Lou Xiaoyi slowly walked into Guangcheng Palace. At the very least, he knew a fact, the few Kun cultivators that were receiving him at the door weren't as harmless as they looked!
His frivolity was slightly excessive, but this was the best method to probe the objective of Guangcheng Palace's Treasure Appraisal Convention. If it was only a Treasure Appraisal Convention without any other objective, then with his words and actions, he would be bluntly driven out! But now, the Golden Hall Realm cultivators were tolerant and magnanimous. Why? It went without saying!
This was his last probe, and now he was basically sure that his actions would make the Golden Hall Realm cultivators take notice of him. But it was nothing, as if he didn't make a move, who would be able to frame him?
Guangcheng Palace was a Golden Hall Side Palace that didn't occupy a large area. Besides the few rows of rooms where Daoists lived and rested in the surroundings, the only large building in the entire building complex was the main palace that was divided into three floors. When people spoke of Guangcheng Palace, they were referring to this single circular building that was slightly similar to the Temple of Heaven in his previous life, but it had an additional roof.
The interior of the palace was still very spacious, and accommodating a thousand people wasn't a problem. Amongst them, the first floor displayed formation discs and talismans, the second floor displayed miraculous pills and great medicines, and the third floor displayed spirit weapons and external objects, and it was also the place that Lou Xiaoyi paid attention to.
There was still a day before the opening of the convention, and there were many cultivators either sitting, standing, or hanging on the square outside Guangcheng Palace. If one carefully distinguished them, one would be able to notice some extremely interesting things.
For example, there weren't many Golden Hall Realm cultivators. Theoretically speaking, when a grand event like this was held in the Golden Hall Continent, the majority of the people that came should surely be local cultivators. But in reality, besides those cultivators that displayed their treasures, the ratio of Golden Hall Realm cultivators and foreign cultivators was roughly in a 50/50 state. This didn't make sense!
Lou Xiaoyi was able to understand this situation. Someone had surely notified them and made some sort of restriction. Otherwise, merely the local Jin Dan cultivators that swarmed into this tiny place would be able to squeeze it to the point of bursting.
Since the number of local and foreign Jin Dan cultivators were so different, would they be unable to control it properly? This was a false proposition. Even if there were people with ill intentions amongst the guests, those with good intentions still made up the majority. Moreover, it required a certain amount of courage to cause trouble in another's home, otherwise, one would probably be unable to leave this continent.
Even if it was a small portion of fellows that wished for the world to be plunged into chaos, they would be unable to join forces because they didn't know each other. What could they do under the might of a local Golden Hall Realm cultivator?
The final number of participants should be less than a thousand. It was a bit of a stretch to call it a grand event, but it was still better than a regional event.
He also saw a few Free and Unfettered Wandering Cultivators, who were his fellow disciples. The reason why he was able to recognize them was because of the Free and Unfettered Knot they wore. He didn't go forward to greet them because they were strangers. He treated them as fellow disciples, but they might not treat him as a brother. Just by looking at how they ignored him, he could feel the disdain the Free and Unfettered Wandering Cultivators had for a cultivator from the Outer Lands like him.
He still hadn't truly integrated into the Free and Unrestrained Wanderer. Firstly, he was from the Outer Continent, and secondly, he didn't seem to be working hard in this direction. One had to make friends, curry favor, flatter, expand one's circle, and strive hard to gain the recognition of the circle. Wait a minute, where would he have the time to do all these?
This was the normal state of great cultivation sects. One had to adapt to the great cultivation environment, and not let the environment adapt to one's self. Actually, not to mention the Free and Unfettered Wandering Cultivators, it was the same even in the Xuanyuan Sword Sect. Of course, there was another method, absolute strength. Just like what he'd done in the domed ceiling and Mount Yi, he hadn't adapted to the circle, yet the circle was drawing closer to him.
When he carefully observed the composition of the cultivators from the Outer Lands, there were less than 500 people, and this was surely not all the cultivators that had come to the Golden Hall Continent. There were too many people that acted alone, those that only cared about their own cultivation, those that weren't interested in external things, and those that were delayed because of him …
A situation that was worthy of paying attention to was that there were very few merchants instead. This was slightly unbelievable to a Treasure Appraisal Convention, because only a large number of merchants would be able to set off the atmosphere, raise the price, and seize the opportunity to hype up the event. This was a secret that wasn't spread out to determine the success or failure of a convention.
Merchants were all like flies, and they would surely be able to follow the smell over when there was a stench. The reason they didn't come was probably the same as the Golden Hall Realm cultivators, and they were restricted by a certain sound. In this continent, besides the Huangting Daoism, no one was capable of accomplishing this!
It was the same principle as restricting local cultivators from coming over. Too many people would easily cause chaos, and when a few thousand people were gathered together, it was really not something that a mere Jin Dan could control.
Amongst these 500 people, there weren't many that came from the nine great sects, and all of them had seen the world. They had different opinions towards external treasures and each had their own opinions. Perhaps those that were close would come over to take a look, but to those that were far away, flying over a few tens of thousands of kilometers for the sake of feasting their eyes was entirely not worth it.
The Treasure Appraisal Convention was held slightly hastily. If it was a regular convention that was held every few years, and if the news was released half a year or a year in advance, then the number of people here would at least double.
Most of the cultivators that came from outside were cultivators from the 3,000 minor sects, and they were from the so-called small places. A small place would cause one's eyesight to be slightly shallow, and one would be unable to move one's eyes away from a good thing, causing one to have slight thoughts about it. Amongst them, the bolder ones might take a risk out of desperation … This was the basic judgment of the small front court's enforcers that were led by Xia Bingji, and they were the group of people that were the most suspected.
But his main targets were still placed on those Golden Hall Realm cultivators. What caused him to be slightly surprised was that most of the Golden Hall Realm cultivators behaved extremely normally, and they didn't have the slightest sign of being relaxed on the outside, yet were actually vigilant on the inside. He was extremely adept in observation, and from the casual movements of the cultivators, the exchange of their gazes, the looseness of their vital energy, and their unhurried actions, he was able to sense something at a deeper level. A well-trained cultivator was able to easily accomplish this, and if a few hundred were like this, then it could only mean that they were indeed unaware!
That could only prove that they were loose on the inside and tight on the outside! The Huangting Daoism had been arranged outside to guard against escape! This was also the reason why a large barrier was set up during the Treasure Appraisal Convention. Now that he'd entered, it wasn't easy for him to leave, unless he didn't participate in the Treasure Appraisal Convention any longer.
This wasn't strange. If it was him who was in charge of this capture, he would place his main forces outside as well. The influence of directly making a move within the Guangcheng Palace was too great, and this was something that couldn't satisfy both sides. If it was a quiet place, then the bandits wouldn't come; whereas, a complicated place was easy to cause chaos, so placing his forces outside seemed to be the only choice.
But, there were surely insiders within the Guangcheng Palace that had set up the trap! He was able to confirm one thing, and that was that the possessor of the treasure surely knew! There were also those elites that planned this, and there were surely a small number of them mixed within the crowd of cultivators, trying to observe who was more suspicious and who had motives.
These elites that planned this would surely include those few Kun cultivators at the entrance. This was his intuition. No matter who presided over this kind of capture, they would also arrange for capable people to contact every single participant through conversation at the first possible moment.
He didn't know if they were true elites, but there was nothing wrong with their appearances. Even he who always liked to deviate slightly couldn't help but praise them in his heart, and for the sake of probing something, he even spoke frivolously, and that was a sin.
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