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As the Blood Moonlight seeped through the cracks in the Banquet Hall Dome, Aelia's grip on the Iris Specimen turned her knuckles white.
Luna curled up in the center of the Ice Crystal Star Map, her eyelashes adorned with frozen Frost Flowers, while the Soul Contract Sigil on her palm burned with the lies of Twenty Years.
"Aelia, let me explain!" Leonard shouted as he tore away the Violet Vines that coiled around his neck, shards of the Ice Crystal Star Map cutting into his face and drawing blood.
He staggered toward the First Patriarch's Bone Scepter, but was met with a sudden burst of Silver Light from the tip of the Scepter—a manifestation of Ailina's Burn. Within that Silver Light floated the Residual Shadow of the First Matriarch slaying the Magic Dragon.
Aelia suddenly let out a light laugh, tears falling onto the Contract Seal and evaporating into Blood Mist.
She caressed Luna's forehead where the Star Map Mark had yet to fade. The Magic Evaluation Form that had fallen from the Infant Swaddling revealed a shocking truth: the Iris Leonard had gifted her years ago was not a Token of Love, but a Contract Medium refined from the hair of the First Consort.
"Twenty Years..." She thrust the Scepter heavily into the ground, causing the First Patriarch's Unicorn Skeleton to emit a sound akin to Longyin.
Countless Dark Purple Vines surged from the fissures in the Banquet Hall Dome, ensnaring those burning evaluation forms. "Every time you praised my Iris Fragrance concoction, you were actually replenishing Contract energy?"
Leonard's pupils suddenly constricted as he crushed a Communication Crystal hidden in his sleeve.
The entire castle's Geomancy abruptly trembled. The Wraith sealed at the bottom of the Moat let out a screech that rippled through Luna's Star Map barrier.
"Mother, be careful!" The eldest brother, slumped in his wheelchair, suddenly threw a Pocket Watch.
The Liujin Watch Case sprang open, and Shan Na's Twelve Rays Ice Spike pierced through a ghost attempting to ambush Aelia.
His crippled Twin Legs glowed with an Ice Blue Spell—the Healing Circle Luna had secretly drawn on his plaster cast last night was now wildly absorbing the Dark Element leaking from the castle.
As Aelia turned around, she caught sight of a Magic Scroll scattered beside her Eldest Son’s wheelchair.
Those Forbidden Ancient Texts she had personally set aside were now floating and flipping pages within the Healing Circle.
Suddenly realizing something, she trembled as she touched her Eldest Son’s white hair. "Your Magic Backlash... it wasn't an accident at all?"
Seizing the opportunity, Leonard smeared blood onto the Contract Seal, causing the Crystal Chandelier in the banquet hall to explode.
Three hundred Prism Shards transformed into blades, rushing towards Luna, only to be devoured by the Star Map the moment they touched the infant.
Luna weakly opened her eyes, her small hand grasping a falling Wisteria flower—this was the Guardian Charm that Brother San had secretly tied to her Cradle.
"Father, did you know?" Her elder brother suddenly maneuvered his Wheelchair to block Luna, Ice Spikes forming a Thorned Crown around him. "Ever since Luna drew this magic circle on my plaster cast, I can hear the wailing of the Castle Leyline." His mangled right hand suddenly coalesced into a Frost Longsword, its hilt embedded with the Recovery Gift that Leonard had given him last year—a Soul Devouring Stone capable of absorbing Dark Element.
Leonard's expression finally showed a crack as the Contract Seal on his neck began to seep Hei Xue.
A thunderous sound of chains breaking echoed from the Moat, and a startled cry came from the Castle West Wing—Third Young Master Lucius was in charge of guarding the Ancestral Hall, which was now surging with Crimson Mist.
"Madam! The Cellar's..." Qin Si rushed into the banquet hall, bloodied Skirt in hand, cradling the First Matriarch's Dressing Table.
From the box floated Yanzhi, transforming into a Fire Phoenix that incinerated the attacking Wraith into Ashes.
The Jade Earrings that Aelia had gifted her last year suddenly shattered, revealing a yellowed Paper—evidence of Leonard colluding with the Financial Officer to transfer Family Assets.
Aelia's Judgment Scale suddenly hovered in mid-air, its pans holding Luna's Star Map and Contract Seal respectively.
As the blood moon climbed to the center of the Dome's crack, the scale tilted and crashed down towards Leonard.
The Silver Light at the top of the Scepter transformed into chains that ensnared his feet, while the First Patriarch's Unicorn Skeleton assembled itself into armor over Aelia.
"Mother..." Luna suddenly murmured incoherently, reaching towards the East Tower where her Second Brother resided.
A warning Blue Light flashed from her Star Map at her forehead. Meanwhile, on the East Tower Terrace, her Second Brother's most trusted friend was stuffing a forged S.O.S. Signal into an owl's leg ring.
Seizing the opportunity, Leonard detonated the Contract Seal, but in that moment of swirling black mist, he was pierced by Ice Spikes through Lucius' thin shoulders—her elder brother's Wheelchair rolled over a ground scattered with Xing Hui, Frost Longsword pressed against his throat.
The pale youth's face emerged with a sharpness not seen in twenty years: "Father, you taught me that betrayers deserve Piercing Punishment."
Suddenly shrouded by Wu Yun, Blood Moonlight was obscured. Amidst the roar of the Castle Protection Barrier shattering, Aelia's Scepter pierced through Leonard's feet beside the Peacock Stone Tiles.
The diary of the First Matriarch rose from the crack, transforming into a sword of light that hovered above everyone's heads.
As the first rays of dawn pierced through Wu Yun, Aelia, holding Luna, suddenly turned to look at the East Tower.
Her bloodstained skirt swept across the ground littered with Contract Fragments, while on the windowsill of Second Brother, blue rose petals were emerging with the magic signature of a dear friend's betrayal.
The Blue Rose on the East Tower Terrace trembled in the morning light, as Second Brother's long fingers grasped the recently intercepted S.O.S. Signal.
The magic signature at the edge of the letterhead twisted into a poisonous serpent pattern under the sunlight—exactly the encryption technique he had taught his dear friend three months ago, step by step.
"So you even calculated my mother's cough," he tightened his grip on the golden tassels of the curtain, as strands of Xing Hui ensnared an owl trying to escape.
An amethyst that fell from its beak was engraved with Leonard's emblem, reminding him of last winter when his dear friend had sat by his mother's sickbed with a Fire Lizard heater.
Suddenly, Luna's warning blue light pierced through the East Tower's barrier, shattering the Family Crest Necklace around Second Brother's neck.
Twelve broken diamonds floated into a star chart from when he awakened his magical talent; this time, however, the Gemini position that should have been at the Guardian Array clearly revealed his friend's contract mark with Leonard.
"Young Master, watch out!" A gargoyle outside suddenly flapped its wings and swooped in to shield him from a wraith emerging from a crack in the star chart.
This statue, which he had thrown into a fountain in a fit of anger when he was ten, still bore scorch marks from when he had burned it with a fire spell.
A geomancy roar echoed from the banquet hall as Second Brother pressed the bloodied S.O.S. Signal onto the star chart.
As blue rose petals wrapped in ice crystals merged into the formation's eye, countless mirrors suddenly hung upside down throughout the East Tower—each mirror reflecting the errors in his cultivation over the past three years. The true method to break these curses was hidden within the lullaby his mother had taught him.
Meanwhile, Brother San in the West Corridor stared at his trembling hands.
Just as he attempted to reinforce the barrier, a glimmer of Jin Sha leaking from his fingertip suddenly coalesced into an astrolabe caught during Luna's Full Moon Feast—now spinning wildly and converting his years of wasted cultivation time into dense Mama values.
"Three hundred sixty times at sunrise during Elemental Tide..." He suddenly knelt on the ground, his forehead striking heavily against a stone brick engraved with their family motto.
Those magic tomes he had deliberately misinterpreted flew out from the Library of Hidden Books, automatically correcting themselves into their rightful versions in the morning light—the wisteria flowers falling among yellowed pages were projections of the one he had tied to Luna's cradle that very morning.
Qin Si burst into the side hall, clutching the bloodied Silver Scissors, the shards of Jade Earrings cutting into her Neck.
Upon seeing Leonard's Royal Guard burning the Cellar's Family Ledger, she suddenly tore off the hair tie of Ailia—a piece crafted from the loom left behind by the First Matriarch, instantly infused with the essence of Twenty Years' Iris Fragrance, transforming into a Fire Phoenix.
"Every shirt made for you by my lady is woven with Guardian Spells, yet you use it to nurture the soul of Leonard's Concubine!" She viciously shredded Leonard's ceremonial garment, black mist oozing from the torn fabric, releasing a Stench.
As the Wraith of the First Consort screeched and lunged at her, Qin Si bit her Tongue, spraying blood onto the Ailya's Birthday Rune copper mirror gifted by Aelia—the mirror surface Emerging with last year's Winter Night, revealing Aelia secretly using a Healing Spell to treat Leonard's Dark Injury on Leonard's Last Night.
Suddenly, Luna's swaddling burst forth with Rainbow Light, absorbing all the black mist in the side hall.
Aelia stepped over the scattered Contract Fragments while each strike of her Scepter against the Ground echoed with the sound of chains breaking from the direction of the Ancestral Hall.
When her bloodied Handkerchief fell before Brother San, the incorrectly embroidered Wisteria Bud by Pa Jiao unexpectedly bloomed—just like the totem from the magical entry scroll he had torn up in a fit of anger at six years old.
"Mother..." Brother San choked as he grasped the Handkerchief; those wasted moments suddenly materialized into an hourglass within the Rainbow Light.
As the first Jin Sha fell into his Palm, rotting Magic Circuit, Luna’s Candy Wrapper that she had stealthily stuffed into his pocket last night revealed a Healing Circle—crafted from lines he had doodled in his childhood Doodle Book.
The Crimson Mist from the direction of the Ancestral Hall had already spread to the courtyard, and Lucius wiped away the filthy blood from his Bronze Sword for the third time.
When he stepped on a loose Peacock Stone Tile, a Brick Gap suddenly spat out the missing Rattle from Luna's Hundred Day Feast.
The drum surface reflected the phantoms of the First Patriarch and his wife; their pointed direction was exactly towards the secret chamber that Leonard had forbidden him to enter last year.
"Third Young Master Lucius!
West Corridor Pillar..." The Knight's exclamation was swallowed by surging mist.
Lucius swiftly plunged his sword into a crack in the Peacock Stone Tiles; suddenly, an imprint appeared on his Hand Back—the Milk Stain left by Luna during her Zhua Zhou was now breaking through the secret chamber’s Sealing Array.
As the morning fog was shattered by the Black Magic Shockwave from the tenth barrier, Lucius saw Aelia’s white hair billowing on the main castle terrace.
In her arms, the baby clutched half of a broken Contract Stone; its surface reflected an eerie red glow flickering within the Ancestral Hall's secret chamber—the frequency of that light matched perfectly with that of Luna’s Loud Cry that shattered last night's Night Pearl.
Lucius's hand trembled slightly on the hilt of his sword, the Sword Body reflecting the faint Rainbow Light from the terrace of the main fortress.
The loud cry of a baby pierced through the mist, and he suddenly recalled the day of the Full Moon Feast when Luna had clutched his finger, a strange Warm Current flowing from her Palm— as if stars were circulating within his Bloodline.
The Bronze Door of the secret chamber emerged in the Rainbow Light, revealing a Cracking Starry Array. Lucius pressed the bloodstained Jian Sui against the center of the array.
Jelly from the fruit preserves spilled during Luna's Hundred Day Feast clung to the tip, now transforming into Liquid gemstones that seeped into the cracks.
As the door thunderously swung open, a burning sensation ignited his family Tattoo on his Neck, a mark left by his Father when he awakened his Magical Talent at the age of three.
"So that's how it is..." He staggered against the Door Frame and saw the First Patriarch's Crown floating in the center of the chamber.
Within the moonstone embedded in the Crown, a Rainbow similar to that of the Luna Star Map surged vividly.
The parchment scroll pressed beneath the Crown unfurled on its own, revealing an image of a palm-sized Xing Mang—exactly resembling the Milk Stain shape that Chen Lu had pressed onto Second Brother's Grimoire.
Aelia on the terrace suddenly hummed an ancient Lullaby, while Luna in her arms gazed with glass-like eyes, her small hand clutching Aelia's cascading silver hair.
As the third note resonated in the air, a massive Star Chart was projected from the Crown, enveloping the entire castle.
"Mother, look!" Brother San exclaimed as he raised his healing hands; those decayed Magic Circuits flowed with Rainbow Light.
The milk Sugar Paper in his pocket unfolded on its own, and lines from a child's Luna's Doodle reformed within the Star Trail, sketching out a long-lost Purification Array on the Ground of the banquet hall.
The Wisteria Buds at the center of the array bloomed in succession, transforming the Crimson Mist flowing from the Ancestral Hall into pure Magic Particles.
Lucius grabbed hold of the burning Crown and dashed out of the secret chamber. As his Bronze Sword sliced through, Starshine Vines sprouted from cracks in the floor.
These vines precisely entwined Leonard's Royal Guard, pulling their Contract Stones toward Luna's direction.
He suddenly became aware that each vine's trajectory matched perfectly with the patterns Luna had drawn on his clothing three months ago.
"Second Young Master!"
"West Tower!" Qin Si suddenly shouted.
The shredded remnants of the ceremonial dress were coalescing in mid-air into a Curse Puppet, while the barrier at the East Tower, where Second Brother was located, had developed a web-like crack.
Luna suddenly giggled, her palm, stained with milk, slapped down on Aelia's Judgment Scale.
The scale's pan surged upward into a dome, completely obscuring the blood moon.
The wandering Wraiths revealed their true forms in the rainbow light—each soul's heart adorned with an iris-shaped Contract Mark.
"So that's where the flaw lies..." The eldest brother maneuvered his wheelchair over Xing Hui, and the Frost Longsword Ling Kong slashed at the shadow beneath Leonard's feet.
As Jian Feng sank into the ground, Castle Leyline echoed with Qing Yue's Longyin. The absorbed Dark Element surged forth from his crippled twin legs, transforming into a translucent Ice Crystal Chain that ensnared the Puppet.
Leonard's neck Contract Seal suddenly cracked open, and he was horrified to see the silver light at the tip of his Scepter melting away.
Fragments of the First Matriarch's armor peeled away from Aelia and reformed above Luna's head into a miniature Crown—resonating with the First Crown cradled in Lucius's arms.
"Mother, now!" Lucius threw the Crown toward the intersection of the Star Trail.
Aelia's Scepter automatically spun and inserted itself into the formation. The connection point between the Scepter and Crown released Iris Petals from twenty years ago, reminiscent of a wedding ceremony.
These dried petals unfurled into fresh Hua Zhi in the rainbow light, their root systems deeply embedding into the Geothermal Rift.
Brother San suddenly fell to his knees, and golden sand surged from his palm, condensing into an Astrolabe within the Purification Array.
As he trembled while turning the instrument's wheel, three hundred sixty Light Spots suddenly illuminated throughout the castle—each representing a dawn he had neglected to cultivate over the years.
The Light Spots linked together to form a Guardian Spell, re-welding the shattered barrier.
"Second Young Master, watch your back!" Qin Si hurled Silver Scissors that pierced through three Curse Puppets. Fragments of Jade Earrings traced out a rudimentary Guardian Array on her neck.
As Second Brother's Blue Rose pierced through the heart of the last Puppet, a Contract Mark emerged from its core, perfectly overlapping with a Light Spot on Luna's Star Map.
As the morning light completely tore through the mist, Aelia's Scepter was firmly planted in the center altar of the Ancestral Hall.
Luna, clutching her silver hair, babbled like a child, droplets of her saliva falling into the cracks of the altar, causing the First Matriarch's Leonard's Sword to rise from the depths of Geomancy.
Within the moonstone embedded in the hilt, Rainbow Light coalesced into a palm-sized Xing Mang pattern.
Suddenly, Lucius knelt on one knee, the milk stain on his hand aligning perfectly with the hilt's Xing Mang.
As his blood seeped into the stone crevice, a roar echoed from beneath the altar as chains snapped — twenty bronze pillars, each engraved with Counter-Contract Spells, slowly ascended. Cracks on each pillar flickered with waves resonating in harmony with Luna's Rainbow Light.
Luna instinctively curled her fingers, and fragments of floating Contract Stones flew toward the Bronze Pillars.
When the first fragment embedded itself into a crack in the pillar, the First Consort's Wraith let out a sigh of relief, transforming into stardust that merged with Geomancy.
A Star Map Mark on the infant's forehead suddenly projected a massive Magic Circle Diagram, at its center emerging a Prophecy Poem — precisely the Ancient Ballad Aelia had dreamt of during her pregnancy.
As the last Contract Stone found its place, Luna abruptly grasped Aelia's Moonstone Necklace.
The surface of the moonstone cracked like a spider web, and within it, Rainbow Light condensed into a miniature Magic Castle Model — positioned in the West Wing Library was an ancient tome with a bronze cover seeping black mist.
The infant's Liuli-colored eyes reflected an emblem faintly visible on the Book Spine; it was indeed Leonard’s "Birthday Gift" to Brother San from last year...
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