As I fly toward this magnifcent building, I can see large crowds of people entering and leaving it's hundred yard entrance. As I land near the entrance, I couldn't help but give the building's protective barrier a good appraisal. The showcases on the walls display various treasures for their end of the week auctions. There are teams of guards patrolling the area, not that they are needed, the barriers that protect the showcases are just too strong.

After passing the showcases, I enter a oval room subspace with a extremely wide staircase in the middle leading to the second floor. The the oval room walls glows a soft white on the floor and cealing, and I'm walking on an translucent almost invisible barrier for a floor. I look down at my feet and see the outline of my feet surrounded by the soft fuzzy white glow from a restriction that creates a white ground fog. At the bottom of the staircase are scores of people waiting to help customers who intend to go upstairs. But very few approach the stairs as most people head for the multitude of corridors that lead to private rooms. The place is busy, a steady flow of people entering and leaving from each of the corridors.

I head for the base of the stairs and a pretty girl in a tight dress bows to me and ask "what can this auction house do for you sir?" My reply was "I would like to rent a workshop to practice tier six Artificing. Standard rates?" as I hand her a list of things I wanted to work with. She smiles and answers "Ah, you done this before, please follow me young master" while passing the list to a runner.

As a man I watch her ass up the stairs, it's like how can I not look. She then leds me to an area with crystal tubes running up into the cealing and stops by one of them and says "please sir, this tube lead to the workshops. Please remember you can only fly inside these tubes. There are flying restrictions thoughout this auction house." I nodded to her and step into the tube and will myself to fly up.

As I land on the exit floor I was greeted by another pretty girl who inquires "what kind of room do you like sir?" I reply "a room with a view." She nods and says "I know of good one sir, this way please." As she leads the way she informs "If there is anything you need during your stay, please don't hesitate to ask any of our staff." My curiosity kicks in and I inquire "does that includes even you?" She stops and looks at me and responds "a tier six artificer as young as you, my answer is yes." She bows politely before leading me away again often commenting on other rooms available if I am dissatified with the one I choose. She takes her time, it's obvious she stalling until they can gather up the items I requested, so accepted the well rehearsed tour. I even injected a few points of interest to keep up the game, which she smiled in appreciation.

She finally stops before a triple barrier warded door manned by a servant holding a silver tray. She picks up a key jade and a void pouch and presents them to me, then tells "this token will allow you to control these barriers and call for a servant if you ever need something. This pouch has the materials you requested young master." I take both items with my left hand and with a thought to my master's ring willed the cheapest spear to come out. I hand the spear to the young girl and ask "can you please auction this spear for me for the end of the month auction and please advertise as well. If your abiltiy to handle my crafts satisfy me I will increase your tip by as much and ten percent of final price. I will add auctions as I finish crafting them, right now I'll take that nice girl who brought me to my workshop to run errands for me. Tell her I'll give her a tier five niravana breakthough pill if she helps me out until I decide to leave this city." then willed the token to 'open' the barriers then walk through barriers and enter into the workshop.

The workshop is on the top floor of the auction house. The entire workshop is just a slab of array hardened rock extending out from the building sheathed in an invisibility formation, allow anyone who walks on it see the outline of the transparent bridge. With the ground fog, I feel like I am walking on clouds. There is even a formation to make me feel the ground as a little give in it as if walking on cotton.

The three shimmering barrier protects the workshop and provide privacy. Through the token I willed "clear to see" restriction in the key jade and the opaque barrier turns invisible and I can see the view of the city. Since the workshop extends out of the building I will be able to see both the sunrise and sunset. I know the barrier is one way, outside of the workshop is concealed by invisibily formations as part of the guareentee the auction house privacy crafter's demand while crafting.

With my eyes I see the invisible restrictions clearly protecting the adjacent worshops from view. The staff was kind of enough to put me at the very top, so no invisible restriction block my sky view but looking down, I see two more floors of workshop invisibity restrictions blocking more than half the ground view as illusionary distortions. After enjoying the view for bit then will the token 'white and bright' and the invisible barrier turn soft white to illuminate the space.

I send my thoughts into the void pouch to check the materials. I see them all plus a score of large vials filled with sustenence pills and ten bottled gifts of cultivation wines. I put those into my master's ring then empty the materials into the work area. Crafting anything is mentally consuming work that often induce headaches and a whole lot of insomnia. Only thing I can say is that I sink into my work at the cellular level and forget the outside world ever existed.

When I come to my senses, there a marvelous weapon in my hands. I made a heavy blade this time, it's about three hundred pounds of polished steel and emits both Sword Qi and Earth Qi in overlapping waves. I put the weapon aside and began cultivating with the resources I bought earlier. This was my routine until three days left of my auction. The first servant girl I requested liked men and provided an entertaining break. I rewarded her a pill suitable for her cultivation level in gratitude for her time. The following girls were even more enthusiastic in entertaining me. When I work, I like to splurg on breaks.

I create a total of fourteen weapons, as I handed the last one to my last break girl, I remember her being the one who brought me to this workshop and occasionally runs errands for me. I examine her aura and see it's much stronger than before. I spoke up "that foundation pill I gave you worked extremely well." Her smiling reply was "thank you very much for your help young master" before marveling at the warbow I just made. "You have made fourteen weapons during your stay young master. Your auctions will end in three days, would you like to attend in a private booth young master?" I reply "no thanks, it's boring going to an auction that I can't bid on" I give her a grin then hand her a list of herbs I want to buy, I offer "I'll buy these herbs with the auction winnings, can you convert the excess winnings to stage nine resources please. I'll wait in this workshop." As I turn away my curiosity asks "would like seconds with me tonight my dear?" Her reply was "I'll return to you as soon as I can" and left to take the warbow away.

We used a duo cultivating technique, we follow the scripted moves and enjoy it as much as we can. We go through five cycles before we are both satisfied. After she leaves with another foundation pill today, I get back to work, but this time I'm working with alchemy. Because I am using my artificing to pay for my alchemy hobbie. It's just like artificing, I get total sucked into my work I forget everything. When I come to my senses I push my mind into my master's ring and know there is a new batch of pills are in there.

While examining the last of the new pills the door chime sounded. My thoughts delve into the token and command "open door." Two auction elders entered and delived a void pouch, "your winnings and spirtual herbs you wanted young master." I replied "thank you for your good services" as I sent the pouch into my master's ring. The other elder respectful replied "it's a pleasure having to sell your art here. Please come back anytime." He then willed the returned token to open up the cealing. I watch a hole form on the top of the barrier that expands and drop instantly to floor level. I cup my hands and say "elders, thank you for sending me off" and flew away.

I head back to that dark cave in a round about way to make sure I wasn't followed. Now that I got supplies to last a few years I can go back to my studies. Why would I return to that dank cave, it's because my master place a concealing array and a temporal array in there. The temporal array shifts time to three days in the array will only be one day in the outside world. Learning my master techniques and hobbies kept me entertained for years inside until I ran out of sustence pills again.

I sigh with regret as I leave the my cave for the last time. With my master reincarnating, the two arrays have been deteriorating. As my eyes appraise the decaying arrays, I know they will last a couple of months at most. I cup my hands and bow to the cave and respectively say "master, may we again in the future." I turn and flew back to that city auction house.

When I arrived at the foot of that masive stairs a young lady steps to me and purrs out "young master! Welcome back to our auction house. Do you require the same services?" I smiled a nod as I pass her and continue up the stairs. She smiles back and inquires "would like the same workshop or would you like a different one? I laugh out "It's my home when I am here" and thus head home. When I reach the workshop landing a pretty girl offer out her hand and I hand her the list of the items I wanted to work on this time. I smile at her and say "you learn fast! Come over sometime and I'll treat you right." She laughs out "It would be a great honor young master."

As I walk to my workshop I see a servant with the silver tray. I step up and picked up the key jade off the tray let my awareness activate token to 'open my door.' I watch the barriers open and I step through. Then I thought 'let the sunshine in' and barriers turn invisible. I watch over the my home town until the door chime rang and a voice say "your items you requested young master." I reply "just put on the table" and continue to enjoy the view. I soon hear "please enjoy your stay young master." I then think 'soft white and seal door' and the barriers turn into that fuzzy white light I like to use when crafting. Tier seven artificing is a bit interesting, I use centrifugal forces, gravity waves and dimensional rifting to make great looking weapons.

Can't go into the details because I made an oath to my ancestor spirit to keep everything a secret. Best I can do is discribe one of my master's weapons. The story I liked the most is the ship in the bottle sword. It was a crystal clear sword that had a diaramma of a ship in a storm held up by a wave in a bottle in exquisite detail. The sword was the sea that held the diaramma. Bidders laughed at the ridiculous design. My master replied 'of course it's ridiculous! That the whole point in this auction. My weapons I am selling tonight are meant to be your final trump card. Since your going to use the weapon once, might as make them look ridiculous. Beside who uses scabbards these days, we store our weapons in void rings! With out scabbards confining me, I had fun making some bizarre toys. I've definitely be making some fun toys in the future.'

Another one I like is the rocket spear. It was carved from a tree and had a child like innocence to it. It's cartoony big nose and faded paint truely look like it was an old toy. My ancestor loved of trump cards are funny. I wonder if I have to skills to make such powerful trump cards someday. With that thought I sink myself into my work and forget the world again.

As I become conscious of the world, I have four new weapons, each radiating a different elemental qi. The elemental qi pour out of the blades in torrents, as if the swords could no longer contain the excess qi. Surrounding each elemental qi is the same amount of sword qi pouring out, but it is so well fused together the you would think it was the same qi at first glance. I thought 'nice blades!' and picked one up to examine. The crystal blade is like a window into the Elemental Earth Plane, the living earth constantly flows upwards from the pummel all the way to the tip of the blade. As it travels down the blade it exudes that torrent of perfectly fused duo qi. I see, I guess the show this month is about elemental weapons. I smile as I pull out my resource pouch and start cultivating.

Once I recover my energies, I send the thought "I need a cute servant girl" to the token and received an instant reply "at once young master!" After enjoying duo cultivating for a number of times, I sent her off happily with the four weapons and a pill to help her cultivation. A quick look at the city before dissappearing back into my work. This time I made four elemental bows, very impressive looking work. Their exaggerated looking bows gives you more territory to watch the captivating living elements flow around ornate bow form.

After examinging each bow I move back to cultivating. I spent a ton buy all these resources from the auction house meant for tier nine experts, but I am eating them like candy at tier seven. Each small advance is a bottomless abyss. If a normal tier seven tried to refine one of these resources they would explode into bloodmist then ignite into an infernal due the excess energy. Not only does my master cultivation technique raise the amount needed for each small advance, it also deepens my foundation capacity. This duo expansion is starting to get ridiculous in the shear amount of energy required for the tiniest advance.

The next girl was an old friend from that last time I was here so I greeted "girlfiend! How have you been?" She laughs and take my hand and directs me to the bed, this makes me laugh back, and enjoy the time I spent with her. We used a tier six duo cultivation technique, she actually broke though to tier seven in the middle of our fun. So I promptly pulled out a jade with a tier seven duo cultivation technique and spent the rest of our time enjoying a much more pleasurable experience. As a congratulatory gift, I gave her a pill to solidify her foundation as she took the bows away.

As I watch the city scape as I finish off a bottle of cultivation wine, I decided on a change of plans and order up a servant from the token and handed the girl a new list of spiritual fruits, herbs and liquids. When she returned I had a large jade barrel ready and began refining new materials into a liquid to fill the barrel. Once filled the liquid has a slight gold shimmer, I seal it and place a temporal array on the barrel it to make it age faster. Then willed the barrel into my master's ring, in a few months I can take it out for a taste.