Recaps

Lin Yuan mastered short-range void traversal with the Myriad Worlds Traversal Token and proved he could enter a sealed Starlight Glazed Palace. After his clones resumed their separate training, the Bo Xue Vine Clone began studying Snow Realm Attack, a Combined Attack Secret Art.

• Lin Yuan trained with the Myriad Worlds Traversal Token for more than ten years until he could perform void traversal skillfully.
• Lin Yuan traversed directly into the sealed Starlight Glazed Palace and realized the token could bypass palace-type Supreme Treasures and escape suppression.
• Lin Yuan concluded that the token would also let him travel across the Cosmic Sea instantly once he knew his destination.
• The Storm Ruins Spirit Clone, Bo Xue Vine Clone, Human True Body, and Beast God Clone continued their separate cultivation tasks in the Great Axe Universe.
• The Bo Xue Vine Clone began comprehending Snow Realm Attack, and Lin Yuan considered how a true Combined Attack Secret Art differed from an ordinary joint attack.

Lin Yuan comprehended the Heart of the Beast God after experiencing a thousand years as a Beast God in a dream. After learning that Marquis Yuankun had broken through to the King level, Lin Yuan set out for Chaos City to celebrate with his teacher.

• Lin Yuan studied the Snow Realm Combined Attack and learned that it formed a phantom of the Snow Realm Envoy, a legion-type Mechanical Flow Treasure.
• Lin Yuan and his Clones slept for a thousand years in an accelerated cultivation space while he dreamed of living as a Beast God.
• Lin Yuan awoke having grasped the Heart of the Beast God, aided by the Water Guardian Beast God’s former Divine Body.
• Lin Yuan considered transplanting other Guardian Beast Gods to speed his comprehension but decided against it because the Ancestral God Sect could not afford further losses.
• Lin Yuan received Marquis Yuankun’s email announcing his breakthrough to the King level and left for Chaos City to visit him.

Lin Yuan visited his newly promoted teacher, King Yuankun, and gave him a rich congratulatory gift before sharing resources with old friends. Back in the Great Axe Universe, Lin Yuan gathered his Original Body and several clones in the Starlight Glazed Palace to test the Snow Realm Combined Attack Secret Technique.

• Lin Yuan visited King Yuankun in Chaos City, celebrated his breakthrough to King, and learned that he planned to return to the Outer-Domain Battlefield.
• Lin Yuan gave King Yuankun a World Ring filled with resources and treasures, which astonished his teacher when he inspected it.
• Lin Yuan visited Watson and his old friends, giving them mostly life-preserving treasures and resources.
• Lin Yuan returned to the Great Axe Universe and gathered his Original Body, Storm Ruins Spirit Clone, Bo Xue Vine Clone, and Beast God Clone in the Starlight Glazed Palace to test the combined attack technique.

Lin Yuan tested the Combined Attack Secret Art with his Divine Bodies and found that four could form a Snow Realm Envoy phantom with peak sixth-tier power, the Primal Universe’s limit. He then resumed cultivation, focusing on strengthening his will to resist powerful soul attacks.

• Lin Yuan’s Original Body and Storm Ruins Spirit Clone formed a Snow Realm Envoy phantom and raised its strength to peak fifth tier using refined divine power.
• Lin Yuan gathered four Divine Bodies and unleashed the Combined Attack Secret Art again, bringing the Snow Realm Envoy to peak sixth tier.
• Lin Yuan considered how Great Axe World-Severing’s recovery and his eventual breakthrough could further increase the technique’s power.
• Lin Yuan resumed cultivation and focused on raising his willpower to withstand soul illusion attacks from powerful soul masters.

Lin Yuan fused Green Light and Abyssal Sea into his first supreme fusion secret technique, Azure Heavens, Yellow Springs, and received six Peak Supreme Treasures from Mountain Sitting Guest. Mountain Sitting Guest explained three domain-type treasures, including one that could assist illusion techniques, while Lin Yuan prepared to venture into the Cosmic Sea.

• Lin Yuan fused Green Light and Abyssal Sea into a supreme secret technique and named it Azure Heavens, Yellow Springs.
• Lin Yuan continued tempering his will while waiting for Mountain Sitting Guest to finish refining six treasures.
• Mountain Sitting Guest gave Lin Yuan the six treasures and introduced the Burning Star Furnace, a domain-type Supreme Treasure that could annihilate divine power and help refine treasures.
• Mountain Sitting Guest described the Thousand-Edge Realm, which could assist illusion techniques, and the more balanced Slaughterlight Prison.
• Mountain Sitting Guest told Lin Yuan that the functions of the treasures were common and suggested he had not yet studied the Peak Chapter and Supreme Chapter of the treasure-refining inheritance.

Mountain Sitting Guest showed Lin Yuan six Supreme Treasures, including treasures for sealing, concealing life aura, and resisting madness. Lin Yuan then demonstrated the fifth-tier fusion Secret Technique he had created, and Mountain Sitting Guest confirmed its power matched a technique wielded by Chaos City Lord.

• Mountain Sitting Guest introduced the Mystic Heavy Mountain and Smoke Cloud Palace, explaining their sealing and concealment abilities.
• Mountain Sitting Guest explained that the Soul-Returning Stone could guard Lin Yuan's soul and protect him from frenzy-inducing treasures and regions.
• Lin Yuan told Mountain Sitting Guest he had created a fusion ultimate Secret Technique and that he could begin refining a Supreme Treasure comparable to the Star Tower.
• Mountain Sitting Guest brought Lin Yuan to a vast testing space and asked him to demonstrate the technique.
• Lin Yuan unleashed Azure Heavens, Yellow Springs with the White Snake whip, and Mountain Sitting Guest confirmed it was a fifth-tier Secret Technique with power comparable to Chaos City Lord's fusion technique.

Lin Yuan negotiated compensation from Mountain Sitting Guest and obtained a Cosmic Sea map before preparing to venture into the Cosmic Sea. He told Lord of Void Gold that he had created a fusion strongest secret technique, leaving his teacher astonished.

• Mountain Sitting Guest warned Lin Yuan that the treasure he was forging would be weaker than the Star Tower, so Lin Yuan pressed him for fair compensation.
• Mountain Sitting Guest promised to forge Lin Yuan two Supreme Treasures of the Highest Order after Lin Yuan defeated ten fourth-tier Universe Masters or one fifth-tier Universe Master.
• Lin Yuan asked Mountain Sitting Guest for a detailed Cosmic Sea map, and Mountain Sitting Guest gave him a jade token containing one.
• Lin Yuan equipped his Original Body and major Clones with treasures and headed to Lord of Void Gold's golden planet before setting out for the Cosmic Sea.
• Lin Yuan told Lord of Void Gold that he had created a fusion strongest secret technique, and Lord of Void Gold was dumbfounded by his disciple's rapid achievement.

Lin Yuan prepared to enter the Cosmic Sea as Lord of Void Gold briefed him on its dangers, factions, and routes. He traveled alone using the Myriad Worlds Traversal Token and arrived at the Universe Boat.

• Lord of Void Gold warned Lin Yuan about Cosmic Sea travel, its dangers, and the importance of maps, then gave him a map and classified intelligence.
• Lin Yuan told Lord of Void Gold that his Original Body and major Clones would explore the Cosmic Sea while his Blood Sea Clone guarded the God Kingdom.
• Lord of Void Gold invited Lin Yuan to travel with Bing Feng, but Lin Yuan chose to go alone and head first to the Universe Boat.
• Lin Yuan returned to the Primal Universe, used the Myriad Worlds Traversal Token to cross beyond its membrane wall, and continued toward his destination.
• Lin Yuan emerged before an enormous damaged vessel and recognized it as the Universe Boat.

Lin Yuan reached the Universe Boat and examined its damage, learning that it was still devouring chaotic airflow and a miniature universe. He planned to split his Divine Bodies between cultivating in the Black Pattern Pillar region and exploring the Universe Boat, while concealing his unusual escape ability.

• Lin Yuan saw the enormous, battered Universe Boat and reflected on the Primal Universe's power and the chance to possess it.
• The Giant Axe Spirit recognized the Universe Boat but could not remember where its former master had fallen.
• Lin Yuan decided to travel toward the Black Pattern Pillar region without revealing his extraordinary escape ability or transforming into Lord of Northern Prison.
• Lin Yuan had two Divine Bodies prepare to cultivate in the Black Pattern Pillar region and two to explore the Universe Boat.
• The Storm Ruins Spirit Clone carried the Smoke Cloud Palace and merged into the void, followed by Lin Yuan's Original Body and Bo Xue Vine Clone.

Lin Yuan sent his Storm Ruins Spirit Clone to Black Pattern Pillar No. 2 to cultivate and temper its willpower. After nearby experts mistook him for a newcomer with a rare aura-concealing treasure, Ziya Lord and Suiyan Lord confronted him, and Lin Yuan prepared to fight.

• Lin Yuan chose Black Pattern Pillar No. 2, where Bei Chi Star Lord and many other experts gathered, as his cultivation site.
• Lin Yuan teleported to the pillar region and endured its constant willpower assaults as nearby Masters of the Universe investigated his mist-shrouded arrival.
• Several experts speculated that Lin Yuan was a newcomer from the Primal Universe or a Holy Land universe, and ruled out that he was the Rampaging Devil God in disguise.
• Ziya Lord and Suiyan Lord approached Lin Yuan, demanded to know why he concealed his life aura, and showed signs of preparing to attack.
• Lin Yuan recognized the two fourth-tier Lords and told them he would explain his treasure in detail, inwardly welcoming the chance to fight them.

Lin Yuan confronted Ziya Lord and Suiyan Lord near Black Pattern Pillar No. 2 after they demanded his aura-concealing treasure. He defeated them with his Peak Supreme Treasures, and the Cosmic Sea factions learned of the powerful newcomer they named Smoke Cloud Palace Lord.

• Ziya Lord and Suiyan Lord attacked Lin Yuan together, hoping to seize his treasure.
• Lin Yuan revealed his fifth-tier strength, used Slaughterlight Prison to suppress their Domain, and sent Smoke Cloud Palace to seal them.
• Ziya Lord self-destructed his Clone, while Suiyan Lord’s pleas for help went unanswered and he was sealed inside Smoke Cloud Palace.
• Witnesses reported Lin Yuan’s strength and treasures to their factions, which began calling him Smoke Cloud Palace Lord.

Lin Yuan reached the Black Pattern Pillar region where time flowed 4,000 times faster and began tempering his will, while the Cosmic Sea powers speculated about the origins of Smoke Cloud Palace Lord. After exploring the Universe Boat, he arrived at the human faction’s gathering place and met Lord of Qingdong.

• Lin Yuan stopped near Black Pattern Pillar No. 2, where time flowed 4,000 times faster, and sat down to temper his will.
• The Cosmic Sea powers ranked Smoke Cloud Palace Lord among the strongest Fifth-Order Universe Masters and speculated that he came from a Holy Land universe.
• Lin Yuan cultivated the Nine Winds Heart Refining Method while his Original Body and Bo Xue Vine Clone explored the Universe Boat using the Myriad Worlds Traversal Token.
• Lin Yuan’s Human True Body reached the human faction’s gathering place in the Universe Boat after more than ten days of travel.
• Lord of Qingdong greeted Lin Yuan and offered to take him to the Divine Temple, where two Universe Masters from other races of the Hong Alliance were present.

Lin Yuan met Lord of Yanying and Lord of Zhenma before inventorying his spoils from Suiyan Lord and Ziya Lord's Clone. He used the treasures to restore Great Axe World-Severing's Second-layer Secret Pattern, then sent his forces into the Universe Boat to hunt powerful opponents and explore dangerous sites.

• Lin Yuan met Lord of Yanying and Lord of Zhenma at the Divine Temple and declined their offer to explore the Universe Boat together.
• Lin Yuan counted more than twenty-three thousand Supreme Treasure Points in treasures taken from Suiyan Lord and Ziya Lord's Clone.
• Lin Yuan fed roughly half the treasures to Great Axe World-Severing, restoring its Second-layer Secret Pattern and improving its divine power.
• Lin Yuan's Beast God Clone began comprehending the restored Secret Pattern while his Original Body and Bo Xue Vine Clone entered the Universe Boat's Inner Domain.
• Lin Yuan searched dangerous locations for powerful Universe Masters to target and arrived at the God-Destroying Ravine.

Lin Yuan entered God-Destroying Ravine and confronted Yin Tuo, a notoriously durable Fourth-Order Universe Master. After learning that Lin Yuan was a newly advanced human Universe Master with extraordinary strength and survival abilities, Yin Tuo prepared to fight him, and Lin Yuan summoned a white whip.

• Lin Yuan searched God-Destroying Ravine with the Thousand-Edge Realm and detected Yin Tuo, a powerful Fourth-Order Universe Master.
• Yin Tuo saw Lin Yuan approaching and asked the Ancestral God to identify the unfamiliar human.
• The Ancestral God identified Lin Yuan as the Lord of Starlight, a newly advanced human Universe Master with peak fourth-order strength, multiple Clones, and exceptional survival abilities.
• Yin Tuo dismissed the warning and activated his strongest Secret Technique and Golden Alum Armor before confronting Lin Yuan.
• Yin Tuo charged at Lin Yuan, who summoned a white whip and prepared to fight.

Lin Yuan deliberately battered Yin Tuo while waiting for other Cosmic Sea experts to approach, and two Divine Eye Clan Lords arrived to confront him. Yin Tuo revealed that Lin Yuan was a Fifth-Order Universe Master, shocking Lord of Jiujian as the confrontation escalated.

• Lin Yuan overwhelmed Yin Tuo in combat, and Yin Tuo realized his opponent was far stronger than a Fourth-Order Universe Master.
• Lin Yuan followed Yin Tuo through the Magma Vortex and prevented him from triggering its Annihilation Vortex.
• Lin Yuan's Domain detected Lord of Wuhun and Lord of Jiujian near the Magma Vortex.
• Lord of Wuhun and Lord of Jiujian caught up with Lin Yuan and threatened to teach him a lesson.
• Yin Tuo told the Divine Eye Clan Lords that Lin Yuan was a Fifth-Order Universe Master, leaving Lord of Jiujian shocked.

Lin Yuan challenged Lord of Wuhun and used his Thousand-Edge Realm and Abyssal Sea technique to overwhelm the Fifth-Order Universe Master's domain and strongest secret technique. Lord of Wuhun was left in disbelief at Lin Yuan’s strength.

• Lord of Wuhun doubted that Lin Yuan had cultivated to his current level in a single era or created a fusion strongest Secret Technique, while Lin Yuan invited him to fight.
• Lin Yuan considered the Mad Demon God-Slaying Armor’s abilities and the Soul-Returning Stone that would let him safely unleash its mad demon state.
• Lord of Wuhun attacked with the Water-Wave Prison, but Lin Yuan’s Thousand-Edge Realm halted the enormous palm.
• Lord of Wuhun deployed his strongest Secret Technique, the Wuhun Realm, and combined it with the Water-Wave Prison to attack Lin Yuan.
• Lin Yuan countered with Abyssal Sea, shattering Lord of Wuhun’s attack and Wuhun Realm and leaving Lord of Wuhun shocked.

Lin Yuan’s “Azure Heavens, Yellow Springs” clashed with Lord of Wuhun’s “Five Beast Great Extinction” and narrowly overcame it. As Lin Yuan considered taking Lord of Wuhun’s Secret Technique diagram, the battle’s commotion drew the Molten Rock Demon God to them.

• Lord of Wuhun challenged Lin Yuan to compare their fused Secret Techniques, then unleashed “Five Beast Great Extinction.”
• Lin Yuan answered with “Azure Heavens, Yellow Springs,” whose jade-lit waters stopped and shattered Lord of Wuhun’s five-colored beam.
• Lord of Jiujian and Yin Tuo were shocked by the Secret Techniques’ power as Lin Yuan praised Lord of Wuhun’s attack and considered obtaining its diagram.
• A towering Molten Rock Demon God emerged from the distant lava sea, and Yin Tuo and Lord of Jiujian feared the group was in danger.

Lin Yuan trapped Lord of Wuhun, Lord of Jiujian, and Yin Tuo as the Molten Rock Demon God caught up, causing Lord of Jiujian and Lord of Wuhun to be annihilated while Yin Tuo survived beneath the black earth. Lin Yuan evaded the demon, recovered his treasures, captured Yin Tuo, and escaped through the void.

• Lin Yuan used his Domain to slow Lord of Wuhun, Lord of Jiujian, and Yin Tuo, preventing them from escaping the approaching Molten Rock Demon God.
• The Molten Rock Demon God stomped Yin Tuo, shattering his Jin Feng Armor and leaving only a small portion of his Divine Body alive beneath the black earth.
• Lord of Wuhun tried to distract Lin Yuan with Five Beast Great Extinction and flee inside the Forbidden Palace, but Lin Yuan blocked the attack with Mystic Heavy Mountain.
• The Molten Rock Demon God crushed Lord of Jiujian and Lord of Wuhun inside the Forbidden Palace, destroying their Divine Bodies and treasures.
• Lin Yuan used the Myriad Worlds Traversal Token to evade the demon, reclaimed the Forbidden Palace, and used Mystic Heavy Mountain to capture Yin Tuo.
• Lin Yuan retrieved Mystic Heavy Mountain and Yin Tuo, then escaped by merging into the void.

After Lin Yuan killed the Lord of Jiujian and the Lord of Wuhun’s strongest clone, the Divine Eye Clan confirmed the losses and learned that Wuhun’s remaining treasures had been taken. Lin Yuan entered the Black Pattern Pillar Space chamber linked to his Black Token and began studying its trove of Secret Pattern Diagrams.

• The First True Lord questioned the Lord of Wuhun, who recounted how Lin Yuan defeated his clone alongside the Lord of Jiujian in God-Destroying Ravine.
• The Lord of Wuhun discovered that his Black Token and Extermination Divine Armor had been taken, and the First True Lord promised help reclaiming them if their new owner used them openly.
• News of Lin Yuan’s strength spread through the First Reincarnation Era, and the newly ascended Lord of Mu Ti chose him as the opponent for his trial battle.
• Lin Yuan used his Black Token to locate and enter its chamber in the Black Pattern Pillar Space.
• Lin Yuan found that the Lord of Wuhun had already removed the chamber’s treasures, then began studying the nearly ten thousand Secret Pattern Diagrams carved into its rock face.

Lin Yuan searched Qingfeng World for Jiefan’s cyan token while cultivating at the No. 7 Black Pattern Pillar. Mountain Sitting Guest contacted him about rumors of his death, learned he was safe, and said he was traveling to the Universe Boat to help repair his damaged treasures.

• Lin Yuan left an avatar in the secret chamber to study difficult secret pattern diagrams and moved his cultivation to the No. 7 Black Pattern Pillar.
• Lin Yuan traveled to Reference Area No. 193293 in Qingfeng World to search its flame karst caves for Jiefan’s cyan token.
• Mountain Sitting Guest contacted Lin Yuan to ask whether reports that he and the Lord of Wuhun’s clone had perished were true.
• Lin Yuan confirmed he was safe and said the Molten Rock Demon God had killed the Lord of Wuhun’s clone and Lord of Jiujian.
• Lin Yuan asked Mountain Sitting Guest to repair several damaged treasures, and Mountain Sitting Guest revealed he was heading to the Universe Boat.

Lin Yuan reassured the Human Race and Hong Alliance Universe Masters that reports of his battle in the Universe Boat were partly false, while confirming that he had defeated Lord of Wuhun's attack. Concerned for his safety, Mountain Sitting Guest and Founder of the Great Axe prepared to come to his aid as Lin Yuan continued his dangerous test.

• Mountain Sitting Guest asked Lin Yuan about his cultivation and warned him to become a Universe Master before acting so recklessly in the Cosmic Sea.
• Lin Yuan gave Mountain Sitting Guest a distant location and considered making Yin Tuo a Secondary Clone, though Yin Tuo's soul protection and willpower made it difficult.
• About a week after the Magma Vortex incident, Lin Yuan received calls and visit requests from Universe Masters across the Primal Universe.
• Lin Yuan told Founder of the Great Axe, Chaos City Lord, and the other Human Race Universe Masters that Lord of Wuhun's clone and Lord of Jiujian had died, but his own clone was safe.
• Lin Yuan confirmed he had blocked Lord of Wuhun's Five Beast Great Extinction, prompting Founder of the Great Axe to head to the Universe Boat in case a Divine Eye Clan True God attacked.
• Lin Yuan answered the Hong Alliance Universe Masters' questions briefly, distinguishing true reports from false ones.

After word spread that Lin Yuan had reached Fifth-Order Peak strength, the Cosmic Sea learned he had killed eight Universe Masters with a single axe strike in Bo Xing Sea. Lin Yuan concealed World-Severing’s true power, intending to keep Fifth-Order Universe Masters from fleeing future encounters.

• The factions of the Primal Universe and Cosmic Sea reacted to Lin Yuan’s victory over the Lord of Wuhun and Yin Tuo, while the Aged Ancestral God offered Lin Yuan a Peak Supreme Treasure Weapon and the Three Great Races worried about his growing strength.
• Lin Yuan appeared in Bo Xing Sea, seized a Top-tier Palace-type Supreme Treasure, and faced more than a dozen Third- and Fourth-Order Universe Masters who attacked him.
• Lin Yuan swung his giant axe once, annihilating eight Universe Masters and badly injuring most of the survivors; six of the dead could not revive through Clones.
• The factions learned that Lin Yuan had wielded an exceptionally powerful axe and wondered how he still possessed such a treasure after his earlier losses.
• Lin Yuan had used the Second-layer Secret Pattern of Great Axe World-Severing but restrained its power below the Sixth Order so Fifth-Order Universe Masters would not recognize its true might and flee.

Lin Yuan completed Mountain Sitting Guest's test by killing ten Fourth-Order Universe Masters and continued hunting in the Bo Xing Sea for more chances to earn Supreme Treasures of the Highest Order. The Lord of Wuhun learned that Lin Yuan might still possess his lost treasures, while the newly advanced Lord of Mu Ti challenged Lin Yuan to a trial battle.

• Lin Yuan suppressed and killed four more Fourth-Order Universe Masters, completing Mountain Sitting Guest's test and earning the right to have him forge two Supreme Treasures of the Highest Order without providing materials.
• Lin Yuan's killings frightened Universe Masters in the Bo Xing Sea, and the Lord of Jinchan told the Lord of Wuhun that the Lord of Starlight had killed the Lord of Jiayu with a mountain-shaped treasure.
• The First True Lord concluded that Lin Yuan had likely escaped the Molten Rock Demon God with his treasures and sent the Second True Lord toward the Bo Xing Sea to kill him and recover the Extermination Divine Armor.
• Lin Yuan continued exploring the Bo Xing Sea and encountered the Lord of Mu Ti, a newly advanced Fifth-Order Universe Master from the Purple Moon Holy Land who chose Lin Yuan as his trial-battle opponent.
• The Lord of Mu Ti declared that he would fight Lin Yuan and summoned his pointed-cone phantom and eight silver cones.

Lin Yuan defeated the Lord of Mu Ti’s fused secret technique and trapped him after he tried to leave. When Mu Ti offered treasures as compensation, Lin Yuan summoned the Snow Realm Envoy and seized his palace.

• The Lord of Mu Ti attacked Lin Yuan with a fused time-and-space secret technique, but Lin Yuan shattered it with a sixth-order strike from the Great Axe World-Severing.
• Lin Yuan’s strike injured Mu Ti, who conceded defeat and tried to leave after learning Lin Yuan wielded a Supreme Treasure of the Highest Order.
• Lin Yuan’s clones gathered around Mu Ti, and Lin Yuan blocked his escape with Abyssal Sea and the Thousand-Edge Realm.
• Mu Ti hid inside a Peak Palace-type Treasure and offered Lin Yuan treasures to compensate him, but Lin Yuan demanded his life.
• Lin Yuan and his clones summoned the Snow Realm Envoy, which caught Mu Ti’s palace in its hand.

Lin Yuan used the Snow Realm Envoy to enter the Cloud-Piercing Shuttle and kill the Lord of Mu Ti, then claimed the Peak Palace-type Supreme Treasure. The Second True Lord arrived and demanded the Extermination Divine Armor, leaving Lin Yuan facing another battle.

• Lin Yuan sent the Snow Realm Envoy into the Cloud-Piercing Shuttle and killed the Lord of Mu Ti despite his Peak Supreme Treasure Armor.
• The Snow Realm Envoy collected the Lord of Mu Ti's treasures, and Lin Yuan claimed the Cloud-Piercing Shuttle.
• Lin Yuan sensed a Universe Supreme Being approaching and recognized the newcomer as the Second True Lord of the Divine Eye Clan.
• The Second True Lord identified Lin Yuan's Combined Attack Secret Art and demanded the Extermination Divine Armor in exchange for letting him go.
• Lin Yuan offered to trade the armor for a Supreme Treasure of the Highest Order, and the Second True Lord summoned a strange beast statue to attack.