The Heroine Made a Pact With Senior Sister (GL) Chapter 59

Gui Water!
Mu Yinfeng’s heart shook. The last person she had heard use a Heavenly Stem and five-element title to call herself had been Yimu.
“You are a divine envoy?”
Mingzhu nodded, her expression carrying a trace of loneliness. “The Gui Water divine envoy, in charge of extreme yin water. Miss Mu probably did not notice, right?”
Mu Yinfeng nodded. If Mingzhu had not brought it up, who could have thought Mingzhu was one of the ten great divine envoys, the Gui Water divine envoy who controlled extreme yin water?
“The Gui Water divine envoy has always been a ghost. This is an unwritten rule,” Mingzhu said faintly. “After Miss Xing died and her soul scattered, I inherited the position of Gui Water divine envoy. Although it sounds impressive, I am truly the weakest among the ten great divine envoys. I cannot even defeat an ordinary middle-high level cultivator. I only obtained the divine envoy position because of my relationship with the previous divine envoy.”
Hearing this, Mu Yinfeng could not help being puzzled. “Relationship? Are divine envoys not appointed by divine officials?”
“Because my relationship with the previous Gui Water divine envoy already influenced Lord Water Master’s choice. But all of that happened many years ago.” Mingzhu sighed. “Miss Mu, the reason I am telling you this is because that night in the city, I faintly sensed the auras of three other divine envoys. But only two divine envoys commissioned the dream ghost clan to act.”
“Commissioned you to act?”
Mingzhu nodded. “Exactly. It was the Yimu divine envoy and the Xin Metal divine envoy.”
What?!
Yimu and Ruoying?
Mu Yinfeng suddenly remembered what Huixue had said about their positions back then. Although there had been traces of a fight where the two disappeared, judging from the remaining traces of Yimu and Xin Metal spiritual energy, Ruoying’s luan-phoenix form had been used with her back to Yimu. It could not be ruled out that Ruoying’s luan-phoenix form had not been used against Yimu at all.
Even if that sounded extremely absurd.
“The five-element array was actually laid by the Yimu divine envoy to target Miss Mu,” Mingzhu said softly. “But the dream ghost clan has always accepted missions without asking about the past. However, I can tell Miss Mu that all the illusions in the five-element array belonged to Miss Mu alone.”
“…”
Could she say that before the second illusion had even fully ended, she had broken the array with Severing Love?
But Mingzhu continued, “Miss Mu’s soul is different from ordinary people. Among the three of you, Miss Huixue is a snow woman, so let us set her aside. Young Master Chang’s soul could only project one shadow, but Miss Mu had three.”
Mu Yinfeng was startled.
“Miss Mu was not originally a person of this world, was she?” Mingzhu sighed. “Miss Mu, do not worry. I will not say it. Of the three shadows on Miss Mu, two should be traces of the Yin-Yang Reversal Array.”
“What about the other one?”
“The godhead,” Mingzhu said softly. “Miss Mu was originally a high god…”
“Lord Wind?”
Mingzhu lowered her eyes with a smile. “Exactly. I thought Miss Mu did not know these things. But there is one thing I feel I must tell Miss Mu. That Miss Huixue beside you is far from ordinary.”
Mu Yinfeng raised her eyes slightly.
“How is she far from ordinary?”
“After so many years, there have been quite a few heirs to the Snow God’s godhead. But only one person can wield Liufei.” Mingzhu paused. For some reason, grief flashed through her clear eyes. “It is the one from a thousand years ago.”
A thousand years ago, the ancient divine official who had died together with her and cursed her before death: the Snow God.
“I did not know before, but now I do,” Mu Yinfeng said slowly. “Miss Mingzhu, why are you telling me these things?”
“Lord Wind.” Mingzhu suddenly called her by her godhead’s title, just like the Star Lord of Great Yin. “Lord Wind may not know this, but the divine officials of the Heavenly Realm’s Department of Nature have complicated backgrounds. Back then, Lord Wind represented the Heavenly Realm, while the Snow God represented the ice-snow line.”
“What does that have to do with anything?”
After all, those were things from a thousand years ago. Even if old debts were dug up, there was no need to dig up ones from so many years ago. Even if Huixue was that Snow God, so what? Right now, Huixue did not have much killing intent toward her. Since they were at peace now, matters of the future could wait until the future.
“Those who walk different paths cannot plan together. Lord Wind should understand,” Mingzhu reminded her.
“But now, I am not Lord Wind, and she is not the Snow God. Is that not so?” Mu Yinfeng laughed softly. But when she remembered what Huixue had said last night about the responsibility she carried, her smile gradually faded and finally disappeared.
“The present and the future cannot be separated. Since Miss Mu thinks this way, that is fine.” As Mingzhu spoke, she took a jade hairpin from her sleeve and handed it to Mu Yinfeng.
“This is…”
Mu Yinfeng looked at the three dark wave patterns on the jade hairpin and felt they were strangely familiar.
“Lord Water Master gave this to the previous Gui Water divine envoy back then. Although a thousand years have passed, its divine might remains. If Miss Mu encounters danger in the future, you can use this jade hairpin to protect yourself.”
“If I take it, what will you do?”
“From now on, I will follow Miss Mu’s command and serve Miss Mu loyally to the death.”
“Then keep it. This jade should be very helpful to you.” Mu Yinfeng knew she should not accept Mingzhu’s item. Although this water-patterned jade hairpin faintly gave off sacred majesty and was a rare divine artifact treasure, it was still something that had stayed with Mingzhu for many years.
It was also not an opportunity that should belong to her.
“I have to go. Please take good care of Suniang for me, Miss Mingzhu.” Mu Yinfeng looked at the sky. The distant sound of a bell rang out. The afternoon matches were about to begin.
“I. Do. Not. Want. To.”
The silencing spell lifted, and Suniang’s miserable scream echoed through the forest again.
Si Yan had obtained the right to enter the second round. After reporting to the elders in charge of these matters, she was about to return to Yongmu Peak to cultivate when she suddenly felt a bleak yin wind and a chill all over. Before she could think about what was happening, a snow-white figure silently landed before her.
With snow filling the sky, this person was like a spirit maiden born from snow. Her robes spread open, her bearing was graceful beyond measure, and her beauty was breathtaking.
A strip of silk wrapped around her waist and danced with the falling snow, making her seem as if she might ride the wind and return to the heavens at any moment.
“S-Senior Sister?”
Si Yan cried out. This was the person she least wanted to see.
But that was not just her problem. No one in all Hanyou Valley wanted Senior Sister to specially come looking for them, because every disciple Huixue had visited said that one look from Huixue was like losing half their life.
Huixue nodded coldly. She held her sword horizontally, blocking Si Yan’s path.
“What is your relationship with Yinfeng?” Huixue’s voice was as cold as her expression. Although Liufei lay sheathed across Si Yan’s path, it still gave off a chilling cold.
“What does Senior Sister mean?” Si Yan had considered many things, but she had never expected Huixue to ask this kind of question.
In her impression, Huixue and Mu Yinfeng’s relationship was not very harmonious. Although she had seen Huixue kill Luo Han and take Mu Yinfeng away last time, she had not thought much of it.
“Yinfeng took great care of you.” Huixue’s voice remained cold. “That is not Yinfeng’s nature.”
“She should have her own purpose.” Si Yan tightened her grip on her sword but did not draw it. Even though she had been talented and proud since childhood, she was not so proud that she thought she could defeat Senior Sister.
She had once seen Senior Sister fight Bing Ling’er in Mengyou Square. Although it had been called guidance and sparring, Si Yan could not see anything and had thought it was a draw. But after returning, her grandfather had praised Huixue for several days. Only then did she know that what seemed like an even match had actually been Bing Ling’er using all her strength, while Huixue still had moves left.
“Her purpose?” Huixue raised her eyes. Si Yan felt as if all the blood and spiritual energy in her body had frozen.
“Can you take responsibility for your own words?”
Huixue spoke one word at a time. In every pause there was killing intent almost as cold as ice. The force of it frightened Si Yan so badly her whole body trembled. But she found that before Huixue, she could not move at all.
“I… how would I know what purpose she has?” Si Yan said, feeling wronged. She was also baffled. She and Mu Yinfeng had no real connection. Surely Mu Yinfeng would not develop any good feelings for her just because of one fight?
Huixue narrowed her eyes. She could sense that Si Yan was not lying.
What exactly was Mu Yinfeng’s purpose in helping Si Yan? Could it be that she really had some improper thoughts toward Si Yan?
But Mu Yinfeng clearly…
Huixue bit her lower lip. Thinking of this, she felt inexplicably troubled, like a little bird that had eaten from her palm had flown to someone else’s railing and started singing there.
Suddenly, Si Yan felt the pressure around her loosen. The force pressing on her withdrew like a falling tide, and Huixue had already taken back Liufei.
“I have doubts about your passing,” Huixue said in a slightly lower voice, though it was still cold and clear. “Si Yan, are you willing to accept my private challenge?”
Si Yan’s heart skipped a beat. Huixue had veto power over disciples who passed. If she questioned a disciple’s passing, she could choose to have that disciple challenge again, but the disciple could not challenge the same person as before.
In other words, Si Yan could only challenge Huixue or Chang Zui.
This was clearly not letting her pass!
“Why?” Si Yan asked in grief and anger. “Is it just because Junior Sister Yinfeng gave me…”
“It has nothing to do with her!” Huixue’s voice suddenly became cold beyond measure, as if someone had touched a reverse scale on her body.
“Then why?”
“There is no why.” Huixue stood with her sword, robes fluttering as snow fell around her. Although she had not drawn her sword, the sharpness and cold from within the sheath were already obvious.
In that instant, Si Yan drew her sword in self-defense. Yin and yang fire changed and wove around her, making her whole body look strangely unreal.
Huixue still looked calm, untouched by wind or clouds. Snow drifted softly around her, even looking somewhat gentle. But within that gentle snowfall, endless killing intent was not hidden at all.
Red and white met. Heaven and earth changed color. Light collided, spread, and resisted. With a loud boom, huge rocks on the mountain shattered. Plants were torn out by the roots and ground into powder. Si Yan retreated several steps and barely steadied herself against the cliff wall.
She hurriedly raised her eyes to see where Huixue was. As the dust scattered, a thin layer of blue light gradually faded, and a snow-clothed beauty walked out. Her plain, clean robes had not been stained with even a speck of dust in the impact just now.
That had only been a probing clash, but the winner was already clear. Huixue was exactly the same as before attacking, while Si Yan had already used up much of her spiritual energy. That probing attack had drained all of her spiritual energy except the power she needed to maintain the balance of yin and yang fire.
This was even more terrifying than Mu Yinfeng!
Si Yan closed her eyes and prepared to wait for death. She now understood the gap between herself and Huixue. If Huixue truly wanted to kill her, she could not avoid it at all.
But death did not come. Instead, Huixue’s even colder voice sounded.
“What are you doing here?”
Si Yan carefully opened her eyes and saw a young woman’s figure standing in front of her. Yin energy rippled around that figure, twisting light and space.
“Of course I was passing by. And, while I was at it, stopping Senior Sister from committing a crime. How is that for an answer?”