The Heroine Made a Pact With Senior Sister (GL) Chapter 24

But that exchange flashed past Mu Yinfeng’s ears, and soon she sank back into fierce pain. Still, this suffering was not wasted. She had now found four seals inside her body.
Unbearable pain came from every part of her body. The spiritual energy inside her rushed and crashed, almost tearing her body into pieces. Even though her meridians were tough, she could faintly feel some fragile meridians split with tiny cracks under the impact of the fierce spiritual flow.
Mu Yinfeng took a deep breath. She gave up on searching for the fifth seal and did her best to control the spiritual flow racing wildly inside her body until it calmed down. Then her mind suddenly stirred, and she felt as if something shattered deep in her heart… After a long while, she slowly opened her eyes and looked at Ruoying and Huixue.
Ruoying was pressing down on Huixue’s wrist. It seemed as if Huixue could throw Ruoying off with one flick, but right now, the one who could not move at all was Huixue.
“Found them?” Ruoying raised her eyes, smiling sweetly.
Mu Yinfeng nodded. “I found them. But what is going on? Senior Sister, she…”
Why had Ruoying immobilized Huixue?
Ruoying released her hand smoothly. “You really should thank me. If someone disturbs you while you are looking inward… cough. If I had not helped you stop her, just now, you might not merely have failed to find the seals. Your life might even have been in danger.”
“What… do you mean?” Mu Yinfeng did not understand Ruoying for a moment.
“Nothing. I acted on my own.” Huixue’s face and voice were both like ice. “Since Martial Uncle Shadow is here, I will leave. Master still cannot do without me.”
She coldly threw down the wooden sword in her hand and turned to leave. She even used lightness skill, vanishing without a trace in a single breath.
“Lies are what girls are best at.” Ruoying blinked. Before her words had fully fallen, a spirit bird slipped out from somewhere, circled above Ruoying’s head, and dropped a letter.
This was one of Hanyou Valley’s messenger spirit birds, used for passing orders and assigning missions. Because Hanyou Valley’s Yingxia Peak and Chengchen Peak had many disciples but few teachers, there were sometimes too many missions for the teachers to pass on one by one. At those times, messenger spirit birds would be activated to deliver letters. A disciple who received a spirit bird’s letter had to immediately go to the Mission Hall to receive the dossier.
This was somewhat forceful, but very few people refused. The rewards from these mandatory missions were often ten times higher than those from missions taken voluntarily. The path of cultivation required a great deal of spending, and not everyone came from a wealthy family. Most could only rely on themselves.
But this was the first time Mu Yinfeng had seen a messenger spirit bird deliver a letter to someone at the elder or Immortal Venerable level.
“The missions carried by messenger spirit birds are all missions no one has accepted in the Mission Hall, and they are assigned to suitable people according to difficulty. I have not received a messenger spirit bird mission in several decades. It looks like this time…” Ruoying put the phoenix hairpin back into her hair and opened the letter.
This should be a mission that could not be underestimated. Mu Yinfeng felt it was not suitable for her to be here. “Since Martial Uncle Shadow needs to carry out a mission, then…”
“Why the hurry?” Ruoying smiled lightly. “We will go together.”
Mu Yinfeng was startled. Was it not said that Ruoying never brought anyone with her when carrying out missions?
“I do not bring people because many people’s cultivation methods clash with mine. Bringing them would be worse than not bringing them. But you are not like that.” Ruoying saw through Mu Yinfeng’s thoughts and explained, “According to your usual practice, should we go to the Mission Hall first to take the dossier, or go straight to the location?”
“Go to the Mission Hall first,” Mu Yinfeng reminded her.
“Good. Lead the way.”
As Mu Yinfeng led Ruoying to the Mission Hall, Ruoying followed behind her the whole way and refused to speak, afraid she would lose Mu Yinfeng. Yet even so, whenever Mu Yinfeng reached a fork in the road, if she did not look back to confirm Ruoying was still there, eight or nine times out of ten, Ruoying would wander off.
“I mean, everyone says your tracking is unmatched in the world. How can you lose track even while following me alone?” When Ruoying took the wrong road for the sixth time, Mu Yinfeng could not help asking.
“I have no sense of direction.” Ruoying’s face did not redden at all. She stuffed her hand into Mu Yinfeng’s, her tone willful and spoiled, without the slightest awareness that she was a martial uncle. “Hold my hand. Then you will not lose me!”
“…”
Mu Yinfeng suddenly felt as if something behind her had stabbed her hard.
She subconsciously turned back and saw a snow-robed beauty standing behind a rose trellis. The beauty’s pale blue eyes were full of solid ice, as if she wanted to freeze Mu Yinfeng’s blood with her gaze.
Mu Yinfeng instinctively let go of Ruoying’s hand and gestured behind her. Ruoying also turned and saw the snow-robed beauty. She smiled lightly, her laugh like silver bells.
“Is Huixue not helping Senior Sister handle valley affairs? Why are you following behind us?”
“If Martial Uncle Shadow is taking Third Junior Sister to carry out a mission, you should first ask Master for permission.” Huixue said expressionlessly, “Third Junior Sister is Master’s disciple, after all. Martial Uncle Shadow doing this is rather…”
“Rather what? Do not worry. I will bring her back whole.” Ruoying clapped and laughed. Although she still looked like a little girl, her gaze flashed with a seriousness completely different from her appearance.
“I will go with Martial Uncle Shadow.” Huixue suddenly stepped forward and blocked the only path the two of them could take to the Mission Hall. “Although Huixue has always known Martial Uncle does not like others following during missions, please make an exception for Huixue this once. Huixue will not interfere with Martial Uncle’s work.”
Ruoying shook her head like a rattle-drum. Suddenly, she flashed aside and grabbed at the empty air. Huixue still wanted to say something, but suddenly felt her whole body tighten, and she froze in place, unable to move.
“What is this…”
“Just striking acupoints.” Ruoying patted her chest, still afraid after the fact. “Thank goodness, thank goodness. I was a little faster than her. If I had been one step slower…” She opened her hand and looked at the silver needle in her palm. “Maybe the one who could not move would have been me.”
Acupoint sealing was one of Huixue’s best abilities. Back during the Butterfly Spirit case, butterflies across the sky fell whenever a needle struck them, already showing Huixue’s outstanding eyesight and precision. If someone wanted to immobilize Huixue, the only way was to be faster than Huixue.
“This Senior Sister of yours is still fairly proper. Do not worry. I will hand her back safely.” Ruoying smiled and said, “The sealed acupoints will release on their own after fifteen minutes. Then go back and tell Bing Ling’er. I have helped her so many times that she would not refuse me this much face. Yinfeng, let us go.”
Mu Yinfeng had no choice but to obey Ruoying’s order. In truth, she also hoped Huixue could go with them, but there was nothing she could do if Ruoying would not agree.
Besides, this part of the plot did not have a role for Huixue after all. Mu Yinfeng remembered clearly that although she had met Ruoying almost three years earlier than in the true plot, she still had a deep impression of the mission she carried out with Ruoying.
The theme of this mission was catching ghosts. Judging only from the mission itself, it was indeed successful. But in the end, the price was an entire village.