The Heroine Made a Pact With Senior Sister (GL) Chapter 21

Very possessive? Did not want to see her? What did that have to do with anything?
After her hundredth failed attempt to pet the cat, Mu Yinfeng let out a long sigh. At that moment, Tianbing quietly rubbed over and silently tied her hands together, as if punishing Mu Yinfeng for paying attention to Chuying while neglecting it.
“Before returning to Reed Snow Residence, I need to take you somewhere.” Huixue did not stop Tianbing and walked quickly down the mountain. Mu Yinfeng was now glad Tianbing had tied her hands and not her feet. Otherwise, she would probably have had to hop down the mountain like a rabbit.
The place Huixue wanted to take her was Frostfall Cliff. The night had begun to fade, and a pale white light appeared in the east. Faint red morning glow shone on the sheer cliffs, and broken gold sunlight filtered through overlapping branches and leaves, brilliant and charming.
“Why bring me here…?” Mu Yinfeng finally persuaded Tianbing to release her and rubbed her aching wrists as she asked.
“What do you think I brought you here to do?” Huixue asked back.
This time, Mu Yinfeng had learned to be clever. “Senior Sister would not put me to death just because of one Yimu, would she?”
“Naturally not. Compared with Yimu, you are still more trustworthy.” Huixue spoke slowly. She raised a hand and struck out with her palm, breaking a small tree beside her. Mu Yinfeng thought she was venting anger at Yimu, but then she heard Huixue say, “I will teach you swordsmanship.”
Mu Yinfeng suspected something was wrong with her ears. “You? Teach me swordsmanship?”
Spiritual energy moved in Huixue’s palm, drawing the tree trunk into her hand. Then she produced a dagger from somewhere and shaved off all the side branches and bark. Only then did she raise her eyes to Mu Yinfeng, her tone icy. “If you want Chang Zui to teach you, I will not bother with you.”
The moment she heard Chang Zui’s name, Mu Yinfeng quickly rushed over and grabbed Huixue’s hand. “No, Senior Sister. It has to be you!”
She did not want to face Chang Zui again. Not only because Chang Zui’s later behavior would be disgusting to the extreme, but also because she feared the settings controlling this world would pull some new trick.
“Let go.” Huixue pushed Mu Yinfeng away. Chuying, curled on Huixue’s shoulder, puffed up all over and growled at Mu Yinfeng. As long as Huixue gave the order, this cat could leap over and scratch Mu Yinfeng’s face apart.
Mu Yinfeng quickly let go. She did not want Chuying’s claws to ruin her face.
“Take out your Severing Love.” Huixue carved a simple wooden sword in a few quick motions. She swung it a few times, then spoke to Mu Yinfeng.
But Huixue clearly carried Liufei. Why make another sword? Mu Yinfeng thought of what Yimu had said, that once Liufei left its sheath, it had to draw blood. She could not help tentatively asking this question.
“You want to know?” Huixue stared at Mu Yinfeng. Mu Yinfeng felt a heavy pressure come down over her head. Although the surroundings looked the same, she felt fierce wind howl around her as if she stood in deep winter.
“No more questions.” Mu Yinfeng hurriedly said. In truth, Huixue and the cat on her shoulder were somewhat alike. They both had to be stroked with the grain. If one went against the grain, it was hard to guarantee one’s safety.
“Good.” Huixue looked at her coldly. “Take out Severing Love. Do not make me say it a second time.”
Mu Yinfeng could only obediently take Severing Love from her storage ring. She had never thought there would come a day when she would have to use Severing Love.
She did not use Severing Love for two reasons. First, she was afraid she had no foundation at all and would expose herself the moment she picked it up. Second, the meaning of this sword was obviously not good. In the original plot, the original owner used Severing Love only a handful of times. It seemed she used it only in a few fights against Yimu. Even when facing Huixue or Lin Qiudi, she used only Changyin and never drew Severing Love.
If Severing Love could be used against Yimu, the original owner’s swordsmanship was definitely not to be underestimated. But in the original book, Mu Yinfeng had never seen her practice the sword. That meant the original owner’s childhood foundations had to be extremely good. After transmigrating, Mu Yinfeng had borrowed sword manuals from the Scripture Pavilion and tried following them several times, only to sadly discover that those childhood foundations had not transferred to her.
What if Huixue saw through her? At the start, Huixue had doubted her identity more than once. This time, would that not be solid proof? The first time, it had been Tianbing. The second time, Liufei. This time, would Huixue let her die under Chuying’s claws?
But Huixue said, “Your foundation is shallow. I usually do not force you to use the sword. But now Changyin is in Yimu’s hands. Do you plan to use Yimu’s blood vine?”
The blood vine had already turned into a ruby bracelet coiled around Mu Yinfeng’s wrist. Mu Yinfeng lowered her head and looked at it, then muttered softly, “Actually, there is nothing bad about it…” As long as it did not make her expose herself.
“Right now, Yimu’s identity is uncertain, and everyone knows Yimu often uses blood vines.” Huixue lifted the wooden sword and lightly tapped the bracelet on Mu Yinfeng’s wrist. At that moment, the bracelet shot out thousands of red tongues, as if it had its own awareness, and quickly rushed at the wooden sword. Huixue leaped back one step, and ice and snow instantly spread outward with her at the center, reaching a radius of a full ten meters.
Mu Yinfeng was startled by Huixue’s reaction. “What is going on?”
“The blood vine Yimu gave you has self-awareness. Its grade is not below Tianbing’s.” Huixue waved the sword and withdrew the ice and snow. “But right now, it is not under your control.”
“How can you tell?”
“Can you take it off right now?”
The blood vine had already returned to its original appearance, but the scene of it launching a counterattack was still vivid in Mu Yinfeng’s mind. She still did not quite dare touch it. She looked up at Huixue, but did not meet Huixue’s eyes, so she could only grit her teeth and try to take the blood vine off her wrist.
But the blood vine clung tightly to her hand. No matter how much effort she used, she could not remove it.
“Because the blood vine has not yet accepted you as its master. You cannot afford to wait that long.” Huixue explained, “Tianbing was the same. Back then, it took me ten years to win Tianbing’s trust. From when I was six until I was sixteen, Tianbing finally acknowledged me.”
That hard?
But Tianbing was clearly very obedient. Now, hearing Huixue say this, Tianbing crawled to Mu Yinfeng’s hand in grievance and rubbed the back of her hand with its tassels.
“A spiritual artifact that truly trusts you will never do anything against your will. Your blood vine is clearly not there yet.”
Mu Yinfeng stared at a tassel that was trying hard to burrow into her palm and could not help asking the question that had been buried in her heart for a long time. “Senior Sister, when Tianbing burrows into my palm, is that also on your instruction?”