Chapter 71 - The Burden’s Weight

The mountain pass cut a narrow scar through peaks dusted with ash-gray snow, where the wind howled like a mourner's cry, carrying the weight of unseen chains. Dawn bled faint crimson across the jagged horizon, but its light faltered, dimmed by a presence that pressed the air into stillness. Beyond the pass, where stone crumbled into a chasm, a rift gaped—an obsidian maw that exhaled a force heavy enough to bow the earth itself. The Heavy Burden, the thirty-fourth force, stirred within, its boundless weight of infinite power a silent oath to crush all that Lin Feng had built into dust.