The Heroine Made a Pact With Senior Sister (GL) Chapter 13

“You placed a Corpse Gu Control Curse on her?” Huixue raised her eyes toward the two of them, her face calm. “Senior Juechen, why go this far?”
“Go back and tell Bing Ling’er. Tell her to give this girl to me. Otherwise, I will attack your entire Hanyou Valley!” Juechenzi laughed viciously. “If you do not believe me, go ask Bing Ling’er. Back then, my Corpse Gu Control Curse was unmatched beneath the heavens. Let us see who can escape the palm of my hand!”
Corpse Gu Control Curse? Mu Yinfeng’s heart sank. Although Juechenzi’s cultivation methods were each more sinister than the last, the Corpse Gu Control Curse was absolutely the worst of his many dark arts.
This was the technique that had made Juechenzi famous. No matter who the opponent was, it could almost always take effect, but activating it required a corpse as a medium. Once a person touched the corpse used as the medium, they would unconsciously trigger the Corpse Gu Control Curse. Those dense points of light were not points of light at all. They were mind worms that had long been planted in the corpse while its original body was still alive. If someone touched the corpse, the mind worms would surge along the meridians into that person’s sea of consciousness and hide there, waiting for the caster’s command. Because the mind worms were extremely skilled at hiding, there was no warning when they entered the body, making them almost impossible to guard against.
Although the Corpse Gu Control Curse was terrifying, it was like ordinary curses in one respect: as long as the caster was killed, the curse would automatically break.
In the original plot, the reason Mu Yinfeng had held back and allowed Jia Rong and Juechenzi to manipulate things was this curse. Juechenzi’s methods were far too sinister. Who could have predicted this in advance? Her inaction in the plot had actually been a retreat in order to advance, letting the opponent relax his guard so she could leave herself some room.
She had still overlooked this point. When she saw Bing Ling’er kill Juechenzi with one sword, she had overlooked Bing Ling’er’s strength. That sword had looked easy, but if it had truly been easy, why would Bing Ling’er have placed Juechenzi on Yongmu Peak and still shown him some respect?
“This is not a reason for you to set a Corpse Gu Control Curse.” Huixue stepped closer to the two of them. “Senior Juechen, you know she is Master’s disciple.”
Juechenzi looked disdainful. “So what if she is Bing Ling’er’s disciple? Will she die from serving me for a few days? Go back and tell Bing Ling’er to have this girl come serve me for seven days. After seven days, I will naturally undo the Corpse Gu Control Curse and release her. We can pretend nothing ever happened.”
“Impossible,” Huixue said slowly. “If Senior wants little girls, a thousand or a hundred can be found for you. But this one cannot be given to Senior.”
“Why?”
“Senior knows the reason.” Huixue took another step forward. One of her hands had already pressed onto her sword hilt. The icy blue light of the frost-snow mark on her forehead glimmered faintly in the night.
“I want only her!”
“Then I can only be impolite.” Huixue pressed one palm through empty air. Juechenzi instinctively pushed Mu Yinfeng forward, using her as a shield. Mu Yinfeng saw a jade-colored light flash before her eyes. Then all her discomfort vanished, but her whole body froze completely, as if she had been struck by an immobilization spell. She could not move at all.
Mu Yinfeng moved her eyes downward and saw a layer of jade-colored material covering the hem of her robe. From its appearance, it looked a great deal like the jade soul-sealing petrification from the Butterfly Goddess Temple.
The difference was that last time, she had still been able to move freely. This time, she seemed to be imprisoned inside a tight jade shell. Not only could she not release yin energy to corrode the outer shell, she could not use even the slightest bit of mental power. What relieved her, however, was that this shell also cut off Juechenzi’s mental power. The mind worms in her sea of consciousness stopped spreading, and her sea of consciousness regained its calm.
“Ha ha ha ha ha!” Juechenzi burst into laughter. Halfway through, he suddenly caught sight of Huixue’s expression and could not help crying out, “You, what are you laughing at? You should know now that it was you, you yourself, who killed your junior sister!”
Although Mu Yinfeng could not move, she could see a trace of cold laughter seem to appear at Huixue’s lips. Then a flash of sword energy passed. Mu Yinfeng heard a scream. After that, she felt some liquid splash onto her back, warm and sticky.
Huixue stood holding her sword. Liufei had already left its sheath. Pale blue sword light pierced the long night, and Tianbing wrapped around her arm, whipping fiercely in the wind. The current Huixue seemed like a goddess of war descending to the mortal world. Whoever dared stand before her would surely die.
The other thing that pierced the long night was Juechenzi’s scream. But the scream did not last long before stopping abruptly. The instant it vanished, Mu Yinfeng felt her mind lighten. The points of light in her sea of consciousness gradually dispersed until they disappeared completely.
She knew Juechenzi would not be kind enough to undo the Corpse Gu Control Curse for her. There was only one possibility.
Juechenzi was already dead.
At the same time, Mu Yinfeng discovered she could move. She quickly looked at Huixue. By then, Huixue’s sword had already returned to its sheath. Huixue gave Mu Yinfeng one look, then turned and left.
Mu Yinfeng hurried after her. “Senior Sister, wait for me!”
Huixue’s steps slowed.
“Senior Sister, why did you only come now? Do you know that if you had been any later, I would have…”
“You would not have died.” Huixue lifted her eyes and glanced at Mu Yinfeng, speaking without mercy. “The reason others are interested in you is your primordial yin. They would not let you die.”
She was still so heartless when she spoke.
“Then why did Senior Sister not kill him at the start?”
Huixue stroked Liufei’s sheath and said faintly, “I did not intend to kill him at first.”
“Then later…”
Huixue did not answer. She walked quickly down the mountain. Mu Yinfeng had to use all her strength to catch up, running until she was breathless and had no spare energy to ask questions.
Even now, Huixue would not say a single comforting word to her? She had clearly seen the emotion in Huixue’s eyes when Juechenzi held her hostage. That could not have been fake.
The two of them, one chasing and one leading, soon returned to Reed Snow Residence. Huixue directly pushed her into the room, raised a hand to set a barrier at the door, and turned to leave the courtyard without even looking at her.
Mu Yinfeng watched Huixue’s back gradually disappear. Huixue, this person… how could she be like this?
This was clearly imprisoning her!