Night of the Broken Gliph

As for the last of the Big Three, the Great Book Academy, their mentors had mixed feelings about the institution’s performance; they were happy to watch Ha Yu Bing, Siu Suet, and Fok Fung prove their capabilities and talent through the group competition, but at the same time, it worried them to see Fok Fung targeting his schoolmates to advance in the competition. The younger generation of the institution was now split into two factions, one under Siu Suet and Ha Yu Bing’s lead while the other under Fok Fung.

It was the first time such an incident took place in the Great Book Academy ever since its establishment. Even Elder Man Shu had to step in to temporarily resolve this matter. The Great Book Academy’s top three students now viewed each other as foes, unlike the Metallic Blood War Gate who were strongly united.

Not only the Big Three, but the group competition had changed the lives of other participants too. Duen Por Do, one of the dark horses of this competition, fell out and cut off all ties with his master, Fung Seung. His title as Fung Seung’s disciple was only in name to start with as Duen Por Do never had the intention to pick up forging, and both of them only kept the title for benefit.

After leaving the Blacksmith Academy, Duen Por Do joined the Sky Raiser institution and became Lui Pat Lok’s disciple. Despite not practising sabers like Lui Pat Lok did, the powerful Southern cultivator who wielded a saber was still knowledgeable enough to teach a one-chambered boy.

The School of Blossoms also saw commendable results. Managing to reach the fourth floor despite Fok Fung’s chase, Yip Luk Ching knew it was her limit and left the tower after taking in the blood intent. After the competition, Yip Luk Ching still focused on alchemy but further understood the importance of cultivation and soon created her own personal gliph, Blood Elixir. She also received recognition for it.

Lastly, the Cloud Palace outer sect… There were no other words needed for them.

The public finally understood why Cloud Palace was so confident in their disciples, even making daring comments about how the entire cohort would be expelled if they failed to clinch victory. After attracting numerous talents with their reputation, the Cloud Palace outer sect taught the teenagers well, and great improvements were clearly seen.

Disciples like Mung Si, Kam Chin Kee, Chor Kwong Laan, and Wong Chow Yip were not included, as they had already gained fame a long time ago. But Lam Zaa, who inherited the Hundred Streams Body – the special body form of his clan that had yet to appear in the world for hundreds of years – was greatly valued and became the strongest competitor for the Cloud Palace disciple slot within a night.

The second competitor would be Chui Yim, who possessed a body as powerful as a gliphic beast, even able to go head-on with Lam Zaa. Moreover, he didn’t have any background, which made him instantly attractive to all big organizations and institutions.

The Metallic Blood War Gate’s Lung Wai Yuet gifted him a blood intent pearl to forge a good relationship before he even got his hands on True Domineer. The same went for Apex Temple, but it was rarer to find anyone else that gave a copy of their institution’s secret style as a greeting gift.

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Chui Yim opened his eyes, and a smile swept across his face. He had been cultivating True Domineer this entire month and saw visible improvement. Chui Yim also remembered to strengthen his body at the same time and consumed the blood intent pearl the night after receiving it from Lee Bak.

The blood intent pearl was a product of congealed blood intent, making it half solid. Consuming the blood intent pearl was equivalent to digesting a huge amount of blood intent in the body slowly for strengthening purposes. At most, about twenty blood intent pearls were produced every Blood Tide that took place once in a blue moon. This was how precious the item was.

And now, Chui Yim was cultivating the Invincible Diamond Body from Apex Temple. It was great, just that… people cultivating this style developed their “invincible body” by absorbing different types of liquids, while Chui Yim had a strong body due to changes brought about by the foreign Heaven’s Flame in his heart.

He read the first volume of Invincible Diamond Body carefully and came to this conclusion. A huge variation of medicinal liquids, gliphic plants, and even precious metals was needed. They also needed a special technique to turn it all into a medicine bath.

Cultivators were required to bathe in this bath every day while cultivating to allow changes to take place to their bodies. It sounded kind of absurd, but there were many Apex Temple disciples proving the method right.

Chui Yim finally figured out the reason why Mute gave him a copy of this style. The ingredients required for the medicinal bath were hardly obtainable by ordinary people, and for one to successfully cultivate bronze skin, they must soak themselves for seven hours per day, forty-nine days straight. Missing a single day would be equivalent to failure.

The total cost involved to cultivate bronze skin was insane, not even mentioning the steel bones that followed.

That was not all. Many ingredients recorded were never seen by Chui Yim in real life, only books. He was unsure how Apex Temple managed to get these resources, and the last stage, gold body, only had the steps recorded, not the ingredients needed.

Mute knew that Chui Yim was a gifted blacksmith who could afford the ingredients needed for bronze skin, but steel bones was where it became difficult. Many ingredients were only found in Apex Temple, who grew them personally for their own use. The requirements for steel bones were very high, so Chui Yim wouldn’t bet everything to cultivate steel bones, and even if he did, the success rate would be low. But if Chui Yim somehow succeeded, there was no reason for him to not continue to gold body, the ingredient list for that being in Apex Temple’s hands.

Luring me with a secret style as bait, huh?

Chui Yim sighed helplessly. As someone who made a living with his physical strength, he would not miss any chance to improve his body. Thus, he called for Chau Chung to prepare the ingredients necessary for bronze skin.

The collection of ingredients was not simple, neither was it simple on Chui Yim’s purse. But as both a glipheon and blacksmith, affording a medicine bath according to the scrolls was still manageable.

He was currently at the peak of the one-chambered state, and he felt a weird feeling; there was something stuck in his throat that made him uncomfortable, but he still hadn’t figured out what was wrong. But he was not anxious as he knew things would be good after the Heaven’s Flame that bothered him for ten years merged with his body.

Now, he worked hard cultivating, since his “master fallen from the skies” Wong Ba was so powerful that the heavens envied him. Well, that was the official word, which Chui Yim sneered at, but he still took it to heart.

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