Chapter 1: Did I become one with the innocent girl?

On a sweltering afternoon, beside a pale, clear lake surrounded by towering ancient trees.

Li Ze lounged crookedly on a creaking wooden bench, his fingers absentmindedly tapping the fishing rod as he hummed a tuneless little song.

His unfocused gaze rested on the faint ripples around the float on the water’s surface.

Suddenly, the rod in his hands sank heavily, and he instinctively pulled it up.

In the next instant, a tremendous force dragged both man and rod straight into the lake.

It was a grass carp as large as a human that had taken the bait—but it was already too late.

Li Ze flailed desperately, slapping the water with both hands, only to realize in horror that the lake’s water was unusually light, offering no buoyancy at all.

He couldn’t float.

“Damn it… am I really going to die like this?”

“I won’t accept this! Cough—glug—” Li Ze muttered in broken, trembling gasps.

Moments later…

His strength was completely spent.

His stomach felt bloated with water, and an overwhelming sense of suffocation consumed him.

His body sank like a stone toward the depths of the lake.

Suddenly, Li Ze’s vision went black, and he lost consciousness.

Time passed, little by little.

Deep beneath the dark, icy lakebed, there was no silt or sunken wood.

Instead, a long spear with a ferocious design stood vertically embedded there.

It had a four-edged spearhead, its entire body dark as ink, as if it had been nailed there since time immemorial.

And at this very moment, Li Ze was falling straight toward it.

His unconscious body was pierced through by the spear.

A surge of adrenaline jolted him awake.

Dazed, he saw it and thought: “So this is really the end!!!”

Yet something strange happened.

His blood did not spread into the water.

Instead, it clung entirely to the Longstar Spear.

Upon contact with his blood, the spear began to shed its dark exterior bit by bit, revealing a body colored like a flowing galaxy.

The spear burst into dazzling light.

In an instant, the blackened lake transformed into a vast universe of stars and galaxies.

Soon after, a massive global power outage occurred.

Earth’s north and south magnetic poles fell into chaos.

With the blood’s touch, the weapon spirit Xing Yao awakened.

From the Longstar Spear emerged a woman with pale, light-colored hair and a bewitching face.

Her chest rose and fell gently as she leaned forward, her figure subtly trembling.

She wore a thin, semi-transparent dress.

Her fair, slender thighs gleamed softly, and her tender pink toes lifted slightly as she turned to look at the young man pierced by the spear.

She drifted upward slowly and lay face to face against him.

Because of their size, a small gap remained between their bodies.

From her gently raised shoulder blades, to her slender waistline, and down to the curves of her hips, her form flowed as smoothly as a single, perfect stroke of a brush.

In a soft, gentle voice, she said: “Come…”

She extended her cold yet supple arms, lightly wrapping them around his neck.

Her lips brushed against him in a faint kiss, and Li Ze’s soul slowly merged into her body.

Suddenly, the surrounding space began to shake violently, shattering like glass.

The woman rose slowly.

Beneath her half-draped, luminous garment, the outline of her full hips appeared indistinctly as she walked step by step toward a resplendent path of stars.

The Longstar Spear followed her into the stellar pathway.

The reflected galaxy within the lake was drawn in as well, and the shattered space gradually healed.

The lake water returned to clarity.

Earth’s magnetic poles stabilized.

Power across the globe was restored.

……

Another world.

Lingzhou Continent, Youzhou City, Cai Residence—within a small courtyard.

A young girl dressed in a red-and-white light gown stood there.

Her black hair was tied at the ends, adorned with pink flower hairpins on both sides.

Her bright, clear eyes were like pure water.

Her delicate face was lively and fresh, her hands slender and smooth.

Her fair thighs were especially striking, her pink toes adorably soft to an almost excessive degree.

She was the young lady of the Cai family—Cai Xiaonuo.

At this moment, she was practicing swordplay in the courtyard.

She turned and slashed with her sword, her fresh, delicate face opening her mouth as she called out: “Ha—!”

In a careless moment, her fair, smooth, slender thigh was briefly revealed.

Her black hair fluttered lightly.

Her pale right hand struck again with the sword.

“Hah—!”

…

Suddenly, heaven and earth underwent a violent change.

Above Youzhou City, black clouds rolled like ink.

An inverted vortex formed in the sky, tearing open a ferocious rift in space itself.

Xing Yao searched for a body with a bloodline similar to Li Ze’s and chose it for possession.

The Longstar Spear shot out from the spatial rift like a tiny needle, streaking like a meteor before piercing straight into the young girl’s forehead within the Cai Residence.

The instant the spear entered her brow, the sword in Cai Xiaonuo’s hand fell to the ground with a clang.

Her eyes instantly lost focus.

Within her pupils, it seemed as though a galaxy was spinning.

Her body collapsed limply, and even her breathing stopped.

Inside the girl’s sea of consciousness, Xing Yao began casting her spell to seize the body, dragging the girl’s soul into the mindscape and preparing to annihilate it completely.

At that moment, Xing Yao realized her remaining energy was nearly exhausted—far from enough to destroy the girl’s soul.

With no other choice, she directly injected Li Ze’s soul into the girl’s body and then fell into deep slumber.

Afterward, she transformed into a dark long spear, standing upright within the sea of consciousness.

Within the Azure Sword Sect.

The yellow-robed Sect Master and the black-robed Third Elder raised their heads at the same time.

Their sharp gazes pierced through halls and barriers, shooting straight toward the region where the anomaly had occurred.

“A spatial tear… an extraordinary treasure descending?”

The Third Elder’s voice was deep, carrying a barely concealed tremor as his sleeves fluttered without wind.

“Sect Master, such a heavenly omen is no small matter. This old man wishes to take Quan’er and investigate personally.”

“Go.”

The Sect Master nodded.

Just two words, yet the air around them seemed to grow heavy and still.

Back at the Cai Residence.

The fallen girl’s eyelids trembled. She slowly sat up in a daze.

“Where… am I?”

She lowered her head and stared at her fair, slender hands—rounded, clean nails, sleeves slipping down to reveal soft, pale arms.

Suddenly, she grabbed downward, feeling something damp beneath her fingers.

“Why is it… hollow?!”

“Damn it—where the hell is my little brother?!”

She grabbed again.

Her palms sank into two soft, warm mounds.

She squeezed them.

Then squeezed again.

“I turned into a girl?! What the hell is going on?!”

A maid passing by in the corridor stared at her young lady in shock.

“What… is the young miss doing?”

She walked away with a face full of question marks.

Inside the sea of consciousness, Cai Xiaonuo had just awakened.

(≧﹏≦)

The moment she opened her eyes, she saw Li Ze’s hands recklessly grabbing and kneading her chest—and more—

⊙∀⊙！

She jolted violently and let out a piercing scream: “Ahhh!! (≧O≦) Where did this shameless pervert come from?!”

“Let go of my body right now~!”

“Take your filthy hands off me! (๑•̀ㅂ•́)”

“Don’t touch me!!”

Her voice exploded directly inside his mind, filled with overwhelming shame and panic.

“Who?! Who’s talking?!”

Li Ze blurted out, looking around the empty room.

A soft, slightly angry voice echoed in his head: “Who else could it be? (◣д◢)”

“You shameless lecher~!”

After hearing this, Li Ze ignored her and instead thought to himself…

What is going on?

Did I die and get reborn?

Did I possess a girl?

And now we’re sharing the same body?!

“You’ve taken over my body and you still dare—still dare to treat me like this?! (๑•̀ㅂ•́)”

“Get out of my body right now!!

If you don’t, I’ll report you for indecent assault~ hmph! (｀へ´)”

Li Ze forced himself to stay calm.

“Your hands,” he said.

“Are you going to report yourself for assaulting yourself?”

“Sharp tongue! If you don’t leave right now, I’m really going to get angry! (◣д◢)”

“Then go ahead and be angry,” Li Ze replied casually.

“I’m not stopping you.”

“Hmph~”

Cai Xiaonuo was angry, but there was nothing she could do about Li Ze.

He glanced around.

It was a small courtyard—plain and unadorned.

Only an old plum tree stood within, its gnarled branches twisting as they stretched toward the slanted eaves.

The iron sword she had dropped earlier lay in the middle of the stone pavement.

He hurried over and picked it up.

Reflected in the blade was an adorable face—almond-shaped eyes, cherry lips, skin smooth as congealed jade, unmistakably that of a sweet, naïve young girl.

With a thought, Li Ze suddenly appeared within the sea of consciousness.

⊙∀⊙！

“Ahhh—!! (≧O≦)”

Cai Xiaonuo pointed at him.

“A ghost—!!”

(⊙_⊙)

Li Ze replied irritably,

“I’m this handsome and you call me a ghost? You really haven’t seen the world.”

“What’s your name?”

“I didn’t scream! (๑•̀ㅂ•́)”

(─.─||)

“I’m asking what your name is.”

“Why should I tell you my name is Cai Xiaonuo?”

“You—you still have the nerve to ask this young lady’s name! Hmph~”

(｀へ´)

Her voice was soft and slightly halting.

Li Ze looked at the girl in front of him.

“Where is this place?”

“Not telling! (◣д◢)”

Seeing her refusal, Li Ze forcefully controlled his hands and pinched his own face.

“Ow—!”

He bared his teeth in pain.

“This sense of pain… it’s way too real!”

(⊙_⊙)

“Ahhh!! (≧O≦) Stop pinching my face!”

“Shameless scoundrel! Pervert! Lecher! Lunatic!!”

Li Ze cleared his throat.

“I’m a good person! Not a scoundrel.”

“What kind of good person takes over someone’s body and then—”

Cai Xiaonuo was too embarrassed to finish the sentence.

“I’m not going to argue with you.”

Just as Cai Xiaonuo was about to say something else, Li Ze noticed something in the sea of consciousness—

A dark long spear, needle-straight, standing upright at the center.

Beside it floated a small, multicolored glowing sphere, suspended in midair.

As Li Ze moved closer, the glowing sphere transformed into….