As the Ice Spirit Stone Shard floated above Aelia's Palm, the Rose Window was seeping with Blood Moonlight.
The Lady of the Fortress embedded the Wedding Ring into the Dark Compartment of the secret chamber, when suddenly, Luna's Yi Ya began to babble from the Cradle—those tender Broken Syllables perfectly matched the Ancient Elf Spell she had heard on the Astrology Platform three days ago.
"The Ice Iris Totem requires twelve Ice Spirit Stones for Automatic Activation." Aelia's Fingertip brushed against the Star Pattern faintly visible among Luna's Golden Hair, recalling the Snake Pattern Brooch her husband had unexpectedly gifted her half a month ago.
Luna suddenly grasped her Wrist, her small fist precisely pressing against the Magic Pattern Node refracted by the Ice Spirit Stone. The Defensive Formation instantly projected a faded Sheen Pattern of Daisy onto the wall.
Amidst the Roar of Ley Line Energy flowing backward, Aelia tore apart her Pearl Necklace.
As twenty-seven South Sea Pearls rolled away, they automatically arranged themselves into the Star Chart of their wedding banquet from twenty years ago—the Purple Iris Star, which should have extinguished, now flickered eerily in the Northeast Corner, precisely where Leonard kept his Shadow Guard in a Separate Courtyard.
"Madam, be careful!" Qin Si suddenly lunged forward to shield her from the splintering Magic Crystal shards.
Dark Red Liquid trickled down her neck along her Serpent-Shaped Birthmark, transforming into ice crystals upon touching Luna's Swaddling.
Aelia's Pupil constricted; this was clearly the color of the Pregnancy Spirit Potion from Leonard's Dark Cabinet in his study.
Luna suddenly let out a sharp Loud Cry, and the Sound Wave shattered three snake-eye decorations on the Crystal Chandelier.
Hidden within was a Transmission Stone that rolled away, revealing Leonard pouring Secret Silver Solution from his Eldest Son's Wheelchair into the Pregnancy Spirit Formation.
Aelia staggered to support herself against the Gilded Frame; her reflection in the mirror, unchanged for twenty years, was suddenly covered in Spider Web-like Ice Cracks.
As the ground shook and mountains trembled, the Sealing Chains on the Eldest Son's Wheelchair began to break apart inch by inch.
He stared blankly at his Twin Legs regaining sensation; a Mechanical Compass emerged from his Heart, its Pointer directed toward the Star Pattern flickering within Luna's Golden Hair. "So it turns out my sister's tears can purify curses." He trembled as he caught Luna's falling Lacrima; that droplet of crystal transformed into an Ice Iris Totem in his Palm.
When the Dome of the Competition lit up with the Ice Iris Crest, all twenty-eight clan leaders of magical families in the stands rose simultaneously.
The elder brother's Mechanical Arm coiled around the Starlight Chains, and with a gentle tap, Zhang Jian froze his opponent's Lava Giant Serpent into an Ice Sculpture.
The Crystal Stele on the Judging Table exploded with a thunderous roar, revealing the Champion Inscription that rightfully belonged to him from twenty years ago.
As the fireworks of the celebration illuminated the Magic Castle East Tower, a Raven suddenly landed on the windowsill of the Second Brother.
Its crimson eyes reflected the face of a dear friend who had fallen three years prior, and in its beak was the Amethyst Ring, the token exchanged during their vow in Dragonblood Marsh.
Luna abruptly opened her eyes in the Cradle, witnessing the moment when the Second Brother's knuckles brushed against the ring; his sleeve's Guardian Magic Pattern suddenly transformed into a Serpent Scale.
Moonlight penetrated the East Tower's Diamond Pane, refracting an Eerie Red Light off the surface of the Amethyst Ring.
The Second Brother's slender fingers hovered at the tip of the Raven's beak, and his sleeve's Guardian Magic Pattern had spread to form a seventh Serpent Scale.
In the Cradle, Luna kicked urgently; amidst her Golden Hair, a Star Pattern suddenly erupted with Yin Mang.
"Noah..." The Second Brother's Fingertip barely touched the ring when the Raven's Pupil suddenly split into three blood-red rings.
The scene of their vow in Dragonblood Marsh shattered like a mirror, twisting his friend's face into Leonard's cold smirk within the whirlpool of memory.
He felt his heart ensnared by an invisible Spider Web, as the Guardian Magic Pattern began to devour the flesh of his Fingertip.
Luna suddenly emitted a nightingale-like cry, and the Xing Hui that fell from her Golden Hair condensed into Lacrima, striking precisely at the Raven's Left Eye.
With the sound of shattering crystal, something emerged from within the Amethyst Ring—a Micro Pregnancy Spirit Array—the very "Guardian Relic" that his friend claimed to have found on an ancient battlefield three years ago.
The Second Brother's Pupil constricted sharply as he recognized that the Formation Core's Sheen Pattern was identical to that of the Potion Bottle marked in Father's Study's Dark Cabinet.
"Turns out you already..." He trembled as he crushed the ring, purple crystal powder swirling in the air to reconstruct the Memory Fragment: Stormy Night at Dragonblood Marsh. Leonard's Shadow Guard submerged his unconscious friend into the Spirit Nurturing Pool, where the Guardian Magic Pattern on his chest was being covered by the Serpent Spell.
Luna waved her small hand to catch the falling crystal powder, and suddenly, the Star Pattern and Silver Light surged, burning the false memories into Ashes.
In the Library of Hidden Books at Dawn, Brother San stared blankly at page one hundred thirty-seven of the Elemental Essence Theory.
The annotation he had made at twelve years old, "Fire element is fierce and uncontrollable," was fading on the Parchment. Suddenly, the Elemental Sphere floating beside Luna crashed into the bookshelf.
Seven ancient books flew open automatically, different colors of Magic Script rising from Yellowed Pages, intertwining before his eyes to form a map of Elemental Resonance.
"This is..." He looked in shock at his notes on Ice and Fire dual elements that he had abandoned at fifteen. Those formulas once deemed "conflicting" by his mentor were now perfectly fused by Luna's unaware fingertip.
The Elemental Sphere suddenly split into twelve pieces, surrounding him to form an ancient harmony array. Within the Halo of Golden Hair and Star Pattern, he finally realized that his true talent lay in Elemental Balance rather than single-element specialization.
As dawn painted the Magic Castle Spire red, Qin Si was combing Aelia's hair adorned with ice crystals.
The twenty-seven shattered South Sea Pearls from last night formed a new Star Map on a Silver Plate, with a faint blue star added next to the Purple Iris Star in the Northeast Corner. "Madam, please look," she turned the Astrolabe toward the Dressing Mirror, "Luna's Ming Xing is beginning to influence the entire Star Trail."
Aelia touched her newly replaced Ice Spirit Stone necklace around her Neck; the cracks in the mirror had been repaired by Xing Hui.
When she noticed Qin Si's Sheen Pattern on her neck shimmering with Purple Light under the reflection of ice crystals, she suddenly grasped her maid's Wrist: "Three years ago you said you would return home to visit..." Before she could finish her sentence, Luna's Cradle suddenly emitted a crisp sound of Feng Ling. The Serpent Pattern doll hanging on its edge shattered in response, revealing half of a Shadow Guard token.
In the West Tower of Magic Castle at Noon, Lucius paused while wiping the Eagle Eye Technique crystal ball.
As he reviewed last night's Competition battle, he suddenly noticed a strange Light Spot in the recorded footage—when his elder brother's Starlight Chains froze the Lava Giant Serpent, Luna's Cradle in the corner of the stands continued to emit invisible ripples.
He adjusted the angle of the crystal ball; amidst Leonard's Last Night where twenty-eight heads of magical families stood up to applaud, only around the infant did the air exhibit subtle distortions in time and space.
"Interesting." Third Young Master Lucius brushed over the surface of the crystal ball, where a sudden condensation formed, a characteristic of the Eagle Eye Technique being interfered with by a higher-level observation magic.
He gazed at the Cradle by the window of the East Tower, where the Star Pattern and Halo were swaying. His fingertip marked the seventh Question Mark on the observation notes.
The ivy on the Castle Outer Wall suddenly moved without wind, and a Wall Tile engraved with the Sheen Pattern flashed with Youguang, synchronizing this spatial anomaly to the dark chamber in the Separate Courtyard.
Lucius's fingertip hovered with the Feather Pen over the crystal Observation Log for a full quarter of an hour.
The Diamond Light Spot cast by the Window Lattice of the tower slowly crawled along the Parchment, eventually stopping beside the seventh Question Mark, crystallizing into ice.
He removed his monocle, and in the residual blue glow of the Eagle Eye Technique from Iris, strange ripples in time and space still floated around Luna's Cradle.
"Third Young Master Lucius, Iris in the Separate Courtyard has suddenly bloomed out of season." The voice of the Shadow Guard carried a sulfuric scent from the Transmitting Conch.
Lucius stirred his cooling red tea with a Silver Spoon, watching as from the vortex center emerged a unique Sheen Pattern Secret Code from Father's Study.
As the third ice crystal formed on the spoon's handle, he suddenly splashed the entire cup of tea onto the crystal ball.
Scarlet Liquid flowed along the surface of the sphere's Serpent Pattern Groove, astonishingly reproducing the Star Chart from Twenty Years Ago in the observation image.
The Purple Iris Star, which should have extinguished, now intertwined with Luna's Ming Xing into a double helix structure, while indistinguishable Dark Matter clouds gathered above the Northeast Corner of the Separate Courtyard.
"Prepare the Breaking the Boundary Scroll." Lucius snapped off his sleeve's silver chain; twelve falling Stardust pieces formed a Warning Totem on the table. "Notify Mother that tonight's Lunar Phase will trigger Resonance with Pregnancy Spirit Potion."
Aelia's Yin Shu suddenly frosted upon touching the third strand of Hair.
The Ice Spirit Stone necklace in the Dressing Mirror reflected Qin Si's neck adorned with a Sheen Pattern Luna, that shade of Purple Light deeper than in the morning by threefold.
Luna's Cradle suddenly stirred without wind, the hanging Astrolabe casting a distorted Projection on the wall—seven of the Twenty-Eight Constellations were drifting away from their original Track.
"Madam, a letter from Third Young Master Lucius." Qin Si's fingers trembled slightly as he held the Liujin Letter Box, the lid of which had opened backward, oozing a pale blue Blue Blood Fern Juice.
Aelia used the edge of her Wedding Ring to slice through the Magic Wax; the ice crystal Iris on the Letterhead transformed into a time-space distortion image recorded by Lucius in a crystal ball as it touched the air.
Luna suddenly let out a laugh reminiscent of Yin Ling, her small hand grabbing the floating ice crystal Iris and stuffing it into her mouth.
Before Aelia could intervene, the runes containing observational magic triggered a strange Resonance within the infant's body.
The Dressing Mirror suddenly fogged up, revealing Leonard handing a certain jade bottle to the Shadow Guard in Leonard's Last Night—on the surface of that Container, the Sheen Pattern reacted with her Neck's Ice Spirit Stone, igniting tiny Purple Lightning in the mirror.
"So that's how the Pregnancy Spirit Potion needs to be mixed with Xing Hui's tears..." Aelia clenched her Wedding Ring tightly, its sharp edges piercing her Palm.
The Track of the Blood Pearl's descent coincided perfectly with the Star Trail of Twenty Years Ago's wedding banquet; when a drop of blood touched the Star Pattern among Luna's Golden Hair, the entire Liujin Jing erupted with the Strong Light of an Ice Iris Totem.
The hidden door behind the Cellar wine cabinet silently opened at that moment.
Her elder brother turned his Wheelchair and slid out from the shadows, his Mechanical Arm entwined with Starlight Chains emitting a warning hum akin to Leonard's Sword Suddenly Emitted a Hum.
He gazed at the Ice Iris Totem floating in the center of the Nursery and abruptly poured the Secret Silver Solution from his Wheelchair Armrest onto the Family Crest Relief.
The solution seeped into the stone crevices' Track, completely opposing the Defensive Formation that Father had rearranged last week.
"Mother, there is an anomaly in the energy readings from the Northeast Tower." His mechanical Compass Needle spun wildly before finally settling on a specific frequency of Star Pattern flickering among Luna's Golden Hair. "The stability of time and space is deteriorating at a rate of 0.7% per minute."
Aelia lifted Luna to the window, and noon sunlight streamed through the infant's transparent Iris, casting an extraordinary Star Map filled with Light Spots on the wall.
Qin Si suddenly let out a muffled groan, his neck twisting like a living creature.
The Purple Veins, illuminated by the Star Map, revealed tiny Ancient Elven Scripts, which were the reverse version of the Purification Spell that Luna had chanted while breaking Second Brother's curse last night.
"Madam, be careful!" Qin Si abruptly tore apart the Pearl Necklace, and twenty-seven beads formed a circular barrier in the air.
The Serpent Pattern chandelier in the Nursery Dome exploded without warning, and the splintered Magic Crystal shards, upon touching Alya's Pearl Barrier, suddenly changed direction and shot toward Luna's Cradle.
The infant's Pupil instantly turned Ice Blue, and the floating Astrolabe suddenly disassembled and reformed, transforming those deadly shards into twelve shimmering Ice Butterflies.
As the last Ice Butterfly settled on Aelia's shoulder, Lucius's crystal ball emitted a sharp sound of shattering glass.
He gazed at the web-like cracks spreading across the surface of the sphere, realizing that each fissure aligned perfectly with the Serpent Pattern Cipher in Father's Study's Dark Cabinet.
Outside the tower, the climbing ivy grew wildly, its tips glowing with Phosphorescence that cast a Warning on the glass—three images of Glorious Demon Fortresses from different timelines were slowly overlapping.
At this moment, Luna's cries echoed throughout the East Tower.
The Ice Butterflies shattered in response, turning into Stardust that mingled with her Golden Hair and silver Star Pattern.
As the twenty-eighth Stardust returned to its place, a distant Roar from an ancient Magic Circle resonated through the foundation of the Magic Castle, causing the Reverse Season Iris blooming in the Northeast Corner's Separate Courtyard to instantly wither into ash.
Lucius grabbed the latest page of his Observation Log, watching as the seven Question Marks he had previously drawn were being altered into a simple sketch of an Ice Iris Totem by some Unknown Power.
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