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Chapter 576: Ghost Cultivation Method Golden Winged Tiger Breakthrough [Long Chapter, Please Subscribe]

Di Country, Valley of Resentful Souls.

The Valley of Resentful Souls is a dangerous place within the territory of the Di Kingdom where no living creatures have ever been found. Because it is a place of evil, ordinary creatures that enter it can easily be corroded by the evil energy and die.

Only some immortal cultivators in the Qi training stage would occasionally enter and try to find some useful spiritual objects.

But no one expected that at this time in the Valley of Resentful Souls, there was actually a Jindan-stage cultivator practicing in it!
Zhou Chun sat cross-legged on a broken stone tablet in the Valley of Resentful Souls, and with both hands he made some incantations, absorbing wisps of evil energy into his body and slowly refining them into yin-attributed magic power.

After an unknown amount of time had passed, he suddenly exhaled a breath of hot white air, muttering to himself, "After three months of hard training, I have finally succeeded. I hope it was not all in vain!"

As he spoke, he raised his hand and patted the storage bag on his waist, took out something and placed it in his hand.

Looking closely, the object turned out to be the ghost face token that he had obtained from the ancient city of the "Earth Dog Clan" before.

It turned out that just over four months ago, when Zhou Chun and his wife traveled to the territory of Di State, when they visited a Jindan stage cultivator from Di State, Zhou Chun, as usual, took out some Yin minerals and Yin-attributed spiritual objects as exchange items.

Unexpectedly, the Jindan stage cultivator was actually interested in these things and exchanged them with him for a Yin-attribute elixir that was a thousand-year-old treasure.

Seeing that the other party seemed to have a way to use the Yin-attributed elixir, Zhou Chun suddenly had an idea and took out the ghost face token, asking the other party to help identify it.

Finally I found the right person!
The appraisal result of the Jindan stage cultivator was not much different from Zhou Chun's own judgment. He believed that this was an object that recorded information.

In order to activate this object and read the information recorded inside, it is necessary to inject Yin attribute magic power.

Originally, the Jindan stage cultivator wanted to help Zhou Chun read the information recorded inside. He seemed to have a way to inject Yin attribute magic power into the token.

But Zhou Chun naturally couldn't agree to such a thing.

After paying the other party the appraisal fee, he left with his Taoist partner Su Yuzhen, and deliberately let Mu Mei and Mu Sang out to ride away.

The combination of two Jindan-stage cultivators and a fourth-order demon beast is so serious that even if a Jindan-stage cultivator wants to harm them, he would have to think twice before acting.

So no robbery or murder happened afterwards.

Afterwards, Zhou Chun made some inquiries and came to the Valley of Resentful Souls, where he began to practice the Yin Gui Sect's magic skills.

Of course, cultivators can practice other techniques in addition to their main one.

But under normal circumstances, almost no one would do that.

Because practicing multiple techniques is not only time-consuming and laborious, the magic power gained from the practice can easily conflict with the magic power cultivated by the main technique, thus affecting the improvement of one's own cultivation.

Not to mention the practice of both immortal and demon!
It was only after Zhou Chun’s cultivation reached the Golden Core Stage that he dared to make a slight attempt.

After all, he just needs to possess Yin attribute magic power, and does not require to raise the level of magic power to the foundation building stage or even the purple mansion stage!

After he finishes reading the information in the Ghost Mask Token, his magic power will dissipate on its own.

At that time, he could use "Pure Spirit Water" to cleanse the meridians in his body, and the influence of practicing magic skills on himself should be completely negligible.

At this moment, after more than three months of hard training, Zhou Chun's Yin-attribute magic power is roughly equivalent to that of a cultivator at the fifth level of the Qi training stage.

Compared with his Jindan stage cultivation level, this magical power is naturally insignificant.

But if he wants to advance to the foundation-building stage, it will take at least a year. Zhou Chun doesn't want to spend so much time on this at the moment.

So if it doesn't work now, he can only give up temporarily and ask other members of the clan to help him try after returning to the family.

At this time, he held the token in his hand and slowly injected the Yin attribute magic power cultivated in his body into it.

Sure enough, the Ghost Face Token, which had not responded no matter how he tried before, quickly responded after the Yin attribute magic power was injected into it.

The ghost mask on it suddenly seemed to come alive, smiled grimly at him, then opened its big mouth and sucked. Zhou Chun's consciousness was suddenly rapidly consumed and was swallowed up by the ghost mask.

Finally, when the spiritual consciousness devoured reached the level of a Purple Mansion Stage cultivator, it seemed as if the ghost mask was finally fed, and a vast amount of information also poured into Zhou Chun's mind.

Fortunately, Zhou Chun had a strong spiritual awareness, otherwise, if a Purple Mansion Stage cultivator really experienced such a thing, he would probably be seriously injured on the spot, leaving behind irreparable damage to his soul.

Even with a spiritual power as strong as his, after this incident, it would probably take him a year or two to recover the damaged spiritual power!
Fortunately, hard work pays off.

The vast amount of information that flooded into Zhou Chun's mind was proof of this.

It took Zhou Chun several hours to digest this information.

“So that’s how it is, so that’s how it is, no wonder Xuansha Zhenren’s residual soul could persist for so long without having his true spiritual consciousness wiped out!!”

After a long time, Zhou Chun opened his eyes and exclaimed with amazement in his eyes.

He had previously guessed about the information recorded in the Ghost Mask Token, and now it has been confirmed.

He was right. The information recorded in the ghost mask token was indeed related to the rumored ghost cultivation. It contained a complete set of true ghost cultivation inheritance!

In addition to the secret methods for immortal cultivators to transform into ghost cultivators, and the techniques for continuing to practice after transforming into ghost cultivators, it also records many unique ghost cultivation secrets and soul cultivation secrets.

Even the methods of how to refine ghost magic tools, treasures and elixirs.

Among them is a soul secret technique called "The Art of Immortality of the True Spirit", the effect of which is to strengthen the true spirit consciousness of the ghost cultivator and prevent the loss of true self consciousness due to the long years and the erosion of evil spirits.

Because of the special nature of the Nascent Soul, cultivators in the Nascent Soul stage can also practice this technique to strengthen their true self-consciousness, increase their resistance to seductive powers, and prevent themselves from being searched by others.

It is very likely that Master Xuansha practiced this secret art of the soul during his lifetime, which is why his true spirit remained immortal after his death and has persisted until now.

Of course, it is more likely that he was preparing to switch to ghost cultivation after his death, but was not completely successful, and only gained some of the characteristics of a ghost cultivator.

The specific situation is now unknown.

All in all, for Zhou Chun, the biggest gain now is that he has obtained the method of transforming into a ghost cultivator, as well as the method of practicing ghost cultivators.

In this way, both he and the high-level cultivators of the Zhou family in the future will have an extra choice before their lifespan runs out.

Especially for Zhou Daoquan, who is about to die, he can use these things immediately.

In view of this, after Zhou Chun briefly studied and comprehended the techniques of ghost cultivation, he quickly left the Valley of Resentful Souls and reunited with his Taoist partner Su Yuzhen who was waiting for him in a market.

This time, Zhou Chun did not hide the matter of obtaining the ghost cultivation method from Su Yuzhen, because it was not a secret that could not be told.

Moreover, the ancestor of the Su family is already very old, with less than 200 years left to live. He might even embark on the path of ghost cultivation in the future.

Doing a favor at this time will benefit both families.

After all, although the ghost cultivator cannot leave the Yinsha land, he is also a high-end combat force. At critical moments, he can still protect some of the clan members and descendants who are still alive, so that they will not be left with no way to retreat!

Su Yuzhen is also a sensible woman, not to mention that two years have passed since the two of them left Tianyuan Fairy City to continue their journey.

After she learned about the ghost cultivation technique, she understood and agreed to return to Jingguo.

Not long after, Zhou Chun returned to Tuyunling and immediately informed Zhou Daoquan of the ghost cultivation technique he had obtained.

"Uncle, if you want to take the path of ghost cultivation, I have all the spiritual objects you need. With your cultivation level, although the success rate will not exceed 30%, if you succeed, you will have a long lifespan comparable to that of a Yuanying cultivator. In the future, you can see with your own eyes how my Zhou family will move to a higher level and become a Yuanying family!"

In the courtyard, Zhou Chun looked at the family elder in front of him, whose hair was gray and whose face was full of wrinkles, and tried to persuade him with advice.

Naturally, he wanted Zhou Daoquan to embark on the path of ghost cultivation from the bottom of his heart.

For various reasons, Zhou Daoquan was unable to make a breakthrough to the Golden Core Stage at the appropriate age like Zhou Daoyi.

Zhou Chun has always felt guilty about this.

After all, this elder had taken care of him many times and even saved his life when he was weak.

Now that he has a chance to make the other party's true spirit immortal, embark on the path of ghost cultivation, and continue to live in the world, he will of course work hard to make this happen.

"Zhengchun, how could I not know your good intentions? But I have also heard that the way of ghost cultivation is not tolerated by heaven and earth. Once you turn to the way of ghost cultivation, it will be difficult for you to enter the cycle of reincarnation in this life..."

Zhou Daoquan looked at Zhou Chun with a frown, expressing his inner concerns.

Hearing his concerns, Zhou Chun felt both angry and amused.

I can only sigh that the older people get, the more they change, and the more likely they are to become indecisive and lose their judgment.

He immediately advised with a serious face: "Uncle, you are obsessed! Not to mention that the theory of reincarnation is illusory and it is unknown whether it is true or not, even if there is reincarnation, can you still be yourself after reincarnation?"

"If there is no connection with the previous life after reincarnation, then what is the point for you?"

As a person who has traveled through time and space and been reborn, Zhou Chun does not dare to completely deny the theory of reincarnation.

But he also believed that even if reincarnation really existed, it would have no practical significance if one could not retain all the memories of the previous life like him.

If he were to choose, he would definitely choose the path of ghost cultivation that could allow him to survive for thousands or tens of thousands of years, instead of thinking about reincarnation!
Seeing that Zhou Daoquan was about to be persuaded, he added another reason and said, "Besides, if you become a ghost cultivator, wouldn't you have plenty of time to study the two skills of taming beasts and repelling insects in the future? If you can research and breed a few benign hybrid monsters like the Red Flame King Kong Monkey, the improvement in the overall strength and foundation of the family will be no less than if you succeed in forming a real pill!"

With this reason to continue contributing to the family, rather than just to survive for thousands more years, Zhou Daoquan seemed to have finally found a reason to convince himself.

His brows relaxed and he nodded, "Well, since you said so, I'll risk my life and give it a try!"

"Great! You should first carefully comprehend this secret technique of transformation. I will go and arrange a place for you to transform and related spiritual objects!"

Zhou Chun felt relieved and immediately handed the secret technique of transforming into a ghost cultivator to Zhou Daoquan, then hurriedly arranged for people to prepare the relevant things.

It is not easy to transform into a ghost cultivator, especially since Zhou Daoquan himself is only in the late Purple Mansion stage, so the success rate can be said to be very low.

Zhou Chun must prepare the best training ground and spiritual objects for him in order to increase his success rate.

Fortunately, Zhou Chun had harvested a large number of Yin-attributed spiritual medicines and spiritual minerals in the underground ancient city before, so he had abundant reserves of important materials and did not need to worry at all.

All that remains is to prepare some other auxiliary materials.

According to the ghost cultivation inheritance records in the ghost face token, immortal cultivators at different levels of cultivation need to prepare spiritual materials of different grades to assist them in transforming into ghost cultivators.

Otherwise, even if one successfully transforms into a ghost cultivator, one's cultivation level may fall back.

Therefore, if a cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage switches to ghost cultivation, although the success rate is higher, the requirements for related materials are also higher.

And the most important point is the size of the Yinsha land.

The size of the Yinsha land has a huge impact on the success rate of converting to ghost cultivation and the future practice of ghost cultivation.

If a cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage wants to transform into a ghost cultivator, he must at least choose a large evil place like the ancient city of the "Earth Dog Clan". Ordinary evil places cannot meet their needs at all.

Zhou Daoquan's cultivation level is only at the Purple Mansion Stage. After he switches to become a ghost cultivator, he will maintain his cultivation level at the Purple Mansion Stage.

In this way, even the evil place like the Valley of Wrathful Souls, where Zhou Chun had stayed before in Di Country, would be enough to support his transformation. Of course, if he could find an evil place of a higher level, that would be even better. In this way, he might have a chance to try to impact the Jindan stage ghost cultivation realm in the future!

The Zhou family currently knows of quite a few evil places, but most of them are located within the territory of Feng State. They are the scars left by the former Corpse Demon Cult and the Yuan Demon Legion.

It is naturally impossible for Zhou Daoquan to go to such a place to practice ghost cultivation. Otherwise, if he is discovered one day, he will easily be killed by others to defend the way of the devil!

As for the evil place in Jingguo, the place where the Zhou family raises the green-faced ghost ape can be barely used, but choosing there means that Zhou Daoquan will basically have no way to advance in the future, and the place is so small that it makes him feel like being in prison.

After much deliberation, Zhou Daoquan finally chose the evil place in the wilderness, which was the original location of the Blood Dragon branch of the Hualong Sect.

There are almost no high-level cultivators in the wilderness, and monsters don't like to move around in the evil land. Zhou Daoquan chooses to practice in seclusion there, so he doesn't have to worry about being disturbed.

The only inconvenience is that I am too far away from my family, so it will be quite troublesome if I want to meet with my family members in the future.

However, considering that his transformation into a ghost cultivator will be kept as a family secret, there is no need to pay too much attention to it.

Time passed slowly, and half a year passed in the blink of an eye.

On this day, at the ruins of the Blood Dragon Branch Mountain Gate, Zhou Daoquan was sitting cross-legged on a uniquely shaped square altar, with three second-tier top-grade monsters, a pig, a python, and a wolf, tied up in front of him.

To transform into a ghost cultivator, one needs to offer blood sacrifices to the Lord of the Underworld, thereby drawing in a stream of ghost energy from the underworld to cleanse the soul.

At this time, when the moon was at its zenith and midnight had arrived, Zhou Daoquan adjusted his condition. He immediately took a bone blade and stabbed it into his chest, piercing his heart. Then he used the blade as a pen and carved mysterious runes on his body.

Wherever the blade passed, strands of blood flowed out from the wound. The strange thing was that the blood did not flow directly down the wound, but strangely only condensed into bloodstains and remained on Zhou Daoquan's body.

Not long after, Zhou Daoquan's entire body was engraved with ghost patterns of the underworld, and ghost face patterns faintly formed on his chest and back.

Although he was extremely weak at this time, he still gathered his strength and activated his magic weapon to behead the three sacrificial monsters, causing their blood to flow all over the altar beneath him.

Then a desolate and low incantation sounded from Zhou Daoquan's mouth.

The low incantation seemed to awaken a certain consciousness in the dark, and soon a gust of cold wind emitting a "humming" sound appeared above the altar.

Then a strange scene occurred.

After the cold wind blew over the altar, the blood on the altar and on the bodies of the three monsters all began to dry up and solidify rapidly. Even the bodies of the three monsters shriveled up visibly, as if all their energy had been drained away.

Afterwards, as if thinking the sacrifice was quite tasty, the cold wind suddenly transformed into a black vortex above the altar.

As the vortex spun, a deep black ghost energy that was invisible to the naked eye emerged from it and went straight into Zhou Daoquan's purple palace sea of ​​consciousness.

After feeling this ghostly aura from the underworld, Zhou Daoquan's heart trembled, and he hurriedly used his mind and soul to circulate ghost cultivation techniques to absorb it into his soul.

As his soul absorbed the ghost energy from the underworld, the ghost patterns on his body seemed to be activated all at once. His whole body was instantly ignited by blood-red flames, and the essence of his body was rapidly consumed in the burning of the blood-red flames.

At the same time, the evil aura around seemed to be attracted by something and began to rush towards Zhou Daoquan like a moth to a flame.

Time passes slowly.

After an unknown amount of time, Zhou Daoquan's body had been burned to ashes in the blood flames, and the blood flames had long since been extinguished.

There was only a faint human-shaped shadow sitting cross-legged on the altar, constantly absorbing the evil energy.

At this time, Zhou Chun suddenly appeared outside the altar, and then waved his hand and threw out a black jade bottle, which fell on the head of the human-shaped shadow.

Then a stream of dark liquid dripped out from the jade bottle and fell onto the human-shaped shadow.

All of a sudden, as if it had taken something very nutritious, the originally faint human-shaped shadow began to become visibly solid.

When all the black liquid in the jade bottle had dripped out, the outline of the human-shaped shadow could be clearly seen. It looked exactly like Zhou Daoquan, and he was in his middle age.

Judging from the appearance, his transformation into a ghost cultivator this time was obviously successful!

"How is it? How do you feel, uncle?"

Zhou Chun looked at the slightly illusory figure in front of him, and asked Zhou Daoquan curiously about his own feelings.

He had only seen records of ghost cultivators in ancient books. What exactly was the difference between ghost cultivators and normal cultivators or even demon cultivators? Only the people involved knew clearly.

"It feels okay. Except for not having the physical sense, it's not much different from using spiritual sense to perceive the outside world."

Zhou Daoquan replied in a low voice.

Since he has no physical body, he can only simulate speaking by vibrating the air with his spiritual consciousness or magic power, or by transmitting sound through his spiritual consciousness.

After answering Zhou Chun's question, he looked at Zhou Chun with gratitude and said, "It's all thanks to your bottle of pure Yin spirit liquid, otherwise, relying on that ghost energy of the underworld and the Yin evil energy here alone, I probably wouldn't be able to successfully switch to cultivation. It seems that switching from a Purple Mansion stage cultivator to a ghost cultivator is really too risky!"

The bottle of pure Yin spiritual liquid in his mouth was made by Zhou Chun himself. It was refined by consuming five thousand-year-old precious Yin spiritual medicines.

This kind of treatment is difficult for many Jindan stage cultivators to enjoy when they turn to ghost cultivation.

After all, although Yin-attributed spiritual medicines are not very useful to immortal cultivators, finding spiritual medicines of such high age is a matter of chance.

However, Zhou Chun had no reason to be reluctant about this. He waved his hand and smiled nonchalantly, saying, "Uncle, you are too polite. As long as you can successfully switch to cultivation, a bottle of pure Yin spirit liquid will not matter to you."

"Since you have successfully switched to cultivation, I will not disturb you from consolidating your cultivation. If you want to contact me and the Grand Elder in the future, you can directly send a message to Elder Lin."

"After you have consolidated your cultivation, I will come to visit you again!"

After saying that, he took the initiative to say goodbye and left.

After all, humans and ghosts have different paths. In a sense, ghost cultivators can be regarded as ghosts. The evil places where they live are really not suitable places for normal cultivators to stay.

Moreover, Zhou Daoquan had just successfully changed his cultivation, and his cultivation was only equivalent to that of an early Purple Mansion cultivator. He did not even know any ghost cultivation spells. Now was the time to seize the time to consolidate his cultivation and practice spells diligently!

As for his safety here alone, Zhou Chun was not worried.

Ghost cultivators may have many flaws, but their ability to preserve their lives in their own territory is famously strong.

Because they have no physical body, they can hide in ghost caves deep underground when they encounter danger.

Unless you have special means to restrain ghost cultivators, or the power to destroy this evil land, it would be extremely difficult to kill a ghost cultivator here.

It can be said that good things come in pairs. Not long after Zhou Chun returned to his family, he ate the third-grade superior wind-attribute demon pill that he exchanged for at the Canglan Sect exchange meeting. A few years later, the golden-winged tiger finally completely digested the power of the entire demon pill and broke through to the third-grade superior level.

It is not like Lei Jiao Baibai and Golden Armor Mountain Turtle Shitou, whose blood is gifted and can go straight to the fourth level without any bottleneck.

After reaching the third-level upper grade, the Golden Winged Tiger’s road to advancement reached a level. If it wants to break through and evolve into a fourth-level monster, it will need another great opportunity.

However, Zhou Chun currently does not have time to help it find this opportunity, as there are so many things to do, and they are all important.

So for the time being, we can only let it practice slowly to accumulate strength and wait for the opportunity to come.

After solving the problem of Zhou Daoquan's transformation into a ghost cultivator, Zhou Chun felt relieved.

He immediately calmed down, and while training his apprentice, he also practiced several newly acquired secret techniques and magical powers.

Among them, Zhou Chun had already gathered all the auxiliary spiritual objects needed for the first level of "Small Five Elements Breaking the Prohibition of Mysterious Light" during his previous travels, and he even gathered three of the auxiliary spiritual objects needed for the second level.

At this time, while he was practicing the first level of the secret technique, he asked the monks in his family to help keep an eye out for the remaining two spiritual objects.

As for the gold evil energy needed to practice the "Evil Yuan Diamond", Zhou Chun went directly to the place where he had collected the "Mother Earth's Mysterious Gold" and collected a large amount of it. It was enough for him to slowly refine it for decades.

The five main secret arts and magical powers that Zhou Chun is practicing now are "The God-Slaying Technique", [Genjin Sky-Splitting Thunder], "The Beast Spirit Fusion Technique", "The Small Five Elements Breaking the Prohibition of Mysterious Light", and "The Evil Yuan Drill".

As for the "Golden Escape Technique" that he had been studying, since he had not yet mastered it, there was no way he could practice it.

Once a cultivator concentrates on his cultivation, he will not feel the passage of time.

When Zhou Chun reappeared in the sight of the general public, it was seven years after Zhou Daoquan switched to ghost cultivation.

Seven years ago, after Zhou Daoquan turned to ghost cultivation, the Zhou family held a grand funeral for him and built a cenotaph for him in the family tomb.

Today, seven years later, Zhou Chun reappeared in public to preside over another funeral, the funeral of Zhou family's acting patriarch Zhou Xinyi!

Over the past hundred years, Zhou Chun has been devoted to cultivation, and family affairs have been managed by Zhou Xinyi. He has devoted his entire life to the family and made great contributions.

It’s a pity that because he is only at the Foundation Establishment stage, even his soul has not yet manifested and condensed, it is impossible for him to follow the path of ghost cultivation.

Now that he has passed away due to old age, the clan leader Zhou Chun made an exception and attended and presided over his funeral to commend his contributions to the family.

"Xinyi has worked diligently and tirelessly for the family throughout his life. The family's current status and power are inseparable from his contributions. You, the younger generations, should take him as an example and always remember his contributions to the family!"

At the funeral, Zhou Chun, with a solemn expression, gave the final verdict on Zhou Xinyi's life achievements in front of all the clan members, and fully affirmed his contributions to the family.

After the funeral, Zhou Xinyan, who replaced Zhou Xinyi, was called into the cave by Zhou Chun for a talk.

As the elder of the family, Zhou Xinyan took the initiative to request to take over Zhou Xinyi's position.

For this purpose, he even followed Zhou Xinyi for several years in advance to learn how to handle clan affairs.

This is obviously a scheming younger generation who has seen the power and convenience of the position of acting clan leader and wants to use it as a stepping stone for his own advancement.

Zhou Chun didn't really object to this.

After all, the world is bustling with people, all seeking profit.

It is unrealistic to expect clan members to work for the family without caring about gains and losses.

Zhou Xinyan wants to serve as the acting clan leader, that's fine, provided he has the ability and does not let Zhou Chun find out that he is using his power to encroach on the family's interests!
If he can do these two things, Zhou Chun doesn't mind taking better care of his cultivation in the future. Otherwise, don't blame him for being ruthless.

After calling this junior into the cave, Zhou Chun stared at him with a dignified look and said, "Xinyan, you are willing to take on this responsibility. This is great. The family has reached this point now. Indeed, the foundation-building stage is not enough to be the face of the family!"

"But this responsibility is of great importance. It can be said that the livelihoods of the eight hundred monks of the entire clan are in your hands, and the number of monks indirectly affected is as many as several thousand. The slightest mistake may lead to serious consequences. Are you clear about this?"

As soon as the words fell, Zhou Xinyan responded respectfully in a deep voice: "Junior understands, I will conscientiously do my own duties, and will not let you down!"

Hearing his answer, Zhou Chun immediately looked at him deeply, nodded and said: "Since you understand, then I will not say anything more. I will let you act as an agent for three years as a probation period. If you do well in three years, you will officially take up this position. Otherwise, you should honestly go out and look for opportunities!"

"Yes, thank you for giving me this opportunity, I will definitely not let you down!"

Zhou Xinyan was delighted and immediately bowed deeply to the ground, leaving Zhou Chun's cave residence contentedly.

After all, Zhou Chun did not dare to be careless about such a matter. In the next one or two years, he paid more attention to family affairs and secretly observed Zhou Xinyan's every move to determine whether this person could be used.

Originally, I should have been able to finish 8,000 words by twelve o'clock, but after thinking about it, I decided not to force it. It would be the same if I added a few hundred words tomorrow!
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