The Heroine Made a Pact With Senior Sister (GL) Chapter 44

What did Huixue mean by this?
Mu Yinfeng’s heart trembled. She instinctively wanted to push Huixue away, but Huixue held her even tighter, so tight that she could clearly feel Huixue’s breathing and heartbeat. Expressions and actions could be hidden, but heartbeat and breathing were the most direct expressions of emotion.
She could clearly feel that Huixue’s breathing and heartbeat were both much faster than normal. Huixue was nervous.
“Do not move. This is not a place to stay for long. I will take you back.” Huixue’s voice sounded again in her sea of consciousness. This time, the tone was completely different from the previous sentence. Mu Yinfeng almost thought that the words in her sea of consciousness just now had been a lovesick hallucination.
“Master, Third Junior Sister’s cold poison may be about to flare up. This disciple would like to send Third Junior Sister back to the valley to rest first,” Huixue said to Bing Ling’er.
This Senior Sister!
Mu Yinfeng could only obey. But Huixue seemed to think her acting was not good enough and gently pressed the back of her neck. Mu Yinfeng could only bury her head in Huixue’s shoulder. Before she did, she secretly glanced at Bing Ling’er and saw Bing Ling’er still had her hand on the stone tablet, focusing and thinking deeply about something.
“Then do that. Huixue, take Yinfeng back first. There is still a case in Hanyou Valley that has not been fully investigated. I will do my best to investigate Ruoying’s matter. Do not worry.” Bing Ling’er slowly took her hand from the stone tablet. Seeing Mu Yinfeng leaning weakly on Huixue’s shoulder, she sighed. “The Immortal Sects Assembly is near. Let Yinfeng rest well these next few days. She is still too young. Even if she did not participate, it would not really matter. But after thinking it over, I still feel it is better for her to join.”
“This disciple understands.” Huixue answered, grabbed Mu Yinfeng by the front of her clothes, and lifted her horizontally. Then she bit through Mu Yinfeng’s index finger and drew a talisman with blood. In the blink of an eye, they returned to Reed Snow Residence in Hanyou Valley.
Mu Yinfeng licked the bitten wound. A salty metallic taste filled her mouth, and she nearly cried.
Even if Huixue wanted to make a teleportation talisman, why did she have to use Mu Yinfeng’s blood!
It hurt when her index finger was bitten. Her not saying it did not mean she could not feel it. Why did Huixue do things like this without ever discussing them with her?
“My blood is not effective enough.” Huixue pulled her into her room and pressed her onto the couch. Seeing Mu Yinfeng still bitterly licking the wound on her index finger, Huixue finally explained. But she quickly returned to the main topic. “Yinfeng, do you still remember the contents of our mission this time?”
Mu Yinfeng hurriedly sat up. “The mission?”
After entering the dream ghosts’ five-element domain, she had forgotten the mission completely. Only when Huixue mentioned it did she remember that the mission had been about a massacre that wiped out a household.
Oh no. She had forgotten everything!
But Huixue only furrowed her brows slightly, as if thinking about something, and did not notice the change in Mu Yinfeng’s expression at all.
“That household did not exist in Qionglin Town. The so-called commission was only someone asking the dream ghosts to set up the five-element domain against you.” Just as Mu Yinfeng wanted to find a crack in the ground and crawl into it, she heard Huixue speak slowly. “Yinfeng, if it were you, who do you think this person would be?”
“Why is Senior Sister so certain?”
“I saw long ago that this was the dream ghosts’ five-element domain, and I asked the guiding dream ghosts about their purpose. But the guiding dream ghosts kept their mouths shut and gave no answer at all.” Huixue’s expression was somewhat uncertain and distant. “The dream ghosts’ five-element domain could not have been aimed at me, and of course it could not have been aimed at Chang Zui. It could only be you. Your background is one of Hanyou Valley’s current top ten taboos. I cannot ask too much. If you are willing to say…”
“There is nothing special about my background.” Mu Yinfeng raised her eyes and looked into Huixue’s. Her mood was very calm, without the slightest ripple. Speaking of this topic was like casually speaking of something everyone knew. “The reason Master concealed it for me is that I was born in the pleasure quarters.”
As for her background, she truly did not know what needed to be hidden. Her birth mother was Mu Yuanzi, a female cultivator who had once shaken the cultivation world. Not long after Mu Yuanzi gave birth to her, she disappeared. Because of that, Mu Yinfeng ended up drifting into the pleasure alleys. At age eleven, the first time she appeared before the public, Chang Zui redeemed her and brought her back to Hanyou Valley.
This debt of being redeemed was probably the reason the original owner had been so utterly devoted to Chang Zui, Mu Yinfeng thought.
“Born in the pleasure quarters?” Huixue nodded slightly. “So that is how it is.”
“What does Senior Sister mean?”
“At first, I wondered whether some great family stood behind you. Since it is like this, then it is unlikely your family commissioned the dream ghosts. Although your mother is Senior Mu Yuanzi, Senior Mu Yuanzi has not appeared in the world for more than ten years, so she is also unlikely.” Huixue considered. “If it were Yimu, then with Yimu’s personality, she would not leave the scene easily.”
“Why did Senior Sister not let me stay with Master to investigate Martial Uncle Ruoying’s matter?” Mu Yinfeng remembered Huixue’s earlier actions and could not help asking.
“Because this is not something you can investigate.” Huixue placed a hand on her shoulder. “The current matter is becoming more and more strange. At the scene, only Martial Uncle Shadow’s and Yimu’s spiritual energy were left, but no person was left. Do you not think there is a problem?”
“Martial Uncle Shadow and Yimu are both peerless masters. It is possible they left the scene after fighting.” Mu Yinfeng thought about it. She always felt something was faintly wrong, but she could not say it. This felt like when she read detective novels before. She was clearly only one line away from the truth, yet no matter what, she could not reason any further.
“Luan-phoenix taking shape was interrupted halfway. It was interrupted from behind the luan-phoenix, and Yimu’s blood vine shattered because it interrupted the luan-phoenix taking shape. Also, the first cry during luan-phoenix taking shape has a locking ability. Within a hundred meters of Martial Uncle Shadow, all life forms cannot move. In other words, from the moment Martial Uncle Shadow began using luan-phoenix taking shape, Yimu was already standing behind her.”
Huixue looked at Mu Yinfeng. Unknown emotions surged in her pale blue eyes. “Although Martial Uncle Shadow looks a little childish on the surface, do you think she could make such a mistake?”
“Impossible,” Mu Yinfeng blurted out.
Ruoying had not appeared in the world for many years, yet could still hold a place in Guiyuan Tower’s rankings. That showed her extraordinary strength, and she would not lack battle experience. Although Yimu was also one of the strongest in the story, Xin Metal against Yimu meant Ruoying held a certain advantage in attribute. It was absolutely impossible that she would allow Yimu to circle behind her and interrupt her luan-phoenix taking shape.
“Indeed impossible.” Huixue spoke slowly. “Even I can see this easily. Master could not fail to see it. But Master did not say it. That is very thought-provoking.”
“You suspect Master?”
Mu Yinfeng was somewhat surprised. She remembered that in the original book, Huixue was quite respectful toward Bing Ling’er. Huixue had always carried out missions according to Bing Ling’er’s instructions and never resisted or delayed. The current Huixue was clearly very abnormal.
“…No.”
Huixue lowered her eyes. Although she wanted to test Mu Yinfeng and test whether Mu Yinfeng still had memories from the previous life, she now discovered that every word Mu Yinfeng said matched the thoughts in her own heart, as if Mu Yinfeng could see through her inner mind.
“No?”
Staring at those dark eyes, Huixue felt an unexplained panic. “No.”
“Senior Sister, heartbeat cannot be faked.” Huixue felt someone grab her wrist. Then she saw Mu Yinfeng press her fingers against Huixue’s pulse. “Really no?”
When Huixue lied, her heartbeat was clearly a little faster than usual. After Mu Yinfeng confirmed this, she felt as if something in her heart had been hollowed out, so empty that not even wreckage was left behind.
“You do not believe me?” Huixue took a deep breath and met Mu Yinfeng’s eyes.
Their eyes met. Mu Yinfeng did not speak, and Huixue did not move.
Both of their heartbeats were speeding up, and both were trying hard to keep their expressions calm. This kind of synchronization was too strange.
“Is that so?” Mu Yinfeng only felt her cheeks heat. She realized she could no longer continue looking directly at Huixue. Although she had already buried her most secret thoughts in the darkest place of her heart, she still could not control the nervousness inside her.
“Yinfeng, do you believe me?”
“I believe you.” Mu Yinfeng lowered her eyes and released Huixue’s hand. “I believe Senior Sister.”
Huixue let out a breath of relief. She knew clearly that if Mu Yinfeng had not taken one step back, Huixue might have been the first to admit defeat. But this made her even more suspicious. Mu Yinfeng had always opposed her. Such soft obedience did not match Mu Yinfeng’s habits.
“Are you Mu Yinfeng, or Lord Lanfeng?” Huixue heard her own voice leave her mouth, but she discovered she could not control herself at all.
Was she Mu Yinfeng? Or Lord Lanfeng?
In the end, they still reached this point. Back in the five-element array, the exchange between her and Lord Lanfeng had still been seen through by Huixue. The corner of Mu Yinfeng’s mouth unconsciously lifted into a faint smile. It shed the enchanting charm of her deliberate smiles and became light, refreshing, and clean, like a lotus emerging from water, not a bewitching thorn rose in full bloom.
In her previous life, Huixue had seen too many of Mu Yinfeng’s seductive false smiles, and the alluring grace when her slender wrist turned. Even when Mu Yinfeng had no plan left, she would always keep her signature demonic beauty. The current Mu Yinfeng was one Huixue had never seen. Only now did she realize that the Mu Yinfeng before her was only fourteen years old. And she had long forgotten what a fourteen-year-old girl looked like back then.
“Am I Mu Yinfeng? Or Lord Lanfeng?”
Mu Yinfeng discovered she could not answer this question. Of course she hoped she was Mu Yinfeng. But Lord Lanfeng was indeed the same soul as her across the three thousand worlds. She could not escape this curse.
Could she escape Lord Lanfeng’s future path? Slaughtering entire families, falling into becoming the cultivation world’s demoness, staining both hands with blood, manipulating puppets, and reaching the peak of the cultivation world…
And forcing Huixue to die in White Snow Pagoda, making the White Snow Pagoda flower field Huixue’s burial place.
Mu Yinfeng closed her eyes. After a while, she suddenly opened them. She felt as if resentful spirits still wailed beside her ears, as if they had crossed the three thousand worlds together with that remnant soul.
Tianbing quietly wrapped around her waist. This time, Tianbing no longer acted spoiled and willful like before. It did not hide its killing intent at all.
Mu Yinfeng raised her eyes toward Huixue. This time, there was no smile at the corners of her lips or in her eyes.
“Senior Sister, what kind of person do you want me to become?”