The Heroine Made a Pact With Senior Sister (GL) Chapter 4

Mu Yinfeng clutched Huixue’s sleeve and refused to let go. In truth, she had already woken up when Huixue sent spiritual energy into her, but if Huixue discovered she was awake, she would have no reason to keep clinging to Huixue’s arms.
Now, however, seeing that Huixue was about to abandon her, Mu Yinfeng felt that if she did not speak, Huixue might really leave her cruelly behind in this illusion realm. Since that was the case, she could only take the initiative.
“Can you… walk?” Huixue had no choice but to ask. In her heart, she did not want Mu Yinfeng to travel with her, but when the words reached her mouth, they changed into something else.
While Huixue was secretly annoyed at her own ability to speak, Mu Yinfeng was overjoyed. No matter what Huixue was thinking, this counted as agreement. Huixue would not go back on her own promise.
“Of course I can.” Mu Yinfeng answered at once and tried to untie Tianbing silk from her body, only for Huixue to stop her.
Tianbing silk, which had almost taken her life a moment ago, was now rubbing her affectionately with its tassels. If Mu Yinfeng had not seen it with her own eyes, no one would believe this soft, adorable-looking silk could decide a person’s life or death in an instant.
“You are carrying Tianbing’s cold poison now, and you need Tianbing silk’s spiritual flow. You cannot separate from Tianbing silk.” Huixue, still annoyed at her own words, said stiffly, “Tianbing is under your control for now.”
“Then what will you use?” Mu Yinfeng immediately noticed the problem. If Huixue gave Tianbing silk to her, what would Huixue use to fight enemies?
Huixue raised the snow-colored longsword in her hand. The two words “Liufei” glowed brilliantly on the hilt. It was Huixue’s rarely used sword, Liufei.
“I am sorry,” Huixue suddenly said. Her voice was very low. “I should not have acted without asking clearly first…”
At first, she had only been thinking that one debt should repay another. But now she felt that she should apologize, at least verbally. After all, she was the only one who had returned. Mu Yinfeng could not possibly foresee the future. The current Mu Yinfeng had no idea what kind of demon she would grow into later. For Huixue to treat Mu Yinfeng this way was indeed equal to ruining her life.
After all, the current Mu Yinfeng was only a child. She should not bear such a grave consequence.
Using spiritual energy to suppress the cold poison could not possibly have no effect on Mu Yinfeng. From now on, her cultivation would probably have great difficulty advancing. Even if she made a breakthrough, she would have to fight the cold poison hidden inside her body. It was impossible for her to reach the level of power she had in the previous life.
From that point of view, if Mu Yinfeng lacked power, she would not be able to bring disaster to one side of the world and stir up chaos in the future. Huixue had done this for the greater situation of the cultivation world, so it could not be counted as a mistake. But that reasoning only stood because Huixue already knew the future.
How would Mu Yinfeng answer? Huixue stared at Mu Yinfeng and found, to her own surprise, that she was a little nervous. It was as if Mu Yinfeng’s reply mattered greatly.
What was she nervous about? Was she worried Mu Yinfeng would blame her? But how could Mu Yinfeng not blame her?
What she heard instead was Mu Yinfeng’s forgiving answer. “It is all right. It is not wrong for Senior Sister to be more cautious. It is my fault too. I did not explain clearly before and made Senior Sister blame herself.”
In truth, Mu Yinfeng did not take the cold poison to heart, because she knew the original owner’s primordial yin body was actually immune to hundreds of poisons. As long as she circulated her power to a certain level, she could swallow the cold poison inside her body. Almost no one knew this, because primordial yin bodies were far too rare. Many people would never encounter one in their entire lives.
If she grasped Huixue’s guilt, Huixue probably would not abandon her and run at any moment. Although Huixue and she did not get along, Huixue had always dared to take responsibility for her actions from beginning to end. Mu Yinfeng could not miss such a good chance. As long as she could keep Huixue, she had hope.
“Senior Sister, we should go quickly. The Butterfly Spirit has already noticed us. If we stay in the illusion realm too long, more trouble may appear.” Mu Yinfeng tugged Huixue’s sleeve and reminded her.
It was not that she liked leveling up and fighting monsters with Huixue. But if she had the mood for romance under the flowers and moonlight in a place like this, her heart would be much too big.
Huixue nodded. Her brows eased slightly, then were replaced by coldness in the next instant. “Stay close to me. Do not go far.”
Mu Yinfeng obediently answered. She was about to untie the necklace, but Huixue pressed down on her hand.
“Do not untie the necklace. If it can hide your aura, the Butterfly Spirit cannot track you.” Huixue stated expressionlessly, “Its target is you.”
“So… Senior Sister cannot bear to let me be bait?” Mu Yinfeng blinked, looking innocent and cute.
Huixue’s heart stirred. She deliberately moved her gaze away from Mu Yinfeng and said stiffly, “You do not need to ask. I have my own arrangements for what comes next.”
“Will I… die?” Mu Yinfeng looked at Huixue and asked timidly.
Why did children have so many questions? Huixue felt as if something in her heart had been teased by Mu Yinfeng until it itched. She was a little angry at herself. Why had she brought Mu Yinfeng along? If she had been firm and refused to bring her, would there not be nothing at all? Was refusing Mu Yinfeng really that difficult?
“You will not. If you can die in the hands of this kind of demon, are you looking down on me, or looking down on yourself?”
After Mu Yinfeng fell in the past life, she swept through the cultivation world with one sword and one pipa. When her sword came out, heaven and earth changed color. When her pipa sounded, every soul trembled. A person like that claiming she could die at the hands of some third-rate evil creature?
The more Huixue thought about it, the angrier she became. She took a handful of silver needles from her robe, lifted her sword, and turned to leave. Seeing that Huixue seemed angry, Mu Yinfeng quickly followed obediently behind her and did not say another word.
It looked as if Huixue did not hate her as much as the book said. Mu Yinfeng thought happily. In truth, she did not mind breaking character completely, at least not in front of Huixue.
Before the original owner turned dark, her personality was not actually that bad. She had not yet become as cold and strange as she was later. Back then, the original owner had packaged herself according to Chang Zui’s preferences. Chang Zui liked noble young ladies who were graceful and proper, so she forced herself to behave correctly. Chang Zui liked her to play the pipa, so from then on, she abandoned the sword and stopped using it. The original owner hid herself too well, so well that no one knew what her true face was like, not even the Master of Hanyou Valley, Bing Ling’er.
For some unknown reason, though, whenever the original owner faced Huixue, she acted as if Huixue owed her debts from eight lifetimes. Thinking back on the conversations between the original owner and Huixue in the book, whether before or after she turned dark, there had never been clear and specific words. They were always circling around and speaking in riddles. If people talked like that, it would be strange if their relationship could be good.
So Mu Yinfeng could only rely on herself to break the ice. Huixue could not lower her pride, but Mu Yinfeng did not mind. She smiled faintly.
“You have become much more normal,” Huixue suddenly said, though her steps did not stop. “I thought you did not know how to speak.”
“…” If it had been anyone else, Mu Yinfeng would immediately have shot back, “Who are you saying does not know how to speak?” But since the one saying it was Huixue, whom she had been longing for, she instantly changed her words. “I will learn properly.”
Huixue in front of her seemed to laugh softly, but the sound was too light. Mu Yinfeng suspected she had heard wrong.
“No matter what, do not lose yourself for someone else,” Huixue said quietly. “Because others will not appreciate it.”
“Oh.” Mu Yinfeng answered in a muffled voice. This was a clear signal. Huixue did not like her speaking that way.
Fine. Since Huixue did not like this, she would stop.
Huixue glanced at Mu Yinfeng, who now looked wilted and drooping, from the corner of her eye and sneered inwardly. Sure enough, her temperament was still so strange. One sentence from Huixue, and she became like this. But for now, Huixue felt a little relieved. It seemed she had not been possessed. Besides, the yin energy of a primordial yin woman naturally affected the soul. Unless the possessor also had a primordial yin soul, taking over Mu Yinfeng’s body would be asking for suffering.
The two walked for a while. With Huixue’s ice-snow domain supporting them, everything Mu Yinfeng saw was a boundless field of frost and snow, even more dreamlike than the illusion realm.
“Are the others here too?” Just as Mu Yinfeng was focusing with all her might on the ground beneath her feet so she would not slip, Huixue’s question came again.
“I do not know. They should be?” Mu Yinfeng said uncertainly. “When the illusion realm fell, the Butterfly Spirit took me away. I do not know what happened on their side…”
“Just as well. I do not want to be with them anyway.” Huixue cut off Mu Yinfeng’s words. “They will only cause trouble. One burden is enough. I do not want three more.”
Mu Yinfeng: “…”
Fine. A character on paper looked good no matter what, and if that person really became three-dimensional… of course Mu Yinfeng would choose to forgive her. What else could she do if she did not forgive her? Mu Yinfeng glanced at Huixue and could not help laughing silently.
Senior Sister really was all sharp tongue and soft heart.
Just then, Huixue suddenly raised a hand, signaling for her to stop.
“I am going to withdraw my domain. Be careful of everything.”
The surrounding ice and snow drew back, revealing dense fragrant grass and strange flowers and plants competing in beauty. Hundreds and thousands of butterflies danced around them. It was dreamy and unreal, as if they had stepped into an immortal garden.
This was the core area of the Butterfly Spirit’s illusion array. Mu Yinfeng twisted her hands together tightly and glanced at Huixue, who was still calm and unhurried.
At that moment, a sudden change occurred. The butterflies rushed toward them. Their wings turned into thousands of blades, as if they meant to tear the two of them to pieces.
Tianbing moved. A mass of white mist drifted out, directly freezing the butterflies into ice. When the mist scattered, Huixue narrowed her eyes and looked at Mu Yinfeng, who had already summoned Changyin.
“With me here, you do not need to act. Protect yourself.” Huixue’s voice was clear and cold, even colder than it had been inside her ice-snow domain. “The strength of this illusion realm is nearly equal to my ice-snow domain. It is very likely a kind of domain. Its changes are tangled and hard to read. You must be careful. Do not be fooled by creations of the illusion realm. Most importantly, beware of these butterflies.”
Mu Yinfeng nodded obediently, then could not help offering Huixue a little information for reference. “Senior Sister, can the Butterfly Spirit’s domain not be solved by suppressing it with another domain?”
Huixue shook her head. “Yinfeng, do you know what the Butterfly Spirit was before?”
“The Butterfly Goddess?”
“Correct.” Huixue nodded and softly spoke four words. “A god-level domain above the Heavenly Extreme. My ice-snow domain cannot suppress it.”
“Then can I…” Mu Yinfeng had just been about to mention the utmost yin state of a primordial yin woman. Because the intense yin-cold energy of such a body could break many domains. She remembered that in the original book, she had directly used her own blood to suppress most of the illusion realm’s power. “Can I do it?”
“Do not do that. Your blood may be able to break the illusion realm, but bleeding will harm your body. Do not use that method unless there is no other choice.”
Mu Yinfeng was startled. She clearly remembered that in the original book, Chang Zui had been the one who told her that bleeding could break the illusion realm. Could it be…
Mu Yinfeng looked at Huixue, her feelings complicated.
After warning Mu Yinfeng, Huixue turned and warned Tianbing as well. “Tianbing, protect Mu Yinfeng properly. If anything happens to her, you know what to do.”
Tianbing silk seemed frightened and shrank closer to Mu Yinfeng. Its tassels clung tightly to Mu Yinfeng’s hand and refused to let go no matter what.
Mu Yinfeng lightly brushed Tianbing with her little finger. Tianbing acted as if it had gained something wonderful and quickly burrowed into her palm, tickling her until she wanted to laugh. But when she saw Huixue’s frost-struck face, she instinctively held back her smile.
Seeing Tianbing’s behavior, Huixue’s voice turned colder. “Tianbing, do not fool around.”
But Tianbing still burrowed back and forth in Mu Yinfeng’s arms like a small white snake. It looked as if acting cute and seeking affection was the real purpose, while sending spiritual energy was only an excuse.
At that moment, Mu Yinfeng suddenly remembered something. “Senior Sister, the people trapped in the illusion realm are not only us. There are also all the villagers of Enji Village…”
In an instant, Mu Yinfeng felt an icy gaze shoot toward her like needles. She awkwardly closed her mouth.
Huixue sneered. “All the villagers of Enji Village? What do all the villagers of Enji Village have to do with me?”