The Heroine Made a Pact With Senior Sister (GL) Chapter 37

“The five great elders among the dream ghosts?” The short one looked up at Yimu, confused. “Even if the five great elders’ cultivation has improved, they cannot have even half of Yinfeng’s level. Would having them support this domain be too much of a stretch?”
“No.” Yimu smiled faintly. “The strongest part of this domain is not the five elements generating one another, but its constant changes. Although the domain will be damaged once the domain nodes are found, the domain jointly cast by the five dream ghost elders makes those nodes truly difficult to find.”
“That sounds profound, but it is only the domain casters moving back and forth inside so no one can find their fixed positions.” The short one shrugged. “Are you sure this little trick can fool her? Someone who walked out of Yin-Yang Reversal would not fail to know even this, would she?”
The evening wind blew softly, scattering Yimu’s laughter.
“Actually, you do not seem to understand this Yin-Yang Reversal very clearly.”
“I am not someone who walked out of Yin-Yang Reversal. I was forcibly dragged by you to guard the array eye!” The short one’s voice grew somewhat fierce. “I once heard that after some people come out of the Yin-Yang Reversal Array, their temperaments change greatly. Could she be one of those…”
“She is her now, and also not her.” Yimu lifted one hand and interrupted the short one. She raised her eyes slightly toward the bright moon at the edge of the sky and said softly, “Floating lives are vast, and there are three thousand worlds. Who can see them clearly?”
“Junior Sister, what are you trying to do? We finally escaped from Huanhua Pavilion, and now you…” Chang Zui had thought they had escaped Huanhua Pavilion, only to be dragged back in by Mu Yinfeng. For a moment, his entire person was dazed.
“Break the array.” Mu Yinfeng was too lazy to waste words with him and directly carried him to the first floor of Huanhua Pavilion. The people who had been discussing elegance and romance inside Huanhua Pavilion a moment ago seemed to have evaporated from the human world. Pearl curtains hung long and still. The flowing water was cold and deserted. There was not a trace of people, only bleak desolation.
“Break the array?” Chang Zui cried out. “What array are you going to break?”
“The combination domain inside Huanhua Pavilion.” Mu Yinfeng focused all her mental power inside Huanhua Pavilion and shortened her words as much as possible.
The node of a combination domain was the weakest part of this kind of domain, but its defense was the strongest, because at a domain node, one might draw a combined attack from two domain casters.
Therefore, the best method was for two people to attack neighboring nodes at the same time. The one in the middle would then have no time to care for itself. As long as one node was broken, the defensive ability of this five-element cycle would drop sharply. At that time, the entire domain would collapse without further attack.
“Senior Brother, what attribute is your spiritual root?” Mu Yinfeng slowly withdrew the mental power she had released to probe. In her memory, Chang Zui should have a fire-attribute spiritual root, but the ten thousand green threads from his jade flute just now seemed like something of the wood attribute.
“Me?” Chang Zui looked disappointed. “You forgot your Senior Brother’s attribute?”
“Then I will not ask. Break the node in Huanhua Pavilion. Huanhua Pavilion is the metal-generates-water node. The node is at the place on the second floor where the tentacles emerged just now.” As she spoke, Mu Yinfeng turned and wanted to leave Huanhua Pavilion to find the second node.
She originally had a five-element chaos attribute, so nothing would restrain her. Instead, her appearance would suppress opponents with single attributes. Fighting two opponents alone was actually completely possible for her. She did this only to prevent herself from getting close to Chang Zui.
In that damned book, whenever the original owner fought monsters together with Chang Zui, there would definitely be physical contact. Although Huixue was now patrolling in the air, there was no guarantee she would not land somewhere she could see them. If Huixue saw such a scene, Mu Yinfeng feared she would not be able to clear her name even by jumping off Frostfall Cliff.
And since Chang Zui could become Bing Ling’er’s disciple, his strength should not be too awful. As long as his opponent did not absolutely restrain him, he should be able to hold on for a while.
“Metal and water?” Chang Zui’s face turned very ugly. “Junior Sister, I have wood and fire dual spiritual roots. Is this not a little unkind of you?”
Metal restrained wood, and water restrained fire. Chang Zui had both restrained attributes.
If Senior Sister were not always cold and unfeeling, he would truly suspect that his junior sister had been influenced by something Senior Sister whispered into her ear. The old Mu Yinfeng had cared for him in every detail. Even the most obedient young wife could not compare to half of Mu Yinfeng. And the current Mu Yinfeng?
He always felt that Mu Yinfeng now spent every moment thinking of new ways to make him die without a whole corpse.
What had happened to this junior sister of his to make her think like this?
Could she know that after she reached marriageable age, he planned to refine her into a cultivation vessel, and was angry over such a small matter? Did she not know that if he had not rescued her from that kind of place, how could she have lived until now? With her constitution, she would only draw the greed of the entire cultivation world. No one would have given her a chance to grow up.
“Shut up!” Mu Yinfeng suddenly sensed a tremor of ghostly energy. She turned sharply, her body like a blur, and quickly darted to Chang Zui’s side, striking him away with one palm.
Before her, black tentacles surged. One of the black tentacles came straight for her throat.
Mu Yinfeng jumped backward. Suddenly, more than half her vision was filled with black. She felt a chill at her neck…
A thread of blood flowed down her snow-white neck and dripped onto Huanhua Pavilion’s gold-woven carpet.
The surrounding air suddenly went cold.
“For those chosen by fate, there will always be natural contracts accompanying them. This is not difficult to understand. Because of that, many people with the potential to become gods have their ascension stopped by the bonds of a contract. Mortal ties are the hardest calamity to cut off.”
On another mountain outside Qionglin Town stood two people. Both were handsome young men. One wore moon-white clothes and carried a glowing blue sword on his back. Half of the other’s face was covered by a mask, revealing only an unmatchedly handsome profile.
“Brother Taiyin has troubled yourself.” Biyuntian said softly, “Lord Wind’s fate is full of hardship. It is truly a pity.”
“Not exactly…” At the mention of this question, the Star Lord of Great Yin became rather embarrassed. “Back then, a child under the Old Man Under the Moon descended to the lower world to guide red threads and mistakenly tied Lord Wind to a mortal. Although it was later undone, traces were inevitably left behind.”
“Traces?”
“Yes.” The Star Lord of Great Yin spread his hand, rather helpless. “Back then, the Old Man Under the Moon only discovered something was wrong after several days. Originally, this mortal tie should have belonged to Xin Metal, but that mortal got there first. There was no way around it. Lord Wind had to resolve this mortal tie first before speaking of anything else. By the way, where is Butterfly Spirit, who guarded the Changyin Pearl for Lord Wind back then?”
Biyuntian sighed. He turned his wrist, and a pale blue butterfly appeared in his palm. Its wings were clear, like jade and ice, crystal-bright, warm, delicate, and exquisite.
“This is the Butterfly Spirit who caused trouble in the mortal world under the Butterfly Goddess’s name.” Biyuntian handed the butterfly to the Star Lord of Great Yin. Throughout the process, the butterfly did not struggle. It seemed to have accepted its fate. It weakly flapped its wings a few times and landed in the Star Lord of Great Yin’s hand. “The Butterfly Goddess has her own fate. I hope the Star Lord of Great Yin will promise me that the heavenly realm will no longer interfere in this matter.”
“Brother Yuntian, do not worry. The Butterfly Goddess’s matter has already ended. Besides, this matter is a great worry in the Heavenly Lord’s heart, so it will not be mentioned lightly.” The Star Lord of Great Yin circulated spiritual energy and formed a small black cage, locking away the beautiful butterfly. “Ping has one thing she does not understand. May Brother Yuntian clear this confusion for Ping?”
“Brother Taiyin is rarely this polite. Please speak. If Yuntian knows, I will say everything.”
“Perhaps this is somewhat presumptuous. Lord Wind gave Ping many favors back then. But with Brother Yuntian, there did not seem to be much overlap…” The Star Lord of Great Yin spoke slowly, lowering his eyes toward Qionglin Town, which was sealed into a closed space. “Brother Yuntian is no longer young. Why work so hard without asking for repayment? It does not seem very reasonable.”
“The Butterfly Goddess.” Biyuntian’s voice turned slightly cold. The flowing light in his ice-blue eyes dimmed. This name carried too many things for him. Even with cultivation like his, simply saying it made him tremble faintly. “Brother Taiyin may still remember that the Butterfly Goddess’s statue was carved in Lord Wind’s likeness.”
“Ping understands.” The Star Lord of Great Yin sighed. “I simply did not expect the Butterfly Goddess and Lord Wind to have such a past.”
“Across long years, no kind of past is impossible. No matter what the past was, as long as there was an intersection, it is all karma.”
The air was filled with a sharp smell of blood. Chang Zui was frightened pale and wanted to go up to look at Mu Yinfeng’s wound. But the moment he moved, he struck a barrier formed from yin energy and was directly bounced away.
“Chang Zui, do not come over. If you die, I will not take responsibility!” Mu Yinfeng warned. She swung a stream of extreme yin spiritual current backward and struck the tentacle.
These tentacles looked like the soft feelers of snails. They seemed as if they would retract at a touch, but in truth, they were sharper than the sharpest blades. Mu Yinfeng secretly praised them. As expected of the metal-generates-water node. It looked soft, yet held endless sharpness within. Combined together, it was indeed impressive.
The tentacle touched Mu Yinfeng’s extreme yin spiritual current and curled back as if startled. Mu Yinfeng pressed the wound on her neck. The wound was not deep, and the tentacle’s surface carried no poison. Only then did she relax and try to communicate with the blood vine on her wrist.
The blood vine still did not move.
She truly did not understand what was wrong with the blood vine. It had clearly worked fine last time. Seeing the tentacles about to counterattack, Mu Yinfeng had no time to think. She stepped back several paces to put distance between herself and the tentacles, removed the barrier she had set to stop Chang Zui from approaching, and struck out with one palm. This time, she increased the output of spiritual current. The black tentacles curled back and retreated, spraying a cloud of black mist before disappearing.
“Junior Sister, are you all right?” As soon as the tentacles vanished, Chang Zui hurriedly ran forward. After confirming Mu Yinfeng was fine, he finally let out a breath of relief. “If something happened to you, Master would probably break my legs.”
Breaking them would be fine. Then he would not keep running out to get in her way. But when Mu Yinfeng thought that if Chang Zui’s legs were broken, they might have to carry him out whenever the plot needed him, she instead hoped they would not be broken.
These tentacles seemed very afraid of her extreme yin spiritual energy. Was it because of suppression? Or because of restraint? After coming to this cultivation world, Mu Yinfeng had gained quite a bit of practical combat experience, but her theoretical grasp was very shallow. She could only remember settings that appeared in the plot. If something went beyond the plot, it was outside her control.
But seeing Chang Zui’s filthy hand about to touch her neck, Mu Yinfeng hurriedly jumped back. “Second Senior Brother, what can your jade flute do?”
Although the tentacles feared her extreme yin spiritual energy, directly throwing spiritual current consumed too much of her own energy. The two bodies guarding the domain had not yet appeared. If she used up all her spiritual energy before the domain guards appeared, the danger was obvious.
Even if Chang Zui’s spiritual energy was heavily suppressed, it was not completely impossible for him to win. Chang Zui had wood and fire dual spiritual roots, while the opponents had metal and water dual attributes. Among them, fire could still restrain metal. If he activated it at the right time, there should be an unexpected result.
Hearing Mu Yinfeng ask this, Chang Zui could not help frowning. “This evil being is so powerful. Junior Sister might as well send a message to Senior Sister and ask her to come handle it.”
Facing such an evil being, although he knew his own strength was lacking, he did not think Mu Yinfeng had any method either. Mu Yinfeng was still his junior sister, after all. How could she be stronger than him?
The fact that Mu Yinfeng could repel this tentacle relied only on the extreme yin attribute she happened to possess. In terms of cultivation and real battle experience, Mu Yinfeng could not compare to him at all.
Although Mu Yinfeng could not see through Chang Zui’s thoughts, she could judge his mind from his words. In that instant, she even wanted to beat Chang Zui to death. Unfortunately, this was not the time to teach him a lesson.
She took a deep breath and touched the wound on her neck, using the pain to wake herself up. A sting came over, and Mu Yinfeng suddenly discovered one thing, something she should have discovered but had not.
This was not an extreme yin domain, yet after being stained with her blood, it remained whole and showed no abnormal change.
What exactly was going on?