shadow-controlling technique.

It's not difficult to break this technique.

As for the possibility of being taken away by Qin Hong, it is completely zero.

Ning Fan didn't talk nonsense to Qin Hong. Just a burst of magic power, and he instantly regained control of his body.

Then he raised his foot and stepped on it, and the demonic fire immediately spread out under his feet and burned towards the second shadow on the ground!

If there is an eternal monster here. You can see that the position of Ning Fan's foot is exactly where the Taoist rules of this shadow control technique lie!

"The shadow control technique has been broken! How is it possible! This kid is obviously just a ghost!"

Qin Hong's expression changed, and without saying a word, he solved the shadow removal technique. Ning Fan's second shadow dispersed and he avoided the attack of the demonic fire.

His soul flickered and reappeared on the fighting stage, looking at Ning Fan with shock from an infinite distance away.

The monks under the fighting stage also looked at Ning Fan, each with varying degrees of emotion.

"Monk Guixuan can actually break the shadow-controlling technique of the Shadow Binding Sect! What is the background of this guy!"

They couldn't help but be shocked. The Shadow Binding Sect's shadow control skills were particularly difficult to deal with, and they were quite famous in Dongming.

With Qin Hong's cultivation in the early stage of Du Zhen, there are probably not many people in the early stage of Du Zhen who can avoid the constraints of this technique.

However, Ning Fan is only a monk with a ghostly and mysterious cultivation. But he managed to break through Qin Hong's magical power in an understatement. How could this not surprise everyone?

Luo Xuan's beautiful eyes flashed, and she looked at Ning Fan again, but this time, there was no arrogance in her eyes, but a lot of inquisitiveness in her eyes.

Shang Long, the shopkeeper of Shang Pavilion, also had his eyes slightly focused at this moment. He couldn't see the rules or the mystery of Ning Fan's kick, but he could vaguely see it. Ning Fan's step was extremely extraordinary.

That kind of extraordinary was beyond his understanding...

Ning Fan's eyes were slightly cold and he glanced at Qin Hong.

He doesn't like to be plotted against by anyone. This Qin Hong acted arbitrarily and used the shadow control technique on him, which violated his taboo.

If he hadn't seen that Qin Hong had no ill intention to seize the body, but was just eager to fight with his own body, he would definitely not spare Qin Hong lightly.

"Your Excellency is very clever. I heard that you are here for the lava core?" the white-haired young man suddenly said. He spoke loudly in the direction of Ning Fan.

"So what!"

Ning Fan frowned and looked at the white-haired young man.

He saw a look of interest in the white-haired young man's eyes.

"Take it!"

The white-haired young man suddenly threw three jade boxes, and the three jade boxes turned into three sharp white lights, rushing towards Ning Fan like a startling rainbow.

The seals of the three jade boxes have been unlocked, and the auras emanating from them are, in order, middle-grade, top-grade, and top-grade lava core!

Among them, the medium-grade and high-grade lava cores were bought by him before.

As for the top-grade lava core, he stole it from the shopkeeper of Shang Pavilion without anyone noticing!

"The best lava core! How could it be in Jun Changdong's hands!" All the monks here were shocked.

"When did he steal this thing!!!" Shang Long was the most shocked. He glanced at the storage bag with his spiritual mind, and his expression immediately became extremely ugly.

It's in vain that he is still a monk in the late stage of Duzhen and the chief shopkeeper of the Shang Pavilion, yet he could have treasures stolen without even realizing it.

Three jade boxes flew towards Ning Fan. As they approached, suddenly, the three jade boxes all appeared with white light, like thunder.

The power of this thunder is quite astonishing. Even a monk in the middle stage of Duzhen might not be able to block the strike of thunder and catch the jade box firmly at the same time!

Either break the lightning or avoid it. In short, it is extremely difficult to catch this lightning.

"If you can catch Jun's bone thunder technique, they belong to you! If you can't catch it, avoid it early, otherwise you will die or be injured!"

The voice of the white-haired young man suddenly reached Ning Fan's ears, with a hint of teasing.

Ning Fan's eyes were focused, his mind was racing, but he was advancing instead of retreating.

Teasing is...good! He accepted this thing!

At this moment, his eyes seemed to be able to penetrate the Taoist rules of the Jade Box Thunder.

At this moment, Ning Fan secretly activated the Tai Su Lei Star between his brows, and without using any magical power, he flicked his sleeves, shot like lightning, and reached out to grab the three jade boxes.

As the descendant of Taisu's Thunder Emperor, why should he be afraid of this mere bone thunder!

"Catch thunder with bare hands!" The white-haired young man's eyes suddenly trembled, and when he looked at Ning Fan again, he was a little more solemn.

The three jade boxes fell firmly into Ning Fan's hands, and the sizzling bone thunder was unable to hurt Ning Fan at all!

"Farewell!"

Ning Fan wiped away the thunder of the three jade boxes with a wave of his hand, put the jade boxes away, took a deep look at the white-haired young man, then turned around and stepped into the teleportation array back to the third floor.

Because of the golden light, his mana was severely depleted, and until now, he had only recovered a little. After taking two shots, the little mana that had been recovered was used up again, and there was no intention of keeping any more.

"If this person participates in the tomb competition, he will definitely be a strong opponent in this competition!" The eyes of the white-haired young man were filled with war flames. Among the many tomb guards in the tomb competition, there were no more than five people who could make him show such an expression.

"I didn't expect that there would be such a powerful ghost in the world. I don't know who is stronger or weaker between this person and the person Luo Xiao was talking about..."

Luo Xuan, the young master of the Luo family, had a look of shock in her beautiful eyes, and it took a long time before she came back to her senses.

By the time she came to her senses, Ning Fan had already left the place.

She felt quite upset in her heart. If she hadn't been distracted, she might have had the opportunity to recruit Ning Fan and make him a guest of the Luo family.

"It's just a missed opportunity... That's all. The person Luo Xiao mentioned may not be inferior to this person..." Luo Xuan comforted herself.

...

Outside the Shang Pavilion, Li Xiaoxiao was holding three jade boxes and an intact tens of billions of Dao crystal storage bags, and his jaw almost dropped to the ground in surprise.

"Eleven taels of mid-grade lava cores, seven taels of high-grade lava cores, one tael of top-grade lava cores...so many, how come there are so many!"

"The most important thing is that you bought so many things and didn't even spend half a Dao Crystal?! This is impossible! I don't believe it, even if you kill me, I won't believe it!"

"Could it be that you, you, you...you treat me..."

Li Xiaoxiao suddenly stretched out his slender jade finger and pointed at the bridge of Ning Fan's nose, his face flushed with embarrassment.

With her intelligence, she could only think of one possibility, and that was that Ning Fan was lying.

She couldn't believe that Ning Fan bought so many things without spending a penny.

The total value of these things is probably close to 100 billion Dao Crystals...

The possibility she could think of was that in order to please her, Ning Fan spent hundreds of billions of Dao Crystals to buy all the lava cores, but lied about not spending any money, just so that she could take them with peace of mind and use them with a clear conscience.

"In order to help me repair the 'Tian-Swallowing Fou', he actually spent hundreds of billions to buy so many lava cores..."

"In order to prevent me from using it with peace of mind, he actually lied that these lava cores were obtained for free, without any money..."

"Why does he treat me so well? I used to kill him every day...Does he really like me?!!!"

"Besides...he's too rich! That's a lava core worth hundreds of billions of Dao Crystals. I don't even feel bad if he gives it to me!"

"He is simply...a love saint!"

The little girl's mind was full of confusion at the moment, and her face was red all the way to her ears.

The bad things about Ning Fan that I kept talking about day and night in the past have now become good things.

When he thought of his oppression of Ning Fan and his repeated calamities, Li Xiaowei regretted and blamed himself endlessly.

"You don't look right... In this state, can you accompany me to Shenbing Lake?" Ning Fan looked at Li Xiaoxiao with a strange look.

"Yes! Brother Qingsheng, Xiaoxiao will take you to Shenbing Lake right now! I promise to complete the mission!"

After Li Xiaoxiao vowed, he immediately swayed and transformed into a half-black and half-white feathered demon body, indicating that Ning Fan could ride up.

Ning Fan stood there with black lines on his head.

When did he become a lover... What kind of nickname is this...

He may get any title in this life, but this title is basically out of his reach, and he deserves it...

What kind of love saint is he? What strange things are thinking in Li Xiaoxiao's head?

"Weird..." Ning Fan once again commented on Li Xiaoxiao in his heart. (To be continued.)