Perhaps because it was often turned upside down, leaving soil unable to cling to the mountain and preventing vegetation from taking root, while being battered by fierce winds year after year.
These "stone stalactites" hanging from Thousand Blade Peak were truly smooth as mirrors, even slick as though coated in grease.
But they posed no challenge to Meng Chao and Ice Storm.
After all, they were not actual mirrors.
Even the tiniest cracks invisible to the naked eye became as secure as climbing pitons when Meng Chao and Ice Storm gripped them.
What was more, Meng Chao discovered that many of the stone stalactites bore parallel indentations, one above another, which did not seem naturally formed.
They were just large enough for him to comfortably insert his fingers or toes, forming simple "steps."
Ice Storm told Meng Chao that these were traces left behind by the Holy Light Army three thousand years ago.
Back then, the Holy Light Army had marked nearly every corner inside Turan Holy Mountain, leaving behind large amounts of equipment and supplies for their next entry, all sealed and hidden with Holy Light Magic.
It was said that fresh flesh sealed by Holy Light Magic would not rot even after a full thousand years.
The problem was that most of the markings and supply sites lay along the unavoidable route to the Summit of the Holy Mountain.
Naturally, over the following three thousand years, they had gradually been destroyed, deliberately or inadvertently, by the Turan Orcs.
As for Thousand Blade Peak, although one could theoretically see Scarlet Peak, which led directly to the Summit of the Holy Mountain, whenever space shifted.
In reality, there was simply no way across.
Thus, neither the Holy Light Human Race nor the Turan Orcs—including "Jackal" Kanus, who had recently been