Arc 67Dragon Veins and Phoenix Refuge

Bai Yujun restored a declining world’s spiritual energy and investigated the Crystal Ball’s star map, while the Human Emperor and the Saint prepared schemes against dragons. The arc ended with Rong Ru seeking Bai Yujun’s protection after revealing a Phoenix Clan plot and a Western Teachings trap.

  • The Nether Dragons fought a monk at the Bridge of Helplessness until two Ghost Emperors broke his golden domain and returned them to the underworld.
  • Old Hui Xian and his companions protected a dragon vein, then set out for Chaoge as the Human Emperor began plotting a dragon hunt with advice from a mysterious Saint.
  • Bai Yujun discovered a Gray Flood Dragon hiding in an ancient cavern, learned that a cultivator had drained the world’s spiritual energy, and asked the dragon to lead her to its source.
  • Bai Yujun restored the ancient beast’s Dao intent to the world, repaired its veins, and revived the World Will before Thousand-Household Officer Ge died after thanking her.
  • Bai Yujun studied the Crystal Ball’s star map and considered whether its lights marked surviving dragon groups or routes through the Cosmic Void.
  • Bai Yujun traveled with Fat Tiger, Qiu Qi, and the Gray Flood Dragon to the Princess Mansion, where Rong Ru arrived seeking protection.
  • Rong Ru revealed that Phoenix Clan elders had refined black water from a strange corpse and ordered her to marry the Human Emperor, then accepted Bai Yujun’s protection in exchange for a Withered Tree root.
Chapters 1653–1677 Vol. 17 Read

Ch. 1653The Underworld

A dragon girl investigated the Underworld’s unstable Ghost Gate Pass while another dragon girl traded with lost souls at Bridge of Helplessness. When a monk approached, the two anticipated that he would try to win them over or subdue them, and prepared to resist.

  • A saber-carrying dragon girl monitored Ghost Gate Pass and Yellow Springs Road, then teleported through the Underworld after sensing movement.
  • A newly dead wealthy ghost begged the stall-keeping girl to help him return to the human world, offering gold and power.
  • The stall-keeping girl asked whether he would sell his soul, but the saber-carrying girl interrupted and ordered the Underworld Emissaries to move him along.
  • The two dragon girls discussed the monk’s likely attempt to persuade or enslave them and vowed to defend the Heavenly Dao’s order and laws.
  • A monk strolled toward the two girls from the direction of the netherworld.

Ch. 1654Eight Arms

Two Nether Dragon girls confronted a monk who sought to drive them from the underworld, and their arguments turned into a battle on the Bridge of Helplessness. The monk revealed his eight-armed arsenal, but the dragons counterattacked with a storm of saber techniques.

  • The Underworld Emissaries and Ghost Soldiers fled as the monk approached the Bridge of Helplessness, where he faced the two girls.
  • The girls mocked the monk and rejected his demand that they leave the underworld, identifying themselves as Nether Dragons.
  • The monk invoked a scripture that spread golden light through the surrounding souls and ground, prompting the girls to prepare for combat.
  • The two Dragon Girls charged across the bridge, unleashing dragon might that shattered nearby souls and damaged the Ghostly Entities in River Nai.
  • The monk revealed eight arms wielding Magic Tools and fought off the dragons' coordinated attacks, then summoned a towering golden bell that knocked them backward.
  • The ponytailed girl sent thousands of saber lights toward the monk while the stall-setting girl raised a gigantic heavy saber.

Ch. 1655Falling into the River

Two Dragon Girls fought a powerful monk whose defenses and Dharma treasures drove the sword-wielding girl into the River Nai. She escaped as a Nether Dragon and rejoined her companion, leaving the battle still raging against the monk.

  • The two Dragon Girls attacked the monk with a River of Swords, a heavy saber, and a formation imbued with the Dao of Death, but he broke their assault and revealed his sixteen-armed dharmakaya.
  • The monk overwhelmed the sword-wielding girl and forced her into the River Nai, where evil ghosts dragged her beneath the water.
  • The stall-tending Dragon Girl fought the monk alone with the Mountain Dwelling Saber Technique while he waited for her strength to fade.
  • The sword-wielding Dragon Girl emerged from the River Nai as a blazing Nether Dragon, unleashing dragon flame that corroded the monk’s lotus throne.
  • The Nether Dragon joined her companion, and the two dragons resumed their fight against the monk.

Ch. 1656Ghost Emperor

Two Dragon Girls fought a monk who trapped them in a Buddhist Kingdom domain, while two Ghost Emperors intervened outside it. The Ghost Emperors freed the dragons and forced the monk to withdraw, leaving the Dragon Girls unsure what had happened.

  • The monk trapped the exhausted Dragon Girls inside a golden Buddhist Kingdom domain, where they lost their sense of direction and faced a charging horde of living beasts and people.
  • The Dragon Girls prepared to fight through the horde while one attacked and the other searched for traps and a way out.
  • Two Ghost Emperors confronted the monk at the Bridge of Helplessness and warned him against bringing the netherworld under his authority.
  • One Ghost Emperor tore open the domain and returned the Dragon Girls to the underworld.
  • The monk withdrew, the Ghost Emperors vanished, and the Dragon Girls wondered whether someone had helped them.

Ch. 1657Making Money

Two dragons discussed the underworld’s failing order before the story shifted to Old Hui Xian and his companions earning money by chanting at a rural funeral. Snake Demon Boy killed an evil ghost that had escaped to the human world, while Old Hui Xian urged them to ensure it could not escape again.

  • The two dragons concluded that the underworld’s instability was allowing evil ghosts to escape, but they continued eating and discussing their next steps.
  • At a village funeral, Old Hui Xian calmly chanted sutras while Snake Demon Boy, Little Stone, and Long-faced Heavenly King stayed nearby.
  • As villagers told ghost stories after sunset, a chilling wind and a shadow appeared in the courtyard.
  • Snake Demon Boy drew his blade and killed the evil ghost before the villagers could react.
  • Long-faced Heavenly King explained that the ghost had caused more than a hundred thousand deaths and had fled to avoid punishment.
  • Old Hui Xian told Long-faced Heavenly King to make certain the ghost was dead, then resumed chanting, while Long-faced Heavenly King lamented their meager earnings.

Ch. 1658The Caravan

Old Hui Xian and his companions stopped a government caravan from destroying a mountain dragon vein, then concealed it. Sensing a terrible disaster in Chaoge City, Old Hui Xian decided to go there with his group, leaving the temple’s repairs and the captured horses behind.

  • After a funeral, Old Hui Xian and the Bamboo Spring Temple group encountered a government caravan heading into the mountains to destroy a dragon vein.
  • Old Hui Xian led his companions after the caravan, hoping to protect and conceal the dragon vein.
  • Long-faced Heavenly King crippled the guards, drove the feng shui masters and leaders away, and took the caravan’s silver, tools, and demon horses.
  • Old Hui Xian concealed the dragon vein, then ordered Long-faced Heavenly King to release the demon horses.
  • Old Hui Xian announced that the group would go to Chaoge City because he sensed a terrible disaster there, despite Long-faced Heavenly King and the Wine Worm warning against confronting the Human Emperor.

Ch. 1659Imperial Capital

Bamboo Spring Temple’s party continued toward the imperial capital while Long-faced Heavenly King reflected on the debts that kept him from taking tonsure. The viewpoint then shifted to Chaoge, where the Human Emperor hosted a mysterious guest arranged by the Phoenix Clan and the Western Teachings.

  • Long-faced Heavenly King refused Little Stone’s request for meat buns, explaining that the temple needed to save its silver.
  • Long-faced Heavenly King told Little Stone he could not take tonsure until he repaid his debts for his role in the Heavenly Court’s fall.
  • Long-faced Heavenly King eventually bought two meat buns with several copper coins and secretly gave them to Little Stone.
  • The viewpoint traveled along the road to Chaoge and showed the imperial capital lighting up at sunset.
  • The Human Emperor hosted an indulgent, mysterious guest in the palace, though he could not discern the guest’s origins.

Ch. 1660Spinal Bone

The Human Emperor learned that replacing his pseudo-dragon spinal bone with a true dragon’s could resolve his stagnant cultivation and inability to have heirs. The mysterious young man told him a newborn dragon clan had appeared and urged him to search throughout the Imperial Dynasty’s territory.

  • The Human Emperor brooded over his inability to win the Immortal Domains’ support, find an Empress, or produce descendants because of his pseudo-dragon spinal bone.
  • The young man calmed the frightened guests after the Human Emperor crushed his wine cup in anger, then offered to explain the Human Emperor’s problem.
  • The young man said a true dragon’s spinal bone could solve the Human Emperor’s troubles, though the White Dragon and the Four Seas Dragon Kings were not options.
  • The young man revealed that a newborn dragon clan had appeared and advised the Human Emperor to use the Imperial Dynasty’s power to search for its members.

Ch. 1661San Hui

The Human Emperor began preparing a long-term campaign to turn people against dragons, while the mysterious Saint gathered allies to arrange an attempt on White Dragon Bai Yujun. The Saint chose San Hui, a mortal with hatred rooted in three lifetimes, and sent the envoys of the Ancient Phoenix Clan and Western Teachings to seek their treasures.

  • The Human Emperor planned to cultivate hatred of dragons among officials, generals, and commoners before launching a dragon hunt.
  • The mysterious Saint left the imperial palace and met a Phoenix Clan envoy, an elderly monk, and the mortal San Hui on a mountain peak.
  • The Saint explained that San Hui had suffered at Bai Yujun’s hands in three lifetimes and promised him support for revenge.
  • The Saint revealed that Bai Yujun’s dragon soul could roam the Myriad Worlds and offered to conceal Past and Future for the single chance to destroy it.
  • The Saint gave the envoys Jade Slips showing starfields where Bai Yujun’s dragon soul might appear and ordered them to bring out their true treasures.

Ch. 1662Window

Bai Yujun returned to the Dragon Palace with a captured monster, packed up the General Store Pavilion, and pondered the approaching great tribulation and strange changes in the Cosmic Void. Meanwhile, Cheng Su recruited Fat Tiger to protect her as she prepared to establish a Dao palace, and Bai Yujun ended by designing clothes for the Flower Demon to sew.

  • Bai Yujun returned to the Dragon Palace with Fat Tiger, Six Wings, and a half-dead red-skinned creature, then shrank the General Store Pavilion and took it away.
  • Little Hedgehog found the pavilion's empty pit and mourned the vanished threshold that had been her friend.
  • Cheng Su enlisted the Tu Clan's help in establishing a sect, then asked Fat Tiger to protect her from two Mahayana Stage cultivators obstructing her plans.
  • Fat Tiger eagerly accompanied Cheng Su down the mountain, hoping for a chance to fight and restore his confidence.
  • Bai Yujun absorbed her Dragon Palace avatar and its business earnings, then considered the approaching tribulation and unexplained changes in the Cosmic Void.
  • Bai Yujun designed hoodies, trousers, and casual shoes for the Flower Demon to make.

Ch. 1663Land God Temple

Bai Yujun raised a buried Land God Temple from a pond and revived its Shuanghe Town Land God. She learned that the world's spiritual energy had declined only after he fell unconscious and that a nearby mountain was said to be the remains of a dead colossal beast.

  • Bai Yujun and Fat Head Cat reached an abandoned town, where she sensed that spiritual energy was thin and declining.
  • Bai Yujun lifted a stone temple from the lotus pond, cleaned it, and found its plaque identified it as the Land God Temple.
  • Bai Yujun infused the Land God statue with divine power, awakening the injured Land God of Shuanghe Town.
  • The Land God told Bai Yujun that spiritual energy had been normal before he lost consciousness and that local legends described the northern mountain as a dead colossal beast.
  • Bai Yujun looked toward the mountain and considered the world's decline, her inability to contact its World Will, and the clues drawing her there.

Ch. 1664Desolate Graves

Bai Yujun collected two commemorative coins from the Land God as payment for healing him, then investigated the abandoned ancestral graves on Back Mountain. After discovering a relief suggesting a nonhuman ancestor had married into the family, she headed toward the mountain to learn whether an Ancient Desolate Exotic Beast was involved.

  • Bai Yujun demanded payment from the Land God, who gave her two commemorative coins as his most valuable possessions.
  • Bai Yujun reached the ancient graves on Back Mountain and found no Yin Energy, ghosts, or lingering souls.
  • Bai Yujun used Gaze into the Past and saw a relief depicting a nonhuman creature marrying a human and bringing prosperity to the Lineage.
  • Bai Yujun examined a burial chamber and saw the mortal woman's ordinary life, but could not see her husband's appearance.
  • Bai Yujun left the graves and headed toward the mountain to investigate whether an Ancient Desolate Exotic Beast had settled among humans.

Ch. 1665Cave

Bai Yujun and her followers entered a cavern hidden inside a mountain, navigating its chaotic spatial traps toward a hiding place at the heart of a gigantic beast. She left them digging toward the heart and lamented that she would not find a fellow sufferer to share her rotten reputation with.

  • Bai Yujun ordered Fat Head Tiger to dig into the cliff, but his claws could not break the rock, so she summoned the Six-Winged Strange Snake to excavate it.
  • Bai Yujun reassured Fat Head Tiger that he would remain her follower and that she would arrange a divine post for him as a guardian beast.
  • The Six-Winged Strange Snake opened a passage into a cavern filled with poisonous Filth Qi, and Bai Yujun led her followers inside.
  • Bai Yujun guided the group through the cavern's tangled spatial traps until they reached a passage near the gigantic beast's heart.
  • Bai Yujun identified the hiding place above them, and the Six-Winged Strange Snake began digging diagonally toward the heart.

Ch. 1666Space

Bai Yujun dismantled the spatial traps in a hidden cavern and discovered a Golden House guarded by a narcissistic man descended from an Ancient Desolate Creature. After capturing him, she realized his father had fled into another identical cavern and pursued him through a cut in space.

  • Bai Yujun used her sword to break through the cavern’s spatial traps and reveal a luxurious Golden House surrounded by a hidden landscape.
  • Six-Winged kicked down the Golden House doors, and Bai Yujun found a muscular man admiring himself in a mirror.
  • Bai Yujun ordered Fat Tiger to capture the man, then discovered he was the long-imprisoned son of an Ancient Desolate Creature.
  • Bai Yujun sensed strange ripples caused by her Law Breaking attribute and realized the man’s father had already fled.
  • Bai Yujun cut open space to reveal an identical cavern, then entered with Six-Winged dragging the dry-heaving Fat Tiger behind her.

Ch. 1667Rapid Transmigration

Bai Yujun pursued the elusive hair-oiled man through a chain of hidden spatial passages, using Dragon Script and her sword to track and manipulate his escape route. After analyzing his movements, she returned to the cavern and prepared to wait for him to fall into her trap.

  • Bai Yujun followed the hair-oiled man through a desert, a rainforest, and the North Sea, sealing each passage with Dragon Script as she went.
  • Bai Yujun discovered a spatial trap leading toward a black hole and erased it instead of pursuing the man through it.
  • Bai Yujun, Fat Tiger, and Six-Winged burst through passages into a lovers’ valley and a ruler’s palace, startling the people there as they continued the chase.
  • Bai Yujun finished analyzing the man’s escape route, returned to the cavern, and merged the overlapping spaces.
  • The hair-oiled man emerged from the Golden House with his magical power sealed, while Bai Yujun entered the pavilion and Fat Tiger faced him outside.

Ch. 1668Gray Flood Dragon

Bai Yujun’s shop captured a Gray Flood Dragon after Six-Winged ambushed him, and she examined his past before offering to trade for one of his ancient memories. The dragon recognized the Dragon Script outside but became terrified when Bai hinted that she knew his wartime secret.

  • Six-Winged Strange Snake ambushed the Gray Flood Dragon as he emerged from the passage, poisoned him, and overwhelmed him while Fat Tiger helped keep him buried.
  • Fat Tiger carried the unconscious Gray Flood Dragon into Bai Yujun’s General Store, where he licked the dragon awake.
  • Bai Yujun used Gaze into Past and Future and discovered the Gray Flood Dragon’s long history of marriages, descendants, and several obscured memories.
  • The Gray Flood Dragon woke, noticed the Dragon Script outside, and demanded to know who had written it.
  • Bai Yujun offered to trade for a memory from hundreds of millions of years ago and hinted that she knew he had embezzled dragon war resources.
  • The Gray Flood Dragon recoiled in horror and demanded to know who Bai Yujun was as the pavilion’s pressure pinned him in place.

Ch. 1669A Big Pie

Bai Yujun pressured the Gray Flood Dragon into revealing its past, then recognized that the item it had been guarding was meant for her. The Gray Flood Dragon accepted her authority and agreed to lead her to the hidden possession.

  • Bai Yujun tried to persuade the Gray Flood Dragon to trade its memories of embezzling military supplies, then used an Ink Wash Painting to recreate the past.
  • Bai Yujun manifested the might of a Mythical True Dragon, and the Gray Flood Dragon recognized her as the Dragon Emperor’s descendant and bowed in submission.
  • The Gray Flood Dragon confessed to stealing supplies and recounted its long, miserable separation from the Dragon Court.
  • Bai Yujun explained that the stolen supplies could not have prevented the Dragon Clan’s decline and offered the Gray Flood Dragon an item from her shop.
  • Bai Yujun viewed the Gray Flood Dragon’s past and saw an armored dragon give it an object, recognizing the spear tip used to forge her flying sword.
  • The Gray Flood Dragon refused a shop item and offered to lead Bai Yujun to the possession it had been hiding.

Ch. 1670Crystal

Bai Yujun followed the Gray Flood Dragon across a hidden route on the lake to retrieve a mysterious crystal from his first wife’s grave. After learning that a cultivator’s actions had drained the world’s spiritual energy, she decided to try to restore it.

  • Bai Yujun freed the Gray Flood Dragon and let Fat Head Cat collect the treasures from his cave, while the Gray Flood Dragon sent his troublesome son away.
  • The Gray Flood Dragon revealed a hidden boat at the lakeside dock and rowed Bai Yujun, Fat Head Cat, and Six Wings through a concealed space to a remote shore.
  • The Gray Flood Dragon paid respects at his first wife’s grave and gave Bai Yujun an ordinary crystal that could evade her Gaze into the Past.
  • The Gray Flood Dragon explained that a native cultivator had extracted the energy that once enriched the world, and a passing sword immortal had killed him but failed to restore it.
  • Bai Yujun asked the Gray Flood Dragon to lead her to the damaged spiritual energy so she could try to repair it.

Ch. 1671Deep Pit

Bai Yujun descended into the deep pit to study the scattered Dao intent and find a way to restore the world’s spiritual energy. As she began calculating in the magma, she remembered a stone and thought of the countless worlds surrounding the Primordial Main World.

  • The Gray Flood Dragon brought Bai Yujun’s group to the deep pit, where cultivators and demon beasts gathered to study its Dao intent.
  • The Gray Flood Dragon revealed that the ancient beast whose death had nourished the world was his old friend, and Six-Winged fell silent in remembrance.
  • Bai Yujun ordered Fat Tiger to eat anyone who caused trouble, then descended through the pit in an imperious pose.
  • At the magma sea, Bai Yujun judged that a past cultivator’s attempt to seize the Dao intent had been futile and leaped into the earthfire.
  • Bai Yujun descended below the gathered experts, adapted to the pressure through dragon transformation, and began calculating how to merge the Dao intent into the world safely.
  • While working, Bai Yujun thought again of the stone and the countless worlds surrounding the Primordial Main World.

Ch. 1672Repair

Bai Yujun repaired the world and then sensed an impending event, teleporting away with Fat Tiger, Six-Winged, and the Gray Flood Dragon. At Dragon Palace, the mortally wounded Thousand-Household Officer Ge refused medicine and asked the Palace Master to resolve his confusion.

  • Bai Yujun merged the ancient beast’s Dao intent into the world, repaired its veins, and restored the World Will as spiritual energy began to recover.
  • After more than a month, Bai Yujun emerged from the lava sea, sensed what would soon happen, and teleported away with Fat Tiger, Six-Winged, and the Gray Flood Dragon.
  • Thousand-Household Officer Ge climbed to Dragon Palace despite his grave wounds, carrying the unused medicinal pill the Palace Master had given him.
  • Cheng Su offered Thousand-Household Officer Ge medicine, but he refused it and returned the Dragon Palace pouch to her.
  • With Little Hedgehog struggling to keep him alive, Thousand-Household Officer Ge thanked the Palace Master and asked for an answer to his confusion.

Ch. 1673The Inherited Blade

Bai Yujun spoke with the dying Thousand-Household Officer Ge about his lifelong struggle to protect ordinary mortals and showed him a distant world where humans and demons lived in prosperity. After Ge died, she rejected the idea of worshipping him as a deity and entrusted his blade to Cheng Su, ordering a hall built for it so someone destined to find it could inherit it.

  • Bai Yujun told Thousand-Household Officer Ge that he had done his best, explained how spiritual energy could help humanity, and showed him the flourishing realm she had created.
  • Thousand-Household Officer Ge thanked Bai Yujun and the others, then died peacefully beside the railing.
  • Cheng Su asked Bai Yujun whether the demons should establish a divine tablet for Ge, but she said he should be buried on a quiet hillside instead.
  • Bai Yujun took Ge's blade and ordered Cheng Su to enshrine it in a separate temple hall for someone destined to find it.

Ch. 1674The End

Bai Yujun matched the Crystal Ball’s dust to an ancient star chart and began to suspect it depicted the Cosmic Void’s boundary and the routes taken by dragons fleeing the Dragon Court’s destruction. The possible meaning of its lights left her fearing that many of her kin had perished, and she was left remembering the loneliness of being the last dragon.

  • Bai Yujun pieced together an incomplete ancient star chart from her Inheritance Memory and compared it with the dust inside the Crystal Ball.
  • Bai Yujun found that some of the Crystal Ball’s dust aligned with the star chart and wondered how such a complete map of the Cosmic Void had been made.
  • Bai Yujun guessed that the Crystal Ball showed the Primordial Main World, the surrounding worlds, and a boundary at the edge of the void.
  • Bai Yujun recognized a bright point as the direction the Dragon Court’s main force had fled and considered whether the lights marked surviving dragon groups or traversable routes.
  • Bai Yujun felt weighed down by the possibility that the dim points marked extinct dragon groups and recalled the loneliness of being the last dragon.

Ch. 1675Gathering

Bai Yujun investigated a strange gathering of ancient beasts and received a mysterious message connected to the Princess Mansion. She took Qiu Qi, the Gray Flood Dragon, and Fat Tiger to another Great World, where Fat Tiger recognized its long-lost home.

  • Bai Yujun visited the secret realm and learned from Six-Winged Strange Snake and Qiu Qi that unknown ancient beasts had begun gathering in a Great World.
  • Bai Yujun secretly investigated the anomaly, sensed someone concealing information, and received a message from the Princess Mansion where she had once lived.
  • Bai Yujun chose Qiu Qi and the Gray Flood Dragon to accompany her, then brought Fat Tiger along from the Dragon Palace.
  • Bai Yujun and her companions traveled through the teleportation network to another Great World, where Fat Tiger recognized the familiar aura of its home.

Ch. 1676Princess Mansion

Bai Yujun returned to the Princess Mansion with Fat Tiger and prepared to meet a phoenix who had invited her. The phoenix entered the residence as Bai waited to receive her.

  • Bai Yujun brought Fat Tiger through the World Barrier and flew with him toward the Princess Mansion.
  • Fat Tiger ran into town, bought meat from the butcher with silver, and returned to eat it.
  • Bai Yujun met the beaver that had maintained and guarded the Princess Mansion, improved its aptitude, and strengthened its trident.
  • Bai Yujun decorated the reception hall and prepared roasted fish and lotus dishes for her guest.
  • The beaver opened the gates for the elegant phoenix, who entered the Princess Mansion.

Ch. 1677Rong Ru

Bai Yujun received Rong Ru, a young Phoenix Clan member who warned her about a Western Teachings trap and revealed that her clan’s elders were forcing her to marry the Human Emperor. Bai Yujun sheltered Rong Ru and arranged for her to leave the Phoenix Clan’s reach, while suspecting that an elder had secretly helped her escape.

  • Rong Ru visited Bai Yujun and warned her that the Western Teachings had set a vicious trap for her.
  • Bai Yujun thanked Rong Ru and asked what she planned to do, and Rong Ru begged her for protection.
  • Rong Ru revealed that Phoenix Clan elders had used half of a strange corpse to refine black water and had ordered her to marry the Human Emperor.
  • Bai Yujun gave Rong Ru an umbrella as proof of registration in an empire under her command and offered to recommend her to study under an ancient phoenix.
  • Rong Ru traded Bai Yujun a Withered Tree root for the umbrella and accepted her protection.
  • Bai Yujun offered Rong Ru lotus seeds, then revealed that the beaver steward had gathered them, leaving Rong Ru struggling to swallow one.
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