The Sovereign’s Vines

The emerald thorn jungle pulsed beneath a sky shrouded in verdant haze, its tangled canopy woven with vines that writhed with predatory intent, each tendril a hiss of confinement that snared the soul. Humidity clung, its weight stifling the breath, a living embrace that vowed to bind the heart in endless coils. The ground was a snarl of roots, slick and treacherous, each step a defiance against the jungle's will to trap. Beyond a rift where the jungle's core seethed with green venom, a chasm coiled—a verdant vortex that radiated a force so vast it could strangle the cosmos in thorns. The Vine Sovereign, the ninety-fifth force, had stirred, its boundless growth of infinite power a slithering vow to entangle Lin Feng's spirit in its vines.