Following next day morning, Altima proceeds towards the location where the Kun Practitioner is positioned and withdraw a total of 10 Boosting Zen Pill as the entrance fee into the Primordial Ark. After proceeding, as usual, Altima entered the Ark and quickly heads to the Procurement Hall.

Within the Hall, Altima went over to the procurement hall elder, to inspect his treasure and its worth. Unexpectedly, the cultivating medicine actually gives the Elder a shock.

"Young one, this is… Profound Zen Pills!"

The elder quickly shook his head, couldn’t believe the treasure that placed in front of him.

"Young one, where did you found this few boxes of treasures ?"

The elder happily checks the Profound Zen Pill and its quality, and on the same time, he seems to be very interested in getting a hold on Altima's background.

"Elder Wang Ming, can I participate in this talk too ?"

Elder Wu Ming appeared behind Elder Wang and asking for a permission.

"Elder Wu Ming, Little Altima pays you a greeting."

Altima quickly greets Wu Ming politely.

"So, you seems to succeed in concocting this medicine."

Elder Wu Ming grabs a few pills in his hand, and thoroughly check its quality before he places it back to the box.

"Yes, Little Altima is grateful for Elder's generosity, and thanks to the luck to procure some ingredients available within this Primordial Ark, this little one manage to concoct a few to bring over here to try his luck on selling it."

"Elder Wu Ming, If you don’t mind, would you be kind enough to accept this gift as a goodwill and appreciating gesture ?"

Altima speaks politely, showing his gratitude on Elder Wu Ming's generosity on gifting him the Recipe, as a friendship token. In the same time, he withdraws a beautiful Pill box with 7 Basic Profound Zen Pills within, and all of them is in their Late Medicinal Grade Strength.

"Ha Ha Ha! No wonder even Little Yutian and Little Yang praise you like no tomorrow. Then this elder will thicken his face up, and receive this gift then."

Elder Wu Ming happily receives the Pillbox, and patted on Elder Wang Ming's back, with an exchange of look, Elder Wang Ming understand the reason Elder Wu Ming appears during their conversation. After a few more words, Elder Wu Ming leaves the place, leaving only Altima and Elder Wang there.

"Little one, seems like your Background is not too weak."

The elder praised Altima on his capability.

"I wonder how could I exchange this Pills ?"

Altima goes back to his main motive within this Primordial Ark.

"Young one, this Elder is very interested in obtaining this Basic Profound Zen Pills. Would you mind considering to conduct a trade with this elder ?"

Elder Wang speaks out his intention.

Perhaps many people don't notice the other responsibility bear by the elders within the Ascension Immortal Treasure Sect, but in fact, each elder does have more responsibility behind the scene, during the period they are not located within the Primordial Ark.

The Ascension Immortal Treasure Sect is actually divided into a few different Branch, covering many different aspects. Of course with this kind of placement, there would be some slight competition between the branches, and also additional expectations to be put on the Elders shoulder.

Although the position "Elder" is attractive to the public eyes, in truth, they are merely a Master Trainer within the Sect itself. Elder Wang Ming is in the 9th Rank elder position, in duty to train new outer sect disciple. The sect disciple that train under his wing is not less than 1,000 disciple, and as their teacher, Elder Wang Ming required to diligently train them and increase their cultivation, before the disciple could be sent out to partake in some missions such as gathering ingredients, hunting for treasures and beast, or capturing locations or maintaining formations on behalf of the sect.

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Due to the increase of numbers of the new disciple, Elder Wang required to spent a large number of resources, such as Balancing Zen Pills and Boosting Zen Pills, to allow his disciple to cultivate to a higher stage before they could participate in succeeding some task.

Although the Sect does provide monthly salary to the elder, and some benefits to the disciple every month, but there is no free lunch within this world. One would need to work to obtain more benefits. A disciple required to contribute to the Sect and does many various jobs to obtain points, so they could exchange it for more cultivating resources and tempering medicine.

While for the Elder, their contribution points are depending on the number of the disciple, their stage, their contribution, and their quality. The better the overall disciple cultivation an elder holds, the better the contribution point the elder will be obtained, where he could use it to exchange for a better weapon, cultivation medicine and treasures for his disciples and himself.

With this thousand of Basic Profound Zen Pills, Elder Wang could quickly enhance his disciple cultivation, but of course, this sort of chance doesn’t come too often.

"Elder Wang, please state your expectation and what you could offer."

Altima replied politely.

"Young one, how bout you sell this Basic Profound Zen Pill to me with a price of 250 Balancing Zen Pill each, together with 1 more batch of ingredients ?"

The price elder Wang offered is not too high, compared to what Altima is expecting, but from the range of market price, the ingredient actually doesn’t cost too much. A batch of Basic Profound Zen Pill cost Altima around 500 to 600 Balancing Zen Pills, and each batch could yield him a total of 8 Pills. If he manages to concoct without failures, Altima cost Is roughly about 100 Balancing Zen Pill each, but this Basic Profound Zen Pill have 10 times stronger medicinal value compare to Balancing Zen Pills.

The 10 times stronger medicinal value could decrease the time spent in cultivating, and yet obtaining similar results. Another concern is due to the number of medicine used. A human body have a natural resistance to anything edible or consumables. Through a frequent consumption on cultivating medicine, a cultivator body will slowly gain some resistance, therefore, the gain from using similar stage medicine would cause the cultivation to grow slower.

This is the reason why, when a practitioner reaches the stage between Master to Spiritual Practitioner, would prefer looking for some Boosting Zen Pills, and not choosing the Balancing Zen Pill to cultivate. Lastly, is the number of medicine they need to refine and absorb, during the cultivation.

A cultivator who cultivates with Balancing Zen Pill might use all his strength to refine 100 pills at a time, to refine, absorb and convert the energy into his Dantian. but if the cultivator only required to refine 10 Basic Profound Zen Pill to achieve a similar amount of energy into his Dantian, imagine how fast his cultivation would be, if he could refine 10 times the amount through refining 100 Basic Profound Zen Pill in one try ?

One need to know, the Profound Zen Pill is cleanly refined and concocted, so no additional attention required to purify the medicine and separate the impurities during Refining and absorption.

"Elder Wang, I'm glad elder is interested in this medicine. If in this case, could I provide the elder with 2,000 Pills first ?"

Altima withdraws another 2,000 Pills that kept within a spatial ring and hand it over to Elder Wang.

"Hmm, 2,000 Pills. Young one seems like your Skills in Alchemy is not too shabby. Now I know why even Elder Wu Ming come out to meet you."

Elder Wang received the Spatial ring and order a few disciple to help him gather some ingredients, and continue to talk with Altima for a moment. 20 minutes later, the Disciple return with the spatial ring and passed it over to Elder Wang.

"Here, this two Raising Zen Pill is what you deserve. Another one is a ring with 2,000 Batch of the Ingredient for the Basic Profound Zen Pill."

Elder Wang hands the ring and 2 Raising Zen Pill to Altima and excuses himself from the Procurement Hall.

Richer by a 2 Raising Zen Pill, Altima proceeds toward the ingredient square to procure higher tier ingredients, where he would be using it for the concoction on Intermediate Profound Zen Pill. As he collects the total sales for the Yin Yang Tear Drops and the Brilliant Zen Pills, Altima withdraws a total of 148 Raising Zen Pills, a total of 48 units higher than what he expects.

As he preparing to leave, after manage to purchase 200 sets of ingredients, Altima is greeted by another Cultivator visiting the Primordial Ark.

"Young one, are you the one who place the Brilliant Spirit Pill in the Procurement Board ?"

The man politely greets Altima and tried to identify Altima's identity.

"Yes. I am Altima, a cultivator under the Wu Di Royal Family, you are ?"

Altima replied and gave up his background details as well, in case the person wish to do anything.

"I see. How fortunate for Shen Hu to manage to find such talented youngster to assist his Clan."

"Young Friend, are you interested in becoming a special guest within our Sect ?"

"I heard from Wu Ming and Wang Ming, you are quite a talented cultivator as well as a potential Concocting Master."

The man sigh as he heard that Altima belonged to the Wu Di Royal Family, but next moment, he tried to invite Altima to his sect as a special guest, to guide some of their disciples in the field of Alchemy as well as in Martial Arts.

"This Senior is ?"

Altima hesitates to agree, without knowing the man's background.

"Oh! Pardon me! I am Spirit Beast Clan (Ling Shou Bang) Protectors, my name is Ling Hu."

"We are a Clan of cultivators that excel in controlling Spiritual Energy and Beast Taming."

"The motive I am extending this invitation is because we have two Recipe to concoct, but we are unable to find the correct and good concocting master to come and concoct this medicine for us."

"Since Young friend Altima is a potential Concocting Master, would you consider coming over for a try, as well as treat it as a visit towards a different Continent."

Ling Hu introduced himself, as well as a little information on the Clan he is associate with, his intention to talk with Altima, as well as extending an invitation to Altima, getting him over to the clan to try to concoct two different medicinal Pills for the clan.

"Can Senior tell me which continent you came from ?"

Altima is interested in visiting as well, but first, he needs to know where he is going before he decides.

"Ha Ha Ha! Me and our Spirit Beast Clan originated from the Huo Lin Dalu! (Flame Forest Continent)"