"You should get up too."

After helping Emperor Zi Fu up, my grandfather also gave me a little push.

"Little Divine Phoenix Chao Ruo pays respects to Emperor Zi Fu, Emperor Cang Xi, Emperor Yu Shan, Emperor Mize. May all the Emperors be well and blessed."

I quickly stood up, approached the goddess, and bowed to the emperors in turn.

Perhaps seeing that I was unusually sensible today, the emperors each gave me an ascension gift.

But it scared me quite a bit. Although I've tried to extort money before, I never imagined I'd be extorting money from several emperors.

Moreover, apart from Emperor Yushan who gave me several boxes of Spirit Fruit, the other emperors gave me things I had never seen before.

The Purple Emperor gave me a stubborn stone called "Mysterious Cup," which is said to be an object from beyond the heavens. After refining it, one can obtain a primordial spiritual treasure of any shape. However, with my current cultivation level, it is of little use to me. But since it was given to me by a goddess, I will keep it safe.

The gift from Emperor Cangxi was a delicate pagoda-shaped hairpin, which he called "Niao Niao Chun Fan" (袅袅春幡). It sounded very scholarly, and he didn't tell me what it was for. But since the emperor gave it as a gift and he seemed to care about it, I figured it must be something special.

The gift from Emperor Mi Ze resembled a luminous pearl from the East Sea. I initially thought it was a valuable treasure, but he said it was a living creature and told me to take good care of myself.

This made me both happy and apprehensive.

Even after returning to Liushang Palace, I still couldn't quite believe it, and I regretted not saying more to the goddess. I was overwhelmed with emotions and couldn't sit still.

Around dusk, Mo Han finally had time to come and keep me company.

I talked to him for three whole hours about the Purple Emperor, and asked him many questions about the Purple Emperor's heroic deeds, before I finally snapped out of the shock of seeing the goddess with my own eyes.

Moreover, it is said that the new ten-year trial of the Source of the Floating Pool for newly promoted deities is being led by Emperor Zi Fu.

The thought of spending ten years with my goddess fills me with excitement.

So in the days that followed, I stayed close behind Mo Han, never leaving his side.

After all, she was Mo Han's superior, and she and Mo Han were leading the team in this trial. If he followed Mo Han, he would definitely be able to see her again.

During this period, Gu Changzhou came to see me several more times, each time turning it into a butterfly hairpin and pinning it to my head, as if he had built a nest on my head.

Moreover, they chatter incessantly, talking nonsense. I really don't know if it's the loss of humanity or the decline of morality.

How did that gentle and refined young man with a smile as lovely as a peach blossom become a butterfly spirit who talks nonsense all day long and throws butterfly hairpins at the slightest disagreement?

But I finally understand how he, a mortal, suddenly became a god, and why he called me "Master" one minute and "Mother" the next.

According to him, in his previous life he was an ordinary red butterfly. He gained sentience and shed his mortal body by receiving a breath of my divine energy, thus becoming a butterfly spirit.

He was taken in as my disciple in my past life, so he can be considered both my disciple and my son.

Although I still can't accept this fact, seeing how sincere he was, and the fact that he doesn't even remember his real name but still remembers this matter, I think he wasn't lying to me.

As for his transformation from a mortal to a deity, he said it was due to something called a "companionate tribulation," but he couldn't remember the specifics. His mind was sometimes sharp and sometimes dull, and he wasn't quite normal. It's hard to know if this is true or not.