Dark Currents and Minor Realm Mission

The latter half of the auction was underway.

Li Yuan sat in the middle section of the hall, his gaze resting on the auction stage, though his attention was not entirely on the items being sold.

The Blue Permanent Trait, Dark Fiend Insight, had been operating passively throughout.

The core function of this trait was a dramatic increase in sensitivity to demonic aura. The auras of several hundred cultivators in the auction house passed through his senses one by one. The overwhelming majority were pure spiritual energy fluctuations, without a trace of demonic aura.

Yet in the private box section of the inner hall, Dark Fiend Insight caught an exceptionally concealed demonic aura.

Its intensity had been suppressed to an extremely low level. Ordinary cultivators would have been unable to detect it even face-to-face. But Dark Fiend Insight's sensitivity to demonic aura far exceeded conventional methods. Even through the spiritual energy barriers around the box and across several dozen yards, it remained clearly discernible.

Nascent Soul Late Stage.

The aura carried a distinctive icy quality, highly similar to a certain aura Li Yuan had encountered in the lower realm before.

Yuan Sect.

The characteristics of this aura closely matched the Yuan Sect's demonic cultivation lineage, and Li Yuan had encountered this demonic aura before as well.

The Yuan Sect Master.

Li Yuan's expression did not change, and his gaze remained fixed on the auction stage.

He took no action.

He noted the matter and remained outwardly calm.

The auction continued.

When the twenty-second item appeared, the auctioneer's manner of introduction changed once more.

"The twenty-second item was obtained through rather unusual means." The auctioneer's tone grew more solemn. "This item will not be auctioned for Spirit Stones. Instead, it will be awarded upon completion of a task."

On the auction