The Heavenly Mountain Range was over six hundred kilometers wide, though that was an average.
Leaving the eastern Heavenly Mountain aside, the stretch west from Wu City to Stone City, especially the mountains south of Ma County, was somewhat narrower. Looking from north to south, the mountains stood in dense, tightly packed layers, like students crowding around a fire in winter, wishing they could all squeeze together.
Farther west, the Heavenly Mountain split down the middle, creating Central Tianshan and the Ili River Valley, and the range grew wider. With Central Mountain Tian came the southern Heavenly Mountain and Northern Heavenly Mountain.
Of course, the widest part of the Heavenly Mountain was practically outside the country, so there was no need to discuss that.
Within the Heavenly Mountain west of Stone City, around the Ili River Valley, there were vast stretches of high mountain grassland. These grasslands stood at elevations above a thousand meters, with the higher ones reaching over three thousand.
Why were so many places in Ili called Sky Grassland? Because these grasslands were up in the mountains, on the mountaintops-Tuohulasu and Nalati, for instance. You traveled from the city into the mountains, winding around bend after bend of mountain road, and finally struggled up to the summit, only to discover that beyond it lay an enormous expanse of rolling grassland. So this was what the mountaintops were like!
They overturned many people's understanding of mountaintops, which was why they were called Sky Grassland.
But in the Heavenly Mountain between Stone City and Wu City to the east, there were almost no vast expanses of grassland. Sky Grassland was virtually nowhere to be seen, something apparent even on a general map.
Zoom in on the map, however, and you could see that after entering the mountains from the