In the Blood Moonlight, Zhen Chan crushed the scattered remnants of Contract Scrolls beneath Leonard's Black Gold Boots.
Aelia leaned against the cracked Emerald Window Frame, the hem of her Gilded Robe stained with Blue Blood from the altar's collapse—blood that was a scar left from three hours ago when she had crushed the Curse Crystal with her bare hands to protect Luna.
"How dare you spy on my Soul Contract Emblem?" Lord's palm, gripping his wife's neck, revealed the Serpent Scale Seal. Ashes from Eighteen Marriage Contracts swirled at their feet. "Speak! Who taught you this heart-reading secret?"
Qin Si trembled in a heap of Shattered Porcelain, the bandages she had wrapped around her mistress seeping fresh Bloodstains.
Aelia suddenly chuckled softly, her bloodied fingertip tracing along her husband's hand. "Every time you visit that Red-Haired Witch, your collar gets dusted with Evil Butterfly's Phosphor Dust." She snapped the silver chain embedded with a Marriage Stone from his neck. "After all... you taught me to recognize all Tracking Magic."
Leonard's pupils constricted into serpent-like slits as he abruptly turned and seized Qin Si by the throat.
The Guardian Charm on the maid's neck shattered, revealing a hidden Memory Crystal—currently replaying Leonard's Last Night from three days ago in the Nursery: baby Luna biting Aelia's finger with her Milk Tooth, revealing the Magic Coordinates of Northern Rose Manor on the blood-stained Swaddling Cloth.
"Demon Baby!" Lord's furious roar shattered the Ancestral Portraits on the walls, and his waist-holstered Leonard's Sword let out a screech.
Tentacles from the Abyss of the Altar went wild, striking at Luna trapped in her Cradle.
Aelia's Lustrous Golden Eyes glinted with frost. "If you dare touch her even slightly, I will awaken all Union Ancestors sleeping in Rose Cemetery." She tore open her collar to reveal a glowing Reincarnation Mark on her Heart. The floating Contract Ashes suddenly coalesced into eighteen long swords. "After all, their bones... crave revenge more than any Living Person."
Leonard suddenly froze, catching a familiar scent of Hydra and Bloody Smell.
The baby, who should have been strangled by Tentacles, floated within the Bloodlight Column. The bloodied Swaddling Cloth revealed a Magic Pattern in the handwriting of the First Generation Fortress Master—the final segment of the Sealing Spell missing since slaying the Evil God.
"Father..." Luna suddenly uttered in a muffled Child's Voice, her small hand clutching scales that bled blue and gold intertwined.
The sigh of the Evil God in the abyss suddenly turned into a wail, and those frenzied Tentacles began to actively weave themselves into a cocoon to protect the infant.
Leonard staggered back a step, and the Ancestral Gem on Leonard's Sword exploded in response.
He gazed at his daughter Palm, whose Magic Fluctuation was entirely of his own essence, and finally became aware of why the prophecy spoke of "On the eighteenth full moon night, the slayer of gods will be judged by their own bloodline."
"So it was you who told Mother." Lord's bloodied fingers brushed over Luna's Starry Birthmark, and he suddenly chuckled softly.
He turned to look at Aelia, who was reassembling the Contracted Longsword, his voice gentle enough to send shivers down one's spine: "My dear, do you think these skeletal Puppets can threaten me?"
Suddenly, a roar echoed from the abyss as chains snapped, and eighteen corpses of Union Ancestors turned in unison towards Luna.
Aelia was about to cast a Forbidden Spell when she saw her husband slash Palm with Leonard's Sword, letting blood mixed with Hydra poison drip onto their daughter Mei Xin—instantly, all the corpses knelt before the infant in reverence.
"Thank you for raising the true Heir for me." Leonard raised his hand to catch the First Generation Fortress Master Crown that fell from above; the missing Nine-Headed Serpent Scale perfectly fit with the shard in Luna's hand. "Now it’s your turn, mother and daughter..."
His words abruptly halted.
Aelia suddenly tore apart the Marriage Chain that bound her heart, allowing the retaliatory curse Black Line to crawl all over her body.
Her bloodied Fingertip lightly touched the scales clutched by her daughter, and suddenly, eighteen overlapping ancient oaths resounded in the abyss:
"When the Contractor's Heart's Blood runs dry, the betrayer shall be eternally trapped in the cage they forged."
Leonard was about to unleash a Blood Curse when he realized that Luna's tears were transforming into Sealing Runes that seeped into his Leonard's Sword.
In the gradually dissipating Liujin Halo, Aelia took one last look at her daughter; within her usually gentle Gray-Blue eyes, something colder than the abyss finally solidified into ice.
Blood Moonlight was suddenly engulfed by Wu Yun, and the black mist surging from the altar's fissure enveloped Leonard's Roar: "Twenty-three years! You even want me to annotate the Potion Class notes word by word!" His neck, emerging with Serpent Scales, tore through the collar of his Gold Thread garment, exposing an unhealed bite mark on his Collarbone—the distinct imprint of the Northern Witch's Xing Mang teeth.
Aelia's Gilded Robe fluttered without wind, and three broken Marriage Chains fell from her sleeves. She raised her hand and flung the bandages stained with Luna's blood into the center of the Contract Vortex. Eighteen Ashen Longswords began to reverse-erode the Magic Circle beneath Leonard's feet. "Do you think I can't tell the difference between Evil Butterfly and Nightglow Powder?" Her blood-stained lips grew increasingly eerie. "That year, when I nearly died in childbirth, it was Healing Potion's Glowing Spores that stained your collar."
Suddenly, a sizzling sound of flesh burning echoed from the abyss. Leonard realized that from the Eye Sockets of the kneeling corpses, blue blood mixed with golden threads was continuously surging forth—the same color as the Sealing Spell on Luna's Swaddling cloth.
The Ancestral Gem on Leonard's Sword shattered and began to float and reassemble, forming a Barbed Thorned Prison around Aelia. "Lock her in the dark room!" Lord kicked away a Memory Crystal at his feet, its shards slicing through Aelia's Tear Mole at the corner of her eye. "Once I refine this Demon Baby into a Blood Pact Container, I'll come back to enjoy your pleas..." His Curse abruptly halted as Aelia tore through two Thorns with her bare hands, allowing a Spike to pierce her Palm and press the bloodied Marriage Stone fragments into the Gap of his Serpent Scale.
The entire castle suddenly shook violently. Qin Si seized the opportunity to lunge toward the Cradle but was burned by the suddenly materializing Contract Ashes on her Wrist.
In horror, she noticed frost seeping from the Obsidian Wall in the direction of the dark room—that was where Aelia had sealed the Extreme Cold Magic Core twenty years ago to protect her unborn child.
"What a perfect sacrifice." Leonard gripped Aelia by the neck and slammed her against the Vine Cage. The pearls that fell from her hair transformed into ice spikes, carving a deep wound into his right cheek down to the bone.
As guards rushed in with shackles, Aelia suddenly curled her blood-stained lips toward Luna’s direction. The blue-gold Blood Pearl floating around the baby instantly evaporated, condensing into an almost indistinguishable Ice Crystal Rune at the Entrance of the dark room.
"Enjoy the last rays of moonlight," the Lord said as he hurled Aelia towards the Obsidian Wall. The moment her back collided with the Sealing Array in the dark chamber, the Heart's Reincarnation Mark suddenly projected the figure of the First Generation Fortress Master.
The frozen Contracted Longswords emitted a Resonance, forcing Leonard to stagger back three steps.
Just before the stone door of the dark chamber slammed shut, Aelia's bloodied fingertip lightly traced the spot of her Tear Mole.
Far away in the Nursery, Luna suddenly let out a Loud Cry. The Starry Birthmark on her forehead oozed Blue Light, melting Qin Si's shattered Guardian Charm into Liquid Silver—the very key to unlocking the secret passage of the Rose Cemetery.
As the Blood Moonlight pierced through the clouds once more, a brittle sound of Ice Layer shattering echoed from the direction of the dark chamber.
Luna clutched the fragment of the Guardian Charm that had transformed into a silver key, her blue-gold interwoven pupils reflecting the rose garden outside—where the eighteenth Black Rose bud was blooming with a blood-red core amidst frost.
The silver key trembled violently in Luna's palm, as Blue Golden Blood Pearls trickled down her arm like flowing water.
Suddenly, the Blood Moon Emblem on the Nursery Dome twisted and deformed, burning a charred Black Hole into the Qian Si Skirt.
The maid gasped in horror as Serpent Scale Ice Crystals began Emerging around the Crystal Cradle—an ominous sign of the Lord casting Sealing Magic on the Heir.
"Miss, we must..." Before Qin Si could finish her sentence, Luna abruptly slammed the silver key onto the bloodstained Swaddling Cloth.
The solidified Sealing Spells came to life like Tadpoles, swimming and reorganizing within the pattern of Blood Rose Vines.
Outside, a blood-colored beam suddenly shot forth from the eighteenth Black Rose, illuminating a dense map of Mama's secret passage on the walls of the Nursery.
Leonard's Ailya's Roar echoed from the Castle West Wing, shaking loose Amethyst Pendants from the Crystal Chandelier above.
Luna's blue-gold pupils contracted into a Mage's distinctive Xing Mang shape as she bit her tongue and sprayed blood onto the surface of the silver key.
The liquid metal suddenly expanded into the shape of the First Generation Fortress Master's Staff, with the scales embedded in Zhang Jian perfectly matching Luna's patterns.
"Miss, be careful!" Qin Si rushed over to shield her from the splattering Ice Crystal Shards.
As the Scepter touched the ground, a Teleportation Circle emerged from beneath the Nursery carpet, drawn with Marriage Stone powder—exactly what Aelia had secretly inscribed with blood-stained Ailya's White Nails while changing her Diaper three days ago.
A roar erupted from the dark room as the Ice Layer shattered, and Xu Ying emerged from behind Luna, clutching the Scepter, surrounded by eighteen Contract Chains.
She mumbled a few Broken Syllables in Ancient Demon Script, and the Teleportation Circle began to spin counterclockwise, pulling both of them into a Space Vortex filled with Bloody Smell.
Leonard stood outside the dark room on the Stargazing Corridor Bridge, his neck now partially covered by Serpent Scale, obscuring half of his face.
As Luna rolled out of the Teleportation Circle wrapped in Qin Si's Peacock Blue Shawl, Leonard's Sword suddenly emitted a sharp hum from its Ancestral Gem.
The bones of the Union Ancestors frozen in the walls all turned toward the infant and bowed in reverence.
"Indeed, it is the perfect Container," Lord said as he walked over on the frost. The bite mark on his left cheek oozed Blue Blood mixed with gold threads. "Retrieve your Mother's sealed Extreme Cold Magic Core, and I will..."
Suddenly, Luna struck the Ground fiercely with her Scepter.
The bloodstains left by Aelia on the Swaddling Cloth ignited spontaneously, burning a totem of Northern Rose Manor onto the surface of the Bronze giant door in the dark room.
Leonard staggered back as if bitten by a venomous snake; this Magic Coordinates was precisely where he had deceived his wife into taking the Pregnancy Spirit Potion twenty years ago.
"Father... pain..." The infant's weeping murmurs caused the Stargazing Corridor Bridge to tremble violently.
Luna's Starry Birthmark on her forehead emitted a blinding Strong Light, and the scales at the tip of her Scepter suddenly spun and embedded themselves into the lock of the dark room door.
The mournful cries emitted by the Frozen Contract Longsword carved the outlines of Aelia and Lucius onto the surface of the Bronze.
Leonard hesitated for a moment in his hand gestures.
He found himself lost in a memory from twenty-three years ago, on his wedding night, when Aelia held the Pregnancy Spirit Potion, tears glistening at the corners of her eyes.
At that time, the Marriage Chain entwined around the young girl’s fingertip was still rose gold, unlike now, which was covered in a cursed Black Line.
Suddenly, a sharp sound of ice shards breaking echoed in the dark room, and Luna seized the opportunity to insert her Scepter into the Door Gap.
Blue-golden blood seeped through the Relief patterns into the room, resonating with Aelia's Extreme Cold Magic Core.
The entire castle's foundation began to tilt as Qin Si and Qian Jiao grasped onto a Pillar. They saw Leonard's Sword, where Aelia's Engagement Gem was developing spiderweb-like cracks from within.
"Stop it, Father!" Luna suddenly articulated a complete sentence. Her Hand Back Contract Chain Xu Ying materialized, wrapping around Lord's right hand that was about to unleash the Blood Curse. "Mother's heart has long merged with the Magic Core!"
The Serpent within Leonard's Pupil thrashed wildly as he swung his sword to sever the chains. In that instant, a frigid wind surged from the Door Gap, carrying ice crystals.
The swirling ice particles crystallized in mid-air into an illusion of Aelia during childbirth—a pale-faced woman fiercely protecting her abdomen, using her last ounce of magic to seal the rampaging Extreme Cold Magic Core within her heart.
Luna's Loud Cry overlapped with the baby's cries from the illusion, and all the scales at the tip of her Scepter suddenly stood upright.
With a thunderous crash, the massive door of the dark room swung open. Lord saw Aelia curled up within an Ice Coffin; her Heart's Reincarnation Mark was spreading the Sealing Magic Pattern throughout her body while eighteen Ice Sculpture Roses slowly bloomed in her hair.
The Scepter slipped from Luna’s grasp and fell to the ground as her blue-golden Pupil returned to that characteristic haziness of infancy.
Leonard stood frozen amidst the raging Ice Storm, allowing Aelia's marriage Gem Fragment to cut through Luna.
As the last shard of ice crystal fell onto his trembling fingertip, a crisp sound echoed from the depths of the dark chamber—the shattering of the Extreme Cold Magic Core. It was the Judgment Bell, a Dark Sacrificial Ritual that should have been completed twenty years ago, delayed until now by love.
Inside the Ice Coffin, Aelia's eyelashes were frosted with Frost Flower, while the spikes of the Ice Rose slowly pierced her carotid artery.
Luna suddenly grasped Leonard's drooping Jian Sui, her infant's unique mental power penetrating his soul barrier, spilling forth fragments of memories from twenty-three years ago—
On their wedding night, Aelia curled up in the Liujin Canopy, trembling as she swallowed the Pregnancy Spirit Potion; her fingertip turned a shade of blue-purple.
At that time, Leonard, still an heir, wrapped the Marriage Chain around her wrist and leaned down to kiss away her tears: "Once the child is born, I will take you to the Northern Territory to see the roses that never wither."
The Memory Frame suddenly shattered and reformed into a vision of Aelia curled up in a pool of blood.
She clutched the tiny hand of her deceased Eldest Son, using the bloodied Marriage Stone to carve a Defensive Formation into the ground of the delivery room.
Outside, Leonard's impatient footsteps echoed; the Glowing Spores lingering at his collar glimmered with an eerie blue under the moonlight.
"Mother... it hurts..." Luna's cries carried a Magic Resonance, causing the Ice Coffin to suddenly reflect countless Memory Prisms.
Leonard saw himself three days ago holding the Red-Haired Witch in his arms; within her fingertip entwined with Evil Butterfly Phosphor Dust were unmistakably mixed Poison Mushroom Spores that could suffocate a pregnant woman.
The Scepter emitted a blinding Strong Light, and from Luna's forehead, a Starry Birthmark oozed blue Golden Blood Pearl.
Those sealing magic patterns frozen within Aelia's heart suddenly began to move, piecing together a Celestial Chart of Northern Rose Manor on the surface of the Ice Coffin—exactly what Leonard had used to deceive his wife into drinking the Magic Potion under the guise of a Wedding Oath Totem.
"You taught Mother to identify four hundred and twenty types of Tracking Magic," Luna shattered the lies of the Curse Mark on the Ice Coffin's surface with her mental waves. "Yet she always believed that the Glowing Spores at his collar were proof of love." The infant's pupils reflected Leonard's gradually fracturing Serpent Scale, as fragments of Aelia's Marriage Chain dripped from the sharp tips of the Ice Rose.
The dark chamber suddenly shook violently; the Ice Rose in Aelia's hair abruptly ceased its growth.
Leonard noticed that the Reincarnation Mark on her chest was seeping fine Gold Threads, which penetrated the Ice Layer and wrapped around his Serpent Scale, burning a distinctive Xing Mang Brand into his skin, characteristic of the Northern Witch.
"The Wedding Ring you gave her for her eighteenth anniversary..." Luna lightly tapped the Ground with her Scepter, causing a ring embedded with a Blue Diamond to surface beneath the Ice Layer. "It was actually a Surveillance Artifact refined from Outer Room Tears, wasn't it?" Suddenly, the infant bit her finger and flicked a Blood Pearl towards the Ice Coffin.
The Blue Diamond shattered upon impact, revealing a curled-up micro poison butterfly inside—precisely the Heart-Eating Gu Insect controlled by the Red-Haired Witch.
Leonard's Sword let out a mournful cry as cracks appeared in the Engagement Gem belonging to Aelia on the hilt.
The Frozen Contract Longsword suddenly changed direction, aiming its Sword Tip at the Xing Mang bite mark on his Collarbone.
Seizing the opportunity, Luna lunged towards the edge of the Ice Coffin, pressing her bloodied little hand against her Mother’s Heart. "Does Father know... that during your difficult labor years ago... Mother used her last bit of magic to purify the poison spores at your collar?"
The Ice Coffin erupted with a blinding Blue Light, causing Leonard to stagger and lean against the wall.
The Serpent Scale on his Neck was peeling away under the burning Gold Threads, revealing fresh bite marks underneath—within that mark from the Red-Haired Witch, tiny black Soul Insect Eggs were wriggling.
As the last piece of Serpent Scale fell to the ground, Aelia within the Ice Coffin suddenly overflowed with fragmented murmurs. The shattered Wedding Ring Fragment on her ring finger resonated eerily with the cracks in Leonard's Sword.
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