The Heroine Made a Pact With Senior Sister (GL) Chapter 74

Mu Yinfeng slowly opened her eyes. By then, the white mist had scattered, and the moving carriage had vanished. She was inside a fiery red cavern. Waves of powerful solar energy surged toward her, making her Primordial Yin body deeply uncomfortable.
It seemed someone had prepared an ambush for her on that road long ago. Mu Yinfeng placed her hand on Severing Love and slowly stood, looking around the cavern.
The cavern was filled with surging yang spiritual energy. There was not even a trace of yin energy. Mu Yinfeng withdrew her probing senses, a little startled. The balance of yin and yang was the root that kept the world in order. In some places, because of the land itself, the amount of yin and yang energy might lean more toward one side, but it was impossible for only one kind of spiritual energy to exist.
Unless this was that legendary place.
The place where Sun Star Lord had cultivated and ascended: Miao’an Cave on Cangjue Mountain.
Mu Yinfeng narrowed her eyes. Enduring the piercing light from the cave walls, she tried to find the faint writing carved there. Because so many years had passed, the writing was blurry, and it was written in an ancient script. For a while, Mu Yinfeng could only recognize a few characters here and there. She could not connect them into a sentence at all.
“This is Miao’an Cave on Cangjue Mountain, Miss Yinfeng.”
A clear voice rang out behind her. Mu Yinfeng turned and saw a long-haired girl standing there. Countless strands of black hair fell over her shoulders. Her looks were graceful and beautiful, her clothes and bearing elegant. Her voice was like the cry of a luan bird and a phoenix, bright and clear.
“Who are you?” Mu Yinfeng asked instinctively.
This girl did not reveal her aura, so Mu Yinfeng could not sense her strength. Even so, she gave Mu Yinfeng a dangerous pressure, making Mu Yinfeng feel that she was unfathomable.
In the legends, the ascension sites of divine officials were all treasured places for quiet cultivation. Countless cultivators would fight until their heads bled for the chance to jump into such a fire pit. But Miao’an Cave on Cangjue Mountain was one of the few exceptions. When Sun Star Lord ascended, the pure solar true energy he left behind had driven away all yin spiritual energy across Cangjue Mountain, and it had not gathered again for many years. Miao’an Cave was the place where yang energy was strongest.
Because of that, very few people were willing to approach Miao’an Cave. The yang energy here was too pure, and it was all innate yang of the Two Modes, with the five elements distributed very evenly. Aside from someone with an innate yang spiritual root, almost no one would want to cultivate in this place.
It seemed this girl had an innate yang spiritual root. A girl born with a Primordial Yang body was even rarer than Mu Yinfeng’s Primordial Yin spiritual root.
“Miss Yinfeng must already have guessed.” The Primordial Yang girl gathered her black hair and fixed it with a jade hairpin. Her fiery red robes moved without wind, making her look even more extraordinary and stunningly beautiful. “I am the only woman in this age with a Primordial Yang body, Flame Maiden.”
Flame Maiden was someone the book had only mentioned in passing. She had never appeared on the page. Facing such an unknown person, Mu Yinfeng naturally became alert.
“So it is Miss Flame Maiden.” Mu Yinfeng smiled lightly. “May I ask why you brought me here?”
“I want to dual cultivate with you.” Flame Maiden stated her purpose without hiding it. Seeing Mu Yinfeng’s stunned gaze, she smiled again and continued, “I have a Primordial Yang body, and Miss Yinfeng has a Primordial Yin body. If we cultivate together, we may both obtain the legendary Taiji Chaos Body. This would benefit us both. Miss Yinfeng will not refuse, will you?”
“I see.” Mu Yinfeng turned her face away. “I refuse.”
“Why?” Now it was Flame Maiden’s turn to be stunned. “Do you not want a body that can reverse time, space, life, and death? With such a body, even without ascension, you would already stand beyond reincarnation.”
“There is already someone in my heart. I cannot agree to such an unreasonable condition. If Miss Flame Maiden wants to fight me, then please do as you like. I will never shrink from battle.”
As she spoke, the blood vine shot out and charged straight at Flame Maiden. Flame Maiden did not panic. She flipped away, and dazzling golden light flared in her palm, instantly dissolving the blood vine’s attack.
The blood vine returned to Mu Yinfeng’s hand. Several of its blood-red leaves had been burned black and withered. Flame Maiden stood where she was, while a few drops of blood slowly seeped from her palm.
“Is it truly impossible? Miss Yinfeng may as well think carefully about whether this can be done. I am not in a hurry.” Golden light flashed again in Flame Maiden’s palm, sealing the wound there. Her tone was calm, with no trace of anger from being injured.
“My mind is made up.” Mu Yinfeng walked toward the cave entrance. There was no yin energy here, so she could not use her Primordial Yin Domain. Her spiritual energy would only decrease the more she used it, with no source to replenish it. She had to leave as soon as possible.
But just as she was about to step out of the cave, golden light flashed at the entrance and knocked her back.
A barrier?
In legend, Sun Star Lord of the Heavenly Realm was also famous for setting barriers. Mu Yinfeng tested it by reaching out again. Golden light flashed once more and pushed her hand away. At the instant she was repelled, Mu Yinfeng saw the sun patterns on that shining golden film of light.
“That is the Solar Prison. Miss Yinfeng cannot break it,” Flame Maiden added from behind her. “No matter what, Miss Yinfeng is still human. You cannot contend with divine power.”
“Divine?”
“Lord Sun taught me the Solar Prison.” Flame Maiden pressed a slender finger to her lips and smiled faintly. “Miss Yinfeng, there is no need to be surprised. I am what people call the Sun divine envoy. Is this identity worthy enough for you?”
“I do not choose whom I dual cultivate with based on status. I am not a casual person.” Mu Yinfeng slowly drew Severing Love. Faint dark-blue light flowed over the blade, but against the solid red glow of yang spiritual energy, its original brilliance was much weaker.
“That wooden sword of yours cannot withstand the Solar Prison.” Flame Maiden leaned against the cave wall. Her fair face was tinted red by the light. “A wooden sword is still a wooden sword. In the end…”
Her words cut off halfway.
At that moment, Severing Love burst with spiritual light. A cold, gloomy killing aura swept through the entire Miao’an Cave. For a moment, Flame Maiden felt fear like a tide surge over her and drag her away.
What was happening?
She had not felt such suffocating fear in many years. Flame Maiden closed her eyes instinctively. When she opened them again, she suddenly saw that the Solar Prison at the cave entrance had vanished without a trace.
Fragments of spiritual energy swirled around Mu Yinfeng. Red and blue intertwined, forming brilliant colors. The girl within the vortex wore black robes that drifted around her, like a banished immortal descending to the mortal world. Her presence was charming and noble in its own way, yet Flame Maiden felt fear rise from the deepest part of her heart.
That fear was like a shiver from the soul, a suppression born from a complete gap in spiritual power. Not only spiritual power. Even in soul power, Mu Yinfeng stood far above her.
That was impossible. Even if Mu Yinfeng was a Primordial Yin woman and her mental power was stronger than that of ordinary people, Flame Maiden had tempered her soul for many years. How could her level be lower than Mu Yinfeng, who was not even fifteen?
“Wait!”
“Does Miss Flame Maiden have more to say?”
Mu Yinfeng slowly looked back. In her pupils, Flame Maiden saw only icy coldness. There was nothing else, as if Mu Yinfeng were only a soulless shell, and all feeling had nothing to do with her.
For a moment, Flame Maiden was so frightened that she stepped back. Only when her back pressed against the cave wall did she steady herself. She had investigated Mu Yinfeng’s strength before. By her calculations, Mu Yinfeng’s strength should have been about the same as hers. With the extreme yang power of Miao’an Cave suppressing her as well, Mu Yinfeng should have been helpless before her, unable to escape this cave.
Yet the situation had turned out like this.
The one who could not fight back was her!
She looked at Mu Yinfeng’s back as Mu Yinfeng held Severing Love, and her heart stirred uncontrollably. She secretly swore that only a girl like this was worthy of someone like her. No matter what it took, she would make Mu Yinfeng hers.
After Mu Yinfeng left the range of Cangjue Mountain, she quickly pressed down the wind and landed. She sat cross-legged where she was and focused on regulating her breath.
To cut through the Solar Prison barrier, she had used the second form of the Severing Love sword art. In an instant, coldness had filled her heart and stripped away all her emotions.
Mu Yinfeng faintly felt that if she did not control Severing Love’s power, sooner or later her emotions would be completely severed by it. When that time came, she might become a merciless killing machine.
After she regulated her breath for a long while, the coldness in her heart gradually faded. Mu Yinfeng let out a brief sigh of relief. Then a strange smell of blood rushed into her nose, and she instinctively opened her eyes.
Bodies lay scattered all around her. Judging by their clothes and personal items, they should have been a group of cultivators. But who had killed these cultivators?
From the shape of the wounds, each had been killed by one slash to the throat. The method was fierce and decisive, enough to make Mu Yinfeng’s heart chill. She released her mental power and sensed the spiritual energy left on the wounds. Her pupils suddenly shrank.
The spiritual energy on these cultivators’ wounds was extremely yin, and the five elements were chaotic.
In other words, the remaining spiritual energy on the wounds was hers.
When had she killed these cultivators? And why? She had clearly been meditating just now.
Could there be another version of her awakened inside her body, one that had controlled her body while she was unguarded and killed these cultivators?
Mu Yinfeng bit her lip and reached into her robe, taking out the dagger she usually used.
The dagger shone bright silver under the sunlight. There was not the slightest bloodstain on it.
She looked again at Severing Love. Severing Love was a divine sword and listened only to her commands. In other words, no one but her could draw it.
Both the dagger and Severing Love were spotless. It seemed this had not been her doing. If so, who had killed these people?
And why did that person have spiritual energy with the same attributes as hers?
Just then, Mu Yinfeng faintly heard footsteps and voices around her. She sprang up and hid in the woods. At the same time, she restrained her aura until she almost blended into the surroundings. No one could find her trace.
Soon, people appeared within her sight. The old man at the front bent down and looked at the wounds on the victims’ necks. His expression changed sharply.