Chapter 21: The Fairy's Power

Lu Xing took a deep breath, picked up the white ribbon, and bent down.

In an instant, a magnificent and awe-inspiring landscape—the collapse of a snowy mountain—unfolded before his eyes, shaking his very soul once more.

Why did Lu Xing bend over?

Any friend familiar with cross-dressing knows that one must bend over to properly put on a corset, ensuring it fits snugly and secures everything in place.

Lu Xing closed his eyes, forcing himself to calm down.

He used the ribbon to bind his chest, then wrapped it underneath, wearing the ribbon like a form-fitting swimsuit. Miraculously, there was no need to tie it; sensing his intent, the ribbon automatically tightened and clung to his body.

Lu Xing finally opened his eyes and looked at himself—no, at the Ice Fairy. She now appeared as if wearing a unique swimsuit, and he couldn't help but wonder how her exquisite figure would look once dampened by water...

Stop.

Lu Xing pulled up the dress that had fallen to his feet, put it back on, and used a red cord to tie up the Fairy’s waterfall-like hair. He had originally intended to tie it into a high ponytail, but given his aesthetic, he didn't like it. Instead, he tied the red cord at the very ends of her dark tresses, letting her hair hang loose while keeping it from being blown about by the wind.

He flipped the precious mirror over again and admired the cold, ethereal fairy in the reflection, feeling quite satisfied.

The tall and elegant fairy, dressed in a pure white, simple gown with her slender waist cinched and accented by the red hair ribbon, possessed a touch of humanity that softened her icy, desolate aura.

She smiled at the mirror, looking like a hundred flowers in full bloom.

Lu Xing quickly stiffened his face. If he kept looking, he would truly turn into a pervert.

He steadied his mind and noticed that the souls of the many beauties in the mirror had reappeared. This time, however, they did not harass him but watched silently, as if discussing something.

Lu Xing ignored them. Holding the mirror in his fair palm, he aimed it at an empty ice wall.

"Hum."

The mirror emitted a faint white light. Where the beam struck the ice, a hole as tall as a person silently appeared, extending far into the depths.

"That brat, using the Reincarnation Mirror like this!" one of the beauty souls in the mirror exclaimed in annoyance.

"Hee hee, isn't it interesting? A supreme treasure capable of cycling life and death, used by a fool just to clear a path. Truly, if you live long enough, you see everything!"

The girl in the blue dress within the mirror kicked her feet happily in a stream, her delicate jade feet splashing the clear spring water.

Under the gaze of the many souls, Lu Xing, clutching the mirror, walked barefoot across the ice, step by step.

The ice cavern where the Ice Fairy lived was extremely deep.

After walking at a normal human pace for several minutes, Lu Xing grew impatient. He exerted force through his feet and began to run forward quickly.

Any ice touched by the mirror's light instantly vanished into nothingness.

Fortunately, even though the Fairy had an ample figure, Lu Xing did not feel the "top-heavy" sensation one might expect; the Fairy's body felt light as a feather, making it very easy to run.

Of course, having tied the ribbon for her, Lu Xing knew her figure was quite substantial in all the right places, yet her waist remained incredibly slender.

After another ten minutes or so, Lu Xing began to wonder if he was heading toward the center of the earth, when a cold breeze finally wafted from ahead.

"Dug it out?"

The "Fairy" ran forward happily, her delicate jade feet treading on the ice.

Finally, the Fairy—no, Lu Xing—exited the ice cave and stood halfway up a mountain peak. A howling cold wind tore through the valley, whistling and moaning, the gale carrying fist-sized chunks of snow that swept across the world.

The sky was filled with white snowflakes, dark and gloomy. Countless mountain peaks stood in the distance like a winter forest in the north, covered in a vast, desolate expanse of snow.

Lu Xing was stunned by the sight.

In such terrifying weather, a normal person from Earth wouldn't survive an hour.

But the Ice Fairy—that is, Lu Xing at this moment—remained completely unmoved.

He stood in the storm, but the blizzard could not shake the Fairy's white gown. As the wind and snow reached him, an invisible force pushed the flakes away.

In this moment, Lu Xing understood the meaning of cultivating immortality.

To walk through the nine heavens and ten earths in a mortal body, to be transcendent and worldly, to no longer let the heavens obscure one's eyes or the earth bury one's heart, to leap out of reincarnation and watch the rise and fall of all beings from beyond the world.

The storm that would be a catastrophe for ordinary people was merely a scenic view to Lu Xing.

"Holding this mirror, one can go anywhere in the three realms and six paths!"

Lu Xing recalled the Ice Fairy's words once more. This time, he believed them seventy percent. With his chest swelling with spirit, he took a step forward.

His fair, jade-like feet left only a shallow print in the snow. Lu Xing glanced at the endless mountain peaks in the storm and began to hike.

A literal hike.

He wore neither shoes nor socks, walking barefoot on the ice and snow with the Fairy’s crystal-clear, jade-like feet. He stepped on the freezing ground, yet remained unstained by dust.

Lu Xing began to understand why the Fairy lived in a bone-chilling cave; to her, it made no difference where she lived.

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"Is he really a person from an Earth in another world?"

Inside the mirror, some of the souls who had been skeptical now observed Lu Xing carefully and had no choice but to believe it.

"I don't know if it's true, but his lack of magical ability doesn't seem faked."

"It's strange. If he isn't one of us, why can he use the Reincarnation Mirror?"

"Hee hee, like I said, if you live long enough, you see everything~. Don't you find it interesting?"

"It is interesting, but should we tell her?"

"No need. She will naturally wake up when she wants to know."

"Let's just see what this kid does!"

Lu Xing could not hear the whispers of the souls in the mirror. He continued to climb, and before long, he discovered a blade of grass in the storm, growing in the crevice of a giant rock.

"Is this the legendary spirit grass of the immortal cultivation world? Should I dig it up?"

Lu Xing was quite interested.

The fact that this blade of grass could grow in such frozen, snowy conditions, with no other plants around, made it almost one hundred percent certain to be a spirit plant.

According to the typical transmigrator protagonist in novels, digging up one such spirit herb in a single trip to the mountains would be a great harvest.

But with Lu Xing's current cultivation—that is, the Ice Fairy's—he reckoned that she would disdain digging up such a lowly herb.

"Pfft~"

The girl in the blue dress in the mirror laughed again and said, "That is just a common Snow Spirit Grass, and it hasn't even fruited yet. Why would you want to dig it up? Were you a beast of burden in your past life, craving grass? Hee hee."

Lu Xing put on an expression that clearly said, "I am not a beast of burden."

He was currently in the Fairy's body, and regardless of his expression, it remained transcendent and beautiful.

At this moment, inside a bamboo forest in the mirror, a girl holding a zither whispered, "Lord Lu Xing, you could spit a drop of your saliva onto the Snow Spirit Grass to make it bloom and fruit, then harvest it."

"...What? I should spit on it?"

Lu Xing doubted he had heard correctly, but looking into the mirror, he saw her blushing and nodding, confirming that was indeed the case.

Lu Xing touched his fair, smooth face and finally understood what was going on:

The Ice Fairy had a unique constitution, or perhaps her cultivation was so powerful that a drop of her fragrant nectar was enough to make ordinary herbs grow rapidly. If a mortal like Lu Xing were to taste it, it would likely cure all illnesses and prolong his life.

The Fairy’s nectar was comparable to the Ginseng Fruit!

"What is this nonsense?" the Empress in the mirror sneered. "Use the mirror to shine on it; that would be its true fortune!"

Lu Xing did not act immediately. He first looked into the mirror, and seeing that the many beauty souls were wearing expressions waiting for a show, he shook his head: "I won't shine it!"

"Hmph, coward," the Empress in the mirror laughed.

The girl with the zither quickly added, "It's better not to shine it, lest this Snow Spirit Grass undergo a rebirth, transform into a human, and, not knowing how to hide, get captured for nothing!"

"..."

Lu Xing looked at the precious mirror in his hands. Had he been insulting it by using it to clear a path?