Night of the Broken Gliph

Chapter 562

For cultivators, time was less meaningful than it was for ordinary people. Seclusion could last a few days to half a month, or even years for some cultivators. For example, Hung Chin Sung's gliphility, the Silver Curtain, was a result of three years of seclusion.

Thus, three days went past in the blink of an eye.

Chui Yim had left the waterfall area and was playing around with his monkey, Rocky, in the dry area. He felt that the waterfall was no longer beneficial after three days. He had the body of a three-chambered glipher, thus this was the furthest he could go before breaking through the boundary. Being able to improve and further perfect his body down to the slightest detail within three days was more than satisfactory for Chui Yim.

Now, he was just waiting for Kam Chin Kee to end his cultivation while cultivating mentally as he played with Rocky.

Tattooing his chamber with Fury helped increase his power, but to be honest, it paled in comparison to the exaggerated boost brought by the Heaven's Flame back in the day. Fury was Ka Yi's spiritual flame, so it shouldn't be so mediocre.

There must be something wrong.

Since Kam Chin Kee and Chui Yim couldn't come up with a conclusion, they placed the topic aside.

And that was how Chui Yim turned to the Buddhist legacy.

Fury was not just the spiritual flame of a powerful monk, but the legacy of the Thousand-Leaves Sect. Most Buddhism styles were no longer relevant in today's world, but some were still fairly powerful. One good example would be the Mount Meru Strike he performed back at Apex Temple, turning Mount Meru into a mustard seed. Not accounting for the long charge-up time, it was even stronger than his Flowing July Flame.

Chui Yim strongly believed that, other than Mount Meru Strike, there were other techniques that would be helpful to him, so he was currently going through it right now, even if it looked like he was just playing with Rocky.

Both he and Kam Chin Kee were treating this journey down the mountains cautiously. Yes, four-chambered gliphers would not fight them, but who could confirm that there were no cultivators of the three-chambered or ten-gliphic state and below that could defeat and injure them?

Especially since they were part of Cloud Palace. They might have defeated the three-chambered state Yuen Ho, the Dragon Dance Academy's principal, in a fight, but in front of someone like Wat Suen, Yuen Ho would be killed in a second by her instrument even if she fought in the same state. She was more powerful than them in all aspects, and who would dare to swear that there was no such other person in the world?

If any person other than Chui Yim and Kam Chin Kee was selected, they would already have their noses pointed to the sky, extremely full of themselves, but Chui Yim and Kam Chin Kee were people who had reincarnated.

Taking things lightly and casually never crossed their minds. Even when the Great Wisdom City teens came with the intention to fight, Chui Yim took them all seriously.

Every fight was potentially life threatening, and nobody would treat their own life as a joke.

Thus, Chui Yim seized every chance he could to improve, even if it was insignificant.

In three days, he found two techniques that were most helpful to him at this point in time in the Buddhism legacy of the Thousand-Leaves sect – Shrinking Earth into Inches and Windless Palm.

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Shrinking Earth into Inches was technically not a Buddhist style; it belonged to a major sect that once stood on equal footing with Buddhism – Taoism. This technique focused on physical strength and the resonance between energliph and the body, rather than one's energliph and gliphism proficiency.

Shrinking Earth into Inches was also a technique that only cultivators who cultivated both physical and mental state could pick up. Even a thousand years ago when there were many powerful cultivators, there were only a few that successfully managed to cultivate this technique.

On the other hand, Windless Palm was an authentic Buddhist technique. It was recorded that this technique was created when a powerful monk toured the word and came across a poor swallow being targeted by numerous falcons. Unable to watch the swallow being attacked yet not wishing to take the lives of the falcons, he let out ninety-nine strikes to protect the swallow, not allowing the falcons to get near and forcing them to leave empty-handed.

Windless Palm, a strike without wind.

Not even a breeze can enter while a gale cannot penetrate.

Once the palm strike concludes, there is no wind in the world.

This was a powerful technique mainly used to trap enemies and for defence. It didn't require strong mental strength, only a powerful energliph state. Chui Yim estimated that with his current state and even with the Heaven’s Flame, he would only be able to use it once.

He might only be able to use it as he wished after he stepped into the three-chambered state.

These two techniques were extremely difficult to learn. Chui Yim did not plan to pick them up immediately, he would simply take what was useful and slowly grab hold of it.

As he was doing so, he randomly picked up a stone to play fetch with Rocky as he studied both techniques in his mind.

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“Hmm?” Kam Chin Kee opened his eyes, looking around weirdly. He walked out of the wet zone to see Chui Yim playing with Rocky happily.

Seeing Kam Chin Kee, Rocky went back to hide in Chui Yim's embrace, peaking out slightly.

“What's wrong?” Chui Yim stood up, realising that Kam Chin Kee was wearing a weird expression.

“Something felt off.” Kam Chin Kee frowned. He turned around to look at the shiny, silver water curtain and turned back to Chui Yim. “Let’s leave.”

Chui Yim did not say anything more and made his way out with Kam Chin Kee.

Seeing the both of them, the waterfall attendants were shocked. “Sir, is there perhaps anything we should improve on?”

With that, they immediately passed Kam Chin Kee a black cloth, which the teen took to wipe the water off himself.

“Mm… there's something off. Who’s in charge here?”

“Sir Wai oversees the situation on the peak to check for irregularities,” the waterfall attendants replied with respect after exchanging glances.

“Sir Wai?” Chui Yim was confused.

“Sir Wai Chung Yin,” the waterfall attendant replied with respect. “The man in charge of the Heavenly Silver Waterfall as well as the tunnels and us attendants.”

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The teens made their way up the mountain, with Kam Chin Kee not uttering a word.

Chui Yim remained silent too. Chui Yim might’ve been the decision maker amongst them, but Kam Chin Kee was the more meticulous one.

A great example would be how he realised Chui Yim already knew the length of the Mother River when they first met, which was recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, chapter two, page fifty three. He also recognized that Woo Nim and Yim Mo Chui's footwork was so clean and precise with just a glance.

In terms of details, ten Chui Yims could not do the work of even one Kam Chin Kee.

So, Chui Yim would not question Kam Chin Kee's discovery and decision, because this was what Kam Chin Kee was good at.