Bearing and Inheritance

"Given Lord Xilos's current condition, most likely..."

"She would die."

Taking a deep breath, Mei Fu's eyes dimmed in an instant. At the same time, the bright green light in the room fell into an unbearable silence.

Beside her, Long Aoshuang and Shimada Yukimi both turned pale. Their lips parted slightly, but neither said anything.

"Don't worry. I don't think Lord Xilos intended to hide this from Lord Shen Yi or from you."

A bitter smile appeared on Mei Fu's face, and an almost imperceptible suppression passed through her eyes. Though it lasted only an instant, Shen Yi caught the downward tremble of her lashes with perfect precision.

"Normally, if a natural elf does not encounter any accidents, their natural lifespan is absurdly long. No elf lives less than three thousand years."

"What?! Three thousand years?!"

Long Aoshuang's eyes widened.

For an ordinary human, even a hundred years could be called a long life. Even with medical care and all kinds of resources, it was extremely difficult to cross the dead line of one hundred and twenty years.

Compared to the Elf race, the lifespan of Blue Star humans was as brief as a flash of fire on the horizon, gone in the blink of an eye. Even Fei Mi's age seemed insignificant when compared to an elf's natural lifespan.

"Yes, and that is only their natural lifespan. Once an elf achieves a breakthrough in strength, someone like Lord Xilos would normally measure her lifespan in tens of thousands of years." Mei Fu nodded. Hearing Long Aoshuang's doubts about Xilos and the Elf race's lifespans, her expression darkened further.

"Then what about the other elves? With lifespans as long as the Elf race's, shouldn't there have been many clansmen left behind? How could Xilos have been left to support the