At high frequency, it was anything but a harsh noise.
Instead, it was a deep, steady rhythm brimming with boundless energy.
Like the pulse of a stellar core.
An invisible energy field expanded stubbornly from him as its center.
It forcibly drove back the extreme cold that had invaded his marrow, trying to freeze his blood and soul, by several inches.
Forming a ring of visibly distorted, rippling force-field shield around him.
"Buzz—!"
The [Solar Seal] at his brow suddenly lit up.
What it released this time was no longer a gentle radiance, but something like an enraged miniature sun.
It erupted with a dazzling blaze of incandescent white light!
A vast power that was sacred, purifying, and capable of dispelling darkness surged forth.
It overlapped with the force field of the quantum furnace.
The crystalline snowflakes silently melted away as they approached that blazing white radiance.
The frozen spatial force field rippled with obvious instability around Zong Shen.
"Hmph."
The Night King's avatar's blurry outline seemed to waver slightly.
It was somewhat surprised that Zong Shen could maintain his ability to move under its pressure and even resist effectively.
This was followed by a deeper, colder fury.
This was not merely an emotional outburst, but the stern reaction of rules having been violated.
It did not swoop down directly.
Instead, it slowly raised an arm woven from ice and ghostly blue soulflame, then pressed down through the air at the frozen battlefield rubble below.
"Nest of the Unmelting."
"Rumble—!"
A dull pulse rose from deep underground, like the heart of an ancient beast awakening.
At the edge of the massive icy cavern formed by the fortress's collapse, the frozen earth writhed and bulged violently like a living thing.
The permafrost layer, harder than refined steel, shattered and peeled away