The Heroine Made a Pact With Senior Sister (GL) Chapter 33

“If you ask what relationship I have with Yimu…” Mu Yinfeng lifted the blood vine in her hand. “This blood vine was given to me by her.”
“Only that?”
“There will be nothing else.” A faint smile curved Mu Yinfeng’s lips. “Why ask so much when death is already before you?”
Flames leaped again in Jian Shu’s palm. Jian Shu looked toward the specks of golden light above Mu Yinfeng’s head. The golden light gathered into shape, as if forming ancient and mysterious runes.
Transposition Word-Spirit.
This girl was far cleverer than Jian Shu had imagined. Since Mu Yinfeng could not defeat her directly, she would design a way to anger her and use a mistake in her own words to draw heavenly punishment. Because the Way of Heaven was the highest truth in the world. No matter who one was, before the Way of Heaven, one was weak and unable to withstand a single blow.
But this girl was still a little impatient. Jian Shu was not someone she could injure so easily. Although this girl was very clever, cleverness could not be treated as battle strength.
“You cannot hurt me.” Jian Shu played with the flames in her palm. “If it were A-Xue or that martial uncle of yours, perhaps there would be a tiny chance. Do you think that little whip in your hand can fight me?”
“I do not know either, but I can try.” Mu Yinfeng smiled lightly and slowly raised the blood vine. Yin energy spread, and blood-red light filled the sky. Seeing this scene, Jian Shu’s heart shook violently. The girl before her looked like a fierce beast sealed since the ancient wilderness. With this aura alone, Jian Shu feared she could spend her whole life and still never reach it.
Even the woman from fourteen years ago, Yimu, could not reach it.
Who exactly was she?
“You already know who I am. I do not want to say it a second time.” Mu Yinfeng turned her palm, and the blood vine lashed out. Wherever it fell, blood-red light dyed the night. The flames around Jian Shu were quickly swallowed by that gloomy dark red.
She could actually see her thoughts?
“You do not need to doubt it. I really do know what you are thinking.” Yin energy coiled around Mu Yinfeng. Under the dark red blood light, she looked increasingly beautiful and enchanting. Just one focused gaze held endless charm, enough to overturn all living beings. It was as if anyone who looked at her once would fall at her feet and obey any order she gave.
She had never believed before that beauty could defeat a hundred thousand troops. But now, she had no choice but to admit it. Some women came into the mortal world perhaps as beings who could topple cities by their very existence.
“You are very beautiful, but I will not hold back.” Jian Shu took a deep breath, and flames burned around her again. “Beautiful women are dangerous. In the cultivation world, a beautiful shell is also a terrifying weapon. Unfortunately, this weapon of yours is useless against me.”
“I have never wanted to rely on such things. Besides, my looks are only ordinary. Since you only left Senior Sister a single thread of favor, of course you will not spare me.” Mu Yinfeng smiled. Then her eyes suddenly widened, meeting Jian Shu’s gaze.
Yin Charm Art.
Even Butterfly Spirit could be controlled by the Yin Charm Art, let alone Jian Shu.
However, this Yin Charm Art could only control her for an instant. After all, Jian Shu’s strength was still worlds apart from hers. Also, Huixue was still watching from outside. It would not be good for her to reveal every card she had in front of Huixue.
Unlike Huixue’s upright and noble energy, the methods Mu Yinfeng cultivated were all cold and dark, almost unfit to be shown openly. If others did not know she was the third disciple of Hanyou Valley Master Bing Ling’er, it would be reasonable to treat her as an evil cultivator from the Mingxin Sect. There were even several extremely yin and evil techniques that she had only tried once while familiarizing herself with the methods. She never had the thought of using them a second time.
“I thought you only knew how to act spoiled with A-Xue and hide behind her. I did not expect you to have some ability.” Jian Shu laughed softly. Her body leaped, brushing directly past the blood vine, and she flashed to Mu Yinfeng’s side in an instant. Her speed was second only to Ruoying’s. The heat waves from the Scarlet Flame Robe were scorching, twisting the yin energy in an instant. Mu Yinfeng felt everything before her turn unreal and distorted. She dodged sideways and narrowly avoided Jian Shu’s grasp.
Mu Yinfeng did not doubt that if Jian Shu caught her, she would immediately be burned to ash.
Red lotuses bloomed one after another beneath Jian Shu’s feet. The most brilliant among them slowly rose and landed perfectly in Jian Shu’s palm. Jian Shu stared at the red lotus within the fierce fire. Her long dress floated and swayed as if she were dancing with the flames.
“As long as a guilty person touches my Red Lotus Karmic Fire, karmic fire will burn through their body, and they will suffer unbearably forever.” Jian Shu slowly raised her eyes. “I think those two should be evacuating all of Reed Village right now. What you pursue as so-called goodness is nothing more than sheltering sin. Laughable and pitiful. What you are doing is only useless work.”
Mu Yinfeng felt something ominous. “What do you mean?”
“All of Reed Village has already been surrounded by the red lotuses I planted. I am afraid flames are already towering into the sky now. The people you saved will, in the end, be nothing more than ash, scattered by the wind, their bones ground and ashes thrown away.” Jian Shu smiled gently. “Now, do you have anything else to ask?”
Why was it still the same ending? Mu Yinfeng’s heart twisted, and she bit her lower lip tightly.
As long as a person had sin, they would be swallowed by Red Lotus Karmic Fire. But who among humans had ever been flawless as pure white jade?
Mu Yinfeng released her spiritual sense to probe. Before it even left the Xu residence, she could clearly sense the Xu servants’ terrified and painful screams, and their helplessness as they fled in every direction. In the end, their bones, flesh, and souls would all be burned away by Red Lotus Karmic Fire. There would be no place to bury their bones and no hope of a next life.
“Why? Did you calculate this from the beginning?” Mu Yinfeng asked coldly.
“You could say yes. Your useless effort is over. Let me see what you will do now.” Jian Shu lowered her eyes. “In truth, I only wanted revenge. I originally only wanted the lives of everyone in the Xu family. But you insisted on forcing me, so I could only destroy all of Reed Village. If anyone spoke of this, they would definitely come settle accounts with me.”
“Good. Good. Good.” Mu Yinfeng said good three times in a row. Her lower lip had been bitten open, and a drop of blood fell to the ground. Mu Yinfeng suddenly raised her eyes to Jian Shu.
Jian Shu felt something was wrong.
The yin energy in the entire room grew by countless times, blotting out the sky and covering the earth as if it would sweep away everything. It surged madly and spread rapidly. In the blink of an eye, it had already covered all of Reed Village.
The eruption of yin energy was too terrifying. The red lotus between Jian Shu’s fingers was also corroded by the yin energy. Petals withered one by one, turning into smoke and scattering until no trace remained.
Jian Shu stepped back. “You, what are you going to do?”
A crystal tear slid from the corner of Mu Yinfeng’s eye and fell to the ground, sounding like shattered glass.
“Of course, I am going to kill you.”
Above Reed Village stood two figures. One of them gradually shrank, soon becoming the height of a seven- or eight-year-old child.
“She still chose this step.” Ruoying looked down. “Huixue, what do you think?”
“She is not happy.” Huixue gripped Liufei’s hilt tightly, her voice trembling faintly. “This is not what she wanted to see.”
“Either way, souls will scatter. Rather than let a hidden danger remain in the world, it is better to remove it directly.” Ruoying spoke slowly. She had to work hard to lift her head just to see Huixue’s eyes. “Huixue, in the end, you are all too young. You have not seen true life and death.”
Had not seen true life and death? She had already died once.
Huixue did not speak. She clearly remembered that after she killed Chang Zui back then, Mu Yinfeng had fallen into the evil path and become the target of the entire cultivation world. Mu Yinfeng had killed countless people and committed piles of bloody crimes. Huixue had personally gone to every crime scene and seen the victims’ tears and pain… Back then, she hated Mu Yinfeng to the extreme and always wanted to cut Mu Yinfeng down beneath Liufei. But when she truly had the chance, she gave it up.
What her giving up brought her was death. At that time, the Changyin pipa, almost a synonym for death in the cultivation world, descended. The person accompanied by death appeared before her. Strings moved and music flew. Demonic sound was like illusion, giving her no chance at all to duel.
“If we place the larger situation first, we need sacrifice. This sacrifice may not have a specific value, but it should not be meaningless.” Ruoying said quietly.
“Martial Uncle Shadow clearly could have saved them from the Red Lotus Karmic Fire…”
“Among the five elements, fire overcomes metal. You overestimate me…”
“But Martial Uncle Shadow is the Xin Metal divine envoy,” Huixue suddenly said. “For the Xin Metal divine envoy, this is only a small matter.”
“A divine envoy is still only a divine envoy, not a god.” Ruoying shook her head. “Because of this empty title of Xin Metal divine envoy, I have already abandoned many things. My battle ability has greatly declined. If I fought you head-on, I might not even have an overwhelming victory.”
“But a divine envoy’s purification…”
Ruoying laughed lowly. “You understand divine envoys very well.”
Huixue bit her lip and stopped speaking.
“Liufei, the Snow God’s sword from back then. This is not a coincidence.” Ruoying asked quietly. Her voice was somewhat unreal, like sleep-talk drifting from a dream. “Have you thought about that?”
A figure rose in Huixue’s heart. She shook her head. “No.”
“For her?”
“I do not want her to walk into the sins of evil cultivation.” Scenes from the previous life flashed before Huixue’s eyes one after another. Huixue spoke softly, not even noticing that she had let something slip. “In this life, she will not become an evil cultivator again.”
Ruoying seemed not to notice Huixue’s slip. “She will not become an evil cultivator. You do not need to worry about that.”
“Martial Uncle Shadow seems to care greatly for Junior Sister Yinfeng.” Huixue interrupted Ruoying. “Huixue asks boldly. Could Martial Uncle Shadow want Junior Sister Yinfeng to… want Junior Sister Yinfeng to be moved by Martial Uncle Shadow? After all, primordial yin is not…”
“Not a temptation humans can resist?” Ruoying laughed with a pfft.
Huixue said softly, “That is not funny.”
“I know.” Ruoying slowly said, “But what I covet is not her.”
“I hope Martial Uncle Shadow remembers what you said today.”
Huixue released Tianbing’s hilt. The patterns from Tianbing’s hilt were deeply pressed into her palm. Tianbing covered her palm, and cool spiritual current poured into it. For some reason, she felt as if a stone had fallen from her heart.
“Of course I remember. I remembered it several decades ago.” A slight smile passed over Ruoying’s lips. She lowered her head and looked at Reed Village. The waves of yin energy in Reed Village had already calmed, returning to a silence where all sounds were still. “It should be over.”
Huixue let out a long breath, not knowing whether she should feel relieved or fall into deeper worry. “Jian Shu is already dead?”
“Between Yinfeng and Jian Shu, only one can live. Which one do you hope remains?” Ruoying tilted her head. “Your snow woman line and the Sun line of the Southern Domain have countless ties. If following your family’s rules, you should…”
“I should spare Jian Shu three times. I will personally plead guilt to the clan leader for what happened today. I am Liufei’s inheritor. The clan leader will not make things difficult for me.” Huixue pressed the cloud beneath her down and rushed straight toward Reed Village. In the night, her snow-white clothes were bright as pure clouds, reflecting the moon and taking in its light, holy and flawless.
“It seems your heart already has an answer.” Ruoying caught up.
“Not now. But Jian Shu’s ending only has one possibility.” A cold light flashed through Huixue’s eyes. She urged the cloud downward and swiftly rushed toward the battlefield in the Xu residence.
But no one knew that far away, a thousand li from there, a black-clothed figure stood on a mountain peak, smiling as she looked at the bronze mirror in her hand. The blood-red bracelet on this person’s wrist shone brightly, cold enough to chill the bones.
“You really did not disappoint me, Yinfeng.”