Chapter 73 - The Expanse’s Reach

The desert sprawled beneath a sky awash with stars, its dunes rolling like waves frozen in silver light, whispering secrets to the night. A breeze stirred, cool and fleeting, carrying a hum that seemed to stretch the horizon itself, as if the world yearned to be more than it was. Beyond a crest of sand, where shadows pooled like ink, a rift shimmered—a sapphire veil that pulsed with a force vast enough to unravel the heavens. The Vast Expanse, the thirty-sixth force, had stirred, its boundless reach of infinite power a silent call to stretch all that Lin Feng held whole to the edge of breaking.