The Heroine Made a Pact With Senior Sister (GL) Chapter 9

Staring into Huixue’s pale blue, almost transparent eyes, Mu Yinfeng felt as if she had been frozen from the inside out. How did Huixue know this secret of hers? Was Huixue not supposed to know?
“Senior Sister, what are you talking about?” Mu Yinfeng asked timidly, hugging Tianbing tightly. Tianbing also clung tightly to her hand and refused to come down no matter what.
“Return Tianbing and the Snow Silk Robe to me,” Huixue said coldly. “With the primordial yin power in your body, you can disperse the cold poison yourself, because primordial yin power naturally restrains hundreds of poisons. It is impossible that you do not know this, is it?”
Mu Yinfeng froze, unable to think of how to answer Huixue.
While she was stunned, Huixue reached out and removed the Snow Silk Robe from Mu Yinfeng. But although the Snow Silk Robe came off, Tianbing remained firmly wrapped around Mu Yinfeng’s wrist. No matter what Huixue said, it refused to come down.
This Tianbing… Huixue stared at Tianbing silk. For some unknown reason, a faint blush rose on her face, like the slanting sunset reflected on white jade.
While chasing the Butterfly Spirit, she had suddenly thought of Biyuntian, who had once had ties with the Butterfly Goddess. As the Emperor of the Ice Domain, Biyuntian had also mastered the method of releasing and withdrawing the cold poison. In her urgency, she had used a secret method to contact Biyuntian and ask about the cold poison, only to receive this answer from him.
A woman with a primordial yin body was naturally immune to hundreds of poisons. There was no need to expel the cold poison at all. However, because women with primordial yin bodies were far too rare, only a handful of people knew this secret. But Mu Yinfeng was definitely one of the people who knew. Otherwise, she would not have forcibly kept the cold poison, which could be naturally expelled, inside her body for more than half a month.
What was Mu Yinfeng’s purpose in doing this?
In Huixue’s memory, Mu Yinfeng had always been someone unwilling to burden others and unwilling to be burdened by others. More than that, Mu Yinfeng never used guilt as a weapon to attack people. Mu Yinfeng had always been direct, speaking with strength and never making excuses for her own failures.
But after Huixue’s rebirth, she discovered that Mu Yinfeng had changed. She was almost a completely different person from the one in Huixue’s memory. The current Mu Yinfeng could be weak, could act spoiled, and could depend on others. If the former Mu Yinfeng had been a cold stone, then the current Mu Yinfeng was a living person of flesh and blood.
What confused Huixue most was the Changyin Pearl. If it had been the previous life, Mu Yinfeng absolutely would not have given up a top-tier treasure already in her hands. Yet now Mu Yinfeng had given up the Changyin Pearl with almost no resistance. If not for Mu Yinfeng’s special constitution, Huixue would have suspected she had been possessed.
“I know.” Under Huixue’s open stare, Mu Yinfeng lowered her head. She was uneasy, because she was wondering whether she should tell Huixue the most secret feelings in her heart.
If she told Huixue, would Huixue still keep her by her side? Would Huixue suspect she had been possessed?
Mu Yinfeng lowered her lashes and peeked at Huixue from beneath them. To her surprise, Huixue’s face was also slightly red, as if touched by the glow of sunset. Pink over white, it added a tender charm. Beneath the evening light, it was like ice and snow melting, making her even more lovely and alluring.
For a moment, Mu Yinfeng stared in a daze. An icy beauty was beautiful, but when rosy light shone over the ice, it seemed to add a different kind of grace. Seeing Huixue like this, Mu Yinfeng suddenly felt that even dying calmly for her would be worth it.
“What do you want to say now?” Huixue noticed Mu Yinfeng staring at her without blinking. Her expression changed slightly, and she quickly turned her gaze away, because she suddenly realized her own cheeks were a little warm.
“I…” Mu Yinfeng saw that Huixue’s face had become even redder. Halfway through her words, she stopped. “Senior Sister, why is your face red?”
“It is nothing. You saw wrong.”
Huixue hurriedly turned her back. She barely managed to make her voice calm and cold, but Mu Yinfeng sharply sensed the panic in Huixue’s words and could not help laughing softly. “Senior Sister, did you think of something?”
“No!” Huixue’s tone rose by half a degree. She quickly walked out of the room and closed the door. Standing outside, she let the night wind blow for a while, trying to calm her thoughts. Unexpectedly, the more the wind blew, the hotter her face became. Huixue moved spiritual flow through her fingers, and cold air rose, barely suppressing the blood and energy surging inside her.
The snow women had always had hearts like ice and snow. This kind of situation would never happen unless…
She would not fall in love. She would not fall in love with someone like Mu Yinfeng. Huixue told herself this again and again. The cold spiritual flow drove the blush from her face, and Huixue’s eyes returned to their usual clear chill.
Huixue draped the Snow Silk Robe over herself again and turned back toward the room. She had planned to take back Tianbing silk, but when she reached Mu Yinfeng’s door, she changed her mind.
Mu Yinfeng was probably trying every possible way to get close to her. She must have her own purpose. Huixue might as well leave Tianbing with Mu Yinfeng to watch her movements at all times. Tianbing was linked to Huixue’s mind and would not lie to her.
Just then, the door suddenly opened. A pair of eyes like black pearls stared at her. “Does Senior Sister need something?”
“Nothing. I only came to…” Huixue felt awkward. She forcibly changed the words “look at you,” which had almost reached her mouth, into “see whether you have been cultivating.”
Mu Yinfeng was startled. “Cultivating?”
Having barely escaped the awkwardness, Huixue followed the topic. “According to Hanyou Valley’s rules, every night disciples must sit in meditation for two double-hours before sleeping. Have you meditated?”
“…No.”
Hanyou Valley did have this rule, but no one took it seriously. After all, Hanyou Valley was so large. Who would come check whether the disciples were meditating or not? Sometimes, if someone did come to check, countless fellow disciples would warn everyone along the way. When the time came, they could pretend a little and muddle through.
Huixue stared at Mu Yinfeng, her voice a little stern. “Since you have not, why are you not meditating? Since Master has arranged for you to stay here with me, you must rise early tomorrow. Hanyou Valley has been busy with many affairs lately. There cannot be the slightest slackness.”
Huixue seemed to be talking a little more today? Mu Yinfeng did not know whether this was her imagination or whether Huixue was truly speaking more. Under Huixue’s almost severe gaze, she had no time to think and could only obediently follow Huixue’s order and sit in meditation.
Her posture was very standard, but Mu Yinfeng’s mind was not on meditation at all. She had never meditated before, so after less than half a double-hour, she could not sit still anymore. She secretly opened her eyes to see whether Huixue had left, only to find Huixue staring at her without blinking.
“S-Senior Sister? Why have you not left?”
Huixue withdrew her gaze. Her voice was clear and cold, making it hard for anyone to even consider disobeying. “I will watch you here until it is over.”
It was over.
Mu Yinfeng thought sadly that she had once believed sharing a room with the person she liked would be a joy worth any price. She had not expected that meditating with Huixue would be pure torture.
How could Huixue be so rigid?
Mu Yinfeng could not help looking at Huixue resentfully again, only to discover that Huixue happened to be looking at her too.
“You are not focused during meditation. Add one double-hour.”
Mu Yinfeng panicked. “Senior Sister, on what basis?”
Huixue looked at her calmly. “I am the Senior Sister of Hanyou Valley. I have the authority to reward and punish you all.”
Mu Yinfeng wanted to cry but had no tears. “Can it be less? Half a double-hour?”
Huixue refused.
Mu Yinfeng was depressed, but could only sit back down on the cushion, close her eyes, and straighten her body. From the outside, Mu Yinfeng already seemed to have entered meditation. In truth, she had slipped into her sea of consciousness.
If she entered her sea of consciousness, Huixue would not notice anything strange, right? The little figure formed by Mu Yinfeng’s spiritual sense sat in the sea of consciousness with her knees hugged to her chest, quite depressed.
Did Huixue not know how to pamper someone? Mu Yinfeng was her only junior sister. Even if their relationship had been stiff before, she had clearly already taken the initiative to show goodwill. Was her goodwill not earnest and sincere enough?
Then what should she do? Mu Yinfeng considered it. Surely she could not rush in front of Huixue and say she liked her, right? Thinking of this, Mu Yinfeng could already feel Huixue’s chilly gaze staring at her like knives, cold enough to make her scalp numb.
No, no. If she did that, Huixue would probably cut her into pieces on the spot. She did not want to die.
What else could she do?
Bored, Mu Yinfeng released her spiritual sense from her sea of consciousness and examined Huixue, nearly startling herself into falling down. She discovered that Huixue was staring at her without blinking.
Was this how someone watched another person meditate? Was there a need to watch this closely? It was like watching a prisoner. Although Huixue was beautiful, no one would feel especially comfortable being stared at like this.
But if she did not look, it would be fine. Mu Yinfeng thought this and simply sprawled out in her sea of consciousness.
She slowly fell into a dream. In the dream, Huixue still looked at her like this. Mu Yinfeng wanted to hide in fear, but Huixue grabbed her wrist and drew her into her arms with deep affection. Behind her indifferent expression was an unusual heat.
Huixue softly breathed out and looked at the whitening sky outside the window. She knew the time had already passed. She had not expected that she would watch one person for so long.
So long that time seemed to freeze, and she did not notice any trace of its passing.
Yet Mu Yinfeng was still in meditation. Such concentration was truly startling. Huixue looked at the person before her. Mu Yinfeng was wrapped in a black robe, her butterfly-wing lashes casting a deep shadow. She did not have her usual alluring charm. Instead, in the morning light, she showed a solemn dignity, as if a deity had descended to the world, inspiring awe.
Tianbing had fallen onto the couch, curled into a ball like a gentle, adorable little cat. Its playful, easygoing look made an interesting contrast with Mu Yinfeng’s appearance.
At this time, representative disciples from the various peaks had already arrived outside Reed Snow Residence to submit accounts and approval requests. Huixue looked at Mu Yinfeng and sighed softly. She removed the cushion from under Mu Yinfeng, laid her down properly on the couch, and covered her with a blanket. Only then did she walk out to meet those disciples.
When the disciples saw her come out, every one of them became timid and silent as winter cicadas. No one dared speak first. If they had not heard that Bing Ling’er’s third disciple, Mu Yinfeng, had also come here to help, and believed these matters would be handled by Mu Yinfeng, they would not have swarmed here. Huixue was the most frightening person in all of Hanyou Valley, bar none.
“What is wrong? Why is no one speaking?” Huixue swept an ice-blade gaze over the disciples retreating one after another and asked slowly, “Speak one at a time. You first.”
As she spoke, Huixue pointed at a disciple wearing green robes. He was a disciple of Chengchen Peak. Seeing that Huixue had chosen him, the disciple retreated even faster, trying to hide among the others, as if Huixue would not be able to see him as long as he could not see her.
“Why are you hiding backward? If you have something to say, say it.” Huixue was already used to these disciples running the moment they saw her. She simply waved her hand. An icy blue light spread rapidly outward with her at the center, directly circling the disciples within it.
This was Huixue’s self-created barrier. Those inside could not get out, and those outside could not get in. It was originally an excellent protective spell, but now it could also serve as the simplest and clearest method of interrogation.
“I… I…” Seeing the situation, the disciple had no choice but to step forward and mumble, “I came to… to…”
Before he finished speaking, there came the sound of dripping water. The disciple’s face instantly turned bright red. Those with sharp eyes saw that a large patch of his robe had become wet.
That disciple had actually been scared by Huixue into wetting himself.
Huixue had no energy to tangle with him. She waved her hand and tossed the disciple out of the ice-ring barrier. At the same time, she left a spell on him. When he returned to report, this scene would be shown.
Everyone present sucked in a cold breath. They all felt that anyone who had dared come to Huixue before must have been one of Hanyou Valley’s true brave souls. Huixue’s methods were far too ruthless.
No wonder people said that going to Reed Snow Residence was an indispensable experience in the cultivation stage. It was like, if the assessment offered a choice between going to Reed Snow Residence and challenging a high-level evil creature, most people would choose to challenge the high-level evil creature.
Because as long as Huixue stood here, her presence alone would probably make even a high-level evil creature flee at the first sign of trouble.
A few bolder disciples carefully handed over their requests. Some asked for approval of spiritual herbs. Some requested settlement of spirit stones. They were all trivial matters, but Huixue handled them one by one. Even so, after these people went out, no one dared take a step forward to speak with Huixue.
Just then, a lazy voice came from inside Reed Snow Residence. “Senior Sister, why did you get up so early?”