A deep thud shook the Ye Clan estate as midnight draped the sky, the rift groaning with a bronze weight that pressed the courtyard's earth into cracked fissures. The air grew thick and heavy, the Heavy Burden's boundless burden of infinite power bearing down, its qi a crushing force that bent the trees and strained the walls with relentless pressure. Ye Hua stood trembling near the well, her patched cloak sagging under the weight, her gray eyes wide as the bronze figure loomed, its presence a mountain threatening to grind their spirit to dust.