Night of the Broken Gliph

Surprised by Lam Chun’s sudden question, Lam Zaa spent a short moment reflecting before, “This son is lacking in combat and gliphism skills…” he answered.

“We are currently in Pure Sun Hall, my bedroom. There are no people other than us, father and son, in here,” Lam Chun waved his hands. “Take a seat.”

Lam Zaa nodded and did as told. His father picked up another teacup and served him tea.

“Your battle with Chui Yim appeared to end with a tie, but after thinking about it, you might realize that defeating him should’ve been a piece of cake. To put it simply, with your current capability, most likely there weren’t any participants who were capable of defeating you.

“Yet, you still lost. Answer me, why is that so?”

“Please clear my doubts, Father.” Lam Zaa shook his head.

“You are… too arrogant and aloof.” Saying this, Lam Chun placed the teapot back on the original spot.

Stunned, Lam Zaa looked up at his father.

“Do you know why Kam Chin Kee managed to rank first?” Lam Chun stared at Lam Zaa seriously. “It was because of Chui Yim. And how did he manage to deal with you? No, it’s not because he blocked your way.

“That’s exactly why Mung Si gave up in the first place and turned to block Kong Yau willingly, and why Lee Bak blocked your attack with the last of his energy. Because Kam Chin Kee was not alone, that’s why there was Chui Yim to stop you with all his might.

“And what about you? Who was left standing next to you when your shadow was sent out of the tower?”

A blurry image appeared in front of Lam Zaa as Lam Chun spoke. In front of him stood Kam Chin Kee, and next to him, there was Chui Yim. Behind them stood Mung Si, Lee Bak, Chor Kwong Laan, and many more companionsof theirs.

However, when Lam Zaa turned to his side, there was nobody.

“Tell me, what do you think I gave you the crown prince badge for?” Lam Chun’s voice alerted Lam Zaa.

“When I took over the South, I had Chui Yi, Sir Wong, and the recently departed General Chor standing by my side. It’s impossible to achieve great things alone.”

Lam Zaa smiled at the sulking Yam Chui Ying. He was still a teenager and had ample time to correct his mistakes. “Do not be arrogant…”

Randomly, he reached out for a book, and a wave-like sound shook the entire Blood Library. This was even more shocking than the announcement for Graceful Footwork!

“Lam Zaa, acknowledged by a nameless legacy – Divine Wave Palm.”

Chui Yim and Kam Chin Kee strolled around the blood library. Things were getting boring for Kam Chin Kee, whose mind kept wandering back to his personal puppet that he had worked on and nurtured for some time. The thought of it using everlasting wood as its core left Kam Chin Kee brimming with excitement. He could finally make a heaven grade puppet after failing in his past two lives!

With Chui Yim’s help in forging, Kam Chin Kee was confident in completing creation within a year and carrying on with nurturing and training shortly after.

Unlike Kam Chin Kee whose mind was in the clouds, Chui Yim was currently equipped with books. It didn’t take long before he captured Kam Chin Kee’s attention with the amusing sight.

Chui Yim’s hands seemed to have magical powers; for every three books he touched, one would light up and release an aura of desire.

Are these all legacies? Kam Chin Kee was left in shock.

Not everything that Chui Yim came across was a legacy, but even ordinary gliphilities were slightly spiritual and could choose their master. And to them, Chui Yim was a perfect choice with his body.

Even though gliphilities and legacies mostly had different conditions to meet, it still boiled down to the same condition – body.

What made a gliphist powerful was an out-of-this-world mental state that allowed them to draw gliphs in the air. In contrast, ordinary people couldn’t even communicate with heaven and earth.

But to be a powerful glipher, a powerful physical body was what made them. The more powerful their body was, the more energliph their body could store, the more intense their gliphilities were, and the consequences of any backlash were lessened.

The reason why legendary six-chambered gliphers were immortal was because they had an invincible body that nothing, not even time, could destroy.

Sun Liu got the approval of the Heaven Tearing Claws due to his strong arms full of potential.

As for Chui Yim, he was one with the Heaven’s Flame, which made his body equivalent to two states above someone of his cultivation. In other words, he was as strong as a three-chambered glipher. Sun Liu was only powerful with his arms, but Chui Yim was powerful entirely.

In short, Chui Yim had a perfect glipher body! This was also the reason Lung Wai Yuet hoped to take him as a disciple.

If Chui Yim could leave even the five-chambered Lung Wai Yuet in awe, he could do so for these legacies too.

Thus, Kam Chin Kee watched Chui Yim fiddle with the books as if they were toys. Every book lit up brightly, but Chui Yim put them aside after skimming through them and realising he wasn’t interested. The smart Kam Chin Kee immediately understood the reason.

Even though Chui Yim had broken through with his innate heart chamber and being a gliphist seemed to be the best career for him, it seemed now like there was a high chance of Chui Yim becoming a glipher.

Filled with excitement, Chui Yim scanned the books one by one, awed by all the images that played in his mind. Since he knew he could only take one book out of the Blood Library, he was careful in accepting the legacies.

Gradually, he moved to the corner of the Blood Library without him realising. By the time he noticed, Chui Yim was at a dead end.

“Look at you, not looking at where you’re going and now we’re at a dead end…” Kam Chin Kee followed behind Chui Yim and sighed helplessly. “Eh, there’s something here?”

Both of them turned to the item Kam Chin Kee pointed out.

They were at the end of the section. The Blood Library was a forest of shelves; books filled each corner of every shelf, and each of them touched the roof. However, the shelf in front of the duo was empty, save for a single simple-looking black book. It gave the duo an aloof, distant vibe.

“What’s this?” Stunned by how he felt slightly threatened by just a book, Kam Chin Kee asked. His capability was similar to a single-gliphic gliphist, but he was extremely knowledgeable and was able to identify how this ordinary scroll emitted a proud, lonely aura. It was as if he was not looking at a lifeless shelf, but at the largest snowy mountain in the world, and this scroll was a plum at the snowy peak.

Stunning, but difficult to comprehend.

When he came back to his senses, Chui Yim had already walked over loudly, muttering about what he spotted. “Eh, there’s a scroll here?”

“Chui Yim, no-!”

Before he could finish his words, Chui Yim’s hands had already landed on the pitch-black scroll.

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