Lu Xing could not make out their whispered conversation. Looking at the mirror, he came up with several guesses.
The first possibility was that this Treasure Mirror was actually a Ten Thousand Souls Banner. Its creator had imprisoned their souls within the mirror, condemning them to never leave for eternity.
And its creator was somewhat deranged, accepting no one but peerless beauties.
The second possibility was that the souls within the Treasure Mirror had entered voluntarily. For example, it might be a sect-protecting immortal artifact; after female immortals in the sect attained great cultivation and died, they stored their souls within the mirror. One generation followed another until it finally took shape.
The third possibility was simple: this mirror was the Xianxia World's computer, capable of long-distance video calls.
"My daughter is on Earth now?"
The beautiful woman in red stared at him as she asked.
Lu Xing nodded. The beautiful woman asked again, "She is using your body, just as you are using hers now?"
"Yes!"
"Will she encounter any danger?"
"Rest assured, Auntie. Earth is very safe. Most people obey the law."
Lu Xing observed their reactions. If these beauties scoffed at that, then this Xianxia World was probably one where gangs cultivated immortality.
Who would have thought that they cared about something else entirely?
A girl in blue within the mirror clapped and giggled, saying to the beautiful woman, "Good granddaughter, he called you Auntie!"
"Auntie, hehe!"
"Shut up, brat! Who are you calling Auntie?"
"I'm not your aunt."
"Hmph."
"What a good little junior. Call me Auntie again, and Auntie will prepare a grand gift for your ascension!"
Before Lu Xing or the beautiful woman in red could react, the beauties in the mirror all began speaking at once. Their reactions varied: some delighted, some sneering, some reprimanding him.
Yet the beautiful woman in red, who seemed to be Cold Ice Fairy's mother, stood frozen in place. She looked at Lu Xing strangely, seemingly agitated. "You called... me Auntie?"
Honestly, judging from her appearance, she looked no older than twenty-five or twenty-six. Even Xiao Yu was older than her.
But the beautiful woman in red had a gentle, graceful temperament and was dressed like a married woman, her hair gathered in a high bun. Coupled with her claim of being the Fairy's mother, Lu Xing had called her Auntie.
"My apologies. Should I have called you Senior instead?" Lu Xing asked.
"No, call me Auntie!" The beautiful woman in red interrupted him. Her eyes were moist, and she looked like an elder who doted on a child. Softly, she said, "Good child, call me Auntie from now on. You need not pay any attention to these people. Just listen to Auntie alone."
Lu Xing finally realized that she did not seem to be the Fairy's mother, but rather an elder... starved of affection!
Had being imprisoned inside the mirror for too long drastically changed her personality?
Lu Xing explained how "Auntie" was used on Earth, but still addressed her as Senior and asked, "May I know how to address you, Senior?"
"Just call me Auntie!"
"May I know Auntie's surname?"
"My surname?"
The beautiful woman in red thought for a while before shaking her head. "I have neither surname nor name. When I once set foot in the mortal world, people called me Neon Fairy."
Auntie Neon?
It instantly sounded much more old-fashioned. Better forget it—he would just call her Neon Fairy.
Lu Xing suppressed the urge to complain, guessing that she had been dead for so long that she had forgotten her own name.
Yet when he asked about Cold Ice Fairy—the owner of this body he was currently inhabiting—the answer he received was:
She too had neither name nor surname.
Lu Xing looked speechlessly at the mirror. The beauties inside merely smiled at him, seemingly delighted to watch him be toyed with.
Lu Xing could do nothing about them, so he settled for the next best thing and asked, "Seniors, and Senior Neon Fairy, where is this place? Is she—the Fairy, I mean—currently in secluded cultivation?"
"What would she be cultivating in seclusion for?"
"This is Great Snow Mountain. You're so stupid—you can't even tell that?"
"What are you trying to do?"
There were too many beauties in the mirror. Some showed Lu Xing no courtesy, but others had friendlier personalities. For example, that Blue Skirt Girl seemed easy to talk to.
"She isn't in secluded cultivation? Then is she being hunted by enemies?" Lu Xing asked Blue Skirt Girl and Neon Fairy again.
"Across the Three Realms and Six Paths, who would dare offend me?"
Blue Skirt Girl put her hands on her hips in a proud pose. Another beautiful woman with an imposing bearing gave a cold laugh, her gaze upon Lu Xing full of mockery.
Lu Xing ignored her. It was perfectly normal that he knew nothing about the Xianxia World. If they went to Earth, he guaranteed they would not even know how to flush a toilet!
"With the mirror in hand, one may go anywhere in the Three Realms and Six Paths...?"
Recalling the Fairy's words, Lu Xing stepped forward and raised a slender, jade-like hand, white and delicate as congealed cream. He took the Treasure Mirror from the ice wall.
The souls within the mirror did not object.
Lu Xing said, "I want to go outside and take a look. Do you seniors have any advice?"
"Just go out. Why ask us?" replied the beautiful woman who had mocked Lu Xing earlier.
Lu Xing lowered his head to examine her attire within the mirror. She wore a golden robe embroidered with nine dragons, a crown with hanging beads upon her head, and sat in a chair atop a mountain peak, looking down upon all living beings.
Blue Skirt Girl squatted beside a stream, propping her cheeks up with both hands. Hearing this, she laughed. "Good granddaughter, are you a fool too? He understands nothing and cannot even use spells. Are you expecting him to crash out with nothing but his physical body?"
The Empress curled her lips in disdain and could not be bothered to speak again.
Neon Fairy smiled. "Good child, pull out that sword. Swing it at the wall, and you will be able to leave."
Lu Xing glanced at the sword piled amid the clutter but did not move. After faintly sensing what the Treasure Mirror conveyed to him, he asked them again, "Are there any clothes in this room? I should change before going out."
Quite a few of the beauties in the mirror blushed, Neon Fairy most of all. Her cheeks turned completely red.
Blue Skirt Girl covered her face with both hands, saying things like, "How embarrassing! You're not allowed to look at me without clothes!" The Empress sneered and threatened, "If you dare look at her body, I will kill you!"
Lu Xing said flatly, "Say that again."
The Empress looked at him coldly.
Lu Xing raised the Fairy's slender jade hand and slapped the mirror's surface. In an instant, every figure vanished, and Lu Xing reappeared in the mirror—or rather, Cold Ice Fairy's peerlessly beautiful immortal visage.
"You're merely souls inside a mirror, yet you dare rebel against me!"
Lu Xing was quite satisfied. The body-swapping game had perfectly merged his soul with the other body. Lu Xing could freely use the original owner's magic, divine abilities, spiritual power, chips, and everything else.
He had already sensed the power of the Fairy's life-bound Treasure Mirror!
Lu Xing searched the ice chamber and eventually found a white silk ribbon amid the clutter. It was two palms wide and over two meters long, somewhat like a sash.
He also found a red cord.
Lu Xing picked them up, hung the mirror on the wall, and stood before it. He hesitated for a moment.
He looked at the Fairy in the mirror. Though he had seen her many times, her transcendent, peerless beauty still shook his heart.
"Forget it."
Lu Xing gave up. They would swap again in the future anyway; he could hardly avoid looking. Like that time with Xiao Yu—by the afternoon, Xiao Yu had already begun to give up on herself.
Having made up his mind, Lu Xing raised his slender jade hand and gently pulled down the plain white dress at the Fairy's fragrant shoulder.
The dazzling snowy mountain bloomed with radiance.
Lu Xing actually became dizzy, but that was not all. The Fairy's skin was fairer than snow, so smooth that it could not hold up the dress. Once pulled down, it drifted lightly to her feet, piling into a heap of skirts.
How austere and lethal the Fairy was, holding the position of Western Geng Metal, decisive in slaughter, leaving not even a blade of grass upon the earth.
Lu Xing was an ordinary mortal, merely a hot-blooded young college student from Huaxia on Earth. To him, this sight was—
Impossible to withstand.
"The Fairy isn't here. I only have her appearance, not her bearing, yet merely seeing 'myself' has already left me utterly entranced."
"What if she were inside this body?"
Lu Xing's eyes were fixed on the mirror, unwilling to look away for even an instant. If he were a pervert, he would probably have returned to the Cold Jade Bed and lain down already.
A long time passed.
Only after wavering repeatedly between being a pervert and a normal person did Lu Xing finally reach out with difficulty and turn the mirror around, making the Fairy disappear from before his eyes.
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