Night of the Broken Gliph

As Madame Yuen spoke, two teenage girls went on stage carrying a long tray covered with a red cloth. Madame Yuen pulled the cloth off the tray, revealing a longsword.

Chui Yim watched the auction, engrossed.

“This sword is the work of the grass-attributed blacksmith Great Master Chau Ling. He’s a disciple of Grand Master Choh, and there’s no question of his ability. The Soul Destroying Sword is made using the heartwood of a thousand-year soul-devouring tree, along with hundreds of other precious liquids and materials. The sword is covered in Soul Destroying Light with the ability to destroy one’s gliph protection. The common Vanguard Soldier and Flat Spine gliph are also carved on it, increasing the sword’s strength and flexibility. The final product is a sharp sword akin to a whip. It maximised the material’s herbal characteristics and can be considered one of the strongest grade three gliph weapons.

“The bidding will start from three hundred thousand silver taels, and every bid must increase by at least ten thousand taels.

“Let the bidding begin.”

The pitch-black sword resembled a burnt piece of wood. However, colourful lights danced on it, and cultivators of a higher rank noticed that the lights were swallowing the energy around it. The sword was definitely no ordinary weapon!

“Three hundred and twenty thousand!” an arrogant-looking teenager stood up, shouting coldly as soon as Madame Yuen finished.

“Three hundred and fifty thousand!” Another teenage girl raised swiftly, followed by a muscular man with a deep voice.

“Four hundred thousand!”

Chui Yim’s jaws fell as he saw this.

What? Four hundred thousand just for a sword like that?

Kam Chin Kee watched him curiously. He’d been to Chui Yim’s residence and knew that Chui Yim had a forging workshop, which meant that Chui Yim should be familiar with forging. He looked at Chui Yim. “Is brother Chui interested in that sword?”

“That trash?” Chui Yim answered subconsciously. “Of course not!”

“Oh? Why not?” Kam Chin Kee laughed, smiling brightly.

Besides being a glipheon and alchemist, Chui Yim was a blacksmith first and foremost. He was confident that not many in this world could rival him in forging. “Soul devouring wood can devour energliph thanks to its natural gliph. The idea behind it was sound, but the hundreds of supplementary liquids… They weren’t named, but you can guess some of them from the sword’s colour.

“The Soul Devouring Wood characteristically repels foreign substances, which is why it can devour energliph. The gliphic plants’ liquids were seemingly used to activate the natural gliph, but they instead destroyed the wood’s ability to devour energliph. It looks cool, but it works opposite to the blacksmith’s intention. Rather than fully utilising the ingredient, it destroyed the ingredient instead.”

Looking at Chui Yim’s painful expression, Kam Chin Kee grinned silently.

At last, the grade three gliph weapon was sold to the arrogant male teenager for 570,000 silver taels.

There was a commotion in the seats. “That’s Fok Fung, pride of the Fok Clan.”

“Fok Fung is famous for his sword skills. Now that he’s gained such a weapon, his overall strength will definitely become greater.”

All the other members of Fok Fung’s generation turned to him cautiously while Fok Fung sat down without sparing them a glance. But if you looked at him closely, you would see the happiness in the depths of his eyes.

Madame Yuen didn’t waste any time. After auctioning the sword, she immediately moved on to the next item. “The second item: an unnamed ancient jade.”

Another girl walked onto the stage with a small plate. Madame Yuen lifted its cloth, revealing an aged palm-sized jade.

“This jade was obtained from an ancient tomb. After professional evaluation, it’s proven to be a thousand-year-old jade, making it uniquely ancient. It’s a gliph tool which can no longer be found.

“There is a gliph formation we cannot identify inscribed in the jade, with energliph stored in it. When activated, it produces a defensive gliph which can withstand four-chambered or hundred-gliphic rank attacks. The seller has used it once, and after inspection, the remaining energliph is enough to activate the jade three more times.

“The user need not activate it with their own energliph. It’s a rare gliph tool that can save your life.

“The starting price will be five hundred thousand taels. Each bid must increase the price by ten thousand taels.

“You may start bidding.”

It was an exciting show for Chui Yim, but he couldn’t help but sneer to himself when he heard the price. This is no big deal. Watch me figure out how to create a better gliph tool in the future.

Nonetheless, many bid for this item. The Soul Destroying Sword was a great weapon, and since swords were commonly used in this world, many bid for it. However, there were still other kinds of gliph weapons, thus it wasn’t as popular as this life-saving jade. Even commoners who didn’t cultivate could use it. No matter its cost, nothing could be more expensive than one’s life.

Ultimately, it was sold to an elderly man for a million silver taels. Madam Yuen simply continued auctioning the next item. “Next are three longevity pills from the Southern Ping’s Wong Clan. They can only be consumed by two-chambered cultivators and below; each pill can increase your lifespan by a decade. A person can only consume three pills to prevent any side effects, and coincidentally, we have three for sale.

“The bidding will start from three hundred thousand.”

Each item auctioned was extremely precious. Chui Yim was dazed after seeing all of them. With energliph and gliphs, many careers of this world became something else. For example, a tailor could engrave a simple robe with defensive gliphs.

Chui Yim just witnessed a grade four robe made by a grandmaster tailor, Ether Luna Robe, being sold for 2,000,000 to a mysterious man.

Most items on the Celestial Weapon Rank were grade four, and this robe was of the same grade, which meant there was a chance of it being a powerful item that could secure a clan’s position if passed down many generations! Many clans were green with envy. They regretted not bringing enough money. However, nobody knew what ability the robe possessed and if the robe would even appear on the Celestial Weapon Rank. Some were surprised to see that a grade four item wasn’t the last item.

Inside the private room, Chui Yim stared at Kam Chin Kee teasingly. “Boy, would you still pay if I said I wanted that robe?”

“Absolutely.” Kam Chin Kee smiled as he shrugged, leaving Chui Yim to stare at him curiously.

He doesn’t seem to be bluffing!

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