How could the prestige of the Fairy of a Hundred Flowers fall into someone else's hands? She had a task to fulfill coming out to Thousand Snow City this time, and if she messed it up, she wouldn't be able to face her mother when she got back.
Besides, although she looked only sixteen or seventeen and her bone age appeared to be about the same, those were merely illusions created by her mother's secret arts. Her real age was already over three hundred. At three hundred, she still hadn't broken through to the Golden Core stage; if not for the rare treasures and miraculous herbs her mother had tracked down to sustain her, she probably would have turned to dust by now.
If she didn't break through soon, even with her mother's secret arts, her youthful appearance wouldn't hold out much longer. By then, in the eyes of others, she would be nothing more than an old hag with a head full of white hair and a face covered in wrinkles, rather than the fresh, tender fifteen- or sixteen-year-old girl she appeared to be.
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