The Heroine Made a Pact With Senior Sister (GL) Chapter 77

That throwing dart had clearly been aimed at her. The instant it grazed past her shoulder, Mu Yinfeng felt a strong killing intent.
After dodging the attack, she quickly released her mental power. In an instant, it covered the area within a hundred meters around her. Once she finished probing, her expression turned very ugly.
Seven high-level cultivators and more than twenty mid-level cultivators were slowly closing in around her in a circle. They had all lightened their steps and hidden their auras. If Mu Yinfeng had not released her mental power, she might not have sensed them even if they had been standing behind her.
From their clothes, swords, and the protective arts circulating around them, Mu Yinfeng recognized them as the Shanglin Sect people from earlier. Judging from their auras, they had already decided she was the murderer who had killed Shanglin Sect’s disciples.
“Demoness, come out and die at once!” The leader saw that Mu Yinfeng had dodged successfully and knew the ambush had been exposed, so he simply stepped out and shouted at her.
Mu Yinfeng turned and stared at the first person to appear. A faint smile hung on her face, but the cold darkness in her eyes made one’s heart tremble.
“Who are you?” Mu Yinfeng asked softly.
“The one taking your life!” That person drew his sword and charged fiercely at Mu Yinfeng.
Mu Yinfeng smiled slightly. Red light flashed around her wrist, and the blood vine appeared in her hand. A blood-red streak like lightning flashed past and struck the charging man aside, sending him crashing hard into a tree.
The man was smashed dizzy. Before he could climb up, he suddenly saw the black hem of a robe swaying before his eyes. Dark patterns on the hem were eerie and frightening.
The girl smiled as if she were harmless. The blood vine in her hand slowly wrapped around him like a poisonous snake. He tried desperately to cry out for help, but Mu Yinfeng tossed a dagger from her other hand and cut off his tongue.
Blood sprayed out. The blood vine absorbed it, and its red light suddenly dimmed, as if it had eaten poison. Seeing this, Mu Yinfeng bit her fingertip and fed the blood vine a few drops of blood. Only then did the blood vine return to its usual state.
“You want to kill me?” Mu Yinfeng’s voice could even be called gentle, but there was a bone-deep chill hidden in that gentleness. Her black eyes stared at the man. A terrifying vortex turned within them, as if one careless glance would be enough to be swallowed by those eyes.
Who would have thought such eyes would grow on a smiling, lovely face? Who would have thought that someone with such a gentle smile and voice would cut out a person’s tongue like this?
The high-level cultivators surrounding her were frightened. None of them dared take another step forward. As for the mid-level cultivators, they had long since been scared witless and were hiding in the dense forest, trembling. None dared come out to die.
Mu Yinfeng had no mercy for those who wanted to kill her. This was not a friendly sparring match between sect disciples. This was a true fight of life and death. Just as with Jia Rong and Juechenzi, fellow disciples who had tried to force her into dual cultivation, it was not impossible for her to kill.
Mu Yinfeng knew that if she truly killed this Shanglin Sect man before her, she would be branded the culprit who had killed Shanglin Sect’s guard disciples before she had any time to explain.
But when every spearhead pointed at her, even if she truly had not done it, who would believe her?
Since both outcomes were no different, there was no need for her to hesitate. Mu Yinfeng controlled the blood vine and pulled the man in front of her. She turned his face and forced him to look into her eyes. The Linglong Heart Method activated at once and emptied his memories.
So that was how it was.
After reading his memories, Mu Yinfeng sneered inwardly. At the same time, strands of her mental power suddenly drilled into the man’s sea of consciousness and seized it.
Spirit Gu Control Curse.
At the same time, the blood vine’s vast life force poured into the man’s body, almost swelling him until he burst. Then his tongue grew back. Aside from looking rather battered, he seemed no different from a normal person.
She controlled the man and made him walk back to his companions. These cultivators did not suspect their own companion. They had just been about to ask what had happened when they saw him raise his sword and prepare to cut off their heads.
At that critical moment, the man’s hand stopped.
The others looked at one another, then all jumped back several steps. No one knew what was happening.
“Second Brother, wake up. It is us!” one of them said tentatively.
“Yes, yes, it is us!”
These were all high-level cultivators of Shanglin Sect. It was their first time seeing a high-level cultivator suddenly lose control. Their opponent was only a female disciple who, judging by age, should be mid-level at most. Even if her talent was outstanding, she was still limited by her age. Could their brother have been bewitched by beauty and then…
At that moment, they all felt a chill at once.
A snow-robed girl stood in the middle of the forest. In her arms lay a black-robed girl. That black-robed girl was the target they had surrounded, Mu Yinfeng.
“You are… you are Huixue?” One of them recognized the person before him. “What is she to you?”
“Is the Shanglin Sect Master asking when he already knows?” Huixue asked back. “Sect Master, you should know very well how many Primordial Yin women there are in the world.”
“She is your…”
“Junior sister, the third disciple of Hanyou Valley’s Valley Master.” Huixue looked at the Shanglin Sect Master. The chill in her pale-blue eyes was piercing. “Shanglin Sect sent seven high-level cultivators and twenty-six mid-level cultivators to surround one small disciple? What an impressive formation.”
“You are only a junior disciple. Is this how you speak to your elders?” The Shanglin Sect Master was furious. “Look at your junior sister. Is anything wrong with her? But our junior brother, our junior brother… what has he become?”
“If you had not attacked first, Yinfeng would not have struck you on her own,” Huixue said coldly. “In the cultivation world, the strong are respected. Shanglin Sect Master, do you dare issue a life-and-death challenge against me?”
At the words life-and-death challenge, everyone’s expressions changed. In the cultivation world, such a challenge meant a duel that ignored life and death. Unless both sides reconciled midway, those who issued it would fight until one of them died. This kind of fight almost only appeared between people with a blood feud.
“Are you certain?”
“If Shanglin Sect Master does not want that, you may refuse.” Huixue’s voice was cold and clear. “I will not force you.”
The Shanglin Sect Master was the master of a sect, so he was not an impulsive person. He had seen Huixue’s performance at the last Immortal Sects Assembly, and he had also heard that Huixue was the young mistress of the Snow Realm and possessed the legendary divine sword Liufei. Although he counted as a high-level cultivator, he was at the very bottom of that level and had no strength to fight Huixue.
“I do not fight with juniors.” The Shanglin Sect Master cared about his dignity and found an excuse. “But you should explain your junior sister’s actions. Why did she kill our Shanglin Sect disciples?”
Huixue froze. “She killed Shanglin Sect disciples?”
“We are attending the Immortal Sects Assembly and found a squad of disciples dead under strange circumstances. Yin energy had entered their bodies and drained their cultivation and souls. You just mentioned how few Primordial Yin women exist in this world. How do you explain that?”
“Yin energy entered their bodies and drained their cultivation and souls…” Huixue repeated those words. Her hands trembled slightly. Faced with such an accusation, she unexpectedly did not know what to say.
In her previous life, when Mu Yinfeng slaughtered the cultivation world, she had used the same wicked method to raise her cultivation. Mu Yinfeng’s yin energy truly could devour everything: all spiritual energy, all life force…
Huixue pressed her lips together, instinctively glanced at the unconscious Mu Yinfeng in her arms, then suddenly lifted her head. “That is impossible!”
“Everyone says Hanyou Valley protects its own. It seems Miss Huixue truly has such a talent.” Although the Shanglin Sect Master did not have the Linglong Heart Method to read minds, he was very good at watching expressions. He had already seen a tiny change in Huixue’s eyes, and that change was enough to confirm Huixue’s thoughts. Huixue already believed Mu Yinfeng was the murderer.
“Second Brother, if you can hear me, say something.” He reached out and pushed the man who had chased Mu Yinfeng earlier, but to his surprise, that man fell to the ground from the push. Seeing this, the Shanglin Sect Master flew into a rage and flung a stream of spiritual energy toward Mu Yinfeng.
At that moment, a wall of snow rose out of thin air and dissolved the attack.
“Sect Master Changlin, do you have evidence?” Huixue suddenly asked.
“Evidence? This yin energy is evidence!”
In truth, he did not actually know who had killed the disciples. At first, he had doubts about using yin energy alone to judge the culprit. But the Second Elder, who had just been beaten by Mu Yinfeng, had insisted firmly that Mu Yinfeng was the one who did it. So he had brought several elders and protectors over to take a look, only to happen upon Mu Yinfeng in the forest. Because of that, he had decided Mu Yinfeng was the chief culprit who killed the disciples.
If he truly had to produce solid evidence, he had none. If only the Second Elder were still awake. The Second Elder was not good at fighting, but his mind and powers of observation were unmatched among them.
“Yin energy is evidence?” Huixue lifted her eyes and turned to the people nearby. “Do you believe that?”
“This…”
None of the elders dared speak on their own. They did not fully believe the Second Elder either, but because their sect master had believed him, they had followed, hoping they might get a share of the benefit. Now, forget benefits. Keeping their lives would already be good. They were only a small Shanglin Sect. How could they possibly stand against Huixue, the future guardian of the Snow Realm?
But their own sect master was still over there, so they could only play dumb and stay silent to protect themselves.
“Why are none of you speaking? Have you all gone mute?” Seeing that no one spoke, the Shanglin Sect Master stamped with anger, then turned back to Huixue. “Do not think your Hanyou Valley can claim reason just because it is a great sect of the cultivation world. Let me tell you, if this matter is not settled, watch out. We will meet at Guiyuan Tower!”
Huixue pressed her lips together. Looking at the Shanglin Sect Master, she held Mu Yinfeng even tighter.
The Shanglin Sect Master thought Huixue felt guilty and pressed on. “If you do not want trouble, I advise you to hand her over to us. Then this matter will be written off. Otherwise, you know the punishment in the cultivation world for slaughtering cultivators, do you not?”
“I know. But I believe her.” After leaving those words behind, Huixue quickly turned and left.
The Heavenly Realm stood vast and high, clouds rolling through it. Two divine officials stood among them.
One of them held a broom and looked down at the lower realm. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and sighed.
“The one hundred and twentieth time.” The snow-robed divine official beside him also sighed. “If Star Lord of Great Yin had time to sigh, the Heavenly Realm’s great road would already be swept clean.”
This time, the one beside Star Lord of Great Yin was a female divine official. Snow-white hair fell down her back, and the ends curled like cloud patterns, matching the hidden cloud designs on her white robes.
This was Cloud Lord, ranked third among the divine officials of the Department of Nature and the second strongest female divine official in that department.
“Cloud Lord still has the heart to laugh at me. I only descended privately to the mortal world once, yet I have to sweep the entire Heavenly Realm road as punishment.” Star Lord of Great Yin looked miserable. “And Siming Palace too. They are blaming others first, when they were clearly the ones who let the Snow God’s soul go down. Now they will not even search for it. Are they waiting for the human world to fall into chaos? They all ascended from the human world, so how did they become so… ungrateful to their roots!”
“The two Simings are innate gods. They have little attachment to the mortal world.” Cloud Lord stated the truth without mercy. “Star Lord of Great Yin, was the Snow God’s soul not demoted into the mortal world after the battle a thousand years ago? Was the one sealed not the snow demon?”
“About that.” Star Lord of Great Yin thought for a moment. “The snow demon and the Snow God are actually… one.”
“What do you mean? The snow demon and the Snow God are one person?”
“Cloud Lord did not even know this?” Star Lord of Great Yin smiled bitterly. “Back then, the Snow God’s soul was unstable, so she forcibly split her soul into two. Both of them are the Snow God. One is cold and restrained. The other indulges desire. After all, divine officials are not allowed to have too many desires.”
“True,” Cloud Lord agreed. “But before passing a tribulation, one should give up such desires. The Snow God was not an innate god. If she did not give them up, how did she pass her tribulation?”
“The Snow God sanctified her body directly. What do you think, Cloud Lord?” Star Lord of Great Yin sighed again. “In such a situation, she should have entered the mortal world to temper herself. But the Snow God took the risky path of splitting her soul. You can say it was unwise, but who could say anything then? At that time, Lord Wind’s tribulation was at a critical point, Cloud Lord was in seclusion, and Water Master had also gone down to the lower realm to train… The only one the Heavenly Realm could rely on was the Snow God.”
“Does Lord Wind know these things?”
“How could she? If Lord Wind knew the snow demon was one of the Snow God’s split souls, she could not have struck so decisively, right?” Star Lord of Great Yin looked down toward the lower realm, but no matter how he looked, his sight could not pierce the thick clouds anymore. “And the snow demon split soul is not controlled by the Snow God. If you do not know the past, treating them as two people is not wrong.”
“…That is what happened.”
Mu Yinfeng described to Huixue what had happened after Flame Maiden took her away, then looked up at Huixue. “Senior Sister, I did not do it.”
“But all those people died because yin energy corroded them, and you happened to appear there.” Huixue asked with difficulty, unable to bear looking into Mu Yinfeng’s eyes. “If all of that was coincidence, I fear it will not convince anyone.”
And Huixue had seen with her own eyes how Mu Yinfeng cruelly harmed Shanglin Sect’s Second Elder and controlled him with the Spirit Gu Control Curse. Although she had been firm toward Shanglin Sect, she had no way to persuade her own heart.
Not to mention, in her previous life, she had personally seen those spreading flames of war and that devastated land.
“Senior Sister does not believe me?”
Mu Yinfeng asked softly.
“You always like asking me questions like this.” Huixue lowered her eyes. It was hard for her to refuse Mu Yinfeng when she was like this.
But reason made it hard for her to answer.
Mu Yinfeng looked steadily at Huixue. She saw through the struggle in Huixue’s heart.
“Senior Sister, do you truly not believe me?” Mu Yinfeng gathered Huixue’s hand into hers. When their eyes met, she barely suppressed the urge to use the Yin Charm Art. To her, these things were no longer necessary.
Using the Yin Charm Art on Huixue would be foolish in itself.
Even if Huixue did not believe her, she could not say it aloud.
After all, Shanglin Sect members were cultivators too, people who could lend some strength when chaos broke out at the Immortal Sects Assembly.
The witch clan had already infiltrated Shanglin Sect. The deaths of Shanglin Sect’s disciples this time were the witch clan’s doing, and the one secretly working with them was that Second Elder.
They had reached an agreement with the Second Elder. He would pin the crime on Mu Yinfeng, and after her reputation was ruined, he could deal with her however he liked. Mu Yinfeng knew what that meant, because a Primordial Yin woman had only one path left in such a situation.
But how could she tell Huixue this? With Huixue’s temper, if Mu Yinfeng said so, Huixue would never let Shanglin Sect go. Shanglin Sect might be weak and declining, but it was still one of the sects passed down from ancient times. Among its secret arts was one that happened to counter the evil being at the Immortal Sects Assembly.
Now was not the time.
At that moment, Huixue’s voice sounded. “The Spirit Gu Control Curse. Why did you use it to control another person?”
Mu Yinfeng sighed. She did not know why she had done that either. After seeing through the Second Elder’s thoughts, anger had rushed to her head. For a moment, she had lost control and rashly activated the Spirit Gu Control Curse.
It seemed that activating the Spirit Gu Control Curse was still carved into her bones.
“I do not know.”
“…Do not do that again.” Huixue was silent for a moment before saying hoarsely, “Getting used to fighting that way will not be good for you.”
“I know. I will not…” Mu Yinfeng lowered her head and leaned against Huixue’s shoulder. “…use it again.”
The cold feeling in her heart spread more and more, intertwining with her intense desires. Ice and fire crossed within her. She twisted her hands together and barely used spiritual energy to empty all the thoughts in her heart.
Could the Severing Love sword truly cut off affection? Mu Yinfeng thought. Ever since she had used Severing Love’s first form, that feeling had been tangling around her. It was even more obvious when she was close to Huixue.
And she realized that she did not seem quite as obsessed with Huixue anymore. Before, she had seen Huixue as a bright moon in the clouds, pure snow on a heavenly mountain, someone to be admired from afar and not touched. Because of that, she had always obeyed and never gone against her. Now, though, she found that her feeling toward Huixue had fallen from distant, unreachable worship into closeness.
Perhaps that was good. But if worship could fall into closeness, then what would closeness fall into next?
“That is good. This time, I can protect you. But next time…”
“Next time, Senior Sister will not be able to protect me?”
Hearing the girl’s soft voice, Huixue swallowed the words she had wanted to say.
“Next time, I will still protect you.”
As she spoke, she gently pulled Mu Yinfeng into her arms. Mu Yinfeng’s body was very soft, softer than Huixue had expected.