Night of the Broken Gliph

Be it researching and creating gliphilities like a glipher or researching a myriad of gliphs and finding the most suitable one like a gliphist,  both require a long-term commitment. Cultivators had to keep things as simple as possible to prevent being caught between two stools, and Chor Shing Chit never wanted such a gifted child like Chui Yim to end up on the wrong track. 

Chui Yim only pouted at Chor Shing Chit’s warning. As someone who had reincarnated, Chui Yim was an imaginative person that always thought out of the box. In his past life, he was a cultivator that juggled both magic and brawl energy. After arriving in this world and learning more about gliphism, he discovered that there might be a chance that one could be a glipher and gliphist at the same time; there were many similarities in both. 

Of course, Chui Yim would keep this to himself. He had not forgotten how badly Chor Shing Chit scolded him after bringing this out in class back in the past. But he had been holding onto this idea in secret. 

It was no big deal to Chui Yim that Chor Shing Chit was unwilling to talk about gliphilities with him as he already had some understanding about it. The reason why he was able to congeal energliph on his fingertips even before stepping into the single-gliphic state and perform like a gliphist was all due to gliphility. Technically, Chui Yim was currently cultivating to be a gliphist and glipher at the same time as he drew gliphs with a gliphility. 

After six years of basic gliphism, he was slightly aware of the reason behind Chui Tin forcing him to read up. All books, from history, travel literature, documents, classics to autobiography, taught him about gliphism, both directly and indirectly. Being ignorant to gliphism back then, the young Chui Yim had not realised it. 

For example, Nim Hoi’s Life Story from seven hundred years ago was an autobiography of the powerful glipher, Nim Hoi, which touched mostly on the author’s travelling story. It also mentioned Nim Hoi’s understanding and thoughts on gliphility research and cultivation, making the book one that was worth keeping. 

Nim Hoi was a four-chambered glipher. Back in the days, it was extremely rare to come across a five-chambered glipher, and four-chamber gliphers were influential enough to set up their own clan. Tse Chun, the current Tse Clan Leader was a four-chambered glipher too. Nim Hoi was also the creator of the mighty gliphility, Great Wave, that filled every attack of the glipher with the might of surging waves. Great Wave took the cultivators of his era by storm. 

“For gliphility, it’s not the stronger the better, but suitability.” 

“The most suitable one will be the strongest one.” 

In the book, Nim Hoi summarised his takeaways from creating the gliphility into two short sentences, and Chui Yim learned a lot from it. He took the time to understood them. The relationship between gliphers, gliphist and energliph, why they need to rely on the Self Winding Wheel of the Law to absorb energy from the world and turn them into their own usage, as well as why suitability was so important in choosing styles. 

Slowly, Chui Yim got an idea. 

“Just like Chor Shing Chit’s lover, Wong Kwan, she cultivated a chill-type style and had a chill-type gliph as her personal gliph. Moreover, she’s one cold woman too…” 

Gliphism is way more than what I thought to be!