"Elder Wang, Little one pay respect to elder and your hard works."
Altima greet first when he saw Elder Wang Ming is walking around, replacing a few Procurement Parchment from the Walls while inspecting for any expired Procurement request.
"Ah, young friend Altima, are you here for the pills delivery ? How many pills in stock this time ?"
Elder Wang is happy to see Altima within the Hall, and together, both of them move towards the private area within the Hall to discuss and conduct the exchanges.
To his surprise, Altima actually withdraws a total of 10,000 Pills and handed it over to the elder.
"10,000 Pills, this is going to cost almost all my savings."
"Young friend Altima, are you going to change all of it into 10,000 batches of Ingredients ?"
The elder takes all the medicinal pills and awaits Altima's decision.
"Elder Wang, can I get a same 2,000 Batch of Ingredients, and the others change to ingredient or fruits that rich in Yin or Yang Essence ?"
Altima tried to request for a slight amendment on the ingredients he should receive.
"Of course!"
"Item that rich in Yin or Yang Essence…"
"Oh yes! Xiao San San.."
Elder Wang Ming suddenly remembered a specific item that came into their inventory a while back, and order one of his disciple to went over to retrieve it.
Soon after 20 minutes waiting, the disciple return with two different type of fruit.
"Master, this is the two type of fruits you requested from the Back Channel."
The disciple presents the two fruits between Altima and Elder Wang.
Back Channel. This location is reserved especially to store special type of ingredients that have no recipe to be concocted at the moment. Some of the fruit is possibly old, or too well refined, thus the usage of the certain type of ingredient is nullified.
"Young friend Altima, this red Stone lookalike fruit is from the Crimson Blood Tree, named as the Crimson Tear due to the shape of this fruit is similar to a drop of tears, but in a pear size."
"This Crimson Tear Fruit is rejected from usage to concoct medicinal due to the overly Yang Essence Property. Due to this matter, the Sect decided to store this ingredient away in the Back Channel, and awaits new recipe to be created or found."
"Next is this Artic Water Tongue. This ingredient used to be an ingredient to craft a type of peak spiritual grade pills, but unfortunately, the mutation happens on the soil the Artic Water Tongue is growing within, so the Artic Water Tongue grows in a ridiculous flow of Yin Essence."
"Due to this two fruits is not up to the standard, the Sect decided to give them out if there are any needs."
As the elder finish his words, Altima receives a total of 10 Raising Zen Pills, and a total of 500 Crimson Tear Fruit and 500 Artic Water Tongue.
Receiving all the exchanged fruits and the 10 Raising Zen Pills, Altima finally bid farewell and leave the procurement hall. Within his mind, Altima noticed how difficult for him to obtain more capital to participate in the Grand Auction. Although each Raising Zen Pill is worth around 500 Boosting Zen Pill, but to achieve a minimum amount of a few million Boosting Zen Pills and Raising Zen Pills, is totally out of his league for now.
As he leaving the Primordial Ark, Altima bumps into two close brothers of his, Wuyun Tuoba and Yutian Tangfeng.
"Brother Yutian, Brother Wuyun."
Altima initiate to start a conversation.
"Well, Well, seems like little brother Altima is here again for Elder Wang's delivery. How is everything goes for now ?"
Yutian Tangfeng started a topic.
"Brother Yutian, thanks to Elder Wu, I manage to have a better chance to increase my wealth, but too bad, this trick is currently still too slow for me."
Altima answered Yutian Tangfeng's question, and a slightly impatient face appear within his looks.
"Little brother, Let us find a place to rest, over there, I will explain to you one by one how our Primordial Ark's transaction works."
Yutian Tangfeng understands what Altima meant, and tried to look for a place to discuss more about it.
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"Brother Yutian, can you enlighten little brother here ?"
"Brother Altima, to be honest, the way you are doing now is a just preliminary stage of the Primordial Ark exchanges."
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"Can Brother Yutian go into more details ?"
"Sure. Brother Altima, the reason the Primordial Ark is over here, is not only to conduct the Grand Auction and the Trade Exchange. We are actually looking to obtain more treasure before we head to the next continent."
"Currently, what Master Wu is trying to let you know is, you should ready your foundation, because, by next week, your performance in Alchemy will be the main skill to help you obtain more resources to hit the Grand Auction."
"Brother Muyun, your meaning is…"
"Your capability in this basic exchange will determine your rights and qualification to view better treasure, obtain a better number of resources and more chances to obtain the Elders favor."
"To participate in the Grand Auction, one would need sufficient amount of resources to exchange. Look in this way, even if Wu Di Royal Family, Qin Royal Family, and the Guo Royal Family combined their wealth together, perhaps their total wealth doesn’t even reach 1,000 Pure Zen Pill. (Pure Zen Pill is the highest Zen Stage Pill, specially concocted for King - Emperor level practitioners)"
"What you needed now Is favor from the elders, to specially concoct more resources for them. Even some royal family will allow their special Elite troops to participate in war and raids, to obtain more resources to participate in the grand auction."
"Little Altima will remember both brothers advise. I will return and make sure my alchemy skills is on its track."
"Good, if in that case, we will leave first, we have a task soon, so you might can't meet both of us in the meantime."
"Farewell, Brother Yutian, Brother Muyun."
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As he returns to his Manor, Altima finishes his conversation with the other personnel within the manor and entered his Private Cultivation Farm with haste.
Within the farm, Altima quickly gets ready to concoct the 2,000 batch of Basic Profound Zen Pills, and in his surprise, he actually manages to obtain a total of 1,400/2,000 success this time. Although it is only a difference of 100 in other people's eyes, but in fact, 100 batch equals to 800 pills, 800 pills could mean a big difference, especially for cultivators to made a breakthrough.
Next, Altima moves over to the location where Tian is sleeping.
Tian, after being shower with some Yin and Yang energy flowing around, started to get slightly healthier, and his weight started to get over 370kg for now. Withdrawing a few fruits from the spatial ring he received from the Elder Wang, Altima feeds the Crimson Tear Fruit and Artic Water Tongue to Tian.
As soon as the little dragon, Tian, smelled a mellow and sweet fragrance flavor from the fruits, it immediately stands up and wags its tail like a puppy, asking to be fed. Looking at how this little fella behaves, Altima fed the Crimson Tear Fruit to Tian one by one and looking at how gluttony this fella is, Altima felt slightly heartache.
"This fella really can eat. 1,000 fruits are swallowed without stopping, and that amount is actually worth 8,000 batches of Basic Profound Zen Pill's ingredient."
"Gurururuu…"
"EEErrrrrk.."
Tian facial expression suddenly gets weird. As it lied down on the bed of rocks, Tian started to burp uncontrollably. The burp he just released came in a form of Red and blue gasses.
"This fella really, did he just burp after finishing his 1,000 expensive fruits meal and now falling asleep ?"
Altima is totally speechless with Tian's laziness.
While within this lazy dragon's mind.
"Today my owner bring me so many red and blue foods."
"He keeps giving, so I keep eating."
"I want to let him know my burp Is treasure! If I shit later, it will turn into treasure too!"
"Fine, I should sleep first. Later I can wake up and eat again. I think the burp will form into the Condensed Yin Pill and Condensed Yang Pill soon. I will sleep on this Yin and Yang bed then. I wonder how fast will this bed of rock will take to nicely refined into the spring of Dragon's Drool."
"Maybe I should sleep more. Owner will return with food later."
Within the Yin Yang Cultivation Circle, Altima spent his remaining time to practice his martial art without fail. By efficiently mastering the few new martial arts along with the help of Yi Jing Classics, Altima improvement in the field of martial arts is not lower compared to his Alchemy.
Currently, after continuous practice, Altima's martial art in few new arts already started to reach some perfection level. If things continue to go along pretty well, Altima can expect a few of them will be ready to combine and upgrade when the time is right.
And yet, after a little of training, Altima suddenly get pulled into his Inner Alchemy Treasure Palace.
"Why would I get pulled into this place automatically ?"
Staring blankly on the Inner Alchemy Treasure Palace, Altima decided to walk around, looking around and understand how his palace works.
Soon, he started to lost some patience.
"Seriously, Why would I get summoned into this place ? Did it need me to do something ?"
"I remembered it's said that I would need to use a large amount of Yin and Yang Energy to strengthen the Inner Alchemy Treasure Palace."
"Should I try to place some Extreme Yin and Yang Extract to try its effectiveness ?"
Without hesitation, Altima withdraws a total of 10 Extreme Yin and 10 Extreme Yang Extracts, and place it on the floor, and checking for the differences it would bring. But after about 10 minutes of waiting, Altima see no ripples or reaction from the Extracts.
Next, he started to move around, with the Yin on his left and Yang on his right. Due to the emptiness of Yin and Yang Essence within the Palace Realm, Altima moving randomly, without any results at all on the Extreme Extract within his hand.
He tried to place it nearby the soil, the tree, the cauldron, and even the pond, but to no avail, no reaction could be seen from all his actions. With nothing could be done, Altima felt like it’s the end of his world.
"Why couldn’t I refine the Inner Palace ?"
"Screw it, instead of keeping it back, let's just eat this few Extreme Extracts. Since you guys don't want to refine it, I will swallow it into my body instead!"
With anger in his heart, Altima swallows the 20 drops of extract into his belly, and lied down on the soil, trying to get a nap.
Instantly, His body turned into a two color tone, and a large amount of Yin and Yang Essence is bursting out from every corner of his Dantian. Shocked with the changes, Altima quickly shifted himself into a meditative posture, and try to refine the berserk Yin and Yang Essence.
As he focuses, the Yin Yang Essence slowly seeps out from every single pore on his body, and slowly dissipates and mixed together with the Palace Realm. Slowly but noticeable, the Palace Realm started to get more and more colorful, where the Tree of Longevity and the Flame of Dan (the eternal fire below the cauldron) is started to show some changes.
Altima repeatedly swallows, refine and release the Essence within his body, as he trains and tempers his body through using the Yin and Yang Essence. Although the current result is not distinct, but Altima's Essence Storage is increasing a little by a little.
Soon, the Tree of Longevity started to bear a few fruits, but not ripe enough to be pluck and eaten.
Next, within the cauldron, a dull colored medicinal pill appeared within, except a strong undulation of Yin and Yang, no special properties could be seen within.
The pond has no distinct life at the moment, but smaller planktons and shrimps, fishes and shelled oysters are growing healthily within.
The Soil started to be brimmed with life essence, where some grasses started to grow longer, making the piece of land started to get greener and smooth to be lied on whenever one felt like taking a nap.
"If this is the way to refine the Palace Realm, then I have so much work to do!"
Altima happily walks towards the Palace entrance and see a Stone Plaque erected tall before the entrance.
Looking at the Stone Plaque, Altima notices a line of word carved on it, but not too visible as the carving is yet to be complete.
Ignoring what is written, Altima decided to leave the Palace Realm, and return to his Cultivation Farm.
As he returns, Altima notice nothing changed within his Cultivation farm and walking over to Gunther and Mo Yue, Altima notice that the Spear they both working on, is still in the same condition.
"Gunther, Mo Yue, did you guys stop working on the spear for few hours ?"
Altima asked as he is inside the Palace Realm for about 6 hours before he exit.
"My lord, you just leave from the workshop 6 to 7 minutes just now, how could you expect us to create any changes on this rare piece of work ?"
Gunther replies immediately bring a weird response from Altima.
"Hell! Don’t tell me that one hour within the Palace Realm is only a Minutes in the real world ?"