The Heroine Made a Pact With Senior Sister (GL) Chapter 36

Mu Yinfeng was startled by Huixue and had just wanted to stop her, only to see faint light flash in Huixue’s hand that was not holding the wine cup. It was the frozen wine.
So she had kept this trick back. Only then did Mu Yinfeng relax. She stared at the beauty whose face was ninety percent similar to hers and sighed inwardly.
Even if it was to catch an evil being, there was no need to sell herself for glory like this, right?
“Do not move around, or I cannot guarantee the connection between our seas of consciousness.” Huixue directly used the hand holding the ice to hold Mu Yinfeng’s waist tightly. The chill of the ice passed through the clothes to her skin, making goosebumps rise all over Mu Yinfeng.
“Then what does Senior Sister want to do?” Mu Yinfeng shifted slightly, wanting to use the smooth surface of her clothes to let the ice fall to the ground. Otherwise, when the wine melted and soaked her clothes, it would be uncomfortable against her body. But the ice seemed glued to her clothes. No matter how she moved, it would not fall.
Mu Yinfeng’s gaze slowly moved downward. This was not ice, but a hand as white as jade.
“Fairy young lady is truly romantic. Although you look cold, you understand love and pleasure better than ordinary people.” The madam saw this scene and smiled faintly. She ordered Mingzhu to pour wine for Mu Yinfeng as well, but Huixue pushed it back without changing expression.
“She is not good at drinking. I will take it for her.” Huixue lifted the wine cup. This time, Mu Yinfeng saw clearly. A layer of white frost slowly formed over the wine at the top of the cup. Once the frost covered the surface, the wine turned into ice in an instant and slid down from the rim of the cup. This time, Huixue did not catch it, but allowed the ice to fall onto Mu Yinfeng, freezing Mu Yinfeng into another shiver.
Mingzhu did not know Mu Yinfeng was trembling because of the cold. She only thought Mu Yinfeng was Huixue’s personal pet, shivering with fear. Seeing Mu Yinfeng’s beautiful and charming face, she could not help letting out a scornful laugh. “Since fairy young lady has come to a place like this, why still refuse to let go? Are you worried this servant cannot serve you well?”
“That is not the reason.” Huixue gently placed the wine cup back on the table. Tianbing silk had already climbed onto her fingertips. Although the room was filled with endless silk and bamboo music, soft songs, and lingering dances, full of wealth and peace, everyone present sensed a chill at the same time.
It was cold, terrifying cold energy that seemed ready to freeze all the blood and spiritual flow in a person’s body at once.
“Why is it so cold?” Mingzhu said sweetly, while deliberately leaning toward Huixue. “Fairy young lady, could you warm this servant?”
“It is best not to try. My body is colder than this room.” Huixue raised her eyes and caught Mingzhu’s wrist. Tianbing shot out like a snake and instantly bound the madam, who still had a smile on her face. At the same time, Mu Yinfeng also moved, because the moment the madam was bound, she suddenly sensed the ghostly energy becoming denser. She released her spiritual sense and followed that ghostly energy to search for the source.
“Oh my, fairy young lady truly knows how to joke. Bullying this servant like this, you are hurting me.” Mingzhu covered Huixue’s hand with one hand, trying to break free, but Huixue locked her grip even tighter, leaving her no room to escape.
Just then, flute music spread everywhere, soft and resentful, as if thousands of vengeful ghosts had crawled out of hell to pour out their suffering. It was so sharp and sorrowful it made one’s heart turn cold.
“Stop playing! Are you summoning souls?” Mu Yinfeng’s spiritual sense search was interrupted by Chang Zui’s flute music, angering her so much she truly wanted to go up and slap Chang Zui. Her sea of consciousness was now almost half open, and Chang Zui’s flute music caused extremely strong interference with her spiritual sense. Luckily, she withdrew quickly. Otherwise, she might not have been injured by the evil being, but would have died first by Chang Zui’s hand.
Chang Zui had no time to pay attention to her. He only continued playing the jade flute. Thousands of green threads surged out, wrapping the entire Huanhua Pavilion into a cocoon of light.
This Chang Zui!
Mu Yinfeng was so angry she almost crushed her teeth. Chang Zui truly could not accomplish anything but could ruin everything. Against an obvious mental-type illusion domain, he used an attack closer to the physical type. Even seeking death should not be done like this!
“Ignore him.” Huixue pulled Mu Yinfeng. “What did you find just now?”
Mu Yinfeng shook her head. Just now, when her spiritual sense was about to approach the whirlpool where the ghostly energy was densest, Chang Zui’s jade flute had started. If she were not certain Chang Zui was only making things worse by accident, she would truly suspect he was a spy.
“Watch her. I will go look over there.” Huixue smoothly pushed Mingzhu toward Mu Yinfeng. At the same time, spiritual light flashed in her palm. A silver needle flew out. The sound of the jade flute was abruptly cut off, and the thousands of green threads vanished without a trace in an instant. Chang Zui had been struck by Huixue’s soul-sealing needle.
After immobilizing Chang Zui, Huixue turned back sharply. Dozens of streaks of silver light shot from her palm in an instant and flew straight toward Mu Yinfeng. The nearest one almost brushed past Mu Yinfeng’s face. Mu Yinfeng was startled. In Huixue’s pupils, she saw countless black tentacles behind her rushing toward her.
“What is going on?” Mu Yinfeng quickly locked Mingzhu in place. She could feel that Mingzhu had a solid body, and the faint ghostly energy might also have come from Mingzhu, but just now, Mu Yinfeng had not sensed Mingzhu use any spiritual energy.
The madam was sealed by Tianbing, so naturally she could not control these black tentacles either.
Could the source of the ghostly energy be someone else?
“Chuying!” Huixue called softly. A snow-white cat jumped out from somewhere. Its body rapidly expanded, and in less than a breath, it had become a huge white tiger.
At the same time, Mu Yinfeng threw Mingzhu into the universe pouch. The universe pouch was equivalent to a completely independent space. It could cut off demon energy and ghostly energy, and inside it, an evil being’s cultivation would be completely sealed. For evil beings, it was a natural prison.
After taking Mingzhu, she had just wanted to step forward and take the madam too, but the black tentacles writhed faster and faster. Waves of yin wind rushed at her face. Bricks shattered, tiles cracked, stones flew, and sand whipped through the air. Mu Yinfeng had no way to step forward.
The black tentacles seemed completely unaffected by the wild wind. They surged forward and swallowed the madam directly. In the instant before they devoured her, Mu Yinfeng vaguely saw a streak of white light flash before her eyes.
“Do not go over, Yinfeng!” Huixue’s voice was somewhat distorted in the fierce wind. Mu Yinfeng only felt her waist tighten, and her whole body was pulled backward. She had just stood up when she saw that the place where she had been standing was already occupied by black tentacles.
Snow and ice filled the sky and drifted down. A little pale blue light shimmered faintly in the dark night. The black tentacles froze as if a binding spell had been cast on them. Looking carefully, one could see a layer of snow-white frost covering their surface.
“It is very dangerous here now.” Huixue drew with palm force and released Chang Zui from immobilization. Chang Zui woke as if from a dream and grabbed his jade flute tightly. Just as he planned to continue playing that ghost-wailing sound, Huixue hurriedly knocked the jade flute away with one palm. She turned to Mu Yinfeng. “Yinfeng, what do you plan to do with him?”
Mu Yinfeng did not hesitate at all. “Take him with us!”
Who knew whether she would run into another phenomenon where the world collapsed without Chang Zui!
Hearing this, Huixue’s face changed slightly. Silver powder fell from her palm with a soft rustle. She took a deep breath and jumped straight out the window of Huanhua Pavilion.
In the end, Mu Yinfeng still could not stop worrying about Chang Zui. This disloyal and unrighteous man who had almost killed her. What was good about him?
Was this the legendary fate? A fate that could not be cut off no matter what?
Huixue knew she could not understand such things that existed only between humans. She was a daughter of ice and snow. She could not have such a chance.
Since she could not have such a chance, why was she thinking about these things? Did she also want to be like humans, with life and death, love and hate, meetings and partings, and all kinds of feelings she should have cut off long ago?
What exactly was she thinking? What exactly had she done just now? To Mu Yinfeng, to the evil being…
Huixue’s cheeks flushed faintly. She closed her eyes and worked hard to forget all of it.
Chuying followed her out of Huanhua Pavilion. Huixue grabbed the fur on Chuying’s back and jumped up. Although she had now recovered basic calm, when she saw Chang Zui, she still felt something in her heart surge without end.
“Yinfeng, protect him. I will go search around.” Huixue said coldly, “If possible, throwing him into the universe pouch is also fine.”
“No!” Hearing this, Chang Zui hurriedly waved his hands. With the subtle relationship he had seen between Huixue and Mu Yinfeng just now, it was not impossible that Mu Yinfeng would really listen to Huixue and throw him into the universe pouch to keep Mingzhu company.
“This is a combination domain. We will act separately.” Huixue’s voice gradually drifted away, leaving only a few broken echoes in the night wind.
The black tentacles began twisting again. Before long, they broke free of the frost’s restraint and grew even more frenzied, drawing closer and closer to them. Mu Yinfeng could almost feel the sharpness and deathly cold coming at her face. She tried several times to communicate with the blood vine, but the blood vine did not change at all, as if it sensed nothing.
What was going on? Had it not worked fine last time? Why had it failed now?
Mu Yinfeng’s heart was unsettled with fear. Facing something inhuman, the Linglong Heart Method directly failed. For some reason, the blood vine did not obey her. She did not know how to use a sword, so Severing Love was basically decoration…
Then she could only run!
Mu Yinfeng made up her mind. Seeing that the road outside the window was flat, she directly grabbed Chang Zui by the collar and threw the so-called male lead, who was still in a daze, out. It was only the height of two floors. For someone with Chang Zui’s cultivation, even landing face-first would not kill him. At most, he would be a little disfigured.
“Ow!”
“Do not yell!” Mu Yinfeng landed lightly beside him. “If you do not want to die, do not speak. Otherwise, watch out, I may cut out your tongue!”
Chang Zui hurriedly covered his mouth and did not dare speak. He did not know why this little junior sister, who had always been extremely considerate toward him and acted according to his preferences in everything, had become like this. But the one thing he could confirm was that this little junior sister still meant what she said.
Mu Yinfeng saw that Huixue had taken Chuying to act alone. Although she knew that with Huixue’s cultivation, she did not need to worry about Huixue, she could still sense the change in Huixue’s mood.
In the past, when she and Huixue went out to remove evil beings, Huixue had been normal the whole time and almost never entered this state. If she was like this now, it had to be Chang Zui’s fault!
Why did Mu Yinfeng have to come out and carry out a mission with Chang Zui? Was it just because Chang Zui was the original owner’s official male lead?
Forget it, forget it. Since there was still a long stretch of plot to go, she could not let Chang Zui die just like this. The Butterfly Spirit case had been so dangerous last time, but Chang Zui had still escaped successfully with Abi’s teleportation talisman. This escape cheat was not ordinary.
“Junior Sister, do you know what a combination domain is?” Chang Zui stroked the jade flute and looked at Mu Yinfeng as if asking for credit. “If Junior Sister does not know, Senior Brother can explain…”
“A combination domain, as the name suggests, is formed from three or more of the five elements and operates in the order of the five elements generating one another.” Mu Yinfeng interrupted him. “This combination domain is a five-element domain. What we need to find are the domain’s nodes.”
Chang Zui, who had wanted to show off, was instead stumped by Mu Yinfeng. “Nodes?”
The nodes should be the places where she had first sensed ghostly energy. Those places were the connection points between different attributes and should be the best points for breaking the domain.
And the node closest to them was inside Huanhua Pavilion.
“Chuying, what do you think?” Huixue sat upright on the white tiger. After patrolling above all of Qionglin Town, her gaze finally landed on a thatched cottage. “The cottage below is somewhat interesting. Shall we go down and look?”
The white tiger roared and actually spoke human words. “A-Xue, do you have improper thoughts about that junior sister of yours?”
“Where?” Huixue said without blushing or her heart beating faster. “If you like her, you go.”
“You go!”
Chuying was so angry she rolled her eyes and landed heavily on the ground. Huixue turned over and jumped down, then looked at the door of the thatched cottage.
Inside the cottage, splattered blood was everywhere. Large patches had dried into the earth and walls, showing a strange dark red. The air was filled with a thick smell of blood, making one have no doubt that an extremely cruel massacre had just happened here.
Huixue closed her eyes. Tianbing quietly slipped away from her waist. When she opened her eyes, the bloodstained house before her had disappeared. In its place stood graves bathed in moonlight.
“So that is how it is.”
Huixue smiled bitterly. Tianbing silk was tapping rhythmically on the tombstone. Before long, two ghostly figures suddenly appeared before the grave. When the ghosts saw that the person before the tombstone was Huixue, the expressions on their faces were each more interesting than the other.
“So it is Miss Huixue.” The ghost on the left was a pretty girl. The girl was clearly collapsing inside at Huixue’s arrival. “If I remember correctly, Miss Huixue became a disciple under Bing Ling’er. Why have you traveled thousands of li to come here?” And ruin our good thing?
“My master controls Hanyou Valley.” Huixue said lightly, “I think this should be aimed at Yinfeng, right? Who is the person behind you?”
The young man on the right hurriedly shook his head and refused. “Miss Huixue, please do not ask too much. The rule of our dream ghost family is that we cannot reveal client information.”
“Since you will not speak, then I will break this domain for Yinfeng.” Huixue summoned Tianbing and made as if to turn and leave.
Seeing this, the girl and young man both panicked. They stopped in front of Huixue together and refused to let her go.
“Miss Huixue, please have mercy. The five great elders of our clan joined hands to set up this domain. If Miss Huixue breaks it, how will our dream ghost family have any face left in the world?” The young man did not dare hug Huixue’s leg and directly hugged Chuying’s front paw instead, begging mournfully.
“Miss Huixue and our dream ghost family have always had no grudge. For the sake of the old affection between our elders, please be generous and spare the dream ghost family.” The girl pleaded from the side, lowering her brows and looking pitiful.
Huixue let out a long sigh. Although the dream ghost family was also a ghost kind, they were different from ordinary ghosts that caused chaos. The dream ghost family was skilled in illusion domains, and their illusion domains could only frighten people. Actually hurting people was difficult. Dream ghosts were also unlike ordinary vengeful ghosts, which had obsessions that kept them in the human world. Their existence was more like a group of wandering spirits without a fixed home. Because they did not hurt people, the cultivation world generally turned a blind eye to them. The domains dream ghosts created were extremely realistic, perfect for young disciples as training grounds. Because of that, some dream ghosts made agreements with certain cultivation sects to improve their cultivation.
This domain trapping them now should be one such agreement. But the client behind it was worth examining.
If this was Bing Ling’er’s intention, Bing Ling’er would have found ways to stop Huixue from coming. This time, because Huixue had old ties with these dream ghosts, she could directly find the dream ghosts’ nest and ask what was going on. If she had not known, this domain would have stopped existing the moment she discovered it was a domain.
“The client’s original intention was good. She wanted the target’s cultivation to improve.” The girl compromised by one step and said softly, “Also, to end one of the target’s ill-fated ties.”
“Ill-fated tie?”
“The person trapped together with the target.” The young man released Chuying’s paw and flashed behind Chuying to hide, in case Chuying got angry and scratched him. “The client said that if this ill-fated tie does not end, it may negatively affect the target’s development.”
Huixue was somewhat lost at this explanation. She lowered her head and looked at her own hand.
She had heard that if people in the human world were fated, the Old Man Under the Moon would tie a red thread around their fingers. Although she was not human, she still had a human form. Would the Old Man Under the Moon tie a red thread around her finger?
“Ill-fated tie, Yinfeng.” Huixue softly said these four words, losing focus for a moment. Seeing this, the two dream ghosts bowed again and wanted to withdraw.
“Do not leave yet.” Huixue woke as if from a dream. “I still have questions for you.”
“Miss Huixue, please ask,” the two dream ghosts said in unison.
“This Qionglin Town should have been built according to the real Qionglin Town. According to the rules of you dream ghosts, the nodes should be built in fixed places. Huanhua Pavilion should be your metal-generates-water node, right?”
The girl and young man exchanged a look and smiled with mutual understanding. “We cannot tell you that. We can only tell Miss Huixue that the methods of the five great elders have improved greatly. They are no longer what Miss Huixue saw back then. If you do not believe it, Miss Huixue can quietly watch and see.”