The Heroine Made a Pact With Senior Sister (GL) Chapter 53

“Senior Sister? Senior Sister made a move?”
All the disciples raised their heads together and looked toward the snow-white figure in the middle of the heavy snow on the fighting stage. That figure stood apart from the world, like a god.
“Has Senior Sister not always ignored these things? This time… why would she?”
“You do not know. Senior Sister has always hated people doing petty tricks behind others’ backs. Once she discovers it, her punishment is scarier than the Valley Master and the Discipline Elder’s,” another disciple said as if he knew exactly what he was talking about.
Someone questioned him. “But Senior Sister never killed anyone before, right?”
“Then I do not know.” That disciple shook his head. “Anyway, Senior Sister must have her own reason.”
In these disciples’ eyes, Huixue was equal to half of Hanyou Valley’s master. Almost no one would question anything she did. Huixue’s behavior was practically the standard in their hearts.
The wind and snow on the stage had not yet scattered, but the bloodstains had already been blown away until not a trace remained. It was as if Luo Han had never existed at all. His corpse, bones, flesh, and blood had been erased in only a short instant.
Along with his soul.
This was Huixue’s ice-snow domain, cold and ruthless, swallowing all life within the domain. Every living thing withered and fell in the raging wind and snow, then was absorbed by it and turned into larger snowflakes drifting down.
While Mu Yinfeng was still shocked, Tianbing climbed along Huixue’s arm to her shoulder and covered her eyes. Then she felt her body slowly rise in the wind and snow, along with the arms holding her.
The sound of wind and snow gradually vanished. Tianbing quietly moved away from her eyes. Mu Yinfeng felt a clear, cold water breeze around her, carrying a chill straight toward her face.
She opened her eyes and saw a rippling lake before her, faintly shining with silver light and giving off biting cold.
“Get down.”
As soon as she heard Huixue’s command, her shoulders suddenly sank. She staggered and fell into the cold spring with a splash.
The cold spring in Reed Snow Residence was a treasured place. The bottom of the spring was covered with high-grade cold jade, so the water stayed cold all year, even in the hottest summer. It was extremely useful for cold-attribute cultivators like Huixue. But for someone like Mu Yinfeng, forget helping her cultivation. As long as she did not freeze to death after falling in, that was already good enough.
“Senior Sister!” Mu Yinfeng struggled to the surface, choked on several mouthfuls of water, and coughed again and again. “Are you trying to choke me to death, or freeze me to death?”
Huixue stood on the shore and lowered her head slightly to meet Mu Yinfeng’s eyes. Her face was calm, showing no emotion. But in the instant their gazes met, Mu Yinfeng seemed to catch an unknown feeling flashing through Huixue’s eyes.
“No.”
“No?” Mu Yinfeng laughed softly. A hint of mischief flashed through her eyes. A bold thought suddenly rose in her heart. She scooped up water with her hand and splashed it toward Huixue.
With Huixue’s ability, this handful of water should have been easy to dodge. But Huixue did not avoid it at all and let the water splash onto her, soaking the hem of her Snow Silk Robe.
Huixue frowned slightly and looked at the wet ground. “Yinfeng, stop playing. You were badly injured in Si Yan’s fire rain. The cold spring can reduce some of the fire rain’s damage.”
Then she raised her hand and swept out spiritual energy, directly pressing Mu Yinfeng down.
That press made Mu Yinfeng swallow a bellyful of water again. She struggled back to the surface and coughed violently. Suddenly, sweetness rose in her throat, and the spring water around her was instantly dyed red with blood.
In the fight with Si Yan just now, she had indeed been seriously injured. She had only forced the injury down, so it was only now flaring up. Si Yan’s fire rain was powerful after all.
“You used the Soul-Splitting Art, right?” Huixue sighed. “‘It is me, yet not me. Nowhere is me.’ That is the first line of the Soul-Splitting Art. You did not escape from the fire rain at all. Instead, you split off a mental body. The mental body was used openly as bait, while your true body hid in the dark with mental power, correct? This is mental power control. For you, it is not difficult. But when the mental body is damaged, your true body is also injured badly.”
Mu Yinfeng wiped the remaining blood from the corner of her mouth and said awkwardly, “Senior Sister saw through all that?”
“I know your aura.” Huixue said, “This time, you were very obedient and did not remove the jeweled necklace.”
“Since I promised Senior Sister, I should…”
“You did not want to embarrass Si Yan too badly, did you?” Huixue sighed. “You clearly could have defeated Si Yan very easily, but you chose such a risky method. You cannot do this again.”
Mu Yinfeng swam to the edge of the cold spring. The water there was shallower. She stood on a piece of large cold jade at the bottom, and the spring water reached past her waist. Her upper body, completely soaked, showed her graceful figure and made her look even more charming.
Just now, she had originally wanted to test Si Yan’s depth. Although Si Yan had only appeared briefly in the book, that absolutely did not prove her strength was low. Mu Yinfeng faintly felt that if Si Yan risked everything, she could completely drag Mu Yinfeng down with her.
That was because Si Yan had inherited the Si clan’s top art. The frightening thing about that art was that it could turn one’s own life force into spiritual energy. Everyone knew cultivators had enormous life force. If it was turned into spiritual energy and released in one instant, it would be like something compressed with all one’s strength suddenly exploding. That kind of power was enough to destroy heaven and earth.
Because the thing they would have to deal with in the barrier was not simple. Later, Guiyuan Tower rated it Heaven-grade Yin rank, but Mu Yinfeng faintly felt that if that thing fully released its strength, it would definitely be above Heaven-grade Yin rank.
Who exactly had put something like that inside?
Although the official suspicion was that the thing had originally been sleeping beneath the competition grounds and had been awakened by spiritual energy, Mu Yinfeng always felt it was not that simple. Heaven-grade Mao-rank Jian Shu had fallen from human into the ghost path. Her appearance was no different from an ordinary person’s, and no one could tell unless they looked carefully. A Heaven-grade Yin-rank evil being should not be less able to judge danger than Heaven-grade Mao-rank Jian Shu. How could it suddenly awaken at a time when experts were gathered?
Seeing Mu Yinfeng look thoughtful, Huixue could not help asking, “Yinfeng, what are you thinking about?”
“Nothing.” Mu Yinfeng pulled back her thoughts. Looking at Huixue, another idea jumped into her mind. She put her hand behind her back, frowned, and complained in a soft, spoiled tone, “Senior Sister, there are bugs in your cold spring.”
Huixue was startled. “Where would there be bugs? My cold spring is icy all year. How could bugs survive?”
“There really are!” Mu Yinfeng argued. “Senior Sister, come here. I will show you.”
As she spoke, she held out the hand she had hidden behind her back. The back of her hand faced up, and her fist was clenched tightly.
Huixue walked to the shore, just wondering whether Mu Yinfeng was planning some mischief. At that moment, Mu Yinfeng suddenly flipped her wrist and grabbed Huixue’s sleeve. Then she jumped down from the cold jade. Huixue lost her footing and was dragged straight into the water by Mu Yinfeng.
“Tianbing!”
Huixue said through gritted teeth, wanting Tianbing to tie Mu Yinfeng up. But Tianbing had always liked the cold spring water, and Huixue rarely brought it down. Now that it had the chance, it ignored everything and darted straight to the other side of the cold spring, paying no attention to Huixue’s command.
“Senior Sister, how is it?” Mu Yinfeng laughed and kept scooping water with her hand to splash Huixue. She realized that although she could not read Huixue’s exact thoughts, she could already sense Huixue’s emotions.
Right now, Huixue was not very angry at all.