Shenzhou Medicine Master

Chapter 279 The mother-in-law sees her son-in-law, the more she sees the more joy?

At this moment, there are already many spectators around.

"It's Xu Jianzi, he actually leapfrogged to kill a Wu Zong!"

"Do you think this is the first time he has killed people by leapfrogging?"

"The victim was Gambo, a direct descendant of the Gan Clan. Xu Jianzi may have trouble killing Gambo."

"What's the trouble? Although the Gan Clan is a first-class powerful vassal, Jianmen is a superpower, and Gan Bu is only a direct descendant, not a young lord of the Gan Clan."

When the female cultivator heard Xu Erlang's identity, her expression became even more panicked. Zhenji's true nature was fully exposed. She showed a pitiful expression, twisted her body skillfully, and said in a mournful and pleasant voice:
"Senior, how sad is it that we have fallen into prostitution and used laughter as our way? This matter has nothing to do with me, but I lost my life under the sword of senior..."

"I won't kill you, get out!" Xu Erlang said in disgust.

"Yes, thank you senior..." The female cultivator saluted in a panic, turned around and ran away.

Xu Erlang said: "The main messenger behind this matter, I will not give up with him!"

After finishing speaking, he swaggered and left with his sword.

Xu Erlang beheaded the male cultivator with Wu Zong's cultivation level in the street, and was seen by many people, and immediately spread throughout the city.

Soon it spread in Budao Shrine.

Xu Erlang is a swordsman of Jianmen, but after all, he is only the perfect cultivation of Wu Zun, but he can kill a Wu Zong early stage with a single sword.Although it is also because Wu Zong underestimated the enemy and was careless, it is enough to show that Xu Erlang is terrible.

Whether it is the identity of the victim or the incident itself, it is enough to arouse some discussion.

.........

"Brother Yao, Xu Erlang killed people in the street just for the sake of Fairy Luo's reputation, what a joyful enmity." Yu Yan said with a smile.

Ginger medicine is also a little emotional.

He also never thought that Xu Erlang was so loyal to Fairy Luo.

"Using Zhenji to pass off the name of Luoer, this matter must have something to do with Qin Yu." Yu Yan sneered, "After Luoer became Danzi, he left the medicine palace and disappeared without a trace. Qin Yu looked for it everywhere. She has no news either."

"So, he used this despicable method to provoke Luo Er to come out."

"I only found out about this today. I have never paid attention to the news of Zhenji Tower."

"Don't worry about Xu Erlang. He killed the son of the Gan Clan, and he has the great sage Gaili to support him. Nothing happened. But, he'd better not trouble Qin Yu, he can't afford Qin Yu."

Jiang Yao said: "Even if it is Qin Yu, there is no evidence to prove that it is related to him. Luo Er will return to the medicine palace soon, and I will naturally remind her when the time comes, you don't have to worry about it."

Yu Yan nodded: "Then I don't care about this matter. We will go back to Yu Clan tomorrow. Someone has been wanting to see you."

Jiang Yao asked knowingly, "Who?"

Yu Lan's big eyes narrowed slightly, "Pan Ruixu!"

Pan Ruixu?
Who is it?

Jiang Yao thought it was her mother, but unexpectedly it was a person named Pan Ruixu.

Yu Yan laughed and said, "Pan Ruixu is my mother."

Jiang Yao couldn't help being stunned.

Call your own mother by her first name?
This…

Jiang Yao suddenly remembered that since she met Yu Lan, Yu Lan had mentioned his elder brother many times, and sometimes her father, but never mentioned her mother.

Moreover, Yu Xuan and Yu Shu hardly mentioned their mother.

Yu Yan said: "Although Pan Ruixu has long wanted to see you, she doesn't like you. On the contrary, she hates you very much. She thinks that you are not good enough for me. She thinks that only his natal nephew, Pan Ruixu, is good enough for me. Kang."

"Since I was a child, she has been in charge of my marriage and wanted to marry me to Pankang. If my father hadn't objected, I would have been sent to the witch clan when I was a child. When I grow up, she can no longer be my master." .”

"She stubbornly believes that if I marry Pankang, I will have great luck in the sky, and both of us can achieve the supreme road. The human race and the witch race can also merge into one, and everyone will be happy."

Jiang Yao couldn't help asking: "You also have half the blood of the Wu clan? Same as Li Xi?"

Yu Yan shook his head, "No. Li Xi's mother is a pure witch, she has half of the blood of the witch clan. And my mother, Pan Ruixu, is just the adopted daughter of the witch clan Pan."

"She was originally from Shenzhou, but her family was slaughtered when she was born, and she was taken to the witch clan by her retainers. The master of the Pan clan found her excellent qualifications, so he adopted her as his adopted daughter, and treated her as his own daughter. Therefore, she has no witch clan blood at all."

"However, she was raised by the Pan family, and has always been pampered by the Pan family. It is also the Pan family who gave her everything. Therefore, she completely regards herself as a witch, and does not care about Shenzhou. Her real surname is never mentioned. "

"Back then, the reason why she married the Yu Clan was related to the suppression of the Tianping God Sect. In order to borrow troops from the Wu Clan, Shenzhou took the initiative to marry the Wu Clan. She and Li Xi's mother married with the Wu Clan at that time. To the middle domain."

"At that time, there were also women from the Central Territory who were married to the Wu Clan. For example, the daughters of Xuan Clan and Zhen Clan were married to the Wu Clan. After the marriage between the two parties, the Witch Clan agreed to send an army to help suppress the Tianping God Sect. That is also the relationship between the two clans. Times of improvement."

Yu Yan talked about his mother as if he was talking about an outsider.

"However, she is different from Canjie, Li Xi's mother. Canjie is the princess of the Black Clan, a real noblewoman of the Wu clan. And she is an adopted daughter after all, so the Yu Clan cannot attract the Wu Clan as a favor like the Li Clan. foreign aid."

Jiang Yao sighed: "I understand, you have a bad relationship with your mother. But she is your mother after all..."

"Hehe, Mother." Yu Yan shook his head, "If you knew that she tried to secretly take me out of Shenzhou and sent to the Wu Clan several times when I was a child, you wouldn't think so."

"She has always wanted to make a great contribution to her natal family, and she has always worried that she will not be recognized by her natal family. All these years, what she has always wanted to do is to promote Yu Pan's marriage."

"You see, in her eyes, I am a rare treasure, a treasure for her to curry favor with her natal family. Compared with my feelings, compared with the interests of Boss Yu, her natal family is the most important."

Jiang Yao knows that this kind of psychology is a typical convert effect.To put it bluntly, it calls the converts fanatic.

Pan Ruixu is a human race in Shenzhou, and she has strong converts to the Wu clan who accepted and raised her.In order to sacrifice this kind of piety, she will deliberately be loyal to the Wu Clan and protect the interests of the Wu Clan even more than the native Wu Clan.

Once this kind of conversion mentality is established, it is difficult to change it.Therefore, even though she has been married to the Yu clan for more than 2000 years, she still subconsciously puts the interests of the Wu clan Pan clan first.

This is a woman who is clearly a human race, but "in the human race but with a witch in her heart".

No wonder when Yu Yuan mentioned her, he called her by her first name.

Yu Yan didn't hide anything from Jiang Yao, and continued: "She is a human race, but she hates the human race. Because her parents were killed by the human race, and it was the human race that ruined her family. But the question is, how can this be blamed on the entire human race?" ?”

Jiang Yao also felt that there was something wrong with Pan Ruixu's psychology.

It's like a countryman who was killed by another countryman, and then hates all people in the country and becomes a country-hating party.

Makes no sense.

"She has been married to the Yu Clan for so many years, her natal family's Pan family is still the most important thing in her heart, but she never thought that she is actually a human race. She treats my eldest brother better than his natal family's nephew Pankang."

Jiang Yao said: "This is a typical fanatic reaction of converts, not surprising."

"Converters are fanatical?" Yu Yan had never heard this sentence, but she was very smart and understood it immediately.

"Yes, your explanation is perfect. It is the fanaticism of converts. In other words, if she is a witch, she will not be like this. It is precisely because she is a human that she is so fanatical about the witch."

Jiang Yao nodded and said, "That's right. Li Xi's mother is a real witch, so is she different?"

Yu Yan clapped her little hands, "That's right! Li Xi's mother, Can Jie, puts the interests of her husband's family first, and her mother's family is not that important. Besides, Can Jie has long regarded herself as a human race, and rarely claims to be a witch. family."

Jiang Yao said with a smile: "Canjie also has the mentality of a convert, but she converts to the human race. Because she is a witch race, she wants to weaken the traces of the witch race and strengthen the traces of the human race."

"Your mother is originally a human race, so instead she will reject the human race and continue to strengthen the traces of the witch race."

Yu Lan asked: "Then, can her mentality be changed?"

Jiang Yao said: "It's difficult. Unless she is completely disappointed with the Wu Clan and the Pan family, or the strength of the Human Clan refreshes her cognition. But now that the Human Clan is weak and the Witch Clan is aggressive, how can she re-establish her identification with the Human Clan? "

"That's her business." Yu Yan sneered, "Since she has always regarded herself as a witch, then let her go, whatever she likes. As long as she doesn't think of me anymore."

Jiang Yao was a little puzzled, "Since the relationship between your mother and child is not good, why did you let me see her?"

Yu Yan sneered: "Because she really wants to see how far you are from her nephew Pankang. Also, if you don't go to see him, she will take the initiative to find you, which may be bad for you. So , just take the initiative to see her, and dispel some of her thoughts."

"Brother Yao, don't worry, although she is the mistress of the Yu Clan and has a high status, she has long since had no right to interfere in my private affairs. To put it bluntly, she was only confessed in the Yu Clan. My father, our brother and sister The three of them are all respectful and far away from her."

"Because of what she has done in recent years, she has lost her power in the Yu Clan and has no status. The retainers will no longer listen to her, and they are already alone."

Jiang Yao showed a wry smile.Didn't it mean that when the mother-in-law looks at her son-in-law, the more she looks at her, the happier she becomes?

I am just the opposite.

Yu Lan suddenly asked with a strange look: "Uh, do you know Pankang?"

"Pankang? I don't know him. Is your cousin famous?" Jiang Yao didn't know the existence of this person.

Yu Yan made a "cut" and pulled his braids, "He has no blood relationship with me at all, what kind of cousin? It's just a name. This person is also a congenital Daoist! He is the number one young master of the Wu Clan! "

What?Is it also an innate dao blank?

Jiang Yao was taken aback when he heard the words, "Didn't you say that you are the only one in the world? You still don't meet in tens of thousands of years? Why is there another Wu Clan?"

Yu Yan coughed in embarrassment, and patted his small chest, "I mentioned the scope of Shenzhou, not the whole real world. Did I say the whole real world?"

Jiang Yao thought for a while, "You didn't talk about the real world, but the world."

Yu Yuan nodded, "That's right, anyway, I didn't talk about the whole real world."

"Okay." Jiang Yao didn't continue to entangle with her, "Your nominal cousin Pankang is also an innate daoist, and you are also an innate daoist, so your mother wants to get closer, so she thinks that only Pankang can match her." I deserve you."

Yu Yan laughed and said, "The problem is, I am me, why should I listen to her and marry Pankang? She used to praise Pankang in front of me, as if Pankang was the number one young man in the real world."

"Even if Pankang is really that powerful, so what? Who did I, Yu Yu, conquer? Why did I marry him? My own affairs are my own decisions, and the heavenly king and I have no control over them."

Jiang Yao laughed, "What is Pankang's cultivation level now?"

Yu Yan said: "According to what Pan Ruixu said before, Pankang is over 40 years old this year, and he is already a witch fairy. And his real combat power is equivalent to that of an ordinary martial saint."

Jiang Yao's heart shuddered, Wu Xian in her 40s!
The combat power is equivalent to that of ordinary martial arts saints!
Horrible!

If you deal with yourself, it will definitely be an instant kill.

Xuan Song is now in his 40s, probably about the same as that of Pankang, but Xuan Song is in the middle stage of the Martial God, and he is a big difference from Pankang!

Xuan Song is still the number one young master in Shenzhou.

This shows how powerful Pankang is.

Of course Yu Lan was no worse than him.But Yu Yu suffered a disadvantage in his age, and he has grown backward for 20 years, and the gap with Pankang is even greater.

Yu Yan said: "I don't know what this person is like, and I don't want to see him. He hasn't seen me either."

Jiang Yao laughed, "Maybe you changed your mind after seeing him."

Yu Yan sneered: "No matter how good he is, it doesn't matter to me. In my heart, he can't compare with you."

When the little girl said this, she suddenly showed a stern look, as if she had thought of something very unpleasant.

"Brother Yao, you always go to the Yu clan, not to meet her specially. Don't talk about you, I don't want to see you either. Although she is my mother, she once wanted me to cook raw rice with Pankang. Her conspiracy was discovered in advance."

"The name of mother and daughter is still there, but the relationship between mother and daughter is gone. The main reason for letting you see her is to dispel her curiosity, lest she take the initiative to find you."

"She is at the fifth level of a witch saint, equivalent to the fifth level of a martial saint, and she is very powerful."

Jiang Yao's heart skipped a beat, and she said with a little fear, "Why didn't she look for me when I was in the Western Regions?"

Yu Yan laughed and said, "Because she was in Wuyu at that time. She had stayed in Wuyu for more than ten years and only came back not long ago. She only recently found out about your relationship with me."

"I didn't tell you about this before. It's because I don't want to mention her. It's not that I deliberately concealed it."

"She came back this time, and her attitude seemed to be better. After learning about your relationship with me, she didn't get angry."

Jiang Yao said: "Then, she probably encountered something in the Wu Clan."

.........

The next day, Yu Yuan and Jiang Yao took the teleportation array to the square outside the Yu Clan's city, Shenhua Tiancheng.

Jiang Yao couldn't help feeling a little apprehensive, and finally came to Yu Clan.

Shenhua Tiancheng is the same as Mu Clan's Juncheng. It is also built on the top of a giant mountain surrounded by clouds and mist.

The city defense here is the same as the Mu Clan, extremely strong and solid.Even an army of one million can only look at the city and sigh.

"The young master returns to the palace!"

As soon as Yu Lan's figure appeared, it immediately caused a huge wave of noise.

A group of figures appeared like escaping light, surrounded by Yu Yu, Jiang Yao and the group into the city.

Blossoming colorful clouds form a rainbow bridge, which is too beautiful to behold.

The celestial music that came from nowhere also resounded leisurely, like the sounds of nature.

As soon as he entered the city, a flying deer cloud chariot came on the clouds and stopped in front of Yu Yuan.

Holding Jiang Yao's hand, Yu Yuan boarded the Flying Deer Cloud Chariot, surrounded by stars holding the moon, and looked towards Yu Palace.

Hundreds of miles later, the cloud chariot came under the palace city, opened the formation and entered the palace city, and came to the majestic, majestic and inviolable Yu Palace.

Among the high and low palaces, the flying pavilion is steep, the clouds are floating, the auspicious atmosphere is dense, the sky is melodious, and the falling flowers are colorful, the youth is flying, full of fragrance, it is really like a fairy palace.

The aura here is extremely rich, turning into spiritual rain and mist from time to time, making people extremely comfortable.

The palace is full of maids and family officials, as well as powerful bodyguards.

When they saw Yu Yuan, they all stopped and saluted at the side of the palace path with respectful expressions, and they called him "Young Master" or "Lady Lady".

The new face of ginger medicine has attracted everyone's attention.They immediately guessed Jiang Yao's identity.

However, no one dared to discuss it.

Under the surrounding huge palaces, Yu Lan's small body did not look small, but instead carried a powerful aura.

"Zhongda." A man and a woman greeted him from a palace, it was Yu Xuan and Yu Shu.

"Brother, sister." Jiang Yao clasped her fists and saluted.

Yu Xuan said: "What a coincidence, my father went to Zhen Clan."

"It's okay." Jiang Yao wished that Yu Canglang would not be around, "Anyway, my lord has seen me before."

Yu Shu reminded: "Let's go to my little sister's Starry Sky Palace first, and we will hold a banquet in the Starry Sky Palace today, so don't disturb her."

"Don't disturb her?" Yu Xuan smiled wryly, "As soon as Zhongda enters the palace, she must know."

Yu Yuan shook his head: "Leave her alone, let's go to the Starry Sky Palace to have a drink and talk."

Everyone came to the magnificent starry sky platform and entered the magnificent starry sky hall. Yu Yan ordered a banquet to be set up to entertain Jiang Yao.

There were only four people attending the banquet, and none of the others were called.

"Brother Yao, this is the most famous roasted mutton in Yudong area. It uses the top-grade purple blood sheep from the Shenshu Plateau. It is not only delicious, but also very beneficial to the blood of the body."

The little girl cut a piece of roast lamb with her own hands, handed Jiang Yao, and poured him wine.

"This is the best wine for half a lifetime, and it's one of the top spirit wines, and it's hard to buy."

Yu Shu smiled and said, "Zhongda, this half-life time has been brewed by the only wine sage in the Yu Clan. It's very rare. Even we don't drink much."

The wine brewed by Jiu Sheng.

Jiang Yao looked at the dreamlike liquor in the cup and was amazed.

In the real world, besides the Five Great Ways, there are also some trails.Such as wine ceremony, tea ceremony, kitchen ceremony, flower ceremony, weaving ceremony, music ceremony and so on.However, these ways are really only auxiliary ways, and cannot be compared with the five great ways, because it is difficult to convert them into force.

Even if they cultivated to the holy level, they only provided the best wine, the best spiritual food, the best real clothes, and the best music.

However, those who have cultivated to the holy level in Xiaodao are even rarer.Because there are too few people who are willing to practice.

This also makes the top gourmet costumes very rare.

Take ginger medicine as an example.He is already rich.But the real clothes he wore were only level five.Because real clothes are out of stock when they reach level six, it is basically difficult to buy them.At the seventh level, there is even more price but no market.

The same is true for spirit wine.

Even though Jiang Yao was rich, he also couldn't drink the seventh-level spirit wine.

In fact, it's like a special commodity on earth.

Jiang Yao took a sip of his life time, and suddenly, he felt that all the troubles were not worth mentioning. All the beauties of life, all kinds of tastes, joys and sorrows, joys and sorrows, were all contained in this cup.

The mood of the whole person seems to have improved.Even the soul is extremely comfortable.

"Good wine, really good wine." Jiang Yao couldn't help stopping his glass to admire.

He ate the mutton given by Yu Yuan again, and was amazed again.

Only then did he realize that the reason why Yu Lan liked to eat the braised fish he made was not because of its delicious taste, but because of the kind of human fireworks that she rarely tasted.

In terms of deliciousness, how can it compare to these top-level spiritual food and spirit wine?

"Brother Yao, if you go home this time, if nothing else, I will let you eat and drink well. After you finish eating, I will take you to the Immortal Weaving Hall in the palace and pick out a batch of the best top-quality real clothes for you." .” Yu Yuan smiled, looking very happy.

Yu Shu couldn't help smiling when she saw that her younger sister was so kind to Jiang Yao.

"Hehe." Yu Xuan smiled strangely, making people confused.

If his good friend comes to Yu Clan, his hospitality must be "eating, drinking, and having fun", the so-called three good things.

Because, as a super powerful vassal, the Yu Clan not only has top-notch wine and food, but also has a large number of beauties.

Many of these beauties are used to "receive guests".

It's a pity that Zhongda can't enjoy it.

He can only eat well, drink well, and at most dress well, but he can't play well, haha.

Yu Lan Bingxue was smart, when she saw her elder brother's weird smile, she immediately understood, and couldn't help but give him a hard look.

Yu Xuan was stared at by his sister, feeling embarrassed, and immediately changed the subject: "Zhongda, this is just a small banquet. Tomorrow, there will be a big banquet in the Yu Palace. At that time, not only the relatives in the palace, but also the important officials of the Yu Clan will come to the banquet. what."

And the Yu Palace banquet?

In fact, Jiang Yao really didn't want to attend the big banquet. He didn't want to be known by many irrelevant people, knowing that he was the future uncle of the Yu clan.

But this is also unavoidable etiquette.

Yu Lan's fiancé, this status is very important to the Yu Clan, even very important, of course everyone is very concerned about it.

They have the right to know what kind of character the future lord's husband will be.

This is a person who can affect the future rise and fall of Yu Clan, can they not care?

"Brother Yao, I know you don't like grand banquets in the palace, but since it's here, it's inevitable." Yu Yan said, "They all want to see you."

Jiang Yao nodded, "It's nothing more than a social gathering, I'll just take part."

The four of them were drinking and chatting when suddenly a middle-aged court lady appeared in the Starry Sky Palace.

"My young master, the mistress heard that Young Master Longcheng had arrived, so she sent her servants to inquire, why don't you go to Panyun Palace to pay a visit? Is this a gift from the younger generation?"

This middle-aged court lady is a martial god with a dignified bearing, and she is obviously the maid of the Yu Clan's mistress.

Yu Yan said lightly: "I haven't finished my meal yet, what's your mother's rush? Auntie, tell your mother that I'll be there later."

Auntie smiled slightly, "I'm sorry to disturb you. In this way, the mistress is waiting for Young Master Longcheng to pay a visit to Panyun Palace."

Jiang Yao cupped her hands and said, "I'll go later."

The middle-aged court lady saluted a few people, turned around and left the palace.

"Hmph, she said she was lonely, but she was very well informed. Before the meal was finished, she sent someone over to question her." The little girl put down her chopsticks with an unhappy expression, "You spoiler."

"Little sister, don't be as knowledgeable as her." Yu Xuan said, "In the end, she is also our biological mother, so Zhongda can't let Zhongda see the joke."

Yu Shu also said: "Yes, little sister, she does have a lot of faults, but she is the mother after all. I will not wait to see you again, and I still have to maintain my face."

Yu Yuan stood up, "Let's go together."

The four of them left the Starry Sky Palace, and after dozens of miles, they arrived at a huge green and lush palace, which was the Panyun Palace.

Originally, the Yu clan did not have a palace named Panyun Palace.But after Pan Ruixu married Yu Clan, he specially changed a palace to Panyun Palace, of course to show that he is a member of the Pan clan.

Panyun Palace is very grand, but a little deserted.

The solitude of the surroundings and the magnificence of the palace are unusually large.

The four of them passed through the formation and entered the deep palace together. After a while, they came to a big gloomy house that didn't look like a palace.

There are four words on it: "Pan's Family Temple".

Jiang Yao shook her head secretly.

In the Yu Clan Palace of the Shenzhou Human Race, a "Pan Clan Family Temple" of the Wu Clan Pan Clan was set up. Who would like this operation?
Even her children will not be satisfied.

What's more, she is not a real witch, but the adopted daughter of the witch clan.

In Pan's family temple, 49 ever-burning lamps were set off, illuminating the shrines and ancestral tablets.

On the surrounding walls, there are portraits of the successive shaman masters of the Pan family.

I don't know, I thought I entered the Pan family temple of the Wu clan.

In front of the altar, there was a woman in Tsing Yi, sitting on a futon, with her back to the temple gate, praying to the ancestral shrine.

Extremely pious.

Zhenzhen is the filial son and virtuous grandson of the Pan family of the Wu clan.

"If I didn't ask you to come, wouldn't you come?" A heavenly voice sounded, and then the woman turned around.

The family temple was originally very dark, but when the woman turned her head, the entire dark space suddenly lit up.

It was as if a beautiful moon had emerged from the dark clouds.

Anyone who sees this woman for the first time will feel a kind of extreme amazement.

Her beauty doesn't seem to exist in this world.

But Jiang Yao didn't show any surprise, just nodded politely.

The boy's eyes didn't even fluctuate much, but were still clear and clear.

To be honest, Pan Ruixu is indeed beautiful, but no matter how beautiful she is, she is no more beautiful than Li Xixia and Ni Ni.

"Mother, it's inappropriate for you to summon us in Pan's family temple." Yu Yan said in a childish and cold voice.

Yu Xuan and Yu Shu also looked indifferent.

Pan Ruixu turned around, her painting-like face was as calm as water, and her autumn-like eyes looked at Jiang Yao with a slightly surprised expression.

Such a quiet boy.

Seeing that I can be as indifferent as water, with a calm expression, this kind of heart is really amazing.

His appearance and demeanor are also extremely outstanding, and his demeanor is outstanding.

Born as the eldest son of the Jiang family, his status is also very noble.

To be a Wuzhen cultivator at such a young age and a medicine fairy is even more brilliant.

Speaking of which, he really is a good son-in-law that can't be met.

It just looks impeccable.

It's a pity that compared to his nephew Pankang, who is innately daoist, he is still doomed to be inferior!
such a pity.

Only Pan Kang and Yu Yuan are the real relatives of the gods.

No matter how good Jiang Longcheng is, he is not innate, nor is he the master of heavenly luck!
People are afraid of comparison.

　Is this mother-in-law difficult to deal with?Crab, ask for a monthly pass!Comments on the plot are welcome!Good night!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)