Reproduction and Smelting
(Title is incorrect, it should be "Reforge". My head is starting to hurt, and I'm not quite clear-headed.)
Watching Hom leave, Feng Xue finally breathed a sigh of relief and then began to systematically tidy up the room.
It's not that he's a germaphobe, but since the house was renovated by someone else and was so cheap, he was still a little uneasy.
Fortunately, his Golden Finger was really useful for reconnaissance in the Infinite City, whether it was finding Omen in the wild by looking through mosaics or finding listening devices in a room by relying on elements.
However, it turns out that he may have been overthinking things; the low housing prices were simply because houses in Infinite City were worthless.
Of course, there could be another reason--
In terms of cost-effectiveness, since Phantom Object that can be used for eavesdropping must be quite expensive, it would be a waste to leave it in the house and have it discovered and taken away. On the other hand, using False Thing would consume a lot of [knowledge], so overall it's not very cost-effective.
Taking the Gynomorphic Filter out of her pocket and stuffing it into her Storage Bag, Feng Xue tossed herself onto the sofa, enjoying the softness that allowed her body to sink in slightly, and sleepiness almost instantly washed over her.
However, he did not intend to take a nap immediately. Instead, after slightly adjusting his posture, he took out the rolled-up Peerless Martial Art from his storage bag and began to continue studying it.
Although the manual that appeared this time was "One Yang Finger Peerless Martial Art," which Feng Xue didn't particularly like, he still copied it down considering that he might have to sell the manual for five cents a copy on the street in the future. In fact, if the book wasn't full of peerless martial arts, he would have preferred to copy something less impressive. After all, martial arts are forbidden by law, and if it were full of Peerless Martial Art, the authorities might get angry.
Although Feng Xue had copied quite a few secret manuals, he actually only practiced the Sunflower Acupuncture Hand and the Bu Tiange. Some of the manuals were completely incomprehensible to him, requiring him to supplement his knowledge, while most of them were simply due to a lack of materials.
Martial arts are not like those in many novels, where you can learn them simply by picking up a secret manual. Even Iron Sand Palm requires the assistance of medicine during the training process. Medicines such as Poria Cocos Pill and Qi-Regulating Powder, which can enhance the sensation of Qi and blood and assist in the circulation of Qi, are very common.
However, these medicines are extremely rare in the Infinite City, and even if they existed, Feng Xue would likely find it difficult to obtain them given her current financial resources.
While her mind was racing, her hands moved swiftly. Although the medium for copying was the sample cloth she had obtained from the Arachne organization that day, the Phantom Pen did not cause any writing difficulties due to the texture of the Cotton Cloth. On the contrary, the writing flowed so smoothly that Feng Xue loved it.
With the efficiency boost from the Phantom Object combined with the bonus from the [Money Printer] Tag itself, Feng Xue copied a One Yang Finger of over three thousand words on the One Finger Divine Skill in just ten minutes. Although her handwriting was a bit messy, she could fully understand it with the Translation Konjac.
After copying several more manuals at this level, Feng Xue suddenly stopped. It wasn't because he had run out of samples from his shopping trip that day, but because he planned to use these manuals to conduct some experiments.
The blank paper brought back from the Real World is True Thing, a precious commodity that can be brought to the real world without any consumption. Using it for experimentation and refining would inevitably be somewhat wasteful. However, these fabrics are different. They are False Thing, and taking them to the real world requires a large amount of [consciousness] to maintain. They are only used for recording purposes. Even if the Reforge fails, it is only a waste of ten minutes of work. But as long as a secret manual can be produced, let alone one out of a hundred, even one out of a thousand would be absolutely worthwhile.
With this in mind, Feng Xue copied each manual, and then laid out the four manuals in front of her: "One Yang Finger Skill," "Thirteen Swords of Life Taking," "Heavenly Snake Bone Changing Technique," and "Nine Deaths Undying Body."
Today's luck wasn't good. He drew four cultivation manuals, but Feng Xue couldn't or didn't want to practice three of them. The Nine Deaths Undying Body required him to be on the verge of death nine times in a row through different methods such as suffocation, blood loss, shock, dehydration, and poisoning. The Heavenly Snake Bone Changing Technique required a rare poison to penetrate to the bone, leaving him neither human nor ghost. He simply didn't like the One Yang Finger Divine Skill. The Thirteen Swords of Life Taking did fit Feng Xue's personal aesthetic, but he couldn't quite understand the dangerous fifteenth sword in the original work.
But it doesn't matter. Reforge is just a routine operation. Throwing in a Ma Dongmei and refining a Sun Honglei is normal, so there's no need to care too much about the type of technique.
Feng Xue didn't have any particularly suitable elements in his inventory for Smelt manuals. After thinking it over, he selected a few relevant elements such as [Assassin], [Stealth], [Assassination], and [Weapon] and carried out a near-blind single-shot Reforge.
One by one, the Cotton Cloth- bound books in front of Feng Xue twisted and contorted, and soon, the first round of Reforge was completely annihilated.
Actually, that's not entirely true, because besides the three black balls, Feng Xue also produced a Phantom Object—
Name: Phantom Object - Electric Gate
Elements: [Death], [Electricity], [Items]
Description: A live switch without any power-off protection; touching any exposed metal part will result in an immediate electric shock.
Note: You can find a Qin Shi Huang to touch it.
Looking at the Phantom Object transformed from the Nine Deaths Undying Body Manual, Feng Xue was momentarily at a loss for words. First of all, this thing meant that as long as he had enough basic electrical engineering knowledge, it was a portable power station with unlimited power supply. But the problem was that he was even a little hesitant to pick it up right now.
Feng Xue wandered around the house a few times, finally finding two ceramic plates in the kitchen. She managed to move the thing aside and then put up a very conspicuous sign around it to remind herself not to forget about it.
"Anyway, it's a decent item. Next time I have the chance to go to the real world, I should try to bring back some electrical wires, and also electrical knowledge and the corresponding tools..." Feng Xue took out his memo and wrote down his thoughts in the notebook. Then he started repeating the cycle of copying and Reforge again. But by the time the deliveryman delivered several boxes of cut white cloth, he had only managed to produce two comical items.
However, during this process, Feng Xue discovered an interesting phenomenon: each time these books were refined, no matter how little [knowledge] was invested, they would undergo a corresponding change, either turning into a black sphere or Phantom Object, unlike many Phantom Object before, which remained False Thing even after being invested.
"Is it because the books themselves contain enough knowledge? Or is it because the books themselves contain some special rules that I am unaware of? Is it related to the 'False Book' that Hom mentioned before?"
Feng Xue was very concerned about every "special case" of her Golden Finger, because these special phenomena might reveal the unique aspects of this world.
However, he soon stopped thinking about this matter, which could not be answered in a short time. Finally, after six hours of copying, during Feng Xue's thirtieth Smelt, as the manual for the Thirteen Swords of Life Taking twisted and disappeared, a new book appeared in front of Feng Xue.