The spirited and scattered ancient immortal cheats corpses in the world of self-cultivation

Chapter 367
After seeing this child now, Mo Yiyi actually remembered it.

Before Guiming didn't think it was a big deal, the conversation was interrupted, so he didn't say anything.

But Mo Yiyi looked at this child at this moment, but felt that there were still some things to be said, after all, this was a big deal!
So Mo Yiyi opened his mouth to the child, wanting to tell what Guiming discovered back then.

But he didn't want to wait for her to open his mouth, the child opened his mouth first in a childish voice.

"Aunt Guiming~ Can I ask you a favor?"

Mo Yiyi swallowed the words that came to his lips, and then asked.

"What do you want me to do?"

Perhaps infected by the childish voice, Mo Yiyi subconsciously squeezed her throat and spoke.

The child had never seen Mo Yiyi like this before, so he was frightened.

The child's impression of Guiming Shengzun is indifferent, arrogant, and even contemptuous (rumors, absolute rumors).

The Lord Guiming, who can smile and talk to him like this, is not familiar to children.

This is so weird!

Seeing that the child had stopped moving, Mo Yiyi thought for a while and began to pull his storage ball.

The treasures of heaven and earth from the lower realm that she originally collected were all scattered when she ascended, and what was left in the end was the flesh and blood of some divine beasts that could not flow too much into the lower realm.

Fortunately, recently, some immortals who ascended from the lower realms will come to her to sell things, which can be regarded as replenishing her with some lower realm things.

She picked and picked in the storage ball for a while, and finally took out a vermilion fruit that was suitable for this child to eat.

Mo Yiyi doesn't know this kind of fruit, but with her realm and identity, everything in the world is transparent and has no secrets in front of her!

The child reached out and took what Mo Yiyi gave, which was a familiar pattern for children.

He had lived with His Holiness Gui Ming for a while, during that time Gui Ming would often give him fruit to eat.

His mother said that His Holiness Guiming was a good person, and he was given good food, and he was turned into a normal child. He wanted to be grateful to His Holiness Guiming.

So he got rid of the inappropriate comparison in his mind, and said obediently after taking the red fruit.

"Thank you Lord Guiming~"

The kids are still pretty cute!

Mo Yiyi thought so with a smile, but she still didn't forget what he said before asking her to help.

"You're welcome. You just said you wanted me to help. What can I do for you?"

As soon as this was mentioned, the child's expression fell instantly, and then he talked to Mo Yiyi.

"Holy Venerable Guiming, please save my mother, please."

"What's wrong with your mother?"

In Mo Yiyi's impression, the child's mother was a weak little white flower, but in fact she was a resilient, indomitable piranha.

She remembered that his mother should be working under the command of Xuanming Shengren. Although she was just a young man in her realm, she was not thrown out as cannon fodder during the war, so she should be a capable person after all.

How could such a person need help from others?

The child pursed his mouth, and then talked to Mo Yiyi.

"Mother, she hasn't come back for ten days."

"Oh, then what did your mother do?"

"Mother was called away by Master Lan Feng."

Lan Feng is Xuan Ming's subordinate, and among Xuan Ming's subordinates, he can be regarded as a well-known figure.

"Oh? Then your mother was called away to do something?"

The kid shook his head, then he said.

"Mother let me out of the house and told me to wait outside for her to come back~"

The child has been living in her mother's portable cave and rarely comes out, so she regards the portable cave as her home.

Mo Yiyi kept his expression on the face, but he knew it in his heart.

His mother attached great importance to this child, and she was able to take out the child and leave by herself. She must have encountered something dangerous. She herself had no hope of surviving, so she took the child out without letting him go. he followed.

Mo Yiyi still had a smile on her face, she asked the child with a smile.

"Then you tell Auntie, who brought you here?"

According to the realm of the lower realm, this child has reached the Nascent Soul Realm at most. If he wants to come to the East China Sea to find her, he can't do it without anyone's help!
The child didn't hide anything, just said it directly.

"A big brother brought me here. The big brother said his name is Wen Changsheng, and Aunt Guiming knows him~"

Mo Yiyi nodded, and did not continue to ask questions.

She wrapped the child up with Xianlisi, pulled her to her side, and without saying a word, she took her to Xuanming Shengjun's dojo!

Unlike Dongyao Shengjun Dojo, which is full of flowers and sunshine, Xuanming Shengjun is a ghost fairy. Although he reshaped the ghost fairy body after ascending, he still prefers a dark environment.

Xuanming Shengjun's original ashram has been destroyed, but his temporary ashram is not too far from the original ashram.

After all, there is really no other place in the fairy world like this kind of environment like a ghost cave!

That's all, Xuanming Shengjun spent ten thousand years working on it himself!

Mo Yiyi appeared in front of Xuanming Shengjun, and asked directly without any nonsense.

"Where's the child's mother? Where did you get it?"

Xuanming Shengjun is a young man wearing jeans and a yellow T-shirt. He looks a bit sinister and is full of ghosts and merits. The sudden appearance of Mo Yiyi did not interrupt what he is doing now. Concentrate on it - squeeze the mud!

Xuanming Shengjun is the follower of ghosts and immortals, but what he cultivates is the Taoism of Xiangsheng.

This Xuanming sage is also a strange ghost.

It is said that he was interested in ghosts and ghosts when he was alive, and he has been dying to see ghosts.

It's just that his family's fortune is prosperous, and he will do some good deeds with his parents every year. With his merits and virtues, of course ghosts and ghosts dare not approach him!
If there were no accidents, he might have searched for it for a while, and after discovering that those damn methods are all lies, he would give up his mind and become an atheist.

But things just went wrong.

He was targeted by evil cultivators because of this good fortune, and lied to him that he could see ghosts, intending to trick him into cooperating with his actions and transferring all his good fortune to himself.

It's just that the evil cultivator doesn't know that the so-called magic circle method that can change people's luck is just a deceptive play.When the magic circle was completed, not only did he not get Xuan Ming's powerful luck, but was backlashed by that luck and died, and Xuan Ming was also injured by the magic circle, and his soul was ejected from his body!

Xuanming was not afraid of becoming a lonely wild ghost, on the contrary, he found it very exciting, and he was a little bit reluctant to leave.

Xuanming has merits and virtues by his side, other ghosts are afraid of him, and his body is well taken care of by his family, so he went outside with confidence and boldness.

It was only when he had had enough time and went home to see his parents that he realized that his body was actually occupied by a foreign soul!
Xuanming couldn't bear it anymore, he wanted to drive away the lonely ghost occupying his body, but his way of doing this made his family think that something unclean had entangled their son, Start paying a lot of money to hire people to do exorcism!

It's just that capable people are so easy to invite, most of them are liars or half-baked.

Fortunately for the liar, Xuan Ming ran away as soon as he threatened people.

What they are most afraid of is the half bucket of water. Although they can't see Xuanming, they can hurt Xuanming from time to time. After a long time, Xuanming's fierceness is also aroused.

Xuan Ming has not returned home for more than 20 years, and his body has been manipulated by outsiders for more than 20 years. In terms of the connection with this body, the two are evenly matched. Xuan Ming has even been a lonely ghost outside for more than 20 years, often coming and going In those evil places, the aura belonging to the living soul has long been wiped out, and there is very little left.

On the contrary, the outsider who occupied his body, occupied his body, followed his parents to do good deeds from time to time to accumulate merit, and got married and had children in the past 20 years. He has become more and more like a living person. He is human, and there are more karma involved with this body than Xuanming!
Xuan Ming was a little out of control, he almost strangled to death the child who kept his blood, but it was actually a child born to an outsider with someone else!
That child is the dearest treasure of the old couple. The almost passing away of the child made Xuan Ming's parents want to find a way to get rid of Xuan Ming even more. In the end, they found a capable master. was revealed.

The outsider who occupied Xuan Ming didn't expect this to happen!
That outsider is not a lonely ghost, he died because of saving people, and then he closed and opened his eyes and became Xuan Ming.

He also went to find himself later, but his body was cremated by the police long ago!
The outsider knew that he was unreasonable, but the fact that Xuan Ming wanted to kill his own child was something he couldn't bear.

He knew in his heart that if he returned his body to Xuanming, Xuanming would definitely not treat his children kindly, so he firmly stated that this body was not wanted by Xuanming himself, and he did not want to occupy it on purpose. go back.

Of course Xuan Ming couldn't agree, he insisted on getting his body back!
When the mediation failed, the master asked Xuan Ming's parents, but to Xuan Ming's surprise, his parents chose the outsider!

After receiving such a blow, Xuan Ming completely turned into a ghost, cutting off the last breath of life.

The master sealed Xuan Ming at the begging of Xuan Ming's parents, and Xuan Ming's body was finally given to the outsider.

After Xuanming was sealed, he was always taken by his parents. His parents wanted to influence Xuanming, let him get rid of resentment and hatred, and be able to reincarnate as soon as possible.

But he didn't know that with his parents by his side, seeing their family being harmonious and beautiful, their life was going well, seeing their family's happiness, while he became an immovable decoration, the resentment and hatred in Xuan Ming's heart not only did not diminish, On the contrary, it accumulates more and more!

Until his parents were old, and the outsiders who occupied his body were surrounded by children and grandchildren, happy and happy, the resentment and hatred accumulated in Xuan Ming's body finally reached a critical point, allowing him to evolve from a ghost to a ghost general!

On the day when their family was happy, the ghost general Xuanming broke through the seal and brutally killed their family. Among them, he didn't even spare his own parents!

At that time, Xuanming had already lost his mind, he devoured the whole family, and then calmly accepted the baptism of Tianlei.

Even if ghosts cannibalism will be punished by heaven, he Xuanming will admit it!

It's just that Xuan Ming didn't expect that his parents, in the end, saved him, an unfilial son, once!
His parents are really good people, they have been willing to give charity all their lives, and they are doing charity sincerely. It is no exaggeration to say that the merits accumulated in their bodies can make a golden body!

But when they were brutally killed by their own parents and children, and the parents and children were about to be struck by lightning, the two elders still stepped forward, sacrificed themselves, and rescued the parents and children.

When the two elders were dying, they told Xuan Ming, who had regained his senses, that he was not to blame for this matter, it was the selfishness of the two of them that created all this.

The two thought that letting Xuan Ming take a step back was for everyone's benefit. After all, the child and daughter-in-law were innocent, and the second old lady knew her son well. If he wanted his body back, he would definitely not keep the child and daughter-in-law.

That's why the second elder made such a decision, and brought the sealed Xuan Ming with him, hoping to influence him and let him reincarnate as soon as possible.

Xuan Ming only saw their family being harmonious and happy, and all he saw was the love and care of the outsider's family from the second elder.

He hated deeply for this, allowing the resentment to drown himself.

But he ignored that his parents held his sealed item and chatted with him, took him to visit mountains and rivers, took him to do charity, and told others about their children's appearance when they were young, telling others What a good kid that was.

His parents have always loved him very much, and sometimes they would cry silently while carrying his sealed item on their backs.

Seeing the harmony of the outsider's family, the two elders were very happy on the surface, but the two of them never let go and moved to live with that family.

The two elders stayed at their original home and lived by themselves with Xuan Ming's sealed item.

Even if the body of the second elder is failing, it is already a very difficult thing for them to live, and they are still waiting, waiting for what the master said, the rune will automatically dissolve, and their son will be reincarnated voluntarily.

It's just a pity that the second elder didn't wait in the end.

When the sky thunder struck, the two elders took everything for Xuanming, and finally endured the ending that Xuanming should have suffered, and their souls flew away!
The second elder is a kind person, Xuan Ming has always known it.

Xuan Ming's injustice stems from the fact that the two elders consider everyone, except for themselves.

But now, seeing his parents being hacked to death, he has gained the wholehearted favor of his parents, but completely lost this favor.

From that moment on, a ghost named Xuan Ming appeared in the world. He was different from other ghosts. He was dead, but he rushed to live.

He likes dark, dilapidated and damp places, but he has the purest vitality!

Just like now, Xuan Ming squeezed out a clay doll.

The clay doll was so lifelike that it looked so funny sitting there crying.

When Xuan Ming withdrew his hand, the baby really started crying!

The little baby beat the ground and kicked his legs, the traces of mud scattered on his body, fleshy arms and legs, red padded jacket and black sky braid.

Xuanming put the little dolls in his magic weapon, there was a world of its own, and he raised many such little people in it.

These villains were born from the soil, with incomplete souls but also bodies.

They will grow up like normal people, get married, and grow old.

The only difference between this kind of couple is that they can't have children, so when the couple wants a child, they will worship Xuanming Temple in the small world, and then Xuanming will be a child who can only cry at first Children are raised for them.

It's like playing a house, but in fact, Xuan Ming did create life.

It's just that this life still has flaws, it can't resonate with the rules of heaven and earth, and it can't absorb more soul fragments to make the soul complete.

No one knows, when Xuan Ming breaks through the Saint Realm and reaches the strength that can ascend to the upper realm, whether he can really create a complete life like the Nu Wa in the myths and legends.

After Xuan Ming finished pinching the child and wiped his hands clean, he raised his eyelids to look at Mo Yiyi, and said a word very coldly.

"No."

Xuanming Shengjun is different from Dongyao Shengjun.

Don't look at Dongyao Shengjun's easy-talking appearance, in fact, she has a strong grasp of her disciples, and the disciples are willing to listen to her.

As for Xuanming Shengjun, he is more like a mascot, and his subordinates are just his subordinates. For ten thousand years, he has not confiscated a single apprentice, and it is not heard that he has taught anyone.

Usually, he is a villain in retreat, and he will appear when he encounters a major issue that his subordinates cannot solve.

The reason why Xuanming Shengjun's group of immortals didn't run away when they met such an unreliable Shengjun was that none of the immortals under his command was a fuel-efficient lamp!
After Mo Yiyi heard that it wasn't Xuanming who took the fairy away, he immediately said, "It's bad!"
If Xuan Ming was taken away by someone, then it would be easy to talk about it.

After all, don't look at Xuan Ming's sinister appearance, he doesn't look like a good person.

In fact, apart from breaking through the seal in the lower realm, killing people when he lost his mind, and doing things that are especially easy for ghosts, he really hasn't killed anyone.

Therefore, if it was Xuan Ming, at least the female fairy would not die.

But now I can't tell!
Mo Yiyi turned around to take the child away, but everyone disappeared, and then reappeared after a while!
"Oh, Xuanming, I forgot, what about the thing I gave you earlier?"

Xuanming tapped a clay ball on his table with Xianlisi, Mo Yiyi understood instantly, rolled up the mudball with Xianlisi, thanked him with a smile.

"thank you!"

Turned around and left again, but this time, there was an extra vial on the table.

Xuan Ming was a little surprised when he saw the vial, he didn't think it was a thank you gift left by His Holiness Gui Ming, he just thought it was another thing left by His Holiness Gui Ming for him to caress.

He rolled up the vial and opened it without paying attention.

Then the familiar yet unfamiliar breath came from the small bottle, which made his gloomy expression collapse in fright. He quickly covered the bottle, then picked up the mud on the table, and raised his hand to paste the baby tightly! !
After making the inner and outer layers of this treasure airtight, Xuan Ming felt more or less secure.

Afterwards, maintaining the movement of holding the mud ball, Xuanming took a long while before he had the real feeling, and a bright light burst out from the bottom of his eyes!
What's in that vial?

Answer, the water in Huaxian Pond!

Huaxian Pond is the most precious treasure in the fairy world. Don't look at the water in Huaxian Pond as if it is inexhaustible. In fact, that thing can't be carried. It will dissipate after leaving the range of Huaxian Pond. Forced cohesion will not work!

Of course, this is the common cognition of everyone in the fairy world. As for the source of this cognition, it can be traced back to when Gui Ming sold the resurrection quota.

Everyone knows that Guiming loves money, but this kind of Guiming is only willing to help them throw their soul orbs into the Huaxian Pond, and I have never heard of her selling the water from the Huaxian Pond!
And those beings who were reborn in Huaxian Pond also tried to take away some of the water in Huaxian Pond, but no matter what method they used, they couldn't do it!

That's why the majority of immortals have such a cognition!
However, Xuanming Shengjun, who was holding the mud ball, can now prove that the statement that even the ancient immortals couldn't get out a drop of water from the Immortal Pond is simply nonsense!
He now has reasons to believe that Gui Ming's refusal to sell the water in Huaxian Pond is definitely to monopolize the resurrection industry and seek huge profits, and it's definitely not something he can't do! ! !
Right now Xuan Ming was quite happy, feeling that Gui Ming had finally had a conscience after being dissipated once, knowing that he would beg him to do something and give him a thank you gift!
In fact, Xuan Ming was too happy at this moment, he never thought that this is not a thank you gift, but a compensation for what will happen next!

After Mo Yiyi left the small bottle, he took the child to Huaxian Pond with peace of mind. The child huddled in Mo Yiyi's fairy ball and opened his eyes wide to see everything outside.

The child lived in Huaxian Pond with Gui Ming for a while before, so he is no stranger to this place, on the contrary, he feels a sense of joy to come back again.

As for Mo Yiyi, she stood by the edge of Huaxian Pond, and when she broke her hand, she broke off the mud shell on her hand!
Inside the mud shell was a small man, still made of mud, curled up as if sleeping peacefully.

Mo Yiyi directly crushed the villain, and then took out a soul orb the size of a fingernail from it!
This soul orb is too small, but it is already very good, and this is the quality that has been cultivated for nearly a thousand years!

When Gui Ming pulled it out from the child's body, it was just a very weak shard of soul, and now it can be rolled into a ball. It can be seen that Xuan Ming has been nurturing it with great care for nearly a thousand years. !

Mo Yiyi threw the soul orb into the Huaxian Pond, and then the sky above the Huaxian Pond shone with thousands of purple lights, and the immortal energy was very excited, gathering abnormally!
This scene looked so familiar, and the immortals looked at Huaxian Pond suspiciously, not knowing what happened to Huaxian Pond!
Gui Jue quietly appeared next to Mo Yiyi, and also looked at the Huaxian Pond that was beginning to churn, quietly waiting for a result.

The water in Huaxian Pond stirred, and slowly, a man in colorful clothes emerged from it.

Looking at the man in his twenties, he has a slender body and a beautiful face, as if he has gathered all the perceptions of beauty in the world.

He closed his eyes at the moment, a large amount of immortal energy poured into his body from all directions, and his realm also soared from the most basic fairyland, surpassing the heavenly immortal, the mysterious immortal, the true immortal, the Taiyi golden immortal, the Daluo golden immortal, the Zhun Holy, reached the holy place!

The entire fairyland is cheering, the barren fairyland is once again full of vitality, its splendor is shining, and the purple energy is coming from the east!
Such a big battle, really...how come they are so familiar!

Afterwards, streams of soul energy gathered from all directions, and the immortals looked at each other unclearly.

And standing on the edge of Huaxian Pond, seeing the beautiful eyes of the beautiful figure standing there, Mo Yiyi pulled the child over with a smile, and held it up for the fairy to see.

"Look, Gui Jian, is the child your wife gave you a surprise or a surprise?"

Gui Yun and the child looked at each other for two seconds, then took a deep breath.

An extremely vivid expression appeared on Li Li's face.

He stepped on the water, came to the child and looked at it carefully, then quickly stretched out his hand through Mo Yiyi's fairy energy barrier, carried the child out without any hindrance, held the child in his arms and looked at it carefully.

"My God, when did this happen?"

Gui Yun may have been dead for too long, and his mind was a little confused. It took him a long time to remember what happened before his death in the lower realm, and then a hideous look appeared on his beautiful face.

"Damn it, those dogs are treacherous!"

Gui Yun became anxious, but Mo Yiyi just laughed when he saw it, thinking that Gui Yun, who was once ruthless and lustless, has become so lively and interesting!
Although Gui Jue was still expressionless standing on the side, there was a faint joy spreading in his heart.

For the ancient immortals, it is extremely rare to have even the slightest mood swings. From this, it can be seen that Gui Jue is also very happy to see Gui Jian's resurrection!

The child was a little overwhelmed by this incident. Seeing that Aunt Guiming, whom he was familiar with, couldn't restrain her smile and had no time to care about him, he hesitated for a while, then looked at Guijun, and asked him in a childlike voice. .

"Are you my daddy?"

Gui Jian's slightly ferocious expression twisted for a moment, he hesitated for a long while before nodding.

As for Mo Yiyi, when she heard the child's question, she laughed even louder.

What Mo Yiyi said just now was just teasing Gui Yun, but in fact, this child cannot be said to be Gui Yun's child.

This child is actually a branch of the fairy.

If a plant is cut off and inserted into the soil, that part may grow roots again and become a branch.

Such was the case with this child.

At that time, the female fairy who was Lingzhi was killed, her head was beheaded, and her head rolled to Guijun's body.

The perpetrators didn't check carefully, and they left after killing people.

But they didn't know that not long after they left, the female fairy turned into her own body, and then instinctively used the force of the ground to recover her injuries.

And Gulu's head next to Guijun also turned into a branch. With the help of the nutrition from Guijun's body, the root system was radiated, and it instinctively pierced his body to absorb nutrients, and it took shape before the main body woke up.

As for why the female fairy as the main body didn't find out that the child was her branch, but raised her as her own and Gui Yun's child, then it must be said that Gui Yun existed.

After Gui Yun's death, the soul should dissipate again, become more fragmented and continue to reincarnate.

But Lingzhi is very domineering, especially when his life is dying and his instinct wants to live, his flesh, flesh and soul are absorbed by that branch, which is why the branch can transform so quickly and The fairy used the bloodline method to test and concluded that the child was the main reason for Gui Jin's bloodline.

It can't be blamed that the magic circle doesn't work, it's because Gui Ji's whole body is in the child's body, from body to soul, it's normal for the magic circle to go wrong!
Later, when Gui Ming found out about this, he pulled Gui Ji out of the child's body. This was the real reason why the child lost his Renrui bloodline.

The blood itself does not belong to this child, Renrui is Gui Yun from beginning to end.

Gui Yun's life in the lower realm was not as comfortable as Mo Yiyi's.

Regardless of the life of Mo Yiyi's other soul fragments, let's just say that Mo Yiyi, who was found by the system after being transformed into essence, needs to eat and drink. Dibao squandered casually, and later joined a sword sect who knew who was serving the bowl and who should be well protected, and who sat very securely on his buttocks.

She was really not wronged.

On the other hand, Gui Yun, this one, there is no way to describe his tragedy!
Gui Ji sacrificed early, and after the soul flew away, the soul fragments were floating everywhere, and most of them formed a new soul together with other soul fragments.

But there is such an individual trace, who met the world with abnormal rules of heaven and earth, and then transformed into a human form again!

It's just because the essence of Guijun's soul is different from the soul of this world. Although Guijun can be reincarnated into an adult because of the different rules of the world, his essence is still different.

So others are human beings, and he is Renrui!
Yes, the legends of Renrui in that world are all Gui Yun in the final analysis.

Gui Yun keeps reincarnating, gets caught, suffers inhuman torture, and gives his life to other people!

In every life, he is a newborn, unaware of the tragic reminders of previous reincarnations, he just embarked on the road again and again with the idea in his heart of wanting to ascend to immortality!
In fact, if Gui Jue hadn't calculated Gui Ming's vitality, decisively refined the system and brought her storage ball to the lower realm to bind her, Mo Yiyi's life might have been very miserable.

The ancient immortals were aborigines of the fairy world, and they possessed real fairy souls. Even if the souls were scattered, the strands of souls were still rare and good things for the lower world.

How can such a good thing not be used more?
With the system and the storage ball, Mo Yiyi spent a lot of money to join the Jianzong, seeking the welfare of the Jianzong with a profligate attitude. She was dizzy up and down, and finally enshrined her as the gold master, the chief steward of Jianzong, an existence that needed to be protected.

But if there is no system and storage balls, then Mo Yiyi is just a spirit who can turn spiritual energy into spiritual stones.

What is the difference between a spirit without a backer and a child who has made money and made trouble?
But Gui Jue, Gui Ming and Gui Jin who were standing here didn't talk about those unhappy things. Gui Jin was a little worried about this child, and didn't know how to tell his wife about it.

It's Mo Yiyi, she said after laughing enough.

"Don't get entangled, I think, when I pulled you out of his body, your wife should have felt it." After all, without Guijun as the interference item, the connection between the mother plant and the branch plants will become very clear .

But for some unknown reason, the female fairy continued to raise this branch as her son as if she didn't feel anything.

"Oh, by the way, your daughter-in-law was taken away and her whereabouts are still unknown. If you hurry up, maybe your daughter-in-law will be killed."

Mo Yiyi finally added this sentence, with a bright look on his face watching the excitement.

It's no big deal for a person to die. The ancient immortals' control over the rules can recall their souls in minutes, and they can be revived by throwing them into the immortal pond of evolution.

So Mo Yiyi was really not in a hurry, and didn't take this matter seriously.

But Gui Yun failed. When he was in the lower realm, he would rather die for his wife, which shows the depth of the relationship between the two.

(End of this chapter)