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The red glow of the Dark River Sealing had yet to fade when Aelia, clad in her Starlight Gown, surged toward the East Wing with Han Shuang at her side.
The door inlaid with moonstones shattered into powder at her fingertip's touch. Leonard stood before a sand table ablaze with Yin Ming Huo, the Inspection Order hovering above the Northern Territory Topographic Map still exuding the scent of fresh ink.
"Twenty years in bed together, and you dare to forge an Inspection Order with Phoenix Fire Seed?" Aelia's Starlight Chains pierced through the sand table, ice crystals spreading along the Flame Pattern into thorns. "The Northern Boundary Barrier shattered three days ago—your crown's violet is the Blood Pact Emblem of a Dark River Traitor!"
As Leonard turned, the beaded curtain of his crown jingled softly. He attempted to grasp his wife's trembling wrist. "Those Ancient Magic Scripts are ambiguous..."
"Ambiguous?" Aelia suddenly lifted the Velvet Tablecloth, revealing Ankeli's Communication Crystal that rolled out.
The crystal's surface displayed the Wisteria Pattern entwined around Leonard's Concubine's neck, identical to the Cursed Vines that thrived within the Dark River Sealing.
With her fingertip, she summoned an Ice Blade that sliced open her husband's sleeve, revealing a Dark Pattern embroidered with Phoenix Tail Feathers on the inner side—hidden within what should have been a Guardian Spell was a trio of miniature Traitor's Emblems.
As Third Young Master Lucius burst through the study door, he witnessed the violet on Father’s crown suddenly bloom.
Petals fell at Mother’s feet, transforming into an image from twenty years ago during their Full Moon Feast: Leonard had concealed Forbidden Runes within the Guardian Array he drew among three cradles, designed to convert his sons' magical power into energy for the crown.
"Father!" The eldest brother pressed his mangled right hand against the Heart seal, blood seeping from the scar left by a Magic Backlash, "You planted a Blood Curse in our cradles just to nourish these filthy violets?"
Flames in the shape of a phoenix erupted around Leonard as he attempted to envelop the collapsing Inspection Order. "The Dark River Sealing requires a Close Bloodline to maintain; if it hadn't been done back then..."
"You claimed it was a Guardian Totem against Black Magic!" Second Brother suddenly fell to his knees, the Thorn Chain tightening around his neck and etching a Purple-Black Magic Script into his skin.
Those Ancient Scripts seemed to come alive, crawling up the walls and piecing together the true prophecy of the Dark River Sealing—what needed sacrifice was never an external enemy but rather Lord’s direct Bloodline.
Brother San's Leonard's Sword suddenly emitted a Longyin, and Crystal Orchids grew wildly from its hilt to the ceiling.
Purple Pollen fell softly, reflecting the chaos of Outer Chamber Manor's Coordinate on the ground.
Aelia's Starry Necklace suddenly floated into the air, and from the shattered gems, two entwined beams of light shot forth: one pointed towards the Dark River Entrance in the Castle Cellar, while the other pierced straight through Leonard's chest.
"Mother, be careful!" The remnants of my brother's fingers erupted with red light, and the Guardian Array drawn on Brothers' Cradle twenty years ago suddenly reappeared on the study floor.
The three brothers were drawn together by the power of the Magic Circle, forming a Triangle. They realized that their Magic Circuit resonated completely with the Violet Pattern on Father's Crown.
As Luna was held in Qin Si's arms and brought into the shadow of a Pillar, she witnessed Aelia's Starlight Gown transform into chains that ensnared Leonard's Crown.
The infant's Emerald-colored Pupils rippled as she noticed that those seemingly aggressive Xing Hui were actually carefully avoiding the faint Phoenix Fire Seed near Father's Heart—just like this morning when Leonard had woven her swaddling with Ice Crystal Phoenix Tail Feathers, secretly hiding a Guardian Spell that still radiated warmth.
A roar from the direction of the Cellar announced the collapse of Dark River Sealing, causing all Crystal Chandeliers in the castle to explode simultaneously.
Amidst the falling Prism Shards, Luna saw Brother San's Leonard's Sword suddenly redirect its Crystal Orchid Buds, scattering the last few glowing Pollen towards her.
As those Pollen touched the Ice Crystal Fragments in her hair, they coalesced in the air into half of a fragmented Guardian Formation—exactly what should have been fully depicted on her brothers' Cradle twenty years ago.
The Residual Magic from the exploding Crystal Chandeliers reverberated through the Dome, transforming Prism Shards into countless falling stars.
Luna was cradled in Qin Si's arms, her Emerald Eyes reflecting the devastation around them—her brother's Ice Blue Blood Pearl winding like a river within the Magic Circle Pattern, Second Brother’s Thorn Chain gnawing at the Ancient Magic Script on the wall, and Brother San’s Leonard's Sword suddenly emitted a sharp wail from its overgrown Crystal Orchid.
"Wah—" The infant's loud cry pierced through the stagnant air.
Luna curled up, her Fingertip bursting forth with fragmented Jin Mang. The magical power that should have belonged to the Great Mage was deliberately crushed into Light Spots resembling Ying Huo insects.
A warm Halo climbed along the Starlight Chains, melting the Ice Blade formed from Aelia's Starry Gown into spring water, which dripped steadily onto Leonard's sleeve adorned with the Phoenix Dark Pattern.
The beaded curtain of Leonard's Crown suddenly ceased its trembling. He realized that the faint Heart was being nourished by these Light Spots, which contained a weak Phoenix Fire Seed.
The Father-Son Magic Resonance, dormant for Twenty Years, began to flow anew within the Triangle Formation. The Blood Pearl seeping from his elder brother's mangled right hand suddenly floated into a talisman, while the Thorn Chain around Second Brother's neck automatically unfastened its first Lock. Brother San's Leonard's Sword, with its Crystal Orchid Bud, turned in unison towards Luna.
"Mother!" Third Young Master Lucius suddenly knelt on one knee, the newly sprouted Crystal Orchid leaves at the hilt wildly pointing towards the Cellar. "The vibration frequency of Dark River Sealing resonates with Luna's Light Spots!"
Aelia's Fingertip-congealed Ice Blade shattered abruptly.
She looked down at the Skirt of her Starlight Gown—those chains stained by Luna's magic transformed into a flowing galaxy, gently entwining around her three sons' rampaging Magic Circuits.
When Eldest Daughter passed away a hundred days after birth, the shattered Starry Necklace unexpectedly reformed into half a Jade Pendant shape within Luna's surrounding Halo.
"Father didn't use the Dark River Forbidden Technique back then." Luna sighed deep within the Sea of Consciousness, but unfortunately, what came out was still Yi Ya Baby Language.
With great effort, she waved her small hand and suddenly grasped the drifting Violet Petals. The analytical magic belonging to the Great Mage activated automatically—those Bloodline Powers hidden by Leonard in his Crown were clearly flowing back to their Hearts' seals under the impact of her brothers' surging magic.
Leonard stumbled and braced himself against the edge of the shattered sand table, watching as the violets on his Crown visibly wilted at an alarming rate.
The Phoenix Tail Feather and Dark Pattern at his sleeve suddenly came alive, weaving together in the scattered Xing Hui to form a fragmented Northern Territory Map.
The Barrier Image that should have shattered Three Days Ago now revealed a small intact area in the map's Northeast Corner—precisely above the Outer Chamber Manor's Coordinate.
"You knew all along?" Aelia's voice seemed to echo from the depths of the Ice Layer.
As she stepped over the scattered Prism Shards, her Starlight Gown gracefully avoided the Halo area created by Luna. "Using the offspring of Leonard's Concubine as a scapegoat for the barrier?
Or perhaps..." She suddenly crushed a violet petal from Palm, and the Memory Frame from the wedding twenty years ago flickered on the wall—Leonard had crowned her, and Fingertip had once flashed with the same Phoenix Tail Feather Dark Pattern.
A second wave of intense tremors came from the direction of the Cellar.
Eldest Brother suddenly pressed down on the Heart seal and let out a roar; the red light from his damaged right hand traced out a complete Baby Cradle Array Diagram on the floor.
Second Brother's faded Magic Script around his neck suddenly floated in midair, forming the last missing segment of the Dark River prophecy—"When Shuang Sheng's Bloodline devours each other, the Ice Crystal Phoenix will return with orchids."
"Luna's headband!" Qin Si suddenly exclaimed.
The Tie woven from Ice Crystal Phoenix Tail Feathers in the infant's swaddling was now absorbing the powder from Crystal Orchid, projecting a complete Guardian Array of Xu Ying onto the Ground.
The Phoenix Fire surrounding Leonard was about to extinguish but suddenly surged. His bare hands reached for the focal point of Xu Ying, allowing Aelia to finally see—the shape of this Reverse Sacrifice Array was precisely what her husband had drawn in blood while kneeling before Eldest Daughter's coffin on that rainy night twenty years ago.
"Mother, be careful of Dark River's backlash!" Brother San's Leonard's Sword suddenly slipped from his grasp and embedded itself into the Ground.
The sword hilt sprouted wildly, and the Crystal Orchid Root System pierced through three layers of flooring, pulling up a section of Sealing Stone monument from deep within the Cellar.
As Luna's Light Spot fell upon the crack in the Stele Inscription, those altered Ancient Scripts began to automatically correct themselves—what needed sacrifice was never Lord Bloodline, but rather the suspicion towards Close Kin.
Aelia's Starlight Chains suddenly softened into Ailia.
She watched as Leonard stubbornly protected the formation eye Xu Ying with Phoenix Fire and Ailina's Burn, suddenly recalling how he had secretly used Healing Magic to nurture his finger, which had been cut by an Ice Blade, while arranging Luna's swaddling this morning.
When the third tremor hit the cellar, her attempt to push her husband away lost some of its strength.
"Madam!" Qin Si stumbled back a step while holding Luna.
The Ice Crystal Fragments in the infant's hair had unknowingly formed a Micro Star Map, reassembling the Crystal Chandelier Remains into a model of the Northern Territory sky.
As her elder brother's Blood Pearl, her second brother's Magic Script, and Brother San's sword hilt orchid merged into the Star Map, the model's Northeast Corner Outer Chamber Manor Coordinate suddenly erupted with Black Purple Light—perfectly matching the violet that had completely withered on Leonard's Crown, forming a complete Sacrificial Array yin-yang fish pattern.
The fourth tremor of the cellar tilted the entire castle at a fifteen-degree angle, forcing Luna's starlight to condense into a Protective dome.
Aelia steadied herself against her Eldest Son's Wheelchair amid the violent shaking, instinctively wrapping the Starry Silk Ribbon around Leonard’s cloak as it threatened to fall into the crack.
When her husband's bloodied Palm pressed against her Wrist through Ailia, the warm sensation of Healing Magic that had been sent to her every night for twenty years stirred a ripple in the cold Pupil of the Lady of the Fortress—only to be drowned by deeper pain like lead clouds before a violent Wind and Snow.
Qin Si retreated behind the Carved Pillars with Luna in her arms, as the Ice Crystal Fragments dancing in the infant’s hair cast tiny Light Spots on her eyelashes.
The Head Maid’s Skirt swept across the ground littered with Prism Shards, suddenly entangled by the rapidly growing Crystal Orchid from Third Young Master Lucius’s Leonard's Sword around her ankle.
Those Light Purple vines climbed up Luna’s swaddling but bloomed into snow-white Buds upon touching the Ice Crystal Phoenix Tail Feather.
"Madam, look!" Qin Si exclaimed as she lifted the baby.
The blooming White Crystal Orchid suddenly erupted with silver Pollen, coalescing in the tilted study into the wedding scene from Twenty Years Ago—Young Leonard was crowning the bride, Leonard. His fingers, hidden behind the beaded curtain, were cut by a Phoenix Tail Feather, and Blood Pearl quietly seeped into Aelia's hair, mingling with the Guardian Spell.
Aelia staggered as she leaned against the overturned velvet chair, the Starry Silk Ribbon flickering in and out with her urgent breaths.
The groom in the Memory Illusion abruptly turned his head, overlapping with the Lord kneeling in the Magic Circle Remains at that moment—two wounds across time and space lay equally across his right Palm.
“Mother, the Crystal Orchid is reading Father’s Blood pulse memory.” Lucius suddenly pressed down on the hilt of his violently vibrating sword, his Hand Back Emerging with a Violet Pattern that shared a source with Leonard's Crown. “These flowers… are revealing the tampered truth!”
Eldest Brother's Wheelchair rolled over the scattered Ice Shards and stopped before the illusion. His mangled right hand suddenly pierced through Leonard's Last Night formed of silver Pollen.
When his Fingertip touched Father’s bleeding wound in the illusion, the entire study was filled with the loud cry of a baby—by the Cradle during Twenty Years Ago Hundred Day Feast, Leonard was drawing runes on his three sons’ foreheads, each Curse ending concealed with a feather mark of the Ice Crystal Phoenix.
“Father is in the Reverse Sacrifice Array!” Second Brother's faded Magic Script on his neck suddenly heated up. He tore open his collar to reveal a curled-up phoenix chick beneath his Collarbone. “These are not curses at all; they are unfinished Guardian Totems!”
Luna suddenly reached out her chubby little hand to grasp the falling silver Pollen, her Emerald Eyes swirling with the unique analytical array of a Great Mage.
The Pollen she touched suddenly condensed into a miniature Dark River model, with black mist seeping from the Northeast Corner Outer Chamber Manor, while a faint Blue Light illuminated from the direction of Castle Cellar—it was indeed Eldest Brother's Wheelchair winding beneath an Ice Blue Blood Pearl.
Leonard suddenly coughed violently, and the last Violet Petal from his Crown fell into the Xue Mo he coughed up.
Those bloodstains transformed into a Burning phoenix upon touching the floor, gliding along the Starry Silk Ribbon to Aelia’s feet, gently wrapping around her fingers that had been cut by an Ice Blade last night.
“Madam…” The Lord’s hoarse voice mixed with the fifth tremor from the Cellar. “Back then, Dark River’s prophecy required suspicion of Close Kin as offerings; I had no choice…” His bloodied Palm suddenly pressed against his Heart, pulling out half of an Ice Crystal Phoenix Tail Feather—identical in material to Luna’s Swaddling Tie.
Aelia’s Xing Hui suddenly converged into a halo enveloping her three sons.
She stepped onto the crumbling remnants of the Inspection Order, moving towards her husband. As the Starry Gown swept across the ground, the altered Ancient Magic Script began to self-correct.
When her shadow completely covered Leonard, she suddenly raised her hand to conjure an Ice Blade—but it merely severed the last of the Violet Vines entwined around her husband's Crown.
"Mother!
The tremors from the Cellar are weakening!" Brother San exclaimed as he pulled out Leonard's Sword, which had been embedded in the Ground.
The wildly growing Crystal Orchid's Root System was dragging fragments of the Sealing Stone back underground. Each stone that passed by Luna caused the Ice Crystal Fragments on the infant's forehead to glow with corresponding Ancient Script.
Taking advantage of the moment, Qin Si held Luna close to Aelia. "Look at Young Miss's eyes..." The baby's Emerald Eyes revealed a complete Northern Star Map, where the forged Inspection Order Coordinates by Leonard were being rearranged within the Star Map, ultimately forming the pattern of Phoenix Nirvana at the Dark River Entrance.
Lucius suddenly knelt on one knee. As the Violet Pattern on the hilt of his sword faded completely, it revealed the totem of an Ice Crystal Phoenix beneath. "My Leonard's Sword... there is some power deep within the Resonance Cellar." When he looked up, his pupils had turned as green as Luna's. "It is the core of Dark River Sealing calling for a pure Bloodline!"
Eldest Brother's Wheelchair suddenly turned towards the Northeast, and a red light shot from his deformed right hand, drawing a structural blueprint of Outer Chamber Manor on the Ground.
The Phoenix Mark on Second Brother's neck suddenly spread its wings, and a torrent of Ice Blue Flame incinerated the black mist on the Blueprint.
As the last wisp of black mist dissipated, everyone heard a piercing Screech coming from the direction of the manor—a curse that had existed for Twenty Years was broken.
"Father was at Outer Chamber Manor back then..." Brother San stared in shock as all the Crystal Orchids growing wildly on Leonard's Sword suddenly bloomed. "Could it be for..."
The Cellar trembled for the sixth time, this time with a strange rhythmic quality.
Suddenly, Luna laughed in Qin Si's arms. As she waved her small hands, countless Golden Light Spots scattered around, adhering to the slanted castle walls and reassembling scattered Prism Shards into a massive Prophecy Mirror—what emerged in the mirror was not a vision of the future but rather Leonard’s Last Night spent alone in the Cellar, mending barriers with Phoenix Fire Seed.
Aelia's Starry Silk Ribbon suddenly softened into Moonlight Veil. As she turned, her Skirt brushed against the coagulated blood on Leonard's shoulder.
The Lady of the Fortress raised her hand to touch the Prophecy Mirror, but what her Fingertip encountered was the Temperature of the Healing Crystal that her husband had quietly placed by her pillow over the years. At that moment, the crystals shimmered in the mirror, resonating in harmony with the Ice Crystal Phoenix Tail Feather on Luna's Swaddling.
"Three days from now, during the Dark River's high tide," Leonard rasped as he propped himself up, clutching an Ice Crystal Fragment that Luna had dropped. "The true Sealing Ritual requires..." His unfinished words were drowned out by the sudden influx of moonlight into the study. The Astrolabe on the Castle Outer Wall began to operate on its own, projecting the night sky of the Northern Territory into a massive Guardian Array.
Luna suddenly straightened in Qin Si's arms, her Emerald Eyes reflecting the missing core runes of the Magic Circle—shaped like an unfinished Guardian Totem on a baby's Cradle.
Aelia's fingers dug deep into the back of the Velvet Chair, and shards from the crystal chandelier fell, leaving spider web-like cracks across her Skirt.
Amidst the sound of rain pounding against the Stained Glass, she heard the roar of her own blood surging.
"Are you going to publicly discuss that harlot?" Leonard's knuckles turned white as he gripped his wine glass. Frost crawled up its walls to his embroidered Gold Thread cuffs. "At the Children's Naming Feast?"
Luna squirmed uneasily in Qin Si's embrace.
She could clearly sense the Lightning Element surging within Mother; those restless Dazzling Lightning sparks crackled beneath Noblewoman Ailya's meticulously maintained White Nails.
Brother San's Alchemical Pocket Watch made her dizzy as it swung, while Second Brother's Contract Ring felt hot—her dear friend's Betrayal Curse Mark was consuming his magic.
"Twenty Years." Aelia's Emerald Earrings suddenly shattered, their fragments reflecting the Azure Blue Flame flickering in her Pupil. "I suppressed the Dark Injury left when I quelled the Northern Territory Rebellion; every year during a Lunar Eclipse, I cough up blood. I sealed Eldest Son's Magic Surge with my own hands and got burned by Backlash Curse on half my arm. Now you want to use news of Leonard's Concubine's illegitimate child as a first Heirloom for our Newborn?"
Thunder shook the Silverware in the Cutlery Cabinet, making it hum.
Luna saw cracks forming in her brother’s Wheelchair Armrest; his damaged Left Leg began to ooze Hei Xue again—the old wound from Seventeen Years Ago’s Magic Backlash had never truly healed.
Leonard's Scepter struck the ground heavily, and the Amethyst Staff Tip exploded into a spider web of Ice Cracks. "Watch your words!"
The Glorious Demon Fortress...
A baby's loud cry suddenly pierced the stagnant air.
Luna summoned the deep Mage Mark within her soul, her delicate fingers tracing through the void as specks of Silver Light cascaded down from the Banquet Hall Dome.
The gentle glow enveloped her elder brother's festering leg, while the Curse Mark on Second Brother's fingers hissed as if being burned.
"Star Blessing!" Brother San knocked over Lucius, dark red liquid winding across the white Tablecloth like blood. "Ancient texts state that only a Great Mage can be reincarnated..."
Aelia suddenly let out a light laugh.
She stepped on Crystal Fragments as she approached her husband, each step leaving behind a Burning Azure Rose Totem.
The storm poured in through the shattered window but transformed into swirling mist three feet in front of her.
"My dear Lord of the Fortress." She brushed her Fingertip across Luna's moonlit face, the baby's Silver Blue pupils reflecting Leonard's gradually Pale complexion. "Do you think this child's Prophetic Talent can see through that Golden Silk Cage hidden in the Black Pine Forest?"
The Grandfather Clock in the corner suddenly emitted a piercing sound of grinding gears, and twelve Magic Apostle statues simultaneously turned towards the Throne.
Luna sensed a strange mixture of Sulfur and rose in the air—a foreboding sign that the Dark Magic Contract was about to backfire.
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