For a while, Lu Qian couldn't find a way to restrain Master Adu. Lu Qian had already understood five or six points of this guy's origin. But Lu Qian still didn't understand. This guy must have attained enlightenment in the Supreme Beginning.
Too open before!
In other words, before the Supreme Beginning Heavenly Capital existed, beings like Master Adu had already cultivated the Tao and achieved their own magical powers.
This guy's way, the way of his fellow Taoists, are obviously incompatible with the supreme Taochu Heaven's great way of heaven and earth, and the laws of heaven and earth. They are not the same way at all.
It just so happens that Lu Qian upholds the most orthodox and powerful Tao of the Supreme Taichu Heaven. He has mastered the avenues of space and time. He has condensed the Emperor's Seal Dao Fruit. He can be said to be the leader of this world on the two avenues of space and speed.
The supreme master...and he was actually completely powerless against Master Adatu!
Lu Qian's heart felt a little heavy.
Perhaps, Master Langyue and the others are right - the world they truly belong to, the Tao they 'brought' from that world has infiltrated their bodies, their souls, and perfectly integrated with their entire cultivation system.
', it is stronger than the current Supreme Taichu Tian.
Maybe this description is not very accurate - but if you throw a giant octopus from the deep sea with a body length of hundreds of feet into a deep pool with a radius of hundreds of miles in the mountains. Even if the deep pool contains large fish that are over 100 feet long, that big
Fish are certainly no match for giant octopuses.
Lu Qian is the top predator in the deep pool of Supreme Taichu Heaven, that big fish several feet long.
As for people like Master Adu, they may be giant creatures that are hundreds of feet, thousands of feet, or even ten thousand feet long, and even giant monsters that were raised in the real boundless ocean. They were thrown into this place from the real deep sea.
In the small pond, their life characteristics, their behavioral norms, and their vitality must have been greatly suppressed.
Lu Qian, the original top predator native to the deep pool, has sharp teeth and can tear off a few big pieces of fat from these giants... But when these giants really stretch their bodies, the big fish
What can be done to them?
That's the truth.
That’s why Master Lang Yue said, ‘The Tao of the Supreme Taichu Heaven is ultimately shallow’.
Well, when you think about it, the entire world of the Supreme Taichu Heaven was violently created by the 'Maitreya' sitting at the source of the long river of time, and you can understand that what Master Lang Yue said makes sense.
Master Adu had already walked up to the top of the Glazed Mountain step by step. Panting, he moved step by step into the small temple on the top of the mountain. The walls were ventilated and the inside could be seen clearly from the outside.
A strange altar was raised in the temple. Master Adu murmured loudly, and along with the strange secret mantras, he took out countless Buddhist seven treasures, countless colored glazes, clams, diamonds and other objects, and piled them up.
A mountain of seven treasures was placed on the altar.
On the small altar, a wisp of black-red flame rose.
In the black-red flame, Lu Qian felt the ultimate power of creation and destruction of the world. It was the fire of creation and the cause of destruction. There was unfathomable power that spanned time and space, traveling through time and space.
The past, present, and future realms, on the spatial dimensions of countless worlds, were lightly overlooked below.
Lu Qian even suspected that this unfathomable power might not be a living thing anymore, but just some kind of 'concept of existence'.
A ray of his attention dropped, and the countless Buddhist Seven Treasures on the altar instantly disappeared... The supreme avenue of heaven and earth shook violently, accompanied by a terrifying sound of gold and iron colliding, and in the void, streaks of
The giant dragon that manifested the Great Way of Heaven and Earth appeared out of thin air, and the chains formed by heavenly rules and commandments were shaken by invisible forces, colliding with each other, splashing boundless thunder, and making a terrifying loud roar.
Master Adu looked up and looked into the void surrounded by countless giant dragons, and he laughed strangely.
From his body, the power of one hundred and eight strange-colored avenues quietly emerged... Master Adu did not comprehend the great avenues of heaven and earth that are now the Supreme Taichu Heaven, and he did not rely on the power of these avenues to condense the Imperial Seal Dao.
As a result, part of the aura of the Great Law that he originally possessed in his body was leaked.
It's as if, in a deep sea where giant dragons are entrenched, some outside herders dropped a few small dragon eggs.
The rhyme of the Tao permeates the air, and the energy of the Tao pervades the sky.
The Dao Qi flowing from Master Adu's body was not very strong, but they frantically swallowed the Dao Yun Qi emanating from the Dao laws in the void, and the power of these 108 Dao began to grow rapidly.
"I, voluntarily offer sacrifices to the heaven and earth. May this world be more complete and achieve true perfection and bliss! Good, good!" Master Adu chanted the name of the Buddha and began to dance around the altar.
In the supreme Taichu Heaven, there are one hundred and eight more great laws in the void!
Among these one hundred and eight great laws, there are the ways of killing, the ways of sacrifice, the ways of poison, the ways of earth, water, fire and wind... Some of these avenues have the same attributes as the existing avenues of the Supreme Taichu Heaven itself.
, but they are completely different in terms of core strength!
Countless jet-black thunderbolts rolled up in the void. This was the supreme primordial thunder that existed when the heaven and earth were first created... This kind of lightning contains the power to create heaven and earth, and contains the supreme vitality of creation. The jet-black streaks
The thunder rolled up these one hundred and eight avenues, which perfectly fit into the existing avenue system of Supreme Taichutian.
The entire Supreme Taichu Heaven is cheering, jumping for joy, and welcoming the integration of these one hundred and eight new avenues.
Heaven and earth become more complete.
The vast ocean of heaven and earth has expanded in both area and depth.
In other words, a more anthropomorphic description is that the original Supreme Taichu Heaven was a small village where close relatives had been married for countless years. Everyone was tired of looking at the familiar old faces. Their future
Reproduction, future changes in the avenue, and the future growth and decline of the world have long been fixed.
However, someone suddenly filled this closed and isolated small village with one hundred and eight lively, brand-new, fresh, never-before-seen, and juicy girls!
Thus, the whole game of chess came to life.
Heaven and earth become more vivid, heaven and earth become more agile...
For the Supreme Taichu Heaven, the more important significance of the addition of these 108 new avenues is that these 108 avenues are free and flexible, and the shackles of heaven's rules are not
Can imprison him!
As a result, one hundred and eight giant dragons glowing with black and red light, agile and fierce, emerged in the void. One hundred and eight giant dragons shook their heads and swung their tails, friction and collision wildly, imprisoning countless people around them.
The shackles of heaven and earth, which were transformed into the rules and precepts of heaven, clanged loudly on the body of the giant dragon of 2000, causing sparks to fly everywhere.
There were some relatively weak laws of heaven and earth, and the shackles of heaven and earth, which were not very strong, were suddenly hit and cracked with thin cracks.
Correspondingly, in the heaven hanging high at the core of the Supreme Taichu Heaven and Earth, the thick cloud platform stirred, the situation in the Supervisory Heaven Palace changed, and countless lightning bolts flew wildly around, beating Mr. Dafang to death and vomiting blood.
A long way out!
In the void, strands of lotus flowers condensed with colorful starlight sprinkled down like a torrential rain, pouring crazily into Master Adu's body.
Master Adu's aura suddenly rose to the point where Lu Qian felt suffocated.
The heaven and the earth are aware that no matter what the purpose of this strange sacrifice of Master Adu is, the integration of his one hundred and eight new avenues will have great merits for this world. So, the heavens send merits,
Master Adu got immeasurable huge benefits from it!
Lu Qian was dumbfounded - could this be done like this?
The problem is, Lu Qian never thought that this could be done?
There is no doubt that Master Adu is an outsider from outside the world... He has contributed to this world with his own great way, and he has actually received such great benefits?
This this……
It seems to be in line with the supreme law of heaven and earth’s own development and evolution!
The problem is... there are too many problems here, too many!
Lu Qian subconsciously took two steps back.
He glanced at Master Langyue and the Brahmin again. There was a hint of surprise on the faces of these two people, but they also had an 'unsurprising' feeling of ease and determination. Obviously, they knew that Master Adu could
What to do, but they didn't expect that today Master Adu would be forced by Lu Qian to do such a thing on this day and at this moment!
Master Adu, whose whole body was filled with colorful light of merit, stopped dancing and chanting weird mantras.
He raised his head, looked at the one hundred and eight Dharma projections of the Dao that were running around in the sky, and said calmly: "The seeds of the Dao have been sown, and they are just waiting to mature. According to the fundamental principles of this world, I will
At the same time, one hundred and eight Emperor's Seal Dao Fruits are condensed, haha!"
Master Adu glanced sideways at Lu Qian and said softly: "It shouldn't be today, nor should it be here... It's too crude, too simple, too... disrespectful. There should be a more grand sacrifice, there should be
There are more glorious sacrifices, and I should get greater benefits from them. My physical strength, my magic power, my spirit, everything should get greater benefits."
"Since I attained enlightenment, I have never held such a crude sacrifice."
Master Adu's face was twitching. He felt like a rich man in the capital of the dynasty. He was usually surrounded by all kinds of 'oirans' and 'famous people', but he accidentally wandered into a small and barren town on the border.
On the bed, I was forced to have an affair with an old widow who did a half-open business!
Although Lu Qian has never experienced this feeling, he can understand the humiliating feeling of 'I am not clean anymore'.
In the final analysis, this sense of humiliation was brought about by Lu Qian's violent beating of Master A Du. Therefore, Master A Du's attitude towards Lu Qian at this moment can be clearly understood by just grabbing a wild boar, right?
Therefore, Lu Qian took two steps back and retreated a very far distance.
When Lu Qian retreated, neither Master Adu, Master Langyue, nor the Brahmin who pretended to be solemn at the side, or even a few asuras with branches and branches, etc., did not take action or spoke to stop him.
At the same time, they looked at the Third Burial Monk, who had a blue complexion and was almost dead from the Posuji Dragon King's poison.
"Pu mustard seeds, I haven't seen them for many years." Master Langyue smiled and bowed to the three burial monks: "Back then, among the many disciples in the Landa Holy Land, you were ranked first in merit and virtue.
No. 1 in merit and deeds... No matter whether it is sutras, Tibetan scriptures, theory, knowledge, or even magical powers and magic, I am the first among all disciples. I am not as good as you!"
The three-burial monk just looked at Master Langyue and said nothing.
Bai Zun silently came up behind the three-burial monk. She had returned to her original appearance. She was still the most beautiful person in the world. She was wearing a wedding dress as red as blood. She didn't know when there were many more people around her.
Red lamps, incense burners, dragon and phoenix incense candles and other objects floated in the air, and his hands gently pressed on the back of the three-buried monk's heart.
A monstrous evil force poured into the body of the three-burial monk.
Dragon King Posuji let out a low roar, and an invisible shock rushed away. The monk's robes on the third burial monk's body were shattered, turning into pieces of fine cloth butterflies that spread around. The third burial monk's body was exposed, and it could be seen from his neck.
Below, all the way to the lower abdomen, a huge, twisted head that looks like a dragon but not a dragon protrudes more than an inch high.
The dragon king's head raised to the sky and roared angrily. He opened his mouth and sprayed out a large amount of sticky dark green light patterns. When the wisps of light patterns touched the essence and blood of the three-burial monk, they immediately turned into highly toxic venom, crazily corroding his body.
The amount of venom spewed out by this great dragon king was so huge that the venom surged through the body of the San Burial Monk like a tide, and even overflowed from his pores.
The dark green venom splashed, corroding the body and vitality. Wherever it passed, all tangible and intangible objects seemed to have suffered a 'doomsday disaster' and were corroded away.
The venom flowed from the body surface of the three-buried monk, slid down, and landed on the small star below.
With the sound of "Pfft", a drop of venom the size of a soybean actually corroded a large hole with a diameter of a hundred miles in the ground below. Sand and gravel, soil, mountain peaks, trees, and even birds and animals, etc., all turned into a wisp of smoke.
, disappeared without a trace.
Below this, as mentioned earlier, is a battlefield. The two warring countries have invested millions of troops in a frantic battle.
When the venom was dripping, Lu Qian waved his hand, and a wisp of space fluctuations swept towards the venom, trying to move it towards the direction of heaven - ahem, yes, Lu Qian was going to use this seemingly extremely vicious venom directly.
Throw it on the forehead of Emperor Taichu!
But the venom is so terrifying, the space fluctuates, and a small hole is corroded into the space.
The venom corroded the void and fell on the earth.
The million-strong army was wiped out in ashes... Lu Qian's eyes widened, and he looked at the Dragon King Posuji with a huge head emerging from the body of the three-burial monk in great shock!
This guy...
This guy...
This guy...
However, it is not surprising that this guy was grabbed by the gods and demons and used as a rope to stir up the sea of milk to extract the "nectar" of immortality. The sea of milk was stirred until it was finally spewed out with poison that could destroy the world.
And the destruction of the world is naturally the ultimate power that annihilates even space and time!
Therefore, it is understandable that the power of space is restrained by the poison of Dragon King Posuji... In the Supreme Taichu Heaven, such terrible poison is impossible to appear. The 'poison' avenue of the Supreme Taichu Heaven has
His limit. But the poison of Vasuki Dragon King does not belong to the Supreme Taichu Heaven, but is an alien substance from heaven.
Therefore, this kind of poison can exist and is reasonable. Lu Qian mobilized the power of space in the Supreme Taichu Heaven to effectively isolate this kind of poison... Yes... Also...
Lu Qian couldn’t accept it!
When the Third Burial Monk faced the poison spewed out by Dragon King Posuji, his skin and flesh melted rapidly. In the sound of "chichi", the dark green Dao lines were frantically eroding his flesh, organs, bone marrow, and soul.
…
Fortunately, there is Bai Zun.
Bai Zun's power is a 'non-heaven' power. It is an evil power that transcends all constraints of heaven and does not belong to any realm of heaven and earth. Wisps of blood-colored smoke blend into the body of the three-burial monk, and dark green Tao lines appear one after another.
It dimmed and disappeared bit by bit, and the highly toxic venom that followed also disappeared, and the flesh and blood of the three-buried monk grew again.
There was a loud 'bang' sound.
A nine-layered treasure tower of relics emerges above the head of the third-buried monk. A twelve-pin red lotus pedestal spurts out from beneath his feet. Behind him, a diamond wheel with eighteen layers of shining light rises. The eighteen-layered wheel is nested inside and outside, either slowly or urgently.
It was spinning, and circles of transparent Buddhist Taoist rhymes continued to spread to the surroundings, and an extremely heavy pressure to surrender the external demons emerged spontaneously.
Dragon King Vasuji let out a low roar.
"Where did this ghost bitch come from? How could Landa Holy Land teach such a disciple?" Circles of transparent Buddhist rhymes washed over the body of the three-buried monk. The Dragon King Posuji could not gain a foothold in the three-buried monk's body.
, he roared, turned into a ferocious giant snake, struggled out of the body of the three-burial monk little by little, and finally rolled up, turned into a big blue snake, and landed on the neck of Master Adu on the top of the Liuli Mountain.
After wrapping it around his neck several times, he raised his head unwillingly and stared at the Third Burial Monk fiercely.
The Third Burial monk spit out a mouthful of poisonous blood, put his hands together and saluted Master Lang Yue: "Master Lang Yue, I haven't seen you for many years...Pu Jiezi, there is no such person in the world. Now, there is only the Third Burial."
Master Lang Yue wanted to say something, but the Third Burial Monk had already spoken: "In the past, when we talked about Taoism, the young monk was right... you are all evil heretics, and each one tolerates evil intentions. Landa Holy Land must not tolerate you.
However, at that time, the little monk spoke softly, and the masters of the various schools thought that you were the Zhengshuo of Landa Holy Land and had great merits in heaven and earth, so they allowed you to do whatever you wanted."
The Third Burial Monk sighed quietly: "If I had followed the young monk's words back then, all the countless resources and faith that would have been spent on you would have been invested in the young monk's many fellow apprentices and brothers... Perhaps, Landa Holy Land would still be as ancient as ever.
If it lasts forever, the disasters of the past will no longer exist?"
Master Langyue put his hands together.
Master Adu, Brahmins, Asuras, etc., all sneered like "hehe".
Lu Qian's eyes widened at the side. He quickly laid out tens of thousands of complex defense traps that combined space and speed around him. Then he sat cross-legged in the void and looked at this side quietly.
There seems to be a lot of emphasis on this?
Tsk, what kind of 'disciple number one' is Monk San Burial? There are so many firsts, firsts, firsts... There is no doubt that this is a genius? Tsk, but he seems to be the same as the one represented by Master Lang Yue.
The Tantric Sect of Mailanda Holy Land is not a journey of people!
Hey, hey, his biological father, Lu Min, obviously knew the twists and turns involved, why didn't he explain it clearly to Lu Qian?
Who do the three buried monks represent?
Master Langyue, who does he represent?
Also, who do they represent, that group of people from the Great Leiyin Temple in Lingshan, headed by Qing Sha, Lu Sanqi, and Ming Jiudan?
Well, there is also Lu Min. Which lineage of Landa Holy Land does he represent?
Lu Qian could see that now the Landa Holy Land was once again impressive. During that battle, there were many 'remnants' in the Landa Holy Land who were slowly 'resurrecting', and these resurrected ashes, the strength they showed,
It’s really shocking!
Lu Qian even felt that with the strength of Emperor Taichu, Emperor Taiyu, and Emperor Taiyi, if Landa Holy Land could work together back then... Not to mention other things, just the weird sacrificial ceremony held by Master Adu today, if they had
If we could attack with all our strength... would there still be today's heaven?
Can there still be the supreme Taichu Heaven that we have now?
There are so many twists and turns here that Lu Qian felt a little itchy, tsk tsk!
Master Langyue smiled.
She pointed with her right hand, and a ray of golden light lingered, and wisps of ceiling flowers bloomed. There was the sound of Sanskrit singing in the sky, golden lotuses swelled on the ground, and phantoms of golden dragons and jade phoenixes appeared in the void, surrounding Master Langyue and the glass where Master Adu was.
The peaks are circling and flying. It is a sacred scene, as if the legendary Tathagata has descended and is preaching on the top of Mount Sumeru.
"You have resentment." Master Lang Yue smiled and said, "But where does this resentment come from? You must know that you, Pu Jiezi, are just a mortal, struggling to survive in the wilderness. In the sky of wild beasts, you were killed by my brother preaching in the Holy Land of Wlanda.
Save, teach the Dharma, enlighten the Tao in one day, and achieve the status of Bodhisattva. Three days later, you will realize the Tathagata, achieve great liberation, and achieve the fruit of Buddhahood!"
"You have resentment."
"But this shouldn't be the case... You are indeed the first generation of beings who created the world in the supreme beginning, and you are certainly infected with the innate virtues that created the world, but the world is not complete, and you, an innate being, are just a mortal."
"It was our Landa Holy Land that taught you the Dharma and made you transcendent and become a saint!"
Master Lang Yue looked at the Third Burial Monk with a smile: "Why do you have such resentment? Why did you and your group of brothers come to power in the Landa Holy Land? After gaining power, they repeatedly started disputes over Buddhism and fought against fellow disciples.
Fighting? In fact, there are many masters who died because of you waiting?"
The three-burial monk raised his eyelids and seemed surprised that Master Langyue could know such things as 'the death of the guru'.
Lu Qian, who was watching the excitement, knew that it was not easy for a disciple to deceive his master and destroy his ancestors. To succeed, he needed to be extremely cautious, and the most important thing was to strictly keep secrets.
Especially in the Landa Holy Land, one can imagine what the status of the masters in the Landa Holy Land are? They are to teach the Buddhist Dharma to disciples like the Three Burial Monks, allowing them to transform from mortals into saints and attain Buddhahood.
’s great power!
The Three Burial Monks and others are able to make such a guru 'exterminate'... whether by force or conspiracy, this is not something that outsiders can easily know.
"You know it, but so what?" Monk Three Burials sighed: "It's a pity that we were too conservative when we started... If we could be bold and aggressive... If we could attack you...
Wait until all the demons are wiped out!"
Master Lang Yue interrupted Monk Three Burials: "In your hearts, we are demons?"
Master Lang Yue said angrily: "Have you completely forgotten even the kindness of teaching and preaching?"
Master Langyue's face turned slightly red, and he was obviously a little angry.
The third burial monk laughed loudly, and he laughed harshly: "What a blessing to preach and gain karma...Lang Yue, do you dare to say that you don't know the origin of our so-called innate beings? Landa
The Holy Land is in the Supreme Taichu Heaven. The first batch of disciples it recruited was exactly 480 million people, and they achieved 480 million Buddhas. Why is this number exactly?"
Wisps of cold air spurted out from the pores all over Lu Qian's body, and his hairs stood straight up.
He looked at the Third Burial Monk in shock, and subconsciously raised his head to look in the direction of heaven...
The Emperor Taichu didn't know what he was doing. In that direction, 480 million ancient stars were still emitting faint light. In the huge Supreme Taichu Heaven, anyone who has cultivated above the Star King, no matter day or night, no matter where he is.
Wherever you look, you can always see these 480 million ancient stars!
"We! The first batch of disciples of the Landa Holy Land, 480 million people, the so-called first batch of innate beings in the creation of the world... If you, the thieves and demons of the Landa Holy Land do not come from outside, do not split them apart by force
The germ of heaven and earth, do not forcibly use your Buddhist way to infect the roots of my heaven and earth, and forcibly change the avenue of heaven and earth in my hometown!"
The Third Burial Monk roared sternly: "We, 480 million people, should be the 480 million innate star gods... sitting in the void, maintaining the heaven and earth, controlling the movement of the heaven and earth, and maintaining the order of the universe!"
"Just because you, Landa Holy Land, came from outside the sky, the demon monk Maitreya forcibly broke open the heaven and the earth, the heaven and the earth collapsed, the sun and the moon were unbalanced, the universe was reversed, and the paradox of the great road... We and other 480 million fellow disciples and brothers, 480 million
The Zhoutian Star God, who is destined to be destined by millions of people, has his own soul and the body of the star that he has conceived been forcibly cut open!"
"Those stars turned into half-dead zombies, hanging high in the sky... We fell into the mud and turned into mortals. We were bald by you hypocritical thieves and righteousness. We were forced to enter the portal, be refined by Buddhism, and repair ourselves with our own luck.
The damage to the Holy Land of Landa...with our force, I will act as a bodyguard for you!"
"We were supposed to be the masters of this world...but we have become your Buddhist lackeys, squeezing this world for you in exchange for immeasurable food to recuperate and recuperate for your seriously injured bodies!"
The Third Burial monk shouted sternly: "This is an eternal blood feud!"
Lu Qian couldn't help stroking his hands in admiration.
In this way, he could understand what Monk Three Burials did and the actual hatred between him and Master Long Yue, the orthodox monks of the Landa Holy Land.
It turns out that this hatred has been left since the creation of heaven and earth!
So.
What type of disciple does Lu Min represent?
And what about the Qing Sha faction?
Lu Qian was thinking. Behind him, the ripples in space moved slightly. Lu Min, holding a Buddhist bead and chanting Buddhist scriptures in a low voice, and four old monks who were thin and skinny, with an air of immortality, quietly appeared behind Lu Qian.
.
The auras of these four old monks are extremely terrifying!
With Lu Qian's current cultivation level, it can only be described as 'terrible'!
"You're here? Who are these four masters?" Lu Yi said without looking back: "There's a lot of excitement here. What's going on between Monk Three Burials and Nun Long Yue?"
Lu Min took a step forward and stood next to Lu Qian.
He looked at the three burial monks and Master Lang Yue who were confronting each other in the distance, and said calmly: "It's just an injustice. These four are naturally me, and there is no difference between them... In the past two days, I was lucky enough to wake them up and bring them back to life."
Recall, nothing more.”
Lu Qian's face twitched violently, and he raised his head in shock, looking at the four old monks whose looks and aura were completely different from Lu Min's, and who had no similarities with each other.
Well, it is another supreme secret technique of Buddhism that Lu Qian cannot understand yet.
There is even no corresponding record in Landa Buddha!
Obviously, Lu Min's secret technique has nothing to do with the lineage of Landa Buddha... This is...
Lu Qian smiled bitterly in his heart. How deep was the water in Landa Holy Land back then? What happened back then? What is the origin of Landa Holy Land? What is its origin?
"You don't have any sleeping brothers?" Lu Qian clicked his lips and asked again.
"Yes, but it's just that they haven't appeared yet!" Lu Min said seriously: "Master Adu, Dragon King Posuji, and the great demon with the name of Brahmin, Kusheshou... are scary. , where are you? Their tantric lineage has more than this number of people hiding!"
Lu Qian's spit stuck in his throat, like glue, and he couldn't swallow it for a long time.
Cool down, catch a cold, and have rhinitis.
I used two whole packs of tissues yesterday... and I felt like my cerebrospinal fluid was flowing out.
When I was typing today, there was a buzzing sound in front of my forehead.
Extremely sour and refreshing!
Tomorrow morning, a leader will come for investigation and inspection, and I will attend a meeting in the afternoon. There may be less updates tomorrow, and I may ask for leave.