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The Curse Suppressant in Leonard's throat stirred up an Iron Rust Taste, while the Twelve Veto Marks within the crystal ball flowed along his Blood Vessel.
In the dim Blue Light refracted by the Ice Coffin in the secret chamber, he stared at his palm, which was covered in curses. The judgment scroll delivered by the Special Envoy last night still pressed down on the starry Huo Qi, and the reasons for rejection written in Star Sand burned into his retina.
"The Glorious Demon Fortress does not require the loyalty of traitors." The mocking voice of the Council Chief echoed in his ears as Leonard suddenly smashed the Reformer Badge Fragment against the wall.
Where the Family Totem should have been embedded, fine Star Sand suddenly coalesced into an illusion of Luna's Swaddling, resonating with Ailya's neck as it intertwined with the fading Gold Thread of his sleeve.
"Father!
The blocking spell from the West Tower..." At that moment, as Third Young Master Lucius burst through the secret chamber door, Leonard's hidden Magic Pattern surged to life.
The starlight swirling in the boy's hand turned Dark Red, and the entire stone wall instantly became covered in Spider Web-like Ice Cracks—this was the Bloodline Curse he had sown out of jealousy for Aelia's talent twenty years ago.
From the direction of the Reception Room came a sudden sevenfold Zhong Ming. The servant, with Xing Hui on his Boot Heel, struck sparks against the Peacock Stone Tiles: "Fang Shangshu's Horse-drawn Carriage has arrived at Rose Arch!" Leonard pulled aside the Velvet Curtain to wipe away the Hei Xue at his mouth; the humiliation of being rejected by the council suddenly transformed into ecstasy.
When his Fingertip touched the Marriage Contract hidden within Ankeli, those Stellar Trajectories disrupted by Luna seemed to return to their proper course.
As he passed through the corridor, the hanging Star Moon Banner fluttered without wind.
Leonard gazed at the newly formed magical cocoon on the Wisteria Arbor outside, as if envisioning Evelyn wearing a Star Crown as she married into the Minister's household.
He deliberately avoided the starry turbulence erupting from West Tower but failed to notice that the armor of the Special Envoy's guards was reflecting Leonard's Last Night of breaking Third Young Master Lucius's curse into a Judgment Crystal miles away.
"Forgive my presumptuous visit, Lord," said Fang, twirling his beard as ripples spread across his teacup. The Jade Ring on his finger and Leonard's cufflink with their Family Crest both glowed simultaneously.
Upon hearing "I would like to invite your esteemed daughter to our home for some entertainment," Lord’s tense shoulders finally relaxed, and the gloom of council rejection was swept away by joy.
"Evelyn, the one most skilled in the stars, will arrive tomorrow..."
"Leonard, I fear you have misunderstood." Fang Shangshu suddenly tapped the teacup lid lightly, causing the Twelve Zodiac Instruments hanging between Liang Zhu to come to a halt.
He gazed out the window at the reassembling Star Sand talisman, his eyes skimming over the lingering crimson glow of the Bloodline Curse from the West Tower. "I have heard that your estate has a Young Miss who stirred the Judgment Crystal during the Hundred Day Feast?"
The flattery that had yet to be completed caught in Leonard's throat as he realized that the reflection in the Tea Soup revealed the roof of Luna's new residence—those shards he had shattered when he expelled her were now being reshaped into an observation array within the Xing Hui.
The cold laughter of the Special Envoy suddenly pierced through the Crystal Chandelier, and the Dark Bag containing the Marriage Contract began to heat up, causing the Curse still lingering in his sleeve to seep out as Blood Pearls.
Fang Shangshu stroked the newly embedded Star Sand Compass on his Pocket Watch, yet what was reflected on its surface was the Star Map of the Magic Council Hall's Dome.
Inside the Pocket Watch, a baby Image flashed with golden light; it was from this morning when the Emperor's Imperial Edict unintentionally dripped into Xing Hui—within that Image, Luna waved her Ailya, resonating with the curse being dispelled from West Tower miles away.
Blood from Leonard's sleeve dripped onto the Lapis Lazuli Tiles, coalescing into twelve Dark Red agates.
He pressed down on Zhen Chan's astrological instrument; within the ripples of Tea Soup, Luna's observation array had solidified into form. The Star Sand cascading from the eaves outlined the insignia of the Magic Council Inspector.
"Fang Shangshu is jesting," Lord said, a Curse Suppressant swirling in his throat that manifested as ice crystals. "Luna is merely a..."
The Twelve Zodiac Instruments suspended in Liang Zhu suddenly reversed their rotation. Fang Shangshu's Jade Ring reflected the unbroken crimson glow of the Blood Curse from West Tower. "This morning, according to the Royal Astrologer, only those who stirred judgment during the Hundred Day Feast can cure their wife's stubborn ailment." The Pocket Watch that slipped from his sleeve clicked audibly, and its Star Sand perfectly aligned with Luna's Swaddling remnants of Ailya and Gold Thread.
Outside the Arch Window came crystal Hoofbeats; shouts from Magic Castle guards mingled with street noise drifting into the Reception Room.
Leonard's pupils dilated—three children holding Windmill Candy pointed toward the city gate. Their shadows were elongated by Xing Hui into shapes resembling informants: "The Young Miss who was expelled from the estate went east!"
As Fang Shangshu rose, the moment the tea cup tipped over, the Cedar Tea from Twenty Years solidified into the words "Betrayal and Abandonment" in Ancient Magic Script on the table.
His jade pendant collided with the Jade Ring, causing the Twelve Zodiac Instruments to emit a sharp buzzing sound. "It seems there have been many changes at the Fortress Lord's Mansion recently."
"Please wait!" Leonard's Magic Pattern transformed into chains that wrapped around the opponent's boot heel, only to see the hem of the official robe suddenly glow with a Star Chart.
The dark red chains crashed against the Twenty-Eight Constellations barrier of Shan Na, igniting the Star Moon Banner of the Glorious Demon Fortress in silver fire. The cold laughter of the Special Envoy drifted like ashes onto the Lord's shoulder.
Suddenly, the newly formed magical cocoons on the Wisteria Arbor burst open collectively. Leonard watched helplessly as Evelyn's Star Crown Wedding Dress turned to butterfly dust within the cocoon.
He frantically tore at the blood-soaked curse on his sleeve, causing the Council Judgment Scroll to slip from his heart pocket—its Fire Wax Seal's Veto Mark perfectly aligned with Luna's new residence's observational array's Star Trail.
"Father!"
The West Tower... Third Young Master Lucius rushed into the corridor, bearing starry scars. The shattered Curse Crystal in his arms reflected a scene from miles away: Luna was on tiptoe in her new garden, picking Starlight Roses. The Gold Thread from Ailya entwined in her braid perfectly filled the last gap in the Council Inspector's array.
...
As twilight painted Luna's new home in honey color, Aelia was busy repairing the shattered Colored Glazed Window with Star Sand.
Suddenly, twelve Starlight Sparrows carrying Gold Thread landed on the windowsill, forming the Fang Shangshu Family Emblem.
"Mother, look!" Luna bounced over, holding up her freshly completed Star Sand Luna's Doodle. In her drawing, an Old Lady’s Dark Red Curse Mark overlapped with her memories from the Hundred Day Feast.
Her wrist bell suddenly unsealed itself, transforming into an Observation Compass from the Great Mage era—the pointer directed straight to the hidden Twenty-Eight Constellations Chariot in the yew forest outside.
As Fang Shangshu lifted the curtain of the carriage, Luna was already sitting on a porch swing with her Doodle Book.
She tilted her head, gazing at the remnants of the curse clinging to the hem of the official's robe, and suddenly poked at Mei Xin with a finger dusted in Star Sand. "Does it hurt here, Grandma?"
The ticking of the Emerald Pocket Watch came to an abrupt halt.
The Minister realized that the direction of the Ice Cracks on the Star Sand Compass in his arms perfectly matched the rune patterns casually drawn by the girl.
As he crouched down, the Star Chart embroidered on his Official Robe caught the falling Xing Hui from Luna's swing, and those Light Spots automatically filled in the missing Ancient Magic Script within Luna's Doodle.
"Young Miss, would you..."
"Let's go now!" Luna suddenly slapped her Doodle Book onto the Minister's knee and bounced toward the Horse-drawn Carriage guided by the Starlight Sparrow.
As Ailya swept past Che Yuan, the four Crystal Horses pulling the carriage suddenly raised their heads and neighed loudly, revealing a Secret Pattern mark from the depths of the Magic Council that had been hidden for centuries.
When Aelia chased after them, she could only see her daughter's Doodle Book flipping through pages on the swing.
The latest page of Star Sand was still wet, and a Seal belonging to a Great Mage that should have been lost to time was seeping out a faint golden Liuguang as twilight deepened.
Minister Fang rubbed his fingers over the wet Star Sand on the Parchment, and the sound of the gold-threaded Nanmu Horse-drawn Carriage rolling over fallen leaves in the yew forest suddenly became deafening.
He stared at the fragments of Xing Hui stuck to the girl's nose, trying to find evidence of the Great Mage's reincarnation in those Amber Eyes—just like this morning in the imperial study when the old priest from the Astrology Bureau had said while using his Dragonbone Staff to tear through his Official Robe, "Only those who are not Reincarnated can understand."
"This Hexagram embedded with a variant Seal of the Twenty-Eight Mansions..." The Minister shook out his sleeve soaked in Cedar Fragrance, and suddenly, the Star Chart within his official robe's Dark Pattern detached from the Cursed Fabric and floated in midair. "It was created by Great Mage Isaac three hundred years ago..."
"It's Isaac's revised third edition!" Luna tiptoed to grab a floating Jiao Su Star Pattern before her eyes. Her small hand, dusted with Star Sand, casually shaped it into a butterfly. "In his later years, he discovered that the First Edition would corrode the caster's Soul Fire, so he hid Dragon's Blood Vine patterns within Xing Mang." She suddenly pressed the star butterfly onto Minister Fang's Hand Back, instantly dyeing the Dark Red Magic Power seeping from his Jade Ring Ice Cracks into Jinhui.
Minister Fang staggered as he steadied himself against Che Yuan, and the Secret Pattern on the Crystal Horse's forehead reflected in his rapidly constricting Pupil.
The Star Sand Compass in his arms suddenly emitted a sound akin to Longyin, and those Ice Cracks that had troubled the Astrology Bureau for Twenty Years began to Automatic Repair.
He gazed at the golden threads flowing through the girl’s braided hair, finally recalling the Emperor's Imperial Edict from This Morning, when a drop that fell upon the infant's image perfectly completed the missing Long Horn of the jade seal.
"Do you know, Young Miss, that this Seal can extend Lifespan?" The Minister retrieved a Liujin box from Ankeli, within which lay a parchment recording a fragmented Seal that overlapped with Luna's Luna's Doodle. "Mother's Soul Fire has been eroded by the Soul Devouring Curse for over ten years..."
Suddenly, Luna tugged at his waist, causing the jade pendant to sway. The Star Sand Doodle Book flipped open to the page depicting an Old Lady: "For those whose Lifespan is not yet over, this symbol is a good remedy." She pointed her fingertip at the elderly figure in the drawing, Mei Xin Blood Curse Seal. Underneath the Swing Frame, the Xing Hui abruptly solidified into a countdown hourglass. "But Fang Da Ren still has eighteen years of Lifespan left to use this symbol..." A Dark Red crack suddenly appeared at the top of the hourglass, and all the leaking Star Sand was sucked into the void.
The Twenty-Eight Constellations Chariot shook violently as the Crystal Horse pulling it ignited with Silver Fire.
The Star Map on Fang Shangshu’s official robe suddenly dimmed. He realized that the Longevity Contract hidden in his sleeve was heating up—it was a Forbidden Technique Scroll exchanged with Evelyn's marriage contract and the Magic Council.
Luna hopped and plucked a fragment of Secret Pattern that had fallen from the Crystal Horse's forehead, humming as she assembled it into a small windmill: "Using a longevity symbol on someone about to die is like stuffing gold into a rag bag." She suddenly stuck the windmill onto the Minister’s official hat and bounced over to a Starlight Rose bush three yards away. "The old lady's Soul Devouring Curse can be undone..."
The Jade Ring cracked in two with a snap as Fang Shangshu watched the ground swept by the girl’s skirt suddenly Emerging with a Star Trail.
Those Star Sands casually scattered by Luna were automatically arranging themselves into an Ancient Formation Diagram from the Forbidden Library of the Magic Council.
He recalled seeing a Prophecy Crystal in a secret chamber of the Astrology Bureau Twenty Years Ago—"Star Sand as bait, a child breaks the deadlock."
In the Twilight, the Starlight Roses suddenly turned collectively, and Luna’s wrist bell transformed into a Compass Needle that spun wildly.
She turned to look at Aelia, who was repairing a Colored Glazed Window. A seriousness flashed in her Amber Eyes that was not typical of an infant.
The Star Sand hanging from the eaves of their new home suddenly formed a Warning Rune, reminiscent of what she had seen in her past life before an Undead Prelude on the battlefield of magic.
"Mother!" Luna suddenly dashed toward the small building with her Doodle Book in hand, as Ailya drew out a comet's tail in Twilight.
She deliberately knocked over the jar of Star Sand at the corridor's entrance, and the splattered grains formed the words "Leave Quickly" in Ancient Magic Script in midair.
Aelia set down the half-repaired Starry Moon Glass Window, her fingertip dusted with Gold Dust lightly tapping her daughter's nose. "Have you decorated Fang Da Ren's Horse-drawn Carriage like a Christmas tree again?" She chuckled as she brushed off the yew leaves clinging to Luna's skirt, unaware of the Dark Red Blood Droplets congealing on the back of the leaves—blood seeping from Leonard's cuff.
Luna shook her skirt hem adorned with Star Patterns, causing her Doodle Book to slip from her grasp.
The latest page, still damp with Star Sand, suddenly floated up, casting a blurred Prophecy Scene in the twilight: beneath the Burning Star Moon Banner, three brothers' incomplete Soul Lanterns were entwined by Dark Red Magic Power.
"Nana has something important to say!" she exclaimed, using Star Sand to draw three twisted symbols on the windowsill—these were the very curses from the original book that led to her brothers' tragedies.
Under the Swing Frame, twelve Starlight Sparrows collectively exploded into Xing Hui, forming a blood-soaked countdown in the night sky.
Aelia's Embroidered Shoes fell halfway off the windowsill as she gazed at her daughter's imitation of her brothers' handwriting drawing a Rescue Talisman. She finally recalled the unusual fluctuations that had come from the West Tower that morning.
From afar, a sevenfold Death Knell suddenly echoed from the direction of the Glorious Demon Fortress, startling a Council Inspector disguised as a Night Owl in the yew forest.
The countdown formed by Star Sand shattered with the twelfth toll of the bell. Luna tiptoed to insert her mother's fallen Golden Hairpin back into her hair.
She pretended not to notice Aelia's trembling fingertip and grabbed the handkerchief embroidered with their Family Totem to cover the Prophecy Scene.
Suddenly, familiar Hoofbeats echoed outside their new home's barrier; it was the Starlight Unicorn raised in her elder brother's study whinnying.
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