The Purification Crystal deep within vaporized upon contact with the shadow, and Luna's soul was tossed by the surging dark currents.
The infant's frail throat was flooded with the taste of Iron Rust, and the collar of Silver Fox Fur soaked with Dark Red Blood Droplets—this body ultimately could not withstand the soul pressure of a Great Mage.
"Madam! The Young Miss is spitting blood!" Qin Si's trembling exclamation pierced through the raging Wind and Snow.
Aelia's wrist, adorned with Ice Scales, suddenly contracted into Armor, and the Merit Tablet Jin Wen flowed into Luna's Mei Xin as she touched the infant's fingertip.
As the ancient Iris that recorded the Oath of the Ancestors of the Demon Fortress coursed through her gums, it resonated with the hidden remnants of spinning threads.
Seizing the opportunity, Luna used her last shred of spiritual power to strike the inner side of her Wedding Ring's Oath Inscription—that was the vessel for Leonard's incantation for Leonard's Concubine.
"Crack."
The Blue Diamond Ring shattered in response, revealing the Serpent Pattern talisman engraved within.
Aelia's pupil constricted sharply; she recognized this twisted script belonged to the Black Sorcerer who had fallen twenty years ago.
When Leonard had slain this fiend back then, the Wedding Ring had been stained with his blood.
"Hand Luna over to Qin Si." The Lady of the Fortress spoke with a voice tempered by Ice Shard, her fingertip brushing over the seams of the Ice Scale Armor.
Three broken threads of Destiny were entwined around her ring finger, marking the spot where Luna had tagged with Xing Hui last night.
As the Horse-drawn Carriage burst into the courtyard, the raging Wind and Snow collided outside the barrier, turning into Powder.
Leonard stood beneath the Moonstone Arch, his shoulder still dusted with the Ashes of the charms drifting from the Corner Tower.
As he reached out to embrace his daughter, Aelia suddenly grasped his wrist. "Why the Ouroboros curse?"
The Lord's expression froze in the act of reaching.
Luna let out a faint Loud Cry in Qin Si's arms, and the fragments of the Star Pattern hidden within the swaddling suddenly glowed.
Those bamboo slips, which should have been found in the secret chamber of the Holy Light Palace, were now piecing together the formula for Leonard's Concubine's potion—two of the ingredients were precisely those that triggered his brother's backlash curse.
"Let me explain..." Leonard attempted to pull back his hand, but the Ice Scale Armor had already coiled around his neck.
Aelia advanced toward her husband, stepping on the scattered talisman ashes, her Boot Heel crushing a bamboo slip marked with a Star Pattern. "Did you ever consider that when you transferred your wedding vows to someone else using the Black Curse, my brother was drinking a Magic Potion laced with Blood Curse?"
The crystal chandelier in the Main Hall suddenly burst forth with Strong Light.
Leonard's brother, seated in a Wheelchair, suddenly pressed against his Heart. The dark energy that had long resided in his Meridian began to flow along the Jin Wen refracted by the Ice Scales toward the Ring Face fragment.
Seizing the moment, Luna smeared her bloodied Saliva onto Qin Si's Hand Back—her maid's wrist instantly Emerging as Leonard's Concubine nurtured Tentacles in the Underground of the Holy Light Palace during Leonard's Last Night.
"My leg..." Leonard's brother trembled as he pulled up his pant leg, and the previously atrophied muscles began to swell at an observable rate.
Suspended above him, the Magic Star Chart erupted with brilliant Yin Mang, for the first time in Twenty Years fully revealing the Water Mage's Nine-Pointed Star Formation.
Black mist erupted around Leonard as he attempted to escape, only to be rebounded by the Defensive Formation he had set up years ago.
Aelia swung her Ice Scale Armor to slice through the Space Rift, pulling out a half-torn sleeve stained with Leonard's Concubine, Xiang Fen. "Do you think severing the thread of Destiny can erase betrayal?"
The entire Magic Castle suddenly trembled.
From deep within the Geomancy, a shadow let out a screech, as the Purifying Power planted by Luna began to gnaw at the source of the curse.
The Astrological Compass, cherished most by Second Brother, suddenly flew out from the study. The Pointer spun wildly and plunged into the Corner Tower's pile of Ashes, pulling out a half-burned talisman—the Calming Spell gifted by his dear friend just yesterday.
As Eldest Brother's Wheelchair floated above the Magic Flow, all the Ice Crystal Roses in the courtyard suddenly turned towards the east.
Brother San's Alchemical Vessel clinked as eighteen bottles labeled Waste Material flew out from the Material Cabinet—automatically arranging themselves into a matrix to break the Talent Misguidance.
"So all these years..." Eldest Brother gazed at the Tidal Force pulsating from his Palm and suddenly bowed deeply towards Luna.
The suspended water elements wove a silver Ailya around him, an omen that only appeared when a Great Mage was certified by the Magic Association.
Suddenly, a sound of shattering porcelain echoed from the attic.
Second Brother, who was mixing potions, accidentally knocked over Evening Primrose Juice, causing the deep purple liquid to trace out the complete Star Pattern of the Corner Tower on the floor.
Meanwhile, Brother San in the underground Alchemical Chamber abruptly raised his head upon hearing the sound of the Resonance Bell from the Material Cabinet—a sound that had not been heard in twenty years.
The wind howled outside the barrier, resembling a sobbing sound, as the ice crystals on the Moonstone Arch gradually lit up.
Aelia tore apart the Wedding Ring that was entwined with Destiny's thread, allowing it to fall into the Geothermal Rift.
When the anguished scream of Leonard's Concubine echoed from the depths of darkness, the Lady of the Fortress picked up Luna and walked toward the re-illuminated Family Star Map. "It's time for certain people to see the true Ice Scale Curse."
Suddenly, a crystal burst rang out from the East Tower, and Second Brother's favorite Stargazing Instrument erupted in a myriad of Light Spots.
Meanwhile, on the wall of Brother San's Alchemical Chamber, the Talent Assessment chart was Emerging with the complete Nine-Pointed Star Formation Projection of their eldest brother.
As the Yin Hui refracted through the Moonstone Arch and flowed over the threshold of the library, Second Brother was lost in thought, staring at the sprawling Purple Red Potion on the floor.
The spilled Evening Primrose Juice seeped into the Star Pattern Groove along the Earth Rift, projecting a Calming Spell sent by a dear friend onto the ceiling—at the center of those overlapping Hexagram Formations was clearly Emerging the Brand of a Black Market Slave Trader.
"So every time there's an astrological deviation..." he stumbled as he leaned against the Potion Rack, causing his Pocket Watch Chain to knock over half a bottle of Azure Phosphor Powder.
In the flickering glow, a scene from five years ago on a rainy night emerged: when his dear friend handed him a Calming Spell, a Serpent Tattoo slipped from their sleeve, mirroring the patterns of unburned talismans in Corner Tower's Ashes.
Suddenly, a metallic Resonance of Zhen Chan echoed from the Alchemical Chamber.
The Dragon Scale Flask that Brother San was polishing suddenly broke free from its cloth and collided with eighteen floating bottles of "Waste Material," sparking Ice Blue flames.
From deep within the Material Cabinet rolled out a dusty Memory Crystal from Twenty Years ago, reflecting his sixth birthday party—the Inspector read aloud his talents while behind him stood a Gray Robed Man with Leonard's Ouroboros Brooch.
“Frost Rose has turned!” The courtyard echoed with the surprised exclamations of the Servants.
As Second Brother rushed to the window, he saw his elder brother's Wheelchair hovering above the fountain, tiny Golden Incantation symbols swimming in the rippling reflection of the Nine-Pointed Star Formation.
The astrological discrepancies that had troubled him for years suddenly revealed their true Track within the Tidal Force.
Without warning, Brother San's Alchemy Table erupted with a burst of seven-colored Rainbow Light.
The previously chaotic pile of Key Catalyst began to arrange itself into a double helix, showcasing the childhood drawing of his Talent Tree Blueprint in mid-air.
When the Gray Robed Man in the Memory Crystal raised his hand to adjust the Detection Device, he finally caught sight of the Serpent Ring on the man's ring finger—its inner enchantment identical to that of Leonard Wedding Ring.
“It’s a talent alteration…” Brother San suddenly gripped the now scorching Resonance Bell, as boiling liquid from the Key Catalyst revealed dark energy that had lingered in his brother's Meridian for twenty years.
The Amethyst sand he had discarded as Waste Material was now resonating with the Dragon Scale Flask, projecting a complete Elemental Affinity diagram onto the wall.
Luna, cradled in Aelia's arms, suddenly giggled, her little hand stained with Bloodstain slapping against the Family Star Map.
The remnants of Qin Si Wrist’s faded Tentacles illusion solidified, wrapping around half of a Serpent Pattern spell from the ruins of the Corner Tower, sending it flying toward the library.
In a reflexive motion, Second Brother threw out his Astrological Compass, and its gilded Pointer suddenly shot up three inches, pinning the spell to page three hundred sixty-five of “History of Black Sorcery”—the very chapter detailing the grafting of the Blood Curse.
The entire floor of the Magic Castle began to flow with Yin Hui.
The Elder controlled the Tidal Force as it swept through each room. The Second Brother noticed that his Astrolabe began to automatically correct historical data, while Brother San's Material Cabinet continuously ejected Talent Reports marked with Error.
As the Residual Magic of the Ice Scale Curse brushed against the East Tower, Luna's previously planted Purifying Power from Geomancy suddenly manifested as a Light Butterfly, gracefully landing on the Flame Stone that Brother San mistakenly judged as "Inferior."
"These are the true magic-conducting materials," Brother San trembled as he touched the stone radiating Rainbow Light. The Alchemical Notes' Remnant Page from his childhood, torn apart, suddenly surged from the Earth Rift, reassembling within the Key Catalyst of Steam.
The Elder's Wheelchair descended beside the fountain in the courtyard, and wherever the Water System Ribbon passed, the disordered Astrology Draft Papers of the Second Brother automatically sorted into the correct Star Trail.
Aelia held Luna up before the Family Star Map, where the bloodied Tooth Mark of the infant perfectly pressed against the position of the Prophecy Poem titled "Breaker."
From within the Geothermal Rift came the fading wails of Leonard's Concubine, while dozens of Messenger Bats wrapped in black mist suddenly rose from the direction of the Corner Tower. They clutched Secret Letters bearing the Ouroboros Emblem but were turned to Ashes upon touching the Defensive Formation created by Xing Hui.
As the first rays of morning light pierced through the violent Wind and Snow, Brother San pushed open the door to the Alchemical Chamber, holding the restored Talent Tree Blueprint.
The Second Brother stood before the recalibrated Astrolabe, where the Compass Needle reflected the pulsing Jin Mang in his eyes.
Suddenly, the Elder, hovering above the fountain, opened his eyes. The Tidal Force transformed into silver chains that sank into both East Tower and West Tower.
Luna's swaddling Hidden Layer emitted a faint crisp sound as a Star Pattern Bamboo Slip soaked in her blood quietly began Emerging a new Prophecy Poem.
On the petals of an Ice Crystal Rose, Chen Lu suddenly flowed back to its heart, condensing into a Seven-colored Dewdrop that reflected scenes from the dungeon of Holy Light Palace—where an ancient text covered in dust was automatically flipping pages, revealing a Title Page written in Invisible Ink that read "Reincarnator."
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