The Heroine Made a Pact With Senior Sister (GL) Chapter 31

That name was Yimu.
Countless questions surged into Mu Yinfeng’s mind like a tide. Who exactly was Yimu? What was Yimu’s purpose in doing this? And… what relationship did Yimu have with her?
Yimu had spared her on Yongmu Peak, yet had set the date of her death fourteen years ago. Yimu had taken away her Changyin pipa, then given her a blood vine that was almost like a token. Mu Yinfeng faintly felt that all of this seemed to be developing in an uncontrollable direction. At the end of that development, there was very likely a shocking secret even she could not predict.
“You cannot touch her.” Huixue raised her eyes and looked at Jian Shu. “She is not someone you can touch.”
Jian Shu smiled lightly. “Why can I not touch her? A-Xue, have you ever seen a girl of primordial yin cultivate to a proper end?”
Huixue suddenly choked. She still wanted to say something, but nothing came out.
Mu Yinfeng also understood. Although girls of primordial yin had extraordinary talent and were rare cultivation geniuses, very few had ever lived past twenty. Compared with letting a girl of primordial yin cultivate on her own, using her as a cultivation vessel to assist one’s own cultivation was clearly more profitable. Therefore, most powerful cultivators watched girls of primordial yin like tigers eyeing prey. Even if such a girl entered a sect, she could not avoid the sect’s internal greed.
There was only one predecessor who had attained the Dao and ascended with a primordial yin body, the legendary Star Lord of Great Yin. But first, that was a legend. Second, those who could ascend were all people with great fortune. Although Mu Yinfeng herself also had the quality for ascension, the quality for ascension was not ascension. As for her ending, she knew it clearly.
“Since a girl of primordial yin cannot cultivate to a proper end, could her Dao companion cultivate to a proper end and come seek revenge on me?” Jian Shu stepped forward. “But judging from her age, she is not old enough to find a Dao companion yet. A-Xue, do not go too far. If you still remember the old affection between you and the Jian family, I hope you will not stop me.”
“She is my junior sister. You cannot touch her in front of me.” Huixue protected Mu Yinfeng even more tightly. “Your target is only the Xu family. Go act against them if you wish. What does this have to do with Yinfeng?”
“If she were not a girl of primordial yin, I would not touch her. And most importantly, she is not strong enough. A-Xue, you come from the Snow Domain, so you should understand the law of the strong eating the weak. You would not stop tigers and white bears from hunting fragile rabbits, so why stop me? I am an evil being. It is impossible for me to share human feelings with you.”
“You…”
“There is no need to say anything, A-Xue.” Jian Shu smiled again and looked regretfully at Mu Yinfeng. “But there is one kind of person I will not touch, and that is someone from the Snow Domain. If she were from the Snow Domain, I would not lay a finger on her. Unfortunately, she is not.”
Huixue’s body trembled, as if she wanted to say something. Just then, a lazy voice sounded. “Are you all finished or not? Do you know it is very rude to make an elder wait?”
The light and shadows around them gradually turned unreal. Within the illusions, a beautiful young woman seemed to walk out. The young woman wore palace dress, her hair full of pearls and jade. Her steps were delicate and flawless. Even the most sharp-eyed palace etiquette eunuch could not pick out a single flaw in her bearing.
At the same time, the yin energy slowly spilling through the surroundings began to churn violently, making everyone feel as if they had fallen into a bottomless whirlpool. Jian Shu inwardly cried that this was bad. She hurriedly spread her wide sleeves and was about to dance, but the sleeves of the Scarlet Flame Robe were sucked into the whirlpool, leaving her no way to move them.
“Primordial yin domain?” Jian Shu was shocked. “And Ruoying’s…”
“Dreamlike Bubble, my domain.” Ruoying’s form stood before them, but her voice seemed to come from every direction. Suddenly, her body split into two, four, eight, sixteen… It scattered rapidly to different places. Very soon, the entire room was filled with Ruoying’s messy shadows, and it was impossible to tell which was real and which was an illusion. Along with the dazzling illusions came the sound of pearls and jade ringing throughout the room, making people even more dazed and unable to free themselves.
“Stacked domains?” Jian Shu stretched a hand out from the Scarlet Flame Robe. A spark of fire appeared at her fingertip. “But I think you have all forgotten one thing. In the end, I am still a member of the Jian family. What the Sun predecessors were skilled in, I can do too.”
“I advise you to stop.” Huixue’s voice was clear and cold, showing an unfitting kind of reality inside the stacked domains. “If not for the Scarlet Flame Robe just now, you would probably already be dead.”
“By you? You should know that I am Heaven-grade Mao rank. How could you possibly kill me? A-Xue, you had better withdraw from this meaningless fight. Otherwise, I cannot guarantee I can protect you!” Jian Shu said loudly.
At that moment, Tianbing wrapped around Jian Shu’s leg like a venomous snake and pulled hard, tripping her to the ground. Then Tianbing burst with blue light. Even from some distance away, Mu Yinfeng clearly felt the cold killing intent Tianbing released. It was a feeling Tianbing had never shown when wrapped around her.
At the same time, every Ruoying in the room pulled the phoenix-head hairpin from her hair. The blade at the end of each hairpin was sharp and narrowed finally into a needle point, filled with an unstoppable edge. The phoenix-head hairpins flew toward Jian Shu one after another. Mu Yinfeng instinctively hid behind Huixue. Although she knew Jian Shu was an evil being and probably would not bleed, she still imagined a bloody, torn-apart scene.
“Do not be afraid. You have already done very well. Your primordial yin domain working together with Martial Uncle Shadow is not bad.” Huixue thought Mu Yinfeng was afraid and turned back to say this. That was also what Huixue thought in her heart, because Mu Yinfeng was still a teenage child after all. She could not be compared with that demoness who had run wild through the cultivation world.
Mu Yinfeng answered, then said, “She will not die.”
Huixue swallowed back the words she had finally managed to think of. It seemed this child had not been frightened at all. That saved Huixue from saying things she herself did not know how to say.
“If a Heaven-grade Mao rank could die so easily, Guiyuan Tower’s ratings might as well be scrapped.” Ruoying quietly slipped to their side. “Yinfeng, Huixue, this is only the first step. When the net comes down, the two of you run at once. This is not a place where you should stay!”
“Why?” the two asked in unison.
Then the two looked at each other. Each seemed to blame the other, but they spoke in unison again. “Let her go. I will not go.”
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“I did not bring you here to die. Since that is the case…” Ruoying’s eyes rolled. “Huixue, you go first. You should be able to leave, right?”
“Then what about Yinfeng?” Huixue refused. “I am Yinfeng’s senior sister. I cannot leave her alone.”
“What are you afraid of when I am here?”
Huixue stared into Ruoying’s eyes, one hand tightly wrapped around Mu Yinfeng’s shoulder, so tight that Mu Yinfeng felt her bones might be snapped by Huixue’s grip. “I feel she is safer beside me.”
Ruoying’s mouth clearly twitched. “I can only protect one person!”
“A snow woman is not human.” Huixue bowed slightly. Taken alone, her words and attitude were extremely respectful, but here, they somehow sounded mocking. “Martial Uncle Shadow need not worry about me.”
For an instant, Mu Yinfeng felt Ruoying was about to hit Huixue. In the end, Ruoying could only smile bitterly. “Fine, fine. If you want to see a Heaven-grade Mao rank, that is not impossible. But you must protect yourself. When the time comes, I have no way to find both a snow woman and a girl of primordial yin to answer to your master.”
“She will not have an accident.” Huixue reached toward Liufei at her waist. A sharp metallic sound rang out. Sheets of frost rushed at them head-on. In an instant, Mu Yinfeng felt as if she had been placed inside ten-thousand-year black ice. All the blood in her body froze stiff.
If Liufei left its sheath, it had to see blood. Otherwise, the one to suffer was Huixue herself…
Mu Yinfeng’s face changed slightly. Her frozen blood suddenly began to move because of some unknown force. She threw herself at Huixue. Huixue had no time to react, and her body immediately lost balance and fell backward. Mu Yinfeng pressed down on her and held Huixue’s hand firmly.
Luckily, Liufei was only half drawn.
Mu Yinfeng let out a breath of relief. Suddenly, a sharp pain came from her forearm. She lowered her head and saw that half of Huixue’s skirt was soaked with fresh blood. A wound nearly one foot long had split vertically along Mu Yinfeng’s forearm. Flesh opened and curled back, while blood gushed out. It looked terrifying.
“What are you doing?” Huixue pushed Mu Yinfeng off her and snapped angrily. At that moment, Liufei’s sword light gradually faded, and the sword actually returned to its sheath by itself.
“Do not use Liufei. Hurry and leave. Martial Uncle Shadow and I can handle this! She said she would let you go, so she definitely can let you go. This matter has nothing to do with you!” Mu Yinfeng endured the severe pain and shouted almost hoarsely, “If you stay here, you are waiting to die!”
“Fine. I am waiting to die. I will leave right now.” Huixue narrowed her eyes, her voice slightly cold. She tore the Snow Silk Robe from her body, then looked at the long sword wound on Mu Yinfeng’s forearm. Her feet stayed rooted in place, not moving even an inch.
“Senior Sister!” Mu Yinfeng urged. She could feel that the current domain was already extremely unstable. The whirlpool’s suction inside the domain deepened and weakened at random. Her face turned pale, and she nearly fell to the ground.
“Stop talking, both of you. All of you, leave!” Ruoying did her best to move closer to them. Although Mu Yinfeng’s domain was not aimed at her, she was still affected quite badly. A talisman was burning in her hand. The moment it burned out, Mu Yinfeng felt something grab her collar. Then her whole body seemed to be stuffed into a long tube. When she opened her eyes, she was already outside Reed Village.
“You two really do not let anyone relax!” A tall young woman scolded. It was Ruoying. Strangely, her clothes had also grown larger with her body. Ruoying caught Mu Yinfeng’s wrist and tapped several times, sealing her acupoints so the blood would stop flowing. “Yinfeng, why go this far?”
“Liufei cannot leave its sheath.” Mu Yinfeng said quietly, “If Liufei leaves its sheath and the opponent does not die, then the sword wielder dies.”
“What?”
“How do you know that?”
Huixue regretted the question as soon as she said it. She turned away, still holding the Snow Silk Robe. “What does that have to do with you?”
“I do not want you to die.”
You do not want me to die? Then who was the one who killed me with her own hands in the previous life? Huixue bit her lower lip tightly, doing her best not to make a sound. It was better not to tell Mu Yinfeng these things.
In the end, she released her teeth and softly said something even she herself did not believe. “…There is no such thing.”
“I do not care whether there is or not!” Ruoying interrupted them. The night made her figure look even taller and slimmer. “Right now, I have temporarily trapped that evil being. What do you think we should do next?”
“I will not. I will not use that method, even if it is the best plan.” Mu Yinfeng saw through Ruoying’s thoughts and refused decisively.
She did not want the nightmare from the book to happen, did not want to personally steal away all life in Reed Village and turn it to her own use. Although that could temporarily give her enough cultivation to contend with Jian Shu, even suppress her, it was still not a foolproof plan.
“Sacrificing one village to preserve one country. I think it is worth it.” Huixue cut in. “With Jian Shu’s current nature, she will not destroy only one country. She will throw the world into chaos and make the people suffer, then torture and kill the royal family. At that time, even more people will die.”
“But the people of Reed Village… did nothing wrong…” Mu Yinfeng said weakly.
She knew the people of Reed Village had done nothing wrong and should not become sacrifices for eliminating an evil being. But she also knew that if Jian Shu could not be eliminated in time, the world would fall into chaos and even more people would die.
“If I break open a seal, what will happen?” Mu Yinfeng looked at Ruoying and asked quietly.
When she broke open the seal on the Linglong Heart Method, it had only been for a short instant. If she broke open another one, it should be fine, right?