Many descendants

[No wonder the travel expenses were so expensive!] Su Yan suddenly realized.

She wandered with her children for millennia, never escaping the flow of time. The difference in time flow between the system world and the beast world is so vast, demonstrating just how immense the distance is!

“A year here is only a day there,” Su Yan said to Zi Qi.

Then she looked down at Xiao Mumu and said, "If I missed your childhood, will you blame your mother, baby?"

"I don't blame you," Xiao Mumu shook her head. But in her clear, big eyes, there was no real intimacy, only a hint of unfamiliarity and distance.

"Little Mumu is such a good girl." Su Yan gently kissed her fair and beautiful forehead, then looked at Wen Jin, "You've worked so hard taking care of both of them by yourself."

"No, only Xiao Mumu often follows me. Xiao Zhaozhao is mostly at Dongxian Palace. Thank you for your help, Your Majesty." Wen Jin bowed to Ziqi in thanks.

Ziqi waved her hand, "Don't be so polite, Xiao Zhaozhao is also my daughter."

At this moment, Xiao Zhaozhao went to play with Xiao Lingdang and Xiao Beier again.

The three mice, though different in color, are clearly sisters.

Envy shone in Xiao Mumu's bright eyes. She clearly wanted to play with them too, but compared to them, she was already very tall and big.

Su Yan picked her up and sat her on her lap. "Little Mu Mu, do you want to learn the Transformation Technique so you can become like them?"

"Yes!" Xiao Mumu replied immediately.

Su Yan smiled and said, "Okay, Mother will teach you the art of transformation another day."

"Thank you, Mother." Little Mu Mu finally cheered up a bit.

"Little Eleven, Little Dot~ you two come here." Su Yan called to the two older children.

"Mom, are you going to give me a gift?" Little Eleven rubbed his two little front paws together and asked with a fawning smile.

Little Eleven didn't feel anything about not seeing Su Yan for more than ten years. For slow-growing cubs like them, ten years was no different from ten days.

"There are gifts, but we'll distribute them all together when Mother returns with her brothers and sisters from the God Realm," Su Yan said with a smile.

Xiao Shiyi's eyes lit up immediately. "I'll go tell Xiaomi Qi right away."

He ran out without even realizing why Su Yan had called him.

Little Dot still remembers, "Mom, what is it?"

Su Yan said to Zi Qi, "Whether a person is steady or not depends entirely on their innate qualities."

"..." Ziqi laughed, "It's alright."

Su Yan said to Xiao Diandian, "Bring little Mu Mu along and play together."

"Okay, Mom." Little Dot immediately went to Little Mumu's side. "Little Mumu, let's go dig a hole in the garden."

The others immediately responded when they heard about digging a tunnel.

A group of children ran out again.

"The growth of humans and beastmen is very different," Pei Xuan sighed, "both physically and mentally."

Zi Qi's eyes flickered as he looked at Su Yan. He had also noticed Xiao Mu Mu's reaction to Su Yan earlier. "Beast cubs are born with the ability to distinguish their father or mother beast, and they are very affectionate towards them. But humans seem to have lost this bloodline intuition."

“Yes.” Su Yan felt it most deeply. “Xiao Zhaozhao treats me like any other child, and that feeling can’t be changed by time or distance. But Xiao Mumu, I lacked companionship during her childhood…”

Su Yan suddenly thought of Xiao Shiliu. Wasn't it the same? She missed her entire childhood. To her, Su Yan was just a close stranger.

“That’s just how Xiao Mumu is, she’s rather introverted.” Wen Jin quickly explained, worried that Su Yan might not like Xiao Mumu, “She probably takes after me.”

“She looks just like you.” Su Yan smiled. “It’s alright, as long as she’s happy and healthy, that’s all that matters. It was my carelessness.”

He looked outside again and said, "I'll take care of her for a while later."

“Okay,” Wen Jin readily agreed.

Outside, Xiao Mumu patted the dirt off her hands with a hint of disgust, and finally took out a shovel from her small storage bag to dig a hole. Even after digging out the small storage bag, she didn't want it.

Xiao Zhaozhao came up to her, looked at her shovel and the small storage bags that had been tossed aside, and said, "Little sister, I'm thirsty. Could you ask Dad to get me a bottle of water?"

"Okay." Xiao Mumu put the little shovel down and went to get the water.

Xiao Shiyi came over, looked at the hole Xiao Mumu had dug, and said to Xiao Diandian, "She doesn't like digging holes, how about we play cards later?"

“Okay,” Little Dot replied.

Little Bell and Little Bell poked their heads out of the mouse hole and stared at Little Mumu's pit.

Little Belle said, "Brother Fengning clearly likes digging mouse holes."

Little Bell replied, "Because Brother Fengning is only in human form, he is not actually human, that's what my father said."

"Sister Little Pomegranate, are you a human?" Little Belle asked.

"Hmm. But Sister Pomegranate is obviously an adult. When will we grow up?" Little Bell asked.

Xiao Zhaozhao looked at Xiao Mumu, who was running over carrying several bottles of water, and sighed.

……

Dongxian Palace became lively again.

Su Yan went to the God Realm and secretly summoned the children back to the system space. They returned together with Xiao Miqi.

Ziqi was very happy when she saw this, especially her two sons, Xiao Ba and Xiao Shiqi.

But upon learning that Su Yan had summoned the child secretly without telling the father beasts, they hurriedly sent them communication talismans, telling them not to rush to find the child.

In the Hall of Teachings, several more chairs have been added to the long table.

The children sat obediently around the table, waiting to receive their gifts...

This time, Su Yan didn't hand them out one by one. Instead, she prepared hundreds of small storage bags, hung them on a shelf, and let the children choose their favorites by chance.

Xiaoqi was the first to rush over and grab one.

As soon as I got it, I emptied the contents of the small storage bag. There was only one golden grape inside. I smelled it... and it smelled incredibly sweet.

I tried taking a bite, and my eyes widened immediately!

Staring at Su Yan in shock, she asked, "Mother, what kind of treasure is this?"

Su Yan smiled and said, "Our Xiao Qi is so lucky. This is a fruit of the World Tree, which is very rare."

There are thirty-one storage bags, but only one of them contains golden grapes.

"Let me try some?" Xiao Miqi also came over, took a bite, and looked at Su Yan with her bright, angelic eyes, "Mommy~"

“Calling for Mom won’t help, Mom doesn’t have any left~ But I can take you to find this fruit.” Su Yan said with a smile.

Xiaomiqi nodded eagerly, "I'll go, I'll go."

The other children also clamored to follow Su Yan.

"Given that travel expenses were too high in the past, this time Mom will take one child with her so they can have a proper trip, but it can't interfere with Mom's work."

Manman raised her wings and said, "Mommy, can we play Aunt Xiaomei's game? It's been so long since we played it."

"Okay, your Auntie Xiaomei couldn't be happier." Su Yan picked up Manman and kissed the little tuft of hair on her head. "Our Manman is getting prettier and prettier."

It has completely shed its gray downy feathers, now covered in crimson feathers like the rising sun, and paired with its standard phoenix eyes, it is dazzlingly beautiful.

Manman nuzzled against Su Yan, saying, "It's all because my mother gave birth to me."

"Haha~ That's right." Su Yan stroked her gorgeous feathers and then looked at Little Eighteen.

Little Eighteen hasn't molted yet and is in an awkward stage, looking grayish-brown, but he's very confident, thinking he's cool and handsome, the best in the world, and unmatched by any phoenix!

Xiao Shi emptied a small bag from her little storage pouch. It was pure white, with an exquisitely crafted chain and a pair of angel wings on it, as if it had been meticulously made just for her.

Inside the small bag were some rare and precious herbs and colorful candies. "Thank you, Mom, I really like this gift."

One after another, communication talismans flew in from outside.

There are Zong Sili's, Qing Linghuan's, Yu Hao's, Rong Ruo's, and Zhu Sanlang's... Ming Linyuan is currently in seclusion for cultivation.

You don't even need to look to know they're all here to ask her for their children back.

"Any babies wanting to return to the God Realm? If not, we're about to embark on a journey to other worlds~" Su Yan said with a smile.

Xiao Ba excitedly jumped onto the table, "Mom, I want to go on a trip too!"

"..." Isn't this child's reaction time a bit too long? It took him so long to realize it.

Su Yan lifted him off the table, kissed his forehead, and adored the beautiful, golden baby. She loved him to death.

"Okay, I'll take you there. By the way, where's your master?"

"My master is at the Ancestral Dragon Tomb. He said that after the world was divided into six realms, some places became ruins and needed to be cleansed."

"Ruins? What's that?"

"Broken rules".

Xiaomi Qi raised her hand, "I know, my master is in Suqingxu."

……