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Chapter 138: The Altar of the Iron Cliff (Part 1)
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2026-01-07 13:30:35[The Altar of the Iron Cliff]
The ascent to Prasat Preah Vihear was not a journey; it was a penance. The ancient Khmer temple sat like a jagged stone crown atop a five-hundred-meter cliff in the Dangrek Mountains, straddling the border between Cambodia and Thailand. To reach it, Panni and the fractured shell of Jinyan had to navigate the "Ancient Stair," a crumbling stone artery that spiraled upward through a canopy so thick it felt like a subterranean tunnel.
The monsoon had passed, leaving behind a heat that was nearly liquid. Panni wiped the sweat from her brow, her indigo shawl now a rag used to bind the scaling knife to her thigh. Beside her, Jinyan moved with the unsettling precision of a clockwork soldier. He didn't pant. He didn't stumble. He merely climbed, his obsidian eyes scanning the treeline for the "Corrected" mo
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