The Heroine Made a Pact With Senior Sister (GL) Chapter 65

The altar was dark. Its only light came from a tiny lamp flame above the altar. It stretched the altar’s shadow very long, dim and unclear, swaying left and right with a gloomy strangeness.
“You failed?” Beside the oil lamp stood a middle-aged person dressed in black feathered robes. He looked at the black-clothed girl below the altar, and his voice abruptly turned cold.
“This subordinate failed in carrying out the task. Please punish me, my lord.” The girl’s voice was crisp. Without suppressing it, she sounded only about ten years old.
“You also exposed the existence of our witch clan. You know what to do.” The middle-aged man looked coldly at the girl. His voice was not loud, but the pressure inside it was not light at all.
The girl lowered her head, and her voice also dropped. “Everything will follow my lord’s will.”
The middle-aged man raised his hand. A dagger fell from the altar, landing right in front of the girl.
“End yourself.”
The girl looked at the middle-aged man, pressed her lips together, and crawled forward a few steps. Just as she touched the dagger, a yin wind suddenly swept in and snatched it from her hand.
“Why go this far?” After stealing the dagger, that gust of wind appeared behind the middle-aged man. The figure played with the dagger and asked carelessly, “Do you think everyone in the cultivation world is stupid, unable to tell witchcraft from an accident? Did you also think Mu Yinfeng and Huixue of Hanyou Valley were harmless? If you sent the Holy Maiden to deal with someone else, that would be one thing. But sending her after those two makes me wonder whether you have some private grudge against her.”
“You make it sound nice. Since you know everything, why did you not help us?” The middle-aged man glanced at the black cloak behind him and laughed mockingly.
“How would I help? Do you still want your spy or not?” The black cloak stared at the middle-aged man as if looking at an idiot. With a casual toss, the dagger stuck straight into the wall. “If you want me to act, then forget about reviving the witch clan. I estimate I will soon be placed on Guiyuan Tower’s wanted list. At that time, at least three divine envoys will come hunt me down. Do you think I can beat them?”
“There are people you cannot beat?”
“One on one, I shamelessly count myself as number one under heaven. But I do not want to be surrounded and beaten.” The black cloak turned his palm, and a black pearl floated before his face. “The Changyin Pearl. The thing you wanted.”
The middle-aged man reached to grab it, but the moment the Changyin Pearl touched his skin, he jerked back as if shocked by lightning and threw it several meters away. “You… what is this thing?”
The black cloak waved casually. The Changyin Pearl, which had rolled aside, floated up again and quietly released faint yin energy beside him. His smile grew brighter. “I told you, Holy King, the Changyin Pearl is not something anyone can touch. Otherwise, why do you think it remained in the hands of that mere Earth-grade Chen-rank Butterfly Spirit for so long?”
“What do you mean? Not everyone can touch the Changyin Pearl? What does that mean?”
“Did I not explain it clearly?” The black cloak flicked the Changyin Pearl with one finger. “Only two kinds of people can freely touch the Changyin Pearl. One is someone with a primordial yin body, and the other is someone with a primordial yang body. When the Holy King told me to steal the Changyin Pearl, I warned you. Who told you not to listen?”
“Then what do we do?” the middle-aged man asked urgently.
“There is no way. It can only stay like this.” The black cloak lowered his hand and looked at the middle-aged man. “But what do you plan to do? Will you still follow my suggestion?”
The middle-aged man gritted his teeth. “Fine. We will do as you said.”
Hearing this, the black cloak helplessly spread his hands. “Are you not making things difficult for me? I told you over and over that if you cannot kill Mu Yinfeng, do not provoke her. A person like her is either the best friend or the best enemy. Now you have successfully pushed her to our opposite side. We are in a very bad position.”
“It is only Mu Yinfeng. You seem to care a lot about her.”
“Of course I do. Where else can you find a potential good friend with a primordial yin body? These days, every major sect hides primordial yin bodies more strictly than the last. And most of those either lack talent or missed the best time to cultivate. They are basically spare cultivation vessels.” The black cloak sighed. “You have lived long enough. You should still remember that a primordial yin body appeared in the ancient Yaoyue Kingdom back then, right?”
The middle-aged man thought for a while and said uncertainly, “Supposedly, it was the Star Lord of Great Yin’s previous body?”
“Remove the word supposedly.” The black cloak stepped forward and patted the man’s shoulder, saying with deep pain, “This one can only be above him. What do you think?”
“She is just a little girl. You really think so highly of her?” The middle-aged man thought about it but still did not believe him. “If she is so powerful, how could I injure her sea of consciousness at the start?”
The black cloak pondered for a moment, then said quietly, “Holy King, have you forgotten something? You personally cast that curse. If it were someone else, their body and soul would have been destroyed long ago, would they not? This one only had her sea of consciousness damaged. Also, if I had not placed a barrier outside the altar, this altar would probably have been destroyed already. Since we have reached this point, I may as well tell you. She used Golden Eyes Tracking. After you damaged her sea of consciousness, she could still use Golden Eyes Tracking. Think about what that means.”
“Fine.” The middle-aged man sighed and finally gave in. “Tell me what I should do. I will listen to you and stop acting on my own.”
The oil lamp’s flame trembled, then went out. The entire altar was covered in darkness, making it even stranger.
There was the sound of cloth cutting through wind, then a scream came from the dark.
“Of course, I will take your position.” The black cloak laughed softly. He pulled something out of flesh and slowly walked to the edge of the altar, looking down at the girl from above. The sound of liquid dripping to the floor rang out again and again, but it was covered by his emotionless voice. “Holy Maiden Li, what will you choose?”
The girl’s voice trembled slightly, but it was very firm. “I am the witch clan’s Holy Maiden. As long as something benefits the witch clan, I will do it without hesitation.”
“Even if I send you to be killed?”
The altar was silent for a long time before a faint sob sounded.
“…I am willing.”
Mu Yinfeng held her breath and looked inward. Only then did she discover that her injuries were far worse than she had imagined.
Most of her sea of consciousness was broken, making it difficult to store even newly restored mental power. Her spiritual core was almost completely cracked and had only been forcibly stuck together by the Treasure-Light Glazed Fruit Chuying had stuffed into her hand. As for the countless damaged, blocked, and broken meridians in her body, those were already minor matters.
This life of hers was truly stubborn. Mu Yinfeng smiled bitterly. She had thought she was certainly dead, yet who would have thought she could still live like this? The black butterfly shadow on her forehead grew deeper and deeper, then finally cracked apart, turning into specks of light that scattered away.
“The reason the Butterfly Goddess has exactly the same face as you is because after Lord Wind fell, the Butterfly Goddess began using Lord Wind’s appearance to carry out missions. Even when the Heavenly Realm forced her to her death, she never changed it.” Biyuntian’s voice still echoed by her ear. “When Lord Wind is in danger, you may freely use the power the Butterfly Goddess left behind.”
This was the spiritual energy the Butterfly Goddess had left in her body, the Yin Butterfly that could be used only when she was in greatest danger.
Mu Yinfeng pulled back her scattered thoughts and focused on repairing her broken sea of consciousness. With the Yin Butterfly’s support, her whole body had entered a state almost like a corpse. She could not feel stimulation, nor could she sense pain. Because of that, she had not noticed that the Soul-Capturing Bell had already shattered her sea of consciousness.
Just then, she felt faint warmth from her left wrist. Powerful life force entered from her wrist and slowly flowed through her meridians. Everywhere it passed, the meridians recovered, no longer showing the slightest sign that they had been damaged.
Was it the blood vine? Mu Yinfeng opened her eyes slightly and saw the blood vine on her wrist glowing with bright red light, sending a constant stream of vast life force into her body.
Not far away, Huixue slowly sat up and rubbed her eyes. She turned to look at Mu Yinfeng. When she saw the blood vine shining on Mu Yinfeng’s wrist, she only sighed and said nothing more.
“Senior Sister?” Mu Yinfeng wanted to hide the blood vine, but it was already too late. She lowered her head, not daring to meet Huixue’s eyes.
“Did the blood vine save you?” Huixue walked over and asked.
Mu Yinfeng lowered her eyes and nodded.
“Yimu’s blood vine.” Huixue lifted Mu Yinfeng’s wrist. A thought flashed through her sea of consciousness.
“I think we should reconsider Yimu. She does not seem to stand completely against us.” Mu Yinfeng stared at the blood vine on her wrist. The red light flowing over it had dimmed slightly, probably because part of its life force had been drained.
Huixue nodded. “I was wrong before. I placed Yimu completely on the opposite side from us. But the current situation…”
Although the blood vine had placed a restriction on Mu Yinfeng, it had protected her even more often. First when facing Jian Shu, and now by releasing enormous life force to heal her. Without the blood vine, Mu Yinfeng might have died who knew how many times.
“But she still stands against us, just not absolutely,” Huixue said, lowering Mu Yinfeng’s hand and sighing.
Mu Yinfeng agreed. Yimu would not be her friend. If Yimu were her friend, then why would the two villains fight each other to the death later?
She gently stroked the blood vine. The vine’s red light flashed, and a thin side branch extended from it like a red thread, curling and winding. Huixue was shocked and was about to pull Mu Yinfeng’s hand away from the side branch, but the moment her hand touched Mu Yinfeng’s wrist, the thin vine quickly rolled up and bound her and Mu Yinfeng together.
Their two hands were tightly clasped. The bright red vine wrapped them together, making their grip even tighter. A vast life force surged from the vine. The vine lit up bright red again, accompanied by spots of ice-blue light left by the ice-snow seal, making it dazzling and beautiful.
The deep red light spread out and turned into a thin light curtain that covered the two of them. Mu Yinfeng inexplicably felt that after this red curtain fell, the whole Reed Snow Residence gained an intimate and lingering atmosphere. It was indescribably strange.
“Why does this look like a formal wedding rite?” Mu Yinfeng forced a laugh, trying to break the stiff mood.
Whether it was because the red light was too strong or because of something else, Huixue’s expression shifted uncertainly. She looked at Mu Yinfeng. “Have you performed such rites before?”
The scene of Mu Yinfeng entering Chang Zui’s bridal chamber in her previous life rose before Huixue’s eyes. Amid drifting fragrance and soft red gauze, the young woman had taken off the black Daoist robe she always wore and changed into a blood-red dress. She had been bright, charming, and graceful beyond measure. Huixue had thought anyone would treasure such a young woman in the palm of their hand. Yet that man had aimed a Yin-Locking Blade at the young woman’s back…
Then Mu Yinfeng’s low voice sounded. “How could I? Of course not…”
In an instant, both women raised their eyes and saw the emotions in each other’s hearts reflected in their pupils.
The two hands belonged to different people, yet something seemed to have opened a path between them and linked their lives together. Extreme yin spiritual flow and extreme cold spiritual flow merged and crossed. Deep black yin energy was diluted by pale blue spiritual flow, turning into a strange ink-blue color that surged quickly through both their bodies.
Huixue felt the spiritual energy inside her body increase severalfold. The Ren water spiritual root that had been forcibly fused into her body was separated by the ink-blue spiritual flow in an instant. Snowflakes drifted through the air. The sharpness in the cold killing intent weakened a little, and a soft, lingering gentleness appeared.
Huixue’s spiritual energy was cold, yin, and gentle. It could silently erode everything away. Mu Yinfeng’s spiritual energy, however, was extremely pure and contained nothing extra. It invaded Huixue’s meridians along the way and quietly forced back and scattered the remaining Ren water spiritual energy that had been fused by outside force.
Although Huixue had only a single-attribute spiritual root, in grade it was not suppressed at all by Mu Yinfeng’s five-element chaos. For some reason, as their spiritual roots blended, Mu Yinfeng even faintly felt she was the one being suppressed.
Huixue had inherited Liufei and was the future Snow God, but Mu Yinfeng was also Lord Wind’s reincarnation. Lord Wind and the Snow God were both divine officials of the Department of Nature. Even if there was a difference in rank, Lord Wind should be above the Snow God. How could the suppression be this obvious?
The two maintained this position for a long time. Only when the sun set and the stars filled the sky did the blood vine slowly loosen. It revealed its true body and fell to the ground. Mu Yinfeng and Huixue looked at each other and unexpectedly discovered that the spiritual energy in both their bodies was circulating faster than usual. Their spiritual cores had also been strengthened by each other’s different strengths. This blending of spiritual energy left traces of the other person’s spiritual energy in their bodies, like a kind of brand.
Mu Yinfeng bent down and picked up the blood vine. This time, it obediently wrapped around her arm like a little snake. Mu Yinfeng felt submission from within the vine. With a thought, the blood vine immediately returned to its original bracelet form.
“It has submitted to you.” Huixue nodded and sighed inwardly. She felt that Mu Yinfeng might end up walking the same old road from her previous life.
At present, there was nothing abnormal about Mu Yinfeng’s mind. But whether she could remain this way in the future was unknown. Huixue wanted to place a hand on Mu Yinfeng’s shoulder, but suddenly sensed something strange and withdrew it.
Three wind patterns had appeared clearly on the back of her hand. They were pale green, embedded in her skin, with a warm and faint glow. If one did not pay attention, they would be almost impossible to notice.
“Senior Sister, if you do not like me using this, I will not use it in the future.” Mu Yinfeng pulled back her gaze and looked at Huixue again. At that moment, Huixue lowered her sleeve and hid one hand behind her back.
“It is fine. You truly do need a usable spiritual artifact now.” As she spoke, Huixue looked toward Reed Snow Residence, half of which had collapsed from the shock. When she turned back to Mu Yinfeng’s face, she saw Mu Yinfeng staring at the ground as if wondering which crack she could crawl into. Huixue smiled helplessly. “In the future, do not use Severing Love in matches. It is only a contest. There is no need to fight with your life indiscriminately.”
“Will Guiyuan Tower not discover it?”
“Even if they discover it, that will only make those people even more afraid to touch you.” After Huixue felt the wind patterns on the back of her hand vanish, she placed her hand on Mu Yinfeng’s shoulder. “The person Guiyuan Tower fears most is Yimu. They absolutely do not dare endure Yimu’s anger. Once, Guiyuan Tower sent the twelve tower-guarding cultivators of Guiyuan Tower to surround and kill Yimu, but…”
Mu Yinfeng slowly lifted her eyes. “But what?”
“But among the twelve tower-guarding cultivators, only one returned. The rest died inside Myriad Manifestations. That person did not even see Yimu’s figure.”
“Senior Sister.” After calling out, Mu Yinfeng suddenly fell silent for a moment before asking, “Does Senior Sister understand Yimu very well?”
Although Yimu’s reputation had spread far and wide, her true formal emergence happened only after Lord Lanfeng appeared. What Huixue had just mentioned was something that happened after Guiyuan Tower learned Lord Lanfeng might join hands with Yimu and wanted to separate them, defeating them one by one. This was clearly not information that could be obtained now.
But before Mu Yinfeng could think further, Chuying suddenly growled in one direction. At the same time, a yin wind rushed toward them, carrying a faint smell of blood.
Demon blood!
Mu Yinfeng’s eyes swept sharply over. That direction was Frostfall Cliff, where she had hidden Suniang and Mingzhu.
“Senior Sister, hurry and check whether any disciples on the other peaks have been hurt. The witch clan’s attacks are still continuing!”
As she spoke, Mu Yinfeng leaped forward. In only a few breaths, she vanished from Huixue’s sight. At the same time, her mental power quickly scanned toward Frostfall Cliff. Before jumping down the cliff, she had already determined Suniang and Mingzhu’s positions.
Suniang’s nine tails swayed behind her. She had already transformed into a human-headed fox body. Every white hair on her body stood on end. Beside her, Mingzhu, the Gui Water divine envoy, was surrounded by cold yin energy and was holding a blue ribbon, using it to pull at the black-robed person before her.
Ancient and mysterious curse marks were embroidered on the black-robed person’s hem, showing their witch clan identity. Mu Yinfeng’s heart shook. She struck out with one palm and blasted the black-robed person away, then stood in front of Suniang and Mingzhu.
“What happened just now? Suniang, are you all right?” Mu Yinfeng asked, turning back.
Suniang was trembling all over. She almost threw herself into Mu Yinfeng’s arms and cried, but remembering her dislike for Mu Yinfeng, she forced down the impulse. “All right? What is all right? Did you not say this place was absolutely safe? Why did someone still come to kill me?”
“It was not someone from Hanyou Valley.” Mu Yinfeng briefly explained a few things to Mingzhu and let Mingzhu slowly tell Suniang.
“The witch clan? Why have they come again?” Hearing Mu Yinfeng’s words, Mingzhu was somewhat shocked. “Were they not already wiped out?”
“I am not sure. We cannot let him return!” As she spoke, Mu Yinfeng activated her movement art. With a tap of her toe, she chased after the place where that person had been thrown. At the same time, red light flashed in her hand. The blood vine fell into her grasp, glowing red and lighting up half the night sky.
At night, yin energy was at its strongest. This was already her home ground. Now, with the blood vine of primordial yin wood supporting her, fighting in this dense forest was like adding wings to a tiger. Mu Yinfeng caught up to that person without effort. The blood vine flashed, whipping him into several rolls. When the witch clan member tried to climb up and keep fleeing, he found a blood-red vine had already tied him up completely.
A beautiful young woman stood above him, looking down coldly. Yin energy around her burned fiercely, and the pressure of her mental power nearly shattered his sea of consciousness.
“Who sent you? What is your goal?” Mu Yinfeng waved her spiritual energy and directly sealed the person’s sea of consciousness and spiritual core, lest he explode and die under her questioning.
This was basically necessary when interrogating cultivators. Although many feared death, what if this one would rather die than yield? She did not want her spiritual core and sea of consciousness shaken again today.
“Why should I tell you?”
“It is fine if you do not tell me. Then stay here. But I should probably tell you in advance what kind of place this is. This is Frostfall Cliff below Hanyou Valley. Frostfall Cliff is a very good place to punish Hanyou Valley disciples. In all these years, Hanyou Valley has not seen many disciples walk out from below Frostfall Cliff alive.” Mu Yinfeng raised an eyebrow. Under the bright red light, her misty, charming eyes became even more enchanting.
“What… what are you going to do to me?”
The person screamed shrilly and struggled at once. While struggling, he saw Mu Yinfeng’s eyes.
The instant their eyes met, the Linglong Heart Method and Yin Charm Art activated at the same time. The person went still.
But in the next instant, his body rapidly swelled. Even the blood vine was pushed open.
Mu Yinfeng’s heart skipped. She hesitated for a moment between withdrawing the blood vine and dodging. By then, the person’s body had already swollen into something more terrifying than an ancient fierce beast. If he exploded, the force might even endanger nearby Chengchen Peak.
Almost everyone on Chengchen Peak was a medicine or healing cultivator. They could not withstand the blast.
Mu Yinfeng had no time to think further. She immediately released the blood vine and rose quickly on the wind. The black butterfly mark from daytime appeared on her forehead again. This time, the charging time was far shorter than during the day. The instant the black butterfly mark appeared on her forehead, the black butterfly phantom behind her had already solidified.
The huge black butterfly scattered into thousands of small butterflies, which danced around the person’s swelling body and surrounded him layer upon layer.
At the same time, Mu Yinfeng struck out with both palms, pouring out all the spiritual flow in her body without holding anything back to support the barrier centered on that person. Before long, a loud boom came from inside the barrier. The barrier shook fiercely. The thousands of black butterflies quickly vanished in the exploding firelight. The flames swallowed the person’s shattered bones and flesh. For a moment, the scene was shocking, but not too horrifying.
Mu Yinfeng took one step back and increased her spiritual energy output. She had still underestimated the force of this person’s self-destruction. If the blast spread, not only Chengchen Peak but all of Hanyou Valley might be flattened.
A familiar dry, terrible pain came from her spiritual core. Mu Yinfeng bit her lower lip tightly and squeezed out the last bit of spiritual energy in her body. This mess should have been cleaned up by her. If she had not touched the restriction in that person’s sea of consciousness, this witch clan member would not have self-destructed.
She had not expected the witch clan to be so cruel that they would place restrictions in their own people’s seas of consciousness, making them self-destruct to protect secrets. Before executing a traitor, they still dealt the enemy a heavy blow. Their methods were vicious beyond belief.
But the shock wave from the self-destruction was not something she could stop. Even though she had emptied all her spiritual energy, even though she had used one of the three butterfly shadows given to her by the Butterfly Spirit to soften the impact, cracks still appeared in the barrier.
“Mingzhu, take Suniang and leave!” Seeing Mingzhu nearby trying to come help, Mu Yinfeng hurriedly shouted, “You cannot help here!”
If Mingzhu’s spiritual energy entered, it would break the five-element balance of Mu Yinfeng’s barrier. That would destroy the barrier faster instead of strengthening it.
“But what about you, Miss?”
“Do not worry about me. I have a way. Take Suniang and go. Run as far as possible!” Mu Yinfeng could not spare a hand. The moment she was distracted, the crack in the barrier grew wider.
Mingzhu looked at her with complicated eyes, then pulled Suniang away quickly.
Only then did Mu Yinfeng turn her gaze back to the barrier. Although she had done everything she could, she still could not stop it from breaking. The barrier was now covered in cracks like the ice-crackle porcelain popular in the current dynasty.
Her heart was full of despair. Looking at the cracks in the barrier that could no longer be repaired, she knew that if the barrier could not hold, she would surely die.
Was she going to die like this?
“Why did you not call me? Why do you always face things alone? Do you think I cannot help you?” A voice suddenly rang out in her sea of consciousness. It was distant, faint, and somewhat familiar. “You. Why are you always so foolish?”
For some reason, after hearing that sigh, a tear slowly slid down her cheek.