Having honed her skills in Suixin Pavilion for many years, working as both a commercial traveler and a shop manager, Shen Wan was confident that her grasp of various customers was quite solid.
As far as she knew, the two new customers had sent in auction treasures that were extremely rare, and what made it even more precious was that they were genuine, far outclassing the vast majority of overpriced auction items currently on the market.
This factor alone clashed completely with the current reality of the auction house. If one assumed they were ignorant of market prices, they should have gained some understanding after being in the auction house for so long. Yet during the time they had spent inside, their demeanor had been far too ordinary and blending-in, "blending-in" to the point of feeling overly deliberate.
Shen Wan had seen plenty of people like this. They were not coming to the auction to "exchange what they had for what they lacked," join in the excitement, or try their luck; rather, they had clear objectives, and perhaps had even caught wind of some news and rushed over specifically. People who acted this way usually stopped at nothing to achieve their goals, and if they possessed formidable cultivation on top of that, the trouble they could stir up would be all the greater.
As for where their objective lay...
Shen Wan mentally filtered through the auction items on the floor, and there were indeed a few sensitive ones. For instance, the Spirit Gathering Pearl currently being fiercely contested on the stage was highly suspicious.
At this moment, the battle for the Spirit Gathering Pearl had reached a white-hot stage, with the attending cultivators tacitly bypassing the requirements for Void Artifacts and array disks, and directly exerting their strength with Ruyi