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The Bronze Candlestick cast flickering shadows in the Dome as Aelia clutched the forbidden sheepskin scroll handed to her by Qin Si, her fingertips shimmering with a frost-like aura reminiscent of Frost Flower.
Luna was leaning over her elder brother's wheelchair armrest, using a saliva-moistened Ailya to wipe the Curse bruise on his hand back.
"The Illusory Realm can only be opened three times every hundred years," Brother San suddenly waved his wand, parting the Peacock Stone Tiles to reveal the flowing Star Sand beneath. "These Ling Mang were meant to nourish the heirs of generations past."
Amidst the uproar, Leonard kicked over the Magic Crystal Box presented by the Third Elder, his Crimson Cloak sweeping over Luna's head. "At dawn tomorrow, we will open the Illusory Realm—after all, my dear daughter can’t wait to become a sacrifice."
Aelia abruptly crushed an Ice Spike, Frost Mist coalescing in her palm into a Thorn Emblem. "Since we are to open the Illusory Realm, we shall follow the rules set by the First Generation Fortress Master." She lifted Luna onto the Altar Stone Table, and Infant Swaddling suddenly blossomed with Twenty-Eight Pointed Star patterns. "Apart from the Four Elders, my three sons and Qin Si must accompany us."
"Mother!" Second Brother suddenly covered his right eye, where a Spider Web-like Hei Xue seeped out. "The Shadow Spell within me..."
Luna suddenly grabbed his waist pendant and smashed it against the crystal lamp.
The jade shattered like Shan Na, and within the lamp's shadow, the Poison Spider Illusion shrieked and dissipated.
Only then did everyone see that embedded within the pendant was none other than the Family Crest of Second Brother's close friend.
Leonard squinted as the Shadow Serpent suddenly grew three inches longer.
At dawn, a Formation Diagram composed of three hundred Unicorn Skeletons slowly rotated in the Star Sand Sea.
Luna was bound in front by silver chains held by Aelia, gazing up at the floating Illusory Stone Gate.
The Third Eye jewel of the Evil Dragon Relief on that gate was aligned perfectly with her position as Luna.
"Hold tight," her elder brother suddenly turned the Sapphire on his wheelchair armrest, enveloping everyone in an Ice Crystal Shield.
Leonard cut open his wrist, and as the Blood Pearl touched the ground, it transformed into hundreds of dark serpents that slithered toward the stone door.
The world suddenly darkened.
The stone door swung open, and Shan Na, accompanied by a whirlwind of Star Sand's magical energy, sent seven guards tumbling.
Luna suddenly opened her mouth and bit down on Aelia's silver chain, her baby Milk Tooth carving a Curse into the Mithril.
Qin Si, on the verge of being blown away, was yanked back by the golden light of the Curse to the Holy Light Shield, crashing into the center of Brother San's freshly drawn Defensive Formation.
"Mother, look at the East Side!" Second Brother pointed his wand at the surging Star Sand Sea.
The Unicorn Skeletons were assembling into a giant Cursed Doll, their hollow Eye Sockets flickering with eerie blue Ghost Fire—those were clearly the Heirs who had perished in the Shattered Moon Formation throughout the ages.
Leonard's laughter mingled with the wind: "Welcome to..."
Before he could finish his sentence, Luna suddenly shoved her drool-covered fist into the nostrils of the Evil Dragon Relief.
The stone door emitted a deafening Longyin, and beneath their feet, Lapis Lazuli transformed into Quicksand, engulfing them as they fell into a dazzling vortex.
Luna awoke to Aelia's Qian Jiao voice.
They floated in an inverted Mirror World, with a boiling Star Sand Sea above them and a floor covered in chilling white bones below.
Brother San was using his wand to burn away a Skeleton Hand that was trying to grab his ankle, while their eldest brother Wheelchair's icy crystal wheels carved strange Tracks across the mirror's surface.
"It's an overlay of illusions," Luna said, extending her chubby finger to poke at a glowing Jellyfish swimming through the mirror.
The mirror she touched suddenly cracked, revealing the true valley behind it—an expanse filled with magical wisps drifting like dandelions, which transformed into deadly arrows upon sensing the presence of living beings.
Second Brother raised his staff to erect a wall of earth, but it was pierced by the arrows of the wisps.
In a moment of desperation, Luna tore off a lock of her golden hair and tossed it into the air.
As her hair touched the wisps, which were originally fierce, they suddenly became docile and coalesced into glowing orbs, affectionately rubbing against the reddened tips of a baby's ears.
"These wisps..." Qin Si suddenly pointed at the interior of the glowing orb, "There are figures inside!"
Everyone focused closely, and they saw that each core of the wisps imprisoned a blurred soul.
Eldest Brother suddenly coughed violently, and the sapphire on the wheelchair armrest reflected the face of one of the souls—it was none other than the Sixth Elder, who had gone missing ten years ago in the Illusory Realm.
"So this is what absorbing the wisps means—it's taking in the souls of our predecessors..." Brother San's magic began to frost over.
Luna suddenly cried out and began to pat Aelia on the collarbone.
Following her gaze, they saw at the end of the valley a statue of an evil dragon identical to that at the stone door, but instead of holding a precious gem in its claw, it clutched a curled infant skeleton.
Aelia's silver chain suddenly emitted a warning buzz.
Everyone turned around to find Leonard had appeared on a cliff behind them.
Beneath him, a shadow serpent greedily devoured the drifting wisps; with each mouthful it consumed, scales emerged that bore star patterns similar to Luna's.
"Time is running out." Aelia cut her fingertip, and blood formed a teleportation circle on her silver chain. "Before the Shattered Moon Formation fully activates..."
Luna suddenly broke free from her swaddling, stretching her arms toward the Evil Dragon Statue.
In the instant she fell toward the Skeleton Pile, all Ling Mang let out a mournful cry, and three hundred Hun Ying surged forth, breaking through the sphere of light to form a torrent that cradled the infant.
The inverted Star Sand Sea began to pour down like a torrential rain.
Within the current of Hun Ying, a third Jin Tong blossomed on Luna's forehead, reflecting the Bronze Codex that was slowly emerging behind the Evil Dragon Statue—the Liujin Iris of that Codex's Title Page was the truth of the Shattered Moon Formation, personally inscribed by the First Generation Fortress Master.
Luna's Luna shone brilliantly in the torrent of Hun Ying, as the Tiny Inscriptions of the Bronze Codex were mirrored in Aelia's constricting Pupil.
She pressed the infant tightly against her chest, but the Teleportation Circle on the silver chain began to crack under the pressure of the Codex.
The pouring Star Sand suddenly coalesced into Ice Spikes mid-air, causing her brother's Wheelchair Armrest Sapphire to explode, sending shards flying and leaving countless cracks in the Mirror World.
"Mother, be careful!" Brother San shouted as his Defensive Formation was pierced by an Ice Spike, freezing the hem of his Magic Robe to the Ground in an instant.
Qin Si and Qian Jiao rushed forward to shield Aelia from the flying shards of ice, but Qian Jiao's shoulder immediately burst with blood.
Amidst the chaos, Luna suddenly grasped Aelia's silver Chain Pendant and called out in a baby voice with surprising clarity: "Ling Mang... can take?" The infant's finger pierced straight through the Protective Barrier, pointing toward the floating Hun Ying sphere deep within the valley.
Aelia trembled violently.
She recalled three days ago in the Forbidden Library when Luna had leaned over a parchment and drawn strange symbols with her saliva, looking at her with those same clear eyes.
At that moment, starlight from the Magic Castle Dome filtered through the Colored Glazed Window onto baby Luna, casting the Twenty-Eight Pointed Star into a dancing Gold Thread.
"Ling Mang of the Illusory Realm is a gift from our ancestors." At that moment, the Third Elder struck the Codex Copy with his Serpent Staff. "Only by offering a Pure Soul as a sacrifice on Lunar Eclipse Night..."
"You're lying." Luna suddenly tore apart the Title Page of the Codex with her Milk Tooth, causing the Third Elder's Elder Yinxu to rise in shock.
Aelia still remembers the Indigo Flame that erupted when the parchment burned, casting flickering shadows of Xing Mang in her daughter's Pupil.
In this crumbling Mirror World, Aelia trembled as she kissed her daughter's feverish forehead. "The rules of the Illusory Realm are like a Spider Web, but my Little Moon..." She wrapped a silver chain around Luna's Wrist, and the Chain Pendant suddenly transformed into a miniature Evil Dragon Statue. "You only need to be the dawn's light."
The scream of Second Brother interrupted the tender moment.
His Left Leg had unknowingly been ensnared by a Shadow Serpent, and his skin was visibly drying and darkening at an alarming rate.
Eldest Brother turned his Wheelchair and shot an Ice Arrow, only to see Leonard's cloak materialize through the rain of Star Sand, his right hand covered in Serpent Scale gripping a blood-stained jade pendant.
"Father!" Brother San's magic Zhang Jian spewed forth flames. "That’s Second Brother’s..."
"The Shattered Moon Formation requires fresh sacrifices." Leonard chuckled as he squeezed the Shattered Jade Pendant, causing Second Brother to cough up Hei Xue mixed with Ice Shard.
Suddenly, Luna thrashed violently in Aelia's arms, and the golden light erupting from her transformed the surrounding Star Sand into Liquid, causing the entire Mirror World to twist and collapse.
As everyone was thrown back into reality amidst the Skeleton Array, dawn pierced through the Evil Dragon Statue atop the Magic Castle Spire.
Luna's swaddling was covered in glowing Star Sand, while beneath Leonard's feet lay seven shriveled bodies of guards.
Aelia's silver chain suddenly flew toward the Illusory Stone Gate, assembling a fragmented Twenty-Eight Star Diagram at the lintel.
"Mother, the Star Trail has shifted." Eldest Brother gazed at the reformed Sapphire on the Wheelchair Armrest. "Next time, Lunar Eclipse will come earlier..."
"Tonight is Midnight." Brother San used his wand to prod the writhing Shadow Serpent in the Floor Tile Gap, its scales now indistinguishable from Luna's color.
Qin Si suddenly pointed at the West Tower in surprise, and everyone looked up to see the Sixth Elder, who should have been in the Confinement Room, standing unscathed on the terrace with a smile.
Aelia handed Luna over to Qin Si, as Frost Flower spread along her Skirt Hem, forming Ice Armor. "Go to the Holy Spring Palace, using the..."
"Mother, look at Ling Mang!" Second Brother suddenly pointed above everyone's heads.
The orbs of light that Luna had once tamed were now vibrating violently, each Hun Ying's chest emerging with an Evil Dragon Totem.
Eldest Brother's Sapphire reflected a terrifying Leonard's Last Night—inside all Ling Mang, slender Silver Threads extended, their other ends shockingly connected to Luna's essence.
The Illusory Stone Gate suddenly emitted a ground-shaking Roar, and what spilled from the Door Gap was no longer Star Sand but a viscous Dark Red Mist like plasma.
Luna suddenly broke free from Qin Si's embrace and staggered toward the surging mist, each step leaving a Burning Star Radiance Footprint on the Ground.
"Stop her!" Aelia's Ice Armor quickly melted in the Hong Wu. "That is..."
The infant's Palm pressed against the surface of the stone door.
In an instant, Luna's golden light illuminated the Door Gap, allowing everyone to clearly see deep within the mist two eyes slowly opening that matched their own eye colors—Light Gray, Mo Lan, Amber—twelve pairs of different gazes of Light and Shadow swirling in Hong Wu before finally settling into Luna's Deep Golden.
As the sound of the infant's laughter echoed above the Skeleton Array, Three Hundred Withered Bones suddenly turned in unison toward the west.
The clicking sound of their jaws perfectly coincided with the chimes coming from the Holy Spring Palace.
Spirit Arrow Rain hovered just at everyone's noses as Luna's Jin Tong abruptly contracted.
The infant's Palm erupted, and the Twenty-Eight Star Array Diagram rippled outward, causing the boiling Star Sand Sea to instantly solidify into a brilliant Purple Crystal Cluster.
"Step back." The Lullaby Voice wrapped around them with an undeniable pressure as Luna floated toward the Evil Dragon Statue.
Aelia's silver chains coiled around the infant, forming a Star Trail. The Chain Pendant of the Evil Dragon Statue suddenly opened its sharp jaws, swallowing the Lingmang Sphere that had trapped Hun Ying entirely.
Brother San's magic Zhang Jian sparked with fire: "Those are from our ancestors..."
The Skeleton Pile suddenly heaved up a massive bulge, and three hundred Hun Ying burst forth from the ground, intertwining in mid-air to form the First Generation Lord's Phantom.
At the moment Xu Ying's Fingertip pointed at Luna, Leonard's Shadow Serpent let out a heart-wrenching scream—the Star Pattern on the Serpent Scale transformed into Gold Dust that drifted toward the infant.
"The Shattered Moon Formation backfires!" The elder brother turned his Wheelchair and shot out an Ice Crystal Chain, pinning the melting Shadow Serpent to the mirror surface.
Aelia's Aelia Frost Armor-covered fingers brushed against Luna's heated form, realizing that the Infant Swaddling had somehow filled with Bronze Keys made of Star Sand, each key's Tooth Mark matching perfectly with the Sealing Array of the Magic Castle Vault.
Leonard's laughter echoed from deep within the boiling Hong Wu: "My dear daughter is indeed most suited to be the focal point." As his tattered cloak swept by, Lingmang Spheres exploded in succession, releasing a Black Magic Shockwave that crushed the earthen wall just erected by Second Brother into Powder.
Luna suddenly yanked at Aelia's silver chain fiercely; as her fingers passed through, a rain of Star Sand inexplicably flowed back toward the crack in the stone door.
Beneath their feet, the mirror cracked inch by inch, revealing the true Spirit Radiance Spring Eye below—gushing Magic Source was bound by eighteen Dark Gold Chains, each chain entwined with blood-stained fragments of Infant Swaddling.
"They are offerings from generations past." Qin Si trembled as she covered her mouth; her sleeve embroidered with Wisteria flowers suddenly ignited by Ling Mang, flames revealing Aelia’s Celestial Chart from the night of her birth.
Brother San’s Defensive Formation automatically deciphered a path through the Flame Pattern; his wand traced a blood-red Warning in the void: the core of the Shattered Moon Formation was hidden beneath the Cradle in the Castle Lord's Bedroom.
Luna suddenly opened her mouth and bit down on a drifting Ling Mang; her Milk Tooth collided with the Magic Source, producing a chime-like Qing Ming sound.
The seal of the Fountain shattered with a resounding crack, and eighteen chains coiled around Aelia's silver chain like living serpents, forging into the Secret Silver Key embedded with Twenty-Eight Star Diamonds before her astonished gaze.
"Mother, catch!" In the instant the infant threw the key towards Aelia, the entire Illusory Realm began to collapse.
Leonard's curse mixed with Hong Wu surged into everyone's eardrums, yet it melted away like snow upon touching the brilliance of the key.
Suddenly, the Sapphire of Brother Wheelchair Armrest projected a Magic Castle Three-Dimensional Map, with three hundred Light Spots flashing wildly at the vault's location.
As everyone was ejected back into the Skeleton Array from the Illusory Realm, dawn was gilding the Magic Castle Tower with Jin Bian.
Luna clutched Aelia's garment in deep slumber, her lips still smeared with Star Sand Crystal.
The Third Elder stumbled over, cradling the shattered Shattered Moon Formation, but froze in place at the sight emerging from the array’s surface—the sealing arrays in the vault were gradually extinguishing to the rhythm of the infant's steady breathing.
Aelia tightened her grip on the still-warm Secret Silver Key as Frost Flower crept up her fingertip towards the West Tower.
There, the Dark Iron Gate, which should have locked away generations of Magic Treasures, slowly opened as if welcoming its master.
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