The Heroine Made a Pact With Senior Sister (GL) Chapter 14

“You are back?” Bing Ling’er sat behind the desk. Hearing the soft footsteps before Buyou Hall, she looked up and saw Huixue standing in front of her.
Huixue nodded. “This disciple has a matter she would like to ask Master about.”
“What matter?”
“Master knows that Little Junior Sister Mu Yinfeng has a primordial yin constitution. A constitution like this is naturally easy for people with intentions to covet.” Huixue raised her eyes to Bing Ling’er and said each word clearly. “If someone did such a thing, how would Master handle it?”
Bing Ling’er was shocked. “Who would be so bold?”
Huixue’s hand quietly landed on Liufei’s hilt. Tianbing secretly gathered power behind her, but Huixue’s voice still kept its usual calm chill. It was difficult to read her emotions or her purpose in asking.
“Master need not ask more. This disciple only wants to ask about this possibility. How would Master handle it?” Huixue asked evenly.
She remembered clearly that in the previous life, Mu Yinfeng had also been plotted against by those two. If not for her memories of the previous life, Huixue would not have been able to find Mu Yinfeng’s location so quickly.
But in the previous life, Bing Ling’er had personally executed Juechenzi. In terms of seniority, Juechenzi was above Huixue. As Valley Master, Bing Ling’er had the authority to execute people in the valley. If Huixue killed Juechenzi, she would be breaking Hanyou Valley’s rules. Even the lightest judgment would be expulsion from Hanyou Valley.
“What use is keeping a wolf-hearted person like that?” Bing Ling’er looked at Huixue. “If someone wants to harm your junior sister, you may kill them. There is no need to report to me. I trust you to act with measure.”
Huixue stared fixedly at Bing Ling’er and said nothing.
“Xue’er, sooner or later, Hanyou Valley will be under your control. Matters like this will become your responsibility sooner or later.” Bing Ling’er stood and took Huixue’s hand, then changed the subject. “Did something happen to Yinfeng? Why are you so strange today?”
“Nothing.” Huixue lowered her eyes slightly, withdrew her hand, and handed Liufei at her waist to Bing Ling’er.
Bing Ling’er stroked the scabbard. “Liufei left its sheath? Yin metal… You killed someone with a yin-metal attribute?”
“Juechenzi.” Huixue’s face remained cold, without the slightest ripple in her eyes. “He incited a disciple under him to seize Third Junior Sister and placed a Corpse Gu Control Curse on her.”
“Corpse Gu Control Curse?” Bing Ling’er was shocked. She handed Liufei back to Huixue, hurried to the desk, found a case file, opened it, and scanned it. “Xue’er, did you see clearly that the person was Juechenzi?”
Huixue nodded.
“It cannot be Juechenzi.” Bing Ling’er murmured to herself. “Is the corpse you killed still there? Take me to see!”
On Yongmu Peak, night hung low, and the four fields were silent.
Among the three peaks that surrounded Hanyou Valley, Yongmu Peak was the most dangerous, because it was full of powerful figures who had once shaken the cultivation world. The slightest carelessness could disturb these people. Their tempers were strange. They did not follow worldly etiquette at all and only used fists to speak.
Mu Yinfeng knew this was not the time to compare fists with them.
First, she might not be able to beat them. Second, she might not be able to run away. Besides, she knew very little about Yongmu Peak. In the plot, Yongmu Peak had been mentioned the least. There were only a few lines about it, and those appeared after she finished seclusion and completed her demonic arts. At that time, she stood at the peak of the entire cultivation world. Almost every living being in the cultivation world had to bow before her.
But right now, she was far from that. Mu Yinfeng recalled the route Jia Rong had used to bring her up the mountain during the day. Although these powerful figures had bad tempers, people of similar strength still had to give one another face. Naturally, they had told their disciples the routes up the mountain that would keep everyone at peace. If she followed Jia Rong’s route, she should not go wrong.
In truth, Mu Yinfeng did not want to climb the mountain in the middle of the night either. If not for discovering, after returning to Reed Snow Residence, that the ring Huixue had thrown to her during the day was missing, and if not for searching every corner of Reed Snow Residence without finding it until she finally thought of Yongmu Peak, she might already be hugging her blanket and sleeping soundly now.
Huixue had left in a hurry, and Mu Yinfeng had chased her in a hurry. She had only confirmed that Changyin had been returned to her storage ring and had forgotten to check whether the sapphire ring Huixue gave her was still there. Thinking back to what happened on the mountain, the ring had probably been lost while she fought Jia Rong and Juechenzi.
Thinking of the day’s events, Mu Yinfeng slightly puffed her cheeks. She could sympathize a little with the original owner now, because Huixue really was hard to get close to.
Whether Mu Yinfeng expressed thanks or expressed nothing at all, to Huixue, there was no difference!
Mu Yinfeng pushed aside grass to find the path up the mountain while thinking angrily.
As for how she had slipped out of Huixue’s barrier, that came down to the barrier’s restriction. Huixue’s barrier worked in both directions. Its effect was that people with spiritual energy could not pass through it. But one had to know that as long as Mu Yinfeng wore the necklace, she was no different from an ordinary person. Huixue had not calculated that.
This time, Mu Yinfeng had learned her lesson. Before going up the mountain, she sealed her sea of consciousness. She knew that someone like Juechenzi cultivated extremely strange methods. Perhaps he had some spell to rise from death.
Sealing her sea of consciousness meant she could not use mental power to assist her search, directly weakening her five senses. Mu Yinfeng was afraid a firelight would be discovered, so she could only use the moonlight to barely distinguish the road. Several times, she almost lost her way.
When she finally reached the place where they had fought, she suddenly heard rustling behind her, like footsteps. Mu Yinfeng quickly dropped into the grass. The footsteps drew closer and closer, and a few broken words of conversation entered her ears. Both voices sounded familiar. Mu Yinfeng carefully raised her head and narrowed her eyes toward the direction of the sound. She saw the frost-snow mark glimmering faintly.
It was Huixue and Bing Ling’er!
What were the two of them doing here?
They could not have come here specially to look for her, right? Feeling guilty like a thief, Mu Yinfeng controlled her breathing to avoid being discovered. At the same time, she quietly parted the grass blocking her view and watched their movements.
Tianbing silently crawled down from Huixue’s arm and quickly formed a circle around the two of them. Huixue’s sharp gaze swept the surroundings. When it reached Mu Yinfeng’s hiding place, Huixue’s gaze seemed to pause for a moment. Mu Yinfeng felt as if all the blood in her body was about to stop flowing, but Huixue’s gaze soon passed over her. Only then did Mu Yinfeng let out a breath and lie back down in the grass.
“As expected, it is here.” Bing Ling’er placed her hand on the ground and probed for a while, then rose. “Right now, there are not only two kinds of yin-metal spiritual energy left on the ground, but also a remnant of another attribute. Xue’er, you are a yin-water spiritual root, correct?”
Huixue shook her head. “Heirs of our snow woman lineage must absorb a yang-water spiritual vein later in life, even if they are born with a yin-water spiritual root.”
“So the yang-water spiritual energy left on the ground is yours?”
“Possibly.” Huixue’s hand rested on Liufei. “A sword belongs to yang metal, and yang water is also yang. Using yang-water spiritual energy produces better results.”
Bing Ling’er looked at Huixue in surprise. “Xue’er, you have always memorized cultivation methods firmly and followed them exactly without ambiguity. Why are you so uncertain now?”
Huixue did not speak. She only gripped Liufei’s hilt tightly.
“I understand. Your heart is disturbed.” Bing Ling’er smiled lightly. “I misspoke just now. What remains here is yin wood.”
Yin wood!
Hearing that name, Mu Yinfeng’s heart shook violently, and she instinctively grabbed the grass beside her hand. Although she had not fully understood what the two were talking about, if the plot was not wrong, then this yin wood could not be that person, could it?
The grass in Mu Yinfeng’s hand suddenly snapped. Only then did she recover from her shock, and fear replaced it.
“Someone is there?” Bing Ling’er sharply looked toward her hiding place.
Bing Ling’er’s gaze moved, and her spiritual sense spread out, sweeping straight in Mu Yinfeng’s direction. Mu Yinfeng’s heart instantly rose into her throat.