The Earth Tree Race Expert waved his hand.
A stream of energy poured into the Contract Pillar and began rapidly sensing and searching through the contracts the Contract Pillar had received in recent years.
The result left him dumbfounded, but also made him breathe a sigh of relief.
"Good. It wasn't our responsibility!"
His originally uneasy mood finally settled completely.
There was even a trace of schadenfreude in his eyes.
Because after sensing and searching carefully several times, he still found no trace of this contract's existence.
The Contract Pillar had never received this contract at all.
In other words, that Human Race Supreme Expert had never signed this contract after all these years.
They, the people at the contract storage office, bore some responsibility for this matter too, but because not much time had passed—only a few years—their responsibility was not too great.
The ones who truly bore the heaviest responsibility were the envoys in charge of signing the contract with the Human Race Supreme Expert, as well as the related staff.
They had never confirmed whether the Human Race Supreme Expert had signed this contract at all, yet they had sworn with absolute certainty that the contract had already been signed.
"For such a major mistake, and at a time when important cooperation with the Human Race is being sought, our External Affairs Department will inevitably see the heads of hundreds or thousands of related staff roll. If things go badly, even a few expert-level supervisors may have to be executed."
The Earth Tree Race Expert clicked his tongue, waved his hand, and immediately created a message bubble two meters in diameter.
After that, he reactivated the Defense Restrictions around the Jade Pillar one by one.
Then, carrying the message bubble, he rushed to the cultivation site of