One month later.
The Five-Clan Auction, jointly established by the five renowned clans, including the Nine-Snake Liu Clan and the Mountain-Bear Wu Clan, was held as scheduled within Liu Clan Immortal City.
By then, Wei Tu had changed his appearance once more. Displaying a Void Refinement cultivation, he sat calmly in the auction hall.
Just as the beautiful woman in the purple dress had said, the Five-Clan Auction was of an extremely high standard. Only cultivators of the Void Refinement and Body Integration realms were qualified to attend.
Apart from the disciples of the five great clans serving as attendants, every cultivator in the venue was either in the Void Refinement Realm or the Body Integration Realm.
For this reason, the many Void Refinement cultivators who held lofty status and great authority outside could only act as ordinary guests here, seated in the first-floor hall.
Only those lofty Body Integration Great Talents were qualified to enjoy the private rooms on the second floor alone.
However, though they were treated somewhat shabbily, the nearly hundred Void Refinement cultivators seated in the hall were all concealed beneath black robes. Spiritual restrictions that prevented divine-sense spying were also spread around their seats, so security was not an issue.
Clearly, this Five-Clan Auction more closely resembled an anonymous black-market auction. The five great clans hosting it did not conduct strict identity checks on arriving guests.
It was precisely because of this.
Wei Tu had encountered almost no difficulty changing his identity to attend this Five-Clan Auction. With ease, he had obtained an invitation intended for Void Refinement cultivators from another immortal city controlled by the five great clans.
"Just as I suspected, the Nine-Snake Liu Clan's previous invitation to me really was an ill-intentioned probe..."
In the hall, Wei Tu sat in a secluded