Chapter 105

Chapter 105

Thistle and Thorns was a book that wrote about the cruel reality of cultivation. In the book, a city in the South was mentioned.

To all twelve-year-old gliphers, their dreams of cultivating would be shattered if they couldnt break through before thirteen, and theyd end up being a commoner. They might reach the one-chambered state eventually, but never would they reach the two-chambered state and be considered an actual glipher.

If none out of ten could become a one-chambered glipher, then none out of a thousand could reach the two-chambered state. This ratio represented the cruel reality of their future.

Many clan and sect disciples would head to this city in the South if they were limited by their aptitude and couldnt break through before twelve.

This city was known as the Breaking Thorns City, where many talentless children who failed gathered. They came from well-known clans and sects, or were just determined but untalented children who didnt want to resign themselves to fate.

Breaking Thorns City was most famous for its Breaking Thorns Stage.

The South had adopted a gentle way of cultivation by teaching through institutions. Children attended primary institutions at six and learnt basic gliphism, got their chambers checked, and selected a cultivation style and gliphility. At twelve, they would join a higher institution and study a higher level of gliphism while planning for their future. They graduated at eighteen and became the future of the Lam dynasty as either a glipher or gliphist.

The boy in a tattered, white robe let out a yell as he dashed towards his opponent, a confident boy in a blue shirt who was unfazed despite being drenched in blood. The boy in the blue shirt dodged smoothly, causing the boy in white fall to collapse like a shrimp. Without hesitation, the boy in blue reached out to strike him until he fainted.

Om!

Out of the blue, a sound was heard. Strong energliph waves erupted from the boy in white robes. The energy forced the blue-shirted boy to retreat.

The audience cheered for the boy happily! Most of them were commoners, and some had experienced the same thing as the boysbeing stuck in the one-chambered state and failing to break through. This was why they enjoyed watching fights here, as they felt that their dreams lived on whenever they saw someone succeed.

The energliph was the sign that the boy in white had broken through!

In Breaking Thorns City, even if you were a nobody without a clan, the city would help to tattoo a gliph on your chamber. Since people had to pay entrance fees to watch the fights on Breaking Thorns Stage, which funded the city, the free gliph-tattooing service was a well-deserved reward for those who broke through here.

The boy in white was the winner with the chance of rising through the ranks while the boy in blue turned out to be the loser. This was how cultivation worked.