Normally, such a sight would have been hilarious, but at this moment, no one dared to laugh.
Nan Huairun was a smooth operator, but he was also reverent at heart. The mere mention of gods was enough to make him shiver. This time, he was sincerely apologizing to the giant tree.
Just as Nan Huairun finished kowtowing, an object suddenly drifted down from the sky and landed before him. The object was golden and pulsed with rays of light like golden threads. It was a lotus seedpod, one that looked as if it were cast from gold. Though it wasn't solid, each of the holes within the seedpod glittered with a crystalline brilliance.
