Night of the Broken Gliph

Chui Yim kept silent, giving Chui Tin his full attention. This was the first time he saw the careless Chui Tin being so serious. 

“Gliphism isn’t just embodied by gliphers and gliphists,” Chui Tin said as he caressed the table. “Look at the grain on this wooden table. Woodgrain is a type of gliph, one that belongs to a tree. This grain represents a tree’s life. You can also tell the type of tree from it. What about humans?” 

Chui Tin asked, looking back at Chui Yim slowly. “So what about our bodies, bones and blood vessels?

“A human body is a huge gliph in itself.” 

Chui Yim jumped on hearing Chui Tin. He was greatly taken aback by this explanation. 

After reading numerous books on medicine and having Chui Tin pass on knowledge to him without reservation, his medical knowledge was already comparable to ordinary doctors, even if he was only ten. What he lacked was hands-on experience. 

This was why Chui Yim knew about human anatomy. After hearing Chui Tin, Chui Yim subconsciously imagined a human structure in his mind and converted it into a complicated gliph. Chui Yim immediately felt giddy. 

“Learning is a crucial first step.” Chui Tin stared at Chui Yim. “That’s why I made you read tons of books and showed you many high-grade gliphs before you take your first step into gliphism. This is why you’re able to view gliphism as a simple study, and not only will it help you avoid making mistakes, it will speed up your learning too. 

“Same goes for learning to be a gliphist. That’s why I wanted you to pick up medicine, as the most authentic and correct way of learning to become a gliphist starts with learning to become a glipheon.

“Other than tattooing gliphs, you also need to consider a glipher’s body construction, vein directions and blood flow, and only then can you suggest a suitable gliph. Even if the glipher insists on tattooing his own chosen gliph, you need to consider the position you tattoo it. 

“As for the unique gliphist ability to change energliph into gliphs,, it’s actually using energliph as a lead to draw gliphs and convert them to power. One must be extremely sensitive to heavenly and earthly energy, space nodes and so on. 

“Gliphism is not as easy as you think,” Chui Yin said as he stared at Chui Yim profoundly. 

“I’m going to stop here today, as I believe you need some time to digest what I just said.” Chui Tin smiled thinly and went to weed the yard, leaving Chui Yim as he sat there, staring into space. 

Indeed, Chui Tin’s words had totally changed Chui Yim’s knowledge of gliphs. 

A human body is a gliph itself. 

This no doubt made Chui Yim look at gliphs differently. The benefit of being human for both of his lives was that it allowed him to have a more mature mindset and a huge pool of knowledge, allowing him to handle a butcher’s cleaver with ease even when he was learning gliphism and medicine simultaneously. 

However, that was similarly his weakness at the same time too. 

It made Chui Yim too arrogant, thinking that he would be able to grasp the profound study of gliphs totally as long as he learned everything Chui Tin taught and drew for him. 

Now, it seemed that wasn’t the case, and gliphism was a brand new type of study. Just one line of what Chui Tin said, “Human body is a huge gliph itself.”, was enough to make a person study gliphism his entire life. 

During the weekends, Chui Tin had been feeding Chui Yim with gliphism knowledge. It might’ve been basic knowledge, but it made Chui Yim look at gliphism from a whole new perspective. When Chui Tin taught, it wasn’t confusing, and it usually drew interest on the first prick. 

Even though Chui Yim would always go into a daze after hearing some crucial information, Chui Tin would not rush him. Instead, he’d do his own things and continue only after Chui Yim finally comprehended what he said. 

However, Chui Yim now had an extreme understanding of gliph. And that gliphs weren’t dead. 

In other words, you could take it that it was alive. 

Energliph wasn’t just simply activated by gliphic formations of the six chambers, but it first needed to go through a cultivation style by the Self Winding Wheel of the Law, which was a gliph; then through the meridians, which was another gliph before being activated through the gliphs tattooed on the respective chambers. Definitely, the gliphs tattooed on the six respective chambers were gliphs. 

Which meant that many gliphs were involved just to perform a single gliphility. 

This mystical knowledge captivated Chui Yim; he hadn’t even come back to his senses when the coachman came to pick him up. Seeing Chui Yim mumbling to himself like a madman, the coachman couldn’t help but look at him worriedly. 

Watching the coachman leave with Chui Yim, Chui Tin looked up at the night sky filled with bright moonlight. 

It was a great night with a clear sky. 

“It has been ten years… How are you doing, Scarlet lady?” Chui Tin mumbled. The emotion of missing her was brimming within Chui Tin; it was as if he could see the elegant yet fierce beauty that had a mole between her eye and brows in front of him.