The Heroine Made a Pact With Senior Sister (GL) Chapter 22

Huixue turned slightly to the side, so Mu Yinfeng could only see her profile. Huixue’s side face, her gaze, even her movements were still as cold and stern as ever. Yet Mu Yinfeng could faintly feel that Huixue’s heart was not like a dead well beneath the surface.
“So what do you plan to do?” Huixue asked in a tone almost cold enough to freeze. “Whether it is Tianbing’s will or my will, what does it matter?”
“Nothing.” Mu Yinfeng hurriedly said, “Senior Sister, please continue.”
“This time, I want to teach you swordsmanship. First, after losing the Changyin pipa, you will still have some power to protect yourself. Second, the Immortal Sects Assembly is near. Do you plan to go onstage empty-handed?”
“…”
If she had not miscalculated the timeline, the Immortal Sects Assembly would begin in one month. Was there any difference between rushing swordsmanship in one month and going onstage empty-handed?
“But Senior Sister, you do not usually use a sword either. Please spare me…”
Huixue shot Mu Yinfeng a look that clearly said, Do you not trust me? Mu Yinfeng immediately shut her mouth and stopped provoking Huixue.
“It is enough to teach you.”
Mu Yinfeng wanted to cry. Mu Yinfeng wanted to run. People always said heaven never sealed off every road, but Huixue was clearly trying to push her into a dead end, then turn around and cut off her last path of survival too.
“But the Immortal Sects Assembly requires selecting young disciples. Hanyou Valley cannot be planning to send every disciple, right?” Mu Yinfeng quickly tried to refuse. “If there is a disciple selection, there must be less than half a month left. With that amount of time, I might as well ask Master to lend me a new pipa.”
Huixue looked at her coldly. “According to Hanyou Valley’s rules, each of the three peaks sends ten people. If we followed past custom, Hanyou Valley should also send ten people. But Master has only three disciples. Join the disciple selection? What do you think you are?”
Mu Yinfeng had no argument. She could only lower her head and grip Severing Love tighter.
“But if you want to join the disciple selection, that is fine too. Ten days is enough.” Huixue said lightly, “With your comprehension, let alone ten days, even five days would be enough.”
“How could five days be enough?” A voice came from deep within the dense woods. It giggled, clear as silver bells. “Huixue, oh Huixue, do not push young people so hard. Even if you gave a young person fifty days, there would be no problem.”
Huixue glanced toward the voice and immediately saluted. “Disciple Huixue greets Martial Uncle Shadow.”
Martial Uncle Shadow?
Mu Yinfeng thought back for a moment and confirmed the person’s identity. This person was Ruoying, the junior sister of Hanyou Valley Master Bing Ling’er. People in the cultivation world called her Immortal Venerable Shadow and described her as clinging like rot to bone and following like a shadow to the body. Her tracking and concealment abilities were unmatched in the world. Once she marked someone as a target, no matter who they were, they could forget about escaping with their life.
In the original plot, Ruoying appeared only twice. The first time, she killed Minglun, the leader of the evil cultivator group, the Mingxin Sect. The second time, she investigated a strange massacre that wiped out an entire household. But Ruoying mysteriously disappeared during that case, and because she always acted alone, no one saw who attacked her.
Because the original text described Ruoying only vaguely, Mu Yinfeng had always imagined her as a slender woman dressed in fitted combat clothes. But now that she truly saw Ruoying today, she did not know whether to laugh or cry.
The one who appeared before her eyes was a little girl who looked only seven or eight years old. She wore a silver-threaded flower-butterfly jacket on top and a pale moon-white skirt below. A glittering golden moth crown was tied on her head, and the pearls on the crown trembled lightly, shining with dazzling color. A bright phoenix hairpin stuck out from behind the moth crown. The dangling tassels struck one another and made clear little chiming sounds, lively and bright.
This was… Ruoying…?
Mu Yinfeng rubbed her eyes, but the Ruoying she saw was still this little girl. However, though Ruoying looked like this, when Mu Yinfeng looked into her eyes, she felt as if a whirlpool surged inside them, as if it would suck her in the next second.
“I like this girl. Huixue, step back first. I have a few private words to say to her.” Ruoying walked to Mu Yinfeng’s side. Her height did not even reach Mu Yinfeng’s waist, and she had to stand on tiptoe just to reach Mu Yinfeng’s hand. Yet such a person made Huixue, who might even argue a few lines against Bing Ling’er, quickly withdraw.
“Sit.” Ruoying smiled and pointed at the ground. Mu Yinfeng had just wanted to say she was afraid of dirtying her clothes, but then she saw a soft cushion appear beneath her. She had no excuse and could only obey.
“Martial Uncle…”
“Do not call me Martial Uncle. Ling’er is not afraid of shortening her life by pressing me down one generation, but I do not dare.” Ruoying quickly waved her hand and sat down beside Mu Yinfeng. “In terms of seniority, your mother and our old Valley Master were of the same generation. Ling’er is not afraid of taboos, but I cannot mess up the order. Just call me Ruoying.”
“That may be too disrespectful…”
“What is disrespectful about it? I hate those things most.” Ruoying placed her hand on Mu Yinfeng’s back and tapped lightly. Mu Yinfeng could not figure out what she wanted to do, but with each movement, Mu Yinfeng felt a little more uneasy.
After a long while, Ruoying stopped tapping and said thoughtfully, “Yinfeng, how much longer are you going to pretend?”
“Huh?”
Mu Yinfeng jumped in fright, only to see Ruoying frowning. “Are you really stupid or just pretending? I checked just now. There are at least five seals in your body. Judging from their strength, either you placed them yourself, or someone at least three major realms higher than you did. But someone at least three major realms higher than you… what do you think that would be?”
Mu Yinfeng humbly asked for guidance. “What would it be?”
“A divine envoy, of course. A being second only to the heavenly gods. As far as I know, there are only seven or eight divine envoys in this cultivation world, and not one of them could place this kind of seal on you. So of course you did it yourself.” Ruoying looked at Mu Yinfeng as if she were looking at an idiot. “Other young people cannot wait to become the best of their generation, but you… are you afraid people will discover your talent?”
Mu Yinfeng laughed awkwardly. “Maybe… yes?”
“Yes, your head!” Ruoying smacked Mu Yinfeng’s shoulder, neither too lightly nor too heavily. In order to reach Mu Yinfeng, she even had to stand up on purpose. “What is the point of hiding? Although I do not know why you have strength so mismatched with your age, you have not hidden it well at all. I heard a few lines of what Huixue said to you just now. If they let you enter the disciple selection, do not let the disciples of Yingxia Peak live! Even if they all came at you together, they probably could not walk out of your Primordial Yin Domain.”
“Uh…” Mu Yinfeng was rather shocked by Ruoying’s words. After all, she had not won any of her recent fights. Ruoying was overestimating her far too much.
“You mean Butterfly Spirit, Juechenzi, and Yimu?” Ruoying saw through her thoughts at a glance, and her expression clearly turned tearless with frustration. “Do you know that Butterfly Spirit was once the first deputy god under the Butterfly Goddess in the heavens, and she also received the Butterfly Goddess’s divine power? If you did not have seals, of course there would be no problem. Who told you to seek death? And Juechenzi, that was exactly what you deserved. Did you use your full strength? Did you eat the perfectly good Linglong Heart Method? As for Yimu…”
Ruoying could not help drawing out the final sound. “It is normal that you cannot beat her, because Yimu is one of the few divine envoys I know.”