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As Qin Si stumbled through the Liujin Rose Gate, her palm tingled from the edge of the Rosewood Tray.
Twilight sliced the corridor of the Magic Castle into fragments of light and shadow. She stared at the swaying Pearl Tassel in Aelia's Dressing Mirror, suddenly realizing how similar its luster was to the crimson hue of Jiang Lisi's Moonstone Earrings.
"Madam..." The maid, Waist Yin Ling, clinked as she gasped for breath. Qin Si watched Aelia pinning the Moonlight Rose into her Hair Bun—the very flower that Lord had picked by hand last night.
A sudden rush of tequila escaped from Qin Si's sleeve, and she realized that shards of the Snake Pattern Silver Flask Luna had shoved inside were leaking Amber Liquid.
The image in the Memory Crystal Ball activated automatically under the influence of alcohol fumes. Nineteen beams of blue light intertwined in the air, depicting Jiang Lisi exchanging a Magic Potion during Leonard's Last Night, finally freezing on a terrace of the Western Manor overrun with Dragon's Blood Vine—where a swaddling cloth embroidered with Dark Pattern from the Magic Castle was hanging.
Aelia's fingertip Black Rose suddenly exploded into ice crystals, and cracks resembling Spider Webs spread across the surface of the Dressing Mirror: "Three years ago, Leonard said a blizzard in the Western Realm had frozen all Dragon's Blood Vine."
"That swaddling stitch is unique to Jiang Lisi's Shuang Mian Xiu!" Qin Si shook out a Scent Pouch she had brought back from Yao Tang, revealing half a bloom of an unfinished Flame Rose.
Luna had once pointed at a Fairy Tale Book and mentioned that in Western Realm legends, a half-bloomed Family Totem must be embroidered when a bastard is born.
The castle suddenly shook violently, and Luna's baby voice cried out from outside the door.
Little Luna’s Silver Moon Emblem cast red light onto the ceiling, projecting a scene of Leonard negotiating with the Western Realm Envoy in a secret chamber.
Aelia recognized that the envoy Leonard bore the Serpent Emblem of Jiang Lisi's maternal clan, and glaringly listed on the Transaction List was Dragon Bone Powder that should have been supplied to Third Young Master Lucius.
"He actually used my son's cultivation resources to support Leonard's Concubine!" Aelia’s skirt surged with a vortex of Ice and Fire Dual System Magic as spears held by armor on both sides of the corridor resonated with Leonard's sword suddenly emitting a hum.
Seizing the opportunity, Luna rolled into the room, her small hands smeared with Flame Pudding accurately tapping on a Node of the Memory Crystal Ball—that was the Key recording Leonard's Concubine's true identity in the Original.
As images of Jiang Lisi kissing the Western Lord emerged, shards of Silver Flask from Qin Si’s sleeve suddenly flew into the air.
Under magical catalysis, tequila solidified into an Iris: "To love and Dragon's Blood Vine—Leonard Glory, New Era 137 years Frostmoon."
"This is the wine we brewed for our wedding anniversary." The frozen starlight within Aelia began to shatter; she had endured a cold war with Leonard for half a month over the batch of missing vintage.
Luna tripped over the shattered ice and seized the opportunity to slip the crystal shard containing Leonard's Concubine's blood sample into Aelia's palm—this was something she had smuggled from Western Manor using Lucius and the Xing Hui butterfly.
As the earth shook and explosive sounds swept through Magic Castle, Aelia had already flashed to Leonard's Magic Laboratory.
She looked at her husband, whose projection crystal was still active—Leonard's Last Night showed Jiang Lisi cradling a baby while humming a lullaby from Magic Castle, and the child’s wrist bore the exclusive Xuan Tie Amulet of their Eldest Son.
"Explain." Aelia's body was surrounded by ice spikes entwined with crimson flames, while three hundred vials on the Experiment Table boiled simultaneously.
Luna peered through the door gap and saw Brother San's Astrolabe spinning wildly. Second Brother's Black Magic Book, sealed in amber, rustled ominously, while the Defensive Formation on Elder Brother's wheelchair armrest began to emit a blue light—all evidence chains were resonating.
Leonard dispersed the alcohol fumes swirling around his protective barrier, but his fingertip brushed against Aelia's specially concocted Manifestation Potion.
The coordinates of Western Manor burned into his skin as scorch marks: "Marriage can exchange for one-third of the Magic Crystal Mine in the Western Realm. Are you really going to watch Magic Castle decline?"
"So you want an illegitimate child to replace Lucius in the Inheritance Order?" Aelia scoffed, her ice spikes piercing the Centaurea Specimen bottle containing their Eldest Son’s severed leg.
Years ago, Leonard insisted on using dangerous ancient methods to heal their Eldest Son; now it seemed he had aimed to create a plausible disability.
Luna suddenly sneezed at the Laboratory Dome; the Moonlight Moss powder hidden in her hair activated a voiceprint magic—the recording of Leonard ordering doctors to delay treatment exploded from all four walls simultaneously.
The Lord was engulfed in exploding black mist that shattered twelve protective crystals but could not erase the burning Family Blood Oath Document hanging in the air.
Aelia recognized the secret contract added at the end of the document with Long Blood Ink—if all legitimate lineage offspring lost their inheritance rights, the Concubine would gain dual inheritance rights to both Western Realm and Magic Castle.
"Father said that the Glorious Demon Fortress would never intermarry with Western Realm." Aelia tore apart her Neck Inheritance necklace, and ice crystals wrapped around stardust spelled out the true will of the Old Lord in midair.
Seizing this moment, Luna projected an imprint of the true will across all of Magic Castle. As countless Jing Lei struck down upon the Defensive Barrier, all subjects witnessed the altered date at the end of the will.
Leonard suddenly grasped Aelia's throat, but she pierced his palm with the Ice Rose from her Moonstone Earrings.
The pair of pearls he had personally placed on her during their wedding now rolled onto the ground, revealing the hidden Soul Devouring Gu within— the very culprit behind Aelia's recent Magic Turbulence.
"Did you really think you could forever blind me with love?" Aelia's cold laughter mingled with Xue Mo; she should have noticed the sharp pain in her neck during their intimate moments.
Luna used Flame Pudding to trap the escaping Gu Worm, while the Poison Scripture sealed by Second Brother automatically flipped to the page detailing the method to dispel the Soul Devouring Gu—it required the Heart's Blood of a Close Kin.
The entire Magic Castle tilted under the earth-shattering clash of magic, and the mansion model made of Moonlight Moss suddenly surged, trapping Leonard in a false paradise of tenderness.
Aelia watched her husband tenderly kiss the baby in Jiang Lisi's arms within the illusion; his gaze was more sincere than during their wedding vows.
"Mother!" Luna suddenly rushed over, clutching Aelia's trembling hand. Little Luna's warm Luna pressed against her frostbitten palm. "Second Brother found a loophole in the Blood Oath, Brother San figured out the truth of the Western Mine, and Eldest Brother has restarted the Defensive Formation..."
As Twilight sank below the horizon, Aelia saw the figures of her three sons emerging from the ruins amidst a sky full of Xing Hui.
Eldest Son's wheelchair rolled over Leonard's fallen scepter, while Second Son's sealed Poison Scripture devoured the image of Outer Chamber Manor. Third Young Master Lucius's Starlight Robe was already stained with the unique Jin Wen of the family head.
The Lady of the Fortress slowly crouched down, her fingertip touching Luna's soft chin.
Little Luna suddenly smeared a warm liquid on her wrist—it was mixed with Flame Pudding and Maple Syrup, true Family Blood.
Aelia’s fingertip dug deeply into her palm, and a Blood Pearl formed, dripping along the icy patterns.
The Moonlight Moss in the Laboratory Dome flickered ominously, casting Leonard’s Scorch Mark face into a demonic totem.
The black mist spreading beneath his feet was consuming the scattered pearls, each rolling pearl surface emerging with memories of Leonard's Last Night.
"That year at the Aurora Festival, you said you would plant a garden of Moonlight Roses for me." Aelia's voice pierced through the Protective barrier like a poisoned Ice Blade. Her neck, marked by the bite of a Soul Devouring Gu worm, oozed Star Blue blood. "So each flower's roots are buried with the Serpent Pattern talisman of the Western Realm?"
Leonard's palm suddenly erupted with red light, and debris from the shattered Experiment Table filled the air, scattering dozens of Magic Letters stained with Iris Fragrance.
Luna tiptoed to grab a piece of Letterhead and read aloud in a baby voice, "To the sweetest honey fruit of the Western Realm..." Little Luna deliberately mispronounced Jiang Lisi's nickname, causing Brother San's Magic Robe to glow brightly, incinerating the Magic Brand on the Letterhead into Ashes.
Aelia stumbled into the frozen Centaurea Specimen rack, where the magical solution preserving Eldest Son's severed leg suddenly began to boil.
Through the swirling Amber Liquid, she saw Leonard kneeling in a sea of Evening Primrose flowers during his Ten-Year Birthday, holding what was said to be an artifact necklace forged over Three Months—now that she thought about it, the Ice Spirit Stone embedded in the necklace clearly bore the unique Sulfur patterns of the Western Realm's volcanoes.
"Every time you said you were going to do Closed Door Training..." Aelia's tears fell to the ground, turning into ice crystals that preserved three hundred sixty-five sleepless nights. "Were you just being a gentle husband at Western Manor?" Blood suddenly seeped from her Earlobe as the Soul Devouring Gu worm revealed itself under the glow of Moonlight Moss—it was indeed the Qing Gu passed down through Jiang Lisi's family.
Luna suddenly tugged at Aelia's skirt to climb up, her small hands smeared with Flame Pudding accurately pressing against the bite mark on her neck.
Little Luna's Silver Moon Emblem glowed with a Red Glow as Second Brother's Poison Scripture sealed within Amber flipped its pages automatically, revealing an antidote recipe written with Dragon Blood Vine Juice on its yellowed pages.
"Mother, look!" Luna pulled out a crystal shard hidden in her pouch; it was a blood sample smuggled from Leonard's Concubine. "Brother San's Starshine Butterfly found the Geothermal Rift in the Western Realm!" She pretended to awkwardly wave her short arms, and the red light refracted from the crystal shard perfectly aligned with the path of the Magic Castle and Underground River.
Aelia reached out for the crystal shard with her pupil Zhen Chan, and her frost-covered long hair began to move as if stirred by an unseen wind.
The Magic Mark in the blood sample resonated with Leonard's Staff, revealing thirteen hidden energy transfer channels—each precisely connected to the Western Mine and his illegitimate child's Cradle.
"The starlight of Glorious Demon Fortress will forever shine upon our family." Luna pressed her forehead against Aelia's cold hand back, her Lullaby Voice enveloping Great Mage's Soul Resonance. "Big Brother is redrawing the Defensive Nexus!" She pretended to accidentally knock over Flame Pudding, causing Maple Syrup to flow across the ground into a three-dimensional map of Magic Castle, where twelve flickering Red Dots marked their brothers' positions.
Suddenly, outside the laboratory came the sound of armor clanking as it knelt. Lucius' Starlight Robe swept across the debris-strewn floor, grinding the Serpent Emblem of the Western Realm Envoy into Powder.
The Black Magic Book sealed by Second Brother floated in mid-air, tearing itself free from pages that recorded altered wills; those ink marks transformed into venomous snakes lunging toward Leonard.
"Mother..." Luna suddenly clutched Aelia's collar, her little face flushed bright red.
Her chubby palms glowed with a red light as she shook loose the hidden Moonlight Moss from her hair.
The spores, when they met blood, grew wildly, instantly forming a vine wall that recorded the dying image of the Old Lord.
In the vision, the ailing Old Lord clutched Aelia's hand tightly, saying, "Western Realm... Dragon's Blood Vine... Untrustworthy..." His murky pupils suddenly reflected Leonard's face lurking in the shadows. At that time, the young Heir was playing with the Serpent Ring of the Jiang Lisi family.
Aelia's sobs caught in her throat as she trembled while touching the vine wall.
The Moonlight Moss suddenly bloomed with ice-blue flowers, each petal emerging with images of her sons as infants.
The Eldest Son's small padded boots before his leg was broken, the Second Son's Heart Shield stolen by a close friend, San Zi nearly swapped in his swaddling... all the tragic beginnings entwined with the Serpent Pattern of the Western Realm.
Luna seized the moment to mix her antidote tears into her own tears and tiptoed to apply it to Aelia's Gu Worm bite: "Mother, don't cry. Second Brother has found the Gu Chrysalis!" The crystal fragment in her chubby hand suddenly heated up, revealing Leonard's Last Night in the Western Manor's Underground Ice Cave—three hundred Soul Devouring Gu were gnawing at the heart of a woman resembling Aelia.
A dull roar echoed from underground, and her elder brother's wheelchair rolled over the Magic Circle, its sound penetrating through three layers of stone.
Luna's wrist emblem suddenly projected a three-dimensional Star Map, indicating that the Magic Castle's Energy Nexus was shifting.
A cold figure cast a shadow on the laboratory's shattered Crystal Wall, and the sound of a Metal Axle crushing ice crystals startled the Qing Gu attempting to reorganize.
The laboratory's broken Crystal Wall erupted violently, and the sound of the Metal Axle crushing ice crystals reverberated under the Dome along with an Ancient Incantation.
Her elder brother's pale fingers sank deep into the wheelchair armrest, those joints once twisted and deformed by Magic Backlash now glimmering with a ghostly blue light.
His incomplete left leg floated at the center of the Defensive Formation, and what should have been an empty pant leg surged with Liquid Starlight.
"Mother, the Northern Star Trail has been calibrated." Her brother's voice was like tempered Xuan Tie, each word shaking loose the remaining Ice Shards on the Experiment Table.
Luna was pleasantly surprised to discover the newly engraved Magic Pattern on his wheelchair armrest—it was the Ancient Formation Diagram she had secretly slipped into his medicinal soup last month.
Aelia's fingertip ice spike suddenly softened as she gazed at the grotesque old scar on the Eldest Son's neck.
That scar was a remnant of the bloodline Awakening Ritual Leonard had insisted on when he was twelve. Now, within the rolling scar, the unique indigo Azure Patterns of the Starshine Vein were visible.
As the wheelchair rolled over the scattered pearls, one bead inscribed with "Guardian of the Eldest Son" suddenly burst forth with red light, projecting an image from three years ago—Leonard's Last Night—when her elder brother stealthily entered the Forbidden Library. He had dragged his broken body to copy a tampered will but was met with Leonard, who shattered his kneecap using Black Magic.
"You always said my legs were a result of my cultivation mistakes." The elder brother raised his hand to tear through the void, retrieving the Dragonbone Staff sealed within the rift of the astral realm. "Do you still remember this Tenth Birthday Gift that you personally broke?" The staff suddenly emerged, covered in cracks resembling Mama's intricate patterns, each gap oozing black mist from the Western Realm's Serpent Pattern talisman.
The Second Brother's sealed Black Magic Book suddenly broke free from its amber shackles, its yellowed pages forming the shape of a Confession Record in mid-air.
He stepped over the threshold wearing a cloak stained with Moonlight Moss, and the bandage wrapped around his left eye began to seep purple-black poisoned blood—the curse from when his close friend had blinded him.
"You once said I was too trusting of others." The Second Brother tore off the bandage, revealing an empty eye socket, within which floated a Toxic Crystal that suddenly reflected the face of Jiang Lisi's maid. "Little did I know that the 'close friend' who deceived me out of my Heart Shield was actually a Dark Stake planted by the Western Realm for fifteen years." His deformed right hand pressed against a page of the Poison Scripture, and an image of his Heart Shield, stolen by his friend, suddenly materialized, reflecting Leonard and the Western Lord toasting together on Leonard's Last Night.
The laboratory's Peacock Stone Tiles suddenly revealed a three-dimensional view of Xing Hui's Magic Castle. Brother San Lucius walked in, stepping on a flowing Star Pattern, while the family head Jin Wen burned in flame shapes at his collar.
The astrolabe he held had shattered into two halves, exposing a core gear engraved with the Concubine's Birth Rune.
"Father, do you know why I have neglected my cultivation?" Brother San's fingertip brushed over the cracked astrolabe as Xing Hui suddenly coalesced into his seven-year-old self—the child looked fearfully at Leonard burying some Black Crystal under his pillow. "Every time I channel my magical energy, thirty percent of my cultivation is devoured by the Serpent Spell of the Western Realm." He tore open a sleeve embroidered with Jin Wen, revealing entangled black snake-like energy bodies flowing beneath his skin.
Seizing the opportunity, Luna climbed onto the Experiment Table and pressed a crystal piece smeared with Maple Syrup at the intersection of the Star Pattern.
The three-dimensional map of the Magic Castle suddenly surged in size; twelve flickering red dots perfectly aligned with her brothers' positions.
The starlight bursting from her elder brother's wheelchair infused into the northern array eye, transforming his incomplete limbs into translucent Nebula Tentacles within the Energy Flow. The Second Brother's Poison Scripture floated at the eastern array eye, while fragments of his Heart Shield stolen by his friend began to dissolve under the Western Boundary Serpent Charm. Brother San's torn astrolabe embedded itself into the western array eye as Jin Wen on his Starlight Robe swam toward the Geothermal Rift like a living creature.
Aelia’s neck bore a Gu Worm bite that suddenly seeped Ice Blue Blood, while Luna’s Moonlight Moss spores hidden in her skirt grew wildly.
Vines intertwined to form the shape of an ancient altar, with each rune corresponding to the wounds endured by the sons.
When the eldest brother's Nebula Tentacles touched the center of the altar, the Serpent Spell buried in Leonard's potion was uprooted; the Second Brother's Toxic Crystal collided with the altar's East Side, and the memories of betrayal from that day surged back like a tide; Brother San's Starlight Robe enveloped the West Side rune, revealing that the Black Crystal he had kept under his pillow at seven was actually marrow extracted from his severed leg, a Centaurea Specimen.
The Moonlight Moss in the Laboratory Dome suddenly wilted collectively, exposing a Celestial Chart hidden for three hundred years.
Luna's Wrist Silver Moon Emblem disassembled on its own, and the fragments in the air formed the gesture made by the Old Lord before his death—precisely that which activated the ultimate defense of the Glorious Demon Fortress: the Key.
Aelia Pupil Zhen Chan mimicked the same gesture, her Ice Blue Blood mingling with her three sons' Energy Flow in midair, shattering Leonard's last Protective black mist.
The entire Magic Castle let out a roar akin to an Ancient Dragon awakening, as all Western Boundary Serpent Charms revealed themselves in the starlight.
Luna tiptoed to smear Flame Pudding along the edge of the altar, and Maple Syrup began to burn towards the direction of Western Manor along the energy channel.
As the eldest brother's Nebula Tentacles pierced through the last Dark Energy Channel, all Subjects saw the top of Magic Castle Tower illuminate with a Four-Color Pillar—Ice Blue, Indigo, Purple Black, and Jin Hong intermingled into a brand new Guardian Barrier.
In the dust-free laboratory, Aelia gazed at her three scarred yet upright sons.
The complete Northern Star Map emerged from the eldest brother's Wheelchair Armrest, while purified Poison Scripture True Edition floated in the hollow Eye Socket of the Second Brother. Brother San’s Starlight Robe had automatically repaired into a Head of the Family Robe.
Luna was on her knees collecting fragments of Moonlight Moss when Little Luna’s braids suddenly released Starshine Butterflies that flew overhead, showering everyone with Phosphor Dust containing an antidote.
Outside the shattered Crystal Wall came a synchronized clanking of armor, as images of past Lords illuminated one by one along both sides of the corridor.
The Old Lord’s Image In Hand projected Light and Shadow from his Scepter, spreading across a blood-stained Magic Fortress Territory Map on a broken Experiment Table—the mark of Western Mine was eerily writhing as if some dormant Ancient Curse was about to awaken.
The sunset stretched shadows from the Rose Window long, as Aelia stood on the Stargazing Platform at the top of the castle. A crack suddenly appeared in her Fingertip Contract Ring.
Within the Seven-Colored Halo refracted by a Crystal Chandelier, a Rouge Mark at Leonard's collar pricked her Eye Socket, causing it to burn with heat.
"Is this Cinnabar Powder used by the prostitutes in the Dark Alley District?" She clutched her husband's Silver Thread-trimmed cloak, the Cursed Fabric emitting a faint tearing sound against her palm.
Outside, a sudden gust of Jing Lei swept through, the storm battering the Stained Glass with the scent of Black Magic.
Luna, curled up in her brocade swaddling, opened her eyes, her shallow Golden Eyes shimmering with an awareness not typical of an infant.
She noticed the Dark Purple Curse Mark emerging on Aelia's nape—this was the Heart Devouring Curse from the Original that had triggered the lady's Magic Surge, now slowly awakening with the fluctuations of emotion.
"Focus on your breathing!" Luna transmitted with her recently restored Luna Gathered All Her Mental Power, her Baby Voice echoing in Aelia's Awareness space.
Her tiny hands struggled to form a Jie Yin, the Requiem she had mastered in her past life transforming into pink Light Spots that merged into Lady Mei Xin.
Leonard brushed aside his wife's hands, Frost Magic coalescing into a blade at his Fingertip. "You should learn to act like a true Lady of the Fortress..." Before he could finish, the sound of his brothers' Wheelchair rolling over the Magic Circle echoed from the spiral staircase.
The eldest brother's Mechanical Prosthetic struck the crystal Ground, sparks flying to outline a celestial Track; Second Brother's Magic Tome flipped pages on its own, ancient Contract Clauses hovering in midair; Brother San's Fingertip summoned a Thunder Sprite that tore through the deluge's barrier.
Seizing the moment, Luna released a mental Projection—what she had seen seven days ago through her scrying magic: Leonard gently caressing his pregnant Concubine's belly in the alley Mansion, with Wisteria in the courtyard and a matching Magic Plant outside the Master Bedroom window.
Aelia suddenly let out a light laugh, her Emerald Earrings shattering against her Collarbone into Powder, yet the patterns of the Heart Devouring Curse began to recede and dissipate.
"Mother," Luna manifested an Iris with her last ounce of strength. "When you no longer love him, the Curse Mark will lose its sustenance." She caught sight of Lucius hurrying over, his sleeve adorned with Dark Patterns resonating with the Ancient Magic Circle in the basement. Suddenly, she recalled a deleted detail from the Original—Third Young Master Lucius seemed to carry within him the Forbidden Blood of the First Demon Castle Master.
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