The Heroine Made a Pact With Senior Sister (GL) Chapter 88

It was as if Mu Yinfeng had fallen into empty space. Only after a long time did she come back to herself.
She was no longer near Qinglan Mountain. Instead, she had arrived in a strange place. As far as her eyes could see, ice and snow stretched above and below, but not far away stood a green forest.
Butterflies circled around her, bright and colorful, dancing lightly. Their colors were all different. In this world of ice and snow, they were full of life, but also extremely strange.
“My heart domain.” She felt a pair of hands settle on her shoulders. Mu Yinfeng instinctively looked back and saw a beautiful girl standing behind her. Her dark-green hair and shining green eyes added a trace of foreign charm to her face.
“Lady Butterfly Goddess?”
The Butterfly Goddess lowered her eyes. Her long lashes hid the bright light in them. She did not speak, only linked arms with Mu Yinfeng and pulled her toward the forest.
“What is wrong? What are we doing?” Mu Yinfeng was completely confused and asked several times.
“Body and soul must become one. My heart domain can cure a hundred poisons. Even something made by Cloud Lord in heaven cannot trouble me,” the Butterfly Goddess said in a small voice. “The poison in Sister Lord Wind’s body can be handled by yin and yang wood working together. But if the poison that has invaded your soul is not cured, then even yin and yang wood will be helpless.”
“What poison is this?” Mu Yinfeng asked, confused.
She had been sleeping before. Suddenly, she heard someone outside the window and instinctively got up to meet the enemy. But she had not expected the person to be faster than her. Before she could react, a needle coated in deadly poison had already stabbed into her body.
The poison spread upward through her blood. During the day, Mu Yinfeng had used up most of her spiritual energy to force the Ding Fire out of her body. Now, she was almost empty, and the poison seized that opening at once.
Even so, before she lost consciousness, she had seen the person outside the window. Besides the swift and mysterious attacker, one other person had followed. It was the witch clan’s Holy Maiden Li, who had attacked Reed Snow Residence.
“Hundred Feathers Thousand Dreams.” The Butterfly Goddess’s fine brows furrowed. “Even Lord Cloud would find this poison troublesome to make. With the effort needed to prepare this poison, one could make poisons a hundred times stronger. But only this poison has one effect: it ignores poison resistance.”
“What does that mean?”
“When people say someone is immune to all poisons, that immunity acts on the body. This poison acts on the soul. Once the soul loses its defense, the body will also be breached. That is what makes Hundred Feathers Thousand Dreams frightening.”
By now, the two had reached the oasis, surrounded by butterflies. The oasis was as quiet and cold as the snowy plain, but it was filled with rich life force. Walking through it made a person feel especially relaxed.
“If I had known Little Butterfly would be so restless back then, I would not have spared her life out of gratitude for past kindness,” the Butterfly Goddess said faintly as she spoke of the old butterfly spirit case. “It was all because I wrongly trusted those words and failed to realize Little Butterfly was someone hiding by my side.”
“It is all in the past. Why think too much about it? Besides, Lady Butterfly Goddess, you did not do it on purpose.” Mu Yinfeng thought for a moment. “But there is something I do not know whether I should say.”
“If Sister Lord Wind has something to say, you may speak directly,” the Butterfly Goddess said.
“Back then, why was your reputation so… bad?” Since the person standing before her was the Butterfly Goddess herself, Mu Yinfeng changed “notorious” into a less intense word. “I feel you are very good. You are not like the rumors…”
In the rumors, the Butterfly Goddess slaughtered without limit and brought plague to the human world. She was an evil god through and through. But the Butterfly Goddess felt to her like a gentle little girl, pure as spring water, without the slightest filth.
“Disgraceful? Can my reputation be described with only disgraceful? It should be ‘notorious,’ right?” When the Butterfly Goddess spoke of this topic, her expression was calm, and she even smiled a little. “Although I am notorious, my reputation is indeed like that. I have nothing to say. Fortunately, Sister Lord Wind took pity on me and sheltered my remnant soul. Only then was I able to survive.”
“If you do not want to say it, I will not ask more…”
“It is actually fine. Since Sister Lord Wind trusts me, I will speak directly. I was framed. The people who framed me and the people who framed Sister Lord Wind are the same group.” The Butterfly Goddess suddenly spoke, her voice sincere and honest. “The world says I spread plague, but I did not release those plagues. I only happened to appear at every place where a plague was created. Sister Lord Wind’s experience should be the same as mine. Sister Lord Wind never killed a single person, yet you appeared at exactly the right time in every place.”
“You… know all that?”
Mu Yinfeng was stunned. She had thought the Butterfly Goddess only knew what she had seen from Mu Yinfeng’s point of view. She had not expected the Butterfly Goddess to also know what had happened when she was Lord Lanfeng.
“Naturally. And… I also personally saw Sister Lord Wind use the Yin-Yang Reversal Array.” The Butterfly Goddess slowly gathered the loose dark-green hair by her ear and sighed. Then she asked this question again. “Sister Lord Wind, is Lady Snow God truly worth you doing this?”
Usually, their exchanges inside Mu Yinfeng’s heart did not feel like much. But this time, the Butterfly Goddess stared straight into Mu Yinfeng’s eyes without blinking, placing no small pressure on her.
Mu Yinfeng fell silent. “Whether she is worth it or not, I already made her stop liking me, right? I should not be liked by anyone. I also do not expect anyone to remember me. Reputation and such, what does it have to do with me?”
“Coming without shadow and leaving without trace. As expected of Lord Wind, who sees all things as empty.” The Butterfly Goddess stepped back a few paces and gave a deep bow. “This Butterfly Goddess has learned something.”
“Y-you-you, what are you doing?” No matter how surprised Mu Yinfeng was, she could tell the Butterfly Goddess was clearly saying the opposite of what she meant. “Wait, what does what I just said have to do with Lord Wind?”
“You never care about whether your name is good or evil. For the sake of what you insist on, you can even stake your life soul. Sister Lord Wind, are these truly what you want?” The Butterfly Goddess looked at Mu Yinfeng sadly. Colorful butterflies gathered around her, and the prettiest one landed on her fingertip. It stayed for a long time before flying away.
“You told me before that Severing Love will cut away all my feelings. In the end, relying on reason without emotion and caring only about the greatest benefit, do you think that is something a person can do?”
The Butterfly Goddess did not speak. Her hands crossed, turned, opened, and closed, even more dazzling than butterflies in flight. Mu Yinfeng could only look away and sigh.
“My original intention was to stop Sister Lord Wind from using Severing Love…”
“…But what else can I do? Their target is me, not Eldest Senior Sister. I cannot let Eldest Senior Sister fall into that kind of danger only because of me.” Mu Yinfeng’s voice grew a little agitated. “I cannot do that.”
“Lady Snow God once placed that kind of curse on Sister Lord Wind. Will Sister Lord Wind still continue?” The Butterfly Goddess raised her eyes and looked at Mu Yinfeng. At that moment, the butterflies around her scattered, vanishing in an instant until none remained. In the vast forest, it seemed only the two of them were left.
“That was the snow yao, not the Snow God. Now there are two Snow Gods existing at once, and it is only rumor passed along with mistakes.” Mu Yinfeng smiled faintly. “With these curses on me, does that not mean I am certain to die? If I want to comprehend the final form, Memory of Love, then after I succeed, I will have to face that curse. If…”
“A curse may not kill someone. Sister Lord Wind did not die when you were still Lord Lanfeng.” The Butterfly Goddess suddenly laughed. “It is only heavenly punishment. It does not mean you will definitely die.”
That seemed true.
Mu Yinfeng thought of all the arts Lord Lanfeng had cultivated and suddenly understood. Who said heavenly punishment meant certain death? If that were true, she should have died long ago. Had she been scaring herself?
The Butterfly Goddess smiled. “Now does Sister Lord Wind still have anything to fear?”
“No.” Mu Yinfeng looked away from the Butterfly Goddess’s gaze, a little embarrassed. “If I can cultivate Memory of Love, I will undo her seal. How about that? I do not want her to like an emotionless walking corpse like me.”
“That is good too.” The Butterfly Goddess nodded. “After so long, the Hundred Feathers Thousand Dreams in Sister Lord Wind’s soul should have been washed clean. The yin and yang wood on the other side should be nearly done too. Let us go out.”
“Eldest Senior Sister, when you circulated power just now, it seems you missed one acupoint…” Sanqi supported Mu Yinfeng and looked at Huixue, whose hands were pressed against Mu Yinfeng’s back as she circulated power. Sanqi said this with great difficulty.
“You directly went around the heart meridian.” Abi covered her forehead. “Sanqi, what do we do now?”
“Can you not run it through again?” Lin Qiudi asked, puzzled.
“If we could run it through again, this would not be so difficult.” Abi lifted the hem of Mu Yinfeng’s clothes. Bright-red blood was seeping from her thin skin, staining her gauze pants red.
Huixue’s hands trembled, but she still steadily sent spiritual energy into Mu Yinfeng. “Her meridians cannot bear it now. My spiritual energy is the most compatible with hers, yet it still became like this. If we do it again, her meridians will break.”
Was even the blood vine’s support useless? Huixue’s gaze passed through the wide sleeve and landed on the blood vine. She sighed in her heart. She could clearly sense four powers struggling inside Mu Yinfeng’s body. One was her own spiritual energy, the second was Mu Yinfeng’s, the third was the poison of Hundred Feathers Thousand Dreams, and the last was a vast life force. These three powers were fighting to the death against Hundred Feathers Thousand Dreams.
“Actually, although Hundred Feathers Thousand Dreams is a strange poison, a strange poison is not necessarily a deadly poison.” Sanqi thought for a moment and looked at Abi as if asking for her opinion. “It should not be fatal, right?”
“The key is that the remaining part is in the heart meridian. This is hard.” Abi was almost tearful. Even if she were beaten to death, she would never have expected Huixue, who was known for being meticulous, to make this fatal mistake.
“The heart meridian has the spiritual core suppressing it, and spiritual energy is richest there. It should be able to suppress Hundred Feathers Thousand Dreams?” Sanqi carefully gave her opinion.
“But if it cannot suppress it, she will basically die for sure.” As Abi spoke, she glanced at Huixue.
If Huixue and Mu Yinfeng’s relationship were not still good, she would truly suspect Huixue of deliberately using this mistake to get rid of Mu Yinfeng for private revenge.
Just as they were thinking hard, Mu Yinfeng opened her eyes.
“What happened?”
The atmosphere was extremely heavy. Everyone around her looked solemn, and all of them were staring at her. This gave her the feeling that her end was near.
“How do you feel now? Is anything uncomfortable?” Abi asked carefully.
Mu Yinfeng shook her head and was just about to thank them when Sanqi added:
“Now is not the time for you to act tough. Hanyou Valley’s Jia Wood and Yi Wood are both here, so you had better tell the truth. If this drags on too long, we will have no way either.”
That tone made it sound as if she had some serious illness but was refusing treatment.
“Yinfeng, are you really fine now?” Huixue’s voice sounded behind her. At the same time, the arms supporting her from behind lowered. Mu Yinfeng failed to sit steady and fell directly back into Huixue’s arms.
She met Huixue’s cool, pale-blue eyes. In her heart, she wondered whether Huixue would kill her directly after Mu Yinfeng had erased her memories. Then Huixue’s hand came down, and Mu Yinfeng instinctively closed her eyes.
But she did not feel anything, except for a cold touch near her collarbone.
An ice-crystal-like object had fallen against her chest.