Before, no one else could read any emotion from him, but that momentary start gave them something to sense.
The Blooddrop beside him looked incomparably grim. "Wasn't this an Eonic artifact you obtained? Whatever secrets it holds, just keep them hidden yourself."
Li Tianming shot her a glare as well. "What kind of joke is that? This Karmic Emperor Lotus was left by the late imperial emperor for his descendants. I'm merely a junior military lord from the military manor—how could I possibly accept the imperial family's heavenly grace? Don't wag your tongues here and force some fabricated crime onto me."
As he spoke, he pushed the Karmic Emperor Lotus before Bai Nineteen. "Your Highness, when the Karmic Emperor Mausoleum opened this time, we only happened to come across it. We never imagined that the Divine Treasure Jade bestowed by His Majesty could directly open the Karmic Tree. Your Highness had not arrived then, so I could only explore first. The brothers and sisters of the military manor and I were fortunate enough to receive the divine grace of the Karmic Emperor Ancestor. Now that this divine grace has ended, the Karmic Emperor Lotus has also awaited its true inheritor. Perhaps this was all an arrangement by the Karmic Emperor Ancestor in the unseen. Please, quickly accept your ancestor's grace!"
This thing was the true hot potato. It could not replace the Supreme Unity Tower's function. The Supreme Unity Tower had currently only opened three layers of Supreme Unity Suppressing Qi; as long as Li Tianming grew strong enough, the Supreme Unity Tower could continue becoming stronger. Thus, the Karmic Emperor Lotus was fundamentally useful only in the short term, and Li Tianming was not lacking in that kind of benefit.
Yet the danger and covetous eyes brought by this