Chapter 328: Genuine Counterfeit Skill! (2/2)
”T-This is it!” The stone gate rumbled. Countless of gravels fell from each crevice, and two streams of gravel fell from the face-shaped water-like surface of the stone gate. ”I-I finally see it! The king’s goblet, this is the king’s…”
The voice from the stone gate suddenly stopped, and the island tremor came to an abrupt halt. A moment later, a more intense tremble burst out. The face of the stone gate twisted as it emitted an angry roar. ”You’re playing with me!”
That valiant clamor a.s.saulted their senses like it was an essence. w.a.n.g Lu thus propped up his Non-Phase Sword defense and isolated it outside. However, directly impacted by that noise, several miles radius gap immediately appeared on the boundless clouds behind them.
”If you have something to say, just say it, what are you shouting at?”
The stone gate held up the wine cup with an invisible force and then spoke one word at a time, ”Is this what you called finding it? How dare you try to cheat me with a fake, do you think I’m an idiot?”
Behind w.a.n.g Lu, Aya also opened up the primordial spirit transmission to talk to him, ”w.a.n.g Lu, I told you this is too hasty. Even if this is indistinguishable from the genuine, but… the real wine cup has experienced more than ten thousand years of history, so how could you give him a brand new thing?”
Keeping his gaze straight at the stone door, w.a.n.g Lu ignored Aya’s complain and said, ”This is the real thing. I did not fake it.”
The stone gate angrily said, ”This wine cup has been lost in the world of mortals for more than ten thousand years, experiencing countless history, so how could it be possibly new as ever?”
w.a.n.g Lu rhetorically lightly asked, ”How could it not be as new as ever? Do you know everything that it has gone through all these years?”
The stone gate was immediately silent. He has been guarding here for more than ten thousand years as a punishment from the Golden King, how could he possibly know what happened in the world of mortals?
However, it would be a wishful thinking if the other side wanted to get away with just that!
”Do you think I can be easily fooled? The last person who came to the trial has given a quite reliable evidence. He sent out hundreds of millions of people to gather clues and proved that the King’s Wine Cup has been pa.s.sed through hundreds of people’s hands and experienced several major wars. There is a serious damage to the wine cup. At least, there should have been a deep crack between the red and gold precious stones. It can’t be as flawless as this one!”
w.a.n.g Lu let out an ‘oh’ sound but thought otherwise. ”And then?”
The stone gate angrily said, ”You want to say that person’s evidence is false, that he lied to me, right? Unfortunately, you got the wrong idea. He said that each trail has plenty of historical proof, unlike you who only has empty words, without any proof at all!”
w.a.n.g Lu sneered. ”Empty words? Ridiculous. No matter how many historical materials were provided by that person as clues, they’re all just circ.u.mstantial evidence, but what I have is the most genuine and most favorable evidence! Even if you think with your knee, you know who is weightier in terms of proof between me and that person!”
The stone gate was not good at debating, so after his argument was perfectly countered by w.a.n.g Lu, he angrily said, ”Then how would you explain the crack thing?”
”The crack thing happened at least thousands of years ago right?” w.a.n.g Lu said, ”According to you, that person’s clue is not complete, no one knows the final whereabouts of this wine cup.”
”Yes. But the clues that he provided covered the whole eight thousand years of history. Only the last two thousand years that were blank, so it’s value is really high…”
w.a.n.g Lu interrupted, ”In other words, no one knows what happened to the wine cup in the last two thousand years. Two thousand years is not short enough for countless of dynasties to rise and fall. During which, any change is possible, so how can you conclude that the crack on this cup will remain forever and cannot be repaired ever?”
The stone gate gawked. ”This…”
”In fact, don’t you wonder how we found the wine cup so soon? Let me tell you, we found this wine cup on the highland of th.o.r.n.y ice.”
”Highland of th.o.r.n.y ice?” The stone gate said in surprise, ”That’s impossible. The wine cup has been taken away from the highland of th.o.r.n.y ice as early as ten thousand years ago!”
”Yes, but it eventually came back again. Guess who did it?”
”... Who?”
”The cup itself.” w.a.n.g Lu pointed at the wine cup. ”It was a thousand years ago, due to chance coincidence, it condensed out a spirit, and thus promoted to a spiritual treasure.”
”Spiritual… treasure?” The stone gate was shocked and softly whispered. Although there were many differences between Western Continent and Nine Regions, there were also many similarities. Magical treasure with spirit was not uncommon in Western Continent.
”That’s right. Although it’s only a wine cup, it was created by a master and obtained the providence of Golden King, so it’s not that unusual that after thousands of years of suffering, it finally condensed out a spirit. If you look carefully, you should be able to find the spirit afterglow on that wine cup.”
The stone gate hurriedly observed the wine cup carefully. A moment later, he slowly said, ”Indeed, there really is the spirit afterglow.”
At this time, behind w.a.n.g Lu, Aya, who has been listening to his conversation all these time, said, ”Will this work? That so-called spirit afterglow is clearly the remnant of mysterious yin fire!”
Seeing that the stone gate has fallen into his ruse, w.a.n.g Lu inwardly laughed. However, his face turned even more serious.
”The key to the promotion of magical treasure is the equivalent of human practice of casting his mortal body in immortal cultivation. Its previous thousands of years of vicissitudes have been wiped out, becoming as new as ever. The reason why this wine cup is so eye-catching is that it has the coming back from the dead experience.”
The stone gate was silent for a long time and then asked, ”Well, where is the spirit now?”
w.a.n.g Lu coldly said, ”What do you think? Since it only has its afterglow, then the spirit has certainly died! The spirit of the wine cup was born a thousand years ago. In order to be able to return to its master’s side, it even disregarded its own existence and journeyed back to the highland of th.o.r.n.y ice, on the spot where you lost it. It endured wind and snow in that cursed plateau, silently waiting for you to send people to bring it back, because it thought that if it went back to its original spot, you will be more likely to find it! Unfortunately, the previous fool did not want to search on the plateau seriously. As soon as he heard that it was taken away from the plateau, he rushed away from that dead land, and then ran to other parts of the continent to trace its history! But he never thought about the suffering endured by the wine cup!”
”T-This…”
”We were lucky that we didn’t go far on the plateau to see it. In fact, it should be said that it actively found us. At that time, its life was almost depleted, but it felt that someone had moved from the floating island to the plateau, so it gathered its strength to move in front of me. When I picked it up, it was almost too late to say a few words before it completely died!”
”…”
w.a.n.g Lu’s cold voice was like thunder and lightning that bombarded the thinking of the stone gate.
”The funny thing is, in its last words, it didn’t talk about the pain and suffering during its long wait. Instead, it used all its remaining strength to explain its unusual form, that by lucky coincidence, its spirit was born and its body restored to its original condition. It was because it feared that people would suspect its authenticity! Now, if you have the ability, tell me again if this wine cup is a fake, a worthless counterfeit junk!”
Facing the quick words and stern countenance of w.a.n.g Lu, the stone gate could no longer hold on. Tears of gravel began to roll down.
”I, I am really stupid.”
While crying, the stone gate slowly opened itself, revealing the ladder leading to the next pa.s.s.