Starting with being handed over to the Imperial Concubine, building a family with a thousand-year hi

In order to get closer to the Xiao royal family, the Liu family not only spent money, but also actively sought marriage alliances. Over the centuries, the Liu family has not only married royal princesses, but also had their own daughters marry into the royal family, making their relationship with the Xiao royal family increasingly intimate.

Liu Ruoyu frequently entered the palace from a young age, and even had the opportunity to study with the princes and princesses in the Imperial Study. In her childhood, she was Xiao Anxun's classmate and playmate; as they grew up, the two gradually developed feelings for each other, and Liu Ruoyu naturally married Xiao Anxun.

However, in order to win over the more powerful Situ family, the Xiao imperial family did not make Liu Ruoyu empress; after the Situ family rebelled and was destroyed, the imperial family needed the support of the Tianwu Sect, so they made Lin Wen empress.

Su Mu transmigrated here and had never had any contact with Liu Ruoyu. In the original owner's memories, Liu Ruoyu was a gentle, virtuous, and quiet woman who was proficient in music, chess, calligraphy, and painting. She rarely showed her face in public and never participated in palace intrigues. She was very gentle in nature.

"What does the Imperial Preceptor think?" Xiao Anran asked again when she saw Su Mu deep in thought.

"If Your Highness is willing, I will naturally accept it." Su Mu spoke slowly, already understanding Xiao Anran's intention—this meant that the Xiao royal family had finally completely lowered their stance in front of him.

Previously, due to their status and ancestral rules, the royal family feared damaging their prestige and reputation, and even if someone wanted to acknowledge him as their godfather, they found it difficult to ask. But now it's different. Thanks to the royal family's publicity efforts, Su Mu's fame has already spread throughout the capital and is now spreading throughout the entire empire.

The Great Qian Empire has always revered the strong. Su Mu's ability to easily kill a Grandmaster demonstrates his formidable power. Furthermore, his status has risen from a loyal and righteous eunuch to the prestigious Imperial Preceptor, which has gradually diminished his identity as a eunuch. Since the Imperial Concubine is willing, and the Emperor and the royal family do not mind, Su Mu naturally has no reason to refuse—he clearly remembers that adopting a goddaughter would also grant him system rewards.

"On behalf of the Imperial Concubine, I thank the Imperial Preceptor for his kindness!" Upon hearing Su Mu's agreement, Xiao Anran's face lit up with joy. Fearing that he might change his mind, she quickly turned and ran out of the library to inform Liu Ruoyu.

Not long after, Liu Ruoyu followed Xiao Anran into the library and stood before Su Mu. She was dressed in plain clothes, and although her appearance was not as stunning as Lin Wen's, nor as lively as Xiao Anran's, she possessed a unique scholarly air, gentle and charming.

"Ruoyu greets her godfather!" As soon as they met, Liu Ruoyu knelt down and sincerely kowtowed to Su Mu, her tone extremely respectful.

[Congratulations, host, on accepting your first illegitimate daughter! The system reward has been sent to the system warehouse. Please check your account!]

The familiar system notification sound rang in Su Mu's mind.

"Please rise, Your Highness." Su Mu reached out to help Liu Ruoyu up, a gentle force supporting her. At the same time, he clearly sensed that the imperial aura in the palace had become much stronger—he understood that this was because his relationship with the Xiao imperial family had become even closer.

"Consider this talisman a gift for your recognition of your godfather." Su Mu took out a Golden Bell Mystic Talisman from his storage space and handed it to Liu Ruoyu. This was a high-grade Mystic talisman, which he had never had the chance to use before. Now, with his strength, he didn't need such a talisman for protection; even if he really needed protection, a high-grade Mystic talisman wouldn't be of much use.

However, this Golden Bell Talisman is extremely useful to martial artists below the Grandmaster level, and can save their lives in critical moments.

"Ruoyu thanks her godfather for the gift!" Liu Ruoyu knelt down again to kowtow and express her gratitude. She respectfully accepted the talisman with both hands before slowly getting up.

"Is the Imperial Concubine about to advance to the Innate Realm?" Su Mu glanced at Liu Ruoyu and asked.

"Yes, Godfather." Liu Ruoyu nodded gently, her expression still respectful. She didn't care much about martial arts cultivation, nor could she be said to be diligent, so even at over thirty years old, she only had the cultivation of the late stage of the Acquired Realm, and was currently stuck at the bottleneck of breaking through to the Innate Realm.

"Since you're about to break through, your godfather will lend you a hand." Su Mu smiled, took out many medicine bottles from his storage space, and handed them to Liu Ruoyu all at once. He thought to himself: Hurry up and break through. When you break through to the Innate Realm, your godfather will get a generous system reward again.

"This...this is too precious, Ruoyu dares not accept it." Liu Ruoyu looked at the medicine bottle in her hand, her face full of embarrassment, and hurriedly declined.

"Hurry up and accept it. Now that you've recognized him as your godfather, there's no need to be so formal," Xiao Anran urged from the side, her eyes full of envy—Su Mu was generous, and the pills in these medicine bottles must all be rare treasures.

"Ruoyu thanks her godfather for the reward!" Liu Ruoyu knelt down again, kowtowed respectfully, and then carefully accepted all the medicine bottles.

"Your Highness is right. We're family, there's no need for formalities." Helpless, Su Mu could only reach out and help her up again.

Liu Ruoyu did not linger. After thanking Su Mu, she left the library with Xiao Anran.

Su Mu went up to the second floor of the library, first feeding Jinzi with Spirit Essence Pills, and then opened the system warehouse to check the rewards he had received for taking in a goddaughter.

The rewards this time are extremely generous. Su Mu knew very well that the rewards for adopting a son and an adopted daughter were vastly different—the system usually didn't give very good rewards for adopting a son, but the rewards for adopting a daughter, especially the first one, were often exceptionally generous.

He still remembered that the top-grade Heaven-rank cultivation technique he cultivated, "Imperial Supreme Body Technique," was one of the system rewards he received when he adopted Cheng Ping'an as his godson (his first child). Although Liu Ruoyu was only his first adopted daughter, and different from Cheng Ping'an's "first child," the reward was still quite considerable.

Among the rewards, in addition to ordinary pills such as Linghua Pill and Ningyuan Pill, there is also a high-grade special pill - Kunling True Fire Pill, a mid-grade Earth rank, with a total of ten pills.

Most True Fire Pills can help martial artists transform their refined fire into true fire, and the Kunling True Fire Pill is no exception, but its effect is stronger than that of ordinary True Fire Pills. It should be noted that true fire is usually only possessed by True Martial Realm experts, and Su Mu's acquired refined fire is of extremely high grade and extremely powerful, already meeting the basic conditions for transformation into true fire; in addition, his spiritual body is strong enough to withstand the power of true fire.

A single Kunling True Fire Pill is already priceless, let alone ten. However, compared to another treasure rewarded by the system, these ten Kunling True Fire Pills seem insignificant.

That treasure was a spatial talisman, a high-grade Heavenly Rank 1, named the Teleportation Talisman. This talisman was extremely powerful; if one encountered a powerful enemy or was trapped in a dangerous place, activating it would allow the user to instantly travel thousands of miles away.

Unless one encounters a true Martial God Realm expert, anyone below the Martial God Realm, regardless of their cultivation level, cannot stop the person who activated the Teleportation Talisman. Even extremely dangerous forbidden zones or powerful sealing techniques cannot block the spatial power of the Teleportation Talisman.

After all, this is a top-grade Heaven-rank talisman, which was an extremely rare treasure even ten thousand years ago.

"I've really made the right choice in adopting this goddaughter!" Su Mu thought with immense joy. In this perilous fantasy world, nothing is more important than safety—no matter how many cultivation resources one possesses, how powerful one's techniques are, or how bright one's future may be, once one dies, everything is reduced to nothing. Survival is the only true principle.