The Heroine Made a Pact With Senior Sister (GL) Chapter 26

Guiyuan Tower was an organization that stood above all sects in the cultivation world. If the cultivation world had a division between ruler and subject, Guiyuan Tower would be the undisputed ruler. It was a place of advanced study that nearly every cultivator yearned for. Guiyuan Tower stood at the center of the continent, where the spiritual energy was at least ten times denser than in other places. It never lacked spirit stones or pills to aid cultivation. It was said that one day of cultivation inside Guiyuan Tower could equal several months of quiet cultivation elsewhere.
Guiyuan Tower had many duties, and one of them was rating the evil beings of the world. This work seemed easy, but in truth it was extremely tedious. Evil-being ratings were set by the Earthly Branches, divided by cultivation level into Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, and Hai. Every four ranks marked a major leap in quality, roughly divided into Heaven, Earth, and Human grades. The lowest Heaven-grade Mao rank could bring disaster to a country and throw the world into chaos. The highest Zi rank could even contend against the heavenly realm. Fortunately, current records only contained Heaven-grade Mao rank. Anything higher existed only in legend.
Guiyuan Tower’s ratings helped determine what level of cultivator should be sent against an evil being. For example, to remove a mere Hai-rank little demon, even an ordinary person could do it. Someone with slightly strong yang energy might scare the little demon into fleeing at the sound of the wind. It would absolutely not require someone like Ruoying. Likewise, when facing an evil being above Wei rank, no one would send a disciple who had just entered the sect.
Cultivators were still a minority across the continent. No one wanted young cultivators to die because a rating was not strict enough. Therefore, Guiyuan Tower’s ratings were precise to the extreme. Even among ten thousand ratings, it was hard to find one mistake.
But this time was that rare mistake among ten thousand ratings.
The evil being in Reed Village was not the rated Earth-grade Chen rank, but the rarely seen Heaven-grade Mao rank recorded in historical materials.
The last time a Heaven-grade Mao rank appeared, the mighty figures of Guiyuan Tower joined hands with Hanyou Valley Master, the master of Mirror Flower Hall, and many other sect leaders before they successfully suppressed it. Even then, they had no way to completely destroy the evil being.
Normally, a Heaven-grade Mao rank was either a great demon or a vengeful ghost with extremely heavy resentment. It also possessed intelligence no worse than a human’s and was extremely cunning and troublesome. Most terrifying of all, these evil beings did not need to consider the deaths of the innocent when they acted. But protecting the innocent was something cultivators had to consider as a matter of morality.
“When you went to Enji Village last time, you seemed to encounter a powerful one. The one who even drew over the emperor of the Ice Domain. What was her rating?” After hearing Mu Yinfeng question Guiyuan Tower, Ruoying said nothing about it and instead asked about the Butterfly Spirit case.
“Earth-grade Wu rank.” In truth, that rating was not exactly wrong. Who could have imagined that someone who could almost contend with the gods of the heavenly realm had only displayed the strength of an Earth-grade Wu rank?
But Ruoying’s words still shocked Mu Yinfeng. Biyuntian had been summoned by Huixue through a secret method. Ruoying had not been present. How could she know Biyuntian had arrived?
“If calculated normally, do you know what Biyuntian counts as?” Ruoying smiled faintly and suddenly asked.
“How could a person have a rating?”
“You are wrong. He is not human. Strictly speaking, he is also a kind of evil being. But for so many years, he has lived in the Ice Domain, at peace with us. Naturally, no one has gone looking for trouble with him. I suspect the main reason is that no one dares.” Ruoying lightly took her hand off the stone tablet and walked forward along the road. “Heaven-grade Chou rank. The emperor of the Ice Domain, Biyuntian. Back then, for the Butterfly Goddess, he dared challenge four heavenly gods of the heavenly realm and still survived until now. You can see how unfathomable his strength is.”
Mu Yinfeng was listening so intently that only then did she notice Ruoying had already walked off on her own. Afraid Ruoying would get lost, she hurried to catch up.
“Since you have faced a Heaven-grade Chou rank, you should not be afraid of this Earth-grade Wu rank.” Ruoying carefully lifted her skirt, afraid the dust on the ground would dirty the hem. She turned to glance at Mu Yinfeng, only to see Mu Yinfeng looking absent-minded. She could not help raising her voice. “Are you listening to me?”
Mu Yinfeng’s thoughts were not on Ruoying, but on the evil being they were about to face. She knew clearly how the evil being in Reed Village had been resolved in the end, but now that she had to act, she did not want what happened in the plot to happen again.
In the plot, after they discovered this evil being was Heaven-grade Mao rank, Mu Yinfeng decisively chose a cruel but effective method. She released primordial yin energy and turned the entire Reed Village into a dead village, absorbing the villagers’ life force and temporarily gaining the ability to contend with a Heaven-grade Mao rank. In the end, she sealed the evil being inside her Changyin pipa as the pipa’s main soul.
She had no pipa now, and she did not want to kill people.
In the end, Guiyuan Tower attributed the deaths in Reed Village to the evil being. But only the people involved knew the full truth. Unfortunately, Mu Yinfeng had already become emotionless, so those deaths could not affect her.
But they could affect the current her.
“Martial Uncle, be careful. Guiyuan Tower’s rating is wrong. This evil being is Heaven-grade Mao rank.” Mu Yinfeng separated a thread of mental power and sent it into Ruoying’s sea of consciousness to convey her thought.
Ruoying nodded. “The same as I thought. No wonder the spirit bird found me instead of Huixue. It seems even spirit birds can sense this…”
Mu Yinfeng fell silent. She understood the meaning in Ruoying’s words.
When spirit birds delivered letters, the letters carried residual magical energy. This was also an important basis for rating. Even a spirit bird could sense that this evil being’s strength was extraordinary. That made Guiyuan Tower’s mistake worth thinking about.
“It seems we still need to pay a visit to Squire Xu’s home. With so many sects in the world, why did this so coincidentally come to us?” Ruoying looked at Mu Yinfeng. There was no fear on her face, as if a Heaven-grade Mao rank and a Human-grade Hai rank were no different in her eyes.
Mu Yinfeng focused, her gaze landing on a distant residence with a golden roof and flowing light. It was the largest estate in all of Reed Village. The layout of the residence stood clearly apart from the homes of everyone else, and everywhere one looked, one could see the owner’s pursuit of grandeur and luxury. Dark clouds gathered above it, and ghostly energy coiled around it, more than ten times denser than beside the stone tablet where they stood.
That should be the place. Mu Yinfeng and Ruoying quickly walked toward the estate. When they drew closer, they saw servants going in and out, incense smoke curling throughout the residence. Everyone was so busy they looked ready to trip over their own feet. Mu Yinfeng wanted to stop a servant and ask him to announce them, but when the servant saw Mu Yinfeng leading a little girl who looked no more than ten, he assumed they had come to cause trouble. He impatiently scolded them and told them to leave quickly, ignoring Mu Yinfeng’s explanation completely.
“What should we do?” Mu Yinfeng cast Ruoying a pleading look.
Ruoying had been staring thoughtfully at the Xu residence’s plaque the whole time. The corner of her mouth lifted into a slight smile, like a child seeing something interesting. Mu Yinfeng looked at her several times, but Ruoying did not react at all. She only stared straight at the plaque.
“Martial Uncle Shadow, what should we do?” Mu Yinfeng walked to Ruoying’s side, bent down, and shouted loudly beside Ruoying’s ear.
“Since they do not believe us, let them be.” Only then did Ruoying pull her gaze back from the plaque. She clapped her hands and walked away without looking back. “Yinfeng, let us go.”
“Go on, go on. This is not something children like you can handle. Hurry home, or watch out, a monster might catch and eat you. Monsters love eating little girls like you most.” A servant carrying a table heard Ruoying’s words and drove them away in passing.
Just then, a clear female voice came from inside. “I brought those two here. Let them in.”
As soon as the words fell, Mu Yinfeng suddenly felt a chill at her waist.
A strip of snow-white silk had wrapped around her waist.