Guizang Sword Immortal

Judging from the results, it really is.

Chapter 900 30 years later

In the lava sea, a large formation enveloped the mountain gate, and fairy boats of all sizes were cruising in the sky, fighting fiercely with the lava lizards all over the sky.There are constantly masters flying out of the fairy boat to fight against the lava lizards, but the number of lava lizards is too many, in the sky, on the ground, all over the mountains and plains, relatively speaking, the number of monks is too small.

Every moment there are a large number of monks sacrificed.

High in the sky, Fengge Xianzhou displayed its supernatural power, restraining more than a dozen Xuanxian-level lava lizards and a large number of True Immortal-level and Celestial-level lava lizards.

Song Mingting was in the sword energy space, wandering around on the battlefield, and would appear suddenly whenever he found an opportunity, and every time he appeared to sneak attack, he could bring the life of a celestial-level lava lizard.

In this kind of chaotic large-scale battle, spells like Changfeng Queyu are simply a supreme weapon. As long as the opponent's strength is not too much higher than him, he can't even touch him, and he is capable of dealing with Changfeng Queyu. , he deliberately stayed far away, so even though Song Mingting could only kill one by one, and all of them were only angels, but after most of the day, he killed quite a few lava lizards.

In Song Mingting's body, Xanadu continuously conveyed pure immortal energy, which was continuously transformed into mana to replenish consumption, so that after so long, Song Mingting's mana was still in a state of fullness.

Today's Xanadu has undergone major changes compared to before. In addition to the green hills, peach forests, snow tops, and rivers, there is an additional volcano. The volcano is in a dormant state, and the geothermal heat is surging. There are several excellent hot springs on the mountain.

At this time, it has been 30 years since the lava lizard detonated the underground lava in the lava sea. In the 30 years of fighting in the lava sea, Song Mingting has accumulated a large amount of contribution points. All the treasures of heaven, material and earth were collected, and even a large amount of treasures of heaven, material and earth were exchanged for water, earth, and gold.

Therefore, today's Xanadu has already gathered the two elements of earth and fire. Although it has not yet become a magic weapon of Shenyu, it has also improved Song Mingting's strength to a higher level.Previously, Xanadu's blessing to Song Mingting was only equivalent to raising two realms, but now it has doubled, reaching four realms.

After half a day of fierce fighting, the lava lizard failed to break through the mountain protection formation, so it could only die down. After the two sides competed for their own corpses and spoils, they retreated.Song Mingting returned to Fengge Xianzhou to preside over the post-war affairs.

In the past 30 years, he has not only been promoted to Xanadu, but his own cultivation has also been promoted to the eighth level of the Celestial Immortal.

This is an incomparably fast cultivation speed. Song Mingting's ascension to the heavens took only 60 years. In 60 years, his cultivation base increased by seven levels, and it took less than ten years to increase his cultivation level by one level. This speed, in the history of Guizang Jiange There is only one person in the world who has achieved it, and that is Patriarch Guizang.

The rest, even Patriarch Zhemei, Patriarch Wude, and Patriarch Nanhui, did not have such a fast promotion speed when they were in the realm of immortals.

With the cultivation base of the eighth level of immortality, coupled with the blessing of Xanadu, Song Mingting's current cultivation base is comparable to that of the first level of true immortality (the span between the ninth level of heavenly immortality and the first level of true immortality is too large, so the four levels of cultivation that could have been improved have become two levels ).

In addition to the improvement in cultivation, Fengge Sword Qi, Changfeng Bird Feather and other powerful techniques have also made great progress.

Needless to say, Zhemei swordsmanship and Yulinling Hanchan's desolation, Zhemei swordsmanship has been cultivated to the No. 40 third level, which is the highest number of layers among all his strong methods, and Zhemei swordsmanship only has 57 levels in total.

As for Yulinling·Hanchanqiqie, because she started to practice after arriving in the heaven, the number of layers she completed is not as high as Zhemei swordsmanship, but she has just reached the seventh level of No.30, and her progress is much worse than Zhemei swordsmanship.

However, Yulinling·Han Chanqi is a strong method created by Tianjun, with a total of sixty layers (sixty layers are also the limit of Xuanming-level strong methods. After entering the holy level, every twelve layers is a level, so The Daozhen-level strong method has the highest level of 48, and the Xuanming-level strong method has the highest level of 30), which is much stronger than the Zhemei swordsmanship, so even if Song Mingting only practiced No.[-] to the seventh level, the power is still close to the Zhemei swordsmanship.

Of course, one of the two is a sword technique for attacking, and the other is an auxiliary spell. There is actually no comparison in terms of lethality alone.

The other is Changfeng Sparrow Feather, Changfeng Sparrow Feather is his own strong method, and now he has deduced it to the second floor of No.40, becoming a true level strong method.Of course, the upper limit of Changfeng Sparrow Feather has been raised to 42nd floor, but the progress of practice only stays at No. 30th floor.

However, because of the particularity of the invisible sword energy, the threat of Changfeng Sparrow Feather is not weak. It is the Taoist method commonly used by Song Mingting today, and he has not fallen behind.

Those who really lag behind are the Nine Heavens Climb to the Sky and the Flying Immortal Sword Art, the Six Consciousnesses to Meditate on the Qinglian Zen, and the Mayfly's Remembrance of the Gods. These three powerful methods that have brought him great help can no longer keep up with his pace .

Especially the six senses of meditation on Qinglian Zen, this Buddhist secret method can be said to be the foundation of his enlightenment, and later helped him resolve the attacks on the primordial spirit countless times, but now as his cultivation level improves step by step, the people he meets The enemy's strength is getting stronger and stronger, and Qinglian Chan's ability to guard Yuanshen has become weaker and weaker.

The same problem applies to Jiuxiaodengtianfeixianjianjue. Because of the lack of follow-up methods, he has no practice to practice. Although there is still a good bonus to his attack, as his strength further improves, the effect will only become more and more powerful. It gets lower and lower, and eventually becomes tasteless.

It is better for Mayfly to reminisce about the technique of planting gods, because this is a powerful technique he created himself, and he can continue to create it.It's a pity that unlike Changfeng Queyu, he hasn't had a good inspiration these years, so the deduction of Mayfly's technique of reminiscing the gods has stagnated, and he can only be promoted to the holy level.Compared with his current cultivation base, it is really a bit worse.

This is the case with Jiuxiaodengtianfeixianjianjue, Six Consciousness Visualization Qinglian Zen and Mayfly's Remembrance of God, let alone the Tibetan front technique, which he has not used once for so many years.

However, the most astonishing improvement is the Fengge Sword Qi, which has been deduced by him to the No.40 eighth floor!It is possible to touch the threshold of the Xuanming-level powerful method, and as long as it goes one step further, it can become a veritable Xuanming-level powerful method!

Although he has only cultivated to the ninth floor of No.30 at present, because of the heaven-defying Fengge Sword Qi, he has caught up again and has become his second trump card after Zhemei swordsmanship and Yulinling Hanchanqiqi.

With the three powerful Xuanming-level spells at his side, and the Qiushui Sword, Song Mingting at this time can fight even if he encounters a master of the fourth level of the real fairy. Masters of the first level and the eighth level of true immortals may all have hatred under his sword.

This kind of strength is already not weak.

Chapter 901

It is not only Song Mingting himself who has grown in strength, but also Fengge Peak and the entire Guizang Jiange.

In order to invite the monks from Xi Xinghai and Qingbihai to make a move, the Lava Sea Sanzong spent a lot of money. Many treasures that were impossible to sell on weekdays appeared on the exchange list. Rare things like jade and burning ember heart flame.As long as you have enough contribution points, you can exchange them.

For 30 years, Song Mingting led the Fengge Xianzhou to help the lava sea monks resist the "red disaster", and never left for a moment.The feats earned not only skyrocketed one's own strength, but also exchanged for a large amount of materials used to transform the Fengge fairy boat, allowing Yinlixuan and the others to show off their strengths (during this period, Yinlixuan had been successfully promoted to a sixth-rank immortal boat master).

Today's Fengge Xianzhou has not only completed the transformation of Moon Feather, but its rank has also been improved, and it is infinitely close to the sixth-rank Xianzhou.If the current progress is followed, I am afraid that it will be able to completely advance to the sixth-rank fairy boat in a few years.

Originally, according to Yinlixuan's estimate, it would take a hundred years of effort to raise Fengge Xianzhou to the seventh rank, even with their skills.But because of the war, Feng Gefeng had the opportunity to obtain a large amount of materials that were extremely difficult to obtain on weekdays, so the time was cut by more than half.

It has to be said that although war is cruel and dangerous, it also contains huge wealth and opportunities.

In addition, although 8 of the [-] monks on board sacrificed, only [-] remained, but the cultivation base and combat experience of these [-] people have made great progress, and many of them have been promoted to heaven.

After all, there are many heavenly materials and earthly treasures that can help people become immortals besides flying fairy fruits. Although the effects of these heavenly materials and earthly treasures are strong or weak, they can increase the chances of becoming immortals to some extent. People who are very sure of becoming celestial beings, 30 years have passed, and of course there are many new born celestial beings on the Fengge fairy boat.

In addition to Fengge Peak, Guizang Jiange also sent a powerful team led by two peak masters, Sixiang Immortal and Yaoli Immortal, including ten elders of Wujian Xuanxian, to support Lava Sea monk.

Because it was only for support, the war was far away from the mainland, and it was the lava sea monks who bore the main pressure, so although Guizang Jiange suffered a lot of casualties, compared to the benefits, it still made a lot of money.

Before the Lava Sea cultivator officially started the battle with the Lava Lizard, Guizang Jiange obtained three Sanqing Xuanyu, one Burning Ember Heart Flame, twenty Huoxiao (Shuiyu) Hercules Talismans, and two Dragon Whale puppets. Now 30 years have passed , and got another seventh-grade immortal tree——Dragonscale fire jujube wood, and a corresponding seventh-grade elixir.

This seventh-grade elixir is Longyan Yuanyang elixir, and the main drug is dragon scale fire jujube. Then the dragon flame will be ignited, and he will die from being burned by the dragon flame.

The effect of this medicine has been astonishing.

You must know that after reaching the Golden Immortal, it becomes extremely difficult to improve your cultivation level. Immortal Xiang Longtao has cultivated into a Golden Immortal for 10,000+ years, and now he is only at the fourth level of the Golden Immortal, and he is still considered good.For example, Qingfen Jinxian and Kongtong Jinxian have been enlightened for tens of thousands of years, but they still stay at the first level of Jinxian. Even the most powerful Chiphosphorus Jinxian has only improved one level of cultivation for so many years.

Normally, it would take at least tens of thousands of years for a Golden Immortal to raise one level of cultivation, which is not bad, as many Golden Immortals may not be able to raise a level after 10,000+ years.Therefore, the Longyan Yuanyang Pill can increase the cultivation of the Golden Immortal by half a layer, and this effect is already extremely against the sky.

In addition to Longlin Huozamu and Longyan Yuanyang Dandan Fang, Guizang Jiange also exchanged a large number of items, but they were all relatively low-level items, because the big heads were all covered with Longlin Huozamu and Longyan Yuanyang Dandan Fang. took up.

The sect benefited a lot from this battle in the lava sea, and with the things obtained by using the Zhushan sect as a bargaining chip, the sect has added five mysterious immortals (only two of the seven Sanqing profound jades were wasted), and the increased The Mysterious Immortal-level combat strength has reached seventeen!

In Fengge's fairy boat, Song Mingting and Zhonglixuan were discussing about leaving the lava sea.

In the beginning, because the monks in the lava sea were severely injured, and the underground lava erupted, a large number of lava lizards were born.

However, as the various forces in the lava sea spared no expense to invite monks Xi Xinghai and Qingbihai to come to help, the situation has gradually stabilized now.The counter-offensive would not be enough, but the territory was no longer lost, and the battle situation fell into a stalemate.

It is foreseeable that this war will continue for a long time, a hundred years is the minimum, and it may last for a thousand years.

But Song Mingting definitely couldn't spend so long here.

Now that he has completed the foundation of the fire element, he has obtained far more than expected, and it would be a waste of time to stay any longer.Of course, when he left, Immortal Sixiang and Immortal Yaoli would stay behind, after all, the battle in the lava sea was far from over.

"Let's go to Qingbihai next, shall we?" Zhonglixuan said enthusiastically.

Song Mingting's strength has skyrocketed, and he doesn't give up much. Now Zhong Lixuan's cultivation base has reached the seventh level of the Celestial Immortal, and his cultivation speed is not slower than Song Mingting's at all.It can only be said that those who can become the direct heirs of the Heavenly King are indeed the talents of the Heavenly King.

Not only that, in the past 30 years, Zhonglixuan has obtained a lot of merits by virtue of the Liexu Temple, and all these merits have been exchanged by him for a Kanlijiao Taihuo, which is a fairy flame that can only be formed by the intersection of hot and cold currents. The wonderful fusion of water and fire, and the principle of yin and yang, not only has a terrible lethality, but the yin and yang principles contained in it can also help people realize the Tao.

The Kanlijiaotaihuo that Zhonglixuan exchanged was of the fourth grade, which is not high in terms of grade alone, but it consumed all the meritorious service that Zhonglixuan had earned in the past 30 years.Because although this Kanlijiaotai fire is only a fourth-rank, its value is comparable to that of a sixth-rank immortal flame.

One of the reasons is that the Kanlijiaotai fire has the effect of helping people practice, and the secret realm created by relying on the Kanlijiaotai fire can speed up the cultivation speed of monks a lot.The Emerald Emerald Sect holds this Kanlijiaotai fire, and its main function is to maintain the secret realm.

The second and more important reason is that Kanlijiaotaihuo has a very high growth rate, and it can be advanced.You must know that most of the immortal flames have fixed grades, such as the Burning Heart Flame. Although the Burning Heart Flame held by the Lava Sea Three Sects is strong or weak, the grades are all seventh rank, and they have not been separated. Huge chasm.As for Kanlijiaotaihuo, with the continuous absorption of the power of water and fire, the rank can be raised to the sixth, seventh, and eighth rank...

In theory, it can even be promoted to the twelfth rank, but this is impossible. If you want to upgrade to the twelfth rank, Kanlijiaotaihuo must absorb most of the power of water and fire in the entire heaven to do so.

Yuanli Tianjun's lineage has a fundamental supernatural power, so it needs Kanli Jiaotai Huo, so Zhonglixuan will exchange all his meritorious deeds.

Song Mingting was about to speak, but suddenly stopped. At this moment, countless information flooded into his mind.

In the Fate Sect, the Ascension Hall, black and red lights lit up, and the next moment a figure appeared in the hall.

It was Guan Shanyue.

Chapter 902

As soon as Guan Shanyue appeared in the Feisheng Palace, he saw the Demon Lord of Myriad Tribulations.

Mozun Wanjie looked at Guan Shanyue, with a smile on his calm and prestige face.

"I didn't expect you to ascend earlier than your master. I couldn't believe it when Patriarch Youming asked me to come to Feisheng Hall to pick up people. If you didn't have a Song Mingting in your generation, you would definitely be No.1." , even counting the history of the upper chapter world, your speed of practice is also among the best." Demon Lord Wanjie said.

Guan Shan was more keenly aware of the changes in the Demon Lord of Myriad Tribulations. In the last chapter, the Demon Lord of Myriad Tribulations acted domineeringly, with a sense of dominance. A much stronger demon giant should not be domineering.

But now the Demon Lord of Myriad Tribulations, the aura of self-respect on his body has disappeared without a trace, and the whole person looks much more peaceful and low-key.

"Master Patriarch." Guan Shanyue said to Demon Venerable Myriad Tribulations.

What Demon Lord Wanjie didn't know was that at this moment, Song Mingting's memories of the past 60 years were pouring into Guan Shanyue's mind.

In Fengge Xianzhou, Song Mingting digested Guan Shanyue's memories of the past 60 years.Although the two were originally one and shared memories, for the past 60 years, one of the two was in the Immortal Realm and the other was in the Shangzhang Realm. After Yue Ye soared, he finally reconnected.

Song Mingting quickly sorted out Guan Shanyue's memory. He already knew about the past few decades because Immortal Chengtian had told him about it, but the memory of the next few decades was brand new.And through Guan Shanyue's memory, Song Mingting discovered that in the past 60 years, Guan Shanyue was the only one who dominated the Shangzhang world.

Whether it was Zhao Jingshen, Shang Rulong, Zhao Jingzhi, or Monk Mingde, their light was completely covered by Guan Shanyue alone.In fact, this trend had already appeared in the past few decades. At that time, Immortal Chengtian told him that since his ascension, Guan Shanyue has been suppressed by no one, and his strength has grown so fast that it is beyond imagination.

In fact, Song Mingting had expected this point a long time ago. After all, Taiyu Shitai's talent is unmatched. If he hadn't been blessed by "immortal caresses my head, and his hair is long-lived", he would not be able to catch up with Guan Shanyue. soar.

Therefore, it is perfectly normal for Guan Shanyue to gradually suppress Senior Brother Shang or Zhao Jingshen and others.

It's just that he didn't expect that Guan Shanyue's strength would grow so fast in the later stage. Before Cheng Tianshi's uncle ascended, Guan Shanyue could only suppress Zhao Jingshen and Shang senior brother, but in the later stage, Guan Shanyue defeated Zhao Jingshen and Shang senior brother. They were far away, and even almost killed Zhao Jingshen, if not for the many masters of the righteous path returning to the first stage to save them, Zhao Jingshen would have to die under Guan Shanyue's hands.

You must know that Zhao Jingshen is also an unborn genius, but he has no ability to resist under Guan Shanyue's subordinates.

After this battle, Guan Shan became more and more powerful in the world, and completely stopped Zhengdao's strangulation.

Originally, due to the previous battles, both the strength and reputation of the Demonic Dao fell to the bottom, and Zhengdao wanted to take this opportunity to completely eliminate the Demonic Dao once and for all.But Guan Shanyue repelled Zhengdao almost by himself, making Zhengdao dare not continue to strangle him.

No one expected that Shangzhangjie would usher in an era of one-man domination so soon after experiencing Song Mingting's one-man domination. Of course, what they didn't expect was that the people who overwhelmed an era before and after were actually the same person.

However, Song Mingting didn't care too much about how Guan Shanyue dominated the world in the last chapter, but Guan Shanyue's arrival provided a new way for Guizang Jiange to open up the situation.

Before his ascent, he thought that the strength of the Rebellious Sect in the Heaven Realm was not much stronger than them. After all, the Rebellious Fate Sect had just split from the Taishang Sect and had no foundation in the Heaven Realm. Even if it was stronger than their Guizang Jiange If you don't go anywhere, it's a Golden Immortal sect, maybe it's not as strong as the Longtao Sword Sect and the Killing Heart Sect.

The greater possibility is that he has already been killed by Taishangzong. After all, even in the heavens, Taishangzong is the top sect.

But the fact is not the case at all. The Niming Sect not only did not "die" in the heaven, but lived well. It is a Tianjun sect, and there are two Tianjun in the sect. Can prove the position of Tianzun.

Although this kind of strength is far inferior to that of Taishangzong, it is enough to protect himself.After all, Taishangzong is not without enemies in the heavens. If he goes all out to deal with the Rebellious Fatezong, these enemies will attack immediately.

The reason why the Rebel Sect is the Tianjun Sect in the Heaven Realm is because this sect was established millions of years ago. The split of the Supreme Sect seems to be a matter of fate. After leaving the Rebellious Fate Sect, in countless lower realms, the Taishang Sect is also hard to change the fate of splitting, and all the split sects are called Rebellious Fate Sects - this is the rule set by the Rebellious Fate Heavenly Lord.

The strength of the Rebelling Sect in the heaven is so strong, Guan Shanyue, as a direct disciple of the Reversing Fate Sect, can use the influence of the Reversing Fate Sect to do many things.

However, it's too early to think about it now, the most urgent thing is to let Guan Shanyue improve his status in the Rebellious Fate Sect as soon as possible, so as to better mobilize the strength of the Rebellious Fate Sect.At that time, maybe he can directly use his power to overwhelm others and solve the danger of Guizang Jiange?After all, they both belong to the Demonic Dao, and the strength of the Killing Heart Sect is not worthy of the Nemesis Sect.

Song Mingting put away his thoughts and began to talk to Zhong Lixuan about his next plan.

In the Rebellious Sect, Guan Shanyue was led by Demon Lord Wanjie to meet Immortal Youming.Immortal Youming is the founding patriarch of the Rebellious Fate Sect in the Upper Chapter Realm. After ascending to the Immortal Realm, he changed his name to "Youming", otherwise he couldn't use the same name as Niming Tianjun, right?

Immortal Youming's cultivation base is at the first level of the Golden Immortal, and in terms of his cultivation time, such a cultivation base is amazing.However, he was already one of the few geniuses in the history of Shangzhangjie, so it is not surprising that he can practice at such a speed.After all, how can someone who can betray the Supreme Sect and set up another faction be a mediocre person?Even if the Youming Jinxian was able to found the Fate-Defying Sect, it was largely due to the influence of the Fate-Defying Heavenly Monarch in the dark.

However, the cultivation speed of the Youming Golden Immortal is comparable to that of the Guizang Immortal. Although the Youming Golden Immortal is already at the first level of the Golden Immortal, and the Guizang Immortal is at the peak of Xuanxian, but don't forget that the time for the Youming Golden Immortal to ascend is also shorter than that of the Guizang Immortal. Guizang Immortal was much earlier, and more importantly, Youming Golden Immortal was backed by Nimingzong.

Relying on the Tianjun sect and working alone, the difficulty is completely different. The resources that the Tianjun sect can provide are enough for the disciples to obtain immortals who are far beyond the ordinary sect.But even so, the Youming Golden Immortal did not widen the gap with the Guizang Immortal, which shows that his talent is not as good as the Guizang Immortal.But this is not because the Youming Jinxian is too bad, it is purely because the Guizang Immortal is too amazing to be stunning, which is why the Guizang Immortal can get so many swordsmanship and is favored by Tianjun.

Chapter 903

The strength of the Youming Jinxian lineage in the Nimingzong is not considered strong. After all, the Youmingjinxian lineage has only been established for more than 5000 years, and some of the Nimingzong's magic veins have existed for hundreds of thousands of years. How does the lineage of Jinxian compare?Any golden immortal from these Dao veins would be stronger than the Youming Golden Immortal lineage.

Nowadays, there are a total of dozens of powerful Dao lines in the Rebellious Fate Sect, and the most powerful ones are the two veins of the Rebel Heavenly Lord and the Liuyu Heavenly Lord. The patriarch of all the disciples of the Niming Sect, even Liuyu Tianjun himself is no exception, but his close disciples are still divided into factions.

Because of Tianjun sitting in charge, the strength of these two veins is also the strongest.Next is the Demon Meridian with Banbu Tianjun sitting in command. There are four Demon Vessels in the Rebellious Fate Sect with Banbu Tianjun sitting in command.

In the end, there are dozens of remaining veins, and there is at least one Jinxian ninth-level master sitting in charge of these magic veins.

What is Netherliness compared to?Now there is only Youming Jinxian in this lineage, and the highest cultivation level of the rest is only the ninth level of Xuanxian. In terms of strength, they are not necessarily stronger than Guizangjian Pavilion.

After all, although the Martial Arts have abundant resources, the competition is also fierce. The development of the Taoism is not so easy.

If it wasn't for Youming Jinxian who took refuge in Liefeng's lineage, he would have been expelled long ago.The evil way is different from the righteous way. The strife and annexation between different magic lines of the magic way is very serious, not to mention that even in the righteous way, internal strife is very serious.

There has been no serious internal strife in Guizang Jiange for the time being, that's because:

Once there was Guizang Immortal sitting in the township, the strength of Guizang Immortal was unsurpassed in Guizang Jiange, far surpassing the others, and his prestige was terrifyingly high, no one in the sect had the strength and prestige to engage in factional battles.

Secondly, the establishment of Guizang Jiange is still short, and it is in a stage of prosperity, and there is no soil for internal strife.

The third is the style of the family. Guizang Jiange has always had a tradition of unity and unity.

But even in Guizang Jiange, there are signs of factional struggle now, let alone the Rebellious Sect.

In the Reversing Fate Sect, the weak demon veins have no living space at all, and are easily absorbed or even destroyed internally.

If the Youming lineage hadn't taken refuge in Gaefeng's lineage, they probably wouldn't be able to survive.And this is also the way of survival of many weak and small demon veins of the Reversing Fate Sect.

After all, the way of magic is not like the way of righteousness. Righteous way still emphasizes human feelings and morality. Some Dao veins can exist even if they are weakened, but the way of magic is not so benevolent.

Guan Shanyue's arrival soon spread to all the masters of the Youming lineage, and even those who were at odds with the Youming lineage had learned about it.

If it were an ordinary disciple from the lower realm who ascended, he would naturally not receive such attention.Although those who can ascend from the lower realms are all geniuses, in the Fate Sect where the strong are like clouds, geniuses of this level are not uncommon.