The Heroine Made a Pact With Senior Sister (GL) Chapter 43

Could Yimu also have appeared here?
Mu Yinfeng was slightly startled. She quickly looked around but saw no traces of battle. However, fragments of Yimu’s blood vine were scattered everywhere.
“Yinfeng knows what this is?” Seeing Mu Yinfeng’s expression, Bing Ling’er asked softly.
No matter when, Bing Ling’er always spoke slowly and gently like this. Not only did it make people feel at ease, it also made it almost impossible to refuse answering her questions.
Mu Yinfeng nodded and answered truthfully, “It is Yimu’s blood vine.”
As soon as these words came out, she felt the atmosphere around her suddenly turn cold.
Although Yimu’s blood vine was not something rare to hear about in the cultivation world, and even babies only a few years old had heard of it, there truly were not many people who had actually seen Yimu’s blood vine. Those who had seen Yimu’s blood vine and survived could be counted on one hand.
“Yinfeng…” Huixue’s voice was low, almost like a warning, but Mu Yinfeng still continued.
“These are blood vine fragments. I would not mistake them.”
“Good child.” Bing Ling’er gently patted Mu Yinfeng’s shoulder. “You have seen Yimu’s blood vine?”
Mu Yinfeng nodded. She turned her eyes toward Huixue and saw undisguised worry written all over Huixue’s face.
What was Huixue worried about?
But before Mu Yinfeng could think further, she heard Bing Ling’er say two names. “Xin Metal. Yimu.”
These were the residual traces of spiritual energy left at the scene, meaning these two attribute spiritual energies had once been used here and might have collided.
Yimu’s spiritual energy naturally belonged to Yimu. But Xin Metal was…
Thinking of this, a faint ominous feeling passed through Mu Yinfeng’s heart. If this was the reason, then Bing Ling’er leaving Hanyou Valley was completely reasonable.
As expected, Bing Ling’er’s voice was heavy. “This Xin Metal may belong to your Martial Uncle Ruoying. She suddenly disappeared yesterday and cut off all contact. I came out to search for her. After all, she is my only junior sister.”
Back when Bing Ling’er and Ruoying became disciples under the same master, they were called Hanyou’s Twin Blossoms. Both had pure Xin Metal bodies and were close in age. They often came and went together, inseparable as bodies and shadows, with an extremely close relationship. Hanyou Valley’s old Valley Master had great hopes for them both. But because the position of Valley Master could only be passed to one person, although Ruoying’s cultivation was higher among the twin blossoms, her temperament was strange and sharp, and she had made countless enemies in the cultivation world. So, out of caution, the old Valley Master still passed the position to the cautious, rule-abiding Bing Ling’er.
This past had already been sealed in dust. Even back then, it had not stirred up much of a wave. After Ruoying learned of it, she began a long retreat inside Hanyou Valley. Even Guiyuan Tower opening its once-in-a-century ratings did not startle her out of seclusion. Although their relationship had never clearly worsened, Mu Yinfeng always felt something subtle between the two.
During Mu Yinfeng’s brief contact with Ruoying, she had never heard Ruoying say anything bad about Bing Ling’er. But she could still feel that when Ruoying mentioned Bing Ling’er, there was a faint resentment hidden in the deepest part of her heart. For someone like Ruoying, who cultivated the Linglong Heart Method and was extremely good at hiding emotions, only Mu Yinfeng could see that layer.
Also, in Hanyou Valley, the note Huixue received had ordered people with cultivation above Huixue’s to shut down the messenger spirit birds. This made it inevitable that Ruoying would go face the Heaven-grade Mao-rank evil being Jian Shu. And Jian Shu was clearly fire attribute at a glance. Among the five elements, fire restrained metal. This undoubtedly made the matter look less accidental.
If anyone could secretly manipulate everything here without being discovered, it would undoubtedly be Bing Ling’er, the master of all Hanyou Valley.
Thinking this, Mu Yinfeng raised her eyes slightly and looked into Bing Ling’er’s eyes. “Then why did Master track this place?”
Everyone knew that metal-attribute spiritual energy had the strongest probing and tracking ability among all attributes, and Xin Metal was slightly better than Geng Metal. People with metal spiritual roots could often detect things that people with other attributes could not. They also had the ability to identify people through spiritual energy fragments. In this point, they far surpassed all other attributes. Even metal-attribute cultivators with very shallow spiritual energy could challenge cultivators far above them in probing ability.
Mu Yinfeng was not asking casually. Even if the tracking and probing of a Xin Metal spirit body was unmatched in the cultivation world, it could not discover everything. Especially when tracking another Xin Metal spirit body whose cultivation was above its own.
“This is Ruoying’s spiritual energy. I remember it very clearly. The trace of Ruoying’s luan-phoenix taking shape.” Bing Ling’er allowed Mu Yinfeng to look into her eyes, as if intentionally letting Mu Yinfeng peer into her heart.
But what Mu Yinfeng saw was only a vast blank. Bing Ling’er’s heart seemed to contain only ice plains and snowy wilderness. Mu Yinfeng could not see anything at all.
This feeling seemed familiar from someone. Mu Yinfeng turned her gaze toward Chang Zui. She had only felt this from Chang Zui before. After she learned the Linglong Heart Method, she had planned to peer into Chang Zui’s thoughts, but what she saw was also only these meaningless things. Their true thoughts were hidden beneath the ice plains and snowy wilderness.
This heart method was the only method that could restrain her Linglong Heart Method. It was called Ice-Snow.
Mu Yinfeng steadied herself, looked away, and pretended nothing had happened. She was not yet about to deliberately provoke Bing Ling’er. After all, the layer of Master and disciple stood between them. Carrying the crime of betraying one’s master and ancestors would inevitably add another sin to her future cultivation path.
“Huixue, what do you think?” Bing Ling’er looked at Huixue.
Huixue seemed lost in thought and did not answer at once. Only after Bing Ling’er asked several more times did she come back to herself and look at Bing Ling’er, but she still said nothing.
“I know you have always been close to Ruoying and do not wish to admit this, but the matter before us is very clear.” Bing Ling’er sighed softly. “If nothing had happened to Ruoying, she absolutely could not have lost contact for this long.”
“Luan-phoenix taking shape against the blood vine would at most end with both sides wounded. It is impossible for Yimu alone to overpower one side.” Huixue finally spoke. She slowly crouched down, lifted a piece of blood vine remains, and said seriously, “Master is Martial Uncle Shadow’s senior sister and grew up with Martial Uncle Shadow. You should understand Martial Uncle Shadow’s luan-phoenix taking shape. Why do you underestimate Martial Uncle Shadow so much?”
These words sounded as if she had many objections to Bing Ling’er. Although Huixue had always spoken like this, she had also always been emotionally indifferent. The few times Mu Yinfeng had seen anger from her had all been aimed at Mu Yinfeng herself. She had never seen Huixue show any emotion like this toward anyone else.
Was this for Ruoying? Had Huixue and Ruoying’s relationship already become this good?
Mu Yinfeng pressed her lips together tightly. Although she felt disappointed, her lashes only fluttered a few times before she erased the loss from the bottom of her eyes, leaving no trace for anyone to see.
“Senior Sister, how can you speak to Master like this…”
Huixue’s tone truly angered Chang Zui. But when he caught sight of Huixue’s eyes, so cold they could almost freeze a person into solid ice, his voice grew smaller and smaller. In the end, before he could even say the word speak, he gave up on defending Bing Ling’er.
“I truly do not understand the power of luan-phoenix taking shape.” Bing Ling’er seemed not to notice the abnormality in Huixue’s tone. She placed her hand on the tombstone, concentrated slightly, and probed as she said, “Luan-phoenix taking shape is activated by relying on the pearl-gathered luan-phoenix hairpin Ruoying wears. She obtained that hairpin later. It is said that a wandering cultivator admired her and gathered spiritual gold to forge this high-grade spiritual artifact for her. Even I have only seen the remaining power of luan-phoenix taking shape and have never personally experienced it.”
Huixue nodded slightly and stopped speaking. Then she suddenly walked toward Mu Yinfeng. Before Mu Yinfeng could react and understand what Huixue wanted to do, she suddenly felt herself embraced by a bundle of white snow.
No!
She was not mentally prepared yet!
Huge waves surged in Mu Yinfeng’s sea of consciousness. Trembling, she grabbed Huixue’s clothes and wanted to push Huixue away. What kind of behavior was this, letting Bing Ling’er and Chang Zui see such a scene?
A low voice sounded in her sea of consciousness. “Yinfeng, do you want to hide from me?”