The matters they needed to discuss, they had not heard at all, as if in their inattentiveness, Mother Earth and Jiang Chen had completed the discussions.
Their bewilderment was but a momentary thing, and soon, the two women understood that Mother Earth must have used some sort of divine ability to directly halt the flow of time and space, isolating them from what transpired until the matter was concluded and the divine ability lifted.
Although they did not understand what Jiang Chen and Mother Earth had discussed, seeing Mother Earth's demeanor, even willing to part with her own Red Gold Lotus, it could be inferred that Jiang Chen's words must have been very much to the matron's liking.
Thinking this, the two women looked at Jiang Chen, their gazes inevitably filled with shades of envy. They had served Mother Earth for many tens of millennia, yet they had never received such a reward.