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The morning mist was shattered by Qin Si's exclamation, and Aelia's fingertip ice crystal suddenly refracted an eerie purple light.
She pressed the ice crystal into the indentation of the astrolabe, and to her surprise, the bronze star trail of Snow Wolf Valley began to turn on its own, the sound of interlocking gears accompanied by the sobbing of a child.
"Speak clearly." As Aelia turned, Luna, cradled in Qin Si's arms, suddenly grasped her cascading silver hair.
The moment the infant's palm touched the Demon-Breaking Silver Nail, the glass dome of the Library of Hidden Books shattered into countless prisms, each reflecting the charred ancient sophora tree three blocks away.
Qin Si staggered to support the floating star chart. "This morning, a lightning bolt like a golden serpent fell during the torrential rain, striking the separate courtyard purchased by the Lord last month.
According to the old flower seller..." She suddenly fell silent, staring at Aelia's wrist ensnared by ice crystal vines—those thorns still stained with Hei Xue from last night had now blossomed into barbed blue roses.
Luna let out a sharp loud cry as Aelia tore away her silver hair entangled with the rose vine.
When the infant Lacrima fell to the ground, it transformed into an ice butterfly, fluttering and landing on her blood-stained sleeve.
As the seventh ice butterfly's wings ceased their zhen chan, a bell tolled from the West Tower—three long and two short rings signaled an emergency meeting summoned by the Magic Castle.
"Madam!" Qin Si grasped Aelia's peacock blue cloak, watching as the ice butterfly scorched a mark on the fabric. "Those ice crystal vines suddenly grew wildly this morning, entangling all exits of the separate courtyard..." Before she could finish her sentence, a burnt smell wafted from deep within the corridor, mingling with tequila and the scent of flesh singed by lightning.
Luna suddenly laughed and pointed at the revolving door, her baby voice calling out: "Baldy!" Aelia stumbled and knocked over a bronze candlestick, watching as Zhu Lei slithered across the ground covered in ice crystals, forming a serpent pattern.
As the thirteenth Zhu Lei serpent head connected its tail, Leonard stepped through the archway with his scorched and smoking scalp.
His silver silk sash adorned with rubies still hung half-tattered with Huai Ye; the gold thread embroidery of the snow wolf totem had burned through in a hole, revealing silk lined with violet—the favorite pattern of Leonard's concubine.
Aelia suddenly recalled how twenty years ago, when soul-devouring snake venom corroded his armor, her young husband had similarly rushed toward her with a disheveled smile, clutching her blood-stained hairband in his hand.
"Dear..." Leonard reached out to touch his wife's earlobe, but was suddenly ensnared by the rapidly growing Ice Crystal Vine around his wrist.
The barbs of the Blue Rose pierced through his fingers, oozing a Blood Pearl tainted with Zi Wu—just like the poisonous mist from the dagger of last night's assailant.
Luna suddenly grasped Aelia's Ice Crystal Necklace, the twelve-faced crystal reflecting the faintly visible Magic Pattern beneath Leonard's singed hair.
The infant's fingertip erupted with Han Qi, causing the surface of the crystal to reveal a map of Snow Wolf Valley, where a blinking red dot corresponded precisely to a distress rune on the Astrolabe.
"It seems even Thunderstorm cannot tolerate certain people's hypocritical masks." Aelia used the Silver Nail to slice through the Ice Vines entangling her husband, leaving a poisoned cross on his hand with the Rose Thorn.
As the second drop of Poisoned Blood fell to the ground, all the candle flames in the corridor suddenly turned a ghostly blue, illuminating the golden Thunder Pattern remaining on Leonard's collar—an imprint of a High-Level Protective Spell torn by Heavenly Punishment's Tear.
The infant's necklace suddenly exploded into icy dust, coalescing in midair into a miniature Thunderstorm cloud.
In her husband's pupil's reflection, Aelia saw her own earlobe and Silver Nail beginning to ooze Hei Xue, reminiscent of how the Soul Devouring Serpent King had counterattacked in its dying moments twenty years ago.
She handed Luna over to Qin Si, and as her Blue Cloak swept across the ground littered with Ice Serpents, those Zhu Lei suddenly raised their heads and flicked their tongues.
"To the hall." She crushed the last Ice Serpent at seven inches, watching as its body melted into a black water that smelled of char. "Let’s see how many dark secrets have been revealed by the thunder." As she coldly smiled while passing through the revolving door, all of the Peering Eyes embedded in it suddenly turned toward Lord's singed scalp.
The Dome of the hall displayed a Star Chart revolving toward the ominous conjunction of Pluto and Blood Moon, as twelve Bronze Candlesticks simultaneously spewed forth Ice Flame at Aelia's entrance.
Leonard's scorched Silver Silk Sash suddenly snapped, and when the Ruby fell into the Ice Flame, it let out a hissing sound like a venomous snake striking.
"I've heard that Golden Serpent Thunder loves to strike unfaithful men." Aelia walked toward the Throne over a ground covered in icy crystals, her Blue Cloak sweeping across it and causing Barbed Black Roses to bloom. "But it seems that high-level protective spells are quite effective—at least they’ve preserved your vital parts."
Leonard pressed his scorched scalp, veins bulging as the poisoned blood seeped through his fingers, etching spider web patterns into the Ice Crystal Ground.
The Snow Wolf Talisman hanging from his waist suddenly trembled, and the surface of the Seal distorted the face of Leonard's Concubine, burned by the Ice Flame.
"Aelia, this is about the inheritance issue of the Magic Castle." He tore open his charred collar, revealing an unhealed Tooth Mark beneath his collarbone—the wound left by an assassin last night glimmered with the same Violet Fragrance as the Outer Room Handkerchief. "You need to give the Children..."
"Children?" Aelia suddenly flung out shards of the Ice Crystal Necklace, which coalesced in mid-air into three Ice Spike illusions.
The first illusion reflected the scene of his limping elder brother affected by a Magic Backlash on his right leg; the second showed Second Brother trapped in a mirrored space; and the third vividly depicted the Illegitimate Child brandishing a poisoned dagger aimed at Luna during Leonard's Last Night.
Luna suddenly kicked her silver-haired legs wrapped in a Star Pattern swaddling within Qin Si's arms, her hair moving as if stirred by an unseen wind.
The Dome Star Trail shifted thirty degrees in response, casting the blood moonlight precisely onto Leonard's collar adorned with golden Thunder Patterns—these were unique Evening Primrose patterns of a high-level Protective Spell, only capable of being cast during a full moon as Guardian Magic.
"Last month during the full moon, you said you would be in Closed Door Training." Aelia's fingertip entwined with an Ice Crystal Vine that suddenly bloomed into a rose with Blood Veins. "So you were casting the Evening Primrose Guardian Spell for that wild child in the Separate Courtyard?"
The burnt smell intensified as Leonard's scorched hair roots oozed Golden Blood Pearls infused with Lightning Element.
His Wedding Ring of twenty years suddenly cracked open, revealing an inner circle engraved with the formula for Soul Devouring Snake Venom—the very culprit that had caused Aelia's miscarriage years ago.
"Enough!" Leonard swung his broken Ailya, and shattered rubies coalesced into a blood-colored Snow Wolf phantom. "The Glorious Demon Fortress needs fresh blood, just as we needed Soul Devouring Snake Venom twenty years ago to enhance our defenses..." His voice abruptly halted as he watched Aelia's earlobe, where a Demon-Breaking Silver Nail began to drip Hei Xue.
The hall fell into an eerie silence as the Illegitimate Child in the Ice Spike illusion suddenly turned to look at reality.
The child's pupils flickered with Violet Marks identical to Leonard's Collarbone Tooth Mark; the dagger in hand contained Snake Venom that had corroded Aelia's armor years ago.
Luna suddenly emitted a loud cry like a Night Owl, and baby Lacrima smashed into the Ice Crystal Ground, creating Abyssal Serpent Parasite Holes that oozed Han Qi.
Qin Si was horrified to discover that the swaddled infant in her arms was seeping blood, and the Guardian Runes embroidered with Silver Thread were slowly dissolving—just like the High-Level Protective Spell that had vanished from Aelia's Battle Armor twenty years ago.
"Fresh blood?" Aelia's blood-stained Silver Nail suddenly pointed at the blood-colored Snow Wolf illusion. The Ice Crystal Vines instantly crushed the heart of the illusion. "When you poisoned me with the Wedding Ring in Snow Wolf Valley, when you deliberately arrived ten minutes late during the Soul Devouring Serpent King’s ambush..." She tore apart the Blue Rose that was entwined around her wrist, causing Thorny Vines to whip out lightning-shaped cracks on the Ice Surface.
Leonard suddenly staggered and leaned against a Bronze Candlestick. The Ice Flame burned his palm as a map of Snow Wolf Valley emerged—one location marked with Gold Dust was precisely where the assassins had ambushed them last night.
The Seal at his waist suddenly exploded, and the splintered fragments carved out the bloody word "forgive" on the Ice Spike illusion.
The Dome Star Trail emitted a deafening screech as if gears were stuck, and the shadow cast by the blood moon perfectly enveloped half of Aelia's face.
The tip of her Silver Nail, stained with Hei Xue, coalesced into an ice crystal vortex. Emerging from the vortex was Leonard's Last Night, when he placed the Wedding Ring on her finger twenty years ago—at that moment, Soul Devouring Snake Venom had seeped into her Blood Vessel through the dark groove inside the ring.
Luna suddenly reached out towards the illusion in the vortex, and the baby's fingertip erupted with Han Qi, freezing the blood-colored Wedding Ring into an Ice Shard.
As the first Ice Shard fell to the ground, all Ice Flames in the hall transformed into a ghostly green like a Soul Devouring Serpent, illuminating Leonard's singed hair as if it were a rotting pumpkin.
"The meeting is over." Aelia suddenly flicked her sleeve and turned away. An ice wall shrouded in poisonous mist rose abruptly from the ground as her Blue Cloak swept across it. "Before you remember your wedding vows from Snow Wolf Valley—" At that moment of pause, three hoots from a Night Owl echoed from the West Tower; it was an S.O.S. from their Guardian Beast that they had raised together twenty years ago.
As the ice wall collapsed with a thunderous crash, Leonard saw that his wife’s Silver Nail on her earlobe had turned as black as Soul Devouring Snake Venom fangs.
He tried to catch the falling blue Rose Petals but found that those petals transformed into bloody bandage fragments from Aelia's miscarriage upon touching his fingertip.
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