Rushing towards his production, Altima spends no rest time to concoct a larger amount of Boosting Zen Pill, so he could use those as his chips to place within the auction. Throughout the concocting process, Altima, who is at the Early of 5th Stage Concocting Practitioner, quickly gain sufficient to reach the Peak of 5th Stage, only requiring one more Recipe to break across the gap between 5th to 6th Stage.
Finally, After a total 13 day of Concoction, Altima, whom already have a success rate of Confirmed 50%, manage to concoct a total of 650 Pills from a total of 1300 Portion of ingredient used. Added on the first day 90 Pills he successfully made, Altima holds a total of 740 Boosting Zen Pill, to be placed in the Auction together with a total of 3 Bottle of Marrow Cleansing Elixir.
Reports for 14 days in Spatial Realm:(1)
+ 31 Collections on Young Beanstalks Tree, 37,200 Units of the young beanstalk.
Plantation Spatial Realm 84,270/200,000 Harvest Required, Level 1
+ 280 Unprocessed Ore of Arsalite
Mine Vein Spatial Realm 280/100,000 Mining Required, Level 0 (Level 0 - Arsalite / Level 1 - Briolite / Level 2 - Neolite)
+ 5 Strings of Bitter Worm / + 5 Scarlet Bitter Grass / + 1,000 Energy Yin Pill / + 1,000 Energy Yang Pill
Essence Resources Spatial Realm 23,550/100,000 Activities Required. Level 0
With the basic preparation are all set, Altima utilizes his 3 Step of Continent Walking Technique. Almost doubling his movement, Altima spends only 2 days to travel directly towards Boulduin City, which required him to travel at least 4 days nonstop previously. Very quickly, Altima reaches the Boulduin City, and directly entered the Boulduin Auction Hall of Myriad Treasures without any disruption. Efficient enough to be the Auction Hall's guard, they remember their clients and people who need to be taken care especially, which added more comfort to the person who visits.
Within the Boulduin Auction Hall, this time, Melissa Boulduin personally came to appraise the treasures brought by Altima, as a form of respect towards this upcoming star in the Field of Concoction.
"Young Master Altima, The Marrow Cleansing Elixir is in the best condition this time as well, how amazing!", Melissa speaks in a flirty way while trying to see how Altima react.
"I'm glad that the quality of this elixir is up to the auction hall standard, can Lady Melissa appraised the quality of Cultivation Pills within this Box as well?", Altima, whom not affected by the charm from Melissa, calmly speaks and pushed another chest filled with Boosting Zen Pill inside.
"!!, This is the Boosting Zen Pill, and each of them is of such pure quality! Young master seems like your skills in concocting are even better than your skills on how to read a lady's heart.", Melissa, who was shocked at first, quickly cover herself up by sending a teasing sentence to Altima indirectly.
I hope Lady Melissa could help me obtain a good price for all this item. And could I make a request directly to Lady Melissa on a certain issue ?", Altima quickly inquires about one special request he has in mind, where most probably only the Auction Hall have the possibility to obtain it.
"Young Master Altima, Please Speak.", Melissa, after seeing how serious is the expression from Altima, Immediately take his word seriously.
"I would need the Auction Hall to help me procure a few recipes of Concoction, of any kind, which I would need to use to improve my Concoction Technique. Will it be possible ?", Altima, speak straight to his point, quickly open his intention above the table for Melissa to see.
"To be honest, Young Master, Our Auction Hall actually have few Recipe in List for sale, but I'm afraid that even Young Master Altima reached a Concocting Master, it would still be hard to Concoct this Medicinal Pills.", Melissa replied Altima's request, but her face comes with slight disappointment.
"Could Lady Melissa tell me why ?", Altima quickly inquiry deeper.
"We have 5 Different recipes here, which is to concoct Warrior and Master Grades Pill, but unfortunately, their Ingredient is no longer available within this World, or many within our Blue God Continent. So even if it's purchased, no Concocting Master can Concoct this pills.", Melissa Quickly Replied.
"May I have the Recipe, please ? You may deduct the total from the auctioned amount, and just let me have what the total of Pills worth.", Altima quickly tries to seal the deal, looking forward to securing the recipe.
"I can't promise you anything for now, as the Recipe is one of the Royal Treasure among the Boulduin Family. But please give me some time, I will let you know a reply soon.", Melissa regrettably rejected Altima intention to seal the deal but return him with a word of assurance again.
"I see, then I will await your good news then.", Altima, who satisfied with all the results from their discussion today, finally preparing to leave, but before he starts to turn his back towards Melissa, Altima Took out a box, which Filled with 50 Blood Establishment Pills.
"Lady Melissa, This is a small gesture for helping me last time during my difficult moment with the Gu Family Escort Agency. Please accept it.", Altima had Melissa soft palm touched and moved it upward and had the box hold in her hand before he let go and leave.
"What a brat, how dare he touch my hand! But.. It's felt so warm, Like Mother's.", Melissa, whom stunned by that moment, quickly return to her mind and get slightly angered for a moment, before he sight turns warm.
When she checked the item within, Melissa is even more shocked, to think that Altima would easily give a 50 Pills of the Middle Warrior Grade Medicinal Pills as a gift for a good deed. Later on that day, Altima pays a few visits toward few places, Which is the City Lord's Castle, City Smith, and lastly, the Thousand Members Guild. Handling over the Box of 50 Blood Establishment Pills, Altima quickly received a greater favour and respect from the few important people within this Boulduin City.
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In the Next day, Altima, who dressed up nicely, Finally preparing to enter the Auction Hall of Myriad Treasures to participate in their This month Auction. As usual, No exciting moment appeared in the first few items, until Melissa Boulduin introduced the next time, which is one of the targets for Altima to procure this time.
Revival Fruits!
Without any obstruction from other cultivators and bidders, Altima quickly seals the Auction with a total of 26,000 Pills for a total of 13 Revival Fruits.
The auction goes along again for another ten of treasures, consisting of weapons, Medicinal Pills in better grades, as well as Ingredients, until Finally, on the 31st item, Altima's Marrow Cleansing Elixir are brought up onto the Stage again. Causing Ruckus among the Bidders, the Elixir quickly rose from 200,000 Pills each bottle, to a total of 450,000 Pills a bottle before it's sold.
The other 6 bottle sold off for a total of 380,000 Pills each bottle respectively, where even the Alec Boulduin's representative are here to bid for one bottle as requested by Alec himself. The auction goes along pretty well, until soon, Altima participates in the bidding as well, obtaining a few ingredients such as Pure City Smith Smelted Arsalite Bar, where Altima spend about a total of 50,000 Pills to obtain a total of 100 bars, 50,000 Pills for a Random Martial Arts called Rejuvenate Scripture.
As the Auction goes along its way until the finale, The item everyone within the crowd and Bidders finally appears on the stage.
"Ladies and Gentleman! We should now prepare to proceed towards this item to be auctioned on the Boulduin Auction Hall of Myriad Treasures! I hereby Introduce you all to this Lost Scrolls the Boulduin Military manage to procure during their expedition towards the Upper Southern.", Melissa starts her speech off in a very seductively.
"Within this scroll, only a simple word was written, which is (Second Chapter). Due to the restriction placed on this Scroll, perhaps the only cultivator with relevant martial art could decipher and unlock this mystery hidden within the scroll. The Auction price starts from 200,000 Pills, Each additional Bid will be a minimum 100,000 increments. Please Starts your Bid!" Melissa finally opens the bid to everyone, where the bid increased quickly, from 200,000 Pills to currently required around 700,000 Pills to outbid the others.
"Brother, What do you think ?", Altima quickly asks Mobi on his opinion.
"Let us get it first, With my ability to decipher and processing, we could unlock this Skill even if it is not related to the (Movement of Ghost Steps).", Mobi quickly says.
1,000,000 Pills!
Altima quickly bid for the Scroll, increasing the price of the scroll by 300,000, immediately raising attention from the others.
"Is that the new Concocting Practitioner everybody talking about ?", One of the bidders speaks loudly.
"I would never imagine I could saw the great star Mr. Altima here personally!", Another bidder starts speaking.
With the crowd busy speaking toward each other, the Auction quickly finish, ending with Altima is outbid twice, and force him to Increase his bidding into 1,500,000 to purchase the scroll. With the scroll gone into his hand, Altima finally relaxes, because the next time, won't required his attention as that item is belong to him before it is handed over to the Auction Hall.
"Everybody, You attention Please!", Melissa Boulduin finally speaks, after being quiet for a moment.
"I believe, everybody knows that in this World of ours, Plenty of Cultivating Resources, Ingredient, and body tempering medicine are available, as long one have the luck to encounter or Concoct it.", Melissa speaks.
"Today here, we greatly rejoice to bring up this item, which is a rare encounter to procure such amount. I hereby present you, the last treasure to be placed in the auction for today, the 55% Essence Energy Boosting Zen Pill! And in the number of 740 Units!", Melissa announces the item that being unveiled on the stage, and at the same time, 20 Soul Practitioner Guards appeared on the stage, to protect the item from being stolen or gathering greedy cultivators.
"I would never imagine this is what will happen when you auction such an amount of Pills.", Mobi quickly says.
"Brother, The Boosting Zen Pill are praised with a 55% Essence Energy, of course, there will be many bandits or interested evil cultivators are interested with it.", Altima replied his brother's Word.
With the auction is going on with the Boosting Zen Pill, each of the pills are auctioned with a price of 5,000 Pills each, which is the current benchmark for temporary. As the Auction goes to an ending, Altima finally received a total of 5,661,000 Balancing Zen Pills from his total sales. Before Altima turn around and leave, a soft and gentle voice came from behind the Appraiser Manager, trying to have Altima stays before she reaches them.
"Young Master Altima! Wait for me!", Lady Melissa Boulduin was running over with two scrolls in her hand.
Writer Note:
(1)Due to certain Advice and suggestion, I had made some changes on how I describe the Interface and their Productivity. Hopefully, this made things clearer to the readers!