Following Lin Yu's gaze, he saw a slender figure standing in the hall before him.
She wore a simple white robe, gold collar and bracelets, and her orange hair was braided into three plaits that hung behind her. A calm smile rested on her stunning yet mature face.
"Do I still need to explain?"
The translucent orange-haired beauty shrugged. "Frieren has already explained everything that needed explaining for me. Are you asking now because you want to hear me apologize?"
By the end, Flamme's tone carried a hint of teasing mockery.
Lin Yu was not annoyed. He studied her with interest. "It seems you aren't surprised by your current state..."
"Of course not!"
Flamme glanced at her translucent soul body and sighed. "I knew long ago that with a monster like you watching from the side, even death would be a luxury for me."
"So you didn't dare come to Ridge Peak City to see me until you died?"
"Mm... you could put it that way!"
Flamme folded her arms and chuckled. "An existence like you may not understand, but dying of old age is an exceptionally precious experience."
Lin Yu raised a brow. "Oh?"
Flamme sighed with emotion. "During the final years of my life, I continued cultivating my spiritual realm and carrying out the Immortality Experiment between you and me."
"But the more I cultivated, the more clearly I realized one fact—"
"That humanity has limits in the realm of the spirit!"
"As long as one remains bound by the flesh and tethered by emotion, one can never reach the realm of a god."
"Since we cannot remain eternal and unchanging like gods, then allowing generation after generation of humans to forever remain vibrant and young through reproduction—would that not be an even grander form of immortality?"
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