When the astrological rune card in Bai Huo's hand lit up, the Ice Fortress hidden in the gaps between spacetime revealed its true form to everyone. Vast stretches of blade-like ice walls abruptly appeared across the previously empty icefield, while layers of icy barriers rose in succession along both sides of the road like the fangs of a beast. In the distant dark sky, illusions appeared that resembled auroras or mirages. Under the starlight, those translucent phantoms rapidly solidified, becoming towering walls and sharp spires in the blink of an eye. As Hao Ren drove forward, the surrounding light and shadows continued to change at a frantic pace. The scene of the Arctic icefield alternated with the hidden Ice Fortress, making it nearly impossible to tell reality from illusion. When everything finally stabilized, everyone had arrived before the gates of a majestic giant city. The Demon Hunters' "Millennial Palace" welcomed its visitors with an incredibly magnificent presence.
As its name suggested, the Ice Fortress was a castle of ice and snow standing in the far north. The words "ice fortress" referred not only to the endless frozen Arctic, but also to the building materials used by the castle. Everyone stared in stunned silence as they discovered that this was a true "ice city." Massive ice walls, almost like cliffs, towered before them, completely frozen together with the ground beneath their feet. Countless narrow windows and downward-pointing ice blades had been carved into the ice rock, while layers of battlements and arrow towers stood atop the fortress like strange beasts lurking in the darkness of the polar night. Between those structures stood countless angular spires, their rough lines carrying an eerie beauty. Like lighthouses atop the fortress, they gleamed with magical radiance against the night sky.
And all of it was