Night of the Broken Gliph

Just as Kong Yao was fuming at Mung Si’s indifferent attitude, a girl with “the girl next door” vibes joined them. She wasn’t as stunning as Kong Yau or comparable to the gorgeous Mung Si. However, her beauty slowly grew on you, best described as a calm spring.

It was Ha Yu Bing, representative of the Great Book Academy.

Capability-wise, Ha Yu Bing had never been the best, but the disciples ranked before her were both gliphers; her senior sister Siu Suet and the Fok Clan’s Fok Fung. Thus, she was selected to represent her institution.

Seeing these three beauties standing side by side left the crowd staring at them. The conventional beauty Kong Yau, foreign beauty Mung Si and gentle Ha Yu Bing. How could anyone look away from the three beauties standing before them?

“Alright.” Grandma Chin Shu’s voice rang throughout the arena, signalling the start of the competition. “Welcome to day five of the interschool exchange, the gliphism segment. I won’t beat around the bush. Today’s topic is basic gliphism.”

Grandma Chin Shu flipped her hands as a palm-sized scroll flew out from her sleeves. At the same time, there was a huge gale, and the scroll grew larger, eventually covering half the arena. Many of the spectators knew that this wasn’t the scroll’s limit. They had witnessed with their eyes how the Divine Tome of Heaven Domination could ferry over a thousand people at once!

“Books are a source of knowledge, and our collection is an important reason why the South remains powerful. We value knowledge, passing down our experiences to future generations. Our institutions are also why we have more cultivators than the North, and this is sufficient to prove their importance.

“If not for the great war a thousand years ago, we would definitely have more records than this.”

Grandma Chin Shu’s words made the important Northern figures nod tacitly. This was the exact reason why Northern disciples came to join the Cloud Palace outer sect. In the North, they would never experience such an educational system.

“This is the treasure of the Great Book Academy,” Grandma Chin Shu said, looking proud. “It was the treasure of a ten thousand-gliphic state gliphist from ancient times, and part of the gliphs from the gliphist’s memory is inside. Our institution was founded around the knowledge from this treasure, eventually becoming one of the Big Three today.

“This treasure has extensive abilities, one of which is examining people.”

Grandma Chin Shu said as she flipped her hand. Under her control, human-size balls of light descended from the Divine Tome of Heaven Domination, one landing in front of each of the participants.

“As soon as you enter the light, the nine thousand and eight hundred basic gliphs of gliphism will be shown to them. The eight gliphists that can name the most gliphs will qualify for the finals tomorrow.”

“Wow!” The crowd gasped after hearing such a new competition format. Furthermore, the crowd was excited to watch this competition, which would be way more exciting than yesterday’s alchemy competition. Even Sze Fung was secretly happy to hear this as he complimented Grandma Chin Shu‘s intelligence to himself. She had solved the Metallic Blood War Gate’s headache by creating an interesting competition and leaving a good impression of the Great Book Academy. But Sze Fung didn’t mind; he was actually thankful that Grandma Chin Shu added some flavour to the interschool exchange after Ping Chi’s boring topic.

“Participants, please enter the light.”

Mung Si did as she was told calmly, and Kong Yau followed suit, entering her respective ball of light. Ha Yu Bing and the other participants entered as well.

When the last participant entered, Grandma Chin Shu nodded with a smile. “Alright, let’s begin!”

As soon as she spoke, numbers appeared above the lights.

“Look, the numbers are moving!”

“Are those the number of gliphs the participants named correctly?”

“I would be proud if I could name a hundred of the nine thousand eight hundred gliphs.”

“Of course, but that’s you! How could you compete with those geniuses?”

Amidst the commotion, there were a few outstanding participants.

“Look, the numbers are going up fast!”

“That’s…Mung Si!”

“Look at Kong Yau too!”

Within the light, Mung Si had been stunned initially, but she soon regained her calm. After all, she had even survived the Chamber Refining Cave, which was impossible for most. She was a girl with incredible mental strength.

Gliphs appeared in front of her one by one, and they disappeared as soon as she spoke their names. But when she came across those she didn’t recognize, she merely needed to utter the words ‘give up’, which would make the gliph change.

“Vanguard Soldiers.”

“Stunning Thunder.”

“Lightweight.”

“Snail Shell.”

“Power energliph.”

“Whirlwind.”

“Blazing Sun.”

Mung Si was so composed it was as if she wasn’t the participant being tested. She named countless gliphs one by one, and before she knew it, the number above her head had exceeded 1,000.

At the same time, the confident Kong Yau had similarly reached the 1,000 mark. However, she didn’t slow down. Instead, she sped up!

Ha Yu Bing had named 900 gliphs.

Besides the beautiful trio, another bald teenage boy had also reached the 900 mark, chasing them fiercely. He was a disciple from the Apex Temple, the genius gliphist Yuen Yau.

After Yip Luk Ching participated in the alchemy segment, the School of Blossoms didn’t send any replacements.

 In the other Eight Institutions and Big Three, there weren’t many well-known gliphists since every institution could only send one representative, and most of the talented gliphists had joined the outer sect. This segment was actually just a competition between Kong Yau from the Stars Unite Education Center, Ha Yu Bing from the Great Book Academy, Yuen Yau from the Apex Temple and Mung Si from the Cloud Palace outer sect.

“Oh lord…Mung Si and Kong Yau reached three thousand!”

“Ha Yu Bing and Yuen Yau have reached two thousand five hundred!”

“How are they able to remember over a thousand gliphs…”

“Idiot! Gliphists cultivate their mental strength; their memory isn’t something we can match!”

No matter how noisy the crowd was, those within the lights couldn’t hear them. All they could hear and see was their own voice and the gliphs in front of them.

No matter how fast one was, there were more than 9,000 glyphs. When Mung Si reached the 7,000 mark, four hours had already passed.

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