The Heroine Made a Pact With Senior Sister (GL) Chapter 50

Mu Yinfeng suddenly remembered how Yimu had once described Severing Love. One line had been, “carved from Star Lord of Great Yin’s Liuguang.” Combined with the sweeping, world-looking-down grandeur of the two swords striking each other just now, she could already confirm this person’s identity.
Star Lord of Great Yin, Qiu Ping.
“Star Lord of Great Yin?” This was Mu Yinfeng’s first time seeing a heavenly god descend to the mortal world, so she was a little startled. But in this world, anything was possible. Everyone in the cultivation world took attaining the Dao and ascending as their goal. In the north were the twin gods Butterfly and Snow; in the south was the Sun Star Lord of the Jian clan… These legends were like broken stars scattered across a vast land.
The Star Lord of Great Yin also came from legend. It was said that the Star Lord of Great Yin was born in the ancient Silver Toad Kingdom, which had perished several thousand years ago, and was the kingdom’s last empress. He also possessed a primordial yin body, with elegant bearing and beauty that could topple a nation. But now that Mu Yinfeng looked at him, this legendary seductive beauty who could overturn all living beings was actually a youth.
“What? Is there something on my face?” The Star Lord of Great Yin touched his face and muttered, “I remember wiping my mouth after stealing osmanthus cakes. Did I not wipe it clean?”
Mu Yinfeng was speechless. With behavior like this, where was the dignity of a star lord?
“Brother Qiu had better not act like that.” At that moment, another figure quietly stepped out. He wore blood-red robes and had phoenix eyes. He seemed like the heavenly sun descended to earth. His face was no less beautiful than the Star Lord of Great Yin’s, but his features were even softer and more alluring. If not for his slightly hoarse voice, Mu Yinfeng almost would not have recognized him as a man.
Seeing Mu Yinfeng’s gaze settle on him, that person turned slightly away and avoided her eyes. “This matter is finished. This is not a place to linger.”
“Finished how? Little Sun, do you have anything else to do? We finally managed to come down to the mortal world once–”
“Descending privately without reporting it is punished, by law, with sweeping the heavenly roads for one month,” the Sun Star Lord said expressionlessly.
The Star Lord of Great Yin’s face fell. “All right, all right. Stop talking. I still have things to say to Lord Wind.” As he spoke, he turned toward Mu Yinfeng and muttered in a low voice, “He is always like this. Ignore him. Right, let me introduce him. This is the Sun Star Lord. He manages the sun. Opposite of me.”
“Star Lord of Great Yin, what exactly is your purpose in coming here?” Mu Yinfeng looked into his eyes for a moment, then immediately withdrew her gaze. It was not impossible for her to see through the Star Lord of Great Yin’s thoughts, but the mental power needed was far beyond what she could support. Her mental power had been almost exhausted on Huixue.
“Lord Wind cannot tell?” the Star Lord of Great Yin asked in surprise. “I clearly saw Lord Wind use that Linglong Heart Method on me just now.”
“Lord Wind has overused her mental power. Not everyone is like Brother Qiu,” the Sun Star Lord said softly. He slowly raised his hand. A faint red light glowed in his palm and gradually formed into a fiery red pearl, floating in the air and casting bright light across his face.
The Sun Star Lord!
Mu Yinfeng suddenly remembered where she had heard this name. Was the Sun Star Lord not from the Jian family of the ancient Yongri Kingdom in the Southern Domain? In other words… he was the Jian clan’s patriarch, Jian Shu’s ancestor.
This situation seemed a little awkward. After destroying the last person of that clan, she was meeting the clan’s ancestor. Although Jian Shu had fallen into a vengeful ghost, harmed people as an evil being, and killed without restraint, so death was what she deserved, Mu Yinfeng still felt so awkward she had nowhere to hide.
The Sun Star Lord seemed to know what Mu Yinfeng was thinking. He added unhurriedly, “As for Jian Shu, Lord Wind need not take it to heart. Heavenly divine officials have no right to interfere with mortal affairs. The Jian family’s fate was exhausted. All of this had already been arranged by destiny.”
Hearing that made Mu Yinfeng even more awkward. She turned her gaze elsewhere and stopped looking at the Sun Star Lord.
“Ping came to invite Lord Wind back to your position,” the Star Lord of Great Yin said when he saw this, finally explaining his reason for coming and changing the subject. “The heavenly prophecy is about to arrive. It is quite dangerous for Lord Wind to remain in the mortal world. If you return to the Heavenly Realm and step beyond reincarnation, the heavenly prophecy will not fall upon Lord Wind.”
Mu Yinfeng’s face paled. She had heard this heavenly prophecy during the Butterfly Spirit case. It was what Huixue had told the Ice Emperor Biyuntian. There were only a few years left before the heavenly prophecy descended.
The heavenly prophecy was very short, only sixteen characters. Yet when read, its meaning could be roughly understood. It was not as obscure and difficult as legends claimed:
Woman and demon, after a thousand years returned. Without the Golden Platform, all life shall be slaughtered.
The general meaning of this heavenly prophecy was that after a thousand years, a demon woman would descend and bring disaster to the mortal world. If this demon woman was not found within a thousand years and sacrificed on the Heaven-Earth Mausoleum Golden Platform, everything in the world would be slaughtered by her.
When Mu Yinfeng had first seen those words, she had thought they were describing the villain. Only after reading on did she learn that this villain was actually the main character of the whole book. Now she discovered, even more frighteningly, that the villain was herself.
If nothing unexpected happened, this demon woman referred to her. The time when the demon woman in the heavenly prophecy appeared was extremely close to the time when her art reached completion and she entered the world. She had also slaughtered all living beings by driving puppets with the Spirit Gu Control Curse. Wherever she passed, all life vanished, corpses covered the land, and not a single survivor remained. This matched the heavenly prophecy almost exactly.
After all, other than herself, Mu Yinfeng had never seen anyone else in all her years running through the cultivation world whose deeds could stand against hers in bringing disaster to the masses. Naturally, no one else fit the prophecy. If the heavenly prophecy did not speak of her, who else could it be?
“If I go back, what happens to the people left behind?” Mu Yinfeng thought for a moment, then asked in return, “When the heavenly prophecy descends, what does the Star Lord of Great Yin plan to do?”
“Everything was arranged long ago. The common people of this world only know how to take without restraint. That is their original sin. Therefore a heavenly prophecy can only descend to punish them and maintain this world’s balance,” the Sun Star Lord said calmly, unmoved by Mu Yinfeng’s tone. “We will not interfere.”
“What if the executor of the heavenly prophecy is no longer in the world? Human life is fragile. People can easily die young because of all kinds of accidents. What do you plan to do then?”
“Then another person who can execute the heavenly prophecy will continue to be born, until the heavenly prophecy is broken by heaven,” the Sun Star Lord said, his voice still calm, as if nothing mattered. That tone made Mu Yinfeng very uncomfortable.
“So the heavenly prophecy itself is a contradiction? Even sacrificing that person on the Heaven-Earth Mausoleum Golden Platform will not work?” Mu Yinfeng tightened her grip around Severing Love’s hilt. From the Sun Star Lord’s words, she could faintly hear a deliberate coldness.
He sounded as if he did not want these things to happen either, but still had to show this forceful attitude with his mouth. This Sun Star Lord was rather good at saying one thing and meaning another.
“Exactly.” The Star Lord of Great Yin took over, let out a long sigh, and said earnestly, “Lord Wind, you must know that those who die in a heavenly prophecy have no possibility of being saved.”
Mu Yinfeng thought for a moment. “Then do you know who the executor of this heavenly prophecy is?”
Although she was the biggest suspect, Mu Yinfeng could not be certain, because only now did she remember that in the book, there was still a long stretch of plot after her death. It was too early to judge.
If they knew, then killing the executor of the heavenly prophecy would not be the best choice? Although the heavenly prophecy could not be defied, it still had a certain time limit. If the executor was not her, then when one executor came, she would kill one. When two came, she would kill both. She would keep going until the time limit of the heavenly prophecy passed.
The two star lords exchanged a look, both shocked by Mu Yinfeng’s words.
Exploiting a heavenly prophecy’s loophole. They had never seen anyone with that kind of nerve.
The Star Lord of Great Yin seemed to be judging whether this was feasible. In the end, he finally shook his head. “These things are not within our control. They belong to Siming Palace. We have no right to ask about Siming Palace’s affairs. Lord Wind, there is no use saying more. It is best for you to return to the Heavenly Realm as soon as possible.”
Mu Yinfeng’s face grew even paler. She glanced toward Huixue by instinct. “Do I go back alone? Or can I bring someone with me?”
“Lord Wind is one of the ten great divine officials of the Department of Nature. You can only bring one person up with you,” the Sun Star Lord said. Although his words did not sound pleasant, he was much clearer than the Star Lord of Great Yin, more like a walking book of law.
Bring one person… of course she would bring her…
A faint blush quietly appeared on Mu Yinfeng’s pale face. She glanced instinctively at the young woman lying on the couch, then abruptly looked away.
But this small movement could not escape the two star lords’ eyes. They looked at each other, both seeming troubled. Mu Yinfeng did not know what she should say. She only felt an ominous feeling rise faintly in her heart. From their expressions, she could tell this would not work, but she did not know why.
“The Heavenly Realm allows you to bring someone, but you cannot bring… her,” the Star Lord of Great Yin said awkwardly. “Liufei’s sword master cannot go.”
Mu Yinfeng pressed, “Why?”
“Liufei is the sword of the Snow God of the Department of Nature. This young woman is a candidate to inherit the Snow God’s godhead,” the Sun Star Lord explained. “Since that is the case, she cannot be brought into the Heavenly Realm.”
“Yes. Who knows what happened? She could have passed the Snow God’s trial a year ago, but she refused the Snow God’s trial. No one can understand what is going on,” the Star Lord of Great Yin said helplessly.
Liufei’s sword master. The Snow God’s godhead. Huixue’s background was not to be underestimated either. Only now did Mu Yinfeng realize that she knew almost nothing about Huixue. She only knew that Huixue was her Senior Sister, that her sword was Liufei, that her usual spiritual artifacts were Tianbing and several soul-sealing silver needles, and that Huixue was a snow woman from the Northern Domain. Other than that, she knew nothing.
She did not know where Huixue had inherited Liufei from, and she did not even know that Huixue’s godhead had been planted long ago. She only knew that once she broke the seals in her own body, she would ascend, so she had suppressed those seals. She had never expected that Huixue had already refused the chance to ascend.
Why had Huixue done that?
Huixue knew about the heavenly prophecy. Could it be the same as what she had just thought?
“Is there no room for exception?”
The two star lords shook their heads together, showing that it was absolutely impossible.
“Since that is the case, then I…” Mu Yinfeng bit her lower lip. “I will stay here.”
“Lord Wind, this…” The Star Lord of Great Yin was stunned. He had never seen anyone refuse an invitation from the Heavenly Realm. “This is not very good, is it? The executor of the heavenly prophecy carries out the heavenly prophecy. If Lord Wind remains in a human body, you will also be within the heavenly prophecy.”
“If even I am, then all the more so her.” Mu Yinfeng’s voice was very soft, but very certain. “Besides, if the heavenly prophecy truly descends, perhaps I can still offer what little strength I have.”
“Offer what little strength you have?” The Star Lord of Great Yin laughed and leaned closer to ask, “Is it for her?”
Mu Yinfeng did not answer. She took a step back, putting distance between herself and the two star lords.
“Perhaps it is. Perhaps it is not.”
She did not have much attachment to this world, if this world did not have Huixue in it. For some reason, she had found that she could no longer leave this person, as if there were an invisible thread in the dark binding the two of them together.
Mu Yinfeng had calculated it just now. Although she might not absolutely be the executor, she was still the greatest suspect. Since she might be the one chosen by the heavenly prophecy, she held the life and death of all living beings in her hands. If she did not kill Huixue, then no one would kill Huixue.
If she followed the Star Lord of Great Yin’s words and returned to the Heavenly Realm, then a new person would inevitably be born in this world to take her place. Could that person still be like her?
“I will not go. Not now,” Mu Yinfeng said softly, her gaze falling on Huixue. “I will stay here and wait for her to inherit the Snow God’s godhead.”
After sending the two star lords away, Mu Yinfeng felt dazed. Although she had been able to act at ease in front of the Star Lords of Great Yin and Sun, once they left, she fell into a deep unease and unreality, as if everything she had just seen was only a dream.
She was Lord Wind of the Heavenly Realm’s Department of Nature, the god who governed wind.
Mu Yinfeng focused and slowly placed her hand on her sword hilt. She could feel Severing Love’s sword soul trembling in her palm, resonating strongly with her own soul. Only now did she realize that this sword truly was a divine sword linked to her heart.
Although she had long heard Ruoying say that gods existed in this world, just as the ten great divine envoys existed, and although she could faintly sense that her talent could not belong to an ordinary person, she had never thought of becoming a true god.
How could someone like her possibly become a god?
Mu Yinfeng looked at her own hands. She could faintly see bloodstains on her pale, almost transparent skin. Cruel, terrifying, mottled bloodstains.
Something seemed to shatter in her sea of consciousness. In a daze, she remembered some things, memories sleeping deep within her mind, secret and distant.
But these bloodstains did not belong to the puppets she had once controlled. They came from an ancient battle. It was the War of the Three Realms. In the War of the Three Realms, her hands had been covered in blood, the blood of the high god who stood against her.
That high god’s face was a blur in her memory. Mu Yinfeng could barely remember a figure in pure white, as if cut from snow, dancing in a pool of blood. That dance was profound and mysterious, soft and alluring, yet every step carried killing intent. Even so, it was the only touch of bright white in the dark night.
Together with that memory came complicated emotions. When she cut down the final strike, her heart fell completely into eternal night. Even though this memory was blurred and incomplete, it was already enough to make her soul tremble slightly. She knew clearly that what she felt now was the fear of losing something.
The bright white high god she had killed, was that person an enemy, or a friend? Or something even more intimate?
This memory was far too broken. Mu Yinfeng could not know the answer. She felt that she might never know it.
She looked around Reed Snow Residence. She did not know what the Star Lord of Great Yin had done when he came in, but Abi was asleep on the table. Huixue also would not wake for a while in her current state. Mu Yinfeng suddenly remembered something else and hurried out of Reed Snow Residence.
She wanted to go to Yongmu Peak, to the place where Juechenzi had died that day.
She had some sensitivity to traces of spiritual energy. Although it was not as accurate as Bing Ling’er’s, she could still judge a little. That day, Bing Ling’er had said the spiritual energy traces left behind were yin metal, yang water, yin water, and yin wood. This itself did not fit common sense. Bing Ling’er seemed to be hiding something.
That was because Juechenzi’s disciple Jia Rong mainly cultivated yin metal, but he himself could only be considered someone with a metal-element spiritual root. His ratio of yang metal to yin metal was roughly three to seven. Once he released spiritual energy, it was impossible for there to be no yang metal traces.
So Bing Ling’er definitely had a problem. Spiritual energy traces of the same element might be able to cover one another, but spiritual energies of different yin and yang natures could only remain piled together. What exactly was Bing Ling’er hiding?
Could it be someone with a yang metal spiritual root?
Thinking this, Mu Yinfeng quickly walked out of Reed Snow Residence. Today’s events were too mysterious. She did not plan to tell Huixue.
But just as she stepped out of Reed Snow Residence and had not yet passed the cold spring, she suddenly heard wings flapping above her head. Then a paper slip was tossed onto her head.
There were only a few simple words written on the paper:
Come to Buyou Hall at once.
The signature was the seal of Bing Ling’er, Valley Master of Hanyou Valley.