Watching Lin Chuan and the others disappear into the burning flames, the woman in green beside the Azure Emperor—Bu Lianshi's mother—could no longer hold herself together, and sorrow showed on her face.
"Don't be sad. Being able to see our daughter and son-in-law here is already a blessing in this life. I have no regrets," the Azure Emperor said softly.
Over the long years, his heart had long since died. Everything in Longevity Heaven was nothing more than a cage to him. He could not escape it, yet he did not wish to face it either.
He had originally thought his life would simply go on like that, but at this moment, he saw his only child—the one attachment he still had to the outside world. Though Bu Lianshi had also become trapped in the Longevity Realm, at least they had been reunited.
Yet this reunion could only be brief. What Lin Chuan and the others were about to do was something no one in the entire Longevity Realm had ever succeeded in accomplishing since ancient times. Though danger came with opportunity, he truly did not want Lin Chuan and the others to take such a risk. But he had no way to stop them.
He could tell that neither Lin Chuan nor even Bu Lianshi placed absolute trust in them. After all, this was the Longevity Realm; one could never be too cautious. Even if they had confirmed they were family, who knew what had happened over those endless tens of thousands of years? Who could say whether the Supreme One Clan had completely controlled the Azure Emperor?
These were the doubts Lin Chuan and the others held.
And as Bu Lianshi's family, they could not simply place a Caged Bird on them as Lin Chuan had done to