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

Even with its limitations, the Time Sacred Talisman remains a truly overpowered trump card, perfectly compensating for Su Mu's current shortcomings and giving him the capital and confidence to face Saint Realm experts for the first time. It provides a basis for surviving desperate situations and turning the tide against all odds.

Finally, Su Mu's gaze settled on the grand finale reward—a Saint-level superior treasure, the Apocalypse Puppet!

This puppet is well-rounded in both offense and defense. Its physical toughness and attack power are comparable to those of a powerful figure in the early stages of the Saint Realm. Most remarkably, it is naturally immune to the two top-tier laws of space and time, making it fearless of all spacetime confinement and spacetime killing moves. Its only drawback is that it lacks an independent divine soul and cannot actively comprehend or unleash the laws of spacetime, relying solely on its physical body's combat power.

Moreover, the Apocalypse Puppet also comes with an exclusive, heaven-defying skill—Devouring Heaven and Earth!

Once activated, the skill allows it to absorb the spiritual energy and primal power of heaven and earth within a vast territory, constantly repairing its injuries and replenishing its combat strength. As long as the surrounding energy continues, and its opponent cannot completely annihilate it in one strike, this puppet is an immortal and indestructible being, growing stronger with each battle—truly an unkillable cockroach.

In addition to the three top-tier Saint-level treasures, the system also included several cultivation pills.

Su Mu glanced at ordinary cultivation breakthrough pills and ignored them immediately. Now that he was in the mid-stage of the Heavenly God realm, ordinary pills no longer offered him any benefit. Only one Heavenly Saint Treasure Pill caught his eye and made him take it seriously.

There are ten pills in total, containing pure primordial energy. After taking them, the body can be temporarily reshaped, forcibly raising the strength of the body to the first level of the primordial energy at the early stage of the Saint Realm!

The primordial chaos has twelve layers, each layer representing a step towards heaven.

This is the universally acknowledged ironclad rule for classifying the physique of the Saint Realm. Each transformation of the Primordial Body represents an ultimate leap in physical strength. The first level of the Primordial Body in the early Saint Realm involves tempering the physical body with Primordial Qi, resulting in terrifyingly hard physique.

It is no exaggeration to say that even if ten thousand peak God King cultivators, wielding Saint-level weapons, slashed at them day and night with all their might, they could withstand the attack entirely with their physical defenses as a first-level Primordial Chaos Body cultivator, without needing any armor or spiritual energy protection. Their bodies would remain completely unharmed.

The higher the level of the Primordial Body, the more abnormal its abilities, and the more mysterious and boundless its accompanying physical supernatural powers.

This Heavenly Saint Pill can be disassembled to extract the Primordial Qi within, which can be used to temper magical treasures and forge divine weapons. Alternatively, it can be swallowed directly to quickly forge a Primordial Saint Body and dominate all directions.

Su Mu shook his head and chuckled to himself. Forging weapons was time-consuming, laborious, and incredibly tedious, something he had never bothered to delve into. He would never bury himself in the art of weapon forging in this lifetime; it would be much easier and more secure to focus on raising a group of adopted sons and daughters and steadily building up his own and his subordinates' overall combat strength with the system's continuous rewards.

"With the blessing of the Time Sacred Talisman and the Heavenly Sacred Pill, I barely have the means to contend with the Saint Realm and survive in desperate situations."

Su Mu pondered for a moment, but his eyes did not show complete joy. Instead, they were slightly solemn: "But with these trump cards alone, we can only passively protect ourselves at best. It is still far from enough to seize opportunities and compete for treasures from Saint Realm experts in the secret realm."

The rewards Song Qingmei received for this breakthrough were already incredibly powerful, yet they still couldn't support him recklessly venturing into the secret realm and directly confronting Saint Realm experts. Su Mu couldn't help but feel a pang of regret and sigh.

Not long after, Song Qingmei, who had successfully broken through, came to Su Mu to share the good news. Her eyes were full of joy and clarity after the breakthrough.

Seeing this, Su Mu was very generous and readily bestowed upon her a large amount of top-notch cultivation resources to help her stabilize her realm and solidify her foundation.

This reward was a mixed blessing for him.

The good news is that he is no longer helpless against Saint Realm experts and has a real trump card to protect himself; the bad news is that this means can only barely protect him and has a very low margin for error, which is not enough to support him in competing for treasures and seizing opportunities in the secret realm.

There is still a month left before responding to Xiao Xuance and finalizing the arrangements for traveling together in the secret realm. Su Mu can only wait patiently, hoping that his disciples will break through again, unlock more system rewards, and make up for their own shortcomings.

For the next two weeks, Su Mu lived a peaceful and leisurely life. He spent his days with his wife and children, enjoying family time, and his nights were spent cultivating with Xiao Yunshang, complementing each other and steadily improving his cultivation. He was content with his life.

As time went by, Song Pingchao, Chai Min, and others showed no signs of making a breakthrough.

Su Mu's resolve gradually wavered, and he even considered giving up the treasure hunt in the secret realm.

Deep within that secret realm, there existed a supreme expert who had one foot in the Great Saint realm. The unparalleled opportunities contained therein indeed aroused his covetousness and excitement.

In the path of cultivation, life comes first. One must have the life to seize treasures, but even more importantly, one must have the life to protect them and escape unharmed.

If he rashly enters the game without sufficient resources, and is defeated and dies, all his life's cultivation, hard-earned resources, power, and family will become someone else's spoils. Su Mu would never gamble with his wife being cherished by others, his children being bullied by others, and his business being controlled by others.

Just as Su Mu had made up his mind to send a message to Xiao Xuance in the coming days to politely decline the trip to the secret realm, news came from Dark Star.

Zhao Lei, who was stationed on Dark Star, made a special trip back to Tianyuan Star to see Su Mu.

It turned out that the Star Palace had already dispatched a Great God Realm cultivator to Dark Star to replace Zhao Lei in his post. Zhao Lei was supposed to return to the Star Palace immediately to report back, but due to an urgent matter, he rushed back to Tianyuan Star to pay his respects to his godfather, Su Mu.

Upon hearing Zhao Lei's purpose, Su Mu was slightly taken aback, then his eyes flashed with brilliant light, and his face lit up with joy: "You said you are about to condense your Heavenly Form?"

Zhao Lei nodded emphatically, his expression a mixture of trepidation and anticipation: "Godfather, I sense that my cultivation is nearing its critical point. I only need one last bit of foundation to condense the Heavenly Manifestation and break through to the Heavenly God realm. However, I am not confident in breaking through on my own, so before returning to the Star Palace, I came to seek refuge with you first. Breaking through by your side will be safer and more secure."

Su Mu instantly understood his thoughts.

The so-called lack of foundation and uncertainty is, in essence, a desire to obtain another batch of top-tier resources to ensure a safe breakthrough.

Zhao Lei's breakthrough this time is a great transformation from the Great God Realm to the Heavenly God Realm!

The system reward for breaking through to the Celestial God Realm is of a much higher grade than that for ordinary Great God Realm breakthroughs. It is highly likely that it can make up for his shortcomings and give him the confidence to explore secret realms and compete in the Holy Realm!

This unexpected surprise put Su Mu in a great mood, and without hesitation, he generously bestowed upon Zhao Lei a massive amount of top-tier cultivation resources.

"I will provide you with all the resources you need." Su Mu's eyes were filled with a confident smile as he finished speaking: "I will take you to a secret realm. Breaking through there will be twice as effective with half the effort, and the speed will far exceed that of the outside world."

After saying that, he led Zhao Lei directly into the Time Mirror.

With a vast supply of medicinal pills as a foundation, coupled with the time-flowing speed of the Time Mirror, Su Mu was certain that Zhao Lei would be able to break through smoothly before the agreed-upon time with Xiao Xuance arrived.

The system rewards for this breakthrough will directly determine whether he ventures into the secret realm and enters the treasure hunt.

The waiting time is the most agonizing.

After Zhao Lei entered the Time Mirror for seclusion, Su Mu had the illusion that every second felt like an eternity, his heart filled with anxiety and anticipation. This torment of time standing still was far more unbearable than a mortal waiting for the countdown to the end of the workday.

What was a short half-day felt like centuries to Su Mu.

Fortunately, all the waiting paid off.

A crisp and pleasant system notification sound finally rang in Su Mu's mind right on time!

[Congratulations to Zhao Lei, the adopted son of the master, on advancing to the early stage of the Celestial God Realm. The system reward has been deposited into the warehouse. Please check it.]

The sudden notification sound made Su Mu's heart skip a beat and his emotions surge. At that moment, he was affectionately nuzzling Su Changsheng's tender little face, and accidentally pressed the little guy's cheek so hard that it became slightly dented.

"Daddy hurts! You bad daddy!"

Su Changsheng's childish voice rang out, her little hands patting Su Mu's cheeks incessantly. Her soft, sweet voice instantly pulled Su Mu back from his wandering thoughts.

Su Mu quickly composed himself and gently coaxed the little guy, soon making his eyes crinkle with joy. He then instructed Jinzi to take the two brothers, Su Changsheng and Su Song, to play in the sky, while he himself sat in meditation, eagerly opening the system warehouse to check Zhao Lei's breakthrough reward.

Four Saint-level Treasures!

Moreover, the lowest grade is Saint-level high-grade, including two Saint-level high-grade items and two Saint-level supreme-grade items. The quality of the rewards and the strength of the combat power far exceed those of the past!

Su Mu first looked at the two Saint-level high-grade rewards: the Void Refining Sword Formation and the Seven-Colored Illusion Pearl.

The Refining Void Sword Formation is a deadly formation that relies on the laws of nature as its core and magical artifacts as its foundation. Its most extraordinary characteristic is that it does not require mastery of the profound mysteries of formations. Anyone who comprehends the laws of nature and possesses four foundational magical artifacts can activate the formation to take shape, possessing terrifying power capable of slaying gods and killing saints.