The Heroine Made a Pact With Senior Sister (GL) Chapter 61

A snow-clothed young man stood inside the pavilion, half his face hidden behind a delicate mask. His ice-blue eyes seemed to hold the hardest frost. At first glance, they did not feel like much, but the longer one looked, the colder one’s whole body became.
“Lady Huixue, we meet again.” Biyuntian stepped forward and bowed. Then he looked at Mu Yinfeng, the corners of his lips lifting slightly as he slowly spoke four words. “Lord Wind.”
Mu Yinfeng was not too surprised. After all, Biyuntian was a Heaven-grade Chou-rank existence, and he had a special relationship with the ancient Butterfly Goddess. It was normal for him to know something about the Heavenly Realm.
“Your Majesty the Ice Emperor said you can undo Yinfeng’s blood vine. Is that true?” Huixue asked directly.
During the day on the fighting stage, Biyuntian had sent a voice transmission from afar, telling Huixue that he had a way to resolve the blood vine on Mu Yinfeng’s wrist. He had asked her and Mu Yinfeng to meet him at Worry-Forgetting Pavilion at dusk.
“This is the Yimu divine envoy’s life-bound spiritual object, the blood vine.” Biyuntian stretched out one hand. From a distance, he controlled spiritual energy and lifted Mu Yinfeng’s wrist, revealing that bright red section of blood vine. “An ice-snow seal? Lady Huixue, you placed the seal over the blood vine?”
Huixue nodded. “Yinfeng triggered Yimu’s restriction.”
“There was a restriction too?” Biyuntian raised his eyes. Mu Yinfeng faintly saw a flash of red in the ice-blue pupil half-hidden by his mask. It vanished in an instant, strange and eerie, as if red were the true color of his eyes.
As he spoke, Biyuntian flashed in front of Mu Yinfeng and stared straight into her eyes. Mu Yinfeng’s body trembled. A feeling of weakness passed through her for an instant, then she looked back at Biyuntian.
But she did not see Biyuntian’s life chart, nor could she see any of his thoughts. The Biyuntian before her seemed like an empty shell, with nothing inside.
“Trying to peer into my heart?” Biyuntian laughed softly. His voice rang out in Mu Yinfeng’s sea of consciousness. Mu Yinfeng did not even know when he had entered it. “Lord Wind, I know what restriction the Yimu divine envoy placed in your sea of consciousness, but that is not within the range of what I can undo.”
Thinking of that restriction, Mu Yinfeng’s cheeks flushed slightly. If Biyuntian could see even this, what if he told Senior Sister…
“Do not worry. I will not tell your Senior Sister.” Biyuntian’s voice was very calm, as if he had seen this kind of thing many times. Only now did Mu Yinfeng remember that he was a great demon who had lived for more than a thousand years, not the eighteen- or nineteen-year-old youth he appeared to be.
“Really?”
“Of course. I never lie to those I respect,” Biyuntian said slowly. “In truth, to break the Yimu divine envoy’s restriction, Lord Wind only needs to make the blood vine acknowledge you as its master.”
“How is that possible?” Mu Yinfeng cried.
A life-bound spiritual artifact was called life-bound because it could acknowledge only one master in its entire life and could never transfer to another, unless the other person was the artifact’s close blood kin.
“What the Yimu divine envoy placed on Lord Wind is a love tribulation. A love tribulation must still be resolved by Lord Wind yourself. If an outside force interferes, the tribulation will become even harder to pass.” For some reason, Biyuntian’s voice carried a trace of melancholy. It was faint, but the sorrow was deep, so deep that it faintly tugged at the sorrow in Mu Yinfeng’s own heart.
“But making the blood vine acknowledge you as master is not a good thing for Lord Wind.” Biyuntian’s voice grew solemn. “Does Lord Wind still remember the curse the Snow God placed on you back then?”
Mu Yinfeng shook her head.
She had only blurred and broken memories of her past life, the way a person might try to remember a life before this one and fail no matter how hard they tried. When the Snow God was mentioned, only a snow-white figure appeared before her eyes. That figure was white from head to toe, so pure and bright that one almost did not dare look directly at her, as if even a gaze could stain that whiteness.
“The Snow God’s curse on Lord Wind was this: no matter what art Lord Wind cultivates, your sea of consciousness will fall into chaos, your mind will become unclear, and you may even see the thing you fear most. It can drive you mentally unstable, showing signs of qi deviation.” Biyuntian spoke slowly. “So if Lord Wind wants to break the restriction and force the Yimu divine envoy’s blood vine to submit, Lord Wind must face the Snow God’s curse.”
“The Snow God’s curse?” Mu Yinfeng asked. “Did the Snow God not already fall?”
“Although the Snow God has fallen, the Snow God’s divine soul was sealed in the snow mountain. As long as the divine soul is not destroyed, the Snow God is not dead.” Biyuntian’s voice carried a sigh. “I once searched for the Snow God’s divine soul, but I did not find it. My cultivation has been locked at Heaven-grade Chou rank. No matter what, I cannot advance another step.”
“Locked at Heaven-grade Chou rank?”
Mu Yinfeng had heard that some cultivators could not break through because of old injuries or limits in their natural talent. She simply did not know which case Biyuntian belonged to.
“Yes. Because I did not pass my love tribulation.” Biyuntian seemed unwilling to speak of this and immediately changed the topic. “This still depends on Lord Wind. Lady Huixue’s ice-snow seal can already reduce the pain when the restriction activates, but Lady Huixue is still only Lady Huixue. The ice-snow seal cannot completely block a restriction placed by a divine envoy using full strength.”
Mu Yinfeng bit her lower lip and slowly moved her gaze away, pulling herself out of those ice-blue depths. The instant their eyes separated, she felt as if something had cut off her connection to Biyuntian. His voice no longer sounded in her sea of consciousness, and she could no longer communicate with him through it.
So this was Biyuntian’s method. He had used her Linglong Heart Method and traveled backward along it into her sea of consciousness. No wonder she had not noticed.
“Does Your Majesty the Ice Emperor know what to do?” Huixue moved one step closer to Mu Yinfeng, as if afraid Biyuntian would hurt her.
Huixue did not actually know how strong Biyuntian was. She only knew Guiyuan Tower rated him Heaven-grade Chou rank. The entire Ice-Snow Domain’s evaluation of Biyuntian was only one sentence: unfathomable. Very few people had seen Biyuntian make a move. No matter when, Biyuntian always looked calm and confident.
She also knew a little about the legends of Biyuntian and the Butterfly Goddess. The Butterfly Goddess’s statue looked almost ninety percent like Mu Yinfeng. It was hard not to connect that to certain things.
Certain things that sounded utterly absurd, yet were not completely impossible.
“I only said I know how to remove it. As for the exact method, Miss Mu still needs to understand it herself.” Biyuntian turned toward Huixue. Light flashed in his ice-blue eyes, making them seem like clear crystal that absorbed all brilliance in an instant. “Lady Huixue, that is all I can say.”
“She will not be harmed?”
Mu Yinfeng felt that when Huixue asked this, her voice was hollow from beginning to end, as if Huixue did not want to hear the answer but had to ask for some reason.
“She will not. The Yimu divine envoy has no killing intent.” Biyuntian’s figure suddenly flickered. When he appeared again, he had already left Worry-Forgetting Pavilion, and they could only see his back from afar. “The Immortal Sects Assembly is near. Above all, be careful.”
He was probably talking about the evil being causing chaos at the Immortal Sects Assembly, Mu Yinfeng thought. Severing Love should not be worse than the blood vine. If she could control the blood vine to kill Jian Shu, she should also be able to use Severing Love to defeat that evil being that suddenly appeared. Thinking this, Mu Yinfeng reached out and took Huixue’s arm, smiling beautifully. “Senior Sister, shall we go back?”
Huixue was slightly startled. Last night, she had warned Mu Yinfeng not to do this in the future. If this had been a few days ago, Mu Yinfeng would certainly have obeyed her, no matter how unwilling she was. But today, Mu Yinfeng had broken Huixue’s initial impression of her several times.
This was fine too. Huixue shook her head and let Mu Yinfeng hold her arm.
She was thinking about Biyuntian’s words.
In her last life, she had taken part in the Immortal Sects Assembly. But during the team match, she had been on the other side of the field and had not reached the evil being’s location in time. By the time she sensed it, the evil being had already died in the raging flames created by a Hanyou Valley female disciple sacrificing her soul.
Did Biyuntian know all of that now?
Would Biyuntian allow those things to happen?
Huixue did not know.
Whether in emotion or reason, Biyuntian had no need to help them. Biyuntian was an evil being whose name hung on Guiyuan Tower’s list, a dignified Heaven-grade Chou rank existence, second only to the two Heaven-grade Zi ranks above him. Although the old people at Guiyuan Tower suggested living peacefully with Biyuntian, everyone knew that if there were a chance to kill him, no one would let it pass.
Mu Yinfeng’s blood vine brushed against Huixue’s skin. Huixue felt a burst of scorching heat. She instinctively looked at Mu Yinfeng and saw Mu Yinfeng looking up at her, as if asking what was wrong.
“Nothing.” Seeing that Mu Yinfeng looked normal, as if she had not felt the heat from the blood vine, Huixue could not help finding it strange. Had she imagined it?
“I have something I want to ask Senior Sister.” Mu Yinfeng’s low voice came over, and with every word, it grew lower, as if she were saying something embarrassing. “I wonder if Senior Sister can answer me.”
“What is it?” Huixue heard herself ask.
Her tone was still somewhat cold. But being cold was fine. At least it could keep Mu Yinfeng from guessing the secret things deep in her heart.
Huixue’s intuition had always been sharp. She could feel that the way Mu Yinfeng looked at her was different from before. In the past, when Mu Yinfeng stared at her, she was only looking. But now, whenever Mu Yinfeng looked at her, Huixue felt as if she were being seen through from the inside out.
Was Mu Yinfeng not unable to understand her thoughts?
She had once heard Ruoying say that the Linglong Heart Method’s advantage was being able to see through another person’s thoughts in the instant their eyes met. If the cultivator’s level was higher, they could even see through the other person’s fate. It was a strange heart method that could reveal a person’s past, present, and future with one glance.
Mu Yinfeng’s heart method had been taught by Ruoying. At that time, Ruoying had clearly told Huixue that Mu Yinfeng could not possibly see through her thoughts.
Huixue trusted Ruoying’s words completely. Although she wavered slightly now, it had not shaken the foundation of that trust. Perhaps she was only thinking too much.
“Senior Sister, I do not want Senior Sister Lin to take part in this Immortal Sects Assembly,” Mu Yinfeng said slowly.
She knew this was completely using public matters for private reasons, but she could no longer hesitate too much. Lin Qiudi’s sword heart had not yet fully formed, and the path she cultivated abandoned all defense in pursuit of the most extreme attack. She advanced to retreat and attacked to defend. Someone like her would be invincible only after reaching the extreme. Right now, she was still far from that.
For Lin Qiudi to appear at the Immortal Sects Assembly in this state would be very dangerous. People knew how terrifying this kind of extreme swordswoman was, so they would want even more to crush her while she was still in the cradle.
“Lin Qiudi?” Huixue frowned almost imperceptibly. “Why?”
Mu Yinfeng explained her analysis.
“You do not want her to get hurt?”
Mu Yinfeng nodded. “Senior Sister Lin’s talent is extraordinary. If she is targeted now, would that not be a pity?”
But she did not say that in the near future, Lin Qiudi would be the only person in the entire cultivation world capable of restraining her.
“Since you say so, then let it be so.” Huixue’s thoughts shifted slightly. “But Yinfeng, you should consider one possibility. What if Lin Qiudi can hold on even when we do not yield?”
That was possible too.
Although Lin Qiudi had given up defense, that did not mean she had no defensive methods. Her barrier arts were quite good. In Enji Village, she had resisted the sky full of butterfly powder until the end without injury. That alone showed she was far from ordinary.
Just then, both of them felt two cold gazes fall in their direction. They raised their heads and looked over. A sword-holding young woman stood beneath a tree, staring at them darkly.