Chi Jiu and the Envoy Group officials felt as though they were dreaming.
The Di Man Race actually claimed they had hauled in the wrong statue, then brought over a battered old Celestial Divine Statue.
After appraisal by the Celestial Race's experts, the statue not only met the standards of a Celestial Divine Statue, but every point Lin Shen had mentioned matched up one by one. No matter how they looked at it, it seemed genuine.
Yet they still did not dare be certain, and all turned their eyes toward Lin Shen.
But the Di Man Race guarded against Lin Shen as though guarding against a thief. They would not let him touch it at all. Whenever Lin Shen so much as approached the statue, Glan and the others broke out in cold sweat and hurriedly reached out to stop him, terrified that he would smash the statue again.
This was a real divine statue. If it broke again, they could not possibly produce a third one. No one could bear that responsibility.
"Looks like there's no problem. Let's begin the handover, then." Lin Shen smiled and stepped aside.
Glan let out a long breath, then forced a smile as he completed the handover with the Celestial Race's representatives.
Chi Jiu and the others completed the handover as if sleepwalking. Chi Jiu, who should have been presiding over the situation, now seemed like an apprentice who had not yet finished training. Every time he made a decision, he had to look to Lin Shen for approval.
Even after the handover was complete and the Celestial Divine Statue had been loaded directly onto the spaceship, Chi Jiu still felt that it was unreal.
"Is this really a Celestial Divine Statue?" Chi Jiu could not help asking Lin Shen beside him.
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