Just as Kong Yao was fuming at Mung Si’s indifferent attitude, a girl with “the girl next door” vibes joined them. She wasn’t as stunning as Kong Yau or comparable to the gorgeous Mung Si. However, her beauty slowly grew on you, best described as a calm spring.832Please respect copyright.PENANAw1eOfI6k6m
It was Ha Yu Bing, representative of the Great Book Academy.832Please respect copyright.PENANALjg0eogY19
Capability-wise, Ha Yu Bing had never been the best, but the disciples ranked before her were both gliphers; her senior sister Siu Suet and the Fok Clan’s Fok Fung. Thus, she was selected to represent her institution.832Please respect copyright.PENANAV7xfZtnV4S
Seeing these three beauties standing side by side left the crowd staring at them. The conventional beauty Kong Yau, foreign beauty Mung Si and gentle Ha Yu Bing. How could anyone look away from the three beauties standing before them?832Please respect copyright.PENANAAt3SR68qLr
“Alright.” Grandma Chin Shu’s voice rang throughout the arena, signalling the start of the competition. “Welcome to day five of the interschool exchange, the gliphism segment. I won’t beat around the bush. Today’s topic is basic gliphism.”832Please respect copyright.PENANAzQbjPbFauv
Grandma Chin Shu flipped her hands as a palm-sized scroll flew out from her sleeves. At the same time, there was a huge gale, and the scroll grew larger, eventually covering half the arena. Many of the spectators knew that this wasn’t the scroll’s limit. They had witnessed with their eyes how the Divine Tome of Heaven Domination could ferry over a thousand people at once!832Please respect copyright.PENANAxKOiaakB4H
“Books are a source of knowledge, and our collection is an important reason why the South remains powerful. We value knowledge, passing down our experiences to future generations. Our institutions are also why we have more cultivators than the North, and this is sufficient to prove their importance.832Please respect copyright.PENANANdX9GH3Flq
“If not for the great war a thousand years ago, we would definitely have more records than this.”832Please respect copyright.PENANANdlaCBA4ti
Grandma Chin Shu’s words made the important Northern figures nod tacitly. This was the exact reason why Northern disciples came to join the Cloud Palace outer sect. In the North, they would never experience such an educational system.832Please respect copyright.PENANA5wagtEysWc
“This is the treasure of the Great Book Academy,” Grandma Chin Shu said, looking proud. “It was the treasure of a ten thousand-gliphic state gliphist from ancient times, and part of the gliphs from the gliphist’s memory is inside. Our institution was founded around the knowledge from this treasure, eventually becoming one of the Big Three today.832Please respect copyright.PENANAO1H9yahP5f
“This treasure has extensive abilities, one of which is examining people.”832Please respect copyright.PENANAdpvwswT4wO
Grandma Chin Shu said as she flipped her hand. Under her control, human-size balls of light descended from the Divine Tome of Heaven Domination, one landing in front of each of the participants.832Please respect copyright.PENANAQsveUNgKCy
“As soon as you enter the light, the nine thousand and eight hundred basic gliphs of gliphism will be shown to them. The eight gliphists that can name the most gliphs will qualify for the finals tomorrow.”832Please respect copyright.PENANAY8v3P4XBCs
“Wow!” The crowd gasped after hearing such a new competition format. Furthermore, the crowd was excited to watch this competition, which would be way more exciting than yesterday’s alchemy competition. Even Sze Fung was secretly happy to hear this as he complimented Grandma Chin Shu‘s intelligence to himself. She had solved the Metallic Blood War Gate’s headache by creating an interesting competition and leaving a good impression of the Great Book Academy. But Sze Fung didn’t mind; he was actually thankful that Grandma Chin Shu added some flavour to the interschool exchange after Ping Chi’s boring topic.832Please respect copyright.PENANAgJ0VyUVcJU
“Participants, please enter the light.”832Please respect copyright.PENANAfUNZ9aiaCf
Mung Si did as she was told calmly, and Kong Yau followed suit, entering her respective ball of light. Ha Yu Bing and the other participants entered as well.832Please respect copyright.PENANAMnryFVQcxO
When the last participant entered, Grandma Chin Shu nodded with a smile. “Alright, let’s begin!”832Please respect copyright.PENANAXilD7SFdhY
As soon as she spoke, numbers appeared above the lights.832Please respect copyright.PENANAnj1Tm2ZxJK
“Look, the numbers are moving!”832Please respect copyright.PENANAFOsaPzrIE2
“Are those the number of gliphs the participants named correctly?”832Please respect copyright.PENANAO2lbY0KIg4
“I would be proud if I could name a hundred of the nine thousand eight hundred gliphs.”832Please respect copyright.PENANActWu9t9257
“Of course, but that’s you! How could you compete with those geniuses?”832Please respect copyright.PENANAciDt4vVf71
Amidst the commotion, there were a few outstanding participants.832Please respect copyright.PENANAzWYv99Zoxw
“Look, the numbers are going up fast!”832Please respect copyright.PENANANqrDQW3AN6
“That’s…Mung Si!”832Please respect copyright.PENANAw7b01QbZT4
“Look at Kong Yau too!”832Please respect copyright.PENANAAVeyzBn3SY
Within the light, Mung Si had been stunned initially, but she soon regained her calm. After all, she had even survived the Chamber Refining Cave, which was impossible for most. She was a girl with incredible mental strength.832Please respect copyright.PENANAyx5zP5FEoc
Gliphs appeared in front of her one by one, and they disappeared as soon as she spoke their names. But when she came across those she didn’t recognize, she merely needed to utter the words ‘give up’, which would make the gliph change.832Please respect copyright.PENANAhtxu6oqF8w
“Vanguard Soldiers.”832Please respect copyright.PENANAv2OnwhETVE
“Stunning Thunder.”832Please respect copyright.PENANAWchSxlQYRG
“Lightweight.”832Please respect copyright.PENANATxII5MOv8y
“Snail Shell.”832Please respect copyright.PENANAaw23W1bDg1
“Power energliph.”832Please respect copyright.PENANApjMyZn8Aq9
“Whirlwind.”832Please respect copyright.PENANAh2MmEBfyXH
“Blazing Sun.”832Please respect copyright.PENANAxN2F8Pnr8O
Mung Si was so composed it was as if she wasn’t the participant being tested. She named countless gliphs one by one, and before she knew it, the number above her head had exceeded 1,000.832Please respect copyright.PENANAG5BUrR5zWA
At the same time, the confident Kong Yau had similarly reached the 1,000 mark. However, she didn’t slow down. Instead, she sped up!832Please respect copyright.PENANAqanpVk82Oz
Ha Yu Bing had named 900 gliphs.832Please respect copyright.PENANAatay2nF2wP
Besides the beautiful trio, another bald teenage boy had also reached the 900 mark, chasing them fiercely. He was a disciple from the Apex Temple, the genius gliphist Yuen Yau.832Please respect copyright.PENANAtXKa62h413
After Yip Luk Ching participated in the alchemy segment, the School of Blossoms didn’t send any replacements.
In the other Eight Institutions and Big Three, there weren’t many well-known gliphists since every institution could only send one representative, and most of the talented gliphists had joined the outer sect. This segment was actually just a competition between Kong Yau from the Stars Unite Education Center, Ha Yu Bing from the Great Book Academy, Yuen Yau from the Apex Temple and Mung Si from the Cloud Palace outer sect.832Please respect copyright.PENANAiHmqIFvUCp
“Oh lord…Mung Si and Kong Yau reached three thousand!”832Please respect copyright.PENANAegUdGcgWGC
“Ha Yu Bing and Yuen Yau have reached two thousand five hundred!”832Please respect copyright.PENANAVmzfkLnjHf
“How are they able to remember over a thousand gliphs…”832Please respect copyright.PENANAozpSKnHmyY
“Idiot! Gliphists cultivate their mental strength; their memory isn’t something we can match!”832Please respect copyright.PENANA2BEbKlQput
No matter how noisy the crowd was, those within the lights couldn’t hear them. All they could hear and see was their own voice and the gliphs in front of them.832Please respect copyright.PENANAKZxcrOYCAC
No matter how fast one was, there were more than 9,000 glyphs. When Mung Si reached the 7,000 mark, four hours had already passed.
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