Night of the Broken Gliph

“We will begin when all the participants are ready.

“Remember this; when else should you go all out besides now?!” Fung Seung bellowed, all eight participants excitedly jumping to work. But unlike his well-prepared competition, he moved slowly and unhurriedly.

Yau Suet Chung patted the jade on his waist, a weird item half a man’s height appearing before him, catching even Chui Yim’s attention.

“Is that…his glacier bench?” Chui Yim had heard of water-casting but had yet to witness it in action. Yau Suet Chung’s weird item stood a meter tall, with the width of two human wingspans. It was a water-casting glacier bench; hollow in the middle and looked just like a huge, portable well.

The sides of the bench were blue and cold, and the crowd could feel a chill as soon as Yau Suet Chung took it out.

Fung Seung couldn’t help but nod to himself. Indeed, worthy of being grandmaster Mok’s disciple…This bench should be personally crafted by grandmaster Mok himself.

Moreover, the bench was made out of precious ultrachill jade, a rare ingredient found only at the North Pole. Since the territory fell under the Blazing Skies Mountain, it was monopolized and sold at extravagant prices.

Even so, it didn’t reduce the importance of this item to water-casters. Mok Ching Sau once mentioned that it was a necessary ingredient to create grade four gliph weapons despite low temperature being its only strength.

Ultrachill jade was formed from the water beneath the North Pole. Because of the extreme cold, even fire couldn’t melt the jade, which was considered one of the coldest ingredients. Just using a little jade in water-casting would increase the product’s durability by seventy percent!

As for Yau Suet Chung’s bench, it was made entirely out of ultrachill jade…It definitely cost no less than a grade four gliph weapon.

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Meanwhile, Chau Fook Sau sat cross-legged on the ground, fiddling with something while many bottles sat around him. Unlike water-casting or fire-forging, which required a workbench, grass-refiners only needed to knit or weave their product.

Everyone around Chui Yim was busy except for him. He walked to Yau Suet Chung’s side to watch his forging, inadvertently causing a commotion, but the crowd could do nothing.

This segment was timed, and with the participants’ skills, they’d definitely manage to complete their work before sunset, so each participant was given the freedom to divide their time accordingly. Thus, it was entirely Chui Yim’s prerogative to waste his time watching Yau Suet Chung.

Yau Suet Chung sneered. He didn’t stop Chui Yim as he was secretly pleased that the world’s greatest forging genius was watching him. Heh, I’ll take this chance to show you what a real blacksmith is like!

Excitedly, Yau Suet Chung patted the jade on his waist, several bottles appearing and landing at the bench’s side neatly, like a sparrow building its nest. Yau Suet Chung swiftly poured the contents of the bottles into the bench skillfully.

Plop plop plop…

There was already lake water in the glacier bench, making it similar to a cold well. The moment the liquids were poured into the bench, clear sounds were heard as they froze and sank to the bottom of the bench.

“Interesting.” Chui Yim caressed his bald head. He could feel the well’s low temperature. With his state, he could tell that the water in the “well” was also of an extremely low temperature, and this water was actually the main component of the bench! 

The liquids froze the instant Yau Suet Chung poured them into the well, but the lake water in the well remained fluid. Yau Suet Chung reached out his hands and moved his fingers rapidly, pouring more liquid from the other bottles, the contents similarly freezing. No longer as arrogant as before, Yau Suet Chung turned serious and put his hands into the glacier bench.

Creak creak…

Yau Suet Chung’s arms were covered with energliph to protect him from the cold temperature. With that, he mixed the ice in the water together. Chui Yim could somehow see a long item forming, but he wasn’t able to identify the weapon.

“Cloud Palace outer sect representative! You’re too close; please don’t disturb the other participants!” Just then, Fung Seung couldn’t take it anymore and shouted.

“Oh.” Chui Yim smiled apologetically and stepped backwards, but he only stood there, seemingly not bothering to participate.

Time flew past quickly, and Yau Suet Chung wasn’t the only participant to progress. There was soon another unique aura felt from the other side of the arena!

Chui Yim turned over subconsciously to see that there was a tree trunk which was the size of a human in front of Chai Fook Sau! The latter was holding a huge knife and chopping at it continuously as countless shavings flew everywhere. Kam Chin-Kee, who was spectating found it interesting to watch and felt that it was somehow similar to sculpting.

It was just that the knowledge and skills applied in the two fields were totally different. Besides having a pleasing appearance, gliphs and gliphism were important for the sculpture to resonate with heaven and earth to create special effects.

However, things were different for gliph weapons. Gliphism was less important to gliph weapons, and all the blacksmiths needed to do was cast it into an appropriate shape. However, rather than using just one type of wood, grass-refined weapons were way more complicated as weapons were used to fight fierce battles, so durability and countless other factors needed to be considered.

It seemed similar, but it was fundamentally different.

Even Chui Yim was left with his jaws wide open, this wasn’t his first time watching a grass-refiner work, but he had never seen a blacksmith using such a large tree trunk. As Chai Fook Sau shaved down the trunk, he poured various liquids onto it from time to time, causing many changes.

Chai Fook Sau was fast, and he was obviously very skilled.

It seemed that no matter which world they were in, the fundamentals were most important for blacksmiths. Be it Yau Suet Chung or the steady Chai Fook Sau; they were both skilled blacksmiths.

Having strong fundamentals was the prerequisite to creating a legendary weapon.

Soon, the huge tree had been shaved down into a long wooden rod by him; this rod was formed out of the tree’s core and essence. Its shape was enough to guess that Chai Fook Sau was making a spear, rod, or another similar gliph weapons that were long.

Meanwhile, Yau Suet Chung had started forging too, and he seemed to be making a bladed weapon.

At this moment, both Chai Fook Sau and Yau Suet Chung were in the midst of casting. Chui Yim had now lost interest and started working.

He made his way to a workbench, and to the crowd’s surprise, he took out the weird metal piece from yesterday. Even Fung Seung was shocked. Why did he take this out again?

He had watched Chui Yim create this metal piece yesterday, and after concluding that it wasn’t against the rules, he remained silent and watched Chui Yim closely.

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