The Frostflower Array projected by the Ice Tear Stone on the Ground had yet to dissipate, while Aelia's skirt, embroidered with a Starry Pattern, was swept up by a fierce Cold Wind.
Luna, cradled in Qin Si's arms, could clearly feel the Laurel Totem emerging from the nape of the Lady of the Fortress—an Inheritance Judgment Mark of the Aelia Family, which only manifested during Bloodline upheavals.
"The seeds of the Devouring Vine dare to hide within the Oath Rose!" Aelia's Fa Shu, embedded with moonstone, floated in mid-air as eighteen Ice Spikes coalesced into chains along her Silver White Hair.
Suddenly, the silver-blue Blue Blood Fern Juice seeping from the Door Gap began to boil, vaporizing the remaining Ice Sculpture Rose in the Crystal Bottle into Blood Mist.
Luna's Silver Moon Cloak unexpectedly covered Qin Si's eyes, but the infant's Pupil pierced through the wooden door to see inside—the Goldfinch-embroidered Neck Scarf of Leonard was entangled around Leonard's Concubine's Wrist, and on that pale Wrist, the winding green patterns were unmistakably marks of the Devouring Vine's successful parasitism.
"Feeding a Magic Plant with the flesh and blood of a Marriage Partner—this is how guests are treated in the Glorious Demon Fortress?" Aelia's cold laughter wrapped around an Ice Shard as the chains formed from her Fa Shu crashed against the Golden Oak Door.
Leonard's Concubine, who was mixing a Magic Potion, shrieked and stumbled back, knocking over a Frost Flower cultivation dish on the table.
Just as Leonard's Fingertip glowed with a Defensive Spell, it was cut by falling Moonstone Shards that rained down from above.
Luna watched as those Blood Pearls hit the ground and sprouted tiny black shoots. She finally understood why Second Brother had fallen into a Magic Dilemma in the Original—Lord had actually parasitized the Devouring Vine within his own Bloodline.
"Madam, let me explain!" Leonard waved his sleeve to shake off the Ice Lock that was attacking his lover but accidentally dropped half a Contract Stone from his Dark Bag.
Aelia's Pupil constricted sharply; that black Obsidian bearing her Family Crest was clearly a Token of Love she had given to her husband years ago, now embedded with Leonard's Concubine's Hair.
The rampaging moonlight froze an entire wall into an Ice Mirror, reflecting the identical Goldfinch totem on Leonard's Concubine's neck and Leonard himself.
Suddenly, Luna's Ice Tear Stone grew hot, imprinting the hidden Magic Contract reflected in the mirror—this was no ordinary Leonard's Concubine but rather a Blood Vessel created by Lord using Black Magic.
"Using my moonlight power to nurture a Substitute Puppet?" Ailya's Silver Hair moved without wind as eighteen chains transformed into moonlight serpents that coiled around the struggling Leonard's Concubine.
When the first serpent bit through the Puppet’s throat, what gushed forth was not blood but seedlings of the Devouring Vine wrapped in ice crystals.
Leonard seized the opportunity to crush the Teleportation Scroll, but in the moment of spatial distortion, he was ensnared by Luna's saliva bubble.
The infant quietly infused the Frostflower Array, which had been copied three days ago, into the bubble, leaving behind a half-dyed Cloth as Lord vanished.
As Twilight descended, Luna lay in the Cradle, gazing at that piece of Cloth.
Moonlight refracted through the Ice Tear Stone, casting a blurry image of Leonard's Last Night—specifically, the Bloodline Curse that Leonard shattered before his disappearance, clearly originating from Brother San's neglected Pseudo Talent Mark.
"Are you really going to sneak into the Eastern Suburb Villa?" Qin Si asked as she pinned a Wisteria Hairpin onto the Infant Swaddling, watching Lucius prepare his invisibility cloak.
The remnants of black Magic Embers on Third Young Master Lucius's sword hilt glimmered with an eerie Blue Light under the moonlight, a trace from when he tracked Lord during the day.
Luna expelled a bubble wrapped around Xing Hui, within which swirled the East Suburb Guard's patrol patterns.
At the moment Lucius pierced the bubble with his Sword Tip, the patrol routes of twenty-four Shadow Guards imprinted themselves in his mind.
As he bent down to adjust the cloak Tie for the infant, Luna took the chance to slip the Ice Tear Stone containing data on the Devouring Vine into his sleeve pocket.
At midnight, the Rose Fence of Eastern Suburb Villa was secreting venom under the moonlight.
Luna's Silver Moon Cloak enveloped both of them as they merged through a human-shaped gap in the wall covered with Devouring Vines.
Lucius suddenly pressed down on the infant's waving little hand—three meters away, the eyes of a Stone Carved Night Owl glowed with red light, monitoring their every move.
The infant's jam-covered fingers traced out a Dispel Array on the inside of the cloak, as the lemon juice in the jam corroded the core of the Magic Patterns.
As they leaped down from the wall, Luna heard twelve soft chimes from a Pocket Watch Alarm—a countdown to death that her elder brother had heard before facing backlash in Original.
The floor of the Library suddenly oozed black mist, and Luna immediately spat out a bubble containing Aelia's magic.
When Lucius pierced the bubble with the blood-stained hilt of his sword, the burst of moonlight energy just managed to disperse the forming Curse Array.
"Over here." Luna illuminated the dark compartment with the Ice Tear Stone, revealing eighteen corpses resembling the Lady of the Fortress.
In the deepest part, within a Crystal Coffin, a Devouring Vine was entwined around a bone engraved with runes—a spine that was clearly the Mo Bone replaced when Lucius was gravely injured in his childhood.
Just as the infant was sealing the coffin with Saliva and a Sealing Crystal, the Defensive Formation of the Separate Courtyard Dome suddenly turned blood red.
The black Magic Embers on Lucius's sword hilt began to scorch his palm, while at the end of the corridor, the sound of Contract Stone Resonance echoed ominously.
Luna's Silver Moon Cloak moved without wind, twisting their figures into a projection of Blood Rose Vines, while a true crisis coalesced into a new Frostflower Array in the corners where moonlight could not reach.
Lucius rotated Jian Feng, shielding Luna behind the magical barrier formed by the folds of her cloak.
Eighteen Light Spots refracted from the Crystal Coffin were now creating a strange resonance with the Defensive Formation of the dome in the dark compartment.
Suddenly, Luna's Ice Tear Stone emitted a buzzing sound, imprinting a Black Line from Leonard's Goldfinch totem—those Bloodline Curses that should have remained dormant were rapidly proliferating along the seams of the Frostflower Array in the dark compartment.
"When did Third Young Master Lucius learn to be so sneaky?" Leonard's voice seeped through the icy walls, wrapped in frost. As he stepped forward in his Deerskin Boots adorned with Dark Patterns, Devouring Vine seedlings instantly bloomed into Blood Roses.
Luna noticed that his missing pinky finger was regenerating—the bone crushed by Moonlight Chains clearly bore remnants of Lucius's magic.
The black Magic Embers on Lucius's sword hilt suddenly surged, incinerating the Wisteria Hairpin on the Infant Cloak into ashes.
Luna seized the opportunity to press her small hand, stained with Ashes, against the surface of the Crystal Coffin. The Spine, entwined by the Devouring Vine, suddenly emerged a Memory Illusion of Lucius at seven years old: the Silver-Haired Boy pushed into the monster's lair on a Blizzard Night by his Father, a blinding scene where the broken Spine soaked in Black Magic potion was reshaped.
"So you can even transmute your own son's Mo Bone?" Lucius remarked, using the Sword Tip to lift the half-melted Contract Stone from within the Crystal Coffin, still smeared with the scabs of his childhood wounds.
Suddenly, the Goldfinch at Leonard's neck flapped its wings, and eighteen blood-red vines erupted from every corner of the secret chamber. Just as they were about to pierce Lucius's throat, they were twisted into Ice Shards by the infant's Silver Moon Cloak.
Bubbles of saliva burst open inside Luna's cloak as her stored Aelia magic transformed into a rain of Moonlight Light Arrows.
Leonard raised his sleeve to create a barrier of Devouring Vine with Shan Na. Luna noticed a new Crescent Shape Ailina's Burn on his collarbone—an unmistakable Scar left by Daylight Aelia's Judgment Mark, now oozing Blue Blood mixed with Black Magic.
"A traitor from the Glorious Demon Fortress is preaching now?" Leonard's Fingertip suddenly reflected an image of Aelia's palace from Leonard's Last Night. The moonstone Fa Shu beside the Lady of the Fortress was being eroded by black mist. "Do you think exposing Leonard's Concubine Puppet will stop the Devouring Vine from consuming the entire Moonlight Bloodline?"
Luna's Ice Tear Stone suddenly became scalding hot, imprinting the Magic Contract flowing within the Contract Stone.
The Curse entwined around Aelia's Hair resonated with Brother San's neglected Pseudo Talent Mark—Lord was simultaneously nurturing the Devouring Demon Vine Mother Body with his wife's and offspring's Bloodline.
Lucius cut his Palm with Jian Feng, flinging a Blood Pearl towards the Mo Bone in the Crystal Coffin.
As soon as the Devouring Vine touched the blood of the Pureblood Heir, it violently crashed against the Defensive Formation at the top of the secret chamber.
Seizing this chance, Luna expelled three overlapping dispelling bubbles; the jam residue mixed with lemon juice on her cloak melted Leonard's Teleportation Scroll hidden in his sleeve.
"Watch out for Lunar Phase Rotation!" Luna suddenly screeched with all her mental power gathered.
Lucius spun around and tossed the infant towards a safe zone. The moonlight power exploded where Jian Feng passed, scattering Leonard’s newly formed Black Magic Array into Xing Xu.
The Mo Bone in the Crystal Coffin let out a mournful wail. At that moment when the Devouring Demon Vine Mother Body crazily contracted, Luna caught a glimpse of a fragmented mark emerging on Leonard’s nape—a once-complete Goldfinch totem now bore charred cracks scorched by moonlight at its tail feathers.
Suddenly, Leonard crushed the Jade Pendant on his chest, and from the exploding black mist emerged Aelia's sleeping figure.
Luna's Silver Moon Cloak instinctively wrapped around Lucius's sword hilt, and in the collision of moonlight and Black Magic, a strong light revealed the astonishing scene of Leonard's Last Night: within the frost crystals formed on the eyelashes of the Lady of the Fortress, tiny Demon-Eating Vine Spores swirled.
"The game is over." Leonard's voice suddenly echoed from above the Defensive Formation, his true self hidden within the Dome's Frostflower Array.
In the secret chamber, the "Leonard" transformed into a Devouring Vine Puppet and collapsed with a thunderous sound, while the real Lord descended the staircase formed by condensed moonlight, his palm pulsing with the Contract Light Sphere connected to all his bloodline descendants.
Luna suddenly pressed the Ice Tear Stone, which contained memories, into Lucius's wound, causing the Pureblood Heir's blood to automatically activate the residual restrictions of Mo Bone.
As the Spine within the Crystal Coffin emitted a Resonant Tremor, Leonard's Contract Light Sphere in hand suddenly appeared with Ice Cracks—this backlash from deep within his Bloodline forced him to divert his attention to reinforce the Black Magic Array in his palm.
"Now!" Luna pierced through the bubble containing the Dispel Spell with all her mental power gathered.
Using the resonance of Mo Bone as leverage, Lucius unleashed a sword aura. In the explosion where moonlight collided with Black Magic, the baby's Silver Moon Cloak enveloped both of them as they crashed through the secret chamber's North Wall.
As night wind poured into Shan Na, Luna heard Leonard's cold laughter wrapped in magic: "Let's see how many Truth Nights the moonlight can illuminate."
In an instant, as they fell into a thicket of Black Roses, Luna's Ice Tear Stone reflected Leonard's Last Night in Aelia's chamber.
The Demon-Eating Vine Spores entwined around Fa Shu by the Lady of the Fortress’s bedside were blooming eerily under the moonlight.
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