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Chapter 262 - The Desert’s Secret

The Xinjiang desert stretched endless under a merciless sun, its red sands swallowing the horizon where Turpan's ancient ruins hid Tianhua's final lab. Ruoxi crouched behind a weathered dune, sweat beading on her brow, her ribs and shoulder scars faint echoes under her tactical gear. The phoenix tattoo pulsed—steady, balanced, life and death woven tight since Pang Yuwei's vision and the clone's ash. Her fire felt alive, not rage but heart, as her mother had urged, though the cryptic note—"Turpan waits"—gnawed at her, a hunter's taunt in this desolate waste.

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