The Heroine Made a Pact With Senior Sister (GL) Chapter 75

Huixue sat upright in the carriage. For some reason, she felt uneasy. She raised her hand and happened to see the wind pattern flashing on the back of it.
On the originally pale-green wind pattern, there seemed to be a faint blood-red light flowing.
Had Mu Yinfeng run into danger?
But with Mu Yinfeng’s strength, it was almost impossible for her to face real danger. On top of that, she had the white tiger Chuying at her side. Very few people could silently attack her and succeed.
Huixue quietly left her carriage without alarming anyone and quickly rushed toward Mu Yinfeng’s carriage.
To guard against attacks from outside sects, they had arranged the procession this way. Elder Xuanwu sat at the very front to hold the line. Huixue stayed in the middle to watch the situation. Mu Yinfeng guarded the rear and oversaw the whole group. The Hanyou Valley disciples attending the Immortal Sects Assembly this time were weaker than usual, so they should have sent several more elders as escorts. But because Bing Ling’er was worried the witch clan might seize the chance to attack, she could only ask Huixue and Mu Yinfeng, the two strongest fighters in the group, to take the elders’ place.
Although Huixue had some objections to Bing Ling’er’s thinking, she had to admit that among these young disciples, only Mu Yinfeng could shoulder this responsibility. The witch clan’s Spirit-Trapping Locks had mostly targeted Yongmu Peak, the peak with the strongest fighting power, sealing the spiritual energy of nearly ninety percent of its elders. And among the disciples attending the assembly, there truly was no one impressive. Chang Zui had not recovered from his injuries, so Mu Yinfeng had to come.
Huixue had not told Mu Yinfeng these things directly. A task like this consumed a great deal of mental power. Even with Mu Yinfeng’s vast mental power, it would be hard for her to bear. Besides, if one person could do the job, there was no need to add another. If Huixue discovered anything, she could call Mu Yinfeng over through Chuying.
A normal attacker would never choose to strike the rear guard, because by cultivation-world custom, the person guarding the rear was often the strongest person in the whole procession. Attacking that person would only invite trouble. Huixue was certain there should be no one who could ambush Mu Yinfeng without Mu Yinfeng noticing at all.
Huixue landed on top of Mu Yinfeng’s carriage. She leaned down from the roof and lifted the curtain. Her expression changed sharply.
The carriage was empty. Not only was there no trace of Mu Yinfeng, even Chuying had vanished. Huixue narrowed her eyes and tried to communicate with Chuying, only to discover that her mental connection with Chuying had been cut off.
Mental-power isolation?
Huixue jumped into the carriage through the window. Everything inside was neatly arranged, with no sign of a fight, as if Mu Yinfeng and Chuying had left by themselves.
Or vanished into thin air.
Huixue knew Mu Yinfeng’s character. Mu Yinfeng was never someone who acted on her own without telling others. She would not move alone. Even if she did, Huixue’s mental connection with Chuying should not have been severed. Someone must have moved Mu Yinfeng away while Huixue was unaware.
If there had been a teleportation array in the carriage, Huixue would have found it when she inspected the carriage. That meant someone had used another method to move Mu Yinfeng while the carriage was traveling. Such a method required an extremely careful plan, and the person who used it had to have a high cultivation level.
Huixue stared at a smear of red left in the carriage. It was already very faint, as if it might scatter at any moment. She had just reached toward it, but halfway there, she pulled her hand back.
The instant she withdrew her hand, the remaining red mark disappeared completely into the air, scattering into a few faint points of golden light.
Although it lasted only an instant, Huixue clearly caught the remaining spiritual energy. It was scorching and tyrannical, like the sun in the sky, allowing no one to violate it.
This spiritual energy. Could it be her?
Thinking this, cold light flashed in Huixue’s eyes. She unfastened the top button of her inner robe and took out a pale-blue necklace pendant. The pendant was shaped like an ice crystal, clear and bright, scattering rainbow light beneath the sun.
“I can only rely on you now,” Huixue said softly, removing the pendant and gazing at the pale-blue ice crystal.
She fastened her robe again and smoothed her clothes. Spiritual light rose in her palm, and the ice crystal slowly expanded, turning into the shape of a small person. Huixue placed the little ice figure on the carriage seat, then took off Tianbing and covered the figure’s head with it.
As soon as Tianbing was placed down, the little figure began to grow quickly. In less than the time it took to burn one stick of incense, it had reached the height of an ordinary person. Huixue placed her index finger in her mouth and bit it hard. Several drops of blood splashed out and fell onto the ice figure.
As the blood sank in, the ice figure slowly began to move. It pulled Tianbing away from its face. If anyone else had been there, they would have been shocked, because the ice figure’s face looked exactly like Huixue’s.
“Protect them in my place, no matter the cost,” Huixue said calmly.
The ice figure nodded and placed Tianbing in its palm.
Only then did Huixue jump out of the carriage and quickly vanish into the dense woods.
Mu Yinfeng stood behind a tree and listened for a while. The corpses around her were likely guard disciples from Shanglin Sect. Shanglin Sect was a mid-sized sect. These guard disciples were there to protect the inner disciples attending the Immortal Sects Assembly. They moved around the outer edge of the inner disciples’ group to shield them. The people now gathering here should be Shanglin Sect’s inner disciples.
At first glance, these guard disciples had all been killed by a dagger or sword slitting their throats. In truth, they had died because extreme yin power had drained their souls dry. This was an extremely wicked spell that used other people’s soul power to raise one’s own cultivation. It was exactly Lord Lanfeng’s specialty in her memories.
But now, the situation was different. The spiritual energy flowing in her body had not increased. That was enough to prove these people had not been killed by her.
Since she had not killed them, yet she had fallen among the bodies, she had clearly been framed. Then it was very possible that in her previous life, Lord Lanfeng had not personally taken part in the slaughter either. Someone might have deliberately turned suspicion toward Lord Lanfeng.
At that thought, Mu Yinfeng’s face went slightly pale. One hand gripped the tree trunk beside her, while the other pressed tightly against her lips so she would not make a sound.
Who was it? Who was framing her like this? What was their motive?
The Shanglin Sect elder ordered his disciples to carry the bodies away so they could be returned to the sect for burial. They soon left the area. The leading elder looked around once, and Mu Yinfeng instinctively drew her head back, not daring to keep watching. Only after every rustling footstep disappeared did she dare to look out again.
The people from Shanglin Sect were all gone.
“Was it you?”
A voice suddenly came from behind her. Mu Yinfeng was startled, and Severing Love left its sheath. Trusting her instincts, she swung backward and aimed the blade at the person’s throat.
“What are you doing?”
“No need to be so fierce, right? I did not do anything to you.” Flame Maiden raised both hands, her tone rather helpless. “Miss Mu, it is me.”
“Flame Maiden?”
She truly lingered like a haunting shadow. Only then did Mu Yinfeng withdraw her sword, her tone icy. “Why did you follow me?”
“You… you truly will not consider dual cultivating with me?” Flame Maiden pressed her hands together, her tone sincere. “Dual cultivation is not actually that frightening. Why do children like you all treat dual cultivation like some great disaster? Who taught you this?”
“Even if I were to dual cultivate, it would not be with you.” Mu Yinfeng looked Flame Maiden up and down. “I do not like someone like you.”
“Dual cultivation does not require liking each other.” Flame Maiden blurted it out. “Is dual cultivation not for raising one’s strength? If it is only about liking someone, then what are you thinking of? If you do it for affection, do you not care about your own cultivation anymore?”
“…”
For a moment, Mu Yinfeng actually could not refute her.
“So think about it again. Dual cultivating with me is pure profit with no loss. You will never find anyone more suitable than me. I am the closest in age to you. The other divine envoys are at least seventy or eighty. I am only in my thirties this year. And you and I belong to the yin and yang of the Two Modes. We can complement and contain each other. Miss Mu, why not think it over?”
“Think what over?”
Just then, a figure swept past from behind and stopped beside Mu Yinfeng. A pale, slender hand rested on Mu Yinfeng’s shoulder, and a thin veil of snowy gauze fell beside them. The movement seemed as if the person wanted to pull Mu Yinfeng into her arms.
“You are…” Flame Maiden’s fiery red eyes reflected a snow-white figure, and her tone was startled.
“Since you know it is me, why are you not leaving?” the snow-white figure asked coldly, impatient.
“Who are you?” Flame Maiden’s eyes were full of confusion.
The snow-white figure almost choked from anger. “If you do not know me, why say that?”
“Then what should I say?” Flame Maiden stared into the uninvited guest’s pale-blue eyes. For no clear reason, a chill spread from her soul and instantly reached every part of her body.
This person’s aura actually suppressed hers? Flame Maiden could not believe it. Since the year she turned fifteen and was chosen as a divine envoy by the Sun Star Lord who descended to the lower realm, she had always been the one suppressing others. This was the first time she had been suppressed by someone else.
“You… who exactly are you?” Flame Maiden took a step back and drew her sword. Rolling heat rushed out as the treasured sword left its sheath, carrying powerful true yang energy. For a moment, the yin energy inside Mu Yinfeng broke free of her control and surged out, protecting her so she would not be harmed by the yang energy.
“You do not need to ask who I am. I can only tell you that your plan has failed, because you will never obtain Yinfeng.” The person laughed softly. Her arm curled slightly, and she reached out as if to hook Mu Yinfeng’s chin. Mu Yinfeng hurriedly dodged, only to stumble by accident into the person’s arms.
This stumble was like prey throwing itself into a hunter’s mouth. The figure smoothly lifted Mu Yinfeng in both arms and looked straight into Flame Maiden’s eyes.
“So you are her Dao companion? She refused to dual cultivate with me because of you?” Flame Maiden did not look at the snow-white figure. She turned to Mu Yinfeng in the figure’s arms. “Is that true?”
Mu Yinfeng hesitated, looked at the face above her, then nodded.
“Fine. Since you are unwilling, I will not force you. But if you ever change your mind, Miao’an Cave on Cangjue Mountain will always be open to you.” Flame Maiden did not keep pestering her and turned to leave. She had just taken one step when she suddenly looked back and smiled at the snow-white figure. “Even so, I feel like you are not as pretty as I am.”
With that, she vanished from their sight even faster than her laughter faded.
“You!” Hearing this, the snow-white figure was furious and was about to chase after her. At that moment, Mu Yinfeng jumped out of her arms and stopped her.
But what Mu Yinfeng said only made the snow-white figure even angrier, with nowhere to vent it.
“Forget it. She was telling the truth.”
“Yinfeng, how can you say that too?!”
“Am I wrong?” Mu Yinfeng looked at her. With a sweep of Severing Love, she pointed the blade straight at the figure’s chest. It seemed that if Mu Yinfeng moved her wrist, Severing Love would pierce right through. “A clumsy imitation can never compare to the original. Am I right, Snow God?”