Inscrutable Gods and Demons: The Lost Shangqing Heritage (Part Two)

Yu nodded slightly. "The ideal situation is to acquire both the mental methods and the talent." She further explained the background. "The Sea Merchant Guild's hype actually provides us with a very good opportunity. According to Madam Hua, due to the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth, the worldly landscape has temporarily shifted. Some matters that were previously inconvenient to place in the open can also be brought to light for a time. Their initial plan is to carve out several special sessions for similar auctions, especially for sects like ours which, due to various vicissitudes, have perished and nearly become extinct. These are the utmost priority." Hearing this, Daoist Huifeng did not feel happy at all. In fact, the Sea Merchant Guild's implication was that only in such extraordinary times did such "orphan subjects and traitorous children" and "surviving elders and youths" of their kind have a chance to rear their heads without being thoroughly uprooted by relevant hostile forces. Pondering the Shangqing Sect's past prestige of dominating the northern lands and implicitly reigning as the leader of a hundred sects, comparing the two only made one sigh even more with regret. Yu, however, did not share his sentimentality; her mindset remained consistently calm as she continued her analysis. "At the auction, if we can form a Shangqing special session, I believe the overwhelming majority of people putting things up for sale do so because the techniques they've produced clash completely with what they've learned and they are unwilling to let them rot in their hands. But there are also some people who want to acquire things... These people, nine times out of ten, have mastered our sect's techniques, or perhaps even belong to a branch of the sect, only they were scattered in all directions when the great