Night of the Broken Gliph

Chapter 470

“I refuse to accept this outcome as final!”

A voice echoed through the outer sect, revealing the owner’s indignity

The bustling crowd turned silent the moment they heard him.

Indeed, compared to the participants of the Cloud Trials themselves, who were they to question the results?

Lam Zaa glared at Cheuk Kwun, energliph surging around his body. Invisible energliph movement of the Hundred Streams body gushed like scary rogue waves. “I’m unconvinced.”

Unflustered, Cheuk Kwun pointed towards the classroom that had disappeared previously. It was unknown when, but it had returned silently.

“All unsuccessful candidates, please make your way into the classroom one by one for commentary if you wish.”

Immediately, Lam Zaa strode towards the classroom and went into it under the stares of the crowd.

They were only making a fuss previously, knowing full well that it would not affect Cloud Palace’s decision. Now, all of them were just hoping to find out about the reason for Cloud Palace’s exception from Lam Zaa.

The room was brightly lit up with a man sitting in it. There was a small table in front of him with two worn out cushions.

It was Sung Tsz Hin, who had his black ponytail tied up like always. He signaled Lam Zaa to take a seat opposite him. “Please take a seat.”

Lam Zaa felt his anger dispersing the moment he met Sung Tsz Hin’s eyes that were like an ocean abyss. However, he did not forget what he was here for. “Why the both of them?”

Not why Cloud Palace took two disciples, but why Kam Chin Kee and Chui Yim out of them all.

“Do you like calligraphy?” Sung Tsz Hin returned a gentle smile.

“I asked first.” Lam Zaa was taken aback.

“Why do you need to know?” Sung Tsz Hin smiled at him. “Rather than the success of others, your own shortcomings were more important. If you were the best candidate, you would have been selected.”

Sung Tsz Hin stared at Lam Zaa and spoke after a short pause. “I must be the reason you choose calligraphy, am I right?”

The more accurate Sung Tsz Hin was, the darker Lam Zaa's face turned.

But Sung Tsz Hin did not care about Lam Zaa's answer before he continued of his own accord. “The world is huge, but every path leads to the same destination. You managed to understand the true meaning of calligraphy slightly, but that was exactly the reason why your true intentions were clear.

“Passion isn’t the reason that you practice calligraphy, but because you knew that the Cloud Palace first teacher of this generation, which is me, practices calligraphy, you wanted to pick up the same hobby. But what you didn't know was that, because it’s my strength, I'm able to easily see through the intentions you harbored.

“I saw self-centeredness from your work, and even the word you wrote subconsciously was also your surname, ‘Lam.’

“A person like you is unsuitable for Cloud Palace.” Sung Tsz Hin looked at him calmly, wearing a sweet smile on his face.

Bang! Lam Zaa stood up and glared at Sung Tsz Hin angrily, but the other only gestured him to the door, smiling. “Good bye.”

Watching Lam Zaa exit the room in fury with strong energliph movement, the crowd dared not get on his bad side. On Kuet and Woo Hung chased after him after exchanging a glance.

Not everyone in the world could be like Chui Yim.

The crown prince badge was no doubt a great chance for any clan disciple, as it symbolised resources from the dynasty as well as their future of becoming the next emperor's right hand. Woo Hung was awarded one because of his outstanding talent in medicine and alchemy, while On Kuet was obviously because he ranked seventh on the Blue Skies Rank.

Even Chor Kwong Laan and Wong Chow Yip did not manage to do so!

However, this didn’t mean that On Kuet was on bad terms with Chui Yim and Kam Chin Kee; he liked the both of them, especially the talented blacksmith Chui Yim, who he would most likely get his weapons from. He even congratulated them before leaving in a hurry.

Mung Si sat upright on the cushion. Sung Tsz Hin couldn’t help but take another glance at her. Of course, not for her beauty, but at how composed she was even after failing the enrollment; there wasn't the slightest hint of dismay or unhappiness seen on her.

“You have great aptitude and were a close candidate.” Sung Tsz Hin commented.

He had a youthful appearance, but nobody dared to look down on him as every first teacher of Cloud Palace was Cloud Palace's spokesman for that particular generation. Even though the world had never met their mysterious palace master, as the current spokesman, the chance of his words were likely to be on the palace master’s behalf.

“Please guide me, First Teacher.” Mung Si took this chance and paid full attention to the answer.

“But you do not have a passion for gliphism.”

This left Mung Si thunderstruck. “What?”

“Why did you choose to enter the Chamber Refining Cave back then? Weren't you having a great time practicing martial arts back in the Yim Clan?”

Sung Tsz Hin's voice was magical, pulling Mung Si back to her childhood. In Blazing Skies Mountain, the Yim Clan was a clan of martial artists, and the Mung Clan was their support to make up for the Yim Clan's shortcomings.

The Mung Clan was a “gliphist producer,” born to tattoo gliphs for the Yim Clan.

When she did her chamber check at the age of nine, she stunned the world with her double innate chambers. But being Mung Si, rather than getting carried away, she was obsessed with martial arts and trained hard.

Everything changed one day when she returned home from cultivation and overheard the current Mung Clan Leader, Mung Sam Siu, and the elder's conversation. “The Mung Clan would remain prosperous for centuries if Mung Si was a gliphist.”

Most children wouldn't think much about such a conversation, and if they did, most of them would feel upset.

But Mung Si was an oddball. She, rather than feeling indifferent or upset, felt guilty, which got her to enter the Chamber Refining Cave and exit as a gliphist.

She could only give up on the martial arts that she enjoyed and practice gliphism extremely hard.

Only now did Sung Tsz Hin's words unearth the memory that she hid in the back of her head.

“How can you reach the peak of the world if it's not something you sincerely enjoy?

“You'll have no problem reaching the thousand-gliphic state.

“But that’s your limit. It will be impossible to go even a tiny step beyond that.”