328 Genuine Counterfeit Skill! (1/2)
”I think you’re just… indulging in fantasy!”
After leaving the prop shop, Aya was still in shock.
”How could this approach work? You’re blatantly trying to fake that thing! It will be recognized at a glance!”
”Recognized at a glance?” While holding the pile of materials, Wang Lu looked back at Aya and disdainfully said, ”If this is in the past, it might be. But now it has already been a very long time that I’m afraid even if his mother came back to life, he might not recognize her. So how could he possibly recognize the genuine from the fake wine cup?”
”But...”
”But do you have a better idea? Don’t forget we’re not in the King’s Treasure House, so Holy Light Religion people are very likely to know our whereabouts… Fortunately, this is located on the edge of the continent, and the Holy Light Religion doesn’t have much power here. Otherwise, we would’ve been surrounded, rounded up, and raped by a large number of high order professions.”
”Yes, we’re basically an open target right now…” Aya muttered to herself.
”Don’t even think about it.” In a glance, Wang Lu has seen through Aya’s idea. ”So what if you’re in someplace? This is not Dragon City, so lay off your Knight King identity for a second. Your countrymen are not as vulnerable as you think.”
While talking, the group came to a luxurious inn in the city. Aya then went to the counter and booked a room. When they came to the room, they closed the door, but along the way, they received all kinds of stares from the other patrons.
”Why do I feel the eyes of the people outside are strange?” Liu Li somewhat puzzledly asked, ”What have we done wrong?”
While putting down the box, Wang Lu said, ”A man led a bunch of women into a room, what do you think people would think about us? But, now it’s not the time to think about it. Liu Li, Little Bai, Aya, I need your help later. This wine cup, no matter what, was personally built by that time’s jewelry master, so the quality is absolutely superior. Therefore, if I fake it, perhaps the thousands of years of historical vicissitudes couldn’t be reproduced, but in terms of quality, the difference should not be too obvious.”
Aya somewhat hesitated. ”Have you really studied how to copy things?”
”Do you think the reputation of the Spirit Sword best student is as unworthy as your Misty Peak cafeteria chef title?”
”I…”
”Tool refining is an important part of the path of immortal cultivation, and in accordance with my study plan, once I reached Jindan Stage, I have to fully start my journey on tool refining. And before that, I naturally have to do enough preparation. Copying things is exactly the necessary preparation for that tool refining. Later in the future, when I start the tool refining, I must start with copying things first.”
While speaking, Wang Lu sorted and prepared the materials, then he took out a wisp of floating white flame from the mustard seed bag.
”Mm, after all, this wine cup is a product of an ordinary person, so its biggest bright spot is its modeling creativity, and not on any special effect. Therefore, using the low-grade spirit fire, mysterious yin fire, should be more than enough.”
Then, Wang Lu fixed the flame in mid-air and burned the gold ingot on that fire. When that highest quality blessed gold ingot came into contact with that flame, it quickly melted. Wang Lu, using his invisible magical power, kept it airborne, which caused it to quickly melt into a ball of golden liquid metal. Driven by force, it rapidly rotated.
After that, using a little bit of magical power, Wang Lu began to work on this ball of golden liquid metal. Aya, Liu Li, and Bai Shixuan attentively looked from the side. They saw as if Wang Lu was plucking a cocoon, peeling off a trace of gold thread from that golden sphere. Then the peeling became faster. Along with the golden sphere rotation, the part that was peeled off became more and more, while the other part gradually took form the shape of a wine cup...
Aya felt it was incredulous. ”You’re basically just doing pottery!”
Wang Lu said, ”It doesn’t matter, the principle is the same.”
”It’s totally different! A normal wine cup is forged!”
”It doesn’t matter. In any case, as long as the quality of the finished product is the same.”
”How could it be the same?”
”Damn it, what’s the difference? Don’t tell me when you give birth to a baby, a different position will result in a different quality of the baby?”
”You’re just using sophistry!”
However, regardless of whether it was his sophistry or eloquence, Wang Lu was really serious in his own way of making the wine cup. During this period, Liu Li, Bai Shixuan, and even Aya also gave their contribution in decorating the wine cup. More than ten thousand years ago, the technique of that jewelry master of the golden kingdom was indeed amazing. Purely on the professional skill alone, the amateur Wang Lu was naturally far less than him. However, he made up the difference using his cultivator skill, creating a fake that resembled the model.
After a day and a night, when together, Bai Shixuan and Liu Li put the last piece of multicolored stone on the exterior of the wine cup. The whole cup was filled with stunning colors, and a blessing of the light fell from the sky and into the wine cup.
At this moment, even Aya was shocked. ”Unbelievable… you actually did it!”
In terms of counterfeiting the wine cup, the biggest technical difficulty was, in fact, not in the making of the wine cup itself, but the attachment of the blessed aura.This imitation was quite a surprise to Aya, because it didn’t seem that any magic or trick was used in attaching the blessed aura, and the combination between the blessed aura and the wine cup itself was very natural!
Now, it seemed like the blessed aura didn’t come from external force, but naturally generated through the wine cup’s unique structure. And the reason why the Golden King took a liking to that wine cup was probably that of this inherent nature. Unexpectedly, Wang Lu was able to recreate this effect!
”The creativity belongs to other people, and I’m just doing the work of an artisan. And this is only possible through the means of a cultivator; becoming a cultivator is truly not in vain… Let’s see if this can get us through the pass.”
Wang Lu said and, as he held the wine cup appreciatively in his hand, he used his other hand to directly crush the stone crystal, which activated the transmission spell.
Aya said in surprised, ”Wait a minute, this is too hasty!”
However, the next moment, the several of them have already appeared on that floating island, in front of that thick stone gate.
Wang Lu directly put the wine cup in front of that stone gate. ”We’ve found it. You can check it now.”
There was only silence.
After a long time, that stone gate rippled with water-like waves, which gradually turned into a face.
”You’re… back?” The voice of the stone gate was somewhat vague and astonishing. ”How could it be so quick?”
Then, when the attention of the stone gate fell on the wine cup on the ground, the entire floating island suddenly trembled.
”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…”