Recaps

Li Qingyue’s five Dao Palaces, opened with immortal gold, produced an Innate Divine Art that transformed her body and linked her Dao Palaces to her Bitter Sea. The chapter ended as Venerable Heavenly Virtue and Demon Flower Bloom recognized the five chains she had formed as Great Dao Divine Chains.

• Demon Flower Bloom realized that immortal gold could cause a Dao Palace to nurture an Innate Divine Art.
• Li Qingyue’s Dao resonance stabilized and expanded the small world, while Venerable Heavenly Virtue and Demon Flower Bloom sensed its power.
• Li Qingyue’s five Dao Palaces filled her body and bones with the powers of five types of immortal gold, strengthening her flesh and enhancing her bloodline.
• Li Qingyue sensed that beams of light from her Dao Palaces could connect them to her Bitter Sea before she reached perfected Dragon Transformation.
• The five beams completed their transformation into Divine Chains linking Li Qingyue’s Dao Palaces and Bitter Sea, and Venerable Heavenly Virtue and Demon Flower Bloom identified them as Great Dao Divine Chains.

Li Qingyue discovered that the Great Dao divine chains formed by opening her Dao Palaces with immortal gold could become manifestations, armor, and weapons. She fused them with the essence of the Nine Transformations of the Divine Silkworm to nurture a flying immortal divine fetus, then demonstrated an art that turned starlight into humanoid weapons.

• The five Great Dao divine chains manifested as figures resembling Li Qingyue, surrounding her and isolating the area.
• The figures fused into Five-Color Battle Armor, drawing the attention of heavenly punishment until Demon Flower Bloom shielded the miniature realm.
• The armor dispersed, and the divine chains wrapped around Li Qingyue's Treasure Vase, completing the Great Dao Treasure Bottle Art.
• The chains fused into a Radiant Cocoon that carried the essence of the Nine Transformations of the Divine Silkworm and nurtured a flying immortal divine fetus.
• Li Qingyue dissolved the fetus back into divine chains, shaped them into weapons, and formed dozens of humanoid figures from starlight that struck through the void.

Li Qingyue used the Great Dao power of her Five Dao Palaces to forge the Reincarnation Disc from immortal gold for Demon Flower Bloom. After he accepted the treasure, Demon Flower Bloom gave her the promised jade, which Li Qingyue recognized as the Feng Family Ancient Jade and a possible legacy of Supreme Fuxi.

• Li Qingyue realized her Five Dao Palaces had given her Great Dao Divine Chains and greatly increased her strength.
• Li Qingyue forged the four pieces of immortal gold into a Reincarnation Disc, using her understanding of life, death, and reincarnation.
• Li Qingyue completed the treasure after consuming nearly all the remaining divine source and source stones.
• Demon Flower Bloom examined the Reincarnation Disc and accepted it from Li Qingyue.
• Demon Flower Bloom gave Li Qingyue the promised jade, and she recognized its Feng character as a sign of Supreme Fuxi's legacy.

Li Qingyue recognized the Feng Family jade as an incomplete inheritance of Heavenly Venerable Fuxi, while Demon Flower Bloom used the Reincarnation Disc to activate the realm’s formation. The formation began restoring life to the woman buried beneath the central mountain, and Demon Flower Bloom pleaded for Qingwu to return.

• Li Qingyue recognized the Feng Family’s ancient jade as an incomplete inheritance containing the Acquired Bagua Imprint and other scriptures.
• Li Qingyue thanked Demon Flower Bloom for sharing the inheritance and the immortal gold essence that could open five dao palaces.
• Demon Flower Bloom placed the Reincarnation Disc above the central mountain, where it formed two cycling vortices and transformed the small realm.
• Venerable Heavenly Virtue and Li Qingyue felt the realm’s new binding power and wondered whether the formation could truly reverse death.
• Demon Flower Bloom opened the burial mound and drew vitality and netherworld qi into the lifeless woman, whose body began to show faint pulses of life.
• Demon Flower Bloom called to her, asking, “Qingwu... come back!”

Li Qingyue and Demon Flower Bloom witnessed Qingwu briefly return to life through the Reincarnation Seal Mark as ten ancient monsters attacked the hidden small world. Qingwu faded away when their assault destroyed the world, and Demon Flower Bloom vowed to return and settle his debts.

• The Reincarnation Seal Mark merged into Qingwu's corpse, and she awoke briefly but could not remember her past.
• Ten ancient monsters from the Ten Great Eastern Wasteland Powers surrounded and attacked the small world, while Li Qingyue sought help through the Feng Family Ancient Jade.
• The Reincarnation Seal Mark vanished, and Qingwu's life began to fade despite Demon Flower Bloom's efforts.
• An attacker pierced the small world with a wisp of Extreme Dao imperial might, causing Qingwu's phantom to disintegrate as Demon Flower Bloom reached for her.
• Demon Flower Bloom watched Qingwu disappear and vowed that he would return to repay certain debts.

Demon Flower Bloom faced eleven powerful enemies in Flower God Valley as the Feathered Divine Dynasty deployed an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon. The weapon crushed the valley and began to overwhelm his Reincarnation Disc, while the Feng Clan envoy demanded the return of the Ancient Jade.

• The Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon appeared and wounded Li Qingyue, while its force sent Venerable Heavenly Virtue crashing into a mountain.
• Demon Flower Bloom confronted the eleven figures surrounding him, including the Supreme Ancestor of Jade Balance Holy Land, and resisted them with the Reincarnation Disc.
• The Emperor Weapon's power flattened Flower God Valley into a vast crater and forced Demon Flower Bloom down as the Reincarnation Disc began to crack.
• An elder of the Feathered Divine Dynasty accused Demon Flower Bloom of sheltering a fugitive and wounding the Ninth Divine Lord, while other ancient experts appeared around him.
• A Feng Clan figure asked Demon Flower Bloom to return the clan's Ancient Jade, whose Eight Trigrams Imprint held an inheritance connected to Great Emperor Fuxi.

Demon Flower Bloom faced a united assault by ten ancient monsters and an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon, but their attacks could not harm him. He advanced toward them and revealed that he had come to avenge the slaughter of Flower God Valley and the death of someone he loved.

• The Ancestor of the Feng Family withdrew after learning the ancient jade had been destroyed, and the other powers agreed to kill Demon Flower Bloom.
• Ten ancient monsters attacked Demon Flower Bloom while the Feathered Divine Dynasty’s old man used an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon to seal the area.
• The battle devastated the land around Flower God Valley, and distant onlookers feared that Demon Flower Bloom would be defeated.
• Li Qingyue struggled against the battle’s overwhelming force, while Venerable Heavenly Virtue fled and drew pursuit with his dazzling treasures.
• Demon Flower Bloom walked unharmed through the attacks toward the ancient monsters and accused them of slaughtering Flower God Valley and causing her death.
• Demon Flower Bloom asked whether they had heard of Divine Flower Bloom.

Demon Flower Bloom revealed the power of the Divine Flower and used the ten ancient monsters’ attacks to break his seal and unleash Dao Severing might. After Qingwu’s body crumbled, he summoned a Sea of Lightning to defy heaven, hoping to win her a chance at life.

• Demon Flower Bloom claimed to be the Divine Flower, and the onlookers recalled the wondrous flower’s deadly power and doubted it could take human form.
• Demon Flower Bloom’s blood-red hair took root in the void and absorbed the ten ancient monsters’ attacks.
• The ten ancient monsters attacked together, but Demon Flower Bloom’s body turned insubstantial as his hair devoured their strikes.
• Demon Flower Bloom used their power to erode his seal and unleash Dao Severing might, prompting the monsters to recognize his attempt to defy heaven and sever the Dao.
• The Yuhua Divine Tower’s imperial might failed to stop Demon Flower Bloom, and a vast Sea of Lightning formed above him.
• Demon Flower Bloom recalled Qingwu’s collapse and declared that he would stake everything against heaven to win her a thread of hope for life.

Demon Flower Bloom underwent a dangerous attempt to sever the Dao against heaven, enduring lightning that manifested the sacred Daos of ancient Supremes, Emperors, and Great Emperors. As the lightning eroded the seals of ancient Saints on him, Li Qingyue gained insight into her Survival Points and the fortune behind them.

• Demon Flower Bloom drew down a vast sea of tribulation lightning as he began severing the Dao against heaven, while the ten old monsters retreated and warned that he would die.
• Demon Flower Bloom endured the lightning, which revealed that ancient Saints had sealed his Primordial Spirit and body with their blood essence.
• The lightning transformed into visions carrying traces of ancient sacred Daos, and Demon Flower Bloom fought them as the seals on him slowly wore away.
• Li Qingyue manifested her five Great Dao Divine Chains and focused on comprehending the scene, while her system rapidly consumed Survival Points.
• Li Qingyue realized that Survival Points represented fortune gathered by surviving ordeals and that the vision lightning embodied the Daos of ancient Great Emperors, Emperors, and Supremes.

Demon Flower Bloom battled the manifested Dao marks of ancient Emperors and Supremes while defying heaven to sever the Dao. After destroying the visions, he drew the Ancient Saints’ essence blood into his Reincarnation Disc, where a bewitching figure began to form.

• Demon Flower Bloom fought the Fuxi Dragon Stele, the Nuwa Dao Stone, and other ancient Dao marks as onlookers feared he would fail to sever the Dao.
• Venerable Heavenly Virtue returned and wondered whether Demon Flower Bloom was connected to a Divine Flower, while Li Qingyue observed the battle and advanced her understanding of the Dao.
• Demon Flower Bloom unleashed Flowers Bloom, Shocking the World. Instantaneous Splendor, devoured the Dao marks and visionary lightning, and destroyed their manifestations.
• Demon Flower Bloom’s crimson hair began turning white as the blood surrounding him flowed into his four-colored Reincarnation Disc.
• A bewitching figure began taking shape inside the Reincarnation Disc, leaving the onlookers stunned.

Demon Flower Bloom used the Reincarnation Disc and his ancient Saint essence blood to try to revive Qingwu, while Li Qingyue recognized the Feathered Great Emperor manifesting in the lightning as a grave threat. The Feathered Divine Dynasty’s patriarch merged the real Nine-Story Pagoda with its phantom, intensifying the imperial might and forcing nearly everyone to the ground.

• Demon Flower Bloom used his essence blood to repair the Reincarnation Seal and reconstruct Qingwu, preparing to complete her Primordial Spirit by devouring powerful cultivators’ spirits when the Divine Flower bloomed.
• The Sea of Lightning manifested the Feathered Great Emperor, whose imperial might made cultivators across the area kneel.
• Venerable Heavenly Virtue resisted the pressure and threatened to dig up the Feathered Great Emperor’s grave and the Feathered Divine Dynasty’s ancestral graves.
• Li Qingyue used her double pupils to identify the phantom as a Great Dao imprint strengthened by the Feathered Great Emperor’s Emperor Weapon and judged Demon Flower Bloom to be in danger.
• The Feathered Divine Dynasty’s patriarch sent the real Nine-Story Pagoda into the sky, merging it with the phantom pagoda and multiplying the imperial might.
• The intensified pressure knocked the old monsters and Venerable Heavenly Virtue to the ground.

Demon Flower Bloom resisted the awakened Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon and the Feathered Great Emperor’s lingering power by unleashing the Nine Secret Techniques. As his gathered weapons and Dao arts formed a force that could contend with imperial might, the onlookers recognized the techniques.

• The awakened Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon projected the Feathered Great Emperor’s imperial might, suppressing Demon Flower Bloom, the Reincarnation Disc, and everyone nearby.
• Demon Flower Bloom shielded the Reincarnation Disc with Dao-infused petals and declared that the Feathered Great Emperor would die if he obstructed his Dao.
• Demon Flower Bloom opened a flower-filled pure land and advanced through the Emperor’s Path’s pressure to challenge the Feathered Great Emperor.
• Demon Flower Bloom used the word “Arms” to summon weapons and treasures from across the surrounding area, which formed a giant lotus around him.
• Demon Flower Bloom spoke the remaining secret words and gathered divine beasts and Dao principles into a powerful offensive that contested the Feathered Great Emperor’s imperial might.
• The onlookers recognized Demon Flower Bloom’s display as the Nine Secret Techniques.

Demon Flower Bloom revealed the united Nine Secret Techniques, allowing him to contend with the Feathered Great Emperor’s phantom and unleash his ultimate art. Li Qingyue glimpsed a way to unite her own techniques but suppressed her aura to avoid triggering a deadly heavenly tribulation, while Demon Flower Bloom’s flower began to bloom.

• The ancient monsters recognized Demon Flower Bloom’s nine united techniques as the Flower God’s legacy and recalled how the old Flower God had gathered them before his downfall.
• The crowd marveled at the Nine Secret Techniques’ powers, and Venerable Heavenly Virtue lamented that he had never collected them all.
• Li Qingyue saw how the techniques could unite and connect with her own arts, forming a vision of worlds within her mind.
• Li Qingyue sensed that her insight had stirred a heavenly tribulation, suppressed her aura, and realized she would face it if she advanced the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art.
• Demon Flower Bloom gathered his power into a vast, radiant flower and sent it toward the Feathered Great Emperor’s phantom as he invoked “Flowers Bloom, Shocking the World!” and “Instantaneous Splendor!”

Demon Flower Bloom faced the Feathered Great Emperor’s Emperor’s Path, which repeatedly destroyed him despite his mastery of the Nine Secret Techniques. He recovered and managed to shatter half of the Feathered Great Emperor’s body, but another palm strike left him shattered again as everyone realized the Emperor’s Path made attaining the Dao seem impossible.

• The Feathered Great Emperor struck down Demon Flower Bloom’s blooming Dao, grievously wounding him and shattering his enormous flower bud.
• Demon Flower Bloom used Nine Secrets: Zhe to reconstruct his body beneath the Feathered Great Emperor’s pressure.
• Demon Flower Bloom gathered the Nine Secret Techniques into a seedlike attack that burst apart half of the Feathered Great Emperor’s body.
• The Feathered Great Emperor reformed from the sea of lightning and struck Demon Flower Bloom again, shattering his body and covering the sky in blood.
• Everyone recognized that the Emperor’s Path had prevented anyone from attaining the Dao for ten thousand years.

Demon Flower Bloom’s Dao-Severing tribulation revealed him to be the Divine Flower, whose blooming drew in primordial spirits and dissolved the Feathered Great Emperor’s phantom. As the flower’s figure took shape, Demon Flower Bloom attacked the Ten Old Monsters, declaring that their spirits would pay for Flower God Valley’s destruction and forge her rebirth.

• The Ten Old Monsters celebrated Demon Flower Bloom’s apparent death, but Nine Secrets: Zhe restored him within the blood-red haze.
• A strange seed sprouted into the Divine Flower, whose blooming enthralled those nearby and drew their primordial spirits toward its light.
• The blooming flower consumed the Feathered Great Emperor’s phantom and erased the Severing the Dao tribulation, while Li Qingyue resisted its pull with her double pupils and will.
• The Ten Old Monsters realized Demon Flower Bloom was the Divine Flower, and debated how the Ancient Saints’ seal and his origin had led to this moment.
• Demon Flower Bloom turned into countless petals and attacked the Ten Old Monsters, vowing to use their primordial spirits to forge the rebirth of the figure in the flower.

Demon Flower Bloom killed the Ten Old Monsters and fed their primordial spirits to the Divine Flower, despite their threats that the Eastern Wasteland powers would seek revenge. He entrusted Li Qingyue with an Ancient Jade and left the onlookers fearing the upheaval his actions would cause.

• Demon Flower Bloom hesitated when the Ten Old Monsters threatened his allies and pleaded for their lives, but resolved to avenge Flower God Valley and Qingwu.
• Demon Flower Bloom noticed Li Qingyue gaining insight into the Divine Flower’s immortal Dao laws and placed an Ancient Jade in her hand.
• Demon Flower Bloom chose to trust Li Qingyue and sent immortal seeds into the Ten Old Monsters.
• The Ten Old Monsters’ bodies withered, and their primordial spirits were drawn into the Divine Flower and consumed.
• The onlookers realized all ten Dao-severing experts had died, while the Feng Clan ancestor was shaken by the Divine Flower’s power.

Li Qingyue comprehended the Divine Flower’s immortal Dao laws and realized that her Dao Palaces should nurture her own Dao rather than merely house heaven and earth’s principles. She began forming a Dao cocoon to nurture a Dao seed, leaving her breakthrough in the Dao Palace Realm close to completion.

• Demon Flower Bloom passed the Nine Secret Techniques to Li Qingyue and asked her to look after the woman he cherished after his death.
• Li Qingyue studied the Divine Flower’s laws and concluded that enlightenment meant gathering Dao principles, not pursuing power directly.
• Li Qingyue engraved countless Dao principles into her five Dao Palaces as her Survival Points dwindled.
• Li Qingyue realized that using the body as a seed meant borrowing heaven and earth’s Dao to nurture her own Dao, which she named “swallow heaven.”
• Li Qingyue’s five Dao Palaces connected her bodily secret realms through Great Dao Divine Chains, and her past, present, and future selves began merging within a Radiant Cocoon.
• Li Qingyue recognized the cocoon as a place nurturing a Dao seed, whose formation would complete her Dao Palace Realm.

Demon Flower Bloom used the Divine Flower to restore Qingwu, then faded away after she recognized him and danced for him once more. Qingwu also dissolved into light, and their radiance gathered into a Divine Flower seed that vanished, leaving Li Qingyue watching the flowers bloom.

• The Divine Flower drew in countless Primordial Spirits and used its power to bring Qingwu back to the mortal world.
• Demon Flower Bloom spread a vast sea of flowers, and Qingwu recognized him as Flower Bloom.
• Demon Flower Bloom faded away after telling Qingwu that the most beautiful flower was never grown by human hands.
• Qingwu revealed she had long known Flower Bloom watched her, then dissolved into light as she danced for him.
• The light and Dao Principles converged into a Divine Flower seed that disappeared into the void, while Li Qingyue watched the scene.

The great factions and the Feathered Divine Dynasty surrounded Li Qingyue, demanding the legacy Demon Flower Bloom had left her. As they prepared to seize it, the Feathered Great Emperor’s Emperor’s Path fell dormant and the myriad Daos began to awaken, heralding a great age.

• The Feathered Divine Daughter arrived with an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon, while the Eastern Wasteland’s Holy Lands and Three Great Families gathered to claim Li Qingyue and Demon Flower Bloom’s legacy.
• The Jade Balance Holy Land and other factions demanded that Li Qingyue return with them and surrender what Demon Flower Bloom had left behind.
• The Feathered Divine Daughter summoned the Nine-Story Pagoda, whose Emperor’s Path might silenced the gathered factions and cut off Li Qingyue’s escape.
• Li Qingyue grasped the jade Demon Flower Bloom had left her and resolved not to let her enemies obtain the Nine Secret Techniques.
• Muffled booms spread across the Big Dipper Star Domain, the Nine-Story Pagoda fell dormant, and the awakened myriad Daos signaled that a great age was coming.

As the Feathered Great Emperor’s path fell dormant and the myriad Daos revived, the Yuhua Divine Tower vanished, leaving Li Qingyue without its protection. Holy Sons, Saintesses, and other cultivators surrounded her to demand the Nine Secret Techniques, and she raised the Ancient Jade in her palm to confront them.

• Cultivators concluded that the emperor’s path had fallen dormant, heralding a great age in which powerful figures would compete for fortune.
• The Yuhua Divine Tower fell dormant and disappeared, its imperial might dissipating as space-time resumed its flow.
• Seeing Li Qingyue unprotected, cultivators from factions across the Eastern Wasteland gathered around her and demanded what Flower Bloom had left behind.
• The Yaoguang Holy Son, Heavenly Pivot Holy Son, and other leading factions’ heirs arrived, while the Yuhua Divine Daughter realized she could not rely on the Divine Tower.
• Li Qingyue weighed the danger of surrendering the Nine Secret Techniques, then raised the Ancient Jade and asked who wanted them.

Li Qingyue destroyed the ancient jade containing the Nine Secret Techniques, provoking a massive attack from cultivators who believed she might have memorized the inheritance. She survived by unleashing the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron and killed more than a hundred attackers, leaving the rest horrified.

• Li Qingyue crushed the ancient jade bearing the Nine Secret Techniques and scattered its fragments.
• The enraged crowd surged toward Li Qingyue, hoping to capture her and force her to reveal the inheritance.
• Li Qingyue summoned the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron and used the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art to devour the attacks and treasures aimed at her.
• Li Qingyue realized her attackers were holding back because they wanted her alive, then charged through them with astonishing speed and surging Dao principles.
• Li Qingyue killed more than a hundred cultivators and stood atop their bones as the surviving crowd recoiled in fear.

The Holy Sons and Saintesses of the Eastern Wasteland revealed their terrifying powers as they moved to seize the Nine Secret Techniques from Li Qingyue. Just as their assembled might threatened to overwhelm the scene, the Yuhua Divine Daughter arrived.

• The Kaiyang Holy Son revealed the Open Yang King Body, and other successors manifested the Divine King Body, Guanghan Spirit Body, and Nine Heavens King Body.
• The Yaoguang Holy Son advanced through the visions using his Sacred Light Art, while the Tianquan Saint followed with power linked to the Light Ancient Emperor's inheritance.
• Li Qingyue grew wary that the Tianxuan Holy Land was absent and wondered whether Demon Flower Bloom was connected to the Tianxuan Holy Land.
• The Yuhua Divine Daughter appeared in the sky, her Yuhua Immortal Radiance suppressing the gathered visions as she approached.

The Yuhua Divine Daughter revealed a terrifying light-dark constitution as the contenders gathered around the Nine Secret Techniques. Li Qingyue retreated from the powerful fighters, then slaughtered dozens of pursuers with her Great Dao Divine Chains and absorbed their essence, leaving the crowd to call her a demon.

• The Yuhua Divine Daughter manifested a bizarre power of light and darkness that shocked and intimidated everyone.
• Li Qingyue retreated from the Holy Sons and the Yuhua Divine Daughter, but a large crowd pursued and surrounded her.
• Li Qingyue unleashed five Great Dao Divine Chains, which shattered attacks and pierced dozens of people.
• The chains absorbed the victims’ flesh, blood, and essence before forming a Treasure Vase above Li Qingyue.
• Sweet dew from the Treasure Vase entered Li Qingyue, causing her divine power and strength to surge as the survivors recognized her lifeform devouring and called her a demon.

Li Qingyue faced a vast crowd that sought to kill her and seize the Nine Secret Techniques, defeating successive waves of attackers with her Great Dao divine chains and evolving arts. As seven Holy Sons, a Saintess, and a Divine Daughter joined forces against her, she entered a state of Dao comprehension and challenged them to attack.

• The crowd attacked Li Qingyue, but she used the Flying Immortal Art to pierce through their techniques and summoned a hundred dao soldiers with the Stars-into-Weapons Art, killing many and withstanding the rest with her Black-Gold Dragon-Patterned Cauldron.
• The Heavenly Pivot Holy Son and Heavenly Mechanism Holy Son attacked Li Qingyue, followed by the Jade Balance Saintess and the Wang Family Holy Son and Peng Family Holy Son.
• Li Qingyue merged her five Great Dao divine chains into her body and summoned countless exotic beasts, breaking the five Holy Sons' combined attack and causing them to retreat injured.
• The crowd concluded that Li Qingyue possessed the Nine Secret Techniques and attacked again, with seven Holy Sons, the Jade Balance Saintess, and the Yuhua Divine Daughter unleashing their visions together.
• Li Qingyue glanced at the Yaoguang Holy Son and the Tianquan Saint, entered a state of Dao comprehension, and challenged her attackers to come at her.

Li Qingyue used several Nine Secret Techniques and formed a Radiant Cocoon that absorbed the attacks against her, then emerged as a Flying Immortal Divine Fetus. She swept a five-colored Immortal Sword across the battlefield, leaving thousands dead and the survivors terrified.

• Li Qingyue entered the divine forbidden domain with the I Alone Reign Supreme Art and used the Flying Immortal Step, the Heaven-Slaying Dao secret art, and the Flying Immortal Art against the attackers.
• The observers recognized that Li Qingyue had rapidly comprehended several Nine Secret Techniques and feared what she would become if she survived.
• Li Qingyue formed a Radiant Cocoon using her understanding of the Divine Silkworm Clan's inheritance, while attacks struck it and were absorbed by its powers and Dao Palaces.
• The Radiant Cocoon split open, and a Flying Immortal Divine Fetus emerged wielding a five-colored Immortal Sword.
• The Divine Fetus swept its sword across the battlefield, splitting the land and killing thousands of fleeing figures.