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The morning mist enveloped Luna's Loud Cry, seeping through the cracks in the stone. Aelia gazed at the winding Hei Ban on the Peacock Stone Tiles, her fingertip, stung by the Ice Crystal Iris, suddenly touched something warm.
The infant pressed its forehead against her heaving chest, and those fragmented Golden Blood Pearls coalesced into half a Star Moon Totem, firmly locking the Curse Mark beneath her Collarbone at its center.
"Madam!
Messages have come from the Priest Tower..." Qin Si rushed onto the terrace holding a crystal ball, but fell silent upon seeing the totem.
Eighteen years ago, the secret ritual of the Moonshadow Family's wedding suddenly awakened in her memory—when the Ice Crystal Iris was pinned to the bride's chest with a Shan Na, all the Crystal Vessels on the terrace reflected the totem of Xingyue intertwining.
Aelia tightened the swaddling threefold; suddenly, the Wisteria curtains grew violently, dark green vines twisting the crystal ball into Powder.
The suspended Stardust pieced together Leonard's whereabouts from last night: near Eagle Beak Rock in the Southeast Corner of the Glorious Demon Fortress, traces left by Frost Magic twisted into a pattern of entwined double serpents.
"Bring me my Astrological Compass." Aelia's voice was like a blade tempered in ice as her Moon White Ailya's White Nails grazed Luna's Neck necklace. The Iris Flower Emblem, which should have been cold, now burned her fingertip red. "Awaken all the Chasing Shadow Butterfly Eggs that were offered three years ago from the Northern Territory."
Qin Si hurriedly grasped the thrashing curtains. "Those Mo Butterflies require maiden blood as bait; you have just given birth..."
"Use mine." Aelia suddenly tore open her clothing, and the Curse Mark beneath her Collarbone was seeping Dark Red Blood Droplets.
Luna reached out her small hand to press against her mother's bleeding wound. The infant's Palm glowed brightly with the Star Moon Totem, condensing the Curse Blood into three crystalline Blood Diamonds.
As Qin Si retreated holding a Silver Box filled with Blood Diamonds, Luna suddenly emitted an urgent Yiya Sound.
Aelia looked down; the mirror of the Grooming table had inexplicably fogged up, reflecting Leonard as he pinned an Ice Crystal Iris into a Strange Woman’s hair during Leonard's Last Night.
As the woman turned, Shan Na, Aelia's wrist felt a sudden burning pain from the Moonshadow Clan Emblem—reflected in the mirror was Ear, marked with the same source as the Curse Mark, displaying Dark Red Patterns.
"Madam!" Qin Si stumbled upon the scene where Aelia was crushing the mirror with her bare hands.
Blood dripped from the Crystal Fragment, but upon touching the Peacock Stone Tiles inscribed with Curse Script, it transformed into ice crystals. Suddenly, seventy-two pieces of Xing Hui flew out from the Infant Swaddling, engulfing the blood-stained ice crystals entirely.
Before Twilight descended, seventy-nine Chasing Shadow Butterflies pierced through the barrier and returned.
The trails of light they left behind intertwined in the Palace Dome to form a magical map. Among them, thirty-seven glowing lines converged at a cave hidden behind Eagle Beak Rock.
Aelia gazed at the flickering Frost Patterns on the map and suddenly lifted Luna to eye level.
"You saw it too, didn't you?" Her fingertip lightly touched the baby Mei Xin's Emerging Xing Mang. "Years ago, when he used Northern Lights to create the Ice Crystal Iris for me, he said it was unique, forged from eternal frozen soil..."
Luna suddenly grasped her mother's finger and pressed it against the Chasing Shadow Butterfly map.
As Aelia's blood touched the light trail of Shan Na, visions surged forth from the cave—two Iris Flower Emblems hung side by side on the stone wall, absorbing moonlight. The one belonging to Aelia was continuously drawing in starlight accumulated over eighteen years into its newly forged emblem.
Qin Si watched in horror as Madam Moon White's long hair gradually turned frosty. Luna's Xing Mang suddenly surged, and a Halo surrounding the baby abruptly severed that secret energy transmission.
Aelia staggered to support herself against the Astrolabe; the crystal ball reflected her necklace slowly fading in color.
"Prepare the carriage." As she handed Luna over to Qin Si, golden Golden Hair that fell from the Infant Swaddling suddenly transformed into a talisman, sealing all exits of the chamber tightly. "Before Leonard returns, I must personally verify one last thing."
As Qin Si's pleading voice was cut off by the magical barrier, Aelia trembled as she unfastened her gown.
The back that should have been as white as jade was now emerging with large patches of frost—the Thorned Totem, hand-drawn by Leonard when he made his vow. At this moment, those Ice Spikes were transforming one by one into dark, cursed vines.
Luna's cries suddenly pierced through the barrier.
Aelia turned to look at the terrace, where the Demon Owls in the Twilight were flapping their Wings to produce an ancient Warning rhythm. Meanwhile, at the horizon, the once-shining Priest Tower's starlight was completely obscured by the sudden storm of Wind and Snow.
As Twilight settled, the Crystal Chandelier cast spider web-like shadows on the walls thick with Curse.
Aelia sat alone beside the Astrolabe, watching as the Blood Diamond left behind in Qin Si's Silver Box gradually faded.
The Ground beneath her suddenly glowed with a ghostly blue light, and she realized that Luna's Golden Hair had unknowingly extended across the entire Magic Circle of the chamber, its golden tips competing for energy with the Curse Script.
"Madam, the banquet..." A hesitant announcement from a servant outside was abruptly shattered by a surge of Magic Turbulence.
Aelia brushed her fingers over the re-bleeding Curse Mark beneath her Collarbone, and her fingertip suddenly touched memories from Eighteen Years Ago—on their wedding night, Leonard had used an Ice Crystal Carving Knife to draw the Guardian Spell on her back while moonlight streamed through the Colored Window, casting frost into the shape of an Iris.
The Crystal Hourglass suddenly flipped over, and Yin Sha coalesced in the air into the phenomenon of Double Moons in the Same Sky.
Luna murmured dreamily in her swaddling, and beneath her, the cursed Magic Circle began to reassemble into a Star Moon Totem.
Tears from Aelia fell onto her Neck necklace; what should have been a cold Iris Flower Emblem suddenly burned with Qing Yan, reflecting in the void the scene unfolding within Eagle Beak Rock cave: within the starlight passage between two badges flowed the unique astrological power of the Moonshadow Family.
"It turns out even eternal frozen soil is a lie." She tore off her necklace and threw it into the air; yet, the shattered crystals reformed into an Ice Prism amidst the raging Wind and Snow.
In the mirror flashed Leonard stabbing his Ice Crystal Carving Knife into a Strange Woman's back during Leonard's Last Night. Those Frost Spells that should have been pure mutated into Dark Red serpentine vines at the moment of formation—just like the Curse Totem spreading across her back now.
Luna suddenly let out a sharp Loud Cry, and the Seventy-Two Star Radiance burst forth from her Golden Hair, shattering the Ice Prism into Powder.
Aelia staggered as she leaned against the Astrolabe, noticing that the Magic Castle reflected within the crystal ball was being enveloped by Blood Moonlight in the Southeast Corner.
Her bloodied fingers traced over the Astrological Compass, and to her astonishment, the chaotic Star Trails, disrupted by the curse, began to reorder under the influence of Luna's surrounding Halo, ultimately pointing towards the direction of the Priest Tower and Underground Chamber.
"Madam!" Qin Si's startled voice came from beyond the barrier. "The young master..."
Before he could finish, the Palace Dome suddenly erupted with ice crystals, and a violent Wind and Snow surged in, accompanied by an Eagle Cry.
Aelia shielded Luna in her arms and saw that the remnants of the Chasing Shadow Butterfly's light were piecing together a Dreadful Prophecy in the water pooling on the Ground—thirty-seven Ice Butterflies' corpses arranged in the shape of Gallows, each butterfly's Heart pierced by shards of Ice Crystal Iris.
Luna's Palm pressed against her Mother's blood-soaked Collarbone. In the Strong Light emanating from the Star Moon Totem, Aelia clearly saw the curse flowing through her Bloodline transforming into tiny Black Snakes, only to be completely swallowed by the starry river reflected in the infant's eyes.
As the last trace of Dark Red Patterns vanished deep within Luna's Pupil, all the crystal structures in the chamber simultaneously resonated with an ancient Requiem of the Moonshadow Clan.
"Prepare the horses." Aelia tore down a blood-stained window curtain to wrap around Luna. The Infant Hair sprouted Star Pattern Ice Crystals upon touching the frost. "Before we head to Eagle Beak Rock, I must first verify why the starlight at the Priest Tower has extinguished."
Her Fingertip brushed against Luna's newly formed Crescent Shape, unaware that within a Silver Box, a certain Blood Diamond was suddenly Emerging—Lucius, Third Young Master Lucius.
Outside, the Demon Owls abruptly fell silent, and eighteen frost-dusted feathers drifted down onto the terrace, forming an Ancient Totem that foretold Disaster.
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