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The fluttering snowflakes landed on Aelia's eyelashes as she gazed at the cracked Ebony Hairpin nestled in her husband's hair. A sudden burning sensation surged in her throat, reminiscent of the boiling Magic Potion.
Five years ago, when she first married, the Emerald Feather embedded in the hairpin trembled. As the moonlight shifted, it clearly reflected the Rose Dark Pattern she had carved into the inner side of the feather.
"Mother, look!" Luna, wrapped in a blanket of starlit velvet, suddenly tumbled down the steps, her tiny fingertip barely brushing against the pin's tail.
The frost sealed within the Shan Na melted upon contact with the emerald, and the Guardian Spell that had lain dormant for twenty years abruptly awakened—this was the Marriage Oath Secret Art passed down through generations of the Aelia Family.
Leonard stumbled back a step, and from his Mage's Magic Robe, wisps of black mist surged forth.
His instinctive move to steady the Hairpin mirrored that night ten years ago when Aelia had prepared for him. The moonlight had slanted through the Crystal Window of their marital chamber just as it did now, illuminating his flustered expression that he wished to conceal.
"This feather..." Aelia's Ailya's White Nails dug into her palm where a scab had formed. The unique Xuan Bing aura of the Northern Territory mingled with a Bloody Smell that permeated the air. "I remember Father saying that if a heartless person encounters the Thousand-Year Ice Soul within an emerald, it will start Cracking."
Suddenly, Luna let out a heart-wrenching Loud Cry, and an outburst of magical energy from her tiny body ignited all twelve Magic Crystal Lamps.
In the blinding white light that followed, the emerald at the pinhead projected a hazy image: a woman draped in a Snow Marten Cloak stood before a Dressing Mirror, fastening a matching Ebony Hairpin into her curly hair—her Blue Diamond Earrings swayed gently, unmistakably those lost by Aelia during last year's Dong Lian.
Leonard's hand froze mid-motion as he attempted to extinguish the Magic Crystal Lamps. On his ring finger, where his Wedding Ring had long resided, the Dark Night Rose Totem was fading to a dull gray.
The shadow behind him suddenly twisted into the form of a Two-Headed Serpent, signaling an impending loss of control over his Advanced Illusion.
"Three days ago on Full Moon Night, you said you would enter seclusion to refine the Breaking the Boundary Scroll." Aelia's voice sliced through the air like an ice-coated blade, shattering the floating Magic Essence within the illusion of their secret chamber.
Those energy particles glimmering with Pearl Luster now stood in stark contrast to the scarlet liquid in the Crystal Cup.
Luna seized the opportunity to grasp the blood-stained hem of her Mother’s dress, the unique Pure Magic of the infant seeping into the fragment of the Wedding Oath Scroll along the trail of blood.
The Ice Butterflies suddenly converged into a mirror, reflecting the records from the Year 455 of the Star Calendar at the Magic Notary Office—an Ebony Hairpin marked as Aelia’s sixth Dowry, clearly stamped with the inscription "Never to be replicated" in Phoenix Fire Lacquer.
Leonard's body erupted with a Defensive Barrier, sending the Castle Steward, who had attempted to approach for evidence, crashing against a stone pillar.
The Ebony Hairpin in his hair emitted a painful cracking sound, and the Ice Spirit sealed within the Emerald Feather began to vaporize, coalescing above everyone’s heads into the totem of the betrayer from the Ancient Prophecy of the Northern Territory.
"It’s just an heirloom..."
"Would an heirloom carry the scent of my Mother’s Nightingale Perfume?" Aelia suddenly tore open the cloth on her left shoulder, revealing a Shou Gong Sha totem that perfectly matched the emerald Dark Pattern on her snow-white skin. "You once said you wanted to merge our souls to practice magic together; it seems that what merges is not just our souls?"
Luna's pupils suddenly transformed into Shu Tong, and the pressure released by the unaware infant shook the floor, creating spider web-like cracks.
In her hazy memories of a past life, she recognized that this magical crack bearing a Snake Scale Pattern was a sign that the foundation of the Magic Castle was beginning to collapse.
Leonard's fingertip glowed with a dangerous Black Purple Light but extinguished abruptly upon touching Aelia's neck where her Wedding Oath Necklace hung.
As he stepped back, he knocked over a Bronze Candlestick that tumbled down the stairs, its melted Dragon's Blood Wax drawing eerie runes on the ground—perfectly aligning with the Twin Catastrophe totem foretold by the Astrologer three days ago.
"Does my Lord know?" Aelia suddenly reached up to remove her Ebony Hairpin, revealing a broken Phoenix Wood Core that was oozing Golden Red Liquid. "Our Dowry from Feng Qi Valley will..."
Her words were interrupted by a sudden earthquake.
The Celestial Chart in the Castle Dome began to misalign, and a star representing marriage trailed a ghostly blue tail as it fell toward the east—precisely in the direction of the Magic Notary Office where the Wedding Oath Scroll was kept.
Luna gazed at the Scorch Mark burned into the stone slab by the Stellar Trajectory and suddenly recalled that woman from her Original wearing Blue Diamond Earrings, who must be altering some crucial date at this very moment in the Notary Office.
The mirror formed by the Ice Butterfly Swarm suddenly shattered, countless crystal shards swirling with Aelia's questioning echoing in the Dome.
Leonard's Defensive Barrier stirred up a Magic Turbulence that toppled three of the twelve Magic Crystal Lamps. In the flickering Light and Shadow, the silver chain peeking from his sleeve began to dissolve into a serpent-like mist.
"Evidence?" Aelia abruptly tore off her Wedding Oath Necklace, and the falling Sapphire transformed into an Ice Spike upon hitting the ground, pinning Leonard's retreating foot in place. "Dare you swear before the Ice Spirit of Feng Qi Valley?"
Luna's Loud Cry abruptly shifted to a light Laughter, and the starlit fabric wrapping the infant suddenly burst forth with Xing Hui.
Amidst the astonished gazes of the crowd, a Phoenix Tail Feather composed of Seven Ice Crystals floated out from the swaddling, precisely embedding itself into the crack of an Ebony Hairpin—this was a unique boundary-breaking talent of a reincarnated Great Mage.
The hairpin emitted a grinding sound that made one’s teeth ache as the Disguise Spell on its surface began to peel away.
As the dark Golden Inscription "Ailya Fengqi" emerged at the tip of the hairpin, even the Ancient Magic Rune sleeping on the Pillar began to stir restlessly.
Leonard's Pupil constricted sharply as his left hand swiftly formed a Silencing Spell seal. Yet, where Aelia's blood-stained Skirt brushed past, his barrier unexpectedly bloomed with Blood Roses.
"Five years ago, you praised this hairpin for resembling a Orchidaceae tail and said you would carve it into the Wedding Oath Scroll." Aelia's Fingertip traced over the broken tip of the hairpin, ice crystals forming into Thorns along her Lacrima, shredding the escaping black mist. "Little did you know that a true Orchidaceae hairpin core must be soaked in weeping blood wood for a hundred days—just like what you hear now, it is my blood that cries."
Leonard suddenly raised his hand to summon the Magic Fortress Codex, and its Gold Foil Cover automatically flipped to page three hundred twenty-four.
He pointed his Fingertip at the Contract stating "The head of the family has the right to seal disputed evidence," and instantly, the Codex transformed into chains that wrapped around the Ebony Hairpin.
However, when the chains touched the starlight emanating from Luna, they bizarrely twisted into Blood Rose Vines, causing the Codex to burn with charred Abyssal Serpent Parasite Holes.
"Enough!" The Lord's roar shook the Crystal Chandelier, causing it to chime. Twelve Secret Silver Talismans flew from his sleeve, erecting a soundproof barrier around them. "Madam has been laboring for days and is hallucinating; do not delay..."
Aelia suddenly tore open her Hair Bun, and nine ice crystal hairpins cascaded down like a silver waterfall.
As she bit through the Tongue and sprayed out Blood Mist, the hairpins combined into a miniature Feng Qi Valley. In the Ice Mist rising from the bottom of the valley, the Leonard's Last Night that she had carved in the Workshop was clearly visible - the teenage Aelia was using the Ice Soul Blade to carve the Name Abbreviation of the two people on the inside of the hairpin tube, and the Lacrima fell on the red-hot Xuan Tie and Purple Smoke rose. Luna suddenly stretched out her chubby little hand and accurately caught the drifting purple smoke. The baby's Awareness whispering actually Automatically Activated some kind of Ancient Contract, and the smoke condensed into a miniature Notary Office Projection in her Palm - on the file shelf, the Wedding Oath Scroll marked "L&A" was oozing Hei Xue. "Are you saying this is a fake now?" Aelia's sneer carried an Ice Shard, and the Shou Gong Sha totem on her left shoulder suddenly spread into chain patterns. "Or explain why you are wearing my Mother's unique Nightingale Perfume?" The Veins on Leonard's neck suddenly rose, and the marble under his feet suddenly cracked into a Spider Web-like Gap. The surging Dark Element condensed into three pairs of illusory Wings behind him, which was the precursor of the Fury of the Master of the Demon Fortress. However, when his pressure collided with the Ice Crystal Formation rotating around Aelia, it actually triggered the Blessing Melody from the Twenty Years Ago Wedding Ceremony. Luna suddenly let out a sharp Loud Cry, and the golden light bursting from the baby's eyes penetrated the soundproof barrier. A deafening explosion sounded from the East Wing—from the direction of the Magic Notary Office. In the Azure Purple Flame that shot up into the sky, a Snow Weasel Cloak could be vaguely seen burning a scroll in the flames. "Stop her!" Aelia ordered in a hoarse voice, only to see that all the Raven that flew out of Leonard's sleeves spontaneously combusted in midair. The Hei Xue that overflowed from the corners of Lord's mouth dripped onto the ground, corroding the same Two-Headed Serpent pattern as the Wedding Ring totem. As the vibration became more and more intense, Aelia staggered and held onto the Railings that were condensed from ice crystals.
Her trembling fingertip brushed against the rose emblem of the hairpin, a symbol of eternity, now oozing with crimson halos from every intricate line.
When the eighth magic crystal lamp exploded, the crowd was horrified to see Ailya's silver hair fading to snow white at an alarming rate.
"It turns out that when the heart aches to the extreme, even the Ice Phoenix Bloodline can wither," she suddenly chuckled softly, driving the ebony hairpin deep into her heart.
Golden red blue blood fern juice gushed forth, painting a celestial chart of Feng Qi Valley's destruction on the dome.
Those falling Xing Zi, each reflected the swaying blue diamond earrings on Leonard's concubine's earlobe.
Leonard finally showed a look of panic; as soon as his palm activated the teleportation circle, it was shattered by Luna's loud cry.
The star trail swirling around the infant suddenly embedded itself in a crack in the floor, dragging the entire hall into time-space turbulence.
In the distorted light and shadow, everyone clearly saw a scene from five years ago—what should have been torn apart by beasts, a snow ferret, now lay docilely at Leonard's concubine's knee.
"It turns out our token of love..." Aelia's voice suddenly dropped as she gazed at her husband, who was gradually becoming transparent in the time-space turbulence. Her bloodied fingertip finally touched the edge of the swaddling blanket. "Was all mass-produced?"
Amidst the deafening collapse sound, the ice crystal railings crashed down.
Aelia's white hair intertwined with the starry velvet swaddling, swaying like a tattered wedding vow banner in the magic vortex.
As the last slab engraved with wedding ring totems fell into the abyss, Luna suddenly pushed her mother toward the still intact southeast corner with a strength beyond that of an infant.
As the dust settled, Aelia knelt alone amidst the ice crystal ruins.
Her palm, clutching half of a hairpin, was burned and mangled by the phoenix wood core, yet she stubbornly tried to piece together its broken end inscribed with initials.
The moonlight filtered through the broken dome, casting its glow on her faded hair tips, momentarily overlapping with the halo of that wedding night twenty years ago.
The moonlight refracted by the icy ruins shattered into light spots on Qin Si's skirt, embroidered with edelweiss. This maid, who had followed Aelia since childhood, carried a Liuli medicine box as she traversed the broken walls. Where the hem of her skirt swept across, frozen blood blossomed into tiny ice roses.
As she crouched down, the pearl hair chain that fell from her head brushed against Aelia's white hair, forming a curtain of Bing Ling beads between them.
"Miss, your hand..." Qin Si placed the medicine box on a half-broken Phoenix Relief. As her fragrant fingertip touched Aelia's charred palm, the burn marks inflicted by the Ice Spirit were visibly healing at an astonishing rate. "The Ice Spirit from Feng Qi Valley is still protecting you."
Aelia's blood-stained eyelashes fluttered as the ebony hairpin that had broken from her palm suddenly ignited in golden red and dark purple flames.
Qin Si, adorned with a hematic spell pattern on her Ailya dress, was burned to ashes as soon as she touched the flames, transforming into an ice butterfly that flitted among the ashes.
Where the phosphor dust from those butterfly wings fell, everyone noticed the remnants of Leonard's nightingale perfume in his cuffs resonating with the formula concocted by Aelia's mother.
"Hand it over." Aelia's hoarse voice stirred the remnants of the celestial chart in the dome. Her dyed white hair tips moved without wind. "That hairpin."
As Leonard stepped back, he crushed half a block of ice crystal. The moment his dark-patterned boots sank into a crack, his waist household token erupted with a black-purple barrier.
But the ice spirit stone at the tip of Qian Si's embroidered shoes had already spread a frost web across the ground—an exorcism technique taught to her by Aelia ten years ago, now freezing the barrier into fragile glass.
"Forgive me, my lady." Qin Si bowed with a posture that still held the unique crane-neck curve of Feng Qi Valley's maidens, yet her fingertip had already formed a magic-breaking ice spike.
As she spun around, she threw the medicine box into the air where it disintegrated, twelve Han Yu vials sealing off all of Leonard's escape routes with precision.
Before anyone could discern her movements, an ebony hairpin embedded with emerald feathers hovered before Aelia's eyes.
Qin Si maintained the freezing spell with her left hand while her right palm revealed an emerging phoenix clan emblem resonating with the dark-patterned pin—twenty years ago, when she entered the Magic Castle as a dowry maid, she had sworn a blood oath before an elder that was now glowing.
"The inscription on the inner side of the feather shaft requires Ice Spirit Vision." Aelia's bloodied fingertip pointed at Qin Si and Mei Xin, as ice crystals spread across the maid's pupil, forming a mirror-like surface.
When the magnified image was projected onto the shattered dome, even the sleeping Magi within the pillar gasped in astonishment.
Deep within the fractured surface of the Emerald Feather, aside from the Rose Dark Pattern intricately carved by Aelia herself, lay hidden the three characters "Tiana," written in Long Blood Ink.
Each stroke was entwined with Dark Night Rose vines—this was indeed the style of the Guardian Spell passed down through generations of the Leonard Family.
"The craftsmen who repaired the West Tower three days ago can testify!" The Stable Master suddenly pointed at a trembling spot in the image. "I saw with my own eyes that the paint taken by the Concubine Maid was used to apply these curses!"
Suddenly, three Hei Yu darts shot out from Leonard's sleeve but were swallowed by an Ice Butterfly Swarm before they could reach Qin Si's nape.
Aelia watched as the melting poison darts hung in mid-air and suddenly chuckled softly. "If my teacher who taught me how to concoct poisons were alive, he would surely mock this clumsy method."
Luna's swaddling suddenly burst forth with Xing Hui, and the Twelve Star Tracks swirling around the infant pieced together the shattered Wedding Oath Scroll's Remnant Page into a complete curse.
When the unique Phoenix Fire Lacquer of the Notary Office manifested in the void, a Kitchen Maid suddenly pointed at the emerald image of Qian Jiao. "That Snow Marten Cloak!
Last month, there was a woman wrapped in similar fur from an exotic merchant caravan who went to the east wing!"
The shadow beneath Leonard's feet suddenly surged, and before the illusion of a Two-Headed Serpent could take shape, it was ensnared by Ice Rose at Seven Inches.
Aelia gently touched Qin Si's frozen fingers and placed the bloodied Ebony Hairpin on the ice crystal brick. "According to Chapter Seven, Article Four of Magic Fortress Law, if the family head's token is stained with dual wedding oath marks..."
"This is slander!" Leonard suddenly cut his palm, and as Blood Pearls splattered upon contact with the Head of Household Token, they transformed into hundreds of blood crows. "Someone must have tampered with it..."
His hoarse defense was shattered in his throat by Luna's loud cry.
The Magic Circle spinning around the infant purified the blood crows completely. Within the pure holy light, an emerald image suddenly flashed back to five years ago—on his wedding night, Leonard was pinning another Ebony Hairpin into Leonard's Concubine's hair, the moonlight illuminating the matching inscription on the hairpin: "Tiana."
Qin Si suddenly coughed violently, and the Ice Blue Blood seeping through her fingers drew a map of Feng Qi Valley on the ground.
When Aelia grasped her wrist, she discovered that the Ice Spirit Stone close to Leonard had shattered into powder—evidence of bearing the curse backlash for her master.
"Miss, the Ice Spirit Vision can last for another three minutes." Qin Si's blood-stained lips curled into a sly smile reminiscent of their youth, a look they shared when practicing Forbidden Technique secretly at Ice Lake in Feng Qi Valley. "That’s enough time to see the entire memory."
Aelia plunged the Ebony Hairpin fiercely into the ice crystal brick, and the Golden Red Liquid that erupted merged with Qin Si's blood into a torrent of memories.
When everyone saw Leonard wearing two Wedding Rings simultaneously at the Star Moon Festival, the Chief Guard suddenly drew Leonard's Sword and slashed at his own left arm—the Dark Night Rose tattoo on his bicep was seeping Hei Xue, a unique backlash phenomenon experienced by members of the Knight Order when deceived by their master.
"Enough!" Twelve Forbidden Spell Scrolls flew out from Leonard's tear-stained sleeves but were sealed by frost before they could unfold.
Aelia stepped onto the Judgment Ice Steps suspended in mid-air and approached him, her white hair entwining around his gradually graying Wedding Oath Totem. "Shouldn't we be discussing inviting that lady Tiana to enjoy the moonlight at Feng Qi Valley?"
The remaining Magic Crystal Lamps in the castle exploded simultaneously. In the sudden darkness, only Luna's swaddling and Aelia's white hair continued to glow.
As the sound of melting ice crystals echoed for the third time, Leonard's Wedding Ring on his ring finger suddenly cracked in two, revealing a strange emblem engraved on its inner layer—the pattern perfectly matched with the Blue Diamond Earrings on Leonard's Concubine's earlobe.
Aelia's fingers brushed over the Wisteria Hairpin inside the Velvet Box, as the moonstone flickered with an eerie blue light under the candle flame.
In the Dressing Mirror, Luna's chubby little hand suddenly grasped at the hairpin’s tail, her baby grape-like eyes shimmering with Yin Mang.
"Madam, be careful!" Qin Si exclaimed as she rushed to take Luna away but noticed fine cracks appearing in the gem at the hairpin’s tip.
Ice crystals climbed along Aelia's fingertip, condensing in mid-air into a mirror—there stood a Red-Haired Woman brushing her hair before the Crystal Mirror, with a Wisteria Hairpin at her temple resembling this one that looked like twin blossoms.
Luna's swaddling glowed with a soft light, and Aelia heard a child's voice whispering in her ear: "The Third Rose Garden on Oak Tree Lane in the West Suburb hides the Summer Palace that Father gave to Galia."
The Bronze Candlestick crashed to the ground just as Leonard kicked open the door, facing his wife, whose face was as pale as paper.
He caught sight of two hairpins lying side by side on the table, and as the Gilded Cufflinks brushed against the Waist wand, he muttered, "It's just a reward for the steward..."
"A reward that ends up on Galia Fernando's bed?" Aelia's fingertip conjured Bing Ling, causing the Dressing Mirror to shatter in response.
The Frost Patterns, unseen for twenty years, spread across her neck—a sign of the awakening of the Ice Magic from the Fernando family.
Leonard's magic surged forth like Zhang Jian, releasing a cloud of black mist, but it was swallowed by Xing Mang upon touching Luna's swaddling.
The baby laughed and reached for a wisp of black mist, which transformed into a Blue Rose in her palm. "Three days from now at the Magic Castle Council, if you dare to utter a single word..." He grasped Aelia's chin, only to see her hair tips visibly turning Frost White at an alarming rate.
As the sound of Liujin's boots faded at the end of the Emerald Corridor, Luna stared in shock at the ice crystals swirling around Aelia—once a timid lady in the Original story, now awakened to an even more domineering Extreme Cold Domain than the male protagonist.
The Crystal Chandelier chimed softly, reflecting the Eighth Star Trail that quietly appeared beside the blood moon outside the window.
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