Night of the Broken Gliph

 The swirling in the phantom monkey’s eyes intensified; it was using its mental attack! 

Bzz──

Despite receiving the mental attack, Chui Yim remained composed as his Heaven’s Flame devoured the mental attack in no time. He fished out a small cylinder as the phantom monkey was still in shock. 

Chui Yim triggered the cylinder, firing the Thousand Mechanism Arrows into the phantom monkey. If it could grow safely without being poached by humans, it would become a king amongst gliphic beasts. 

But now, it had fallen to the fragile human.. 

Chui Yim panted while his heart still pounded heavily. He had read about the phantom monkey in books and knew that its mental attack was deadly; it was even known as the glipher killer since most gliphers had weaker mental states, unlike gliphist who had to train their mental state to control gliph strings. 

However, mental attacks were something Chui Yim never had to care about. The Heaven’s Flame in his body still remained a mystery, but after the incident with the four-chambered Yellow Spring Lady before her death, he was sure that it could deal with the one-chambered phantom monkey’s metal attack. If it could deal with a four-chambered necrocultivator’s mental attack, it could deal easily with such a petty attack. 

In contrast, the monkey’s phantasmic speed and immense strength were what Chui Yim feared more. Luckily, it was too hasty, and that led to its death. Chui Yim did his best to hold himself back from using the Thousand Mechanism Arrow earlier—if he missed, he’d need time to reload, which he didn’t have any of. 

Chui Yim planned on keeping the phantom monkey’s corpse before leaving. As it was valuable, he didn’t want it to attract any attention. This thought made him caress the  corpse, which suddenly emitted a grey smoke. The smoke took the form of a phantom monkey, even its bloody red eyes! It looked just like the phantom monkey in the form of smoke! 

Terrified, Chui Yim backed off, but he was too slow. With an angry expression, it entered his body! His eyes turned grey-red as he fell unconscious and collapsed onto the ground. 

Woo Nim and Cheuk Kwun were still on the cloud. 

“That Northen knife boy is dead.” Cheuk Kwun raised a brow suddenly. 

“It was by the Tower Master’s disciple of the Metallic Blood War Gate.”

“Deserved that for speaking rudely.” Cheuk Kwun shrugged.  

“We still need to come up with an explanation.” Woo Nim nodded.

Very soon, silence fell again. 

After some time, Cheuk Kwun opened his eyes, slightly aghast. “An unlucky child has met a phantom monkey.” 

“Will it be death or an opportunity for him?” Woo Nim pondered. She had a slow reaction, and only after a while did she realise that this kid was the boy Uncle Wun had asked her to look after. This thought made her turn pale as she stood up, trembling. 

“Woo Nim, you know the rules. We can’t help,” Cheuk Kwun reminded her lazily.

She stiffened before sitting down slowly , but her eyes remained locked onto Chui Yim and the phantom monkey. 

The phantom monkey was a weird gliphic beast that had no fixed habitat. There were sightings of them in both the South and North, but elites were always looking out for them due to their high price. 

Phantom monkeys had great overall strength and potential, and most beings of the same rank were no match for it. Their only predators were humans. Still, a one-chambered phantom monkey could easily crush the average one-chambered glipher! 

Now, Chui Yim had killed it with the Thousand Mechanism Arrow. 

“Oh, what an interesting item.” Cheuk Kwun chuckled in curiosity. In front of Woo Nim, Only when with Woo Nim would he put down the serious facade he used in front of the disciples. “It might only work against one-chambered or single-gliphic cultivators, but you don’t need energliph to use it. Not bad at all.” 

Woo Nim heaved a sigh of relief. However, the next second, they saw the puff of grey smoke entering Chui Yim and knocking him unconscious. 

“What the hell was that?” 

Woo Nim aside, even Cheuk Kwun was taken aback. Even he, the Cloud Forest Library’s guardian, hadn’t seen such a thing before. 

“I’m going to take a look.” Woo Nim couldn’t sit still any longer. 

“Woo Nim!” Cheuk Kwun shouted at her. “Don’t forget who you are!” But very soon, he let out a laugh. “I guess this kid is lucky enough to have a helping hand.” 

While Chui Yim was down unconscious, gliphic beasts attracted by the phantom monkey’s blood came over. The first to arrive were a few breeze wolves that lived in packs. They were one-chambered gliphic beasts with terrifying speed and the ability to launch breeze blades. The worst thing was that they lived in packs; a large pack could consist of up to a thousand wolves. Imagine a thousand breeze wolves launching breeze blades at the same time; even three-chambered gliphers would have to avoid them! 

The first wolves to appear were scouts. They rushed over excitedly after detecting the scents of Chui Yim and the monkey’s corpse. Before they could reach him, a scorching hot aura appeared out of the blue. Gliph strings crossed one other in the air and took form in a split second. A pair of wings flew across the air, leaving two traces of fire that distorted the air. 

The breeze wolves were killed silently. 

The petite girl appeared on the branch once again and approached Chui Yim while trampling over the dried leaves. She frowned as she mumbled, “What a piece of trash…” 

Even so, she tucked away the phantom monkey’s corpse while carrying Chui Yim on her back. 

As someone who exercised daily, Chui Yim had a considerably large build, at least larger than the girl. Even so, she carried him without much effort. The dried leaves cracked under her feet as she walked away. 

She arrived at a huge tree and threw him down. Chui Yim slumped into the ground with his eyes shut tightly as if he was in deep pain. Mung Si frowned, but moments later, she  sat next to him and began meditating. 

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