《Foundation Master》Chapter Four - Return to the Dragonbone Home
Advertisement
I spent the rest of the night in the workshop solidifying both my body foundation and cultivation foundation due to the sudden unexpected but much appreciated increase today. When I come to my senses, I see the sun illuminate an area on the barrier and estimate is as two hour before noon.
I enter my body to sense the new strength hidden there. My master's body refining technique requires extremely rare spiritual herbs and natural wonders to advance. Getting a boost from eating a dish made by a grandmaster in spiritual cooking is simply amazing too me. When I have time I going to learn that too. I laugh at that thought and zoom out of my home like a bird and directly went to the Dragonbone Home entrance courtyard.
As I step into the courtyard, sharkbeast rushes at me in happiness as it knows I am the only customer that order treats for it. It's happy toothy excited grin freightens the nearby customers away from me. I reach out as if to pet the sharkbeast and say "don't worry senior, I'll feed you too!" and step happily to the entrance gates. I notice there is a game going on with the new customers with senior sharky. I glance at the game restriction and know it for 'increase the fear pressure as the coin is pushed towards the goal line.' I ignore the game not caring for the free meal offered if the coin reaches the goal.
I step into the hostess area and look for a free hostess and instantly step in front of her with a smile. She gives me a charming smile and a sleight bow "young master, welcome back! Would you like to dine with senior sharkbeast again? I smile and give an enthusatic nod. She laughs and does her bow, roll her arms and then point to the gate and breathes out "senior sharkbeast awaits young master."
As I enter sharkbeast home I annouce "sharky! I'm back" and saunter into my couch chair. Sharkbeast glares at me until I sit then glimmer of awareness awaken his eyes as he goes through his restriction queue and rushes forward wagging his tail like a found puppy. "Yes, yes, I promise you some treats" as I wave at sharky and accepted the menu from the giggling waitress. Before opening, I state "I'll have the chef's choice" with a flick of a finger I presented my payment. Standing on the tip of my finger was the ornate vial of another nirvana breakthough pill. As she pockets the vial in her void ring her pleasant voice tingles my ears "my master will be pleased that you've returned young master."
I open the heavy menu and read the chef's choice and pleasantly surprise its a different dish. The title was Celestial Seafood Stew. A select variety of peak tier seven seafood and spiritual herbs blended in a creamy stew with a touch of elemental earth milk. This dish is serve with a bottle of hand crafted cultivation wine. I slap my hands together in anticipation then out of curiosity I scan the restriction on the name of the chef's dish and know is as 'if the young master returns, show Celestial Seafood Stew as the chef's choice. I laugh and promptly clamp my hand on the table to draw on sharky's fear restriction.
After a time the young man's voice intrudes on my play with sharky, laughing "sharky? that's a new one." I can sense he is pleased, he then begins with "this seafood stew I especially made for you, I notice you have the same body type as my old customer. This stew served him well." With that the first girl places a huge bowl on the table. He then continues with "this is another bottle from my old days, I have no doubt you will appreciate this one."
Advertisement
The second girl step up and fills a glass two thirds with sky blue liquid with a golden aura. She places the tantalizing glass next to the bowl of stew and places the bottle back into it's ice holder before stepping away. His laughter continues with "your spoiling my pet" with a grin then adds "these three treats are much stronger than last time." He then turns away and heads for the exit then says "I'm leaving tonight, I hope to see you again in the future," then raises his right arm and lazily waves goodbye as he vanishes into the portal.
I immediately dug into the fabulous stew. The taste that exploded in my mouth was like the symphony of best tasting seafood I could think off. It all melted down into a creamy liquid that seeps into my cells and soul. I can feel my Deepwater Spiritual fire affinity rise to peak tier five. Which is a great surprise to me, with a quick calculation I realize I will break though to tier six and now can be considered a master with this type of spiritual fire after finishing this stew. This leaves just two spiritual elemental fire affinities to level up. I'm pumped because I can't wait to add water qi to my weapons.
As I taste the new cultivation wine, the harmony of the stew is enhance. I can understand why he pick this wine for me tonight. It was a total luxury for a cultivator to have the chef's choice here. So I enjoyed my dinner while teasing sharky with a treat. The treats were all combat class rather the run away kind. They put up an entertaining arena show as I ate. Once I see sharky recover his injuries from the turtlebeast monster treat, I begin the teasing game again. After seeing his pitiful sad sharky grin I toss the next treat in.
The treat exploding in size almost as big as sharky, I see a squidbeast that start lashing it's tenticles against my senior. But sharky just mosey on in and begin chowing down on the tenticles. The squidbeast had a great regeneration restriction the regrew new tenticles almost as fast as they were eaten. Like a true shark, senior just never stop eating. So much that I glance and the restriction on sharky's grin that allow him to 'eat to your heart's content when it comes to your favorite squid meat' I can see my favorite sharky grin between bites.
The third treat was an gotorsharkbeast, it had a croc's mouth with a shark like body. It move just as fast as sharky and was simply a clash of underwater titans. I finish my meal and the two were still ripping into one another as they felt no pain. But sharky got in a bite on the treat's tail finally, which slowed the beast down considerabally. It didn't take long after that to finish the monster treat off.
As I watch sharky finish his last treat, I look inward to see my cultivation risen to peak tier seven and my spiritual soul force increase small advance as well. Nice I thought, using artificing and alchemy takes a huge strain on my spiritual soul force. That seafood stew really hit the spot. As I stand up I wave at sharky and say 'take care sharky, see ya in the future!' Sharky roars out a response and I hand the waitress a tier six foundation pill and pleasantly say "please thank your master, I most enjoyed his cooking tonight." She gives a deep bow and replies "I think sharky going to miss you more young master." I smile a reply and step though the portal into the outer courtyard.
Advertisement
I see sharky playing it up with the fleeing customers. I watch sharky herd them back and forth though the courtyard allowing a few to escape each time. As I step in, sharky attitude changing and rush up to me for a pet. I laugh as I pet sharky tough skin and say "be a good boy and work hard! I'll see you again in the future" Sharky then rush away to slam his sharky grin at a fleeing customer face who thought he could get away when I was distracting him. I simply laugh at sharky antics and mosely over to the exit, just before I reach the exit I hear sharky give one last forlorn roar of goodbye.
My master's restriction techniques are only at tier six so I never bother to learn them, but after playing with sharky, I realize you can do alot with restrictions. So I spent the rest of the night going over master's restriction memories. I figure learning the basics wouldn't hurt. Before I know it I can see the sun illuminating though the barrier, and with a thought the barrier vanish so I can see the end of the sunrise. I pull out my resource pouch and begin cultivating as I bask in the newly risen sun, I need to solidify my peak seven cultivation.
It takes all morning and most of the afternoon, and several thousand tier nine resources to finish my peak seven foundation. I can even sense the boundry of tier eight, it's still an abyss away, but at least I can finally see the goal that my fellow cultivators enjoy feeling the most. My only reget this morning is the Dragonbone Home will be gone, so I pull out the token that was given too me and send in my divine sense. I feel the Dragonbone Home is northwest of me and seems already the distance that would take me a few months flying to get too. I cup my hand and bow toward it's direction and mutter a prayer "Dragonbone Home master, live long and prosper!"
I zip out of the closing workshop barriers and dive down to take a look at the showcases. The place is crowded around my show pieces displayed in a central revolving case in front of the staircase. But I ignore my dazzling works of art in favor of viewing the top pieces of my fellow artificer's works. My critical eye break down each work down to their very ingrediants. I can easy see the lack of energy in one piece was the reason why it turn out as a high work instead of a supreme work. Another piece had poor techique ruins it's elemental affinity of high grade to mid grade. I sigh as I appraise each piece lacking one or more aspects creating flaws that reduced their potential.
Then I come across a strange spiritual fruit, I glance at the name plate "Celestial Dao Purpleflame Pineapple" I quickly check my master's memories and was surprise master was looking for this fruit. So I beckon over one of the nearby hostess by the stairs. She calmly waltz over and smiles "young master, are you interest in this celestial fruit?" I smile a nod and respond with "please add it to the items I want to purchase with my winnings" Her reply "rest assured young master it is already your property" she then gives a deep bow before leaving to inform management.
I return to the earthly pleasure of the medicinal store, even asked if I could visit the green houses upstairs to see them harvest the herbs I wanted. The earthly aroma is even better up here and the sweet tang of spiritual herbs mix nicely with that aroma.
The windowless floors contains underground spiritual plants and aquariums that possess tiny streams of liquid qi darting all over their confined space. Until I find the alchemist harvesting my lightning affinity and wood affinity spiritual herbs into jade boxes and store them in void pouch. The polite mother type personality fits well with this lady alchemist. As she harvest each herb, she absentmindly gives motherly advice on each herb. I let her take her time and give her some encouragement with a select point of interest now and then. She takes my points quite happily and goes into more detail. I don't mind the small talk, the earthly aroma here makes my soul settle.
I leave the medicinal shop with sigh and venture back into the air. I casually look around as I meander back home. Most of the talk I pick up with my divine sense is about the Dragonbone Home, it's been a year since it last opened on an adjacent continent. That they would open up in their city for two days was a total shocker. The only news worth mentioning was the unexpected number of breakthroughs that occured the last two nights.
Out of curiosity I decide to enter though the front entrance and nearly bump into the stuck up royal from the first time in the resource store. I swing around him and his groupies and head for the staircase. With a quick glance at the available hostress, I appear before girl that appeal to me the most and smile a greeting "hello my dear, would you like to come up with me to my workshop?"
The cute redhead smiles delightfully before snagging on to my left arm afraid I might pick a different girl. I laugh at her and check her cultivation to be early tier five and replied "looks like your cultivation could use a foundation pill" then smiled at her. Her eye's light up and purr softly "young master takes such good care of us sisters."
I laughed and pick her up and carried her to the crystal tubes and ask her about her dreams. To those dreams I would disagree with if I couldn't help with my alchemy. She gives me strangest looks until finally says something I can help with "well I do like alchemy, and I'm also a fire affinity expert." Then I replied "I could give some pointers if choose that one." Her shock replied was "are you sure you want to waste your time teaching me about alchemy?" I replied "I don't have a problem talking about basic alchemy to you even after the show is over. You can always come over my workshop if you any have questions."
I carry her up the crystal tubes to the workshop floor as we discussing basic alchemy. She's tucked so neatly in my arms and chattering like a magpie makes me laugh as I give encouraging words. I swept into the workshop and head directly to bed for some serious cyclic duo cultivating followed by same thing in the morning. Then we talked about basic alchemy for the rest of the day. I made a tier three pill by steps for her to understand what she is getting in to. After seeing each step that is required to make a tier three pill, she now knows the correct path to produce her first pill if she decided to learn alchemy.
That's when the workshop door chime sounded. With a thought, barriers open and two elders step though. They both give a bow and presents a void pouch and state "you auction winning and the items you requested young master." I hear the girl sigh in disappointment and stand to attention.
I smiled at the elders are reply "elders, you two shouldn't have bother to waste your time tonight and come in the morning. But since you are here" I pull out sword from my ring and hand it to one the elders and swept the pouch into my master's ring. "Let's use this sword for the start of the next show." The delight that filled the elders faces that I'm sticking around another month make me smile but I quickly usher them out for privacy. Then I stalked back to my red headed kitten and ask "do you still want to talk about alchemy?"
Advertisement
- In Serial93 Chapters
Frozen Homes
Srettia, an Aasteran miner, found the mother load. Enough ore and metals to sustain her for months. Excited about her haul, she almost failed to notice an unknown ship entering her home system at an unusual speed. Before she could react, the ship proceeded to crash into her asteroid. Her fate and the fate of her people is about to change. The older Terrans have arrived and realized the Aasteran home system has been destroyed by an unknown force. Seeking to aid the failing Aasteran people and uncover who is responsible, a new alliance between Aasteran and Terran is built. Note: Welcome to my story. Currently, I plan to upload one chapter every second day or so. So I hope you stick with me and thanks for reading my story!
8 239 - In Serial24 Chapters
Not A Hero
Every 109 years after the demon king's death, a new one is born. The kingdom of Cumaria has faced this threat for ages and are resolved to overthrow the demon king again. Their solution, the summoning of heroes. An ancient magic that summons three heroes endowed with great potential. What happens if they summon one more? Follow Boris, the inadvertent addition to the heroes, as he tries to make a place for himself in a world of magic. Meanwhile his friends are chosen heroes, destined to kill the demon lord. MATURE CONTENT. Tagged [17+] for Strong Language, Gore, Violence.
8 232 - In Serial9 Chapters
Lost Heroes: Atalanta
Everyone knows the stories of Greek heroes. Achilles, Odysseus, Perseus, Theseus, Heracles, and so on. Despite all the tales of heroic deeds, there was only one woman... Atalanta. Even though her legend was not lost to time like other female heroes, it was still tampered with. This is her true story. Odessa has been a Huntress of Artemis her entire life, having been rescued by them as an infant. She has been content to live her life, alongside her sisters in the Hunt, waiting someday for Artemis herself to choose her to join her personal handmaidens. Unfortunately, all that changes when the head huntress of her clan has a vision: the great huntress Atalanta is in grave danger. Saddled with the quest to save Atalanta from some terrible fate, Odessa sets out to find the huntress. But what she didn't expect to discover was an upcoming footrace for Atalanta's hand. Suitors from all over Greece have been arriving to face the challenge. Whoever can defeat Atalanta in a race earns the right to marry her. However, if the challenger loses, Atalanta kills him. It is a brutal, dangerous game. Odessa is determined to complete her quest. But as time passes, it becomees more and more apparent that the gods are meddling in mortal affairs. And even worse—she finds herself falling for the fiery huntress that she has sworn to protect. But with those responsible for Atalanta's secret arriving to seek revenge, Odessa will have to use her wits to outsmart them in their own deadly game. A retelling of the Greek myth of Atalanta. First of a series on the lost heroes of Ancient Greece.
8 75 - In Serial8 Chapters
Test of the lost
Awakening inside of a cave Michael finds himself lost and confused. Exploring this wonderful new world, he searches for answers. Finding adventures and heartbreak along the way. This is my first story, i plan to place it into about 3-5 books. The outline is done and the endings, just need to flesh it out. Enjoy~ Ps. If anyone wants to do some cover art for me, would be awesome! Cover image is royalty free from pixabay.com © Bruite 2017 All rights reserved. No reproduction without permission. This novel is a work of fiction. All names, characters, businesses, organizations, Places and events are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
8 86 - In Serial6 Chapters
Broken Kaleidoscopes
What if someone told you that there were dimensions alongside ours? Innumerable and impossible to even fathom. That no normal man could ever hope to understand, or even find a way to peer across the everdistant parallels that pervade the multiverse? Now, what if that same person told you that there existed a race that lived outside all dimensions? A race so powerful that, instead of being forced to play along with the rules of your own dimension, they could rewrite all aspects of reality with only a thought. Of course, you would laugh at them. I did too. Then I broke reality the next day. Pictures are not mine. Man Silhouette: https://clipground.com/male-silhouette-clipart.html Universe: https://www.gazeta.ru/science/2017/03/28_a_10598741.shtml
8 216 - In Serial16 Chapters
Tale of Tales
* Tale of Tales is a High/Epic Fantasy saga based on the motifs of ancient myths, legends, and forgotten fairytales * Senka is no hero, but you never know what is coming for you. And if that burns down your house and family, while you are left blinded by your house’s guardian snake, the outlook becomes grim. So Senka clings to her dog’s back to survive, unaware of the fateful prophecy and the great changes to come. But when a wandering warrior becomes her protector and mysterious strangers join their hounded party through a series of seemingly chance encounters, they all begin to discover that all is not as it seems. What is pursuing her? And why? Can the strange characters gathering around her on her desperate quest save her from doom? Are they mere puppets of a young, beguiling witch guided by her own hidden motives, or are forgotten shadows rising again from the immeasurable depths of time? A tale of folk fairytales and myths, of swords and sorcery and mythical beings – a unique story of dark times and unsung heroes who may light your way. Book one, A Strange Bunch, features leading characters of various ages. This is a fantasy with their progression happening slowly throughout the series, with occasional spikes in character power after certain encounters that may or may not be random. Although the book series is written with adult and young adult audiences in mind, it is, in the tradition of such epics as “The Lord of the Rings,” suitable for all ages. Excerpt from the scene depicted on the cover of the first book: “Above this hellish pack and the rider at the forefront, flurried a ghastly sight – a cloud of dark, endlessly bustling bodies and wings, a swarm of creatures that, through their almost infinite number, produced that great din which had first reached the ears…” RELEASE SCHEDULE is about once a week. The entire series should take around two and a half years of weekly chapter episodes, so do encourage me by reacting and following. Ratings are greatly appreciated!
8 168

