Fung Seung watch the scene, appaled. So how did this end up with me sabotaging myself!? But before he could react, Chui Yim already agreed.
“Sure!” He made his way to Chai Fook Sau and took the spear over.
The spear was green in colour and beneath the jade-like coat of it laid red, green and blue gliph patterns. It was a simple yet classic weapon. Unlike Yau Suet Chung, Chai Fook Sau was a humble boy who already believed in Chui Yim’s ability after the chances Chui Yim used to prove his capability.
“I name this spear constant.” Chai Fook Sau said politely.
“No bad. You did not make the casting mistake that the other idiot did,” Chui Yim did not name names, but the glance he threw Yau Suet Chung was enough to let the crowd know who he was talking about. “However, there’s some problem with the gliph you chose.”
“Why though?” Chai Fook Sau was confused. “The Snake Ruler gliph increases the spear flexibility, and Attack increases the spear’s speed.”
“It’s the same mistake as the first participant,” Chui Yim answered. “The ingredient for constant was the human-face tree from the forbidden forest, and I right?”
Chai Fook Sau nodded.
Human-face tree is a tree found in Forbidden Forest, and it emits a sweet scent that attracts beasts near for them to gobble up. Because it does not emits energliph wave, two-chambered gliphers who stand near it carelessly face the chance of death. And as time passed, the tree took the appearance of a human face, which was what helped Chui Yim identify what Chai Fook Sau was shaving. With the knowledge from books, he estimated that the wood Chai Fook Sau has is about two hundred years old.
“Human-face tree is a precious ingredient that sucks the vitality of other living things for their survival. It’s a rare ingredient, and you should brainstorm how to make use of this to its best instead of simply carving common gliphs like Snake Ruler and Attack on it. It’s not that you’ve made a mistake, but this is wasting of precious items. If it was me, I’ll carve the Soul Stealer as the main gliph with soul stealing tree, and carve gliphs similar to the Vanguard Soldiers for the inferior gliph.“The Soul Stealer gliph that was carved with soul stealing tree comes with the ability to suck in energliph, which cooperates with the human-face tree’s ability to suck vitality in well. As for the inferior gliphs, it’s not as important. Carving the Vanguard Soldiers can take in the energliph of enemy’s attack and turn it into the energy for your spear. As for Stunning Thunder, it could turn the energliph from an enemy into powerful energy to crush him or her.”
As Chui Yim rambled on, Chai Fook Sau stood rooted to the ground in a daze. “What’s Soul Stealer gliph though, I have never once heard of it!”
“Haha, it’s an extremely rare and little-known gliph,” A lady’s voice replied to Chai Fook Sau. “I’m surprised this boy here knows about it. Are you interested to join the School of Blossoms as the first male blossom?”
The lady was no other than Fa Siu Siu, and she was staring at Chui Yim with a teasing smile on her pretty face. She has established her own academy now but was still a talent from the Stars Unite Education Center which was most famous for its gliphist. Every gliphist who graduated from the institution was talented and had high status in the world. Well, Stars Unite Education Center is the first institution of gliphist in South and the only institution that took in just gliphist as their students.
Many weren’t surprised that Fa Siu Siu understood the Soul Stealer, but the conditions were what made all eyes green with envy! Her institution was a girl’s school after all, and unofficial surveys showed that nine out of ten men dreamt of becoming the emperor because they wished to be surrounded by many concubines! Thus, many of them view Lam Chun in disdain. So what if Lee Fei Yin was the most beautiful woman in South? Having the love of many wives is what aimed to have!
And now, Fa Siu Siu was giving Chui Yim a chance to make this dream come true! Even some Cloud Palace outer sect male disciples were staring at Chui Yim in utter jealousy. But the benefits a genius blacksmith could bring to the School of Blossoms and other institutions made Fa Siu Siu’s actions a lot of sense.
As for Chui Yim, he wasn’t proud of the offer. Calmly, the growing teenager turned to Fa Siu Siu. “Let’s talk about it next time.” He was aware that Fa Siu Siu was doing so because of benefits, and accepting it made him no different from the puppet blacksmith he was last life; one that lived to make weapons for others.
Forging, medicine and other subjects were only stepping stones to help him grab hold of the destiny of his own life. And before he had the ability to self-defend, support from powerful individual and organizations were something he needed.
Chai Fook Sau was greatly enlightened after hearing from Chui Yim. “I learned more than I’ve read the past ten years, Fook Sau thank you!”
Chui Yim nodded and turned to Yau Suet Chung. “You two should be discussion buddies.”
“Why?” Yau Suet Chung frowned. He had to admit to all his mistakes that Chui Yim pointed out but he couldn’t help but ask.
“Because one of you lacks in gliphism and the other lacks in knowledge of weapons,” Chui Yim explained slowly. “You both would learn a lot from the other party in terms of where you are lacking; it’s important to find a buddy that grows with you as a blacksmith, it helps a lot.”
Fung Seung realised something was off; his disciple was staring at Chui Yim with great admiration! He cut them off immediately. “Let’s have the judges to judge now.” With that, Chai Fook Sau’s weapon was passed over to them but maybe due to Chui Yim’s words, they already had the prejudice that it was a great weapon with simple gilph. Moreover, every one of the important figures used gliph weapons that were specially tailor-made to them with special gliphs. In the end, they awarded sixty-five points to Chai Fook Sau, three points higher than Yau Suet Chung.
Yau Suet Chung had already admired Chui Yim sincerely by now, but being an arrogant boy who was the best water-caster’s direct disciple that many viewed as a genius, he was unable to let his pride down. “Now let’s take a look at brother Chui’s great work.”
Chui Yim laughed and threw his work over without hesitation. “Here.”
“It’s so light!” Yau Suet Chung grabbed hold of it subconsciously. Even though Chui Yim’s work process was covered with smoke at the end, he still saw Chui Yim picking the minerals as his ingredients and couldn’t believe the lightweight of refining all of them!
“Brother Chui, what gliph weapon is this?” Chai Fook Sau asked carefully.
“Oh, a shield.”
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