The Heroine Made a Pact With Senior Sister (GL) Chapter 56

Mu Yinfeng barely steadied her mind. What the white-furred fox said was indeed right. The one who had come to steal Treasure-Light Glazed Grass last week was not it, but Senior Sister.
“You said you were preparing to steal something just now. What were you stealing?” Abi did not care how the white-furred fox argued. In her eyes, as long as the fox confessed to one crime, that counted as one crime. Once there were enough crimes, she would directly apply to have the white-furred fox thrown to Frostfall Cliff to receive punishment. Not only did she think this, it was more or less the shared wish of all Chengchen Peak disciples. Which disciple had not had a medicinal field harmed by this white-furred fox? Just the Treasure-Light Glazed Fruit had already been stolen clean from many disciples. Only Abi and a few strict fellow disciples still had a few left.
“What is Treasure-Light Glazed Fruit used for?” Mu Yinfeng asked curiously.
“Treasure-Light Glazed Fruit can strengthen the foundation and nourish the origin. It can help raise cultivation and wash spiritual roots, making them purer. Also, it tastes sweet and fragrant. After drying, it can be brewed as tea. The Valley Master often uses Treasure-Light Glazed Tea to receive visitors from other sects. Of course, every year, some also has to be sent to those old antiques on Yongmu Peak.” Abi glared angrily at the white-furred fox. “In past years, there was always extra. But in these few years, this greedy fox appeared and reduced the amount sent to each elder. Some elders almost came to Chengchen Peak to demand answers!”
Hearing this, Mu Yinfeng suddenly realized why Si Yan’s fire rain had been so pure. With Si Yan’s fire at a yang fire and yin fire ratio of two to eight, it should have been a mixed li fire. The effect of Treasure-Light Glazed Fruit was probably involved.
The fox on the other side was still begging miserably. Abi swung the branch at it again, but before the branch landed on the fox, a snowflake drifted down. It looked as light as cotton, yet it knocked the branch aside.
“Suniang, were you also at Reed Snow Residence just now?” Huixue’s voice was cold. She casually pointed, and the whole golden net loosened. The white-furred fox trembled in terror and even forgot to run away.
Abi drew in a cold breath and retreated to Mu Yinfeng’s side. “Senior Sister really is effective when she appears.”
“Indeed.”
“I was forced! If I did not steal it, she really would have killed me!” the fox cried. Then it shook itself and turned into a beauty, tearful and pitiful enough to make anyone feel sorry for her. “Immortal Huixue, please be generous and spare this poor little fox. I am only seventy this year. I do not want to die…”
“Your charm arts are useless against me.” The blue light in Huixue’s palm suddenly dimmed, then quickly became even brighter.
Under the blue light, the fox groaned in pain and immediately showed its true form again.
The corner of Mu Yinfeng’s mouth twitched. Seventy years old? And still a little fox?
“This white fox, Suniang, comes from the ancient Tushan clan. She is a Tushan white fox and controls some power over marriage fate. Usually, as long as she does not go too far, no one specially drives her away,” Abi explained softly. “Fox demons normally only gain intelligence at five hundred years old. But Suniang stole and ate too many immortal grasses and spirit herbs, so she can already rival a Tushan white fox with a thousand years of cultivation.”
“So that is how it is.” So this white-furred fox was treated like a lucky mascot.
Huixue’s interrogation style was completely different from Abi’s. Abi questioned the fox by beating it until it shrieked. Huixue only stared at it coldly and released pressure until the fox was frightened enough to kneel and beg.
But the result was the same. The fox only said someone had ordered it to steal the Changyin Pearl, yet even on pain of death, it refused to say who that person was.
The blue light in Huixue’s palm was cold. It gradually wrapped around Suniang the white fox. The white fox trembled from the cold, but still refused to speak.
The wounds in its fur split open under the ice and snow’s freezing power. Thin trails of blood dampened its snow-white long fur. The white fox barely raised its head and looked at Mu Yinfeng. In the instant their eyes met, Mu Yinfeng seemed to understand something.
A faint blood-red light flashed in the white fox’s eyes. It was the trace left by the blood vine.
“Senior Sister, stop. You will not get anything more by asking.” Yin energy suddenly burst from Mu Yinfeng’s palm and cut off Huixue’s spiritual energy. “It is under Yimu’s restriction now.”
As she spoke, she picked up the badly injured fox and held it in her arms. This time, the fox did not struggle. It obediently curled into a ball in her arms. But Mu Yinfeng did not dare pet it this time. If she touched the fox’s wounds, it might turn around and bite her.
“What else can you see?” Huixue looked at Mu Yinfeng. “Was Yimu the one who ordered it to steal the Changyin Pearl? Where is the Changyin Pearl now?”
“The Changyin Pearl has already reached Yimu. Yimu left it a teleportation talisman, so the Changyin Pearl may already be in Yimu’s hands.” Mu Yinfeng held the fox and sighed softly. “Senior Sister, I have something I want to ask Suniang.”
“Can it not be asked here?” Huixue asked.
Mu Yinfeng shook her head. Usually, she would agree to Huixue without condition. But this time, she felt she should not let Huixue know. She seemed to have grown tired of yielding to Huixue in everything. After all, Huixue might not have those kinds of feelings for her.
She was only Huixue’s little junior sister. That was all.
“Why did you save me?” After they reached a safe place, Suniang jumped out of Mu Yinfeng’s arms and turned back into that beautiful young woman. From who knew where, she produced a handful of immortal grass and pills and stuffed them into her mouth without caring what they were. Her wounds gradually healed under a rising silver light.
“Was the dream ghost clan truly destroyed? Not one survived?”
When her eyes had met Suniang’s just now, Mu Yinfeng had seen through Suniang’s memories. Suniang’s memories were long. In that instant, Mu Yinfeng had only seen the shadow of the dream ghost clan’s destruction and Yimu’s orders to Suniang during that destruction.
“Why should I answer you?” Suniang pouted and asked angrily. “What benefit do I get for answering you?”
“I just saved you from Senior Sister and Senior Sister Abi.” Seeing this fox turn hostile the moment she was safe, Mu Yinfeng grabbed the fluffy tail Suniang had failed to hide. At the same time, she released mental pressure. “This is how you treat your savior?”
Suniang twisted her head and tried to bite, but her tail was too long and she could not reach. She was so angry she whined. “So what? Why are you meddling so much?”
“Fine, then.” Since the fox would not speak, Mu Yinfeng could only properly stroke that soft big tail.
Just as Mu Yinfeng narrowed her eyes and tugged at the tail fur, Suniang finally could not bear it anymore. She gave a sharp cry. “I knew none of you people were good! You only know how to bully me, a weak and helpless little fox. Just wait until I grow into a big fox. I will steal your food every day and leave you with nothing to eat!”
“Oh.” Mu Yinfeng was unmoved. “I have already practiced fasting. Do as you like.”
“You!” Suniang glared fiercely at Mu Yinfeng. “Do not think I do not know what you are. You rely on having Lord Wind’s godhead to bully me. Let me tell you, even with Lord Wind’s godhead, you still have a Heavenly Calamity Lonely Phoenix fate!”
“What do you mean?”
Mu Yinfeng’s heart shook. She knew Suniang was not lying. Under mental pressure like hers, it was almost impossible to lie. The fact that Suniang could see she had Lord Wind’s godhead was enough to prove this fox’s cultivation was not empty. This Heavenly Calamity Lonely Phoenix fate was almost certainly real too.
“It means exactly what it says. Lord Wind’s godhead comes with a Heavenly Calamity Lonely Phoenix fate. It will never change in your whole life.” Seeing Mu Yinfeng shocked, Suniang became even prouder. “Who did not know the curse the Snow God placed on you back then? ‘Lord Wind forever, neither marrying nor being wed, betraying love and righteousness, a Heavenly Calamity Lonely Phoenix.’ Listen to that. Just how badly did you offend her for her to place that kind of curse on you? You have no idea how many years the Tushan ancestors tried to break this curse without success.”
“Is there a way to break it?”
“Of course!” Suniang grew even more pleased. “But I think it is impossible now. A curse can usually only be undone by the one who cast it. The Snow God died who knows how many years ago. Even an heir will not do!”
At that moment, she suddenly felt pain on her forehead and angrily looked at Mu Yinfeng. “You hit a fox just because I said something you did not like? Bullying the small with the big. Where is even half of Lord Wind’s awareness from back then?”
“Whether I have awareness is not for you to decide. I am asking you, what did you see?” Mu Yinfeng stared into Suniang’s eyes. She had just wanted to use the Yin Charm Art to make Suniang obey her command and keep looking into her eyes, but Suniang’s sense for danger was truly excellent. She turned her head straight to the side and gave Mu Yinfeng no chance at all.
“Do not even think about using your Linglong Heart Method on me. Everyone knows you absolutely cannot meet Lord Wind’s eyes. If you do, you are finished!” Suniang patted her chest, looking like she refused to look just to annoy Mu Yinfeng. “What are you planning to do now? Eat me?”
“I am not interested in you.” Mu Yinfeng let Suniang go. “Go back.”
Suniang was startled and seemed unable to believe Mu Yinfeng’s words. “Go back? You are willing to let me go back?”
“Since you refuse to say anything, I can only let you go back.” Mu Yinfeng spoke slowly and leisurely sat down on a stone, bored as she watched the light and shadows jump in the wind. “Anyway, if you go back, you probably will not live for many days. You should write your will properly.”
Suniang’s face changed. She knew that if she went back like this, Chengchen Peak and Huixue would not let her go. It would already be generous if they did not hunt her to the end. She had lived more than seventy years after all. Just now, she could clearly see killing intent in Huixue’s eyes.
What exactly was that pearl? Enough to make Huixue kill her? She remembered she had once touched Huixue’s Tianbing silk and also touched Huixue’s white tiger Chuying. Although Tianbing had whipped her and Chuying had chased her for ten li, she had not felt this when seeing Huixue. But now, from top to bottom, she felt terror. It was the aura of death.
Was it not just one pearl? Was this really necessary?
When she had been hiding under the cold spring, she had not failed to look at the Changyin Pearl. She had not felt anything special about it. Although she was only in her seventies, she had cultivation and intelligence no less than a thousand-year white fox, and her ability to sense rare treasures was far beyond ordinary people.
“Do you know what that is?” Mu Yinfeng’s faint voice came from behind her. “The Changyin Pearl is an ultimate yin object the Butterfly Goddess formed with one-third of her power. No matter whose hands it falls into, it will not lead to anything good. Suniang, you are in serious trouble.”
“Ah? The Butterfly Goddess?” Suniang’s face turned deathly pale, and her tail tucked straight between her legs. She timidly glanced at Mu Yinfeng. “Then what should I do?”
All the confidence and rebellion from just now was gone.
Mu Yinfeng looked at her and recited a true spell. At that moment, a beautiful woman drifted out from the storage ring on her hand. She faced Mu Yinfeng and gave a deep bow. It was Mingzhu, the dream ghost from Huanhua Pavilion.
“Miss Mingzhu, please stay with Suniang,” Mu Yinfeng said softly as she looked at Mingzhu.
Mingzhu nodded. “Master saved Mingzhu’s life. Mingzhu is willing to do anything for Master.”
As a dream ghost, Mingzhu had sensed the destruction of the dream ghost clan earlier than Mu Yinfeng. At first, she had been angry that Mu Yinfeng imprisoned her inside this ring. But after she sensed those events, she instead felt grateful to Mu Yinfeng. If she had still been outside then, she might very well have vanished into ash along with the dream ghost clan.
The dream ghost clan had always repaid kindness. If they recognized a master, they would never leave from beginning to end, even if they had to die in loyal service.
Hearing Mingzhu call her “Master,” Mu Yinfeng’s heart suddenly shook. The original book’s setting leaped back into her mind.
Lord Lanfeng looked at the beautiful woman beside her and said softly, “Go.”
The beautiful woman obeyed and left. She hovered in the air, gazing at the cultivators glaring angrily at Lord Lanfeng. But the cultivators seemed not to see her at all. Before long, they began killing one another in madness.
That beautiful woman was a member of the dream ghost clan. The personal maid Lord Lanfeng always kept beside her was actually Mingzhu.
“Miss Mingzhu, do not call me that. I want Miss Mingzhu to look after Suniang for a while and keep others from discovering where Suniang is.” Mu Yinfeng gave a deep bow, but Mingzhu felt this was improper and quickly gave an even greater bow in return.
“Master need only command me. Mingzhu would not dare disobey.”
“I will investigate the cause of your clan’s death for you,” Mu Yinfeng promised solemnly. At the same time, faint light shone around her body again, and Mingzhu’s eyes suddenly brightened.
“Since Master does this, Mingzhu dares even less to refuse,” Mingzhu said softly. “I will take good care of Miss Suniang for Master.”
“That is good.” Seeing that Mingzhu would not change how she addressed her, Mu Yinfeng was too lazy to correct her. “Right, Miss Mingzhu, do not let Suniang go out and steal things.”
“All right.” Mingzhu smiled and, with a backhand motion, tied Suniang’s tail to a nearby tree.
Suniang’s scream echoed through the forest. “Mu Yinfeng, you are not human!”
When Mu Yinfeng returned to Reed Snow Residence, she saw Huixue’s clothes neatly folded on the ground, but she did not see Huixue. She was puzzled. Looking carefully, she saw that Huixue’s clothes were close beside a thin layer of light. It should be a barrier. Curious, she poked the barrier. She had already prepared herself to be bounced back, but found that the barrier let her pass freely, as if it were only decoration.
After entering the barrier, she saw the cold spring. The sky was already very dark. Cold air drifted and steamed above the spring. Through the misty water vapor, she could vaguely see a back. A head of silver hair hung down, faintly revealing a back like white jade. Icy skin and jade bones, without the slightest flaw. With just one look, Mu Yinfeng could not move her eyes away.
Huixue seemed not to notice her arrival and continued slowly combing her long hair with a comb made from cold jade. It flowed like a silver waterfall, like silver mist under the moon, more dazzling and beautiful in the moonlight.
This was… Huixue…
Huixue gently stood. The cold spring’s mist moved slightly, and faint ripples spread because of her movement, quietly patting the cold jade at the shore. Huixue reached out to take the soap pod on the cold jade platform beside her. A faint cold fragrance came toward Mu Yinfeng, like White Snow Pagoda flowers frozen in ice and snow.
Whether because of the scent or something else, Mu Yinfeng felt a little dizzy. She steadied herself for a long while before calming her mind and continuing to silently look at the beauty beside the mist-wrapped jade platform.
Mu Yinfeng felt her throat grow dry. She bit her lip and made her breathing lighter and lighter. She had thought Huixue was so conservative that even while bathing, she would not take off her inner robe. But Huixue now was the same as anyone else.
She would also take off her complicated robes and, under the moonlight, carefully comb her smooth hair.
She did not have a habit of peeking at people bathing. It was only that Huixue made her unable to look away.
Mu Yinfeng comforted herself like this.
Huixue’s figure gradually disappeared into the white mist. It had only taken a gust of wind for the mist to gather, and now Mu Yinfeng could no longer see the figure within the thick fog. Dew had soaked her shoes. She did not know how long she had stood under the moon. She felt she should go back.
But the instant she turned around, a figure suddenly appeared before her eyes. A body as white as ice and snow was wrapped in a strip of white silk. Wet long hair fell over her shoulders, still dripping water one drop at a time.