Hearing Xu Xianxian's question, Ellie seemed to remember something, and a hint of inexplicable fear was revealed in her tone. She trembled and said, "I... I don't know. I had arrived at the Hall of Deep Springs, but when I was about to cross the Tuomu Bridge, there was a big earthquake... I fell off the bridge, and when I woke up, I found that I was back... Emperor Letor, I really didn't think that I would see little Dekle again. It's just that everything is different from when I left..."

“???”

The other party's words were a bit incoherent, and Xu Xianxian's face was full of question marks. She couldn't help but put the small axe back.

"Please speak slowly. I'm having trouble understanding you." She forced a kind smile and asked softly, "What are the Hall of Deep Springs and the Bridge of Tuomu? I've traveled from the far other side and have never heard of these two places."

Xu Xianxian felt that things were not as simple as she thought, so she directly grasped these two key words.

"Deep Spring Hall..." Ellie's eyes were filled with memories and emotion. "That's where all souls belong. Once you cross the Tuomu Bridge, your memories of your past life will be wiped clean and you'll be reincarnated anew. I still remember that I died of illness at the age of thirty-two. Little Dekle was only sixteen that year, with short chestnut hair and freckles on his face. He was very shy when he smiled. I also remember that he had a crush on Bellis from Edward's family next door, and he always asked me to help him call her over for dinner. And..."

Although Ellie's voice sounds very young, her nagging words are indeed those of an old lady. Xu Xianxian did not interrupt her story which was immersed in memories, but tried her best to discern the meaning of every sentence.

Then her new discovery overturned her previous judgment.

The name of the owner of the log is most likely the little Derek mentioned by the other party, and Ellie is Derek's mother, not the daughter or sister as Xu Xianxian had guessed before.

Derek was sixteen years old when Ellie died of illness. It seems that the creatures in this world will go to a place called Deep Spring Hall after death, which is the gathering place of the dead.

But when Derek was nearly fifty years old, Ellie returned from the dead.

"Something inexplicably happened in Deep Spring Hall, causing the dead to return to the living world. The speed of time in the two places is completely opposite, or perhaps the dead perceive time differently. This is why Ellie's ghost is in the form of a young girl, while Derek was already over fifty."

Xu Xianxian fell into deep thought. She recalled the information in the log and realized that the date Ellie first appeared in the log was the third day after the collapse began.

But Derek did not record in detail how he encountered the ghost of his mother when she was young.

"In other words, the third day of the collapse is when the world's life and death system begins to break down. The great earthquake in Deep Spring Hall that Ellie mentioned probably occurred at this time."

"The fact that this world has a complete reincarnation system that distinguishes the living from the dead shows that its energy level is not low. However, it perished so quickly. The reason behind this may not be as simple as Derek described."

What surprised Xu Xianxian even more was that Ellie was just the ghost of an ordinary person, whose soul would dissipate in one or two hundred years at most, but she seemed to have stayed there for a long time.

Even the demon corpses imprisoned in this basement were worn away over a long period of time, so how did Ellie exist?

Can this be applied to the ultimate experiment of breaking through the limits of the soul?

Thinking of this, Xu Xianxian's breathing began to quicken, and an inexplicable desire for knowledge flashed in her dark eyes. This was the instinct of a legendary wizard. When encountering things that she could not understand for the time being, she would have this desire for exploration and curiosity.

Breaking through the limits of the soul is not only a matter pursued by legendary wizards, but also an important matter pursued by all material life.

There are countless ways to extend the lifespan of the physical body, but maintaining physical immortality is of limited use, often limited by the limits of one's species' innate talents. Once these limits are reached, the soul naturally dissipates. This is the fundamental, universal rule governing the operation of the material universe; unless one transcends time, there is no escape from this outcome.

Ordinary humans are short-lived, with a maximum lifespan of 120 years. Legendary humans have some exemptions from the rules, so the limit of their souls can be between 500 and 2,000 years. If they exceed the limit, they will suffer the five decays of heaven and turn into ashes.

Fairies are immortal, blessed by the World Tree, and their lifespans generally exceed a thousand years. Many legendary fairies have souls that limit their lifespans to over ten thousand years, with a very small number capable of lasting tens of thousands of years. However, advancing to the next level is far more difficult for fairies than for humans.

As for life forms above demigod level, they have already exceeded the material limits, jumped into the long river of time and passed the baptism. They are semi-regularized individuals with long-standing soul limits. Different rules also make their limits different.

But in the final analysis, even demigods still have soul limits and can only live long but not forever.

Only the throne of true God can achieve eternal life.

Ellie is just an undead, of course she can't be immortal, but such an existence period seems to have far exceeded the limits of human beings, even longer than that of ordinary legendary creatures.

"If every undead could live this long, this world would have collapsed long ago... Could it be that Ellie is special, that she possesses divinity?"

Xu Xianxian thought of a possibility, and a bit of greed arose in her heart, so she slowly pulled out the small axe from behind.

She had pulled the small axe back and forth many times. This time, no matter what, she had to smash the undead and the door into pieces.

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