As soon as Xiu Qiyan finished speaking, the tearful Liu Yansong froze for a moment. His face was filled with astonishment and confusion, his lips trembling slightly as he uttered a few words with difficulty: "What... When..."

Xiu Qiyan took a deep breath, slowly calmed the surging emotions in his heart, and then began to tell Liu Yansong about the long-forgotten past.

Eighteen years ago, Liu Yansong was not an elder in Wuxing Academy, and Xiu Qiyan was still the dean of Wuxing Academy.

At that time, Liu Yansong had just taken the pregnancy pill and hadn't had time to tell Xiu Qiyan when she received a letter from her family. However, Xiu Qiyan was leading his disciples in a trial in the secret realm at the time, so Liu Yansong had no choice but to leave a letter and return to his hometown, Youzhou.

When Liu Yansong just arrived in Youzhou, the local famous weapon-making family, the Shi family, heard that the Liu family owned a rare treasure. They became greedy and even tried to kill people and steal the treasure through cruel means.

As a powerful family, the Shi family's strength is astonishing. Not only are there many family members, but each of them has a high level of cultivation.

Faced with such a powerful enemy, although the Liu family fought hard, they were ultimately outnumbered and were eventually massacred by the Shi family.

In that brutal confrontation, only Liu Yansong survived because of his powerful cultivation.

However, the Shi family clearly had no intention of letting Liu Yansong, a fish that had slipped through their net, go unpunished. Therefore, they dispatched a large number of experts to relentlessly pursue Liu Yansong and set up a trap along the route to the imperial capital.

Liu Yansong naturally knew that the historian would never give up easily, so the injured Liu Yansong could only hide from place to place and did not dare to relax at all.

After hiding for a few months, fate seemed to have played another cruel joke on Liu Yansong.

That child came at a very bad time.

After a painful struggle, Liu Yansong resolutely made a difficult decision so that his child could survive safely and avoid having to live this precarious life with him.

Liu Yansong found a wealthy couple without children and quietly placed the child at their doorstep under cover of night.

He waited quietly in the dark, watching the kind-looking woman open the door and joyfully carry the child into the house. Only then did Liu Yansong turn and leave with an extremely heavy heart.

However, Liu Yansong did not know at that time that a man covered in wounds and unconscious was lying on the bed in the couple's home.

And that man was Xiu Qiyan.