Chapter 465 Achievement of Chaos Eucharist!

   Time passes.

Not surprisingly.

  The entire vast land of chaos really boiled over it.

  The fact that the eighth prince was suppressed was not concealed for long. Soon, the entire Chaos God Clan became angry and let out a terrifying roar.

The other nine princes showed their dharma appearances and turned into tens of thousands of meters high. They raised their heads and roared, shaking countless miles. They made a picture scroll with the portraits of Yang Fang and Taikoo Moyue branded on it. Two people are wanted.

  In addition, the Chaos Protoss became more and more repulsive to many outsiders.

   Several days passed in a row, and fierce battles broke out in the entire Chaos Land one after another.

   There are constantly high-level people hiding here, and when they are discovered by them, fierce battles erupt, and the sound is huge, echoing for countless miles.

  However, in this chaotic demonic land where most people are severely suppressed, these detached ancient powers undoubtedly suffered a lot in front of the chaotic gods.

   People are constantly being suppressed, and people are constantly dying.

  The vast Chaos Demon Soil was directly stained red by blood.

   This is nothing.

  An old antique from the Chaos Protoss was also directly shocked. He has lived for countless years and can be called the same existence as the spark. It is said that he has some relationship with the mastermind behind the scenes.

  His breath is terrifying, very decayed, as if buried for countless years, he directly transmits sound to all directions.

  If Yang Fang and Taigu Moyue don't show up for a day, they will slaughter the land of chaos for a day until all outsiders are driven out.

  As soon as the news came out, countless people were shocked.

  More people's faces changed, and they began to avoid far away.

   The entire chaos is boundless and huge, and they don't believe that the Chaos Protoss can really find them all.

  At the same time, many people also began to resent and blame Yang Fang and Taikoo Moyue in their hearts.

  If these two hadn't attacked the Chaos Protoss, they wouldn't have to hide from XZ like this.

   Now that the Chaos Protoss have been angered, their future life will definitely be even worse.

  ···

   At the foot of the mysterious Montenegro.

  In a simple stone cave.

  Yang put it in retreat and intensive research, and repeatedly read the life book in his hand.

  The three seals mentioned above are extremely powerful, contain good fortune, and are designed to destroy the vitality of others. Through the physical body, they can directly hit the source.

   It is worthy of being one of the nine heavenly books in the period of mythology.

  Yang Fang had an intuition that even mastering any one of the three major seal techniques should be able to truly kill a transcendent master.

   For a long time, it has been too difficult to kill the strong people who have transcended the border. They can only be sealed, but they cannot be killed. If you want to kill them, you must spend a huge price.

   So much so that every time Yang Fang chooses to devour with the sixteen-color vortex, but even if he is swallowed into the sixteen-color vortex, it is still difficult to train to death in a short time.

  But now it is different after learning these three seals.

   Open the seal of heaven!

  Huanyu India!

   Seal of Life and Death!

  Each school is well-known in the age of mythology. It is a prestige forged by the lives of countless murderers. No matter how strong the opponent is, the three major seals are designed to kill the source.

  An ordinary master of transcendence can be completely killed with one move.

   Even in the face of a super strong murderer, one move can seriously injure it, which has an incredible effect.

   Inside the cave.

  Yang Fang let out a breath, opened his eyes again, and stared at the half of the pitch-black ancient book in his hand.

   After a month in a row, he has finally practiced all the three major seal techniques, and then he only needs to rely on the proficiency panel to familiarize himself.

  With the proficiency panel, he can definitely practice these three killing techniques to the extreme in the shortest possible time.

   Soon, Yang Fang turned the ancient book in his hand to the back again, his eyes narrowed slightly, and his eyes scanned carefully.

   There are still many killing techniques recorded in the back of the ancient books, and it involves the physiology of all beings.

   There is a kind of supreme eccentric art, called life and death chart.

  Once you practice the birth and death chart, you can easily control the life and death of others.

   No need to do anything, just a slight turn of the natal chart can directly turn a transcendent master to death.

  Practiced to the extreme, a single thought can kill a person, which is truly terrifying and unpredictable.

  However, after Yang Fang flipped through it, his face changed quickly, revealing regret.

  The book of fate is incomplete, and the supreme knowledge of this [Life and Death Chart] is also incomplete, only the first half, and the second half is seriously missing.

   "I don't know if I can make up for the missing part due to the particularity of my panel. If I really master the [Life and Death Disk], I don't have to continue to be afraid even if I face the Primordial Demon Mountain."

  Yang Fang talked to himself.

  The ancient book of fate, who created this unique knowledge.

   No wonder they are cursed and scattered forever.

  There is such a secret in it?

  I don’t know about the other eight heavenly scriptures, what are the differences?

Yang Xin was moved, and suddenly realized that the sixteen-color vortex appeared again, and the light flashed, and a mythical ancient corpse spit out from it. It was full of death, rancid and pungent, and it was extremely tall. The whole body was densely covered with bone scales. As soon as Hong Mao appeared, he roared and rushed towards Yang Fang.

  Yang Fang's eyes turned cold, and his body instantly rose from the ground, and then directly formed the seal of opening the sky, an extremely terrifying aura instantly emanated from his body.

  There seems to be an ancient universe contained between the two palms, the aura is terrifying and unpredictable, as if it is about to open up the world, a shocking aura is spewing out.

"Roar!"

  The mythical ancient corpse suddenly let out another horrifying roar, its body stopped abruptly, its eyes changed, and it was uncertain, as if it felt some extremely terrifying breath from Yang Fang.

  It didn't continue to rush towards Yang Fang, but turned around, and rushed directly out of the cave, trying to escape from this place.

  However, just as its body rushed out, Yang Fang's body appeared behind him like a photoelectric light, and the terrifying and heavy seal directly covered him firmly.

   Open the seal of heaven!

boom!

   After one move was covered, the voice was dull and terrifying, as if the once supreme universe had been severely suppressed.

"Roar···!"

The mythical ancient corpse let out an extremely ear-piercing roar, its face was painful, and its body was twisted. In an instant, countless fine cracks appeared all over its body, as if it had turned into a cracked porcelain. From the countless cracks all over its body, it began to go out crazily Spit out pieces of turbid dead air.

  The whole body seemed to have an extremely intense chemical reaction, and the roar was extremely shrill, echoing here.

   Chi Chi Chi Chi!

  His body was melting rapidly, and in a blink of an eye, it was torn apart and turned into countless corpses. Each corpse was only the size of a fist, and the life inside was extinct, which was horrible.

   A tragic death with one move!

  This extremely terrifying mythical ancient corpse was killed in one move in front of Yang Fang!

  The terrifying power of Kaitian Seal is beginning to emerge!

  With such a powerful attack, even Yang Fang couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.

   "Horrible, really scary."

   His eyes swept away the corpses on the ground.

  If this shot had landed on Primordial Moyue just now, I don't know what kind of effect it would have.

  And this is just the first seal, there are Huanyu Seal, Life and Death Seal after that!

   I don’t know how powerful these two seals are!

"correct!"

  Suddenly, Yang Fang thought of something again, and the sixteen-color vortex flashed again, and three figures came out from it, extremely embarrassed, with chaotic breath, **** body, and violently panting heavily.

  As soon as they appeared, the three figures quickly backed away, their faces pale.

   "Yang Dao, what are you going to do?"

   "There is something to say, it was all a misunderstanding before!"

  The three of Donglin Shenjun spoke quickly.

  They were picked on the Spear of Desolation Desolation before, and they were not killed directly, but were quickly sent into the sixteen-color vortex by Yang Fang, and were suppressed.

"Misunderstand?"

A slight sneer appeared on Yang Fang's face, and he said: "Shenjun Donglin, you took advantage of the chaos and attacked me continuously, forcing me into the long river of time and space, and almost killed me. How dare you say it was a misunderstanding? But you Don't worry, as long as the three of you can catch me ten moves without dying, I can let you go, how about it? Can you take a gamble?"

   "If you survive ten moves, will you let us go?"

   "Are you serious?"

  The pupils of the three shrank and looked at Yang Fang.

   Then the mental fluctuations were quickly intertwined, and the sound transmission was rapid.

   "Could it be that Yang Fang has practiced some weird skills?"

   "He has obtained the ancient destiny book before, could it be that he has thoroughly understood the unique knowledge of the ancient destiny book?"

   "Probably yes."

  ···

   "Yes, to be honest, you guys do it."

  Yang Fang's tone was cold.

  The eyes of the three of them changed, knowing that they couldn't avoid it, as soon as they gritted their teeth, they began to run their whole body's energy, and their whole body glowed.

   "The blood illuminates the three thousand realms!"

   "Golden Day Streamer!"

   "Wan Tu Demon Hand!"

  The three of them shouted loudly, and they rushed forward together. A terrifying and unpredictable atmosphere erupted directly in the entire cave, like three huge volcanoes erupting.

  Even if there is a large array of protection in the cave, it is still shaken violently by the shock.

However, Yang Fang's eyes turned cold, and seals were formed in his hands instantly. A vast, boundless and terrifying aura surged out of his body in an instant. His momentum was infinitely high, and his body was infinitely tall. The supreme blue sky.

  The sky is unfathomable!

  The sky is too high!

The faces of the three people who were culling them all changed, and they directly felt a wave of suppression from the depths of their souls, as if a wave of the heavens directly covered them, causing them to collapse and give birth to Terrified, the whole person seemed to lose all resistance in an instant.

  Boom!

  Huanyu India!

With one move, the entire space was sunken on the spot, as if a thick universe had ruthlessly covered the three of them, directly crushing their unique skills, and hitting their bodies indiscriminately, making the three of them miserable at the same time. Hmph, countless cracks and rays of light appeared all over his body in an instant, and then there was a dull sound of bang bang bang, and it collapsed quickly.

   Wow!

  The three figures all shattered to the ground, turning into countless densely packed corpses.

   Many corpses are still wriggling with difficulty, trying to reassemble towards the middle.

  But under Yang Fang's careful watch, the corpses gradually lost their vitality, and suddenly became motionless, and began to petrify rapidly, and the death was horrible.

   All three are wiped out!

   "Huanyu Seal, not weaker than Kaitian Seal."

  Yang Fang talked to himself.

   This Huanyu seal is like a piece of sky covered by one move.

  Heavy providence directly hits the source!

  Let these three people have no chance to regroup.

   "There is still one seal of life and death that has not been tested, but the first two seals are already so terrible, and the seal of life and death may not be so weak."

  Yang said in relief.

  The seal of life and death, mastering the life and death of others.

   One move can penetrate the body and hit the soul directly.

   This is a secret technique specifically for the soul!

   Even more incredible!

Yang Fang thought about it for a while, and finally the sixteen-color vortex turned slightly, and the light swept across, sweeping out an ugly figure with a height of seven or eight meters from it, with a surging breath and a hideous face. With a look of anger on his face, he quickly backed up.

   "You want to die, you dare to trap me? Do you know what it means to offend the Chaos Protoss?"

   He growled angrily.

   "Chaos Protoss, even if I don't offend you, will you let me go? Don't be naive."

  Yang Fang spoke calmly, looked at the eighth prince in front of him, and said, "I'll give you a chance too, as long as you can help me try my best skills, I can let you go, how about it?"

   "Looking for death, you dare to use me as an experiment?"

  Eighth Prince's tone was cold.

   "It's courting death, but it's not up to you to try or not."

  Yang Fang didn't talk nonsense anymore, there was a knot in his hands, and there was a bang, and the life and death seal was activated instantly, and a strange ghostly aura emanated directly from between his hands, which was gloomy and cold, echoing around.

  One of the two palms became as black as ink, and the other became as white as jade. Two completely different auras were intertwined, and an ancient portal vaguely appeared in his palm.

  The portal was only opened with a slight gap, and it made people feel an extremely strong panic.

  The eighth prince's hair stood up, his body quickly retreated, and for the first time, he felt great terror, as if he had returned to his childhood and was surrounded by the enemy.

"This is···"

  His eyes shone with horror, as if recalling some terrifying rumors from the age of mythology, he said: "The seal of life and death, this is the seal of life and death in the ancient book of fate!"

"bingo!"

  Yang Fang urged the printing method, and the speed was like light, and he had already directly covered the eighth prince.

   "You can't kill me!"

The eighth prince yelled suddenly, the muscles all over his body squirmed, and his breath exploded, as if he had transformed into a terrifying chaotic primitive in an instant. His body and soul were one, his whole body was invincible, without any flaws. He swung his huge fist and punched Yang Fang directly. He smashed it hard.

  Boom!

   There was an extremely loud roar, without the imagined dazzling strange light, nor any terrifying energy aura sweeping across.

But the Eighth Prince's complexion instantly became ferocious. He twisted together and let out a muffled growl. His entire huge body was staggering backwards, pedaling loudly, and slammed into the wall behind him with a bang, shaking the whole body. The walls were shaking violently.

  His mouth screamed in pain, his eyes, mouth, nostrils, and ears all began to spurt blood, his voice was miserable, and he was in extreme pain.

"Um?"

  Yang Fang frowned and said, "Not dead?"

   Is the physique of this Chaos Protoss really so terrible.

  Faced with the seal of life and death, which is designed to kill souls and directly hit the source of horror, can it survive?

   This family is too heaven-defying!

   It stands to reason that it is impossible for such a race against the sky to reproduce on a large scale, just like the ancient Moyue, from ancient times to the present, she is the only one in her family.

  But the Chaos Protoss has multiplied countless people for countless years, which seems incredible.

  He even wanted to open up the opponent's body and studied it carefully.

   "You try my trick again!"

  Yang Dazhang drank, made a seal with both hands, and another death seal was firmly covered towards the eighth prince's body. His breath was gloomy and cold, and the portal of death emerged.

  It was like an ancient **** pressing down on the soul of the Eighth Prince.

   "Yang Dao, the Chaos Protoss will avenge me!"

  The Eighth Prince roared miserably, desperately struggling with his body, and rushed towards Yang Fang again.

  Boom!

There was another terrifying roar, and the eighth prince's body flew backwards fiercely, smashing into the distance, spurting blood, and fell to the ground, his palms, soles, and muscles were all twitching violently... the whole person's breath was empty, his eyes wandered, It's like losing half-life.

   "It seems that the seal of life and death still has some effect, but the Chaos family is too heaven-defying, and the soul is so powerful that it is incredible."

  Yang Fang secretly thought.

  He then continued to cover the eighth prince's body with the seal of life and death.

one time!

   Twice!

  Three strokes!

   After three more blows, the Eighth Prince completely fell silent and stopped struggling.

  Yang Fang looked at the opponent's fat body, thoughtful in his heart, kicked the opponent's body lightly, turning the opponent's body into a face-up configuration.

  He squatted down, and immediately began to carefully examine the opponent's body, and soon his eyes focused.

   Not dead yet!

  Being beaten to such an extent, there are still weak soul fluctuations deep in the opponent's body.

   But this kind of fluctuation is like a candle in the wind, which will go out at any time.

   "It seems that if you do it again, the other party should be completely dead."

  Yang Fang talked to himself.

   Chaos Protoss, well-deserved reputation.

  However, he knew that not all Chaos Protoss had such a heaven-defying performance.

  The Eighth Prince is so strong, on the one hand, because of his physique, and on the other hand, it must also be because of his cultivation.

  Thinking of his physique, Yang Fang suddenly showed a deep envy.

  Compared with some powerful races between heaven and earth, the human race is really too weak.

  From the very beginning, she was very weak, but in the later stage of cultivation, she would be controlled by others because of her talent and roots.

   "I don't know if I dissect him, can I research the secrets of the Chaos Protoss?"

  Yang Fang's eyes flickered.

  The more I think about it, the more feasible it becomes.

  He immediately started to act, flipping his palm over, took out the Great Desolation Destroyer Spear, quickly shrunk to the size of a palm, and began to gently slash open the opponent's body.

  He was worried that using other weapons would not be able to break through the opponent's defense.

  Only a weapon of the level of the Great Desolation Spear can cut open the opponent's body. As the opponent's body is cut open, drops of thick purple blood and flesh and blood will be exposed immediately.

  The opponent's blood is even more weird,

   Each drop of blood contains countless runes, and strings of runes are connected to each other. When you look closely, it seems to form a large formation.

   "Is this the secret of the Chaos Protoss?"

  Yang Fang was surprised.

  The opponent's blood and flesh are all composed of countless runes?

  Yang Fang immediately activated the [Tianmu] God Seed to observe, and immediately saw the strange runes in the opponent's blood more clearly.

  He directly controlled a wisp of true energy, rushing towards the runes in the opponent's flesh and blood, but found that these runes were extremely tough, powerful and unpredictable.

  Each rune is faintly flickering, full of powerful and inexplicable power.

   "Weird, really weird."

  Yang felt relieved.

  If this is the secret of the Chaos Protoss, then if he has trained his blood like this, will he also have the characteristics of the Chaos Protoss?

  Thinking of this, Yang Fang's eyes brightened, and he immediately closed his eyes to feel it, and all the blood all over his body was reflected in his mind.

  He began to try his best to transform his own blood, engraving the same runes in the drops of blood.

   In the beginning, these runes were extremely difficult to engrave.

  Every engraving encountered great obstacles, and it would not last long before collapsing again.

  However, as time went by, he gradually mastered the methods and methods, and finally successfully engraved these runes into his blood.

  Following the clarity of one after another runes, Yang Fang immediately felt the changes in his physical body clearly, and a breath of endless good fortune and full of magic suddenly emerged in his heart.

  It seems that the body contains endless vitality, as if an ancient universe has evolved in the blood, and countless runes work together, densely packed, all over the limbs and bones.

   His physique seemed to have undergone some terrible transformation in an instant, and thousands of pores were emitting glow.

   More importantly!

  At the moment when these countless runes were formed, the innate Taoist body that had already been integrated into his body immediately reacted, and began to respond to these countless runes.

  The divine light between the two was surging and non-stop, making Yang Fang's physical body begin to strengthen rapidly again!

   "Is it really possible? Can I really carve runes in flesh and blood?"

  Yang Fang was surprised.

  If you say this, won't you also be transformed into a chaotic body?

  Suddenly, he thought of another thing, and immediately activated the [Soul Gathering] God Seed to capture the opponent's soul, and began to study the opponent's soul carefully.

   The reason why the chaotic body is unparalleled in ancient and modern times is second only to the ancient Moyue. In addition to being invincible physically, its soul is definitely weird.

  Yang Fang's [Tianmu] divine seed was running, revealing divine light, and quickly scanned the opponent's soul. Sure enough, in the depths of the opponent's soul, he clearly saw groups of more complicated runes.

   It's just that most of the runes deep in the opponent's soul have been destroyed by his previous power.

   Only a few parts remain intact.

   But even so, for Yang Fang, there is a huge reference value.

  His gaze flickered, observing over and over again, and immediately began to try to engrave seals in his own soul.

  As the runes formed one after another, an extremely close connection appeared between his body and soul, making his body and soul seem to be integrated.

  From then on, they are no longer divided into each other.

  The body is the soul, and the soul is the body.

  The body is immortal, and the soul is immortal.

  A great fortune, a great mysterious aura emerged from his body.

  Yang Fang opened his eyes again, his eyes flashed, staring at his fist, he couldn't help but burst out laughing, and said: "Hahaha, Chaos God Body, this is Chaos God Body!"

  Boom! boom! boom!

  He began to swing his fist forward, roaring, full of a powerful and oppressive aura, although it was just a simple punch, but each punch made the space concave, as if hit by a mountain.

  The whole body and soul have improved by an unknown amount compared to before.

  Long time.

Yang Fang's body finally stopped, with restrained light in his eyes and turbulent breath, he said, "Now I can't be called Chaos Divine Body, because I am not a **** race, I don't have divine blood, I just borrowed the talisman from the other party's flesh and soul. It’s just text, at best it can only be called a chaotic body!”

good!

   is the chaotic body!

  Of course, this chaotic body is far from perfect, and there is still a gap compared with the real chaotic gods.

   Because this is only his initial results.

  But wait until he continues to study and use the panel to push the chaotic body to perfection, and he will definitely be better than blue.

   At that time, he will be the first chaotic holy body of the human race!

A smile suddenly appeared on Yang Fang's face, his eyes flickered, he looked at his hands, and said: "The chaotic body has just formed, and I have mastered the three major seals. Now I am at least twice as strong as I was a few months ago. !"

   Among other things, the body and soul alone are not what they used to be!

  Yang Fang let out a sigh of relief, flipped his palms over, and took out several incomplete Taoist maps on his body again, placed them in the area in front of him, and began to sense them one by one.

   "Dao Tu... the matter is very important, we must gather them as soon as possible!"

  Yang felt relieved.

  A moment later, the sixteen-color glow rolled over, and the eighth prince on the ground was rolled up again, and he was directly absorbed into the vortex, and then his body walked out of the cave again.

  Yang Fang looked back at the retreat place of Master Xinyan and Divine Monk Kurong, and did not continue to disturb them. Instead, it turned into a beam of twilight and rushed out of the formation in an instant.

  Collecting the remaining stolen pictures, he is not going to continue to let the monk Kurong take risks. With his current strength, he can easily do it.

brush!

  Yang Fang's body flickered, and quickly disappeared here.

   Then, following the mutual induction between the road maps, they quickly locked on a position, and immediately flew towards it at a high speed.

   After rushing out, I immediately found out a lot of information about him along the way.

   The Chaos Protoss really went crazy.

   Clear out outsiders in a large area, and launch all rewards to reward Yang Fang.

  Anyone who provides information about Yang Fang will become a guest of the Chaos Protoss. No matter when, they can come to the Chaos Protoss as a guest.

  The entire land of chaos is in constant turmoil.

  Many ancient powers who lived in seclusion here were overturned, either actively or passively, and joined this huge vortex.

  ···

  In a dark and dim environment.

  Yang Fang's body flickered slightly, his brows were frowned, showing suspicion, and he looked towards an inconspicuous tribe not far away.

   Chaos Protoss!

  According to his induction, several Dao map fragments actually fell among the Chaos Protoss.

   Now I'm in big trouble.

   "Could it be that those ancient masters who mastered the Dao map were all captured by the Chaos Gods?"

  Yang Fang's expression changed.

  Holding the remaining Dao map, he began to continue sensing.

   A moment later, the body hurriedly disappeared here again.

  In his induction, there was another incomplete Dao map, which did not fall into the Chaos Protoss, but appeared in another direction.

   Now we have to rush there at top speed, so as not to be caught by the Chaos Protoss again.

  ···

   Endless chaos, vastness and emptiness.

  It is far larger than the combined area of ​​Shenxu Continent and the darkness and haze.

  In a chaotic black mountain range.

  A figure hurriedly fled towards the distance.

  Naihe is located in the depths of the chaos. His law and true energy are suppressed extremely severely. He can't even exert one-thirtieth of the outside world, so he can only run away with a strong physical body.

  But in terms of physical body, compared with those Chaos Protoss, it is undoubtedly much worse.

   "Damn Chaos Protoss, when you enter the outside world, I, the iron demon ancestor, will definitely not let you go. Now in your territory, I am suppressed everywhere. When I enter the outside world, the ancestor will crush you all!"

  The tall figure was panting heavily while running away.

  Behind him, black dark clouds rolled and surged, causing the entire chaos to be in turmoil, exuding an unspeakably destructive atmosphere, and black lightning was constantly swept out from the dark clouds, bombarding towards the tall figure.

  Every time the lightning fell, the tall figure would jump.

   He failed to dodge successfully several times, and was concentrated by the black lightning, making a piercing scream.

   "Grass mud horse, when I return to the outside world, I will skin your cramps and make you suffer endless pain!"

  The iron demon patriarch cursed.

  However, soon, more black lightning surged from behind, and quickly blasted down towards the Iron Demon Patriarch.

  The iron demon patriarch suddenly became jumpy, his skin was torn apart, and he kept screaming.

   I don't know how long it has passed.

finally!

  The iron demon patriarch couldn't take it anymore, limp on the ground, panting violently, wheezing and wheezing loudly, he said: "Don't run away, I won't run away, kill me if you have the ability!"

   "Outsiders, you all deserve to die, none of you will be able to escape!"

  The dense dark cloud behind him continued to roll, and a cold voice came from inside.

   "You idiot, if you want to kill it, kill it, talk more nonsense!"

  The iron demon patriarch cursed.

   "Outsiders, should be suppressed!"

  An icy sound came out from the dark cloud again, and a more terrifying black lightning shot out, rushing towards the Iron Demon Patriarch.

   However, soon, his voice stopped abruptly.

  Under the terrifying black lightning, his body was safe and sound, without any damage.

  A strange vortex appeared, like a bottomless sea eye, swallowing all the black lightning.

   On one side of the weird vortex, an unusually burly and tall figure emerged silently, dressed in a black robe, with long hair loose, and a body like an iron tower, calm and powerful.

   "Yang...Yang Dao!"

   Patriarch Iron Demon lost his voice.

  ···

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