Recaps

Qu Jianlei faced True Venerable Xuan Yi in a three-strike duel to settle their karma, while both used verbal tactics and Xuan Yi prepared a defensive treasure. Qu Jianlei opened his left eye and unleashed a strange power that Elder Youjian identified as a time divine ability, sending the True Venerables fleeing.

• Qu Jianlei recalled Broken Blade after it resisted his summons, then challenged True Venerable Xuan Yi over his tactics and asked whether he had a defensive Spirit Treasure.
• True Venerable Xuan Yi concealed a protective object and declared that two strikes remained as Qu Jianlei prepared another attack.
• Qu Jianlei enlarged his Dharma Body, and he and Xuan Yi traded taunts about their abilities and control.
• Qu Jianlei opened his left eye, prompting Han Li to retreat with True Venerable Qingning and Xuan Yi to activate a jeweled canopy.
• The True Venerables fled from the eye's strange power, and Elder Youjian warned Xuan Yi that it was a time divine ability.

Elder Youjian recognized Qu Jianlei’s glance as the Years Time Divine Ability and urgently warned Xuan Yi to flee. Xuan Yi, however, remained trapped by his incomplete Load-Bearing Field and decided he had to face the attack.

• Elder Youjian realized Qu Jianlei had unleashed the Years Divine Ability and regretted getting involved in the fight.
• Elder Youjian retreated and tried to warn Xuan Yi that the attack could consume his remaining lifespan.
• Xuan Yi doubted that Qu Jianlei could wield a true Time Divine Ability and prepared to test his defenses with the Five-Direction Cloud Brocade Canopy.
• Xuan Yi realized his Load-Bearing Field’s broad coverage made escape difficult and that withdrawing it could leave him open to another strike.
• Xuan Yi decided he had to withstand Qu Jianlei’s glance rather than retreat and risk appearing to concede defeat.

Qu Jianlei’s unstable Years Divine Ability overwhelmed True Venerable Xuan Yi, who escaped through a spatial rift, and frightened the watching True Venerables. Qu Jianlei then challenged Elder Youjian, who hesitated as Qu explained that his gaze could manipulate years but was still immature.

• Qu Jianlei’s gaze pierced True Venerable Xuan Yi’s defenses and rapidly drained his vitality, energy, and thoughts, forcing him to surrender and flee through a spatial rift.
• True Venerable Qingning and the others recognized Qu Jianlei’s gaze as a Time Divine Ability, while Baiqiao observed that Xuan Yi had tried to beg for mercy.
• True Venerable Song fled from Qu Jianlei’s gaze, then returned after he said the divine ability had stopped.
• Qu Jianlei called Elder Youjian to face him, but Youjian looked to True Venerable Song for help and she refused to intervene.
• Qu Jianlei shrank to around fifty kilometers tall, assured Youjian he would respect his seniors, and described his gaze as a Years Divine Ability that he had not yet mastered.

Qu Jianlei demonstrated that his Years Divine Ability could affect anyone in his line of sight, frightening Elder Youjian into withdrawing from the conflict. Youjian offered a Guardian Rule to settle the dispute, while True Venerable Song agreed to deal with the Fang Family remnants.

• Qu Jianlei explained that wherever his gaze reached, all became years, and the other True Venerables recognized the danger of his ability.
• Elder Youjian withdrew from the fight, but Qu Jianlei warned him that using the divine ability carried a price, prompting concern and speculation among the observers.
• Youjian offered Qu Jianlei one Guardian Rule as an apology, and Qu Jianlei accepted it while warning him against probing Red Leaf Ridge again.
• Qu Jianlei asked Youjian to handle the Fang Family remnants, and Youjian passed the task to True Venerable Song.
• True Venerable Song agreed to take responsibility for the Fang Family matter, while the others joked about her friendship with Han Li.

Qu Jianlei ended the battle by settling matters with Xuan Yi and Elder Youjian, then discussed the aftermath with the other True Venerables. As the group prepared to travel to another world, Tianli revealed that he wanted help dealing with the long-lived True Venerable nicknamed Pixiu.

• Xuan Yi returned to the battlefield, withdrew the Warship, and argued with Qu Jianlei over how much lifespan Qu Jianlei’s Years Divine Ability had cost him.
• Xuan Yi accepted that the battle’s karma was settled, while Qu Jianlei decided to watch for any lingering malice from him.
• True Venerable Song asked Han Li how to deal with the Fang Family, and Song agreed to spare one or two collateral branches while punishing those deeply involved.
• Qu Jianlei told Elder Youjian and Xuan Yi to deliver a Guardian Rule to Yanfeng Three within a month, and the two True Venerables departed.
• Tianli asked when the group would travel to the other world, then complained that Pixiu kept exploiting his approaching death to grab benefits.

After Qu Jianlei defeated the aging True Venerable Pixiu, Baiqiao said the battle had settled Lingyun Sect’s internal struggle and privately negotiated with Qu Jianlei about using his Years Divine Ability. The shield came down with Qu Jianlei sighing that Bai Qiao was bullying him because he was poor.

• Qu Jianlei condemned Pixiu’s ruthless conduct, and True Venerable Tianli asked him what it would cost to deal with the old man.
• Baiqiao appeared and told Qu Jianlei that his victory and early display of the Years Divine Ability had strengthened Lingyun Sect’s position.
• Baiqiao said the overall situation within Lingyun Sect had been decided and noted that many True Venerables were aligned with the sect.
• Baiqiao asked Qu Jianlei to discuss the severe side effects of Years privately, while Qu Jianlei warned that his help would not come cheap.
• The True Venerables outside the shield speculated about the negotiation, and it ended with Qu Jianlei lamenting that Bai Qiao was bullying him for being poor.

Qu Jianlei agreed to help Tianli confront Pixiu over a spirit plant plain, accepting a strand of Sword Intent and another favor as payment. Tianli explained that Qu Jianlei’s reputation might be enough to frighten Pixiu, but Qu Jianlei warned that using Years could make the battle difficult to control.

• Baiqiao gave Qu Jianlei three months before he would return, and Qu Jianlei agreed to accept Tianli’s Sword Intent and another favor in exchange for using Years.
• After a month, Tianli brought Qu Jianlei an old, nearly exhausted strand of Sword Intent and a reason to act against Pixiu, who was trying to seize a spirit plant plain.
• Tianli’s subordinates arranged to buy half of the spirit plant clan’s shares in the plain, preserving the clan’s stake while preparing to challenge Pixiu.
• Qu Jianlei said that Pixiu’s previous forced acquisitions should be returned after the battle, and Tianli offered him any additional compensation.
• Qu Jianlei asked whether they needed to hold back, warning that he could not easily control the scale of Years; Tianli replied that his reputation might scare Pixiu into retreating.

True Venerable Tianli used a staged confrontation to capture more than a hundred of Tengxi's subordinates and warn Tengxi away from Rouzhao No. 5. Qu Jianlei and Han Li concealed their divination as Tengxi sensed a possible trap, then cautiously approached the sector to locate Tianli.

• Qu Jianlei summoned Han Li, and the three went to Rouzhao No. 5 so Tianli could stop Tengxi's people from forcing the purchase of the Spirit Plant Plain.
• Tianli's subordinates baited Tengxi's subordinates into questioning whether Tianli had authorized their actions, and Tianli seized more than a hundred of them, releasing only one Nascent Soul Realm cultivator to deliver his warning to Tengxi.
• Qu Jianlei and Han Li divined Tengxi's karma in the Sub-layer Space, taking turns concealing their activity, while Han Li filled the space with Divination Fog.
• Tengxi sensed the disturbance and divined the tangled causality surrounding Tianli, but decided to continue toward Rouzhao No. 5 with added caution.
• Tengxi secretly reached the sector, confirmed that Tianli had not publicly humiliated his captured subordinates, and began divining Tianli's location while preparing to retreat if necessary.

Tianli, Han Li, and Qu Jianlei cornered Tengxi after his divination made him hesitate to approach, then trapped his clone and attacked despite Tengxi agreeing to compensate them. The attack revealed Qu Jianlei’s Years Divine Ability could kill a True Venerable only after roughly one to three hundred years, leaving Tianli alarmed by their plan to study it further.

• Tengxi divined that Tianli was on the Rouzhao No. 5 sector, weighed the risk of an ambush, and decided to withdraw.
• Tianli appeared before Tengxi and revealed that Han Li and Qu Jianlei had blocked his escape.
• Tengxi recognized Qu Jianlei, agreed to name compensation, and offered to end his feud with Tianli.
• Qu Jianlei opened his left eye while Han Li intensified his Cold Qi Domain, trapping Tengxi’s clone in a formation and attacking him.
• Han Li asked Qu Jianlei how long his Years Divine Ability would take to kill Tengxi, and Qu Jianlei estimated one hundred to three hundred years.

Han Li, Qingkong, and Qu Jianlei dealt with the mysterious being that had appeared as Tengxi, while Tianli tried to understand what had happened. The three True Venerables then went to Yanfeng Three, where Qu Jianlei explained that he had acted to support Baiqiao’s plans to reorganize Lingyun Sect.

• The dark-blue figure threatened Han Li and Qu Jianlei before it burst apart, and Butterfly absorbed some of its traits while Han Li slowed its fragments.
• Qingkong said the figure’s true self could not hide, and Han Li took the exhausted Qu Jianlei away with him and Qingkong.
• Tianli told the sector’s guardian that he had driven off Tengxi, but the guardian doubted his account and warned him not to fight in Rouzhao No. 5.
• Han Li, Qingkong, and Qu Jianlei went to Min Ning’s spiritual land on Yanfeng Three instead of returning to Jiuyou Island.
• Qu Jianlei admitted he had decided to kill the impostor for his own reasons, while Han Li explained that Baiqiao wanted the Years Divine Ability as a deterrent against Lingyun Sect’s entrenched factions.
• Qu Jianlei recalled that Baiqiao had offered him unconditional material support in exchange for helping establish authority within Lingyun.

Qu Jianlei agreed to cooperate with Lingyun Sect and joined Tianli and Han Li in striking at Pixiu, only to discover that the target was an abnormal avatar rather than a proper True Venerable. Pixiu disappeared afterward, leaving his businesses in disarray and the group wary of the mysterious being’s true body.

• Baiqiao persuaded Qu Jianlei to accept Lingyun’s support by warning that other factions might threaten his teammates if he remained unaffiliated.
• Qu Jianlei agreed to Tianli’s request and planned to use a decisive battle against Tengxi to strengthen his deterrence.
• Qu Jianlei and Han Li attacked their target, then realized they had killed an abnormal avatar rather than a proper True Venerable.
• Han Li proposed pursuing the target’s true body, while Qingkong offered to use the Curse Art to trace it; Qu Jianlei said he needed two months to recover.
• Tianli reported that Pixiu had vanished and his businesses had fallen into chaos, then asked Qu Jianlei whether he should reclaim them.

Qu Jianlei gathered allies to investigate Pixiu after Lingyun Sect declined to act promptly, and Qingkong traced the hidden enemy to a void Channel Entrance. The group pursued the target into the void, where they intercepted a disguised Warship and prepared to fight.

• Jin Ge told Qu Jianlei that the Heaven-Monitoring Mirror said True Venerable Tengxi had died of old age and the previous Pixiu had been impersonated, while Lingyun Sect would not investigate soon.
• Qu Jianlei left Yanfeng Three with Han Li, Jin Ge, Qingkong, Tianli, and Song Yue'er to hunt Pixiu's true body.
• At Rouzhao Five, Qingkong used the Source Tracing Technique for three days and located the enemy near a void Channel Entrance.
• The group followed Qingkong into the void, where he changed course toward a cluster of broken rocks and Qu Jianlei, Han Li, and Jin Ge moved to cut off the target.
• Han Li unleashed a wave of cold toward a nearby Warship, prompting its cultivators to flee as they realized Great Venerables—or possibly Immortal Venerables—were fighting nearby.

Han Li and five other True Venerables captured a fast-moving, malicious being hidden inside a massive chunk of rubble, then left with it to examine and seal it. They debated whether it was an Innate Spirit Treasure and looked to Qu Jianlei, whose connection to the being made him the likely first claimant.

• Song Yue'er mistakenly played Ghostly Lament, then switched to Ambush from Ten Sides as Han Li's Cold Qi Domain slowed the fleeing rubble.
• Tianli blocked the rubble, Qingkong immobilized it, and Jin Ge trapped it in the Jin Jing Net while the Grand Protector helped coordinate the capture.
• Qu Jianlei found no remaining karma but sensed strong malice, and the six True Venerables left through a spatial rift with the struggling stone.
• In a quiet stretch of starry space, Qingkong questioned whether the object was a Spirit Treasure, while Han Li proposed destroying its sentience and Tianli asked it to surrender.
• Han Li prepared an Array Plate to seal the object, Song Yue'er suggested stripping away its stone shell, and the group turned to Qu Jianlei because of his bond with it.

Qu Jianlei and the True Venerables burned away a stone shell to reveal and seal a vast, chestnut-shaped Spirit Treasure made of tangled roots. When the sealed roots threatened Qu Jianlei’s cave dwelling, he decided to enter and try to subdue the hidden consciousness himself.

• Qu Jianlei agreed to support any attempt to stop the consciousness from escaping, and the group chose Song Yue’er’s gentle fire to burn the stone shell.
• Song Yue’er used her soul-grating piece, “Burning the Zither,” to burn away the shell over two days, revealing a giant chestnut-shaped mass of tangled roots.
• Han Li used the Array Plate to seal the root mass and handed the plate to Qu Jianlei to store.
• Qu Jianlei sensed that Wind Forgotten was terrified and that his cave dwelling was becoming unstable from containing the sealed roots.
• After Han Li warned Jin Ge against putting the roots in his newly completed cave dwelling, Qu Jianlei decided to enter and try to subdue the hidden existence.

Qu Jianlei entered his Abode to subdue the sealed Chaos Wood Spirit, but its hidden divine sense launched a deadly attack. He repelled it with the Dao Stele and approached the Array Plate, still unsure how to deal with the dangerous spirit.

• Qu Jianlei dismissed the other True Venerables’ warnings and entered his Abode to make the Chaos Wood Spirit submit.
• Qu Jianlei’s High-Fidelity Replica and the other Stick Figures reacted fearfully as the sealed Array Plate thrashed and radiated a sinister aura.
• The Chaos Wood Spirit sent a sharp, bloodthirsty divine sense at Qu Jianlei, who teleported repeatedly while releasing the Dao Stele.
• The Dao Stele’s Coercive Pressure stopped the attack, and the divine sense withdrew into the Array Plate.
• Qu Jianlei confirmed the spirit remained sealed inside the Array Plate and approached it with the Dao Stele.

Qu Jianlei pursued the Array Plate while trying to understand a rare thought sent by the Dao Stele, which ultimately identified the being inside as an Evil Spirit and destroyed its response. Afterward, Qu Jianlei examined the damaged seal and wondered whether the entity had really been an Evil Spirit rather than a Chaos Wood Spirit.

• Qu Jianlei pursued the fleeing Array Plate and sensed a mysterious, seemingly harmless thought that he judged came from the Dao Stele.
• Qu Jianlei followed the Array Plate while trying to decipher the Dao Stele’s intent, and he realized the Dao Stele cared about the huge tree root involved.
• Qu Jianlei charged at the Array Plate, and the Dao Stele unleashed its aura, apparently declaring the entity inside an Evil Spirit and killing it.
• Qu Jianlei encouraged the Stick Figure ornament for protecting the Array Plate, then examined the Array Plate after Big Head Butterfly recovered from its rigid state.
• Qu Jianlei found that the entity’s escape had damaged Han Li’s layered seal and questioned whether it had been a Chaos Wood Spirit instead of an Evil Spirit.

Qu Jianlei defeated the Chaos Wood Spirit and shared the remaining Ugly Tree Root with the True Venerables, then revealed that he had taken a mysterious compass from its core. The group identified it as a compass tied to fate and wondered whether it connected to the Heretical Cultivators’ compasses, while Han Li urged them to treat it as a tool.

• Qu Jianlei removed Han Li’s seal and dealt with the Evil Spirit, which he said was likely a Chaos Wood Spirit that had turned evil.
• Qu Jianlei shared the remaining half of the Ugly Tree Root among the True Venerables, and Song Yue'er first asked for all of it before agreeing to split it after Han Li mentioned opportunities in another world.
• True Venerable Tianli invited the others to discuss the industries left under True Venerable Tengxi’s name.
• Song Yue'er noticed that the Ugly Tree Root’s core felt abnormal, prompting the True Venerables to investigate the missing piece.
• Qu Jianlei revealed that the missing core contained an ancient compass, and True Venerable Tianli identified it as a Luck Compass before Han Li argued that it contained fate instead.
• The Grand Protector asked whether the compass was connected to the Heretical Cultivators’ compasses, and Han Li said the compass was only a tool and trusted Qu Jianlei to control it.

Qu Jianlei concealed the Creation Compass while the others settled Tengxi’s assets and Lingyun Sect carried out an internal purge. On Jiuyou Island, he studied the compass and found that neither it nor the Dao Stele reacted to the other, leaving its secrets unresolved as he began trying to comprehend it.

• Qu Jianlei concealed the compass and shared half of Ugly Tree Root, while the True Venerables settled on Han Li’s explanation that it was a Fate Compass.
• True Venerable Tianli announced that Tengxi had left him his assets, and rumors spread that Tianli had avenged Tengxi with Lingyun’s backing and would share the properties with the other five True Venerables.
• Lingyun Sect disciplined several powerful stewards, including one taken away just before attempting the Out-of-Body Realm.
• Qu Jianlei hid on Jiuyou Island and studied the Creation Compass with the help of the Ritual Artifact’s Heroic Spirits.
• Qu Jianlei placed the compass near the Dao Stele, but the Dao Stele showed no reaction, so he began trying to comprehend the compass’s true meaning of creation.

After studying the Compass on Jiuyou Island for half a year, Qu Jianlei heard from Bai Qiao that Lingyun Sect faced fierce opposition to supporting him. Bai Qiao warned that the rumors crediting Qu Jianlei’s Years Divine Ability with killing Tengxi could make others fear him more, leaving Qu Jianlei frustrated that he had not been told sooner about the plan to exploit those rumors.

• Qu Jianlei suspected the Compass still carried traces of the Wood Spirit and continued studying creation by himself.
• Jin Ge brought Bai Qiao to meet Qu Jianlei, and Bai Qiao confirmed the Chaos Wood Spirit’s death had been verified and praised by the World Envoy.
• Bai Qiao told Qu Jianlei that Lingyun’s factions were resisting support for an outsider, especially a True Venerable, and offered to use his personal resources until the sect’s procedures changed.
• Qu Jianlei refused to accept support if it would make him bear the political fallout, but Bai Qiao warned that refusing could bring more trouble because others feared his Years Divine Ability.
• Bai Qiao explained that investigators suspected Qu Jianlei had used the Years Divine Ability to erase Tengxi, and said the rumor could establish his might.
• Qu Jianlei challenged Bai Qiao’s belief that the rumor would fool True Venerables and complained that he would have killed Xuan Yi instead if Bai Qiao had disclosed the plan earlier.

Qu Jianlei prepared for the expedition to another world, bringing cultivators from Cangwu Realm to join Houde’s enormous invasion force. At the Lingyun Sect’s Warship, True Venerable Bucai challenged him over his conduct, and Qu Jianlei opened his Years Divine Ability as the other True Venerables fled.

• Qu Jianlei refused Bai Qiao’s proposed assignment and said he might send a clone to the other world instead of going himself.
• A rumor spread that Qu Jianlei was hunting evil True Venerables to perfect his Years Divine Ability, and he moved Duo Gan and Jing Yuexin to Jiuyou Island before departing.
• Qu Jianlei left a clone to guard Jiuyou Island and took cultivators from Red Leaf Ridge and Cangwu Realm to the agreed gathering point.
• Qu Jianlei arrived with Jin Ge at the Expedition, a Lingyun Sect Warship surrounded by a vast force preparing to invade another world.
• True Venerable Bucai criticized Qu Jianlei for failing to greet the gathered seniors, and Qu Jianlei opened his left eye, prompting the nearby True Venerables to retreat.

Qu Jianlei attacked True Venerable Bucai with the Years Divine Ability after Bucai challenged his authority, forcing Qingkong to intervene before their clash escalated. Han Li then asked whether anyone else opposed the expedition leadership, leaving the gathered cultivators stunned and silent.

• True Venerable Bucai provoked Qu Jianlei, who pursued him with the Years Divine Ability as Bucai tried to escape behind warships.
• The Years Divine Ability bypassed the ships, damaging one and threatening Bucai until Qingkong ordered Qu Jianlei to stop and promised an explanation.
• Qingkong reprimanded Bucai and told him he could leave the expedition; Bucai insisted he would not go rather than back down.
• Qu Jianlei stopped attacking, having aimed to demonstrate that he could not be bullied and to diminish Bucai's lifespan.
• Han Li asked if anyone else was unconvinced and warned against internal conflict, leaving the assembled cultivators unable to respond.

The Houde Realm’s vanguard launched a massive campaign into the Asura World, overwhelming its defenses and beginning a wide-ranging conquest. As cultivators raced to claim its opportunities, Qingning confirmed the expedition’s three-year timetable before it moved on to the Tree Race World.

• Three days after the dispute involving True Venerable Bucai, Lingyun Sect’s fleet departed and spent a year and seven months traveling to the Asura World.
• The vanguard broke through the guarded breach, where two True Venerables seized the defending Asura Secondary Nests and the rest of the fleet poured into the world.
• The Five-Person Group stayed behind to establish a management camp at the breach, while cultivators and True Venerables spread out to explore and fight.
• After returning from a month of searching with True Venerable Tianli, Qingning said the cultivators’ battles had made the area difficult to explore quietly.
• True Venerable Xuan Yi announced that he had obtained Primordial Yin-Yang Qi, encouraging the cultivators to intensify their search for treasures.
• Before setting out to explore again, Qingning asked Qu Jianlei about the deadline, and Qu Jianlei confirmed that the group would spend three years in the Asura World before moving on to the Tree Race World.

Qu Jianlei projected to his team after they encountered a dispute over a spirit-stone mine, where Cangwu cultivators and another group both claimed the spoils. With the Great Strength Tribe as their ally, the Cangwu team began seizing resources across the region, while other cultivators struggled to imitate their ability to work with Asuras.

• Qu Jianlei's Cangwu team spent months exploring while resisting upper-realm cultivators who followed them and sought to learn from their experience.
• Jia Shuiqing met the Ten-Armed Ancestor of the Great Strength Tribe, who welcomed the cultivators' invasion and pledged the tribe's cooperation.
• Cangwu cultivators clashed with another team over a spirit-stone mine, and Jia Shuiqing summoned Qu Jianlei to resolve the dispute.
• Qu Jianlei negotiated with the opposing True Venerable, securing seventy percent of the mine for his side and turning the two teams into allies.
• The Cangwu team and the Great Strength Tribe attacked resource sites together, while cultivators from another region failed to copy their success in subduing Asuras.

The Cangwu cultivators expanded their influence in the Asura World, then regrouped and traveled through the Federation into the Empire. After settling old ties there and hearing about the Empire’s Digital Phantom Fund and offer to unify the three nations, Jia Shuiqing said the cultivators would likely not return after exterminating the Alien Race.

• The Jiuxian team agreed to cooperate with the Cangwu cultivators, sharing information and joining them against major targets.
• Wen Xian discovered other True Venerables studying the worlds’ intersection, and the Cangwu team’s influence grew as more teams joined its cooperation.
• When the three-year limit ended, some cultivators stayed in the Asura World while the main force set out for the Federation and the Tree Race World.
• The Federation contacted the cultivators, but Red Leaf Ridge declined further contact and the team continued into the Empire.
• Rhine and the others returned from settling their ties in the Empire with news of the Digital Phantom Fund, its vast Energy Block reserves, and two legion-class warships offered to them.
• Jia Shuiqing told Empire officials that cultivators had no interest in mortal affairs and would likely not return after exterminating the Alien Race.

Qu Jianlei and the other True Venerables joined forces to claim an opportunity in the Tree Race World, then agreed to delay its emergence so Qingning could use it to help Qing'er advance. Qingning offered an Asura Brood Mother as payment, and Wen Xian prepared to seal the opportunity.

• Qu Jianlei, Han Li, and Qingning arrived at the Star Cluster and found Qingkong and Song Yue'er fighting two Mother Trees.
• The seven True Venerables defeated the Tree Race forces and agreed to split the opportunity evenly between the Five-Person Group and Qingkong and Song Yue'er.
• Han Li divined that the remains of two fallen Mother Trees could unlock the opportunity, but Wen Xian proposed breaking it open directly.
• Qingning sensed the opportunity's strong vitality and asked to use it for Qing'er; Qu Jianlei's divination showed it would improve her chances of advancing.
• Wen Xian agreed to delay the opportunity's emergence, and Qingning offered an Asura Brood Mother to pay for sealing it.