Night of the Broken Gliph

Chapter 511

Whoosh!

“Ah!” Chui Yim opened his eyes and sat up abruptly.

His sudden action startled Lam Ming Sum, who was sitting on the wooden chair next to his bed.

“Brother Chui! You're finally awake?” This was a pleasant surprise for Lam Ming Sum.

“What's going on? Aren't I in the Western Desert?” Chui Yim was all dizzy and had not yet registered the situation.

Knowing that Chui Yim's memory should be unclear since he fainted, she passed a cup of water over before explaining. “Third Teacher mentioned that you fought a powerful enemy and fainted afterwards. It’s been a week since then, and it was the Third Teacher who brought you back.”

“A week?!” Chui Yim was in disbelief. He couldn’t believe that one week had passed just like that. As he regained his consciousness, the other Cloud Palace members arrived.

“Little Junior Brother, you’re awake?” Chui Yim saw Kam Chin Kee and sensed a huge change in him. It seemed that he had some gains from his seclusion.

However, he could not bother with anything else at the moment and turned to Hui Sai Cheong. “Third Senior Brother, did you manage to save him?”

“Save who?” The group turned to each other, confused.

Hui Sai Cheong shook his head. “I followed the directions you gave me, but I didn’t see anybody. We had limited time ourselves; even I do not have the ability to go against heaven and earth. If we took any longer to leave, even we would be below the sand right now.”

Chui Yim frowned. He always felt that the teenager in black was extraordinary. “I’m going to Mister Cheuk to see if he can find any signs of life.”

However, Sung Tsz Hin walked over and stopped Chui Yim from moving forcefully. “Calm down, what you need right now is rest. I’ll communicate with Cheuk Kwun for you.”

His voice was filled with energliph that woke Chui Yim up totally.

“Please.” Chui Yim took a deep breath. “I might have died facing such a dangerous situation if not for that friend.”

It seemed that Siu Fu got all the benefits at Chui Yim’s expense, but without Siu Fu’s deduction, there’s no confirming that Chui Yim would’ve been able to obtain Ka Yi’s personal flame, Fury, that was congealed with Ka Yi’s lifetime cultivation.

After a long wait, Mister Cheuk got back. He told them that even with Spirit Roaming and the Celestial Pearl, he could only detect about a hundred meters below the sand. The Western Desert was a huge desert, and it was a tough task to search for even the Red Rampart!

Thus, even Mister Cheuk could not come up with a result within a short time.

Thus, all Chui Yim could do now was wait.

All Cloud Palace members were left silent after hearing the entire story from Chui Yim. It was a heavy matter, and from the surging evil energy Hui Sai Cheong felt, it would’ve been a catastrophe if the evil beast had managed to escape.

They were also slightly dumbfounded after learning about the legacy of the Buddhist sect that had long vanished from the world. It was recorded in the books kept in Cloud Forest that the Thousand-Leaf Sect was the greatest organisation on the planet a thousand years ago apart from some other equally powerful Buddhist sects.

The Buddhist sects dominated the continent like how the North and South did today. The sects were not on the best terms, but since they were of the same religion, there weren’t any deadly wars like today’s world.

Their legacies were long gone, and even today’s Apex Temple was not an authentic Buddhist sect since the two legacies Mute inherited were incomplete.

Buddhism was all about cultivating inner peace and zen. The actual Buddhism that cultivated inner peace, the physical body, and zen were long gone.

The Cloud Palace members were filled with respect to hear about the nine elites that sealed themselves into pillars just to seal the world’s great evil. They were also shocked yet felt that it made a lot of sense after hearing that Chui Yim tattooed his chamber with Ka Yi’s spiritual fire. At Cloud Palace, all of them were extraordinary, thus this was nothing surprising to them.

They had never heard about anybody tattooing gliphs with fire; Chui Yim was the first for them. But given that, it totally made sense that he had a great monk’s spiritual fire tattooed on him as a gliph, exceptional individuals performed exceptional actions, after all. 

“Let’s test your newly acquired strength after you have recovered, Little Junior Brother!”

Chui Yim nodded. Since Cheuk Kwun was already searching for Siu Fu, there wasn’t anything that he needed to worry about. Moreover, he was curious about his new strength too. He closed his eyes to feel it before reopening them. “I’m good to go now. I feel oddly energetic, as if there’s infinite energy inside me.”

“Alright.” Sung Tsz Hin smiled gently, and a painting appeared in his hands.

Chui Yim was no longer shocked like how he was during the Cloud Trials. For the past four years, they had entered Sung Tsz Hin’s drawing countless times and knew that this was Sung Tsz Hin’s treasure, the Ink Heaven Painting.

After Chui Yim entered the painting, Sung Tsz Hin turned to Kam Chin Kee. “Sixth Junior Brother, you have just broken through as well. It’s the best time for you to have a spar with Little Junior Brother.”

“Alright.” Kam Chin Kee wore a slight smile on his face.

Whoosh…

With a breeze, Kam Chin Kee disappeared from the spot.

After a short pause, Hui Sai Cheong spoke up. “Great Senior Brother, I felt the aura of necrocultivators in the desert, I’m afraid that the teenager Little Junior Brother met was one of them.”

“They couldn’t hold back anymore, I see?” Sung Tsz Hin sighed as he looked outside of the window.

“Don’t let Little Junior Brother know about this. We’ll speak to him after Mister Cheuk returns with the confirmed result.”

Hui Sai Cheong nodded. As if remembering something, he wore a complex look.

“What? Are you reminded of the past?” Sung Tsz Hin asked with a comforting smile. “Don’t think about it and focus on our junior brothers first.”

Hui Sai Cheong nodded and had his gaze fixated on the Ink Heaven Painting.

It was a vast grassland in the painting. The next second, Chui Yim and Kam Chin Kee appeared out of the blue.

Chui Yim caressed his bald head and swung his arms around like he was stretching. “I see that you’ve had some gains as well.”

“I’ve broken through.” Kam Chin Kee smiled when he heard that.

“Hehe, me too.” Chui Yim laughed.

They were talking about reaching the two-chambered state, however, their breakthroughs were unlike other ordinary gliphers.

Chui Yim and Kam Chin Kee did not cultivate like how ordinary gliphers did, simply making use of their physical body to access their chambers and inserting energliph into them. Instead, they cultivated the ancient method of gliphism where there wasn’t a differentiation between gliphist and glipher.

They referred to states like how gliphers did, but the actual process was extensively tougher. For example, Chui Yim was only truly considered to be in the “two-chambered state” of gliphism cultivation because his physical body reached the two-chambered state and his mental state reached the single-gliphic state.

Even though Chui Yim and Kam Chin Kee had reached the single-gliphic state and drew gliphs in the air long ago, their mental state would need to reach the ten-gliphic state when they moved onto the three-chambered state.

And the hundred-gliphic state when they reached the four-chambered state.

Because cultivating gliphism was the way that could lead to actual success, mental state and physical state would have to be on par and seen as one. In today’s world, most had already abolished this system.

Humans only have a limited amount of strength and time. It was already tedious for many gliphers and gliphists to reach the two-chambered or ten-gliphic state during their lifetime, so asking for them to multi-task and focus on both was no different from mission impossible. Moreover, cultivating both mental and physical strength and actually making use of both at the same time were completely different concepts.

It was tremendously tougher than today’s cultivation system.

In short, gliphers and gliphists today were simplified cultivators.

Cultivating gliphism was the toughest for Cloud Palace members, thus, they only took in talented teens who were capable of taking up the tough cultivation path.

Chui Yim stopped waving his arm and reached out his right arm.

Whoosh…

A milky white flame appeared on his palm, burning.

“So this is Fury?”

Chui Yim looked at the flame curiously.

In fact, Chui Yim did not feel much of his powerful attack back at the Red Rampart Desert; he was just a medium for the power that Ka Yi prepared a thousand years ago.

This was the first time he actually felt Fury. When he activated it, he felt the weird symptom first, which was a change to his emotions. Anger gushed up within him, but it was different from when he first acquired Fury; it was a quiet fury now.

If Fury was described as a burning flame when he just got hold of it, it could be described as an oil lamp’s flame now, sitting silently without any strong movement, yet it could be felt when someone moved close.

Chui Yim’s Heaven’s Flame heart reacted the moment he felt the anger. It pumped violently and fast, and his burning hair grew instantly.