My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 538 Forgery

"When you were mixing the gunpowder, you didn't control the amount of gunpowder, which caused an explosion and you were blown to pieces."

"You are dead."

"When you were sleeping at night, you suddenly heard a noise outside. When you went out to see, you found that someone was trying to steal the gunpowder. After being discovered, he used a tinder to ignite the gunpowder in his hand."

"You are dead."

"When you were grinding gunpowder, there was too much dust and you accidentally blinded your eyes. When you went to get water to wash your face, you fell headfirst onto the edge of the well next to you, your head was broken and bleeding, and you died on the spot."

"You are dead."

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Jiang Xinghuo stayed in the gunpowder workshop and continued to work as a clerk. Every day he died in various ways. The ways of death were also strange, but basically all of them were related to gunpowder. However, his death still had some value, as he could get something from it.

Just this morning, he died again when he woke up.

"You heard someone fighting outside, and walked over curiously to watch the fun. As soon as you opened the door, a hammer flew over and hit you on the forehead, making ten thousand peach blossoms bloom at once."

"You are dead."

Damn! Jiang Xinghuo looked at the text content speechlessly. He was so unlucky that he was killed with a hammer just after opening the door in the morning. The key point was that he was just a spectator, not a party to the fight.

"When the people around saw that someone had been killed, they immediately fled in all directions, leaving only your body at the door of the gunpowder workshop. Do you want to activate the effect of the scapegoat?"

Jiang Xinghuo sighed helplessly. He was already dead, what else could he do? He couldn't advance in the game without activating it.

"You activated the scapegoat effect."

"You opened your eyes again at the door of the gunpowder workshop."

"At this time, several masters from the gunpowder workshop came out and said that they had to go to the city lord's mansion to attend a banquet today and would not be back until very late."

"I'll leave the gunpowder shop to you. The other guys have been sent away. Before they come back, don't open the door to anyone who wants to buy gunpowder."

Today is the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, and tomorrow is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, which is the day when the ancient tomb will be opened.

However, he did not forget that he still had an appointment to keep, which was to go to Fuchun Teahouse in Peking to look for the man named Beggar Tongtian.

On the night of New Year's Eve, he accidentally triggered this mission and made an appointment with the old leader of one of the eight major martial arts sects on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

"Now, you are the only one left in this huge gunpowder workshop. Do you want to start a detailed exploration here while no one is around?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose yes without hesitation. This was a great opportunity to explore here. He could not trigger this plot on normal days because there were too many people in the gunpowder workshop and he was not allowed to act alone.

"You started a detailed exploration in the gunpowder workshop. You first came to the gunpowder mixing room in the backyard. This is where the masters mix gunpowder. Ordinary assistants and apprentices are not allowed to enter here. Those who enter without permission will be killed and thrown into the dry well in the corner. After the body turns into a skeleton, the phosphorus powder is extracted to adjust the gunpowder."

"So, even when no one is here, this gunpowder mixing room is not locked. Those masters are convinced that no one dares to break in here without permission, but now it seems that they have miscalculated. Do you want to enter and search it immediately?"

"You carefully pushed open the door and walked into the gunpowder mixing room. The smell of sulfur mixed with gunpowder smoke immediately rushed into your nose, making you stagger and feel dizzy. Fortunately, you quickly adapted to the smell and developed certain antibodies, so you were not poisoned by the sulfur gas."

"Your Immunity to Thousand Poisons body absorbed the toxicity emitted by the sulfur, and gained a slight level increase, and produced antibodies that are immune to the sulfur toxins."

"Note that sulfur toxins are only one type of mineral toxins and do not make you immune to all mineral toxins."

The moment the game text flashed, Jiang Xinghuo felt a slight itching and numbness in his arm. He rolled up his sleeves and saw a layer of small red rash on his skin, but it quickly dissipated, and the itchy and numb feeling disappeared with it.

"You started exploring the gunpowder mixing room, but you didn't search it in a big way. Instead, you searched as little as possible without changing the original state, so as not to arouse the suspicion of those masters."

“After some exploration, you find something, gain something.”

"You have obtained: a gunpowder grinding mortar (common), an eight-sided black iron pestle (common), a blood-stained demagnetizing robe (excellent), a fragmentary intermediate gunpowder control formula (excellent), a cicada wing crystal blade (common), a large piece of fine sulfur ore (excellent), a bag of high-purity black gunpowder (excellent), and a rubbing map of the underground fire mine (common)."

Jiang Xinghuo found a lot of things in the gunpowder mixing room, but the quality was not very high, just between ordinary and excellent, and there was nothing of rare quality.

But it's better to have something than nothing, so Jiang Xinghuo began to count them one by one, hoping to bring him some surprises.

"Gunpowder grinding mortar (common item), a tool used by the gunpowder workshop master to grind gunpowder particles. It was found in a mine. It can also prevent static electricity sparks from being generated during grinding, which could cause gunpowder explosions."

"Eight-edged black iron pestle (common item), a tool used by the gunpowder workshop master to grind gunpowder particles. It was found together with the grinding mortar. One end has an eight-edged blade and the other end has a lotus hammer. It can be used as a grinding tool or a weapon."

"You looked at the two grinding tools in your hands, and suddenly your Tathagatagarbha's innate ability was triggered."

"You have seen the true secrets hidden beneath the surface of these two tools."

"You have discovered the Sea-Suppressing Bowl."

"Sea-suppressing Bowl (rare item). There is a Sea-suppressing Great Venerable in the Great Sun Esoteric Sect of the Ancient Secret City. This iron bowl is one of his instruments. It has the power to calm the sea and can hold water from all over the world. It is as famous in the secular world as the Infinite Jar of the Infinite Great Venerable of the Ten Directions Zen Forest."

"Back then, at the Wuzhe Conference, Great Venerable Wuliang and Great Venerable Zhenhai fought fiercely one after another. In the end, Great Venerable Wuliang won by a narrow margin, and Great Venerable Zhenhai left in anger, and has since disappeared from the secular world."

Jiang Xinghuo was secretly shocked, thinking that he was really lucky. The tool used by the gunpowder workshop master to grind gunpowder particles turned out to be a magical weapon wielded by an ancient monster.

Could the eight-sided black iron pestle also be the magic weapon of the Great Master Zhenhai? ?
Jiang Xinghuo looked at the game text that popped up next.

"You have discovered the Demon-Subduing Lotus Pestle."

"The Demon-Subduing Lotus Pestle (rare item), a demon-subduing weapon held by the Great Master of Gumi Town Hai, possesses the tremendous power of a hundred thousand mountains."

"At the Wuzhe Assembly, Great Venerable Zhenhai used this magical instrument to shatter Great Venerable Wuliang's small Wuliang bowl and caused severe damage to Great Venerable Wuliang. But later, with the disappearance of Great Venerable Zhenhai, it also disappeared from the secular world. I didn't expect it to fall into your hands today."

"However, in order to perfectly activate the power of these two instruments, we must base it on the methods of the Great Sun Esoteric Sect."

"What are you going to do with these two magical instruments next?"

"Will you choose to keep it for yourself, or will you choose to pretend that you don't know the details of these two magic weapons and comfort me with the Guiyu fish, so as not to attract the attention of that master chef?"

"If you choose the latter, you will save yourself a lot of unnecessary trouble. But if you choose to keep it for yourself, it would be best to go to the city to find the Taoist Master Shengong and ask him to help you make two forgeries." "Of course, you can also choose to do nothing, put the things in your pocket and run away."

"But if you do that, you will have no chance of owning this gunpowder shop, and everyone in the gunpowder shop will regard you as an enemy."

"So, what are you going to choose?"

Jiang Xinghuo looked at the two options on the screen, thought for a while, and chose to find the Taoist master Shengong and ask him to help create two fakes to fool people.

"You quietly left the gunpowder shop, and after exploring the city, you found the Taoist master in the mining city."

"You come to the blacksmith shop of Shengong Daoist and find that he has completely transformed himself into an iron furnace. Hands and feet extend from the huge furnace, and the two exhaust holes are its eyes, which are constantly flashing with blazing flames."

"You found the Taoist Master Shengong, explained your purpose, and took out the Sea-Suppressing Bowl and the Demon-Subduing Pestle, hoping that he would forge an identical replacement for the artifact."

"The Taoist Master Shengong looked at the things in your hand and said that it was not difficult to forge these two things, but do you just want two ordinary objects with nothing in them, or do you want two objects with the same abilities as the original body?"

Ok?
Jiang Xinghuo raised his eyebrows, thinking, can you play it this way? Even the functions can be copied?

So he chose the latter without hesitation.

Jiang Xinghuo originally wanted to make two fakes to fool the master chef. It would be best if he could fool him, but if not, then that would be it.

But now Shengong Taoist said that it could replicate the functions as well, which would naturally be the best thing.

"The Taoist Shengong said that the material of this iron bowl is quite special. It can absorb moisture from the air and hide in the pores inside the bowl. Therefore, when grinding gunpowder particles, no static sparks will be generated. However, due to the low moisture content, the purity of the gunpowder particles will not be affected. Water-soaked ore can be used as the raw material for forging."

"That grinding pestle doesn't have any special features. It's just a little harder than an ordinary grinding pestle. It can be forged with star iron ore as the raw material."

"Both of these tools require unique ores. You can go to the Ore Street in the north of the city and maybe you can find the right stone."

After Jiang Xinghuo finished reading, he finally realized that the Taoist Shengong did not see the true nature of the two tools and just treated them as ordinary grinding tools. He thought that the Taoist Shengong recognized the origins of the two tools and could replicate the original talents of the tools.

But it's normal if you think about it. This Taoist Master Shengong is just an ordinary one, not a genius like Taoist Master Shen Ji Bai Lian. It is reasonable that he can't recognize these two things.

"Where are you going next? Are you going to visit the Ore Street that the Taoist Master Shengong mentioned?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose yes and controlled the character to go to the Mineral Street in the north of the city.

"On the way, please wait..."

"You have arrived, Ore Street."

"Ore Street is a place dedicated to selling ores. After the miners dig out the stones, they will find some suitable ones to sell here. But the water here is also very deep. People often deliberately disguise ordinary ores as rare treasures. If you don't have the eyesight to buy fakes, you can only ask for trouble and pay for your lesson. If you dare to come back to make trouble, you will be beaten up at the least, and die on the spot at the worst, because those miners usually act in gangs, and rarely come out alone."

Jiang Xinghuo understood it at a glance. It was the same method as the Liulichang in Peking. Whether you can get a bargain depends on your eyesight. If you suffer a loss, you just have bad luck. If you can get a bargain, you are lucky.

"You walked into the ore street, and several middlemen came over immediately, surrounded you enthusiastically, and asked you what you wanted to buy."

"You told them what you wanted, and the middlemen retreated in dismay. Only two people were left around you. Both of them have the water-soaked ore and star iron ore you want, but one of them also sells gambling stones. Which one do you plan to buy from?"

"Would you choose to buy only these two ores, or take a gamble and see if you can find a bargain?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose the second answer. He had the ability to find treasures through walls and see through fire. For him, gambling on stones was like picking up bargains, and there was no possibility of losing money.

"You chose the shop that owns the gambling stone shop, and the other shop owner kept trying to persuade you, saying that gambling on stones is a losing game, and you only win once in a hundred bets. Instead of throwing your money away, you might as well buy some more valuable minerals."

"The middleman you chose didn't try to stop the other person, but just listened to the other person muttering beside him, because gambling on stones is something that can't be persuaded, and it doesn't matter whether the person who can be persuaded is persuaded or not."

"Do you want to change your mind?"

Jiang Xinghuo still insisted on his choice and went to the shop that owned the gambling stones.

Of course, he did not forget the main purpose of this trip, which was to get the ore he wanted to buy first.

"Water-soaked ore, 1000 incense sticks."

"Star Iron Ore, 700 Incense Sticks."

"Bloodthirsty pump, 800 incense sticks."

"Vampire stone, 600 incense sticks."

"Skyfire Mine, 1000 incense sticks."

"........."

"........."

The list of ores and their prices are listed. Just click on the ore you want to buy.

Jiang Xinghuo looked at the price and found it was quite reasonable compared to the quality of the Sea-Suppressing Bowl and the Demon-Subduing Pestle.

"You chose to buy, Star Iron Ore."

"You chose to buy, the water-soaked mine."

"You have lost, incense -1700."

"Please wait……"

"You have obtained Star Iron Ore +1."

"You have obtained Waterlogged Ore +1."

(End of this chapter)