The Heroine Made a Pact With Senior Sister (GL) Chapter 68

The moment Mu Yinfeng said this, she felt Bing Ling’er’s aura sharpen by three points. Huixue felt the same. The hand she had placed on Mu Yinfeng’s shoulder tightened slightly.
Mu Yinfeng knew Bing Ling’er was unhappy. Everyone in Hanyou Valley knew Bing Ling’er favored Chang Zui. And everyone in the valley also knew Bing Ling’er wanted to match Chang Zui and Mu Yinfeng into a life pact. Because of this fixed fact, no male disciple in Hanyou Valley dared flirt with Mu Yinfeng. Of course, the female disciples of Hanyou Valley could only keep their distance from Chang Zui as well.
Even so, Mu Yinfeng still had to make Bing Ling’er understand her thoughts. Although Chang Zui was always thinking of using her as a cultivation vessel, she knew now was not the time to kill him, because now was not the time to break with Hanyou Valley.
If she broke with Hanyou Valley, she would become isolated and helpless. Even if Huixue could secretly protect her, it would not solve the root problem. Alone, she could not resist the whole world’s greed for her. An ordinary person was innocent, but possessing a treasure was a crime. Her primordial yin body meant she could not have true allies.
She also did not want to use the Spirit Gu Control Curse to control the common people under heaven. She felt she could not do that kind of thing.
But Bing Ling’er quickly returned to normal. She looked at Mu Yinfeng, her gaze as gentle as before. “Yinfeng, you do not want to work with Chang Zui?”
Mu Yinfeng shook her head. “This disciple can do it alone.”
“Alone is still a little too forced. After all, there are thirty disciples on the list, and they are all your senior brothers and sisters…” Bing Ling’er sighed and did not continue.
There was nothing wrong with those words. In Hanyou Valley, Mu Yinfeng was the youngest. Asking her to lead senior brothers and sisters ten or twenty years older than her truly would not convince the crowd. Surely she could not just beat them into obedience?
But beyond Bing Ling’er’s expectations, Mu Yinfeng met her gaze and smiled. That smile startled Bing Ling’er inwardly.
“I alone can do it. I think Second Senior Brother should use this time to cultivate properly. At the Immortal Sects Assembly, cultivation still matters most. After all, in the individual matches, each person may wear no more than three spiritual artifacts.”
She said this politely, but it was not exactly courteous. It was clearly saying Chang Zui had no cultivation and had reached his current level only by relying on equipment. Bing Ling’er was left speechless.
As Chang Zui’s master, she naturally understood the strength of her three disciples. Huixue was a blessed snow woman with the noblest bloodline of the snow clan flowing in her body. Mu Yinfeng was a woman of primordial yin with the extreme yin attribute of chaos. By comparison, Chang Zui fell far short. Although his talent counted as above average among his peers, compared with these two women, he could only watch their dust from behind.
“I will accompany Third Junior Sister,” Huixue said on her own. “With me there, no matter how proud those disciples are, they probably will not dare act as they please.”
Bing Ling’er could not out-argue them and had to compromise. “That is fine too. But Xue’er, you must take good care of Yinfeng. You cannot bully her whenever you like.”
Bing Ling’er knew very well where Mu Yinfeng and Huixue did not get along. When Mu Yinfeng first came to Hanyou Valley, Bing Ling’er had arranged for Huixue and Mu Yinfeng to live together. But Mu Yinfeng would rather sleep outside every night than enter Huixue’s Reed Snow Residence. Later, Bing Ling’er wanted to arrange for the two to carry out missions together, but Mu Yinfeng turned around and went to Chang Zui’s side. In the end, Bing Ling’er had no choice but to separate Huixue and Mu Yinfeng. For some reason, though, Huixue and Mu Yinfeng had recently grown this close.
“It is rare for you two to be so close, but this is good.” Bing Ling’er stood and saw them to the door. “I will send word to these disciples tonight and have them gather below Frostfall Cliff tomorrow. If only we could open the secret realm.”
Hearing this, Huixue abruptly lifted her eyes. “Master wants to open the secret realm for their training?”
“Forget it. If Aying were here, she could maintain the secret realm, but now we can only leave it. Aying used to guard the secret realm in Hanyou Valley.” As she spoke, Bing Ling’er forced a smile at Huixue. “Xue’er, do not worry. Master has already found clues about Aying.”
“What clues?”
“At the scene of this disappearance, a very pure Jia wood spiritual energy was left behind. It is possible that when Aying fought Yimu, someone with a Jia wood spiritual root took advantage of them both. If someone could benefit from a clash between Yimu and Xin Metal, it may very well be that Jia Wood.”
Huixue nodded. “Thank you, Master. But after returning from the Immortal Sects Assembly, this disciple still wishes to ask permission to descend the mountain and investigate this personally.”
“Jia Wood appears and disappears like a ghost. Xue’er, be careful.”
Jia Wood? Could it be the Jia Wood divine envoy among the ten great divine envoys?
Mu Yinfeng thought back over the plot in the book. This Jia Wood existed only in the text. He did not even have the share of a passerby. All Mu Yinfeng knew about Jia Wood was that Jia Wood was male, his domain was something like miasma, and others described him as appearing and disappearing like a ghost, strange and unpredictable.
But when Mu Yinfeng carefully compared their battle strength, she realized Jia Wood’s strength might not really be as great as the legends claimed. No matter how ghostly and unpredictable Jia Wood was, he still could not compare with Yimu’s Myriad Manifestations perfectly blending with the environment. Also, Jia Wood’s spiritual energy and physical arts were not especially outstanding. His spiritual energy output was only upper-middle among high-level cultivators.
Yimu was skilled at hiding and evasion. Ruoying’s full-force attack was astonishingly powerful. For Jia Wood to sit back and take advantage of both of them felt too strange. Also, judging from the remaining spiritual energy at the scene, it had not reached the level of Yimu and Ruoying both suffering heavy losses.
“You also noticed something wrong, did you not, Yinfeng?”
The night was dark. A cloud drifted over and covered the bright moonlight.
“How does Senior Sister see it?”
“Was it Jia Wood?” Huixue slowly shook her head and recalled her experiences in her last life. It was not as if she had never come into contact with Jia Wood. She had evaluated the abilities of the ten great divine envoys. Among them, the weakest was naturally the Gui Water divine envoy. The strongest was probably Yimu. Jia Wood was above average, but he was definitely not Yimu and Xin Metal’s match.
Just when Mu Yinfeng thought Huixue could not say anything and was waiting for her to speak, Huixue asked a question. “How many people possess Jia wood spiritual roots?”
“Probably quite a few.” Mu Yinfeng thought for a moment. “Guiyuan Tower should have records.”
Guiyuan Tower kept general records of the spiritual root attributes of cultivators in the world. As long as those cultivators had registered at Guiyuan Tower, they would appear in Guiyuan Tower’s name register. Every sect that wanted to accept disciples had to inform Guiyuan Tower in advance, because Guiyuan Tower would provide those cultivators some support. The exception was someone like Mu Yinfeng, whose body type was hidden for fear that possessing a treasure would invite crime.
But who had leaked the matter of her primordial yin body was still unknown. Mu Yinfeng clearly remembered that this was not part of the original book’s plot. In any case, the plot was already a pot of chaos. She could only struggle to survive in this reverse current.
“If I remember correctly, placing in the Immortal Sects Assembly gives one the chance to study at Guiyuan Tower,” Huixue said, lowering her head slightly to look at Mu Yinfeng. “Yinfeng, do you want to go?”
“Wherever Senior Sister wants to go, I will follow.” Mu Yinfeng placed her hand into Huixue’s. Just then, a miserable meow sounded. Only then did Mu Yinfeng realize that Chuying, who had been nestled in her arms, had been dropped onto the ground.
Chuying pitifully pawed at the hem of Mu Yinfeng’s robe, as if wanting to climb up her leg. Helpless, Mu Yinfeng had to pull back her hand and pick up the wronged little cat again.
“It seems Chuying’s relationship with you is not bad now. That is good,” Huixue said with a smile.
“I really do not understand Chuying’s temper. At first, it scratched and clawed and bit at me, but now it is this clingy.” As Mu Yinfeng spoke, she stroked Chuying’s head. “Senior Sister, why do you think Chuying became like this?”
“Probably because my spiritual energy remains in your body and has blended with yours. Chuying has also submitted to you.” Huixue thought about it and glanced at the three faintly visible wind patterns on the back of her hand. She sighed inwardly. “Yinfeng, thank you.”
“Thank me?”
“You separated the Ren water spiritual root from my body,” Huixue said slowly. “If not for that, I would not have had the right to inherit the Snow God’s position. The snow woman line was not truly meant to balance yin and yang. It was an excuse to bind me forever to the Snow Domain.”
Mu Yinfeng’s hand, which had been playing with Chuying’s fur, suddenly stopped, making Chuying glare at her in dissatisfaction.
“Why did the Snow Domain want to bind Senior Sister there forever? Would it not be better for Senior Sister to ascend?”
“In truth, my birth was an ill omen from the start. Otherwise, I would not have been sent to the human world.” Huixue spread her palm. Deep blue light curled around her fingertips, almost blending with the night. “I have always wanted to escape the Ren water in my body, but because it was fused too deeply, I could not free myself.”
In her last life, she had tried many times. She had even used very unusual methods with Mu Yinfeng to try to remove the Ren water spiritual root in her body, but in the end, she had not succeeded. Unexpectedly, in this life, after blending spiritual energy with Mu Yinfeng only once, she had successfully forced out the Ren water spiritual root.
Forcing out the Ren water spiritual root meant she had a chance to inherit the Snow God’s position. She had heard that the Snow God was one of the divine officials of the Department of Nature. If she could ascend, perhaps she would have the strength to stop Mu Yinfeng from committing crimes in the future.
The young woman before her was obedient and sensible, infinitely yielding to her. Who would think that in the future, she could become a murderous demon burdened with countless blood debts?
Feeling the aura of Huixue’s spiritual energy, Mu Yinfeng inexplicably felt a chill rise up her back.
The spiritual energy curling around Huixue’s fingertips was almost identical to the Snow God’s spiritual energy that had helped her stop the witch clan member’s self-destruction below Frostfall Cliff.
That Snow God had told her that the human world’s sayings about the Snow God were split in two: one was the Snow God, one of the twelve divine officials of the Heavenly Realm’s Department of Nature; the other was a Heaven-grade Zi-rank evil being who ruled the Snow Domain.
Which one was the current Huixue?
Who had cursed her back then? And who had fought her in the end?
In an instant, Mu Yinfeng could not help reaching out and grabbing Huixue’s hand. Chuying fell to the ground again.
This time, however, she did not pay attention to Chuying.
Their eyes met, each reflected in the other’s pupils. Mu Yinfeng clearly saw that when her own image fell into Huixue’s eyes, she looked cold and faint, like a poisonous snake beneath the moon.
She could hear her own low, trembling breath, and a voice so unreal it seemed to come from the edge of the sky. It was as if someone else were controlling her, not as if she had asked it herself.
“Senior Sister, if you are the Snow God, then which one are you?”