"You have betrayed Our trust and confidence, Greenwood. That is why We took your Amaranthine Clouddew Tree. Let’s call it even between us. You may depart as well." 

Celestial Emperor Taiyuan was strangely polite and tolerant. 

Greenwood gasped. "Were you the one who carried off the tree, Your Majesty?"

The Amaranthine Clouddew Tree had been the godking's life. He never expected the celestial emperor to be behind its disappearance!

At the time, he had believed the heavenly dao to be displeased with his treatment of it!

Greenwood opened his mouth for a moment, then shut it in depressed embarrassment. As he...