The Heroine Made a Pact With Senior Sister (GL) Chapter 15

Just as Mu Yinfeng felt Bing Ling’er’s spiritual sense was about to sweep over her, Huixue suddenly stepped forward and stood between Bing Ling’er and Mu Yinfeng. The frost-snow mark on Huixue’s forehead flashed once. Bing Ling’er’s figure moved slightly, and she looked at Huixue in surprise.
“It should be a mouse. Yongmu Peak has no one managing it. Master does not need to divide her attention like this.” Huixue’s tone was faint. She lifted her eyes and swept a glance over Mu Yinfeng’s hiding place, scaring Mu Yinfeng into holding her breath and lying motionless in the grass. She did not dare move at all, afraid that making the slightest sound would get her caught on the spot.
“A mouse?” Bing Ling’er smiled meaningfully and did not continue looking in that direction. “A mouse is not important. Xue’er, your family learning is deep. Do you know who yin wood refers to?”
“Wood-attribute spiritual energy is mostly possessed by medical cultivators and medicine cultivators. Yin-wood spiritual energy is an even higher-grade spiritual root among them,” Huixue said slowly. “If it is worth Master bringing up like this, it should be primordial yin wood.”
“Correct.” Bing Ling’er withdrew her smile, and her voice carried a little gravity. “Primordial yin wood is no more common than primordial yin. In a certain sense, primordial yin wood is also part of primordial yin.”
Huixue raised her eyes. “What does Master mean?”
“Xue’er, you should know that spiritual roots in the cultivation world are divided by the Five Elements, and the Five Elements determine yin and yang through the Heavenly Stems. Before disciples enter cultivation sects, they all undergo spiritual root tests. Most have mixed spiritual roots. A single-attribute spiritual root is already an excellent constitution. But better than a single attribute is a single attribute whose yin and yang are separated clearly.” Bing Ling’er spoke leisurely. “It is like how you should have been born as an absolute yin-water body. Because your Ice and Snow Domains value balance, you must inherit and absorb a yang-water spiritual vein later to balance the yin and yang in your body. This method of cultivating a primordial spiritual root is a radical path that pursues the extreme.”
“A single attribute?” Huixue’s eyes moved slightly, as if she had realized something. “So the primordial yang and primordial yin people speak of in the ordinary world both have all Five Elements moving together inside the body. The generation and restraint between the Five Elements can maintain balance. But this single attribute does not reach that balance…”
“That is why it is extremely rare. Those who can achieve great completion are often even fewer than those with primordial yin. Xue’er.” Bing Ling’er bent and looked at the place where Juechenzi had been killed. Apart from traces of blood and ice, the ground was empty. Even the hand that had been cut off at the start had vanished strangely.
“So someone like that took Juechenzi away.” Huixue’s expression changed slightly. “Hanyou Valley is not as peaceful as it appears on the surface.”
Bing Ling’er nodded. “Xue’er, can you think of who this person is?”
Huixue shook her head.
“There is no hurry.” Bing Ling’er said faintly, “At least for now, this person should not act against Hanyou Valley. Tomorrow, take Yinfeng to the Scripture Pavilion and search carefully. Yongmu Peak is not a place to stay long. Let us go down the mountain.”
Mu Yinfeng watched the two of them walk down the mountain. Only after she could no longer see them at all did she dare stretch her head out from the grass. Just then, she heard a meow behind her.
The cat’s cry startled her. She instinctively looked toward the sound and saw a snow-robed beauty holding a snow-white cat. The cat’s eyes shone brightly in the night.
“S-Senior Sister?” Mu Yinfeng’s face changed sharply. Not because she had been caught on the spot, but because she had never imagined someone like Huixue would keep such an adorable pet as a cat.
“What did you come out for?” Huixue stared into her eyes and asked each word clearly.
“I… I…” Only then did Mu Yinfeng pull her gaze away from the cat. She lowered her eyes at just the right angle and looked uneasily at her own hands. “I may have lost the ring Senior Sister gave me here…”
“Ring?” Huixue set down the white cat. The white cat lay at her feet, neither running nor fussing.
Mu Yinfeng lowered her eyes even further. “The one Senior Sister gave me during the day…”
“That one.” Huixue remembered. “You like that ring?”
Huixue’s point of entry was far too strange. For a moment, Mu Yinfeng did not know how to answer.
“I will give it to you, then.” Huixue picked up the cat again. “Come back with me.”
Her voice was very soft, but it allowed no argument.
Mu Yinfeng was just about to say something when her gaze was drawn by a deep blue light in midair. The deep blue light slowly descended toward her and landed in her palm, cool and clear, like holding frost and snow.
It was the ring Huixue had given her.
Mu Yinfeng could not help looking toward Huixue, but Huixue’s back was already leaving quickly as if nothing had happened. Although Mu Yinfeng had countless questions in her heart, she could only chase after her.
“Senior Sister, wait for me!”
Yongmu Peak was covered in vines. One careless step could trip a person, especially under the hazy night scenery. Mu Yinfeng had to be extremely careful dealing with those vines. Even stranger, the vines looked like countless tentacles reaching up from deep underground, as if they might drag her toward a bottomless abyss at any moment.
While guarding against those vines, she chased after Huixue. One careless moment later, she crashed into a tree. She was just about to go around the tree when she suddenly grabbed a strip of brocade silk. Instinctive danger made her look up at the tree. For a moment, it was as if lightning had struck from a clear sky. What she had crashed into was not a tree, but… Huixue!
Huixue gave a cold snort. Mu Yinfeng did not even need to look to imagine Huixue’s ice-like gaze. She had just been about to let go, retreat, and prepare to welcome death, when her shoulder suddenly tightened. She instantly lost balance and fell forward at an angle, landing directly in Huixue’s arms.
“Do not make a sound!” Huixue held her with one arm. Tianbing quickly darted to Huixue’s other wrist and warily guarded the two of them inside.
The white cat, which had started out obediently curled in Huixue’s arms, jumped to the ground. Its body swelled rapidly, and in the blink of an eye, it turned into a giant white tiger, letting out a low growl toward the front.
The atmosphere was dangerous and tense.
Mu Yinfeng looked at Huixue. Huixue’s face, which usually remained calm no matter what happened, now carried three parts alarm. The frost-snow mark on Huixue’s forehead flashed faster than before. At first, Mu Yinfeng had not felt much, but seeing Huixue like this made her heart pound with fear, as if some danger was about to happen.
But after half an incense stick passed, the surroundings remained calm and quiet. There was no sign of any danger coming.
“What is wrong?” Mu Yinfeng could no longer bear being pressed down by that feeling and finally spoke. “There is nothing here.”
Before her voice had even fallen, a streak of silver sword light flashed. Mu Yinfeng felt a chill at her neck. The sharp, icy feeling made her sense that if she moved even slightly, the thing across her neck could cut her throat.
Huixue’s voice beside her ear was several degrees colder than Liufei. “Who exactly are you?”