The Heroine Made a Pact With Senior Sister (GL) Chapter 67

“Fine, fine. I will give you as many as you want,” Mu Yinfeng said helplessly. She did not doubt that Chuying wanted eight only because it had eight fingers.
Only then did Chuying meow and jump into Mu Yinfeng’s arms, asking to be petted on its own.
This change truly startled Mu Yinfeng. After all, when they first met, Chuying had puffed up its fur and stretched out its claws at her, as if it had seen the enemy who destroyed its whole family.
Since the little cat had delivered itself to her, not petting it would be a waste. Mu Yinfeng smoothly stroked Chuying from head to tail. When she touched its tail, Chuying’s body trembled. Its waist arched, and all its long fur stood up. Mu Yinfeng thought it was about to turn and scratch her, so she was just about to dodge. But Chuying only shook its fur and plunged into Mu Yinfeng’s arms, rubbing its little head back and forth against her.
It was rare for Chuying to be this affectionate. Mu Yinfeng held back the urge to bury her face in Chuying’s long fur and breathe it in. She crouched and placed Chuying on her knees. Chuying gave a soft cry, climbed onto Mu Yinfeng’s shoulder, and used its little paw to play with a pearl decorating Mu Yinfeng’s hair ribbon.
“Yinfeng, what are you doing?”
Without warning, Huixue suddenly appeared beside Mu Yinfeng and lowered her head to look at the person and cat. Her expression was a little strange.
“I…”
Mu Yinfeng instinctively hugged Chuying tighter, bending down and wrapping Chuying with her body so Huixue would not notice anything odd.
“I was not doing anything.”
“Is that so?” Huixue had long since seen the cat tail swaying beside Mu Yinfeng. After pondering for a while, she said, “Master asked where you were just now. She has something to say to you.”
“What is it?” Mu Yinfeng was grateful cats were liquid. Otherwise, after being squeezed like this, Chuying would already have been flattened into a pancake.
“About the witch clan. The witch clan’s Spirit-Trapping Locks are spread all over Hanyou Valley. Although Master ordered all disciples to stay where they were and not move, quite a few disciples have already been caught. It is not only Yingxia Peak and Chengchen Peak. Even Yongmu Peak has been affected quite badly,” Huixue said seriously. “The Immortal Sects Assembly is near. Hanyou Valley does not have many disciples left who can fight.”
Mu Yinfeng was startled. “Are the Spirit-Trapping Locks still there now?”
“Elder Shu Ji has already removed them. These should originally be Martial Uncle Ruoying’s specialty, but…” When Ruoying was mentioned, Huixue’s gaze dimmed slightly. She had a very good relationship with Ruoying, so Ruoying’s disappearance had always weighed on her.
“Senior Sister, do not worry. Once the Immortal Sects Assembly is over, I will go with you to find Martial Uncle Ruoying.”
Mu Yinfeng was also curious about her own past life. She could sense that Ruoying knew many things about her past. If Ruoying could tell her, perhaps she would better understand what Lord Lanfeng had done and why.
In the five-element domain, when she and Lord Lanfeng had looked at each other, she had seen flashes of blades and swords, arrays and talismans, and even bloody storms in Lord Lanfeng’s eyes. But she had also seen clearly that the trace of clarity in Lord Lanfeng’s eyes had not vanished.
Even if her own feelings were too subjective, she still felt that someone with such clear eyes would not do things that harmed heaven and reason. Even to carry out the heavenly prophecy, such a person would not completely obey its order to slaughter innocents and turn the human world into a river of blood.
More importantly, Lord Lanfeng and she were originally the same person. She was Lord Lanfeng’s reincarnation, a soul Lord Lanfeng projected into the three thousand worlds. Instinctively, she felt she would not do those things.
And that Yin-Yang Array. Who had she activated it for? Could it be…
Mu Yinfeng raised her eyes and looked at the person before her.
But she soon dismissed the thought. If the Yin-Yang Array had truly been activated for Huixue, why would Lord Lanfeng choose to give up her divine soul and reincarnate?
“Why are you looking at me?” Huixue bent down and reached out a hand, wanting to pull Mu Yinfeng up. But seeing that Mu Yinfeng did not reach back for a long time, she could not help laughing softly. “Yinfeng, you should let Chuying go. Do not suffocate it.”
Mu Yinfeng froze and wondered where the fox tail had shown. Following Huixue’s gaze, she saw a white tail had somehow emerged below her elbow and was swaying constantly.
“…Come out.” Mu Yinfeng awkwardly released Chuying and patted its rear, telling it to jump down. To her surprise, Chuying seemed to have latched onto her and stayed around her neck like a collar ornament.
Huixue looked at Chuying strangely. She remembered that in the past, whenever Chuying saw Mu Yinfeng, it would claw and bite. Why was it suddenly so friendly to Mu Yinfeng now?
Even so, she did not say much. Chuying was her life-bound spirit beast. It was not a bad thing if its relationship with Mu Yinfeng eased. Now that half of Reed Snow Residence had been collapsed by Severing Love, Mu Yinfeng could only share a room with her. If Chuying jumped onto the bed in the middle of the night and scratched Mu Yinfeng, that would not be very good.
The two entered Buyou Hall. Bing Ling’er sat in the main seat, writing slips to allocate spiritual medicines and spirit stones to each peak. When she saw the two arrive, she put down her pen and sighed deeply.
“Xue’er, what do you think we should do? Are we really going to let these disciples fight?”
“The Immortal Sects Assembly is near. The Spirit-Trapping Locks will seal them for at least ten days.” Huixue considered it. “Master means to choose directly from the disciples who were not hit by the Spirit-Trapping Locks?”
“That is the only way. Oh, Xue’er, come help me record the accounts. The Chengchen Peak master came to ask for spirit stones again today, saying Sanqi of Chengchen Peak is about to break through.”
“Sanqi?” Huixue thought for a moment. While writing down a string of numbers according to Bing Ling’er’s instructions, she asked, “Is that the Chengchen Peak disciple Elder Shu Ji has always been thinking about? The one she wants as her final disciple?”
“That is her. But the little girl is unwilling. Although Shu Ji and Sanqi both have Jia wood spiritual roots, Shu Ji leans toward healing and defense, while Sanqi has both healing and attack.” Bing Ling’er tapped the abacus, sighed, summoned a pile of spirit stones from her storage, and pushed them before Huixue. “Send these over another day. Sanqi is the second disciple of Chengchen Peak. If she can break through, it will greatly raise Chengchen Peak’s overall battle strength.”
Although Chengchen Peak mainly had medicine and healing cultivators like Abi, that did not mean no one there focused on offensive arts. Sanqi was one such exception.
Unlike others, whose attacks mostly used weapons like blades, spears, and halberds, Sanqi mainly cultivated poison arts. Since childhood, she had been steeped in all kinds of deadly poisons. She herself was a frightening poison.
Mu Yinfeng lost focus for a moment. By the time she returned to herself, Bing Ling’er and Huixue had already begun discussing the list of disciples for the Immortal Sects Assembly.
This sudden witch clan attack had greatly affected Hanyou Valley. The Immortal Sects Assembly would be held in Weiyang City, near the Southern Frontier. Among the invited major sects, only Hanyou Valley was the farthest from Weiyang City. If they did not use teleportation talismans, flying by sword alone would take two or three days.
But this accident had come suddenly. Anyone with slightly higher cultivation had been sealed by the Spirit-Trapping Locks and could not fly by sword at all. And the road to the Immortal Sects Assembly was even more dangerous than the assembly itself. Because the assembly concerned sect rankings, some sects did not hesitate to attack other sects in secret to prevent their geniuses from taking part.
Fortunately, the Immortal Sects Assembly was not held every year. Otherwise, the geniuses of the entire cultivation world would probably be few in number by now. Even so, according to those who knew the inside story, the number of geniuses who died on the road to one Immortal Sects Assembly was far greater than the number of geniuses who died at the hands of evil beings in ten years.
In that case, the disciples whose spiritual energy had been sealed by the Spirit-Trapping Locks had to be removed from the list. If they met elders from other sects, these disciples without spiritual energy would be no different from ordinary people. They would practically be sitting ducks.
At this moment, messenger spirit birds came and went through Buyou Hall, constantly bringing Bing Ling’er updates on each peak’s disciples.
“Witch clan members entered Hanyou Valley?” Bing Ling’er opened a letter and slammed her palm on the table. The palm wind nearly blew all the documents on the table away. Seeing this, Huixue stepped forward and tidied the documents without saying a word.
“They did invade Hanyou Valley. But most of the people the witch clan sent this time were likely death soldiers.” Mu Yinfeng thought of what happened below Frostfall Cliff and told Bing Ling’er the general situation. Huixue silently moved behind Mu Yinfeng and placed a hand on her shoulder.
“Since the ones who appeared were death soldiers, and Guiyuan Tower led the attack on the witch clan back then with every major sect contributing, the witch clan’s return must target more than just Hanyou Valley.” Bing Ling’er frowned. A ball of white light slowly rose and spread in her palm. Only after a long time did she slowly open her eyes. Everything in Hanyou Valley had become clear to her.
If Bing Ling’er’s detection ability dared to call itself second in the cultivation world, no one would dare call themselves first. In the past, after detecting something, she would immediately tell her two disciples what she had found. But this time, Bing Ling’er sighed and said nothing.
Mu Yinfeng felt Huixue’s fingers tighten on her shoulder. Then she heard Huixue say, “Master, what is wrong?”
“Below Frostfall Cliff in Hanyou Valley, there are remnants of barrier spiritual energy. It should be primordial yin and a strange water spiritual root.” Bing Ling’er’s gaze slowly fell on Mu Yinfeng’s face. “Yinfeng, was that barrier laid by you? Do you still remember who that strange water spiritual root belonged to?”
“This…”
Mu Yinfeng’s face paled slightly. Bing Ling’er’s detection was unmatched under heaven. As long as she had detected a place, she could almost determine exactly what had happened there.
Mu Yinfeng had actually forgotten to clean up the scene. In that case, Bing Ling’er would definitely discover her hidden strength and also discover that she had met the person calling herself the Snow God.
“Master, did you discover something wrong?”
“I feel that a self-destruction of that degree was not something you could block.” Bing Ling’er walked a few steps forward and held Mu Yinfeng’s hand. “Yinfeng, can you tell Master who that person was?”
Bing Ling’er’s eyes seemed to contain some kind of power, making Mu Yinfeng almost blurt out the words Snow God. But Mu Yinfeng’s mind trembled slightly and quickly steadied. She looked back at Bing Ling’er and shook her head.
“I do not know her.”
“Did she help you set up the barrier?”
When Bing Ling’er looked into her eyes, Mu Yinfeng felt countless silver needles stabbing at her sea of consciousness. If she did not tell the truth, those silver needles would stab in without hesitation.
“Master does not trust Third Junior Sister?” Huixue suddenly raised her head. A frost-snow mark flashed on her forehead. The fine silver light in Bing Ling’er’s eyes was swept away, and Mu Yinfeng felt her sea of consciousness return to normal.
“It is not that I do not trust Yinfeng. Xue’er, you are overthinking.” Bing Ling’er smiled. “I was only testing how far Yinfeng’s mental power has reached.”
This time, Huixue wrapped both arms around Mu Yinfeng’s neck and raised her eyes to Bing Ling’er, as if she were a guardian who would not give up even an inch.
“All right, all right. You really are… I have no way to deal with you.” Bing Ling’er turned away. “Xue’er, the spiritual energy tangled with Yinfeng’s below Frostfall Cliff is very similar to yours.”
Mu Yinfeng could feel Huixue’s arms stiffen. “Very similar… to mine?”
“But there are still differences.” The silver spiritual light on Bing Ling’er’s fingertip slowly drew back. “The spiritual energy below Frostfall Cliff is extremely high grade, not below Yinfeng’s. Someone like that cannot be found in Hanyou Valley, and probably not even in your Ice-Snow Domain, right?”
“Was it Your Majesty the Ice Emperor?”
Bing Ling’er shook her head. “Not him. Biyuntian’s ice body was cultivated later. He does not have such pure ice-snow spiritual energy.”
Then she turned her gaze to Mu Yinfeng. “Yinfeng, do you remember who that person was?”
Mu Yinfeng shook her head.
“You truly do not remember?”
Mu Yinfeng nodded.
“Since that is the case, forget it. If that person really were a Hanyou Valley disciple, I would want to train her well.” Bing Ling’er sighed regretfully and turned to Huixue, tossing her a dossier. “These are the disciples taking part in the Immortal Sects Assembly. Yongmu Peak will send people according to the usual rules. Yingxia Peak and Chengchen Peak will send fewer this time. Disciples’ lives are lives too.”
The two looked at each other and understood Bing Ling’er’s meaning. In Hanyou Valley, the main force was still Yingxia Peak and Chengchen Peak. As for Yongmu Peak, because most of its disciples were led by old elders, many of them did not obey Bing Ling’er’s authority. They could not be counted on at a critical time.
Since Bing Ling’er had arranged things this way, it meant Hanyou Valley would have fewer members in the team match. Most of the pressure would fall on the few of them. Bing Ling’er wanted to preserve the disciples’ lives, but she also wanted Hanyou Valley to obtain a decent ranking at the Immortal Sects Assembly. That meant the responsibility borne by Hanyou Valley’s three great disciples would be even heavier.
“Understood, Master.” Huixue accepted the dossier and walked to the door. “This disciple will inform them.”
“Xue’er, leave in three days. Treat these three days as special training for them. Let Chang Zui and Yinfeng handle the training.”
“Chang Zui and Third Junior Sister?” Huixue suddenly lifted her eyes. “Why?”
Bing Ling’er smiled with deep meaning. “Yinfeng, are you willing?”
In her heart, she still valued the marriage fate between Chang Zui and Mu Yinfeng. Although Mu Yinfeng had refused, Bing Ling’er felt that someone like Mu Yinfeng still did not understand love very well. Now that Huixue was watching her so tightly, she had even less time to interact with Chang Zui. Bing Ling’er truly had gone to great pains to create chances for the two of them.
What Bing Ling’er did not expect was Mu Yinfeng’s response. Mu Yinfeng neither agreed nor refused this time, but her gaze was full of confusion.
“I can do it alone. Why bring Senior Brother Chang?”