The other gods immediately pursued her.
Several months later, they returned empty-handed. According to the rumors, they had killed Flying Bird King, but they still could not find the fruit. No one knew where Flying Bird King had hidden it.
Some of the pursuing gods continued searching for the fruit, while others had no choice but to return.
However, something strange happened. After the fruit fell from the divine wood, the divine wood stopped growing. No matter how much energy it absorbed from the void or how many times the gods increased the scale of their sacrifices, it simply would not grow any further.
The divine wood still absorbed divine aura, energy, and other forms of power, and it continued to return divine power to the gods as usual. Yet its growth had completely stopped.
There were also some abnormalities that only the gods could detect. According to rumors, the divine wood looked almost as though its core had left along with the fruit when the fruit detached from it.
