《Foundation Master》Chapter Three - Dragonbone Home
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Just thinking about drinking that wine after it's done fermenting changes my mood, after all it's one of master's cultivation wine recipe. So I decide I'll work on alchemy for the rest of the show. So I sweep everything away into my master ring and pull out my alchemy stuff. Damn I feel pumped up as I seek that white infinity that leads into alchemy. When my senses comes to, I see a five ornate jade vials each with a single pill vibrating in their confined space, I sense ten more inside master's ring. The medicinal odor in the workshop is intense, I can feel my cultivation raising a little. I can't help think 'damn what the hell did I make' as I stare at those pills. They act as if they are alive and terrified of their captivity.
Damn I feel exhausted so I drag my resource pouch over and started cultivating with glee. I can't wait to examine those pills. Once I finish cultivating, I sense my cultivation has risen to mid tier stage seven. I only recently solified early tier not too long ago. This make me even more curious about the pills and open my eyes.
The five dazzling pills illuminates the space with a rainbow of colors. As my divine sense infiltrate those jade vials I'm pleasantly surprise these pills possess pill spirits. The effect of these pills are guaranteed because of these pill spirits. But master's techniques put in a bonus effect of refining the pill taker's body to make it a little bit tougher that a body crafting specialist would appreciate.
I also realize these are stage eight pills, I thought 'that's pretty cool I can make pills one grade higher than my cultivation.' No wonder my cultivation rose so suddenly today. I can see why alchemist don't bother with cultivating, all they have to do is craft higher quality pills and their cultivation will raise a little. I can see why top experts will take a hobbie once their cultivation stop growing, because all three can provide growth to their stagnate cultivation. I see before me Two Nirvana Breakthough pills, two Total Foundation pills and one Pheonix Rebirth pill.
As my divine sense enter the Nirvana Breakthough pills, it will allow the person to strengthen their will so when the times comes they won't forget to reform their body. Not only that it possess enough energy to solidify their foundation to the next level.
As my mind enters the Total Foundation pills, I know this pill make a mid stage eight to become a peak tier eight expert with a solid foundation that also been upgrade to the next level.
When I delved into the Pheonix Rebirth pill, the person who takes this pill will explode into a body of flames when they take lethal damage and emit a stage eight killing intent aura. They will be given a choice of fight or flee. If fight is choosen then the person will be reborn right there with all wounds healed and a temporary full cultivation one stage higher with the only after effect being their foundation will be a small step higher. If flee was choosen they will be teleported in the direction of their choice with a distance that a stage eight expert to take a tenday to fly too. The body will then be reborn with full health and their foundation will have risen by a small degree.
I eyeball the Total foundation pills and realize I have a short cut when I break through to stage eight. But thinking about it a bit more I realize my foundation would be weak due to lack of energy. Right now it's looking like I need to be at late stage eight to use the pill to get to peak stage. Well if I can get five color pill lightning that would cover fifty percent of the energy I needed. So I just to come up fifty percent more energy and make a Total Formation pill to work for me at mid stage eight. Offhand, I can think a several energy spiritual materials that can cover thirty percent, that leaves twenty percent to fill in. I become happy because twenty percent is too easy, so I breeze into the token and ordered me a pretty girl.
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The pretty girl was shocked and just stared at the pills until I interrupted her with a query "nice pills?" She jumps like a scared cat and joyfully says "young master make really nice pills!" We both laugh as she drags me to the bed for some duo cultivating. As she gather up the vials and about to leave I come over and pat her head and say "I like your enthusiasm, when I call for a pretty girl next time come instead" and hand her a tier five Nirvana Breakthough pill.
Now that I got my alchemy kick out of the way I sweep the stuff into master's ring and withdraw the artificing materials. Not much time left is left for the show, so I'll forge a special blade then. With that thought I enter the white light of oblivion. When I come too I open my eye and just stare at the blade before me. It's a crystal longsword polish so I can easily see my reflection on the blade. Yet molden lava flow endlessly inside the crystal. The aura of the three merged sword qi, earth qi and fire qi forms illusionary copies of itself that dissipate as they drifts away from the sword. The sword's spirit is strong enough to materialize the tri qi into a physical form. As I pick the sword up, sword hymm fills the workshop. I laugh as I playfully slash the air to hear the glorious sword hymms. "Good sword" is all I thought, I guess I'll keep this one and sent it into my master's ring.
Then proceeded to order that girl again and remove three weapons from master's ring and place them for auction. The girl looks at the weapons and playfully says "back to weapons?" I replied "I had a fond memory of my ancestor so felt like making some pills last time." She laughs "time to make some fond memories too" as she drags me to the bed, I laugh to enjoy the moment and teased "don't hurt me with your new found strength" and laughed back. Her response was "let me show you how enthusiastic appreciative I can be!" while dragging me even harder with a joyful smile.
She showed me the stamina of tier six cultivator, in appreciation I gifted her a foundation pill and playful slap her ass as she leaves my home, I informed "I'll wait here until the show is over" then stuff a list into her bosom and kiss her goodbye. I then swept the token into my master's ring and thought 'seal door, open outer barrier" and flew out into the city. I sent a farewell thought 'close outer barrier' and flew down to check out the shops.
I go back that medicinal herb store just to breath in that air but manage to buy a few rare herbs. I probe the other shops from the air with my divine sense but find no treasure qi worth investigating. My master used to like dining at famous restaurants serving high end demonbeast meal. So I toss my divine sense around me to search for a good restaurant. There one to my right, and my awareness focus on that restaurant. The Dragonbone Home sign was the aura of a treasure qi blazing forth above the entrance archway. It's a famous restaurant my master use to love to go. Damn, what luck as I rush down to the entrance, there is already a steady stream of people entering and at the other archway more people leaving.
As I fly lower I see that the archways act as a simple boundary of two gates. The swirling gate aura end in a short tunnel into the courtyard of the restaurant. I fly though the tunnel and enter the courtyard. It's like I entered deep underwater subspace without the water. There are exotic fishes flying around me, but what catches my attention is the giant sharkbeast flying in the middle of the courtyard lazy swimming there like it's water. But notices me and begin swimming in my direction. It's terrifying tier nine aura forces me gently to the ground, as I land the sharkbeast then ignores me and swims back to the center of the courtyard.
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You see the startled look of the surrounding customers as they step away from me but then realize they were stepping away from the sharkbeast instead. Then they all sigh in relief as it swims lazily back to the center of the courtyard. 'Right' I think and realize there must be flying restrictions here and begin walking around the sharkbeast like the rest of the customers. I can see it chase the fleeing customers on the other side of the courtyard as they try to leave the restaurant. I can't help but laugh, who ever designed this entrance courtyard is too funny. This watery illusion is a nice trick, with all the restriction all over the place, no one could get out of line.
By sending my tier seven qi to empower my eyes, I can now see restriction qi emitting all over the place. It's impressive tier nine might can't be felt but my divine sense knows it's there. My awareness hoover near a restriction and sense "anyone who disobeys a family member will be teleported out of the restaurant and their family aura banned for a century." I see, these restriction serve to protect the restaurant's reputation. This is hollowed ground! I recognized in thought. The restaurants attitude is clear, that serve good food and don't want their customer bothered by worldly affairs.
There are many hostess standing before different portals sending each group away after confirming the experience they want with their dinner. I step in front of a free hostess and smile, she charmingly smiles back and ask "what can we do for the young master tonight?" Out of curiosity I replied with "can I eat with the sharkbeast?" The girl burst out laughing and said "that's a first! The boss is gonna like that!" Then with the roll of her hand and a bow included, she points to the gate and says "your wish is our command." I laugh and enter the gate.
As soon as I entered the subspace of illusionary water, the sharkbeast glares at me and huffs until I sit down on a couch chair that sways from minute currents. The sharkbeast does his lazy dance until he is a safe distance for me. I put my mind near the restriction and know it for 'when the client sits swim causual away until the client feels your at safe distance.' I laugh as I willed that safe distance I felt to grow smaller. I see in the corner of my eye the waitress step away from the fast approaching sharkbeast in shock.
Oh! I make the sharkbeast swim away. "Nice pet!" I replied covering my mistake. She just stares at me with a smile and hand me the menu and utters "please take your time young master." As I accept the menu I notice a sheen of persperation of the girls brow and sprout "please treat me well and I will be grateful." Then I stare at the scaly skinned menu that actually looks like part of some monsterous demonbeast. The words engraved in the scales blaze with harmless fire qi. The Dragonbone Home inscibed in the scales make it look like an enchanted spellbook of a powerful wizard.
I quickly open it up and notice only five items for sale. Glancing at the price I was most definitely shocked, the chef's choice was equal to one of my foundation pills. I focus on the the menu's restriction and felt 'provide a menu fit for the customers cultivation.' Nice I thought, and looked at the food fit for my stage seven.
The Chef's Choice title was 'Dragonbone BBQ' This meat is cut from the rib bones of a peak tier seven Celestial Tigerdragon. Cooked in a honey bbq sauce, it's rich and tangy flavor is served with spiritual rice and a bottle of my homemade cultivation wine. Ahh I thought, now it's getting interesting.
The other entres are good, but the chef's choice was something my master only ordered. With a little bit of digging in my master's memories I realize the reason, it's because the owner of the Dragonbone Home will personally cook it. In my master's memories, the owner is the only grandmaster of demonbeast cooking he has ever met. The owner is a notorious wanderer and rarely leaves his restaurant open for long. Quickly I made up my mind I reply "I'll have the chef's choice and something to feed my senior brother sharkbeast." Then pull out a tier seven nirvana breakthough pill and continue with "I will pay with this pill" from the extras I made last week and put on a smile. She takes the vial and with a deep bow and disappears to management.
I stare at the heavy water table that float before me, I can even push my finger though the darker waters of the table. When I do that I attract the sharkbeast attentions and start lazily swim towards me with it's sharky grin. I glance into the table restriction and sense 'solify when a family member orders with their command ring.' Then I place my full attention on senior sharkbeast.
Senior sharkbeast doesn't like me when I touch the table, so I play with him through the fear restriction I sense on the table. I wonder how strong in knowledge in restrictions you need to be make it feel so real to make even a tier seven expert need to abid by the rules. All my senses are telling me this subspace is real, but my divine sense say it's an illusion filled with restrictions.
A voice interupts my play "I see you like my sharkbeast." I quickly remove my hand from the table and turn to see the speaker. I see a young man wearing a classic black chef outfit with red acents smiling at the sharkbeast. Who I notice has spotted it's master and can see it's flashing tail of happiness. I see there are three girls with trays behind him. The chef then says "I know you will enjoy the dinner I made for you." The first girl steps forward and places the dish on the solified table and steps away. His voice continues "this is a bottle of cultivation wine I made when I was tier seven expert, it aged quite well." The second girl steps foward with a glass and bottle, she calmly fills the glass two thirds and place both on the table and steps away.
He then follow up with "these three treats I carefully crafted for your entertainment." The third girl lays out three frozen creatures behind me and to the left before bowing and leaving the subspace. He then pull out a pill vial and reminisce "I had an old customer that use to give me pills like yours. I'm glad he finally found a pupil to pass his legacy," the vial vanishes and a token that looks like a small version of the menu complete with harmless fire qi for the lettering. "A pupil of a good customer is always welcome here" and tosses me the token. I sent the token into master's ring and supplied "my master alway's enjoyed the chef's choice, so of course I had to try it as well" and laughed.
"I sense my old customer has enter the reincarnation cycle recently, now we just have to wait until he returns."
Laughing I replied "I know, I can't wait to talk to my master."
He nods and finalize with "enjoy your dinner, I have new customers that ordered the chef's choice to satisfy," and then dissappears. I can barely hear him as all my senses are riveted on the giant slab of slice meat on the first dish. It's peak tier seven aura waffs from the meat in gentle waves. My nose is filled with a spicy and tangy scent. All my senses are helplessly drawn to it. The bbq sauce is still bubbling on the meat. It's golden glaze smothers the meat and fills the plate. I can see finely chopped spiritual onions cooked in the bbq sauce. There is a bowl of spiritual rice with three slices of meat on top place in front of me and a large extra bowl rice to the side.
As I lift the first bowl, I fill my nose with it's spicy but tangy scent that complemented by the slightly sweet scent of the rice. With no choice I scoop a slice a meat with some rice put in my mouth and feel the explosion of flavors. The tender meat and rice melts into a fine liquid that gushes toward my cells, I can feel my body refine toward the toughness of this peak tier seven Tigerdragon. I was awed, cultivation demonbeast chefs are amazing. If I were to eat a hundred such dishes I definitely have the body resilience of a peak tier seven Tigerdragon.
I glance over the the wine cup, I notice the rich spicy scent of good cultivation wine a while ago but was too enraptured by the first dish. I took a drink and was stunned when I feel my cultivation rise a little. My eyes lit up as I thought 'good wine.' I'm really glad I came here but notice the sharkbeast still flashing it's tail and realize it's staring at the treats in glorious happiness that only the sharkbeast 'see treat' restriction applies.
With a laugh I pick up the first treat with my divine sense, it hovers in front of me as I inspect it with my divine sense wonder what kind of treat is this. What a strange looking fishbeast, I see a restriction freezing the fishbeast movements. I delve near the restriction and feel 'when toss into the illusionary water remove the time freeze restriction.' That's when I notice the sharkbeast had swam closer and showing me it's toothy grin of excitement. With a laugh, I send the treat into the illusionary water to the left, away from the sharkbeast. It instantly explodes into life and race away from the sharkbeast. I dive into the restriction on the flashing tail and see it as 'prepare to chase treat by swinging your tail as fast as you can but don't move forward yet until three breaths of time. However if the customer gives any kind of encouragement give chase immediately.'
With a laugh and point and I say "Go!" and the sharkbeast roars forward in glee. I look at the remaining two treats and smile. As I eat the view of the chase remains constant at the sharkbeast left profile. The sharkbeast is faster, but the treat is more agile and avoid being eaten for nearly twenty breaths of time. I ate a third of the roast and on the second bowl of rice when I toss in the second treat at the still spastic sharkbeast staring intently on the remaining treat. I toss in the last treat at the happy sharkbeast before starting on my last bowl.
Every thing I ate and drink was absorb directly into my cells. I feel my body crafting technique raise up a small level and my culitivation go to late tier seven. This spiritual meal was amazingly helpful. As I finish the meal I sigh with pleasure. I stood up and wave at sharky and utter "til next time senior" and head for the exit portal, I hear the the sharkbeast roars a response behind me. The waitress stands by the exit portal and inquiries "was your dinner to your satisfaction?"
I pull out a tier six foundation pill and replied "most satisfied, please tell your master I will come again" and hand the pill over as her tip then step into the exit portal. I enter the exit part of the courtyard and see sharky terrorizing the fleeing customers. Gnashing it's sharky grin and rush hither and thither if any exiting customers that make so much as a twitch. I laugh and play with sharky like the rest of the customers and inch my way to the exit while affected by the 'terror' restriction.
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