The Heroine Made a Pact With Senior Sister (GL) Chapter 34

A thread of sunlight pierced the endless darkness, and Mu Yinfeng opened her eyes at once.
Before her hung a plain curtain, dotted with just a few pale blue ice flowers. The window was half open, and sunlight filtered in through the gauze.
Mu Yinfeng blinked, pushed herself up, and lifted her arm to look. The blood vine had turned back into a bracelet and returned to her wrist. If not for the constant stabbing pain from her spiritual core, she would truly suspect the matter with Jian Shu had only been a dream.
She had still followed the plot and swallowed all the souls in Reed Village, beating Jian Shu’s Red Lotus Karmic Fire by one step.
Mu Yinfeng sighed. She looked at her hands. They were clear and smooth as jade, yet seemed covered in blood.
Jian Shu’s frightened expression before her soul scattered was still before Mu Yinfeng’s eyes. In the past, she had always calmly watched evil beings die by her hand. But now, Mu Yinfeng could not smile. What difference was there between what she had done and what Jian Shu had done? Red Lotus Karmic Fire burned away bodies and souls. Primordial yin energy swallowed essence souls. In essence, they were the same thing.
This was simply harming people openly under the banner of saving the world. She could not defend her actions with even a single word. Because no matter what she said, it sounded like a sanctimonious excuse, not a proper reason.
Mu Yinfeng did not know what she should do. What she had done was already a grave offense against the world. Although she knew that what happened in Reed Village would be covered up as an evil being going mad and harming people, this could not comfort her. Instead, it would turn into an even deeper and heavier guilt.
She could use the pain of having flesh, bones, and soul burned away by Red Lotus Karmic Fire as a reason and explain her actions as freeing those people from suffering. But how much better could it feel to be corroded by extreme yin energy? One was flames burning the body. The other was cold piercing the bones. The pain would not be any less.
“So that is how it is. You arranged this long ago. I only understand now. In the end, I still miscalculated. If Lord Sun were still here, do you think you would have had a chance to succeed?” These were Jian Shu’s last words before her soul scattered, and they left Mu Yinfeng deeply confused. Who was you? What had been arranged? As for Lord Sun… could it be the legendary True Monarch Sun?
In this world’s view, a legend had always been passed down about the thousand-year-old War of the Three Realms. True Monarch Sun had unfortunately fallen in the War of the Three Realms. From then on, the Jian family had declined step by step. No matter what others thought, the Jian family firmly believed in the War of the Three Realms and was especially devout toward True Monarch Sun, whom they had worshiped for generations.
Whether this legend was true could not be proven, just like whether Severing Love in her hand had been gifted by the Star Lord of Great Yin. Mu Yinfeng stared at the silver storage ring on her finger. Silver light flashed, and a long black sword appeared in her hand.
As soon as Severing Love appeared, the temperature of the whole room dropped at a speed the body could feel. The patterns on the sword were ancient and elegant. In the grooves of the words Severing Love, a faint blue glow rose, like the remains of moonlight spirit stone.
One had to know that in legend, the Star Lord of Great Yin’s sword was made from moonlight spirit stone. Severing Love carried a thread of moonlight true soul, and the sword itself held extremely deep cold energy. Under the moon, it could often display ten times more power than in daylight.
Mu Yinfeng had never believed in so-called gods, but in this world, the existence of gods might not be impossible. From the first Butterfly Spirit legend, to the many divine envoys Ruoying mentioned, to the claim that she would ascend if she broke all the seals…
She had to admit that Mu Yinfeng felt this body was extremely strange. Not only did she possess cultivation she should not have right now, her connections with people in the plot had also undergone strange changes. Yimu, who should have fought with her until neither could rest; Huixue, who should have viewed her as a thorn in the eye; Bing Ling’er, who should have treasured her like a pearl in the palm… All of these were far from the plot as she had imagined it. Yimu appeared early. Ruoying was even more mysterious than in the plot. And Huixue…
“Yinfeng?” A familiar clear and cold voice came. Mu Yinfeng’s heart beat wildly, and she instinctively looked toward the voice. A figure stood outside the curtain. A snow-white hand reached in and gently lifted the curtain.
“Senior Sister.” Mu Yinfeng shrank back slightly. Everything she had done had been seen by Huixue. What would Huixue think of her?
She could feel the hostility Huixue had held toward her at the beginning, that resistance Huixue could not show because of courtesy. If that was because Huixue guessed she might fall into the evil path, then Huixue now had even more reason to distance herself from her, or even execute her. What she did in Reed Village, if reported to Guiyuan Tower, would be enough for her to die a thousand, ten thousand times.
“Senior Sister, I will not do that again… But Transposition Word-Spirit could not…” Mu Yinfeng lowered her head. Only after the fact did she realize that she had cast Transposition Word-Spirit too early. If she had insisted on placing it on surviving fifteen minutes in Jian Shu’s hands, perhaps she would not have needed to use the worst plan at all, and Jian Shu would not have had a chance to activate the Red Lotus Karmic Fire.
“I could not hurt her…” Mu Yinfeng’s voice was low. She was not even sure Huixue could hear her. But she felt Huixue’s gaze remain on her, gentle, as if comforting her, and carrying a strange feeling she had never felt before.
“It is enough that you came back alive. What has passed has already passed. Do not think about it.” Huixue gently patted Mu Yinfeng’s hand. Tianbing silk climbed directly onto Mu Yinfeng’s arm and rubbed her face affectionately. “How do you feel now? Is anything uncomfortable?”
Mu Yinfeng shook her head and peeked at Huixue from beneath her lashes. Seeing Huixue’s expression was normal, she finally relaxed a little, but she still did not quite dare look straight into Huixue’s eyes.
“Eat this pill. You used up too much, and your body cannot support it. Master asked me to bring this to you.” Huixue took out a small pill. Its appearance was like crystal, clear and translucent.
If Huixue had not mentioned it, Mu Yinfeng would not have noticed. Only now did she discover that although her spiritual core had been stretched larger, the spiritual energy left inside it was already thin to the extreme, even showing signs of shrinking and collapsing. Last night, when she fought Jian Shu, she had not had much certainty of winning. So she could only gather all her power into one killing blow. Before Transposition Word-Spirit was even useful, Jian Shu had already died beneath the blood vine.
Mu Yinfeng took the pill and put it into her mouth without thinking. Her expression instantly became extremely strange.
It did not look like it would taste too bad. Who knew… Mu Yinfeng did not even know how to describe it. It was like extreme bitterness and extreme sourness merged together, with a fiery spice inside it. Yet when it entered her mouth, it was like ice just taken from cold storage. Was this something humans were supposed to eat?
“Very bitter?” Huixue stared into Mu Yinfeng’s eyes and asked.
Mu Yinfeng hurriedly shook her head and could only work hard to swallow the pill. But part of the pill had already melted in her mouth. This taste made her feel as if she were about to be sent away. She would rather fight Jian Shu another hundred rounds than take another bite of this pill.
“I only meant, if it is too bitter, I have candy here.” Huixue opened her other hand. A delicate little box had appeared there, filled with bright, shining candies.
…Why did you not say so earlier?
Mu Yinfeng impolitely picked up the box and stuffed her mouth with candy. The sweet candies drove away the strange taste in her mouth. At the same time, Mu Yinfeng felt the spiritual energy inside her spiritual core gradually fill again, bit by bit repairing the damaged parts.
“Do you feel better now?” Huixue looked at her seriously. That gaze made Mu Yinfeng’s back turn cold.
Mu Yinfeng nodded. “Thank you, Senior Sister.”
“You should not thank me. You should thank Junior Sister Abi of Chengchen Peak. She made this by hand. It is called a Spirit-Gathering Pill. Ten days of refining produced only this one pill.”
Abi was a near-legendary genius medicine cultivator of Chengchen Peak. A medicine made by her should have no problems. It was only a little too hard to eat. But that also fit her usual style, because in the original text, all the medicines Abi made were famous throughout Hanyou Valley for tasting terrible.
“Where am I?” Mu Yinfeng finally had time to ask this question.
“Reed Snow Residence.”
“What?” Mu Yinfeng was startled. “When did Reed Snow Residence become like this?”
There was clearly only one meditation cushion on her couch, not even a quilt!
“It has always been like this. This is my room.” Huixue said lightly, “If you want to go back, I will not stop you.”
“…”
“Is it good?” After a moment of silence, Huixue suddenly asked.
“What?”
Huixue pointed at the candy box in her hand.
Mu Yinfeng nodded.
“That is good.” Huixue smiled lightly. “If you are fine now, Martial Uncle Shadow wants to see you.”
“See me?” Mu Yinfeng caught Tianbing and stopped it from moving around. Tianbing was now taking more and more liberties. When it got excited, it almost wrapped her face into a mummy. “Why see me?”
This scene did not exist in the plot. In the plot, after Mu Yinfeng returned to Hanyou Valley, she went to secretly meet Chang Zui and willfully stayed away for several days. Bing Ling’er became so anxious that she even activated the Hanyou Order and had the whole valley search for Mu Yinfeng. In the end, they found Mu Yinfeng and Chang Zui in a mountain hollow.
Then Mu Yinfeng was directly driven to Frostfall Cliff to reflect, and Chang Zui was also locked in confinement. But because the Reed Village plot had happened far too early, the plot was very likely already confused. For now, she could only take things one step at a time.
“Wait.” Mu Yinfeng had just gotten out of bed when she suddenly heard Huixue’s voice behind her.
“What is it?”
“The jeweled necklace.” Huixue handed over a black jeweled necklace. It was the tool used to seal the primordial yin energy inside Mu Yinfeng. “Put this on.”
“Senior Sister, can you help me?” Mu Yinfeng had just been about to take it when she sensed something. She helplessly raised her hands. Tianbing was tightly binding them together. “My hands are already… like this.”
Huixue’s body stiffened, but she still bent down and tied the necklace around Mu Yinfeng’s neck. Her fingers brushed the skin at Mu Yinfeng’s neck, so cold that Mu Yinfeng could not help shrinking back. Huixue frowned. Mu Yinfeng knew Huixue was unhappy and hurriedly stood obediently, not affecting Huixue’s movements.
After tying the jeweled necklace, the two left Reed Snow Residence. Ruoying was crouching beside the cold spring, casually picking up stones one after another and tossing them into the water to skip them. Huixue was already used to this sight. “Martial Uncle Shadow, Yinfeng is here.”
“It is good that you are fine.” Ruoying jumped up at once, patted the dust from her hands, and stretched lazily without any image. Seeing that Huixue was about to go down the mountain, she hurriedly stopped her. “Why are you going down the mountain?”
“There are still many matters below the mountain to resolve. Master cannot handle them all alone,” Huixue said. “And I have not yet reported this matter to Master.”
“You did not tell Senior Sister that you followed us?” Ruoying’s stretch froze halfway. “Have you not always listened to her most?”
“If I told her, I would not have been able to come.” Huixue said calmly, “There is one thing Huixue wishes to tell Martial Uncle Shadow. The spirit bird’s message was not accidental.”
“What do you mean?” Ruoying did not understand.
“Someone set up a trap.” Mu Yinfeng added softly, “If there is no accident, this trap was aimed at Martial Uncle Shadow.”
Even a spirit bird could smell the aura of a Heaven-grade Mao rank. Why would Guiyuan Tower get the rating wrong? And cases involving wealthy households were usually assigned to Mirror Flower Hall, yet this wrongly rated case happened to be assigned to Hanyou Valley. No one would believe this was not a deliberate move against Hanyou Valley.
“I know that.” Ruoying smiled. “I came to find you because of this. You must be careful…”
“Someone in Hanyou Valley is targeting Martial Uncle Shadow. Messenger spirit bird deliveries are random, so why did it just so happen to be sent to Martial Uncle Shadow?” Huixue’s face was solemn. She handed Ruoying a note. A line of small words was written on it.
From three quarters into Chen hour to one quarter into Si hour, spirit birds rest.