Night of the Broken Gliph

Just as Cheung Ching was waiting for Suen San Kuk to get injured by his sword energy, Suen San Kuk’s Broken Rock activated. 

Boom!!!

With a loud boom, crushed debris flew all over the place. A hole of a few feet wide appeared where Suen San Kuk was standing, and he suddenly appeared in front of Cheung Ching. He didn’t recover after his previous attack, and his fist was still in a position to strike. Who would have thought he’d use the Broken Rock gliph to support his fist attack! 

Cheung Ching’s face fell as he raised his sword to defend. 

Clang! 

Suen San Kuk’s strike landed on the sword, and Cheung Ching felt his right hand hurting as the sword almost flew out of his hand. However, Suen San Kuk didn’t stop there. He lifted his left leg and kicked with the strength of a hammer! 

Boom! 

He kicked Cheung Ching’s chest. The sound of bones cracking was heard as Cheung Ching was sent flying like a sandbag, leaving a trail of blood behind. 

“Well fought,” Suen San Kuk bowed politely and spoke loudly.

Suen Ho caressed his beard as he watched the scene happily. He looked at Cheung Shan from the corner of his eyes, and couldn’t help but laugh at Cheung Shan’s expression. 

The two youths, one in white and the other in black, were spectating the fight. “Battling might not be Southern Ping’s speciality, but as part of South’s Five, their disciples are outstanding in every aspect. Shadow, can you tell what skill the Suen Clan disciple used?” 

“The Suen Clan disciple looks like a careless person who fights violently, but that wasn’t the case. He has sharp skills, and I can tell that he trained hard,” the youth in black answered. “In that instant, it seemed like there was only energliph movement on his left leg chamber. He actually turned energliph into force with his gliph, and he activated it by stomping on the ground swiftly. I can roughly guess that it’s the Broken Rock gliph.” 

“Yes, you’re right,” the youth in white praised. “It’s rare to have the Broken Rock tattooed on one’s leg chamber, and it was amazing to see how he used it to create his own gliphilities. This disciple definitely has a bright future.” 

On the stage, Suen San Kuk was slightly panting. In the past, he always barely lost to Cheung Ching. Thus, he pondered on his painful experiences and worked on his weakness, speed, eventually creating this gliphility, Riot. 

He inserted energliph into Broken Rock and congealed it around his ankle before leaning forward slightly. The energy of the Broken Rock gliph would bombard the ground and send him flying forward. This was Riot, his gliphility. However, the cons of this gliphility were that it exerted too much stress on his ankle, and he couldn’t use it more than ten times a day. 

Even so, he beat Cheung Ching today with this gliphility! 

“Is there anyone else who is willing to give me advice?” Suen San Kuk looked around, speaking loudly and politely.

Despite Suen San Kuk’s strength, the Ping Clan, Wong Clan, and even the Cheung Clan continued to send disciples forward. Chui Yim’s eyes lit up as he watched the fights. He knew nothing about fighting. Even though he had escaped death a few times, he always fought out of instinct, and he had no actual combat experience.  

It might be a battle between one-chambered gliphers, but since they were all clan disciples trained in battle since they were young, they all had neat and sharp movements with unique gliphilities. The senseless fight between him and Chan Ngou Tin was nothing compared to this. Despite his two lives, he didn’t have any battle techniques from the Sallow Continent; all he had was his forging skills that were beyond that of his age. 

Thus, his eyes were glued on every battle he saw, trying to remember and understand their movements and skills. However, all of those who were battling were talents that had been nurtured since young, and it wasn’t something that the inexperienced him could understand. 

Suen San Kuk was indeed a powerful glipher. With his close-range attacks, the Broken Rock gliph on his left leg and his Riot gliphility, he beat four disciples from the Ping, Wong and Cheung Clan consecutively, including Cheung Ching. He had a high win rate. 

Unlike other cities where only one or two fights were held a day, the arena in Southern Ping was different. One had to fight on stage until he had no other challengers. Being Southern Ping, the city with countless gliphic plants and elixirs, Suen San Kuk would take elixirs after every fight to restore his energy and energliph. 

After his consecutive wins, nobody from the Ping, Wong or Cheung Clan dared to look straight into his eyes. Thus, he turned to the Mo-Yung Clan and bowed politely. “Mister Mo-Yung, please.” 

The previous wins did not make Suen San Kuk proud as he knew that the Mo-Yung Clan was his greatest competition. Their glipher, who finally broke through his innate chamber was why they pushed the Outstanding Talent Competition forward. This glipher was none other than Mo-Yung Kit! 

Mo-Yung Kit had been sitting down with a smile. He stood up immediately on hearing Suen San Kuk. “Since brother Suen has invited me, I’m willing to learn from brother Suen.” 

Whispers filled the crowd as Mo-Yung Kit stepped forward. 

A six-chambered glipher was equivalent to a five-chambered gliphist—which meant that a one-chambered gliphist had the strength of a two-chambered glipher! 

Of course, that was only in terms of attacking power as gliphists had a weak body; they weren’t as fast or strong as gliphers, which meant gliphists rarely fought a glipher alone because they needed time to create gliphs.  Gliphers inserting energliph into the gliphs tattooed on him was much quicker. 

But once a gliphist reached the hundred-gliphic stage where they could produce hundreds of gliph strings at once, their weakness would vanish, and that was when a gliphist could fight a glipher evenly. 

Suen San Kuk wore a solemn expression. He knew that a one-chambered gliphist wasn’t good in a fight, but still possessed the strength of a two-chambered glipher. He wouldn’t let his guard down; as long as he was careful, he had a chance of winning as he was suited for close combat while the enemy was weaker at it. 

If he beat Mo-Yung Kit, the Suen Clan would be the winner of the battle segment of this competition!