"Big brother, let me take the honor of going to the gate and scout for any abnormalities within."
Duan Yu Heng promotes himself since he is the youngest among them at the moment.
"Idiot! Come back!"
Duan Tian Ya pinches Yu Heng's earlobe and had him return to his initial position.
"Brother Guinness, could you take the honor, and lead a team to explore the entrance ?"
Yang Wu Di asked.
"With pleasure. Ming, Yue, Yang, Zhao! Follow me and lets open a path for our lord to thread ahead!"
Guinness ordered four of his most loyal subordinates, and go along with him.
Riding their Bloody Emperor Stallion, the 5 man team quickly reach the entrance of the Ancient Kingdom. Their first landmark is the destroyed "Ming Shi Men" (Ming Lion Gate). On the side of the entrance, there are two broken statues of Majestic Lion, which is the most significant proof of what is this gate is called.
Moving the debris along the path, Guinness, and the others quickly opened an entrance for themselves to walk past, but through their leg, instead of riding on their stallion. Due to the Bloody Emperor Stallion is a special breed from the Bloodlust Stead and the Emperor of Snow Horse, the Stallion possess a height of 4 meters and a weight of at least 5 ton.
As the team enters the city, they were greeted with debris and skeletons all along their way. The city is literally dead from any sign of livings. As they explore around the residential area from the entrance, they conclude that this Ancient Kingdom is really abandoned. Nothing could be found within this area, not even a little of rotten food, beast's dump or nest, and not even any undead could be noticed within this city.
"Ming, Yue, go and inform our lord that this area is safe, but let him know that this city is abandoned."
Guinness had his two subordinate return to pass the message, while he himself checking the wall and other hidden location in case any traps is within before their lord's arrival.
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Meanwhile within the Inner Alchemy Treasure Palace.
"Brother Mobi, did you receive any information regarding this Inner Palace ?"
Altima quickly checks with Mobi regarding on this matter.
"I do have an initial information regarding this matter, and how to cultivate, but I don’t this you are qualified to do this for now."
Mobi Says.
"Come On! Don’t be such a stingy old man and keep this secret to yourself!"
Altima charges towards Mobi.
"Heh! Come get it if you want!"
Mobi had the file floats above his head, and bounce himself towards Altima, to deal his strongest, Face Blow!
As the brother is fighting among each other, Altima utilizes a few tricks he recently learned during the time he is trapped within the void.
Few special steps applied on his movement, wherein the next moment, Altima manage to dodge Mobi's flying attack. Taking that as a luck, Mobi increases his speed, and bounce around in the air.
"Brother Mobi, that’s cheating! How can you change direction in mid-air ?"
Altima is shocked with Mobi ability in changing his direction in mid-air.
"You are cheating as well! Who know when did you suddenly learn how to move in such complicated way ?"
Mobi keeps his momentum, changing direction without stopping, causing blurry waves of mirage around Altima.
"Brother Mobi, you are slipping!"
Without moving rashly, Altima opens his arm wide and quickly grab an empty spot in his left side, and coincidently, Mobi next step is within that spot.
"Damn! I got caught in my best move!"
Mobi curse, but he know, with Altima new movements, it would be very hard for him to escape Altima's advanced in capturing his movement path.
In the end, the File ends up being opened and displayed.
Inner Alchemy Treasure Palace - Introduction
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Obtainable upon enlightenment, the Inner Alchemy Treasure Palace is only blessed and appeared within the cultivator's Nirvana World. As long the Cultivator reach the mental status which strong enough to enter the Nirvana World, one will be able to open their first Inner Alchemy Treasure Palace, and continue to grow. The number of Palace is allowed in one's Nirvana World is limited at 9 Palaces.
The mental status is differentiated into few different path, but the major 5 different mental statuses known widely would be The Mental of Martial King, The Mental of Five Element Movement, The Mental of Three Treasures, The Mental of Yi Jing, and lastly The Mental of Inner Cultivation.
Internal Palace - Introduction
Within a Palace, each come with a set of similar features, where with cultivation and essence, the Palace will be slowly built accordingly to a cultivator's wish.
The most basic Palace came with the Soil of Dao, the Tree of Longevity, The Pond of Prosperity, and the Cauldron of Alchemy. The fire that lit below the Cauldron is the Flame of Dan (Elixir/Pills), in which could be strengthened by training the Cultivator's Mental, Spirit, and Essence.
Cultivating the Inner Alchemy Treasure Palace
A cultivator could inject as much as possible Essence they absorb within the world to cultivate the Inner Alchemy Treasure Palace. The stronger the cultivation of a cultivator, the faster the Inner Palace 4 treasures will be strengthened. Meanwhile, for the Flame of Dan, it could only be strengthened by providing sufficient Energy Yin Pill and Energy Yang Pill. Some wealthy cultivators could increase their speed through using Extreme Extracts, but in the early stage, the absorption speed will be hindered as one still lack of skills to refine the extract carefully.
Usage of Inner Treasure Palace
The Soil of Dao is used to replace the Heaven and earth nutrient, to provide age to certain treasured medicinal plants as a cultivator grows.
The Tree of Longevity provides Life and Produce which is special to the Cultivators. Each Tree of Longevity provides different yields and type of fruits each century, making the world after ascension flourishes with a different type of produce.
The Pond of Prosperity allows one to tame and graze a Life within the pond. Limited to only one Beast/Person/type each palace, the life within will be acting as the guardian for the certain Palace and blessed with all the miraculous benefit as it grows.
The Cauldron of Alchemy is only used for one purpose, which is to Concoct the Golden Fate Pellet. The Golden Fate Pellet contain the purest and thickest essence a cultivator could concoct and could be used during life threatening situation. The Pellet is differentiated into few different stage, and each stage creates a large gap on its effectiveness when consumed.
Pure - Human - Earth - Heaven - Divine
The Pure Golden Fate Pellet could be used as the basic cultivation resources or even life-saving medicine as the pellet allows a 10% recovery on user condition without any delays. The 10% includes Kun Cultivating Essence, which helps in providing additional Essence for a cultivator.
Human Golden Fate Pellet boost a 20% Recovery and Essence, while Earth provides a 40% quantity. Heaven grade carries a total of 80%, and the Divine, allows the user to receive a boost of 200% Recovery and Essence.
Although it was used widely as the next cultivating resources for those who ascend from the Zen Tier, the Golden Fate Pellet is largely in demand for many cultivators. Although there are 5 different stages of Golden Fate Pellet is available within the world, Only Pure Golden Pellet is widely accepted as the above Zen Tier Currency, while the other stage Golden Fate Pellet is trade and exchanged as the cultivating treasures.
"So, Brother Mobi, shall we try to concoct and make a few Golden Fate Pellets ?"
Altima eager to try concoct a few Golden Fate Pellets.
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"My lord, please wake up."
"My lord, please don’t scare me now. I will be more obedient, and fulfill the duty of a wife. I will carry your spear whenever you go. I will even learn how to cook and wash, instead of carrying only weapons around or acts like a tomboy."
"My lord.."
"My lord…"
Ganesha couldn’t stop but keep talking to Altima whom lying down in a Casket filled with recovery medicine and skin recovering liquid. Although most of Altima external injuries and burns had been recovered, Altima still deep in slumber, without any reaction towards the external disturbance.
"My lord, I will follow you to death if you won't wake up. Be it alive or dead, I will remain as your most faithful wife and ser…..Umph!"
Ganesha tried to finish her words, but a hand moved toward her lips and stop her from continuing.
"If your big brother Sura heard this all, he will make sure all my bones is cracked and made me a cripple before he starts lecturing you."
Altima wakes and stops Ganesha from making any more noises. In the same time, he quotes Sura Cenia Ignizem's next action, due to their previous encounter.
Mentioning about Sura Cenia Ignizem, Altima reminds his stories two years ago.
During the period he returned to the Royal Wu Di City, Altima challenged Sura on his way, as he saw Sura is training with his Wolf Fang Mace. Receiving no mercy, Altima is thoroughly beaten, and almost left half dead on the bed for two weeks. Although Sura had been "taught" by Yang Wu Di for a lesson on taking things a hard way among each other, but for Altima, this Sura is a deeply straight forward person, who will give his all no matter what he does.
"Everyone!!!! Lord Altima is awake!!"
Ganesha shouts. Unable to contained her waves of sound, the whole Carriage wall quickly destroyed, revealing what is carried within.
"Brother Altima!"
The first reaction came from his 3 brothers that still within the ranks, where all of them came almost immediately to his side.
But in Altima's mind, he is thinking about something else.
"I would never imagine that, within the Inner Alchemy Treasure Palace, No trace of Zen Essence energy is available anywhere. If in that case, I can only refine the Palace when I am in my physical body, and not in the mentally form."
"And this Ganesha, seriously what is inside this girl's head!"
Writer's Note:
Mental of Martial King - A mental state of when one obtained the pinnacle of a certain martial art in a perfect degree.
Mental of Five Element Movement - A mental state obtainable when one manage to master the essence in either between Alchemy, Metallurgy, Astrology, Ideology, Elementally.
Mental of Three Treasures - A state which only obtainable when one manage to gain the mastery of longevity regarding his own Vital Force (QI) , Life Force or Vitality (Jing) and Spirit (Shen).
Mental of Yi Jing - A Divination only enlightenment, which only will be rewarded to one along with the Art of War, Music, Literature, Drawing, and Divinity.
Mental of Inner Cultivation (Nei-Jing Tu) - This mental state is the rarest among all, where only the most genius cultivator or the one who blessed by the god since birth could obtain. Nei-Jing Tu (The Inner Landscape of Cultivation) allows one to see his path of cultivation and were to proceed as he moves on, allowing one to obtain the most beneficial and fastest cultivation to reach the highest path in ascension.