The Heroine Made a Pact With Senior Sister (GL) Chapter 41

“It is you.” Huixue looked at the enchanting demoness before her, then glanced toward the place where Mu Yinfeng had fallen. She turned her gaze back to the demoness’s face. “What do you want to do?”
“What does this lord want to do? How could Senior Sister not know?” Mu Yinfeng smiled charmingly. Yin energy spread from the pipa in her arms. Even from some distance away, Mu Yinfeng, who also possessed a primordial yin body, still felt a bone-piercing cold.
Only then did Mu Yinfeng remember that after turning dark, Mu Yinfeng no longer used her original name. The person before her now was the puppet army’s master who had made the cultivation world tremble at the sound of her name, Lord Lanfeng.
Howling wind rushed in. Branches and leaves thrashed among the White Snow Pagoda flowers. Petals were swept up by the wind, then scattered on the ground like a fresh snowfall.
Lord Lanfeng bowed slightly, pinched a White Snow Pagoda blossom beside her, and brought it to her nose to smell. Her small tongue, like a clove bud, extended slightly and gently licked the snow-white petal, like a drop of blood fallen onto the flower.
“I have returned. Is Senior Sister not happy?” She lightly bit off one White Snow Pagoda petal and chewed it slowly. The way she looked at Huixue made it seem as if what she chewed was not a petal, but Huixue’s flesh and blood.
Huixue did not speak. At some point, Chuying appeared and growled lowly at Lord Lanfeng.
“Senior Sister’s Chuying still dislikes me as always.” Seeing Huixue ignore her, Lord Lanfeng simply tossed aside the White Snow Pagoda blossom with one petal eaten and slowly walked toward Huixue. Her gaze focused on Huixue. She smiled without quite smiling, naturally showing a charming grace. “Senior Sister, you truly make things difficult. What should I do with you?”
“Let her go!” Mu Yinfeng suddenly leaped up from the White Snow Pagoda flowers and rushed straight toward Lord Lanfeng.
The person before her was indeed the original owner of this body, but she was only an illusion projected by the heart demon. The original owner had already scattered like a blown-out lamp. How could she appear before them again?
Besides, judging from how Lord Lanfeng treated Chang Zui, this did not look like something Lord Lanfeng would do. In the plot, Lord Lanfeng’s temper toward Chang Zui had not changed even unto death, no matter what he did. How could she bear to knock Chang Zui unconscious with one pipa note?
“Let her go?” Lord Lanfeng did not turn back and gave a scornful laugh. “On what grounds?”
“She is not someone you can touch!” Mu Yinfeng felt these words were very wrong, but she could not worry about that now. In a flash, she stood between Huixue and Lord Lanfeng, holding Severing Love with its point aimed straight at Lord Lanfeng’s throat.
In truth, she was not confident. She did not know the Severing Love sword art, and could not even make the most basic sword flourish. In her hand, Severing Love was no different from an ordinary spiritual artifact used as a medium to amplify spiritual energy.
Although she knew this was truly wasting a heavenly treasure, Mu Yinfeng had no other way. After all, Severing Love was a little better than that blood vine that refused to transform even if it died. At least Severing Love accepted her use without refusal.
“Severing Love? You actually know how to use this?”
Seeing the wooden sword aimed at her, Lord Lanfeng raised her hand and touched the blade, completely ignoring Severing Love’s sharp edge. Just as Mu Yinfeng thought she would see blood spray in the next second, Lord Lanfeng’s hand touched Severing Love, and a cloud of black smoke scattered from the sword. The faint blue glow that had been on the sword gradually dimmed and dispersed into the air.
“Well?” Mu Yinfeng forced herself to remain calm. In front of Lord Lanfeng, she did not dare relax even slightly, because Lord Lanfeng’s strength could only be above hers.
But when Mu Yinfeng met Lord Lanfeng’s eyes, she unexpectedly discovered faint joy hidden beneath Lord Lanfeng’s icy gaze, like a little flame within freezing snow.
“Open your sea of consciousness and let me in.” When Mu Yinfeng saw Lord Lanfeng think this, she almost thought her eyes had blurred.
People who cultivated the Linglong Heart Method found it hard to see through the thoughts of another cultivator of the same method. Even suppression by a higher level made this difficult. Mu Yinfeng could not see through Ruoying’s thoughts, yet now, facing Lord Lanfeng with equal cultivation, how could she so easily see through the other’s thoughts?
There could only be one reason. Lord Lanfeng had deliberately let her see those thoughts.
Mu Yinfeng did not open her sea of consciousness. Severing Love in her hand also remained steadily at Lord Lanfeng’s throat. Now, she did not dare make the slightest mistake or oversight. Facing Lord Lanfeng, that tiny mistake could trap all of them forever inside the five-element domain.
Lord Lanfeng’s words could only be a trap to make her lower her guard. Back then, Lord Lanfeng had dominated the cultivation world, stirring wind and clouds with countless schemes. Her methods were ruthless, and the strategies she used were definitely not something Mu Yinfeng could predict.
“You do not trust me.” A trace of faint sorrow flashed deep in Lord Lanfeng’s eyes, so faint it was almost impossible to detect.
Mu Yinfeng said, “What do you expect me to use to trust you?”
Lord Lanfeng replied, “Your tenth-layer Linglong Heart Method. The seals inside your body. Are those not enough?”
Mu Yinfeng was slightly startled, but quickly recovered her calm. Even Ruoying could clearly see the seals inside her body, let alone Lord Lanfeng.
She did not mean to look down on Ruoying. It was only that Lord Lanfeng’s setting in the whole text was someone infinitely close to a heavenly god, one of the ceiling-level existences equal to Yimu in the entire book. Her strength naturally surpassed Ruoying’s.
Lord Lanfeng stared at her. Her pale lips, almost bloodless, lifted slightly. She moved one step forward, directly pressing Severing Love to her skin. As long as Mu Yinfeng thrust her hand forward, she could cut Lord Lanfeng’s throat.
“I left a fragment of my soul here precisely to wait for this day.” Lord Lanfeng’s thoughts continued to enter Mu Yinfeng’s sea of consciousness. Her thoughts were domineering and forceful. Mu Yinfeng had no way to reject them. “If you do not believe me, I can only do this. You and I were originally one person. You are only a remnant soul fragment I split into the three thousand worlds.”
“What do you mean?”
“You are me, and I am you.” Lord Lanfeng stared tightly into Mu Yinfeng’s eyes. Deep in her gaze, a watery gleam appeared. For a moment, Mu Yinfeng could not look away at all.
Bad! Yin Charm Art!
“You actually used it on me…”
“Listen until I finish. Now, my soul has already scattered. I sacrificed my soul to the Yin-Yang Reversal Array to preserve this body’s cultivation. Now, it is yours. But the Severing Love sword art is not included.”
“What do you mean?”
Mu Yinfeng faintly felt that Lord Lanfeng before her held no hostility, and even seemed to be helping her.
Could it be that Lord Lanfeng did not want to possess her body?
Lord Lanfeng saw through her thoughts. For the first time, true and solid emotion appeared in her calm, waveless eyes. It was a sigh and bitterness.
“You are me, and I am you. A remnant soul like mine cannot last long and will soon disperse. If not for this space separated by the dream ghosts, I could not exist at all.” Lord Lanfeng’s voice slowly sounded in Mu Yinfeng’s sea of consciousness. “If your pipa has already been taken by Yimu, and Yimu passed the blood vine to you, do not use it lightly.”
Use it lightly? Even when she wanted to use the blood vine, it would not let her use it, right?
“As for Severing Love, the reason I did not use it was that Severing Love cuts off emotional ties.” Lord Lanfeng spoke word by word. “Unless one cultivates to the final form of the Severing Love sword art, Memory, one is destined to be a lonely phoenix forever.”
“Memory?” Mu Yinfeng did not understand.
But there was one thing she did understand. If the saying about Severing Love was true, this might be one of the reasons the original owner stayed single until the end in the book.
“The Severing Love sword art has six forms: Question, Parting, Ruin, Hatred, Severing, and Memory. Right now, I can only pass you the first five forms.” Lord Lanfeng said slowly, “But this cannot be like the blood vine, where passing it to you lets you master it. Sword arts contain endless subtle principles. You still need to comprehend them properly.”
Mu Yinfeng nodded as if half understanding. She seemed to feel Lord Lanfeng smile at her, but that smile vanished in an instant and was almost impossible to see. Then her whole body suddenly heated. A sharp tearing pain came from her sea of consciousness, as if something had directly pierced through it and taken deep root inside.
This pain was extremely intense, more than a thousand times worse than the pain when the Linglong Heart Method shattered. But under the control of Yin Charm Art, she had no way to break free from Lord Lanfeng’s restraint.
This pain felt like a storm had risen in her sea of consciousness, destroying and grinding it to pieces in an instant.
Mu Yinfeng bit her teeth tightly and refused to cry out. She did not want to alarm Huixue, because Huixue was no match for Lord Lanfeng. Letting Huixue come would simply be sending Huixue to die.
“Even like this, you still do not want Senior Sister to know? You only want to endure it silently?”
Mu Yinfeng answered firmly, “So what if I do?”
“That is admirable courage. What a pity. No matter what you do, she still must die.” Lord Lanfeng’s voice was light. “Die by your hand.”
What!
“Do you hate her that much?” Mu Yinfeng asked through gritted teeth.
“Hate or not has nothing to do with this. What I am saying is only the result.” Lord Lanfeng seemed to appreciate Mu Yinfeng’s pain. From the outside, the current situation looked completely like Mu Yinfeng had taken the lead, but Mu Yinfeng knew that if Lord Lanfeng moved even one finger, she could crush her into powder.
The gap in strength between her and the adult Lord Lanfeng was far too great. Only then did she realize that escaping from Yimu that day had not been accidental. If Yimu had truly used the same strength she used against Lord Lanfeng to deal with Mu Yinfeng, then Mu Yinfeng would never have had a chance to let Tianbing circle behind Yimu.
“Why?”
“Fate,” Lord Lanfeng said calmly. “Have you heard of Lord Wind and the Snow God? Only one of them can exist.”
Mu Yinfeng was somewhat lost.
Lord Wind and the Snow God? Was this a legend of the heavenly realm?
Since this world was a cultivation world, many legends of ascending to godhood naturally circulated. These legends were as many as hairs on an ox. If they were not especially striking, probably no one could remember them.
“Fifth floor of Langhuan Pavilion. The top hidden compartment of the third bookshelf on the right.” Lord Lanfeng’s voice was very soft. The watery gleam in her eyes gradually faded. Along with it, the pain slowly lessened, and Mu Yinfeng finally regained the ability to move on her own.
Mu Yinfeng hurriedly held her breath and looked inward. Only then did she discover a bamboo slip glowing with golden light floating in her sea of consciousness. The shattered parts of her sea of consciousness from before had been repaired completely in an instant.
“What are you doing?”
Now Lord Lanfeng’s shadow was gradually turning unreal. Although one could still see a solid body, she had become half-transparent like a ghost. If someone reached out a hand, it could pass through her.
“You are not worse than I was back then.” Lord Lanfeng’s voice was very serious. “It seems I was right. You truly are me from a parallel plane of the three thousand worlds.”
“I am not you!” Mu Yinfeng glanced at Huixue, whose face was full of worry, and said decisively, “I will not kill her!”
“Is that so? Then let us wait and see.”
Lord Lanfeng’s tone was teasing, yet held endless coldness.
She paused and did not raise her hand again. The current Lord Lanfeng looked as if the slightest movement would make her whole body shatter.
“I hope you can comprehend Severing Love to its final layer. I also hope you can break open…”
Before Lord Lanfeng could finish, her entire body instantly turned into countless points of light, like millions of fireflies flying in every direction.
One tiny point of light landed in Huixue’s white hair and did not go out for a long time.