As the remaining Moonstone Powder softly fell into the Bronze incense burner, Luna's eyelashes reflected the collapsing Ice Crystal Castle in her Mind Sea.
She curled up in Aelia's blood-stained hem, a burning pain radiating from the tattoo on her nape—the location of the blood-soaked tower on the panoramic view of the Magic Castle was unmistakably the West Wing's Separate Courtyard, where Father Leonard kept Leonard's Concubine.
"Mother... cold..."
This murmured expression of unawareness made Aelia's fingertips tremble, and a half-inch Ice Spike extended from her crystallized left hand.
Biting her poisoned silver hair between her teeth, she gazed at the missing Sirius Position in the Dome's Broken Star Map, suddenly recalling the night three years ago when she gave birth, and the twenty-nine bloody Crow's Claw Prints on the delivery room carpet.
In an instant, as the Colored Window shattered, Luna's Ice Crystal Castle in her Mind Sea completely collapsed.
The dark purple heat that suddenly erupted from Luna jolted her awake; the Star Compass spinning in her pupil pointed frantically northwest—that was where the Magic Fortress Barrier was weakest, at the Watchtower.
"The Shifting Technique will Tear your Lingmai!" The warning from her past life as a Great Mage echoed in her Mind Sea, but Luna had already crushed the Ice Spirit Stone hidden within the swaddling layer.
The violent wind generated by the distortion of space sent Qin Si's Yao Zhan flying. Aelia's crystallized left hand maintained its embrace, while little Little Luna had already transformed into Liuguang.
The Sevenfold Magic Barrier peeled away before Luna's eyes, scattering into swirling Snowflakes.
As she stumbled into the Main Hall of the Magic Castle, black Bing Hua condensed on the Gilded Floor Tiles, creeping up along the terrified expressions of the guards. Twenty-eight Crystal Chandeliers cast twenty-nine distorted shadows.
"Mother!"
Magic Mist coalesced into Thorns that ensnared Aelia's ankles. Luna's Hand Back Birthmark glowed with an eerie Purple Light.
She collided with a skirt infused with Evening Primrose Scent, and Blood Pearls oozed from her nape tattoo, painting a Three-Dimensional Map of the Magic Castle on the Marble Floor—highlighting the location of the West Wing Tower and prominently displaying Leonard's Family Crest.
Aelia's crystallized left hand pressed against her daughter's back. "Don't touch the ice in the Magic Mist!" Her poisoned silver hair brushed against Luna's earlobe, and before her words fell, fourteen High-Level Protective Spells shattered into Ice Shards.
Three years ago, the Star Compass sealed within her daughter's heart began to spin counterclockwise, drawing the chilling poison that had invaded her lungs into the black hole at the end of the Pointer.
"Father is in the mist..." Luna suddenly grasped Aelia's sleeve adorned with ice crystals.
The incomplete Guardian Array on her forehead glowed with a faint Blue Light, revealing a figure slowly approaching from the depths of the Magic Mist—Leonard, his Wisteria Emblem on his cloak fading, yet the Ice Crystal Sword in his palm bore the mark of Leonard's Concubine and Family Totem.
Aelia's throat overflowed with Blood Pearls that froze into an icy necklace.
Her action of pushing her daughter toward the Dark Bag mirrored the gesture from twenty years ago when she hid a Magic Scroll in the sleeve of her Wedding Dress.
As Leonard's Jian Feng sliced through the Magic Mist, Luna's hair suddenly burned through the Swaddling Cloth, melting the swirling ice Jing Chen into fine sand like a galaxy.
"Mother, look at the Star Trail!" Luna bit through her bloodied Milk Tooth and drew a fragmented Northern Crown in the void with her fingertip.
Aelia's crystallized left hand shattered in response, and the splintered Ice Shards reformed in midair into the Star Map from that snowy night three years ago—when a baby curled up in swaddling clothes was now using a bloodied index finger to complete the missing Sirius Position.
Deep within the foundation of the Magic Castle, a roar echoed as the barrier began to crack.
The Tattoo on Luna's back suddenly unfolded in midair, and a Blood Pearl seeping from the West Wing Tower coalesced into an arrow aimed at Leonard's heart.
As Leonard's Concubine's piercing Qian Jiao penetrated thirty stone walls, Aelia's poisoned silver hair finally ensnared her husband's Jian Feng. Meanwhile, her left palm fell, quietly resting half of a bloodied Wisteria flower Silver Buckle—an anomaly that had appeared on the windowsill of the delivery room three years prior.
Moonstone Powder flowed backward like a river, tracing a complete Guardian Array between the foreheads of mother and daughter.
Luna gazed at the twenty-nine distorted reflections scattered across the ground, glistening with ice crystals after the fog had lifted. Suddenly, she recalled the cold prompt from the system on the night of her crossing: when the stroller rolled over the twenty-ninth Wisteria flower, the Soul Devouring Array of the Magic Castle Underground would... The stardust from Luna's fingertip suddenly coalesced into a vortex, drawing in all remnants of Magic Mist into the Star Compass.
Aelia stumbled and fell beside the Gilded Column, her crystallized severed wrist oozing Ice Blue Blood Pearl, which formed into twenty-nine fluttering Ice Butterflies amidst Moonstone Powder.
"Mother, breathe in sync with the Ice Butterflies' frequency." Luna's youthful voice carried a strange Resonance as she pressed the blood-stained Wisteria flower Silver Buckle against Aelia's Heart.
The Curse Aura lingering in the delivery room three years ago began to rise along the patterns of the Silver Buckle, revealing a projection of the Soul Devouring Array entwined with Wisteria in the void.
Aelia's Emerald Color pupils constricted sharply, and a frozen blood clot in her throat suddenly burst: "The wedding Crown he gave me that year... inlaid with twenty-nine Moonstones..." Her trembling right hand grasped the tie of her daughter's swaddling, while those Ice Butterflies settled in her hair, suppressing the increasingly unstable Magic Fluctuation within the Han Shuang barrier.
Luna's Luna suddenly ignited; she recognized that the focal point of the Projection's Soul Devouring Array was indeed the Nursery of Magic Castle.
As the twenty-ninth Ice Butterfly merged into Aelia's wound, black Bing Hua crystallized on the Peacock Stone Tiles, suddenly growing in reverse and climbing along the shattered Colored Window to form thorny vines.
"Qin Si! Retrieve the Magic Contract Scroll from West Wing Tower within three years!" Luna's Baby Voice commanded, enveloped in Mage pressure.
The maid hiding behind the stone pillar noticed that In Hand Yao Zhan was emitting a Purple Light; leftover medicinal residue automatically arranged itself into a floor plan of West Wing Separate Courtyard—a spot marked with Crow's Claw Print was seeping black mist.
Aelia suddenly grasped her daughter's hand that was drawing a Star Map: "The token necklace your Father gave me... Zhui Zi is carved from Soul Devouring Beast fangs into a Wisteria flower." She tore open her blood-stained collar, revealing a grotesque wound at her Collarbone embedded with half a Silver Buckle, which combined with fragments of her Palm to form a complete Family Crest.
Luna's Star Compass emitted a Screech.
She pressed the Emblem against the Relief on the Pillar, and twenty-eight Crystal Chandeliers exploded in response. The falling shards coalesced mid-air into a Star Map from three years ago.
As the fractured Sirius was filled by the Ice Butterfly, a roar echoed from the Underground as chains broke—the projection of the Soul Devouring Array revealed Leonard and Leonard's Concubine swearing an oath on Leonard's Last Night.
"Mother, look at the focal point!" Luna suddenly pointed to the distorted Crow's Claw Print in the Star Map.
Aelia's crystallized severed wrist burst forth with Blue Light, freezing the black mist surging from the Nursery into an Ice Prism.
The mirror reflected twenty-nine fragments of time and space: on every full moon night, Leonard depicted the Soul Devouring Array with Wisteria Juice in the West Wing Tower.
As the last trace of Magic Mist was sealed into the Silver Buckle, Luna stumbled and steadied herself against Aelia's skirt.
The tattoo on her nape oozed icy Jing Chen, outlining the track of a baby carriage that traversed that night—amidst the Wisteria Shadow crushed by its wheels, a Church Spire from a strange world emerged faintly.
"Miss!
All guards in the West Wing have fallen under the Puppet Curse!" Qin Si rushed in, holding a glowing Contract Scroll. Leonard's signature on the parchment was fading into Wisteria Petals.
Just as Luna reached out to touch the falling petals, the Guardian Array on her forehead suddenly burned them into Ashes, which surprisingly retained the roasted aroma of modern coffee.
Aelia wrapped her drowsy daughter in her silver hair, unaware that the Ashes were forming a blurred hourglass in Luna's palm.
As twenty-nine Ice Butterflies flew back to the severed wrist wound, a crisp sound of cracking stone echoed from the direction of the Nursery—the baby carriage adorned with Wisteria Pattern was slowly rolling over Moonstone Powder on Peacock Stone Tiles, moving towards the missing position in the Star Map.
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