But in such circumstances, for such a reason.
Was this truly what she wanted?
Within the Abyss, an even longer, suffocating silence fell.
Only the silent, surging emotions between the two of them—complex beyond measure—collided and intertwined within the Chaos Demonic Qi.
After a long while.
The violent turmoil in the Female Emperor's eyes slowly subsided, returning to an unfathomably deep stillness.
Yet upon closer inspection, something within that stillness seemed to have loosened slightly.
She slowly spoke. Her voice remained cold, but it held less absolute indifference and more scrutiny and deliberation.
"Release the restraints and let you leave?"
She sneered.
"And then? You'd leave and never return? Just as you did time and again in the past, abandoning me to face everything alone?"
Tan Lin fell silent.
He understood her concerns.
Back then, he had repeatedly left without a word, or forcibly suppressed her wishes. He had indeed left shadows and distrust too deep in her heart.
Especially after he had successfully achieved Nirvana, when she had gone so far as to imprison him to keep him by her side. That only further revealed the extreme fear of "loss" buried deep within her heart.
"My Immortal Platform has been pierced by the divine chains, and my primordial spirit is also restrained by the Emperor's patterns and the greater forces here."
He calmly stated the facts.
At the same time, he voluntarily loosened part of his mental defenses, allowing the Female Emperor's divine sense to clearly perceive his current condition.
"Even if I possessed Heaven-Piercing abilities, I could not escape in this state..."
The Female Emperor's divine sense swept over him and confirmed that there was no fluctuation in his consciousness. He had not deceived her.
The nine Immortal Gold Divine Chains had not only locked down his physical