The Heroine Made a Pact With Senior Sister (GL) Chapter 3

“In your dreams!” A clear, cold voice rang out from midair, followed by the Butterfly Spirit’s scream. Mu Yinfeng quickly looked up and saw an incomparably beautiful figure standing in the air like a goddess descending to the world. She could not help collapsing onto the ground, hardly daring to lift her head again.
Why was it her?
Mu Yinfeng’s heart pounded wildly. Her excitement was so intense she could hardly breathe. She barely managed to recite the true formula and withdraw the bone pipa, then tied the necklace that hid her aura back on. With Huixue here, did Mu Yinfeng even need to act?
Although she did not know where the plot had gone wrong, she was clear about one thing: Huixue could not be impersonated.
Huixue was a snow woman from the northern region. The snow women absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, born and raised by nature. They were spirits of ice and snow, and they absolutely could not appear as creations inside an illusion realm.
The Huixue before her could only be real.
Screams sounded one after another beside her ears. A pair of snow-white boots landed in front of Mu Yinfeng’s eyes. Her gaze moved up. Above the boots was a snow-white Daoist robe adorned with shadows of frost and snow. Just then, a hand as clear and white as jade reached toward her.
Was the owner of that hand trying to pull her up?
Mu Yinfeng grabbed that jade-like hand with trembling fingers. She did not care about anything else. If there was a chance to take advantage, she would take it first.
“Are you cold?” The voice beside her ear was still clear and chilly.
Mu Yinfeng nodded without thinking.
A snow-white outer robe was draped over her shoulders. “What about now?”
Mu Yinfeng shook her head.
“What is this? A mere evil creature scared you until you cannot speak?”
Mu Yinfeng froze at first. Then a thought moved in her heart. Forget it. She threw herself into Huixue’s arms and began sobbing.
“You…” Huixue had not expected Mu Yinfeng to use this move and froze on the spot. By the time she reacted, Mu Yinfeng’s tears had already soaked her shoulder.
This…
Although Huixue had always been cold and self-controlled, she could not help being shocked. In her memory, Mu Yinfeng’s coldness was no less than her own. More than that, Mu Yinfeng had never found her pleasing to the eye. Yet now she had accepted Huixue’s clothing and was crying in her arms like a child. Could this girl be some avatar of the Butterfly Spirit, disguised as Mu Yinfeng to confuse her sight?
Besides, this girl did not have Mu Yinfeng’s usual aura. Judging identity from aura would not be wrong, and Mu Yinfeng had no reason to hide her aura and confuse Huixue.
Huixue had no time to think more deeply. With a flick of the brocade silk in her hand, she lashed the girl hard. The girl was completely unprepared and was whipped by Tianbing until she rolled several times across the ground. Then Tianbing shot out with a swish and bound her from head to toe. Huixue watched coldly and asked in an icy voice, “Who exactly are you?”
A moment ago, Mu Yinfeng had still been thinking that although Huixue looked cold as ice, the softness of her body was absolutely real. Holding her felt so comfortable it was like being in heaven. In the next instant, her heaven had tied her up with white silk and was looking at her with eyes so cold it seemed she might strangle her at any moment.
“I am Mu Yinfeng,” Mu Yinfeng said, feeling terribly wronged. She wiped her tears, her voice thick with sobs.
“You had better not lie to me. You cannot bear the consequences.” Huixue had confirmed that the person before her did not have the aura Mu Yinfeng should have. Her voice turned colder. “Tianbing, tighten.”
This shameless evil creature had dared impersonate Mu Yinfeng in front of her and still refused to admit it. It was unforgivable. It deserved death.
Huixue was furious. The brocade silk tightened more and more. Wherever it squeezed, bloody marks appeared, staining the white Tianbing red. The scene was especially tragic. Mu Yinfeng was bound tightly and had no strength to resist. She could only look at Huixue and rack her brain for information she knew, trying to defend herself. “Senior Sister, I really am Mu Yinfeng. My master is the Master of Hanyou Valley. I have a senior brother, who is also Senior Sister’s junior brother, named Chang Zui, and…”
“You think knowing these things is enough to deceive me?” Huixue continued controlling Tianbing. The silk tightened further. “If you do not say who you are, Tianbing!”
Countless barbs instantly grew from Tianbing. They hooked into Mu Yinfeng’s skin, and blood splashed at once, staining her white clothes. Mu Yinfeng screamed. The places torn open by the snow barbs burned with sharp pain, hurting so much she nearly fainted.
Yet Tianbing remained pure white, untouched by even the slightest stain of blood. From a distance, it looked like a strip of white silk wrapped around a red candle, gorgeous and alluring, yet enough to make the heart tremble.
Seeing this scene, Huixue suddenly found it difficult to continue. If the girl before her truly was the Butterfly Spirit, surely she would not be this weak. She should not be unable to withstand even Tianbing’s snow barbs.
But if this really was Mu Yinfeng, how could Mu Yinfeng not fight back? Even though Tianbing was connected to Huixue’s mind and worked with her seamlessly, Mu Yinfeng was not someone who could be injured casually. And the person before her did not have the aura of a woman with a primordial yin body.
Huixue knew the aura of a primordial yin woman too well. That deep yin energy was something she could identify even from ten miles away. The yin energy that scattered from Mu Yinfeng’s body was different from the yin energy of evil creatures. An evil creature’s yin energy was mixed and impure, but Mu Yinfeng’s yin energy was pure beyond compare.
Although Mu Yinfeng’s body was trapped, her mind was not slow. If Huixue could not recognize her, there was only one reason.
Mu Yinfeng barely raised her hand and endured the pain from Tianbing’s barbs as she untied the necklace.
The moment the necklace came loose, Tianbing released her and returned to Huixue’s wrist. Mu Yinfeng fell sitting into the snow. Her white robe was covered in blood, making her look terribly miserable.
“You… you really are Mu Yinfeng?” Huixue cried out despite herself.
She had just seen the girl before her seem to undo something, and then that familiar aura had spread out. Did Mu Yinfeng usually use something to conceal her aura?
The girl in the snow nodded weakly, as if only one breath remained in her. Her frail and powerless appearance made one’s heart ache.
“What happened just now? Why did your aura suddenly appear? Why did you not resist?” Huixue asked warily.
Mu Yinfeng knew Huixue believed her, and her heart relaxed a little. In a voice as thin as a thread, she explained the reason. “My… necklace… Master gave it to me… to hide… hide my primordial yin… body…”
Mu Yinfeng wanted to explain more clearly, but she suddenly felt unbearably cold. It was so cold she felt her blood would freeze into ice and stop flowing. She barely lifted her head and looked at Huixue, only to find her vision completely blurred. She could not see Huixue’s face at all. Then her head drooped, and she collapsed into the snow.
Huixue crossed the distance in a few steps and helped Mu Yinfeng up. Mu Yinfeng’s eyes were closed, her face was pale as paper, and her expression was full of pain. Huixue quickly took Mu Yinfeng’s wrist to check her pulse, and her heart sank.
Just now, she had treated Mu Yinfeng the way she treated evil creatures. Tianbing’s barbs carried cold poison. Clearly, the cold poison had already entered Mu Yinfeng’s blood.
Huixue understood her cold poison too well. Her cold poison was one of the poisons in this world without an antidote. Even she herself had no cure for it. Anyone struck by the cold poison had only one road left: death.
Huixue had always been this kind of person. She would rather kill a thousand by mistake than let one escape.
But why was Mu Yinfeng among that thousand? This thought suddenly flashed through Huixue’s mind and quickly stirred up raging waves. Huixue barely suppressed her own thoughts. Now was not the time to think about such things.
Although there was no antidote for the cold poison, it was not truly without a solution. As long as she continuously maintained a flow of spiritual energy, she could temporarily suppress the cold poison. But if that spiritual flow broke, Mu Yinfeng would probably…
Forget it. There was no time to think. Huixue clasped Mu Yinfeng’s wrist and slowly poured spiritual energy into her body. Only after quite some time did a faint trace of color return to Mu Yinfeng’s face, and her hand was no longer as icy as before.
“This is enough.” Huixue stared at that familiar face and said each word slowly. “This time, let it count as… what you owed me being repaid.”
Huixue thought for a moment, then casually pointed. The snow robe draped over Mu Yinfeng returned to its original state, without even a single pulled thread. Tianbing became pure white again as well, with no sign that it had been stained by blood.
The pipa notes from her previous life still seemed to ring beside her ears, each sound urging her toward death. Her struggles had brought only Mu Yinfeng’s almost mad torment in return. Mu Yinfeng had taken her Liufei sword and Tianbing silk, then used that lingering, tender pipa music to end her life little by little beneath its gentleness.
Mu Yinfeng had taken her life. Huixue would make Mu Yinfeng unable to continue cultivating from now on. One debt repaid by another. It was just right.
She had returned to this life, and although none of those things had happened yet, although she still could not harden her heart enough to strangle Mu Yinfeng directly, she would treat today’s matter, and the cold poison now wrapped around Mu Yinfeng, as punishment. Let it count as Mu Yinfeng repaying the debt from the previous life.
As for spiritual energy, she could leave Tianbing silk with Mu Yinfeng. Tianbing silk was like an extension of Huixue herself. Its spiritual energy was the same as hers, and it could automatically absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and turn it into power. Keeping Mu Yinfeng alive was still something it could do.
From now on, the bridge would return to the bridge, and the road to the road. It would be best if the two of them never met again.
Huixue’s gaze shifted and landed on the black jeweled necklace lying on the ground. She bent down to pick it up, then reached out and tied it around Mu Yinfeng’s snow-white neck again.
Just then, Huixue’s heart suddenly jolted for no reason. Her brows drew together. She turned and looked at the Butterfly Spirit, whom she had beaten half to death. Her spiritual sense spread out to test the strength of the illusion realm, and her expression sharpened.
The Butterfly Spirit was already half dead. According to the rule that an illusion realm and the one who created it prospered and suffered together, the strength of the illusion realm should have weakened greatly. Yet now, the illusion realm faintly showed signs of becoming stronger.
How was that possible?
Unless…
Huixue walked up to the Butterfly Spirit, who had only one breath left after Huixue’s beating, wanting to lift it and see what was going on. But before her hand could reach out, the Butterfly Spirit’s body shattered in front of her, turning into hundreds and thousands of black butterflies that scattered away in fluttering waves.
Not good. She had fallen into a trap!
Only then did Huixue realize that the Butterfly Spirit before her had actually been a decoy body. The Butterfly Spirit’s true body was still somewhere else, constantly watching the illusion realm and repairing its barrier. That was why the illusion barrier had grown stronger instead.
She could sense that the whole illusion realm had closed completely from the outside inward. In other words, the Butterfly Spirit had been outside the illusion before, and it had used only its own power to create this illusion barrier. A large-scale barrier like this could not cost the Butterfly Spirit only a little.
Why had the Butterfly Spirit gone to such lengths and spent so much power to create this illusion realm?
Could it be…
Huixue’s gaze fell on the girl’s face in her arms, and she seemed to understand something all at once.
“Tianbing.” Huixue gave the order without emotion. “Watch Mu Yinfeng. Do not let anything happen to her.”
She was used to coming and going alone. Bringing Mu Yinfeng with her would only add trouble for Huixue herself. It would be safer to have Tianbing silk guard Mu Yinfeng.
Tianbing silk flew out with a swish and coiled around Mu Yinfeng’s waist like a little snake. Its other end lifted proudly, as if telling Huixue not to worry. Huixue nodded, swept her wide sleeve, and cleared away the ice and snow from a patch of ground in front of her.
Huixue was just about to bend down and put Mu Yinfeng there when a delicate hand caught her sleeve.
“Senior Sister… do not go… do not leave me…”