Chapter 224: Five Elements Divine Gang Blasts the Demon Child—You Cry Corpse God, I Summon Equal Heaven【Seek Monthly Votes】
The night was dark and deep, with scattered stars.
Black clouds drifted lightly in the sky, veiling the pure moonlight.
Under the moonlight, the sprawling Qianyuan Dao City seemed to glow faintly, as if the whole city were lit; the temples scattered on the mountainside seemed to draw down the moonlight from above.
Every place that emitted a faint light had a temple.
That was the Guiyi Miao; at night, the Guiyi Miao became more active than in daytime.
It seemed as if the deity of the Guiyi Miao had awakened from slumber, opened its great mouth, and drank in the cold, yin moonlight.
Within the Dao City.
There was an extremely concealed pavilion.
Before the pavilion's door, a thick, intense black mist roiled and rose, and then a white-clad figure stepped out from the vortex of black mist.
Wearing a white mask as smooth as jade, bearing the character 'Six', this was the Six Offices Upper Corpse God Envoy who had departed from the demon child.
Beneath the mask, his eyes were deep and gloomy.
With a flick of his finger, a wisp of deathly energy shot out swiftly, piercing into the pavilion.
Moments later.
The pavilion's doors suddenly flung open!
Amidst the howling wind, a faint voice drifted from within: 'Sir, please come in.'
The voice was elusive, its source impossible to pinpoint.
'Huh? A cursed jade corpse?'
'The Corpse God Sect… really bold, daring to act like this inside the Dao City… have you determined that those divine fetuses have all entered seclusion?'
The Corpse God Envoy drifted in white robes, his jade mask gleaming with a jade-like luster under the moonlight.
'What? The Corpse God Sect cannot enter?'
'Rest assured, sir, the God-Hunting Pavilion conducts business… we care not for background, only profit; as long as you can offer the price, you may enter the pavilion.'
The Corpse God Envoy heard this and gave a light smile.
This is the God-Hunting Pavilion.
They do not care whether you are of the Corpse God Sect; as long as you can offer benefit, they can summon the God-Hunting Pavilion's assassins.
The Corpse God Envoy tapped his toe and floated into the pavilion.
Boom——!
The gatehouse shut instantly.
Countless flames ignited, and the Corpse God Envoy felt a wave of dizziness; in the next instant, his eyes cleared slightly.
Inside the pavilion lay a separate realm; the pavilion was merely a teleportation entrance.
Stepping into the pavilion would trigger the Divinity Formation, transporting one elsewhere.
However, it should still be within Qianyuan Dao City.
Even now, as cultivators' study of divinity grows deeper and more thorough, they still cannot create a long-range divinity formation for teleportation.
The surroundings were sealed, windowless, the space locked shut, and a divinity formation that interfered with probing left one unable to sense direction, as if time and space were scrambled.
This Corpse God Envoy, even though he was a cursed jade corpse, could not perceive where he was at that moment.
'Sir, whom do you wish to kill?'
A faint voice drifted over.
Then, the Corpse God Envoy saw the figure seated high above.
The figure wore a jade-colored mask.
This was the Jade-Faced Killer of the God-Hunting Pavilion, a powerhouse far above the Gold-Faced Killer.
The Corpse God Envoy's eyes opened and closed: 'The Underworld.'
'The Ox Demon, Horse Face, Divine Monkey, and Black and White Impermanence… all are to be slain.'
His words fell.
'The Underworld…'
The Jade-Faced Killer's vast black robe billowed up without wind, and his deep voice resonated.
'The Underworld… is connected to the Equal Heaven Temple; it is not ordinary, not simple.'
'The Ox Demon, Horse Face, Divine Monkey, and Black and White Impermanence—according to the God-Hunting Pavilion's intelligence, aside from the Horse Face, the others possess Grand Master-level combat power…'
'Moreover, the Underworld's Ox Demon slew Su Huaili, and once fought the Western Camp Divine Guard Army and Governor Long Tai to a draw, which can be regarded as an innate Grand Master…'
'So, will you take this mission or not?' the Corpse God Envoy said lightly.
'I need more pay.' the Jade-Faced Killer said in a low voice.
The Corpse God Envoy's eyes opened and closed: 'The Underworld once wiped out your God-Hunting Pavilion's layout in Jinguang Prefecture… killing the Underworld is also revenge for your God-Hunting Pavilion, a double gain—why demand more pay?'
The Jade-Faced Killer smiled lightly upon hearing this: 'Those who died were the God-Hunting Pavilion's assassins in Jinguang Prefecture; what does that have to do with the God-Hunting Pavilion assassins of Qianyuan Dao City?'
The Corpse God Envoy, upon hearing this, also fell silent.
Indeed, the God-Hunting Pavilion is a bunch of cold, ruthless assassins.
Talking about feelings of warmth and cold with them is meaningless.
'Give a quote.'
The Corpse God Envoy said.
'The Ox Demon: one Five Elders Divine Crystal, ten Six Offices Divine Crystals.'
'The Horse Face: ten Six Offices Divine Crystals.'
'The Divine Monkey: one Five Elders Divine Crystal, ten Six Offices Divine Crystals.'
'The Black and White Impermanence: a total of fifty Six Offices Divine Crystals.'
The jade-faced assassin's wide robe slowly fell, the wind hidden in his sleeves completely drained, and he spoke slowly.
The Corpse God Envoy's eyes narrowed slightly, this price……
It is indeed considerably higher than imagined.
In total, it requires spending two Five Elders Divinity Crystals and eighty Six Offices Divinity Crystals!
This price……is too great!
Only the Demon Child Lord, with his lofty status in the Corpse God Sect and deep pockets, could afford it.
Otherwise, even as a Jade Corpse expert, he would utterly refuse to spend so many resources hiring an assassin.
What if the mission isn't completed?
We only take one Five Elders Divinity Crystal as a deposit, the rest……not taken……
Deal.
The Jade Corpse's palm suddenly turned jade-colored, and a thumb‑sized divinity crystal brimming with mighty divinity shot out.
Splendid light burst from the divinity crystal.
The assassin wearing the jade mask seized this divinity crystal.
See the guest out.
The words fell.
The divinity array was triggered again.
Mighty divinity surged like waves.
The next moment, the Corpse God Envoy fell into a daze, even his primordial spirit's perception sealed.
After his perception cleared.
He found himself back in the pavilion at the entrance.
Stepping out of the pavilion, the Corpse God Envoy's eyes beneath his mask suddenly sharpened; he lifted his head, and thick deathly and black qi roiled behind him!
Bold!
……
……
The night was deep, and thick gray clouds suddenly drifted across the sky.
Under the moonlight, the edges of the black clouds emitted a faint, cold glow.
On the roof.
Horse Face stood silently, setting up the elongated, improved Divine Artifice Fire God Barrett.
He slowly raised it; beneath the Horse Face mask, his eyes were dark and profound.
The Ox Demon, cloaked in black, tore open the brow of his mask, revealing a golden eye, the Star‑Pupil shining brightly; combined with the Heaven‑Earth Chessboard, it stretched across and covered the entire manor.
It completely blocked all probing, unless a Divine Infant realm god forcibly spreads his divine sense to sweep and search.
Otherwise, it basically would not be exposed.
Heaven‑Earth Chessboard!
Locked on!
Beneath the Horse Face mask, his pupils also flickered with intertwining flowing light.
At the same time.
Li Che raised his hand and pressed it against the mask; instantly, his qi and blood twisted, his bones and tendons rang with a booming tremor, and in the violent crashing, every inch of muscle stacked like steel.
It was as if scarlet currents surged across his skin, and one after another divine gang burst forth like flood dragons, coiling around his palm.
Gathering power, ready to unleash!
Horse Face's eyes seemed to connect to the Heaven‑Earth Chessboard.
The next moment, mighty divinity burst from his body.
In the Thunder‑Listening Lane, within the manor.
Bang bang bang——
One after another, the painted‑fairy clones exploded!
Turning into thick ink mist!
The mighty divinity flowed back, and Li Che, in a single thought, transmitted it all into Horse Face's body.
Then Horse Face sent it all into the Divine Artifice Fire God Barrett; faintly, scarlet firelight gathered into a crimson angry flood dragon, coiling around the elongated fire‑god barrel!
Boom——!!
Like a heavenly black thunderbolt falling to the mortal realm!
It suddenly exploded, tearing eardrums!
In an instant, countless wind‑waves seemed to be sliced apart at this moment!
On the scarlet barrel of the Fire God Barrett, one after another pattern rose like bulging scarlet veins!
Mighty power drove it, countless tongues of fire burst forth, blooming in the night with ultimate splendid light and heat!
Hiss hiss hiss——
An extremely slender black‑white collapsed fire‑god dragon fang, amid countless rolling flames, propelled and shot out.
The black‑white pattern inlaid on it spun rapidly, as if two black and white chess pieces were whirling around!
In silence, it seemed to contain the power to destroy heaven and earth!
Flowing fire wrapped around the collapsed dragon fang, like a volcanic fire dragon winding forth, baring its ferocious fangs!
Hiss hiss!
Scorching heat waves rolled, twisting the airflow!
At the tip of the Extreme Collapse Dragon Fang, the airflow formed a cone, shooting rapidly outward to both sides!
Speed……
It had reached the extreme of speed!
Almost as soon as the sound rang, he had already reached inside the manor.
A killing intent that covered heaven and earth!
It poured down in an instant!
……
……
The Hell Lotus Divine Mark on the demon child's brow hissed 'chi chi chi' as it steamed with heat.
The Temple God's divinity frantically warned him of danger!
It was a danger enough to make his hair stand on end and cut off his life!
In an instant, the demon child had already identified the source of danger!
Ox Demon!
It was definitely the Ox Demon!
In Qianyuan Dao City, the only thing the demon child could never forget wanting to kill was the Ox Demon!
Others, even the Temple Suppression Office, felt no such intense killing intent toward the demon child.
"What a lunatic?!"
"Have I provoked him?!"
The demon child gritted his teeth, he had never provoked the Underworld Ox Demon……
He completely couldn't understand his own cause of death.
From the moment his avatar, trying to flee within Golden Light Prefecture, was spotted by the Underworld, the Ox Demon began relentlessly pursuing and attacking him!
What did he do, huh?
"Did someone hire Underworld assassins to kill him?"
But he also couldn't remember offending anyone in Golden Light Prefecture City.
The demon child was dazed, his tiny face twisted and ferocious, his two black circles almost spreading larger.
Suddenly.
The demon child shot up from the threshold, his toes touching down, a surge of deathly qi spreading out, sweeping the scene; he clenched his fist, and two golden beans were instantly flung out.
Instantly, before him, they transformed into two golden Cursed Gold Corpses!
The protective power of the Cursed Gold Corpses, he now had only two left.
Originally there were five, but the Ox Demon blasted three away with a mushroom cloud explosion……
Now he only had the protection of two Cursed Gold Corpses— not enough…… completely not enough……
Because the demon child had long since found out how Su Huaili died!
Su Huaili even summoned the Corpse God's Will, yet he was still beaten to death!
Moreover, the protection You Liqing gave Su Huaili was also two Innate Grand Master–level experts!
Under such protection, Su Huaili was still outright slain by the Ox Demon!
The demon child……
He feared the same fate!
So, two Cursed Gold Corpses really aren't enough!
"Ahhhhhh!!!!"
"Damn it!"
Even if he had been hit earlier by that terrifying mushroom cloud fireworks, he had never felt such an imminent sense of death!
That constantly approaching fear, that spreading sense of death, filled the whites of the demon child's black eye sockets with a web of bloodshot veins!
Death drew ever nearer!
Ox Demon…… could it be watching him at all times?
After the Corpse God Envoy in charge of the Six Offices left, the Ox Demon immediately struck!
Such timing was seized too perfectly!
It was as if the Ox Demon constantly lurked in a corner, waiting for his protection to leave, waiting for his defense to be weakest, to unleash a thunderbolt strike!
This was a top‑tier hunter!
Instantly……
The demon child felt everything around him fall silent.
Every sound seemed to be wiped away, swallowed by an invisible force!
Between heaven and earth, only black and white remained!
In the demon child's bloodshot eyes, a look of horror suddenly appeared.
Then, a flash of red light burst from outside the manor, then tore across the night sky like a comet swinging its tail!
Swift as a thunderbolt falling from the heavenly dome!
"Block it!!!!"
The demon child screamed!
Although he was the demon child of the Corpse God Sect, he had only just reached Divine Foundation Perfection; after all, he cultivated the Corpse God Divine Nature Method, which also needed time to be forged.
The divine might contained in the Extreme Collapse Dragon Fang nearly matched the eruption of a True Person of Divine Origin!
How could the demon child not be afraid?!
Hum—!
A cursed gold corpse erupted with extremely brilliant golden light, a strand of golden gang intertwining and shooting forth!
In an instant, a golden spear condensed, grasped by this cursed gold corpse, it viciously thrust forward, aiming at the Extreme Collapse Dragon Fang!
The tip of the Dragon Fang seemed to touch the condensed tip of the golden gang!
This cursed gold corpse's eyes turned bloody red, its bones and tendons ringing as it stretched out.
The thrust golden spear seemed to bend slightly, as if bearing an immeasurably heavy collapsing mountain!
It was only a third of a breath's time.
The Extreme Collapse Dragon Fang suffered a powerful impact and instantly exploded!
In an instant!
The whole courtyard seemed to be filled and packed with light!
Endless light, scorching light, blinding white light!
A black-and-white vortex suddenly appeared, spinning nonstop, possessing extremely terrifying annihilating power!
That cursed gold corpse's scarlet eyes shrank, and in an instant it was swallowed by the exploding black-and-white light!
Like a huge black-and-white rotating bowl lid, it suddenly flipped down, covering this cursed gold corpse within!
Sizzle—
Countless gusts of wind were pushed aside, swept away by the vortex, as if clearing out an immaculately pure void!
Countless clashing explosive sounds burst forth, the cursed gold corpse's golden gang raging wildly within, opposing the black-and-white rotation like a grinding mill's annihilating force!
Meanwhile another cursed gold corpse guarded the demon child, blocking the raging wind and waves!
Bringing the demon child, they retreated at high speed, withdrawing beyond a hundred zhang!
But just as they landed.
The cursed gold corpse's eyes suddenly narrowed, fingers clenched, its unique corpse-gold gang lashing out like a silk whip at the air ahead!
There……
At some point, a white chess piece appeared in the air, tumbling along with the current!
Suddenly.
That chess piece was actually grabbed by a large hand like a palm-leaf fan!
In its place……
Was terrifying and domineering blood and qi, plus a huge, burly body full of oppressive presence!
Boom—rumble—!
Blood and qi surged, stirring the air, a low muffled thunder erupting from the burly, sturdy body of the ox demon!
That was the sound of an air burst as the violent flow was torn apart!
Because Li Che hardly wasted a word, he hid a Flying Thunder chess piece inside the Extreme Collapse Dragon Fang!
As the Extreme Collapse Dragon Fang exploded, the chess piece was also propelled outward by the tremendous explosive force!
Under the subtle control of the Heaven-Earth Chessboard, it flew toward the demon child!
When it appeared within one zhang of the demon child's body, the cursed gold corpse finally sensed it, its golden gang lashing out to blast the chess piece!
"Ox Demon——!!"
The demon child's eyes almost burst!
Sure enough, you damned ox!
To kill a mere God Foundation child, you've schemed to this extent, not the slightest bit upright!
Truly worthy of an ox demon, you are vicious, sinister, and deceitful!
Li Che's eyes beneath his mask were utterly cold!
He felt no fault in his assassination methods, nothing improper or unjust.
What good is being upright?
Killing, it's all about practicality!
Facing this brat who fantasizes about his daughter and calls everyone 'madam'!
Li Che didn't want to say a word, no pleasantries at all, even though the opponent was the demon child of the Corpse God Sect, extraordinarily positioned.
Yet Li Che also had no hesitation or reservation!
In midair, his five fingers clenched into a fist, he punched out, strands of divine gang spreading from his fist and arm flesh!
He struck toward the golden gang lashing from the cursed gold corpse, comparable to the innate true gang of an Innate Grand Master!
Boom——!!!
The air wave roared and exploded!
Just a collision, and a huge shockwave spread, shaking the dust inside the manor up to the heavens!
The cursed gold corpse guarding the demon child flashed a hint of astonishment in its eyes.
"Divine Gang?"
"Not innate?!"
However, he had just relaxed a bit of his nerves, then instantly tensed again!
Because the power transmitted from within the divine gang……
How could it be so terrifying?!
Is this divine gang?
What kind of divine gang is this?!
In that instant, the ox demon's terrifying amount of blood and qi suddenly erupted, blood mist roiling like a volcano spewing magma fire pillars!
Boiling hot waves surged and roiled, mighty gusts blasted forth!
The five divine energies intertwined, merging into one!
Five elements united as one!
Dragon-Elephant Vajra Transformation!
Myriad Dragon-Elephant transformations!
Li Che held nothing back, instantly erupting with heaven‑shaking killing intent!
A single move was a martial sage's ultimate killing technique!
Illusory shadows of a dragon and an elephant coalesced behind him—the divine dragon bared its fangs and roared, the giant elephant swung its trunk and bellowed.
Powerful martial will centered on the demon ox's brow, spreading outward.
Dragon-Elephant will, treading the earth and shattering the heavens!
Because the distance was too close, even with a mighty cursed‑gold corpse protecting him, he was still struck by the demon ox's current overbearing aura.
His eyes grew dazed, the hell‑lotus divine seal on his brow blazing hot, yet it could not withstand this impact…
In a daze, he seemed to see a giant elephant as large as a mountain stomp down hard, the earth shattering into fragments, while a divine dragon twisted and surged into the firmament, smashing the sky to pieces!
How terrifying!
How terrifying——!
The demon child was horrified to the extreme—such external training, such extreme bodily external training!
Such power, he cannot block it!
No!
Not even a tenth of a breath can block it!
In an instant he will be blasted into bloody flesh scattered across the ground!
Boom——!!!
The cursed‑gold corpse roared, extreme corpse‑qi and death‑qi surging upward in rolling waves!
He clenched his fist and thrust out a punch, which collided with the demon ox's overbearing strike at this moment!
The five‑element divine gang was overbearing like a true dragon; meeting his golden‑gang impact, it was but an instant…
His golden gang then scattered apart!
And that magnificent overbearing punch almost condensed the martial will Li Che had forged through the five martial sage supreme arts into one!
Five kinds of divine gang, an unparalleled physique…
The shortcomings between Li Che and an innate grandmaster had long been made up!
The cursed‑gold corpse's entire arm, as if forged from poured gold, actually shattered horrifyingly, unable to block the demon ox's punch!
It was as if heaven‑shattering power slammed hard into the cursed‑gold corpse's chest!
He forcibly drove the cursed‑gold corpse's breastbone deep inward, causing it to collapse!
No sooner said than done!
The cursed‑gold corpse almost turned into a cannonball, shooting backward and tearing the manor's ground to shreds, countless rolling mud and stones blasting forth!
The demon child was hit by the aftershock, coughing up mouthfuls of blood, rolling across the ground like a ball for quite a distance.
In an instant, the demon child's hairs stood on end, and he saw his shadow writhe, a grandmaster‑level assassin darting out.
A pitch‑black dagger, like ink, slashed straight at his throat!
The demon child's whole body went stiff and icy; the Shadow Guard true person was not only a grandmaster, but a divine‑origin true person‑level powerhouse.
Divine‑rank oppression crashed down.
「I can't block it…… I completely can't block it……」
The demon child was utterly desperate.
He could not await the return of the cursed‑jade corpse divine envoy of the Six Offices' exaltation.
If there were a cursed‑jade corpse, he would be safe and worry‑free.
But……
He can't wait any longer!
The demon child, hair disheveled, let out a shriek; instantly his body regained movement, a terrifyingly extreme divine aura bursting forth from within him!
The Shadow Guard true person's dagger, swung without any emotional fluctuation, did not even slightly hesitate because of the demon child's shriek.
Slitting throats—the Shadow Guard true person is a professional!
Pfft!
The dagger sliced through, its extreme sharpness severing the demon child's head!
The head shot skyward, hair flying wildly!
However……
That disheveled‑haired head of the demon child continued to scream without cease.
The spinning, flying head was seized by the demon child's headless corpse, clutching the skull, the mouth on the skull torn to the extreme, screaming incessantly!
One punch dented the cursed‑gold corpse's chest; Li Che, rebounding outward, also furrowed his brows.
This assassination plan, flawless up to now……
It seems some mishap has occurred!
Li Che's eyes deep, he watched the demon child's brow‑seal hell‑lotus divine pattern melt away, as if swallowed whole by some terrifying entity.
A powerful and terrifying scarlet divine nature erupted instantly from the demon child's body!
Around the demon child's small frame, it suddenly swelled like an inflating balloon!
One……
It seemed like an aura that did not belong to this world.
It descended with a thunderous rumble!
……
……
Whooo—
A cool evening spring breeze swept across the empty long street of Dao City.
It stirred up surging waves of airflow!
Suddenly.
A white jade‑like figure, as swift as an electric current, swooped down and burst forth, its speed incredibly fast!
In almost an instant, it darted out a distance of a hundred zhang!
And it was soundless and traceless, as if it had vanished into darkness.
It wasn't that he didn't use the time‑space corpse technique to directly reach the demon child's side.
But he had lost the target, unable to lock onto the demon child's position, so the time‑space corpse technique could not be used.
Clearly, the expert who wished to assassinate the demon child was also a grandmaster of divine formations skilled in spatial sealing!
Rattle—
His figure came to an abrupt halt; the Jade‑Faced Corpse God Envoy, the pupils beneath his mask suddenly showed a look of utter shock and dread.
He clutched his chest tightly, a suppressing feeling like intertwined electric currents exploding in his chest.
In the dark, a tremendously terrifying will was frenziedly descending!
"Corpse God's Seal?"
"Intent to compare corpse flesh to Guanyin……intent to become Corpse God!"
"I teach the Corpse God!"
Boom——!!!
This Jade‑Faced Corpse God Envoy trembled uncontrollably, lacking even the strength to twitch a finger.
He collapsed limp onto the ground, kneeling, facing the direction of that mansion.
His forehead pressed against the ground, his eyes beneath the jade‑colored mask filled with boundless terror.
"Corpse… Corpse God, forgive me!"
……
……
Even if the Heaven‑Earth Chessboard separated them, it could not sever the mutual connection between the Corpse God and the followers of the Corpse God Sect.
It is a connection forged on the level of the soul and faith!
At this moment.
The entire Qianyuan Dao City seemed to tremble.
Faintly, in many places, deathly qi and corpse qi were slowly spreading, a situation that could not be contained.
Many people knelt directly on the ground, as if facing an existence of a rank they could not dare to look upon!
Inside the luxurious mansion.
Li Che wore the Ox Demon mask, his body like a towering mountain, terrifying qi and blood roaring and surging, ten strands of five‑elemental divine gang swirling around him.
Every tremor sent shockwaves through the air, producing explosive booms!
His eyes stared fixedly into the distance.
There, the demon child whose head had been severed… at this moment… erupted with an even more terrifying aura; even the aura of a cursed gold corpse seemed inadequate before him!
"What… exactly is this?"
"What on earth is the Corpse God Sect's demon child?"
The burning power of the bloodline……
Demon child, could he be an offspring of the Corpse God?!
Li Che furrowed his brows.
He was not particularly panicked.
The suppressing feeling indeed existed; it was an oppressive divine‑rank pressure so terrifying that ordinary divine cultivators could hardly muster the strength to twitch a finger.
Even Li Che, almost all of his divine foundations within his mental realm were trembling.
The Fiery‑Eyed Mystic Ape Spirit Aspect and the Hundred‑Turn Worry‑Dream Cassia Rabbit Spirit Aspect also trembled slightly.
This was a suppression unique to the divine‑rank level!
Rumble——
That which hovered within the mental realm's space.
The Spiritually Bright True Ape Spirit Aspect, which had been slowly sleeping, slowly opened its eyes.
It seemed to pound its chest, letting out an angry roar!
In the distance.
The demon child's tiny body clutched its own severed head; the eyes within the dark circles of that held head suddenly turned pitch black.
A terrifying aura akin to that of a god, centered on the demon child's small body, released rolling waves of qi!
The demon child's body slowly floated up, leaving the ground.
He reattached the cradled head onto his neck, but having installed it backward, he twisted it sharply with a click……
The head rotated one hundred eighty degrees!
The terrifying rank‑based pressure surged up like a mountain and sea overturning from behind him.
However…
It seemed like a demon child who had summoned the Corpse God's descent.
Their gaze stalled.
"Invite a deity?"
Yet the ox demon clenched its fist, and from thin air snatched a golden monkey‑hair mask fluttering in the wind.
Mythic warrior!
The Face of Qi Tian!
Unrestrained, flamboyant, domineering!
Suddenly covered the face.
You're calling the Corpse God?
I summon Qi Tian!
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