The Heroine Made a Pact With Senior Sister (GL) Chapter 46

Huixue did not know what she was thinking either. She only knew that deep down, she badly wanted Mu Yinfeng to give her a clear answer.
She could not imagine what she would do if Mu Yinfeng refused her. At first, she had planned to settle everything once Mu Yinfeng admitted she was Lord Lanfeng. That way, Mu Yinfeng would not grow strong again and plunge the cultivation world into blood and storm.
But Huixue found that she could not bring herself to do it.
Not to the Mu Yinfeng before her now.
Not even to the Lord Lanfeng from her last life.
If Huixue had truly set her heart on dying together with Mu Yinfeng in her last life, Mu Yinfeng would never have survived. The Liufei sword in her hand had been passed down from the ancient Snow God. It was proof that Huixue had the right to inherit the Snow God’s divine seat.
That right was not just an empty title. If Huixue was willing, she could sacrifice the long life of a snow woman and gain one hour of the Snow God’s divine power.
Snow God Descent.
But she had never used that final Snow God Descent. Perhaps she had held a bit of hope. Perhaps she had believed her own sword art could defeat Mu Yinfeng. Perhaps there had been some other reason.
In her last life, even until her death, she had never let herself become the Snow God and use divine power to decide whether Mu Yinfeng lived or died.
“I believe Senior Sister,” Mu Yinfeng said softly. “No matter what Senior Sister says.”
She had only struggled with herself for a moment before deciding to agree to Huixue’s terms. With her strong mental power, if she worked together with Huixue, there should not be any mistakes.
She quietly stroked the tassel on Severing Love. Sadly, the wooden sword was cold and unfeeling. It gave her no answer at all.
Huixue was slightly startled. If Mu Yinfeng never removed the jeweled necklace, then it was almost the same as sealing her as an ordinary person forever.
How could Mu Yinfeng agree to such a condition?
“Are you sure?”
“Of course,” Mu Yinfeng said gently.
“You are rarely this obedient. It does not seem like you.”
“Does Senior Sister not like it?” Mu Yinfeng forced a faint smile.
“Of course I like it.”
The words slipped out of Huixue’s mouth before she could stop them. Only after she spoke did she realize something was wrong.
What was she saying?
But Mu Yinfeng did not seem to misunderstand. She blinked, then smiled faintly. “As long as Senior Sister likes it. This is all I can do. Then, Senior Sister, can you protect me for my whole life?”
“I can. Forget this life. Even in the next life, I can keep you safe.”
The worst choice would be to sacrifice herself and take hold of the Snow God’s power. In the cultivation world, there should be no one who could fight a true god.
Unless the Ice Domain Emperor came to kill Mu Yinfeng himself.
Huixue thought this silently.
“Really?” Mu Yinfeng stared into Huixue’s eyes, then smiled again. “With those words from Senior Sister, even if I died, I would have no regrets.”
“You.” Huixue reached out and tapped Mu Yinfeng’s forehead with one finger, scolding her gently. “Say fewer unlucky things from now on. Aren’t you afraid your word-spirit will come true on yourself?”
“Do not worry. It is like the old saying, doctors cannot heal themselves. Word-spirit is also very hard to use on yourself.”
Mu Yinfeng glanced out the window. When they had returned, dawn light had just begun to show. Now it was already close to noon.
She quietly wondered why time always slipped by without notice when she was with Huixue. Then she remembered what Bing Ling’er had told her and could not help reminding Huixue.
“Senior Sister, at the Immortal Sects Assembly, can I still not take off the jeweled necklace?”
“The Immortal Sects Assembly is not that serious. If you take it off, it will be very hard for anyone to beat you.” Huixue thought for a moment. “The assembly has an age limit. Only people under one hundred can enter.”
“One hundred!” Mu Yinfeng was shocked. “I am only fourteen this year. If I cannot use spiritual energy, how can I fight people who have cultivated for so many years?”
“I have never seen anyone under one hundred, besides you, who could face Jian Shu head-on and kill her.” Huixue thought back to Reed Village and still felt a chill of fear.
She did not understand why Ruoying had been so sure. Huixue knew exactly how strong Jian Shu of the Southern Domain’s Jian family had been. She had turned third fire into fourth fire, and from hate and despair had grown the vengeful Red Lotus. Even if Mu Yinfeng was Lord Lanfeng from her last life, victory would not have been certain.
How had Mu Yinfeng done it?
Was it only because of the blood vine, a spiritual weapon close to divine rank?
But the blood vine had clearly not accepted her as master.
Mu Yinfeng understood what Huixue meant. That night, she had also been lucky. If she had not broken through the seal of the Linglong Heart Method first and seen Jian Shu’s weakness and attack pattern, she might already have died under Jian Shu’s Red Lotus Karmic Fire.
Red Lotus Karmic Fire burned with original sin. A person like her was naturally the best fuel for karmic fire.
“The Linglong Heart Method,” Mu Yinfeng said.
She did not want to hide it from Huixue. In any case, she could not see through Huixue’s thoughts, so this should not make Huixue uneasy.
“The Linglong Heart Method?” Huixue nodded slightly. “The heart method Martial Uncle Shadow passed to you?”
Mu Yinfeng nodded. She did not know the full story, but Ruoying had also said those words to her. That should be where the Linglong Heart Method came from.
“A ten-aperture Linglong Heart. No wonder.” Huixue suddenly understood.
No wonder she had always felt that Mu Yinfeng could see through her. It turned out to be because of the Linglong Heart Method that came from Ruoying.
The Linglong Heart Method was an ancient secret art. Each generation only had one inheritor, which meant that at most two people in the whole cultivation world could know it at the same time. Those who mastered it could see through other people’s heart methods. Most of them were clever, smooth, and good at handling every side.
But now…
Ruoying had brought trouble to the cultivation world for so many years. If she had been even a little smooth, she would not have ended up like this.
And Mu Yinfeng…
Huixue glanced at Mu Yinfeng. If Mu Yinfeng counted as smooth and worldly, then who in this world was not a false-faced saint?
“What is it?” Mu Yinfeng asked when she saw Huixue’s expression.
“Nothing.” Huixue said, “Since you have learned the Linglong Heart Method, you should be able to predict your opponent’s moves. Why would you still need to use spiritual energy?”
This…
What did one have to do with the other?
Mu Yinfeng was still thinking when Huixue continued, “The Immortal Sects Assembly follows the same process every year. First is the individual competition, then the team competition. The individual competition uses group point rounds. Ten people are placed in one group, and the opponents are chosen by drawing lots.”
Was Senior Sister explaining the process to her?
Mu Yinfeng immediately perked up and asked, “Chosen by drawing lots? What if the same match is drawn more than once?”
“Then the match still follows the draw.”
“But…” Mu Yinfeng found that unbelievable. She did a quick count. “That is not fair at all. What if the draw goes wrong and someone never gets picked?”
“Luck is also part of strength. If someone’s luck is worse, they cannot blame others.”
Huixue picked up paper and brush and drew two little figures. They had large heads, thin arms, and thin legs. They looked simple and cute. She wrote a number over each little figure’s head.
“Points are won from your opponent. If you win, you gain all of your opponent’s points. If you lose, your own points return to zero.”
When Mu Yinfeng heard this, her face fell. “If someone loses one match and then keeps getting byes, would that not be awful?”
As soon as she said it, she felt Huixue’s gaze slice hard across her.
“When I entered the Immortal Sects Assembly for the first time, I lost one match and then received byes all the way through. But that does not really prove anything.” Huixue looked into Mu Yinfeng’s eyes. “The final score is the sum of the individual competition and team competition. Even if someone loses the individual competition, the team competition can still make up for it.”
“All right.” Mu Yinfeng spread her hands helplessly, then lifted her eyes to glance at Huixue. “Senior Sister, do you think I have a chance if I do not use spiritual energy?”
“The people chosen for the Immortal Sects Assembly are all geniuses from their sects. If you do not use spiritual energy, your chances are not high. But at least you will not bring deadly trouble to yourself. Every sect hopes geniuses are born in their own sect. They do not want geniuses born in other sects. If they cannot be used, then of course it is better to remove them as early as possible.”
That was true.
When Huixue mentioned removing people, Mu Yinfeng suddenly thought of Ruoying. Since different sects competed with each other, would people from the same sect not distrust each other too?
When she raised this idea again, Huixue denied it as expected.
But Huixue’s reason was actually this.
Bing Ling’er could not defeat Ruoying.
“Then… what if she worked with Yimu? Could they still not win?” Mu Yinfeng thought about it. Since Yimu was almost a ceiling-level existence, if he worked with Bing Ling’er, Ruoying should not be his match.
“There is something I have never told you. Yimu and Martial Uncle Shadow cannot be enemies,” Huixue said quietly. “The reason Martial Uncle Shadow never married in her life was because…”
Warm sunlight fell over Huixue’s face, making her beautiful face look even clearer and whiter, like snow.
Huixue seemed to think of something, but she did not continue. Instead, she quickly changed the subject.
“The team competition is…”
Mu Yinfeng lowered her head. She did not want to interrupt Huixue.
She knew Huixue’s nature. If Huixue did not want to tell her something, then no matter how hard she tried to ask, it would be useless.
If only Huixue were not a snow woman.
Then Mu Yinfeng would be able to see through her thoughts. She would know what kind of person Huixue liked, what things Huixue liked, and what Huixue liked her to do.
She would also know what Huixue truly thought of her.
Mu Yinfeng looked at Huixue’s profile. Huixue had not put on any rouge, yet her lips were still a pale pink. They looked very soft.
Would such a beauty of ice and snow also have soft lips?
If Mu Yinfeng tried it, would Huixue get angry?
“Yinfeng, what are you doing?”
Before Mu Yinfeng could get close, Huixue dodged away. In the next moment, Mu Yinfeng felt Huixue pinch her face again.
This time Huixue did not pinch lightly. She pinched until Mu Yinfeng’s mouth puffed out and she could not even speak a single clear word.
Huixue leaned close and looked at her face for a while, then, for some reason, laughed.
Huixue’s lashes were very long and almost translucent, as if made of frost. They were so close they almost brushed Mu Yinfeng’s eyes.
Mu Yinfeng could clearly see her own face reflected in Huixue’s pale, nearly transparent ice-blue eyes. It looked as if she had always been sealed inside ice.
This kind of closeness made her feel a little unnatural.
“Were you not listening to me just now?” Huixue asked softly.
Her breath brushed Mu Yinfeng’s cheek. It was faintly cool, but still warmer than her fingers.
“I… was…” Mu Yinfeng tried hard to move her lips and speak, but her words came out muffled.
For some reason, Huixue’s heart felt hot and restless. After pinching Mu Yinfeng’s face once, she could hardly hold back from doing it a second time.
And she knew that once there was a second time, there would be a third, a fourth, and then countless more.
“Were you?” Huixue blinked and asked back.
“I was… Senior Sister… let go…” Mu Yinfeng mumbled.
She wanted to grab Huixue’s wrist and make her release her, but Huixue moved first and caught Mu Yinfeng’s own wrist.
“I will not let go. If I let go, you will not listen to me anyway. You can just stay like this.”
Huixue’s lashes trembled slightly. She was so beautiful that Mu Yinfeng’s heart shook.
“Let go…” Mu Yinfeng struggled. But in strength, she was far below Huixue. Of course she could not break free.
“No,” Huixue answered in a very serious voice.
Mu Yinfeng wanted to cry.
Why did she feel that Huixue was taking advantage of her with a completely serious face?
Huixue was so warm today. It did not seem to fit her usual style.
A rosy glow spread across Huixue’s face. That red color slowly moved to her fingertips, and through her fingertips, it stained Mu Yinfeng’s cheeks too.
Mu Yinfeng felt the room’s temperature rising bit by bit. It teased the little flame in her heart that she had barely managed to press down. The source of that heat seemed to be Huixue.
“Se… nior… Sister…”
Huixue’s grip tightened more and more. Mu Yinfeng could barely make out even single words. She pushed at Huixue’s hand, but Huixue only gripped harder, as if she meant to press her fingers into Mu Yinfeng’s bones and flesh.
Huixue’s state was clearly wrong.
Mu Yinfeng’s heart jolted. She looked at Huixue’s face. The cheeks that were usually like ice and snow were now flushed with an obviously unnatural red. It was beautiful and alluring, with a charm that bloomed from within her coldness. Deep chill and burning heat seemed to weave together.
Behind those pale blue eyes, a bright flame had started to burn. It was like a hungry beast seeing prey, ready to swallow that prey whole.
What was going on?
If anyone in the world could feel such strong desire for her, the least likely person was Huixue. Huixue was a sword cultivator, cold and distant by nature. She had never paid much attention to feelings like this. How could she care about Mu Yinfeng that way?
Huixue’s fingertips grew hotter and hotter, so hot that Mu Yinfeng felt as if her skin would soon be burned. She stared into Huixue’s eyes, only to find Huixue staring back without blinking. Flames blazed in Huixue’s gaze, so fierce that even ten-thousand-year black ice could not seal them away.
If this continued, something would happen.
Mu Yinfeng fixed her gaze on Huixue’s eyes and slowly guided her mental power, thin as silver threads, into Huixue’s sea of consciousness.
Luckily, Huixue had not closed her sea of consciousness to her. Mu Yinfeng entered easily.
The moment she went in, the heat almost scared her back out. She had entered Huixue’s sea of consciousness before. At that time, it had been an endless field of snow.
Now Huixue’s sea of consciousness gave her only two feelings.
Heat.
And red.
There were no open flames in Huixue’s sea of consciousness, but dark red semi-liquid surged everywhere. It was like freshly melted lava, and also like hot blood filling the whole place.
The lava rolled and slowly pressed toward the surrounding snowy fields. Everywhere it passed, the snow became dark red too. Yet the lava did not stop because of the snow. In the blink of an eye, it swallowed most of the remaining white.
Why had Huixue’s sea of consciousness changed like this?
Mu Yinfeng had no time to think. She moved her mental power and sealed Huixue’s sea of consciousness in a few swift moves. Only then did Huixue’s sea of consciousness slowly calm. The lava stopped rolling, and the blood stopped flowing.
Outside the sea of consciousness, Huixue leaned forward without awareness and collapsed into Mu Yinfeng’s arms.
Mu Yinfeng withdrew her mental power and laid Huixue carefully beside the pillow.
The blush on Huixue’s face still had not faded. That burning heat kept stinging Mu Yinfeng’s skin. Mu Yinfeng carefully pulled her hand free and took out the message jade token from her robes.
Abi, dressed in green, arrived quickly. The moment she saw the scene, her expression became deeply hard to describe.
“Junior Sister Yinfeng? This is…” Abi sighed. “Junior Sister Yinfeng, you really are something. You even managed to handle Senior Sister. I truly admire you. Tsk.”
That “tsk” carried far too much meaning.
Mu Yinfeng could not help asking, “Senior Sister Abi, what do you mean?”
“Nothing. But if you two are going to play, do not go too far. Look at this. It should have been something that could be solved naturally when feelings ran deep, but you still used outside help. Now it is… ah!”
Abi sighed. She looked at Mu Yinfeng’s disheveled clothes, and at the red marks on her face and wrists. They were clearly pinch marks.
Silently, Abi swallowed a whole mouthful of unwanted sweetness.
She was single. What had she done to deserve being called here to watch this senior sister and junior sister flirting?
Mu Yinfeng grew anxious. She jumped down from the bed and tried to grab Abi’s wrist. Abi was so frightened that she dodged again and again, crying, “Junior Sister Yinfeng, control yourself! If Senior Sister finds out, do you still want me to live?”
“What exactly is wrong with Senior Sister?” Mu Yinfeng was burning with worry. She rushed forward, caught up to Abi in one step, and slapped away the teleportation talisman Abi had not yet had time to use. “Say it quickly. Stop being so vague.”
Abi rubbed her temple helplessly and asked in a guiding tone, “Junior Sister Yinfeng, think carefully. What did the two of you do?”
Mu Yinfeng quickly thought through everything that had happened since they returned to Reed Snow Residence. She did not notice anything unusual, so she shook her head. “Nothing special.”
“Think again.”
Mu Yinfeng thought and thought, but found nothing. In the end, she asked directly, “What is going on?”
“When you two did that, did you really not use anything?”
“Did what?”
Abi looked helpless. “That.”
Mu Yinfeng was even more lost. “What is ‘that’?”
Abi could not stand Mu Yinfeng pretending to be foolish any longer and spoke with patient earnestness. “Enough, Junior Sister Yinfeng. You do not need to hide it. I have experience. One look at you and I know what you two were doing just now. Do not worry, I will not tell anyone. Just admit it.”
This…
Had Abi misunderstood something?
Mu Yinfeng was still choosing her words when Abi said, “Did you use any kind of medicine to… help the mood?”
“No! It is not what you think!” Mu Yinfeng burst out in panic.
What kind of dirty thoughts filled Abi’s head?
A medical cultivator, yet her mind was so unclean. What a disgrace to human morals.
Mu Yinfeng had no time to scold Abi. She directly told Abi everything that had just happened, from beginning to end.
After Abi heard it, her playful expression slowly turned serious. In the end, she walked to the couch and carefully took Huixue’s pulse.
But after taking Huixue’s pulse, her expression became uncertain again. She turned to Mu Yinfeng and asked helplessly, “You really did not use anything?”
“No!”
Seeing how firm Mu Yinfeng was, Abi also hesitated.
Whether it was the symptoms or something else, everything looked like an overdose of a warming passion medicine. But Mu Yinfeng denied it with such certainty that Abi could not tell what was happening.
“Then… has Senior Sister taken any pills recently?” Abi thought for a while and could only go in that direction. “Some pills can also cause this kind of abnormal blood and energy surge. But with Senior Sister’s body…”
Huixue was from the snow woman line. Ordinary pills were useless on her. Heavenly treasures were not things one could get at any time either.
Besides, Senior Sister had not gone out alone recently. If she had encountered some strange chance, Mu Yinfeng should know best.
“No…”
As soon as Mu Yinfeng said that word, she suddenly thought of that dark night.
She instinctively searched inside her robe. After feeling around for a while, a tiny jade bottle rolled out from between her fingers.
It struck the floor with a sound like breaking jade, sharp enough to make the heart jump.