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As the torrential rain entered the foyer, it transformed into delicate snowflakes. The ice crystals lingering on the back of my neck were infused with the fragrant steam of tea.
Grandfather's Liuli Tea Kettle was bubbling away, and as he held the tongs, his hand suddenly froze: "How did the Xuanbing Jade Crown crack?"
Xuan Yu pressed me down onto the cushion on the left side of the Jadeite desk, his loose silver-threaded Outer Robe sweeping across the cloud-patterned edges of the table. "The ferocious beast has gnawed at my stone sculpture in the courtyard again," he said, his Adam's apple brushing against my hair. The red marks I had left on his neck had already formed into Frost Flowers.
"Look at this horn! Uncle Ultraman gave it to me!" Dou Bao burst in, holding a half-human tall beast horn, the pom-pom of his tiger hat covered in snowflakes.
He proudly presented the horn to me, then suddenly leaned in and sniffed Xuan Yu's Lapels: "Third Uncle smells like Sister's pear blossom fragrance!"
The room filled with tea mist suddenly fell silent, and the spiritual charcoal that Grandfather was poking with his tongs sparked and crackled.
Xuan Yu leisurely peeled away the ice crystals encasing a red fruit, his translucent Fingertip pushing the crimson flesh onto a celadon plate in front of me. "Last night, the Xi Yuan barrier trembled; Madame helped me repair the formation and got some on her hands."
As I bit into the red fruit, its sweet juice burst forth on the Tip of my Tongue, and spiritual energy flowed down my throat, warming me from within.
Xuan Yu lowered his gaze to wipe his Fingertip gracefully, as if playing a zither, but only I could see his pinky tracing a sound transmission array on the table: [Fragments of Xi Yuan's Ink Qilin].
Grandfather's Tea Spoon suddenly clanged heavily against the gilded tea mill: "Some people haven't returned home for half a year, yet that ferocious beast is being fed until it's sleek and shiny."
"My husband has been refining Nine Nether Xuan Iron lately." I lifted my Snow Porcelain cup for a sip, feeling the fragment of Ink Qilin in my sleeve suddenly heat up.
Xuan Yu's hand under the table grasped my wrist at a pulse point, freezing that restlessness with frost along my meridians.
Dou Bao unexpectedly turned his tiger hat upside down on Grandfather's head: "Grandpa looks like a fire-breathing Godzilla when he's angry!" The tense atmosphere in the room was shattered by the child's laughter. Seizing the opportunity, I added a spoonful of Peach Blossom Soup to Xuan Yu's bowl: "The malevolent energy from Xuan Iron is harmful; you should drink more warming tonics."
The daughter-in-law of the Xuan family covered her mouth and chuckled lightly: "Sister, your Ice Binding Technique is remarkable; it can even dissolve Xuan Iron's malevolent aura." Her jade bracelet clinked against her spoon as she spoke, shifting everyone's attention toward secret recipes for nurturing Immortal Fetus.
The crystal shrimp that Xuan Yu scooped up suddenly fell back into the soup bowl, splashing broth onto his sleeve and leaving faint golden patterns.
Instinctively, I formed a gesture to dry his sleeve; my Fingertip brushed over the protruding bone at his wrist.
He turned his hand to clasp my fingers hidden beneath his wide sleeves, a tingling sensation coursing up my spine as our spiritual energies intertwined.
" Immortal Fetus requires drawing upon celestial river spirit dew..." Grandfather's Tea Spoon stirred up a whirlpool in the Liuli pot, twelve stars aligning within it to form an ancient totem.
Xuan Yu suddenly fed me chilled bayberries near my lips; their Frost Flowers reflected dark gold flowing in his eyes: "Open your mouth."
The sweet-sour juice froze my Tip of Tongue numb as he seemingly absentmindedly brushed over my lip corner with his thumb.
Dou Bao suddenly emerged from under the table, knocking over a jade plate filled with spiritual fruits with the beast horn in his arms.
The rolling red pearls suddenly floated up, strung together by Xuan Yu’s spiritual energy into candied hawthorns and placed into the child's hands.
"Third Uncle is the best!" Dou Bao nibbled on a candied hawthorn while nestling into my embrace; his sugar-coated face suddenly tilted up: "Sister just now was with Third Uncle..."
Xuan Yu’s tea cup gently tapped against the table, ice crystals blooming along its edge like night-blooming cereus.
The spiritual charcoal at Grandfather’s tongs erupted brightly, illuminating the entire room: "Tomorrow let Yao'er go to the spirit garden to pick some calming herbs."
The fragment of Ink Qilin around my wrist suddenly buzzed; Xuan Yu’s hand entwined with mine beneath his sleeves.
Amidst the sharp pain from our opposing spiritual energies, his Palm opened up a Frost Flower that seeped into my meridians, forcibly suppressing that restlessness.
Dou Bao rested on my knee fiddling with the beast horn while the pom-pom on his tiger hat swayed rhythmically as he hummed a tune.
He suddenly raised the beast horn towards the Liuli lamp and gestured; shadows cast by the Diamond Window Lattice perfectly overlapped with our sleeves entwined together.
The child giggled as he breathed onto the beast horn, forming an uneven heart shape from ice crystals.
The icy heart shape Dou Bao exhaled refracted rainbow colors under the Liuli lamp as he suddenly exclaimed: "Yesterday I saw! Third Uncle kissed Sister while pressing her against a spirit stone by Lotus Pond; Sister's Jade Hairpin fell into..."
The popping sounds from Liuli Tea Kettle drowned out Child's Words ’s voice as twelve floating star totems abruptly plunged into the tea soup.
The half-eaten red pearl fruit I had bitten rolled into an Azure Jade Bowl with a thud, splashing spiritual dew that burned a Scorch Mark onto my sleeve.
The daughter-in-law of the Xuan family stopped even her jade bracelet clinking against porcelain cups; only Dou Bao’s beast horn rolling across the floor remained audible.
" Child's Words is unrestrained." Xuan Yu’s silver-threaded robe brushed past the table as ice crystals instantly sealed Dou Bao’s tiger hat.
His Fingertip dripped frost mist from his tea cup, condensing into Icicles before me amidst fragrant herbs steaming hot: "Last night I merely taught Madame how to identify Xuanbing Jade veins."
The spirit charcoal at the tip of Grandpa's fire tongs suddenly exploded into a burst of sparks, reflecting my flushed face in the shattered Starlight.
Dou Bao danced within the icy crystal seal, the pom-pom of his tiger hat sweeping away half-formed incense from the gilded tea grinder, scattering fragments of agarwood that formed a crooked outline of a kiss.
"The Snow Phoenix Egg from the Linghuan Fairy Realm is the most nourishing," the eldest daughter-in-law of the Xuan family suddenly pushed a bowl of entwined lotus-patterned soup towards me, the sound of her jade bracelet clinking against the lid of the Snow Porcelain startling the illusion of agarwood.
She lightly tapped the body of the soup with her nail stained with phoenix flower juice: "Back when I was pregnant with Dou Bao, his third uncle hunted an entire nest of snow mountain cloud eagles..."
The jade spoon I used to scoop soup got stuck on the dark patterns at the bottom of the bowl, and the handle carved from eagle wing bones pressed painfully against my knuckles.
Xuan Yu suddenly sliced open the Snow Phoenix Egg with an Ice Blade, golden-red egg liquid enveloping spiritual essence poured over my bowl of Peach Blossom Soup: "Coagulation Grass Seed."
The three words startled me, causing my hand to tremble, and half a spoonful of scalding egg liquid splashed onto the sealing mark on my wrist where remnants of Ink Qilin were trapped.
Yesterday, while repairing the Xi Yuan barrier for him, the wound torn by this fierce beast's remnants was still oozing blood.
Xuan Yu's fingers hooked around my waist ribbon beneath his wide sleeves, icy threads sealing off the imminent collapse of my seal along my meridians.
"Food should not be discussed," Grandpa's fire tongs suddenly interposed between me and Xuan Yu, their red-hot body melting through our intertwined ribbons halfway.
Dou Bao had somehow broken free from his icy confinement, holding up a fierce beast's horn to show me the frozen illusion within the crystal: "Sister, look, like this—"
"Dou Bao should go nurture his spiritual root now." Xuan Yu snapped his fingers, pinning the fierce beast's horn to the beam, while Xuan Bing climbed up along its patterns to cover the crossbeam.
As the child was magically lifted out of the hall, a piece of Liuying Stone fell from his tiger hat, reflecting an image of me being forced to tilt my head to receive a Frost Kiss by the lotus pond.
I gulped down half a cup of chilled bayberry juice; its sweet and sour liquid mixed with Coagulation Grass Seed slid down my throat.
The bitter scent of spiritual herb suddenly got overshadowed by Xuan Shuang, who pushed an entire plate of jade-green vegetables towards the attendant: "Clear it away."
"I love this," I stubbornly picked up a cluster of spiritual herb, its veins glowing painfully against my seal.
Yesterday, when he pinned me by the lotus pond to vent his anger, he had similarly sealed off all my major acupoints without explanation.
The Frost Flower climbed up my Fingertip along with jade chopsticks as Xuan Yu used a jade knife to sever the ice: "Coagulation Grass Seed combined with spiritual herb will trigger soul separation." The sleeve he tore open revealed half his forearm, where yesterday I had bitten him leaving teeth marks that glistened with Ice Shard, shimmering under the glass lamp in an ambiguous shade of Azure Purple.
Suddenly, all delicacies on the table began to spin clockwise as Grandpa's Tea Spoon stirred up galaxies in the glass kettle.
I counted thirty-six lotus patterns carved around the edge of my Azure Jade Bowl, hearing the crisp sound as Xuan Yu tossed down his Xuanbing Jade Crown.
The vengeful spirit sealed beneath remnants of Ink Qilin suddenly shrieked, causing all dishes on the table to hum in response.
"The ancestral rites tomorrow require Incense," Xuan family's eldest daughter-in-law abruptly stood up, her emerald bracelet shattering the frozen atmosphere.
On top of a gilded food box being carried away by attendants, I caught sight of Dou Bao's frosting kiss doodles melting away.
Grandpa's fire tongs suddenly struck a bronze bell; twelve star trails rose from tea soup: "Everyone stay put in the Main Courtyard tonight." As he swept past remnants of spiritual fruit scattered across the ground with his Xuan color robe hem, Xuan Yu was freezing spiritual herbs in my bowl into amber using a Frost Flower.
Moonlight filtering through the Diamond Window Lattice suddenly turned crimson; I knew that meant the barrier around Xi Yuan was beginning to tremble again.
Xuan Yu held onto my hand that was about to form a gesture; ice flowers seeped into my blood through yesterday's bite marks.
As he untangled my crooked Jade Hairpin, spiritual energy seeping from cracks in his Jade Crown intertwined with our breaths.
Grandpa's star trail Curse Seal wove a golden net at the eaves; as Xuan Yu grabbed me by my collar and used Teleportation back to our room in East Wing, glass lamps still reflected swirling eddies in tea soup.
As he swung his sleeve to push open an intricately carved wooden door, I caught hold of his silver waist sash with my hairpin.
"Guest room," he snapped off an ice silkworm thread tangled at the end of my pin and was about to turn away when a bronze bell in the corridor suddenly rang out Grandpa's furious shout: "Get back to your partner's soft pillow!"
The snow-like flakes fell from the shaken Diamond Window Lattice, and as I rubbed my head where it hit against the door frame, I caught sight of frost seeping from his collar beneath his robe.
He threw down his Xuanbing Jade Crown onto my dressing table; spiritual energy spilled from its cracks forming shadows of fierce beasts that roared within the canopy curtains of our bed.
"I'll sleep on a soft couch," I pulled over brocade from atop a gilded incense burner intending to spread it on the floor when suddenly pain shot through my wrist where remnants of Ink Qilin were sealed.
At that moment when Xuan Yu used his fingers to sever vengeful spirits' essence, ice crystals crawled up along bedposts covering every inch of our grand bed.
He extinguished two glass lamps with a flick: "Do you think I want to be sullied by spiritual blood on this bed?" The remaining candlelight illuminated frost flowers on his neck; yesterday’s bite mark glowed darkly in shades of Azure Purple.
I threw out spiritual silk that wrapped around beams intending to sleep suspended in mid-air when outside there was suddenly an explosive sound from Grandpa’s transmission spell: "The descendant has not yet arrived; those who share beds will be punished!" The suspended silk snapped in response as I stumbled into bedding filled with ice crystals, landing against Xuan Yu ’s jade pillow lying across in between us.
The cold fragrance of Han Tan mixed with Coagulation Grass rushed towards me as he flipped over and pinned me down on the Woven Gold Pillow. Frost Flower cascaded down his flowing Silver Hair, freezing my struggling Wrist. "Move again, and I'll nail you into the Xuan Bing Coffin."
The moonlight filtering through the patterned window suddenly took on a bloody hue. I stared at the dark golden Curse Seal dancing over his collarbone, a unique Soul Contract Mark of the Xuanjie Immortal Lord. Yesterday, by the Lotus Pond, when he bit my Carotid, this Web Pattern had also burned my Shoulder Blade.
"I’m going to bathe." The moment I broke free from the ice, the Woven Belt snapped the last Silver Chain from his Jade Crown. The misty water vapor in the Bathhouse wrapped around me with the fragrance of Snow Cedar. I submerged in the Lingquan Pool, counting the cracks in my Arm Seal, when I suddenly felt a fire burning in my lower abdomen.
The Ling Power from Coagulation Grass Seed mixed with Snow Phoenix Egg Liquid surged violently through my meridians. As I wrapped myself in a Celestial Silk Towel and rushed out, Xuan Yu was busy sharpening a Nail with Xuanbing blade.
When he lifted his gaze, the Ice Blade brushed past my ear and embedded itself into the Zhuang Lian, causing a shower of pearl hairpins to fall to the ground. "Toilet..." I covered my churning Dantian and burst through a side door, seeing my reflection in the Liuli Mirror as someone behind me suddenly stood up and overturned a low table.
Xuan Ling Qi twisted within my Five Organs and Six Bowels, lying before the Liujin Wash Basin but unable to expel any Zhuo Qi. The Celestial Silk Towel was suddenly frozen around my waist by Xuan Shuang. Xuan Yu, wrapped in an Ink-Colored Robe, kicked open the door. "Even pretending needs to be timed?" Water droplets from his hair dripped down, forming Ice Spikes that shattered against the Liuli Brick.
When I looked up, I met his chest still damp with water; the Dark Gold Soul Contract Mark glimmered beneath Zhu Huo like a snake flicking its tongue. A sudden cramp in my lower abdomen transformed into a wave of heat as Ling Blood stained the icy floor red and spread across the celestial fabric like Hong Mei.
"Coagulation Grass triggered Gui Water?" He scoffed as he swung out the Xuan Bing chain and pulled me up. His Fingertip pressed frostily against three inches below my navel. "The daughter of the Linghuan Fairy Realm can't even calculate her own tide?"
As I broke free from his Zhi Guo, I knocked over a Gilded Incense Burner, mixing Ling Blood with sandalwood ash that smeared across the glassy wall. He used his Ling Power to staunch the bleeding with a mocking chill: "Tomorrow let Xiao Dou Bao teach you how to use Menstruation?"
The curtains of the Canopy Step Bed suddenly moved without wind as I curled into the Cloud Brocade and heard him crush a Transmission Talisman with a Crisp Sound. When Xuan Yu lifted the Ice Crystal Quilt, I rolled to the edge of the bed; just as my lower back hung in mid-air, he grabbed my Ankle and pulled me back.
"Roll again," he said as his Palm and Xuan Shuang froze my kicking bare feet, "and I'll stuff you into Zheng Beast's Nurturing Pouch." The Dark Gold Soul Contract Mark suddenly shifted to my throat, rippling with each swallow he made.
I counted the pulsing veins on his neck when I suddenly realized there was a Liuying Stone pressed under my pillow. Xiao Dou Bao's childish humming seeped from between the stones, while overlapping figures by the Lotus Pond reflected in the Mirror above the Canopy Step Bed.
"Xuanjie Mansion..." Xuan Yu suddenly seized my hand as I tried to destroy the Liuying Stone. Frost Flower climbed up my wrist towards my Heart. "There’s Eight Hundred Spirit Spring Pool." His voice faded amidst a sudden explosive Clapper sound; Grandfather's Fire Claw Phantom patrolled outside the window, welding together our bed that had attempted to split apart into one solid piece of Xuan Tie.
I froze in his embrace, counting how fast the ice crystals melted while listening to the rustling sound of the Soul Contract Mark moving along my nape. The cold fragrance of Han Tan mingled with Coagulation Grass's bitterness, evoking phantom pains in my mouth reminiscent of Frost Flower by Lotus Pond.
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