The Heroine Made a Pact With Senior Sister (GL) Chapter 7

“You want to know?” The Butterfly Spirit smiled faintly and gently raised one hand. “Because you yourself are connected to me by countless threads.”
“What?” Mu Yinfeng could hardly believe her ears. “Me, connected to you?”
“You do not need to know that much. This is enough for you.” The Butterfly Spirit spoke slowly. “I have already told you what you wanted to know. Now you should answer my question.”
Mu Yinfeng swept her eyes over the Butterfly Spirit and smiled softly. “You are a soul fragment of the Butterfly Goddess, but you did not inherit the Butterfly Goddess’s brain.”
“What did you say?”
“I am talking about you, of course.” Mu Yinfeng crossed her arms and smiled gently. “You attacked those newly married girls because you coveted their marriage threads, did you not? On the eve of a wedding, legend says the matchmaker god in heaven sends attendants to check the marriage threads again. That is the only time when the marriage threads can be seen by you.”
The Butterfly Spirit’s expression shifted slightly. She leaned against her own statue and silently studied Mu Yinfeng. In her eyes, Mu Yinfeng saw uncertainty and a faint trace of fear.
Mu Yinfeng had this kind of talent. She could see the emotions hidden in another person’s eyes. Even if there was only the slightest trace, her eyes could catch it.
“A marriage thread contains a portion of marriage power. But if you want to obtain that power, you have to do it through possession. Because you carry deep yin energy yourself, girls without spiritual energy or cultivation cannot bear it. That is why they lose their minds.” Mu Yinfeng stared into the Butterfly Spirit’s eyes and smiled brightly. “Am I right?”
The black energy around the Changyin Pearl held in the Butterfly Spirit’s palm grew thicker. The Changyin Pearl seemed to expand several times over, floating above her palm. The black energy pulsed up and down, restless and uneasy.
Just then, the jade coating on Mu Yinfeng’s body suddenly peeled away, turned into tiny jade-colored points of light, and vanished into the air.
“How is that possible?” Seeing the Jade Butterfly Seal fail, the Butterfly Spirit cried out.
“Nothing is impossible.” Mu Yinfeng gently crooked a finger. The Changyin Pearl naturally fell into her palm. Then Mu Yinfeng recited the true formula and was just about to summon her pipa when a streak of white light suddenly flashed. By instinct, she dodged backward and narrowly avoided the front of the white light’s attack.
The Changyin Pearl rolled onto the ground. Mu Yinfeng was just about to pick it up when the environment suddenly changed. A moment ago, mist had shrouded the area and hundreds of butterflies had danced. Now, wind and snow raged, bitterly cold. It was Huixue’s ice-snow domain!
“Senior Sister?”
“Do not speak. Stand behind me!”
Amid the boundless wind and snow, a woman in white held a white longsword, pointing it straight at the Butterfly Spirit across from her. When Huixue saw the Butterfly Spirit’s face, the blade in her hand trembled slightly.
“Senior Sister, that is the Butterfly Spirit. Destroy the Butterfly Goddess statue quickly. The statue is the foundation that supplies the Butterfly Spirit with endless power,” Mu Yinfeng shouted.
Huixue had not seen her threatening the Butterfly Spirit just now, had she? Surely… she could not be that unlucky?
But judging by how protective Huixue looked, probably not. Otherwise, Huixue might have pushed her out for training.
In Huixue’s ice-snow domain, the wind howled. Mu Yinfeng’s voice was quickly torn apart by the piercing gale. By the time it reached Huixue’s ears, only a few scattered words remained.
But Huixue still understood Mu Yinfeng’s meaning. She pointed Liufei at the base of the Butterfly Goddess statue, but did not bring the sword down.
“Senior Sister, quickly!” Mu Yinfeng urged. The wind and snow were too strong, blowing so hard she could not open her eyes. She could not find where the Changyin Pearl had gone at all. Now it was as if the Butterfly Spirit had already fulfilled the terms of that position-shifting spoken binding. If the Changyin Pearl fell into the Butterfly Spirit’s hands again, it would no longer count within the scope of heavenly punishment.
“All right.” Huixue tightened her grip on Liufei’s hilt and gathered power. She knew that if she followed her usual habits, she would have cut down without hesitation. But when the person before her had Mu Yinfeng’s face, she could not bring herself to act.
Why could she not act?
It was only Mu Yinfeng. What was she afraid of?
Just then, an icy blue light cut across the sky. Ten thousand ice flowers fell from above. The ice flowers clung to the base of the Butterfly Goddess statue and swiftly spread upward. In the blink of an eye, the entire statue was surrounded by icy blue flowers.
This was not Huixue’s doing. Mu Yinfeng suddenly raised her eyes. Huixue was a snow woman and was better at controlling snow, but everything before them clearly came from someone highly skilled at controlling ice. From the power displayed, this person’s strength seemed no lower than Huixue’s, and perhaps even higher.
“Who is there?” Mu Yinfeng asked warily, only to see Huixue slowly put away her sword. The moment the sword returned to its sheath, the ice-snow domain completely scattered.
“An old acquaintance.” Huixue slowly turned and bowed. “Huixue of the Snow Domain greets the Emperor of the Ice Domain.”
Mu Yinfeng turned to look. A blue-robed youth stood only a few steps away. He wore a strange mask that covered exactly half his face. Even with only half his face visible, one could see that this youth was peerlessly handsome, unmatched in the world.
With this outfit, plus Huixue’s form of address, this should be Biyuntian, the emperor of the Ice Domain.
In the book, Biyuntian was an extremely mysterious existence. Even his gender was a mystery. Some said he was a refined young man. Others said he was a bewitching young woman. Still others said he was an old person near the end of life. As for his true appearance, no one had ever seen it. Even if he truly stood before someone, the face he used might be a false shell. Although he was unfathomably mysterious, Mu Yinfeng remembered that he appeared twice in the book, and both times he saved her from danger.
From the look of it, he should be a friend, not an enemy.
After making that judgment, Mu Yinfeng also wanted to bow like Huixue, but halfway through, Huixue pulled her back. “Half a bow is enough. You are not from the Ice or Snow Domains. You do not need to perform the full rite.”
Biyuntian raised one hand, and a gentle spiritual flow lightly lifted the two of them. Then Biyuntian turned his wrist. Ten thousand strands of ice silk grew from his palm and firmly bound the Butterfly Spirit to the side.
“Thank you for helping us, Your Majesty the Ice Emperor,” Mu Yinfeng said, knowing Biyuntian was helping them.
Biyuntian nodded. At some point, the Changyin Pearl had fallen into his palm. Thick blue light wrapped around it, drawing in the yin energy surging around the pearl.
Mu Yinfeng felt a little regretful. If the Changyin Pearl had fallen into Biyuntian’s hands, she basically had no hope of getting it. If her prediction was right, then although Biyuntian had not acted many times, he was absolutely at the ceiling of combat power. A thousand years of accumulated cultivation was not accumulated for nothing.
It seemed the Changyin Pearl was fated not to belong to her after all.
“I have long had ties with the Butterfly Goddess,” Biyuntian said softly. “This demon has been rude, using the Butterfly Goddess’s name to commit evil. If Lady Huixue had not spoken of this matter, I fear I would have gained another sin.”
Mu Yinfeng was surprised. “It is not the Butterfly Goddess? Then this is…”
“This was once an evil god beneath the Butterfly Goddess’s seat. Because it abused its authority, the Butterfly Goddess suppressed it in Enji Village. Unexpectedly, when the Butterfly Goddess fell, this evil god absorbed one strand of the Butterfly Goddess’s divided soul and gained the power of the Jade Butterfly. Fortunately, its talent is dull, and it did not cultivate the Ice Butterfly or Yin Butterfly arts. Otherwise, this truly might have taken some effort.” Biyuntian explained without hurry.
Judging from Biyuntian’s manner, he seemed to know the events of the heavenly realm from back then very well. Mu Yinfeng thought about it and could not help asking the question that had troubled her for a long time.
“Your Majesty, Yinfeng has something she would like to ask. Why does the Butterfly Goddess look so much like Yinfeng…?”
The corner of Biyuntian’s lips curved, and he smiled faintly. “The resemblance is natural. But this concerns heavenly secrets and cannot be revealed. When the time is ripe, Miss Mu will understand on her own.”
Again, he would not tell her. Mu Yinfeng’s smile stiffened. She leaned closer to Huixue. This time, with Biyuntian present, Huixue did not avoid her and allowed Mu Yinfeng to hook her arm.
Biyuntian looked at the two girls and smiled softly again. He lightly pressed his palm over the Butterfly Spirit, and the Butterfly Spirit immediately shrank into a clear, glittering ice flower.
“This Changyin Pearl is a treasure passed down by the Butterfly Goddess herself.” After dealing with the Butterfly Spirit, Biyuntian turned back to Mu Yinfeng and Huixue. “It is only passed to one with fate. Consider it a meeting gift for Miss Mu.”
This…
For her? Had she heard wrong?
A supreme treasure like this, given away without even blinking. Was this the breadth of Biyuntian, Emperor of the Ice Domain?
Mu Yinfeng was afraid Biyuntian would regret it and had just been about to accept, but a hand blocked her before she could move. It snatched the Changyin Pearl faster than she could.
It was Huixue.
“The Emperor of the Ice Domain should know that only a few years remain before the heavenly prophecy from a thousand years ago,” Huixue said, clutching the Changyin Pearl and looking straight into Biyuntian’s eyes. “If the heavenly prophecy truly descends, an object like this will only cause great chaos. It would be better to destroy it.”
Heavenly prophecy?
Mu Yinfeng’s expression changed. She quickly cut in. “Whether it is a heavenly prophecy or something else, matters depend on human action. What does that have to do with spiritual objects?”
She knew too well what the heavenly prophecy was, because the main character who would bring chaos to the cultivation world in that prophecy was none other than her.
Because she felt guilty, she thought Huixue’s gaze on her was especially cold. “If one’s nature is poor, a spiritual object will only become a demonic object.”
Was Huixue implying something about her? Mu Yinfeng grew anxious. “A person’s nature needs guidance, does it not? If guided well, is that not enough? Who can say good and evil are born in someone from the start? Are they not slowly shaped later?”
Huixue ignored her and turned to Biyuntian, bowing deeply again. “The Changyin Pearl concerns a grave matter and cannot be entrusted lightly. Huixue asks the Emperor of the Ice Domain to think carefully.”
Mu Yinfeng could see that Huixue was determined not to let her obtain the Changyin Pearl. Since things had reached this point, she could only sigh and give up on her own. “If Senior Sister is unwilling to let Yinfeng use the Changyin Pearl, then Yinfeng will not use it. There is no need to trouble Your Majesty the Ice Emperor.”
In the future, she could give up the pipa and switch to sword cultivation, or focus entirely on cultivating mental power. Although she might not be able to sweep across the world as the original owner had, she at least would not be helpless in front of a powerful enemy.
Seeing this, Biyuntian did not state an opinion. He only smiled lightly. “You two may decide this between yourselves. Since the Changyin Pearl has already left my hand, from now on, I have no right to decide where it belongs.”
Then Biyuntian drifted away. Behind him, the Butterfly Goddess statue turned into ice powder and scattered down. The entire illusion realm collapsed in an instant. The people of Enji Village slowly woke. As the mist drifted apart, Mu Yinfeng saw Lin Qiudi stumbling toward them.
“Junior Sister Yinfeng! Junior Sister Yinfeng! I thought I would never see you again. Sure enough, you…” Lin Qiudi waved and called to Mu Yinfeng, then ran over and hugged her tightly. A moment later, she felt a coldness rise. She abruptly looked up and saw an icy beauty standing beside Mu Yinfeng. Her voice suddenly lowered. “Senior Sister?”
“You can handle the rest yourselves.” Huixue gave Mu Yinfeng a cold glance. “There are matters in Hanyou Valley. I will not keep you company.”