Chapter 24 - MOUNT HUA SECT ARC END CHAPTER 6: Ashes and Resolve—The Path Forward

Dust-veils lifted fractured Plum Blossom Peak, boulders god-wrath strewn, crimson cracks-freezing. Vorath horde-shattered retreated, ash-victory. Abraham rubble-kneeled sword-trembling, meridians void-scorched. Utterly weak, epiphany crushed. Sovereign slept; Plum danced—giant unfelled. Scar-mocked: swing mountain-broke. Heir pretender. �Jang approached bloodied-unbowed: "Saved us." Disciples wary-nodded, Michael's shadow eased. Han corpse cooled—betrayal's husk. Abraham rose relic-admonition-pulse. Veiled power; exposed frailty. Growth demands more.Reel inner: gravity-crush, machine-agony, Hua-subtlety—humbling steps. Strategies exposed: feints-venom-betrayal. Sovereign death-tempts; Plum kill-lacks. System chimed: "Trial survived. Adaptation unlocked." Balm-cold.Sun gild-ruined golden. Jang shoulder-clasped: "Ancestors bless." Abraham bowed, Blossoms eternal-etched—resilience bloom. Weak no more—forge stronger. Michael grunted—first sound, approval.Horizon beckoned: maze-keys-guardian. Cult shadow-first; abyss night-eternal. Sheathed blade meridians-resolve-knitting. Hua scarred-standing—soul-mirror. Journey reignited—not triumph, rebirth-fire