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In the crevices of the stone, flickering in and out of sight, Luna's fingers, wrapped in the Silver Silk Swaddle, suddenly grasped Leonard's dangling hair tips.
Amidst the unique cooing sounds of an infant, she waved her tiny fists toward the glowing path, her ice-blue pupils reflecting the faint wing totem on the dark door.
"Father... go..." The words from Luna's baby voice burst forth from her lips just as Leonard's hand, which had been caressing his wedding ring, came to an abrupt halt.
The shimmering surface of the moonstone resonated with the dark patterns on the hem of his magic robe—this was originally a spell meant to monitor the flow of Aelia's bloodline, but at that moment, it was unwittingly treated as a toy by the unaware infant.
Qin Si emerged from the Emerald Corridor around the turn, holding a Liuli Lantern. The ice spike hairpin nestled in her hair suddenly buzzed. "The ivy at the West Side Secret Door should have wilted a fortnight ago." She seemingly unintentionally crushed a gathering butterfly wing underfoot, and the iris pollen on her embroidered skirt made Luna sneeze. "Madam was just saying last night that she wanted to teach the young lady about the Ice Wing Tribe's ancient iris."
A slight warmth radiated from the starry pattern on Leonard's brow—a sign that the magic fortress barrier had been triggered.
As he bent down to inspect Luna’s fingertips stained light purple by pollen, the infant suddenly bumped her forehead against the moonstone on his chest. The resonance from three hundred crystal coffins in the crypt caused the Demon Fortress Master to grunt and take a step back.
"Take a shortcut." Luna's soft nasal sound carried an undeniable magical authority as her chubby palm slapped against the center of the dark door's totem.
When the barrier shattered, an ice crystal storm erupted, and Qin Si’s skirt, embroidered with snowy owl patterns, suddenly billowed like a sail, instantly transporting all three of them to the Black Rose corridor outside Aelia's dormitory.
Veins bulged at Leonard's neck; all of the Demon Fortress Master's once eternal ice roses now lay flattened on the ground.
He crushed a petal beneath his foot and discovered that what should have been flowing Xing Hui blue blood fern juice had turned into a murky gray-purple.
Luna let out a small cat-like sob, struggling to leap from his arms toward the tightly shut carved copper door—ice crystals condensed upon it displayed charred ice cracks as if scorched by flames.
"The twelve Snow Elf Maids were just replaced three days ago..." Qin Si’s fingertip brushed over the broken guardian spell on the door frame, and suddenly, her ice spike hairpin shot toward an astrolabe hanging from the ceiling.
When the gears came to a halt, everyone saw on the mirrored surface of the bedroom carpet several blood-stained Ice Wings feathers scattered about.
Leonard's Star Trail Chains emitted a harsh grinding sound as he raised his hand to smash open the Bronze Door, but Luna suddenly pressed against him, immobilizing him with her Tears.
The infant girl, with tears in her eyes, pointed to the base of his ring finger—there, unknown to him, was an Ice Blue Backlash Curse coiling around it, spreading towards his heart along his Bloodline.
"Mother, it hurts..." Luna sobbed as she tugged at the silver hair of the Demon Fortress Master. Suddenly, fine Ice Shards emerged from beneath the Dark Red carpet.
As Qin Si gasped and jumped back, everyone saw Light Gold liquid seeping from the Gap in the carpet; it was a Taboo substance formed from a mixture of Ice Wing Clan Royal Blood and moonstone dust.
A delicate sound echoed in the room as a Crystal Cup lightly clinked. Aelia's usually cool voice wrapped around an unprecedented sweetness: "You said you would teach me to recognize the true Star Oath tonight..." As her words faded into the sound of Cloth rubbing together, Luna suddenly slammed her forehead against Leonard's chin.
The Demon Fortress Master winced in pain and released Shan Na, causing the infant girl to fall precisely into the Wing Groove of the Bronze Door Relief.
The ancient Guardian Spell of the Ice Wing Tribe suddenly lit up, rendering the Bronze Door transparent before Leonard's eyes.
Reflected in the Demon Fortress Master's pupil were shattered moonstones scattered across the floor and two nearly overlapping figures behind the gauze curtain—Aelia's snow-white nape was being caressed by a Palm adorned with an Obsidian Ring, while a Blood Pearl dangling from the tips of Ice Wings stained the Canopy with an eerie pink hue.
Leonard's Star Trail Chains crushed his Waist Leonard's Sword, and Fury's magic reverberated through the corridor, causing ice crystals to fall like rain.
Just as his Palm, charged with dark energy, was about to strike the Bronze Door, Qin Si suddenly lunged forward and grabbed his Wrist. An Ice Spike that had fallen from her hair sliced deep into the back of the Demon Fortress Master's hand—just then, a whisper floated out from behind the gauze curtain: Aelia's voice tinged with breathiness said, "Be gentle... you hurt my Wings..."
The dark purple sphere of energy coalescing in Leonard's Palm illuminated the entire corridor with ghostly shadows as ice crystals transformed into sharp prisms under his violent magic.
Luna curled up in the Groove of the Bronze Door, when the high-pitched sobbing of the infant suddenly pierced through the Magic Vortex. The hexagram patterns surrounding the baby girl, Mei Xin, forced the Star Trail Chains back by three inches.
"Lord!" Qin Si stumbled forward to the Carved Copper Door. The icy threads from the maid's Hairpin shot out like a spider web, ensnaring Leonard's ankle. "The Snow Spirits said that Madam This Morning personally brewed Evening Primrose Nectar for you..." Before she could finish, a sharp sound echoed in the chamber as a Crystal Vessel fell to the ground, accompanied by the rustling of Cursed Fabric and Tear.
The Demon Fortress Master’s black robe suddenly twisted into a poisonous Serpent Pattern. He stepped forward, shattering the icy threads of Shan Na, when suddenly a Little Demon Servant emerged from behind the Emerald Corridor and Obsidian Pillar, clutching a Silver Basin.
The Silver Basin crashed onto the Ice Crystal Ground with a piercing clang, causing Snowdrop Seeds floating within to roll into the inner chamber through the Door Gap—this unexpected noise startled Lucius from behind the gauzy curtain.
"Who allowed you to approach the master bedroom?" Leonard's furious shout made the Little Demon Servant's ears bleed. In that instant, as the Demon Fortress Master raised his hand, the Twelve Star Tracks chains smashed the Bronze Door into fragments.
The splintering Ice Shards transformed into countless silver needles under the light of the Moonstone, yet they bizarrely hovered in mid-air upon touching Aelia's and Xue Se's nightgown.
Aelia Ailya stepped on a floor covered in Moonstone Shards; Frost Flowers shed from her Ice Wings coalesced into teardrop shapes at her neck.
Her fingertip stained with Dan Kou still held onto a half-broken Starry Silk Ribbon. In the shadow of the Canopy, a tilted Gilded Low Table was faintly visible, scattered with bloodied Ice Crystal Tweezers and a half-rolled Star Chart Compendium.
"Lord, visiting at such a late hour—is it to inspect your star divination homework?" Aelia wrapped Ailia back around her Wrist, and as her Ice Wings brushed against Leonard’s raised hand, his veins bulged with tension.
When the Demon Fortress Master seized her Wrist, a soft chime from a Crystal Bell echoed from deep within the bed—this Guardian Artifact had originally hung above the Cradle but now rolled among disheveled Jin Bei.
Suddenly, Luna let out a sharp Loud Cry, and an Ice Blue Halo erupted around her, freezing the Star Trail Chains into frost.
Seizing this moment, Qin Si dashed in front of the shattered Bronze Door. "Madam had an unexpected cold last night; all the Snow Elf Maids went to the Ice Cellar to fetch medicine..."
Leonard's bloodshot pupils scanned the chaotic scene, and the Demon Fortress Master suddenly bent down to pick up a shard of ice crystal covered in gold dust.
As his magical energy infused the shard, it transformed into a half-formed silhouette of a man—clearly the unique laurel leaf forehead ornament of the High Priest of the Ice Wing Tribe.
"Explain." The Star Trail Chains crushed the illusion as Leonard gripped Aelia's neck, pressing her against the Ice Crystal Wall.
The starry pattern on the Demon Fortress Master's neck spread to the corners of his eyes but hesitated slightly when it reached the bruise on his wife's collarbone—the scar's shape perfectly matched that of her Moonstone Wedding Ring.
Aelia's ice wings suddenly unfurled, shattering the wall behind her. Amongst the flying ice shards emerged half of an unfinished Celestial Chart. "Is this what the Lord is looking for?" Her bloodied fingertip lightly tapped the void, and the shattered Star Trail formed an ancient plea for help from the Ice Wing Tribe, "Three days ago, the underground barrier trembled; I was merely repairing..."
Luna suddenly struggled to crawl toward the bed, her small hand stained with blood patting against the Crystal Bell.
In the crisp ringing sound, an ice spike slipped silently from Qin Si's sleeve and embedded itself into the carpet—the iris pollen on the maid's shoe soles slowly merged with the gold dust on the bell's surface.
Leonard suddenly groaned and released his palm; his wedding ring on his ring finger burst forth with a blinding blue light.
The Demon Fortress Master was shocked to discover that a blood pearl seeping from Aelia's wrist bruise transformed into an Ice Crystal Butterfly under the moonlight, and the patterns on these illusory butterflies' wings were precisely those of their Guardian Spell etched together on their wedding night.
"Father... it hurts..." Luna had somehow crawled to Leonard's feet, her lashes glistening with tears as her chubby fingers poked at the Demon Fortress Master's heart.
Only then did everyone notice that an Ice Crystal Rose had formed on Leonard's chest—unlike the Mo Flower that lay fallen in the corridor, this Ice Rose contained a strand of Aelia's silver hair within its petals.
The Demon Fortress Master's fury caused his magical energy to stagnate, and at that moment, a resonant sound from a Crystal Coffin suddenly pierced through the Crypt.
As Leonard was distracted by the sensing barrier, Qian Si Embroidered Shoes crushed the last piece of Iris Petals, and a mist mixed with Gold Dust quietly enveloped the bed... Leonard's Star Trail Chains pressed against Aelia's neck, leaving delicate marks of Bing Wen, while the breath of the Demon Fortress Master Fury made the Crystal Chandelier jingle.
Aelia's Ice Wings suddenly burst forth with cold light, and shattered ice crystals formed twelve Short Blades that pressed against her husband's throat. "Perhaps you should explain why the Star Sand I used to repair the barrier has turned into a monitoring Curse?"
Luna suddenly giggled, and the Crystal Bell held by the infant rolled out a Light Gold Track on the carpet.
Qin Si was about to bend down to pick it up when he saw the bell suddenly float up and explode in a shower of Gold Dust just three inches from Leonard's temples—this Magic Dust, originally intended for Anmian, now scorched the Star Pattern on the Demon Fortress Master's black robe, leaving a Scorch Mark.
"Impudent!" Leonard waved his sleeve, shattering the Short Blades as the Star Trail Chains ensnared Aelia's right wing root.
As Ice Blue Blood flowed back along the chain's pattern, the Palace Dome suddenly dropped Seven Moonstones, forming an ancient Divination Array of the Ice Wing Tribe on the Ground.
When Lucius burst through the icy curtain, he saw dark energy coalescing at his Father's Fingertip about to pierce his Mother's Heart.
The Third Young Master Lucius's Star Pattern Sword at his Waist suddenly unsheathed on its own, resonating with Aelia's Wing as its Ice Spirit Stone reacted. "Father! The Northern Watchtower is sending an urgent message..."
"Just in time!" Leonard thrust Leonard's Sword into the Ground, and shadows beneath the Demon Fortress Master's feet suddenly split into twelve venomous snakes. "Take your Dark Guard and turn over every piece of Zhuan Shi in this room!" The Star Trail Chains shattered the Gilded Low Table’s Shan Na as Luna crawled to the center of the Formation Diagram, her palm covered in Gold Dust slapping down on a broken rune.
Suddenly, three hundred infants' Loud Cry echoed throughout the palace; this was a Guardian Forbidden Spell triggered only upon the birth of the Ice Wing Tribe's Royal Family.
Lucius felt the Ice Spirit Stone on Leonard's Sword heat up abruptly. He realized that the Star Trail emerging from the Divination Array perfectly matched the strange patterns he had encountered three days ago in the Crypt.
"Lord, the West Side Wall has an Ice Crystal Secret Compartment!" the Captain of the Shadow Guard suddenly shouted.
When the crowd broke through the Wall, they discovered that the Dark Compartment was neatly stacked with twelve volumes of the Star Chart Compendium, with a letter opener inlaid with moonstone resting on top—this was clearly a gift personally given by Leonard during last year's Aelia's Birthday Rune.
Luna had somehow climbed to the top of the Canopy, and her appearance swinging from Liu Su made Lucius gasp in shock.
As the Demon Fortress Master looked up in anger, the Little One suddenly released her grip and accurately fell into a Silver Basin filled with Snowdrop Seeds.
Amidst the exploding fluff, the infant was wrapped in petals, laughing joyfully, and surprisingly, a Miniature Astrolabe formed among her hair tips.
"Enough!" Leonard waved his sleeve, knocking down the Ice Crystal Chandelier. The shadows spreading beneath the Demon Fortress Master tore the entire bed to pieces. "Take the lady to the Crypt. Without my command..."
Before he could finish his sentence, Qin Si suddenly lunged toward the edge of the Formation Diagram.
The Ice Spike Hairpin in the maid's hair shattered piece by piece, revealing an Ice Blue Crystal hidden inside. "Lord, please see! Last night, I took Star Sand for the lady!" She trembled as she pointed to a damaged section of the Formation Diagram. "During the Underground Barrier's tremor, the High Priest indeed came to deliver repairs for the Curse..."
Lucius suddenly knelt on one knee. "Father, these Star Chart Compendium volumes contain your annotations from last year." The Third Young Master Lucius's fingers trembled slightly as he unfurled a scroll. "Look at this note regarding the energy conversion of the Ice Spirit Stone..."
Leonard's pupils suddenly constricted.
The Demon Fortress Master’s fingertip brushed over the familiar Tiny Inscriptions on the scroll; these were notes he had left while researching Star Trail with his wife on the night before his retreat.
Aelia suddenly chuckled softly, her blood-stained fingertip lightly tapping the void, causing ice crystals to form a broken segment of the Celestial Chart in the moonlight. "Do you remember, my lord, that you promised to teach me how to break the Backlash Curse during last month's full moon?"
Luna suddenly emitted an urgent Yiya Sound, the infant clutching a piece of Moonstone Shard as she wobbled toward her father.
As Leonard instinctively reached out to catch her, the surface of the stone shard suddenly revealed Aelia's figure kneeling alone on the Astrology Platform—she was using the tips of her Ice Wings to inscribe a spell with blood, while in the background, three hundred Crystal Coffins emitted an unsettling hum reminiscent of Leonard's sword.
"Reporting to you, my lord!" a frost-covered Shadow Guard burst through the palace doors. "The Guardian Array in the Crypt has detected abnormal energy fluctuations!" On the Ice Crystal Compass held by a Knight, Crimson Light Spots resonated with the bruised spot on Aelia's wrist.
Qin Si suddenly tore open her left sleeve, revealing a Star Pattern emerging on her forearm that matched the compass. "I used the Star Sand prepared by my lady without permission..." She suddenly coughed violently, ice-blue blood pearls spilling from her mouth and forming a Laurel Leaf shape on the ground. "The High Priest said this would temporarily reinforce..."
Luna suddenly banged her forehead against Leonard's knee, and the hexagram unleashed by the infant pulled everyone into a brief illusion.
In this vision, Aelia could be seen late at night, hunched over drawing a Star Chart, with an unfinished Evening Primrose Nectar beside her—while outside the window, shadows passed by that clearly bore Leonard's Dark Guard's Serpent Emblem.
The Wedding Ring of the Demon Fortress Master suddenly emitted a blinding light, and Leonard was shocked to discover that blood pearls seeping from Aelia's neck resonated with his Star Trail Chains.
As his magic traced back along the chains, he sensed a Guardian Spell at Aelia's Heart Vein that shared its origin with his own—this was a life-and-death contract planted by couples of the Ice Wing Tribe when they bound themselves in marriage.
"Father!" Lucius suddenly pointed at the shattered Dome. "Look at the position of the Astrolabe!"
Everyone looked up to see a blood-stained feather from Ice Wings caught between crystal gears.
As moonlight passed through the feather and cast shadows on the ground, it revealed fragments of a Secret Letter that Leonard had personally written to Aelia during his retreat—"If there are disturbances in the barrier, seek assistance from the High Priest."
Luna suddenly climbed onto Leonard's shoulder, her small hand, dusted with Star Sand, slapped against Lucius, the Demon Fortress Master.
As the warm breath of the infant brushed against his ear, Leonard found himself lost in a memory from three hundred years ago when he was still a young Lord. He recalled Aelia holding an Ice Rose and playfully asking, "Which is more important, the Star Trail or me?"
"My Lord!"
The Shadow Guard's exclamation jolted the Demon Fortress Master from his reverie.
Leonard looked down at Luna, who was still sniffling in his arms. The ice crystals clinging to her eyelashes reflected Aelia's pale yet smiling face—a smile that was identical to the one he had seen on their wedding night when he unveiled Xipa.
Qin Si suddenly dashed to the center of the Formation Diagram. Beneath the torn fabric of her dress lay the melting mark of the Ice Wing Tribe. "It was my own decision to alter the Star Sand ratio..." Her bloodied fingertip suddenly pointed out the window. "Last night, Midnight passed through the Rose Garden..."
A dark shadow swept past outside the Ice Crystal Window, and alarms from the Dark Guard blared as the Crystal Coffin and Resonance erupted simultaneously.
As everyone's attention was drawn toward the Crypt, Luna's small hand, clutching her father's collar, accidentally brushed against a cold hard object—it was a shard of a Laurel Leaf-shaped ice crystal that had quietly embedded itself in Leonard's collar when Qin Si's hairpin shattered.
The Laurel Leaf ice crystal suddenly melted at Leonard's collar, reflecting in his pupils a vision of three hundred years ago: the High Priest holding the Star Staff presiding over Leonard's Last Night wedding ceremony.
Luna unexpectedly bit her tongue, and with her innate spiritual power, a Blood Pearl dripped precisely onto the spot where the ice crystal melted—time seemed to pause as a holographic illusion of last night's Midnight emerged above everyone’s heads.
In this illusion, Qin Si held a jar of Star Sand as she walked through the Rose Garden, her hairpin accidentally snagging on an Ice Thorn.
A pale palm suddenly emerged from the shadows, untangling her, as the moonlight illuminated the wrist adorned with a laurel leaf tattoo—precisely the ice feather token held by the current High Priestess, Aelia.
"So this is how the backlash curse of the wedding ring works..." Leonard roared as he crushed the ice rose on his chest, his sealed silver hair suddenly igniting into flames, transforming into Xing Huo.
The energy erupting from the Demon Fortress Master sent everyone sprawling to the ground, but Luna was protected beneath Yu Ling by Aelia's suddenly unfurling ice wings.
From the direction of the crypt came a thunderous roar, as three hundred crystal coffins broke through the barrier and hovered above the sleeping quarters.
Lucius's Leonard's Sword unexpectedly flew from his hand towards the coffins, its hilt, made of Ice Spirit Stone, reflecting Aelia kneeling in the center of the coffin array, repairing the barrier during Leonard's last night. With each symbol she inscribed, a wing fell away like Bing Ling.
"Mother... it hurts... Fei Fei..." Luna suddenly opened her arms towards the coffins, and the purifying power radiating from her made the rampaging Star Trail Chains gentle as silk.
As Leonard reached out to grasp Aelia, the wedding ring on the Demon Fortress Master's ring finger suddenly transformed into quicksand, revealing an inner layer engraved with the Ice Wing Tribe's secret script—"Living and Dying Together."
The crystal coffins all opened simultaneously, and three hundred beams of blue light converged into Aelia's shattered guardian spell.
The High Priestess's maniacal laughter echoed from underground: "Lord, do you know that your lady feeds these coffins with royal blood every night?"
From within the last crystal coffin floated an original secret letter written by Leonard to Aelia during his seclusion—the edges of the letterhead stained with royal blood from the Ice Wing Clan, inscribed with a counter-surveillance spell.
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