Night of the Broken Gliph

Chapter 317

With that, Chui Yim started to focus on his other chambers. Whether he chose to become a glipher or gliphist, he’d need to cultivate; it wouldn’t hurt to have an extra chamber.

Chui Yim wasn’t sure which route to take, so he practised his only gliphility── the Bloody War Strike. Initially, learning the Bloody War Strike was an excuse to make Chor Huet Zhin less apologetic towards him, but Chui Yim realised it was way more mysterious than it seemed as time passed.

It was a murderous yet mighty gliphility which bore the strong Ink’s Will of the Chor Clan. Unable to identify the source of its indomitable murderous intent, Chui Yim blamed it on the Hung Clan as he recalled it was a gliphility jointly created by Chor Huet Zhin and Hung Zhin.josei

I must take a look at the Hung’s Clan gliph and gliphility if I get a chance.

Even though his progress was slow, Chui Yim had already understood the Bloody War Strike’s strength. He was confident that someday, he’d be able to perform this gliphility to devastating effect.

Chui Yim was gifted, but he didn’t have much experience in cultivation from his past life. Moreover, the “unexpected” Kam Chin Kee was skilled in puppetry and couldn’t give him much advice. Therefore, Chui Yim could only rely on himself and experimentation to progress in his gliphism.

No matter what, I’ll work on becoming a glipher first, training in the Bloody War Strike while learning to draw gliphs. This will give me a strong foundation!

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Time trickled past, and spring arrived a few months later with its beautiful blossoms and warmer, more comfortable Southern weather.

Compared to the winter that had just ended, an increasing number of citizens were willing to leave their houses, so South Imperial City was once again bustling with activity.

Furthermore, winter also represented half a term of the Cloud Palace outer sect’s school term. This also meant that just six months were left until the Cloud Palace’s enrollment.

Both Kam Chin-Kee and Chui Yim spent the six months fruitfully. Cultivating and their other skills like sculpting, medicine and forging required lots of practice. Lam Ming Sum also became a regular guest at their residence during this period. She even helped clean the place with Yeung Chun from time to time, which gave Kan Hang a headache. If others find out that the great Lam Princess is here doing chores…

As for Chui Yim, he had stabilised his current cultivation state and learned to draw gliphs in the air. With his current state, he could only draw four gliph strings simultaneously. He and Kam Chin Kee were completely honest with each other, so he knew that Kam Chin Kee gained his ability to draw gliphs thanks to a skill from his previous life, called Ever-changing Formless Skill. 

Even Kam Chin Kee couldn't explain the reason behind it, but Ever-changing Formless Skill surprisingly fit this world well, allowing him to draw gliphs even before he broke through. However, this also meant that his strength would remain similar to his current state even if he broke through. 

After their battle with the giant demonic spider, Kam Chin Kee was almost left without any puppets as they were all destroyed, so Chui Yim took up Kam Chin Kee’s request to make new puppets.

Before they realised it, the inter-school exchange was only five days away.

Woo Nim stared at her disciples calmly as always. “The class will now be deciding our representatives for the exchange.

“There are several categories in the exchange. Excluding the final group competition, there is forging, alchemy, and gliphism.”

Her disciples seemed unfazed by the news, as they obviously already knew most of the exchange details. These should be the skills South and North value need the most. Chui Yim secretly thought to himself.

Gliph weapons directly affected a glipher’s strength; alchemy could help improve one’s cultivation speed and save lives, while gliphism directly affected gliphist’s capabilities, allowing them to tattoo gliphs onto gliphers.

It wasn’t that glipheons, sculptors or other careers were unimportant, but these three areas were what the current world focused on the most.

“Miss Woo, I feel that nobody other than Chui Yim can represent us in forging.” Chor Kwong Lan stood up for the first time. Chui Yim accepted his words calmly; he wasn’t shocked or against it, as nobody in his generation was comparable to him in forging. The other disciples knew Chui Yim’s skills; many even had gliph weapons forged by Chui Yim. Needless to say, they agreed with his selection.

“Okay, Chui Yim it is.” Woo Nim nodded.

As soon as she finished, somebody else stood up. “I’ll take alchemy.” Woo Hung, the current Imperial Physician, Kuen Hip’s direct disciple. Since alchemy complemented medicine, a successful gliphist was normally a decent alchemist and vice versa. In medicine, Woo Hung wasn’t confident of beating Chui Yim, a great master. But he was confident in his alchemy.

Chui Yim didn’t fight for the position either. He and Kam Chin Kee had never cared about the exchange. To them, this was just a competition between children, and it would be best if they didn’t need to participate at all.

“Any objections?” Woo Nim looked around. Just like medicine, alchemy was a profound subject. Most disciples of the outer sect had strong backgrounds. They had some slight knowledge of medicine, but almost none knew about alchemy. Southern Ping would never be considered part of the South’s Five if everyone knew alchemy.

Alchemists were rare in this world.

“Okay, Woo Hung will represent us in the alchemy segment.” Woo Nim nodded as there were no objections.

It was also because the Blazing Skies Mountain’s Yim Clan, the world’s best-forging clan, hadn’t sent anybody. The clan home to the only divine state blacksmith was exceptionally arrogant. Not only did they not enrol anybody in the outer sect, but none of their disciples were sent to attend the Cloud Palace’s enrolment. Even the Mung Clan’s Mung Si was here voluntarily.