Chapter 77 - The Dawn’s Glare

The mesa plateau burned under a sky of unrelenting gold, its cracked red stone shimmering as if the earth itself sweat light. Heat pulsed in waves, warping the air into a dance of mirages, where shadows fled and hope seemed to melt. Beyond a jagged outcrop, where the horizon bled white, a rift blazed—a golden wound that radiated a force so bright it drowned the sun. The Radiant Dawn, the fortieth force, had ignited, its boundless radiance of infinite power a searing hymn to blind all that Lin Feng held clear in its shine.