"He's my friend!" Liu Tiantian said.

Liu Xin frowned, staring at Chen Nan: "What kind of friend? In my opinion, this young man is no ordinary person."

He may not be a cultivator, but he's been in the business world for many years, with eyes sharp enough to judge a person's complexities just by their gaze.

"Uncle Liu, there's no need to doubt me; I certainly won't harm Tiantian." Chen Nan said earnestly.

Liu Xin replied calmly: "How will you prove it?"

"Dad, why are you so suspicious, imagining things? He's my boyfriend, how would he harm me!" Liu Tiantian muttered.

Liu Xin didn't speak. He stared into Chen Nan's eyes, then nodded after a moment of silence and turned to Liu Tiantian: "Tiantian, I knew this day would come sooner or later, though I didn't expect it to be so early. Yes, you're indeed not my biological child. Your biological parents were powerful cultivators capable of flying and escaping."

"Then what is your relationship with my biological parents?" Liu Tiantian asked.

Liu Xin was silent for a moment and said: "This question should be asked to your biological parents when you return to the Liu family."

"Is this still a secret?" Liu Tiantian asked.

Liu Xin picked up a piece of paper from the desk, wrote an address, and handed it to Liu Tiantian: "This is the address of your Liu family. You should go back."

Liu Tiantian took the paper and said seriously: "Dad, I'll return after one trip. It doesn't matter if I'm your biological child or not, you raised me, so you and mom will always be my parents."

Liu Xin's expression became complicated upon hearing these words.

After a while, he shook his hand and said: "Silly child, go on, as long as you remember us in your heart, your mother and I will be satisfied."

"Hehe, don't worry, dad. I'm just going to the Liu family to fetch something, I'll be back in a few days! Although both are surnamed Liu, I'll always follow your name, not theirs." Liu Tiantian said happily, waving to Liu Xin as she left the office with Chen Nan.

Watching their figures disappear, the smile on Liu Xin's face gradually faded, replaced by disappointment.

"Silly child, I'm a criminal of the Liu family. If not for you, I would've been stripped of the Liu surname." Liu Xin sighed, putting down the pen in his hand.

...

Chen Nan and Liu Tiantian left the building together and flew eastward.

According to Liu Xin's information, the Liu family isn't located on the Huaxia Continent but on an island in the East Sea.

The island is hundreds of miles away from the Huaxia Continent, not far from the abandoned island that once sealed the Void Rift. Chen Nan estimated it to be within one hundred kilometers. Around four in the afternoon, Chen Nan landed on the island where the Liu family is located, with Liu Tiantian.

From a distance, the island was covered in trees, lush and green, with no buildings in sight, making it hard to imagine people living here.

"Cousin, did we go to the wrong place?"

Liu Tiantian looked at the endless forest before her, scratching her head in bewilderment.

"Couldn't be wrong, I've checked the map; your father gave this place as the address. Let's look around more." Chen Nan took Liu Tiantian and flew again, heading forward.

The island covers an extensive area, approximately two thousand square kilometers, the size of an average county.

Chen Nan flew and observed the entire island from above but didn't spot a single person.

Helplessly, Chen Nan had to narrow the search scope.

On the island, weapons moved about; from the sky, Chen Nan could only see two kilometers away.

Next, he circled two kilometers from the shore around the island, yet still didn't find the Liu family's location or see any other creatures besides insects and beasts.

Chen Nan, now helpless, again narrowed his search.

This time, amidst the trees in the eastern part of the island, Chen Nan saw a rather peculiar stone gate.

The stone gate was roughly seven or eight meters wide, more than ten meters high, grand in scale, with ancient designs carved on the stone frame, depicting figures who seemed to ride clouds, emitting an aura of Immortal Energy despite being stone engravings.

Yet the strange thing was, the stone gate appeared to have no interior or exterior, with identical sides and no other construction.

Rather than calling it a stone gate, it could be referred to as a stone frame.

Chen Nan landed on the ground and walked step by step toward the stone gate.

Liu Tiantian couldn't help but mutter: "What kind of broken gate is this, just like a decoration."

Just as she spoke, the entire stone frame trembled fiercely, and a voice, as if from nowhere, said: "As a member of the Liu family, how can you call your home's gate broken."

The two hurriedly scanned around but saw nothing.

Liu Tiantian asked in confusion: "Who are you? How do you know I'm a member of the Liu family?"

"Nineteen years away, enter now."

The voice came again, and a layer of white light appeared on the stone frame, filled with Immortal Energy.

Chen Nan held Liu Tiantian's hand and walked step by step toward the white light.

As they stepped into the white light, with a "swish," Chen Nan felt a brightness in front of him, the scenery around changed drastically, presenting ancient buildings, each seemingly arranged by some mysterious formation.

"What is this place?"

Liu Tiantian exclaimed immediately, having never seen such a strange phenomenon.

"This is your home, the independent world of the Liu family." A woman's voice came, and not far ahead, a young woman in purple gauze walked over.

The woman carried an aura of Immortal Energy, gracefully approaching with each step.

Chen Nan was startled. Despite his cultivation, he couldn't discern the young woman's cultivation level or real age, she felt mysterious and powerful.

"Calling you sister? Youth is always good." Chen Nan asked.

The woman in purple frowned at Chen Nan and said: "This place was independently created based on the Human World, the Liu Family Illusion Realm."

Chen Nan was shaken; indeed, the Liu family was impressive, capable of creating an independent world!

What shocked him even more was the woman's age seemed far greater than expected, otherwise she wouldn't have frowned when called sister.

Just then, Liu Tiantian asked: "Sister Ziyi, where's the Life Source?"

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