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As the morning light pierced through the Ice Crystal Dome, Aelia's Silver Ring was burning her finger.
This was the Oath Ring forged by Leonard with Chuxue sixteen years ago, yet at this moment, it felt as if it would sever her last shred of hope.
The loud cry of a baby echoed from the Emerald Corridor, and as the maidservants entered the banquet hall carrying Luna, the frozen ground suddenly blossomed with Twelve Rays and Starry Patterns.
"Madam, be careful!" Qin Si rushed forward to steady the stumbling Aelia, shards of her Sapphire Earring cutting into her neck.
Luna suddenly reached out her delicate pink hand; her fingertip brushed against Aelia's collarbone scar, and the Ice Crystal Dome reflected a phantom of the West Tower—within the Purple Black Flame was clearly wrapped the outline of a three-year-old boy, resembling Mei Yan and Leonard.
Aelia staggered back as the Ice Crystal Ground cracked with a spider web pattern.
Suddenly, Luna's swaddling emitted a light band of Xing Hui color, projecting a passage from an ancient book: in the thirteenth year of Leonard’s secret affair in Snow Wolf Valley’s Golden House, the illegitimate child bore an Emerging Soul Devouring Serpent Mark on his forehead.
"This is impossible..." Aelia crushed the Ice Spike beside her, blood mingling with shards of ice dripping onto Luna’s Mei Xin.
The baby let out a laugh reminiscent of Yin Ling, her bloodied fingertip tracing an Ancient Incantation in the air—exactly as recorded in the Abyssal Grimoire regarding the Soul Devouring Serpent's master Brand.
On the ice wall, Leonard emerged from half a month ago in Snow Wolf Valley during Leonard's Last Night; he caressed the boy’s forehead where the Serpent Mark lay, his black robe still stained with Agave and Xunxiang that Aelia had personally prepared.
Qin Si suddenly tore away Luna's Embroidered Golden Swaddling; to their shock, there was an Ice Crystal Luna embedded in the baby's heart.
Trembling, she retrieved the Family Secret Tome Remnant Page she had worn for twenty years; faded prophecies on the parchment suddenly oozed golden liquid: "When Xing Hui breaks through the clouds, on the day Ice Spirit appears in this world, the Soul Devouring Serpent Master shall perish."
The ice crystals in the banquet hall began to resonate as Luna’s Xing Hui burst forth, enveloping Aelia’s bleeding fingertip.
When the light faded, Aelia's palm emerged bearing an Ice Soul Mark identical to that of baby Luna’s, while from the direction of the West Tower, a Purple Black flame suddenly screeched.
"Madam, look!" Qin Si pointed at the melting ice wall; Leonard's Soul Devouring Serpent jade buckle tied around her waist was now shedding Dark Red Blood Veins within the Xing Hui.
Luna suddenly struggled toward the jade buckle; at that moment, tears from the baby fell, and to their astonishment, Blood Veins coalesced into a miniature phantom of a Soul Devouring Serpent, its fangs aimed directly at Aelia's Palm bearing the Ice Soul Mark.
Aelia suddenly lifted Luna in front of her, the infant's clear pupils reflecting the white strands of her hair. "Twenty Years..." She stroked Luna's heart, which was burning hot, and abruptly tore off the Sapphire Necklace from her neck.
The shattered Zhui Zi echoed with the sound of crystal lamps exploding in succession within the Emerald Corridor, as twelve magical lights formed a Blood Arrow pointing towards the West Tower.
As the last Sapphire Fragment embedded itself into the eye of the mural in the Emerald Corridor, the map of Snow Wolf Valley slowly unfolded on the icy wall.
Luna's essence resonated with a certain point on the map, and the lullaby she unconsciously hummed perfectly matched the requiem sung by Aelia's mother before her passing.
Qin Si suddenly covered her mouth; she saw her hair tips crystallizing in the reflection of the mural—this was a sign of awakening from Aelia's family bloodline.
Meanwhile, Luna clutched Aelia's blood-stained Silver Ring. The emerging ice cracks on the ring face matched precisely with the markings of the Snow Wolf King that Third Young Master Lucius had hunted back last year.
The Ice Soul Mark emitted a sharp buzzing sound, and Luna, cradled in Aelia's arms, began to heat up rapidly.
When Qin Si lifted the infant swaddling to take a look, she saw a half piece of broken jade slowly surfacing from Luna's heart—a perfect match to the Heart Protecting Jade that had shattered during her brother's magic backlash that night.
The buzzing sound of the Ice Soul Mark penetrated throughout the castle, and the fragment of jade floating from Luna's heart suddenly transformed into Liuguang, piercing through the dome above.
Her brother, curled up in the dark room of the Library of Hidden Books, suddenly raised his head. The fragment of Heart Protecting Jade on his chest floated in mid-air, responding to that beam of Liuguang from afar.
"This is..." He trembled as he touched the floating piece of jade, feeling magic flowing through his meridians for the first time in sixteen years.
A tingling sensation like ants gnawing at his missing left leg surged through him as dark purple curse patterns began emerging from beneath his skin. They were wrapped by Xing Hui and pulled away from his body.
He staggered and knocked over a bookshelf; an ancient copy of Magic Pattern Atlas opened to the page on "Soul Devouring Serpent Curse," its yellowed illustrations twisting into ashes within Xing Hui.
Suddenly, Luna giggled in the banquet hall. The infant's palm was unknowingly clutching a piece of ice crystal, and the light spots refracted from it formed a dome pattern of a Magic Arena on the wall.
As her brother steadied himself against the wall, he realized that his right fingertips were uncontrollably crystallizing into Ice Spike arrows—exactly what he had mastered at fifteen when he claimed victory as champion.
"Young Master!" The Old Butler burst through the door, illuminating the melted Curse Crystals scattered across the floor with his Copper Lamp.
Eldest Brother leaned on his Ice Crystal Longbow, gazing out towards the direction of the Competition arena, a long-lost battle spirit igniting in his eyes. "Tell the Chief Judge that I want to resume the finals that were interrupted sixteen years ago."
At that moment, a sharp sound of shattering Crystal Vessel echoed from the second-floor terrace.
Second Brother staggered back a few steps, clutching half of a Contract Stone, as Luna's Lullaby seeped through the floor Gap into the Magic Circle beneath his feet.
The Gathering Spirit Cube sent by his dear friend Three Days Ago suddenly exploded, scattering the Soul Devouring Serpent Scales hidden within Ankeli.
"So you’ve been plotting since five years ago..." His eyes reddened as he tore open his collar, revealing the altered marks of the Contract Seal on his chest within Xing Hui.
As Luna's Loud Cry abruptly transformed into a soaring Aria, those twisted Magic Patterns slithered out of his skin like live serpents, pinned to the wall by ice crystals formed from baby tears.
It was at this moment that Brother San burst through the terrace door.
He had originally come holding a copy of Elemental Theory to seek answers from Second Brother but was struck with a splitting headache upon seeing the scales scattered across the floor.
The Talent Test Form wedged between Yellowed Pages suddenly ignited spontaneously, and Luna's projection in Xing Hui against the Dome pierced through the flames, turning to ashes the Test Officer's remark from ten years ago: "Dark Element Insulator."
"We've all been deceived!" Brother San suddenly grasped Second Brother's arm. The Dark Purple Flame flickering in his Palm harmonized perfectly with the Xing Hui leaking from Luna's Swaddling.
A screech from the direction of the Library of Hidden Books pierced through as an Ice Crystal Arrow flew by. When the two brothers exchanged glances, they saw each other's eyes swirling with a Magic Vortex—just like on that morning when Mother awakened, freezing the entire Magic Castle Garden in an instant.
In the banquet hall, Aelia's Silver Ring suddenly cracked in two.
The screech from the West Tower transformed into tangible Sound Waves, shaking loose murals in the Emerald Corridor.
Luna struggled to grasp at the Sapphire Powder drifting in the air; those sparkling fragments coalesced into three lines of bloody Prophecy Poem on the Crystal Lamp Shade touched by Leonard This Morning.
Just as Qin Si leaned in for a closer look, the entire castle trembled violently.
The map of Snow Wolf Valley twisted into a vortex on the ice wall, with the light of Luna continuously pouring into the location of the three brothers.
As the last ray of light vanished into the wall, the baby suddenly fell silent, and a pink fingertip gently pressed against Aelia's Ice Soul Mark.
When the moonlight replaced the Xing Hui and illuminated the Dome, Leonard's black and gold cloak appeared at the end of the Emerald Corridor.
His newly replaced jade buckle glimmered with an eerie purple light. As his boot heel crushed the remnants of the Prophecy Poem, the remaining purple-black flames from the West Tower surged suddenly, casting a massive serpent-like shadow on the ice wall.
Aelia handed the sleeping Luna to Qin Si, her bloodied fingertip brushing over the fading Ice Soul Mark.
As she turned to face her husband, all twelve magical lamps in the Emerald Corridor extinguished simultaneously, leaving only the magical radiance from the brothers' room piercing through the deepening night like a sword.
Aelia's skirt swept across the ground littered with shards of Xing Hui, and her Ice Soul Mark contracted into a crescent shape in her palm.
As Leonard's boot sole crushed the last grain of sapphire powder, the flames from the West Tower suddenly coalesced into a giant serpent named Shu Tong. However, upon touching the magical radiance emanating from the brothers' room, it emitted a hissing sound as if corroding.
"Is this your Full Moon Gift for Luna?" Aelia lightly tapped on the ice wall with her fingertip. The ice crystal, stained by Xing Hui, suddenly reflected a real-time scene from three hundred miles away—an infant tower covered in Soul Devouring Serpent Scale was collapsing, stirring up clouds of black mist from Han Ya.
Leonard's hand paused slightly as he unfastened his cloak; his cufflinks adorned with dark golden serpent patterns suddenly shattered.
As splintered Sui Yu pierced through Luna's swaddling, the Xing Hui crystallized on the baby's eyelashes transformed into solid form, freezing Sui Yu into an Ice Crystal Wind Chime.
In the crisp sound of Feng Ling colliding, there was a faint echo of the eldest brother drawing back his ice bow in the Magic Arena.
"Madam seems to have forgotten," Lord said as he raised his hand to wipe away an ice shard from his neck. The Soul Devouring Serpent Mark beneath his collarbone glowed with purple light. "Twenty years ago today, you personally added a binding spell to our Marriage Contract..." Before he could finish speaking, a sudden explosion of crystal came from upstairs. The Second Brother rushed down the Spiral Staircase holding half a piece of Contract Stone, with altered Magic Patterns peeling away inch by inch from his fingertip.
Luna suddenly kicked her legs in Qin Si's arms. The Xing Hui seeping from Luna quietly drilled into the floor tile gap along the maid's hair tips' ice crystal veins.
Brother San's figure emerged like a ghost around the corner of the Emerald Corridor. In his palm danced dark flames wrapping around half a charred Talent Identification Certificate, forming ashes that spelled out a path resembling the faint Ice Crystal Pattern on Luna's swaddling.
"Father, do you recognize this?" Brother San raised his hand and threw the dark flame toward the ice wall. The flames engulfed Shan Na’s projection of Soul Devouring Serpent. Suddenly, seventeen light spots illuminated on the Snow Wolf Valley map—each corresponding to magical experiments that had been forcibly interrupted over these years by their eldest brother.
Luna's cry suddenly transformed into a soft laugh, as the baby Palm unknowingly clutched a piece of Serpent Scale. The edges of the scale began to slowly spell out the patterns of the Remnant Page from the Abyssal Grimoire.
Aelia's Silver Ring fragment suddenly floated up from the Peacock Stone Tiles, forming a circular Light Barrier above everyone's heads. On the curtain, records of Leonard's retrieval of Dark Element Crystals over the past decade rolled by.
"The Soul Devouring Serpent's keeper Contract requires a host change every month." Aelia raised her hand, freezing the Light Barrier. Her fingertip pointed to a frequently appearing coordinate in Snow Wolf Valley within the records. "Last month, Lord sent a Live Sacrifice to the West Tower, and it seems there was an additional share for a three-year-old child?"
The entire castle's foundation suddenly let out a Roar, and Luna's Luna projected a rotating Celestial Chart amidst the tremors.
When the eighth star illuminated the eyes in the mural of the Emerald Corridor, the magic radiance of the three brothers suddenly converged above the castle, coalescing into an Ice Crystal Giant Sword that hung at the top of the West Tower.
Beneath Leonard's black robe, the Soul Devouring Serpent Mark began to convulse violently. As he stepped back, he knocked over a crystal lamp, from which floated Luna's Prophecy Poem fragments frozen in Xing Hui.
The baby's clear Pupil reflected the Sealed Letter Wax that slipped from Lord's sleeve—imprinted on it was the Dark Pattern from the Fake Talent Book that Brother San had just burned.
As the moonlight shifted towards Shan Na, Luna suddenly spread her Five Fingers in the direction of the West Tower.
The drifting fragments of Xing Hui coalesced in her Palm into a Micro Sandglass. However, what settled at the bottom was not grains of sand, but three Soul Devouring Serpent Eggs wrapped in icy shells.
The baby's pink gums gently clashed together, unnoticed by anyone as her Tongue flickered with the hatching incantation recorded in the Abyssal Grimoire.
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