The fishbone shrine on its back is crumbling.
Fragments of frozen soil fell away, revealing the pulsating blue tumor inside.
The mass of matter suddenly shrank violently, and all the nerve-like lines lit up with a faint light at the same time.
In the dazzling blue light, the tumor bloomed like a lotus, each "petal" was a crystal thin sheet of ice, with a teardrop-shaped deep blue gem in the center.
The snow fell faster.
When the first snowflake touched the gem, the whole body suddenly emitted a humming sound like a whale song.
A pale blue halo rippled from its feet, and wherever it passed, the ice field blossomed with crystal flowers. The previously deformed and terrifying body now resembled a mythical polar sacred beast.
The fluffy silver-blue hair is like a starry sky in the polar night, and each hair tip is dotted with tiny ice diamonds.
The back that originally carried the shrine now stands with a crown formed naturally by thousand-year-old ice crystals. Twelve ice branches spread out radially, and each branch is hung with wind chime ice crystals that produce different scales of music.
The most amazing thing is its tail. The originally short and thick tail fin has turned into three flowing light bands, like solidified aurora borealis hanging on the ground.
"Woo—"
The long cry it let out, its head raised, resonated with the heavens and the earth. The ice crystal wind chimes on its crown automatically played ancient songs, and the snow curtain transformed into lost runes to the rhythm of the music.
When it turned its head to look at Ma Tuan, there was no longer any uncomfortable wriggling in its new eyes, only bottomless tranquility, as if the soul of the entire frozen sea was contained in its pupils.
The changes are not over yet.
As it turned gracefully, the ice crystal crown on its back began to grow and extend, and beams of light shot out from the tips of the twelve ice branches, weaving into translucent steps in the void, leading to the darkness at the top of the inverted pyramid.
When each step emerges, a corresponding ice crystal wind chime condenses from nothingness, playing a note from ancient times.
When the last step was completed, it lightly stepped on the ground with its front paws.
The entire ice field suddenly became transparent, revealing a huge, mountain-like shadow sleeping underneath.
At that moment, the light from the slit on Ma Tuan's mask resonated with the teardrop gem in the center of its crown. The two blue lights intertwined in the air to form a double helix structure, illuminating the mural on the inner wall of the pyramid that no one had ever seen before - the painting showed the creature's original pure appearance, leading a tribe of sea otters to guard a forbidden door.
But at the same time, the sea otter's footsteps suddenly froze in the void.
The hairs on its fluffy white fur that could never be combed neatly stopped trembling, and the tip of its round nose twitched slightly, as if it had smelled the scent of fate.
He saw its great black claws suspended in mid-air like frozen waves.
"……What's wrong?"
Ma Tuan was shocked by all these sudden changes.
He thought everything was over.
The voice became muffled behind the mask.
He noticed that the ice crystals on the sea otter's whiskers were glowing abnormally, and the small ice particles that should have melted were now shining like stars.
A sound like the friction of shells rang out from the sea otter's chest. It slowly turned its head, its moist black eyes reflecting the mottled ancient lines on its mask.
When it took its last step, a circle of light blue ripples appeared the moment its paw pad touched the ground.
The snowflakes suddenly stopped in mid-air, forming a matrix of suspended ice crystals.
The pupils under Ma Tuan's mask suddenly contracted. The voice did not come from the outside world, but resonated directly in his skull - each syllable carried the tremor of ancient ice cracking.
The deep blue sapphire suddenly became scorching hot, leaving scorch marks on the mask, but he felt no pain, only a strange sense of familiarity spreading along his nerves.
"I'm...back..."
When the sound rang out for the second time, all the still snowflakes turned their angles at the same time, focusing the refracted light on Ma Tuan's chest.
He looked down and saw ice crystal veins emerging at the position of his heart, beating in time with the whisper.
The giant beast with a crown on its back suddenly knelt on its front legs, and the twelve branches of the ice crystal crown broke off at the same time. Before hitting the ground, they turned into flowing liquid gems and gathered into a galaxy flowing upstream.
"I will...come to you..."
The final syllable dragged out the guttural sound of a deep-sea creature, and the suspended ice crystal matrix suddenly collapsed into countless ice needles.
Ma Tuan watched them pierce into the void around him, etching three-dimensional cuneiform characters in the air.
The words formed themselves into a chain, the end of which connected to a being that was awakening deep within the pyramid.
"Cub..."
There was a huge sigh.
The beast's luminous tail suddenly wrapped around Ma Tuan's ankle, and the touched skin immediately took on the same pattern as its crest. Ma Tuan, dazed, saw a revolving lantern of images: his brother's chest ripped open on the frozen altar, a pale arm reaching out from the bronze door, and... and the sea otter in the falling snow, a completely different creature with gentle eyes.
When the chain-shaped characters were fully formed, Ma Tuan heard the sound of iron rubbing against the ice.
The mask suddenly projected a holographic image - deep in the ice abyss, a human figure sealed in ten thousand years of black ice was opening his eyes. Miniature glaciers hung on each of his eyelashes, and the direction he was looking at was exactly where Ma Tuan was standing at the moment.
The giant beast let out a long mournful cry and used its last bit of strength to push the dough toward the exit of the inverted pyramid.
At the last moment of falling into the light, Ma Tuan clearly saw all the snowflakes forming a huge human face, which was mouthing "wait" to him.
And the being on the Frozen Throne in the distance has already raised his ice-armored fingers...
Then, it began to dissipate...
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