The Man in Black moved lightly, slipping out through the concealed passage beneath the "Gui" character on the rear stone wall before anyone else noticed.
The moment he entered the passage, a pretty-faced maid swayed her waist and hurried over to greet him.
"Senior, are you leaving now to settle the account in advance?"
"That's right!" the man in black replied swiftly, keeping his voice low.
"Please follow us, Senior!" The maid nodded respectfully and immediately led the Man in Black deeper into the passage.
Inside the auction venue, the auction continued.
At this moment, four formation discs and forty-nine formation flags were being auctioned on the stage.
"Fellow Daoists and Seniors, please look. This is a newly released formation from Thousand Machine Island. It is called the 'Two Forms Wuchen Formation,' a top-tier fourth-grade grand formation."
"Once deployed, it can cover an area with a radius of five hundred li."
"Within the formation lie the four gates of life, death, illusion, and extinction. Even late-stage Nascent Soul cultivators, or even those at Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul Stage, would find it hard to escape death if they stumbled inside without sufficient means."
"However, everything has its gains and losses. Though this Two Forms Wuchen Formation is immensely powerful, it is also exceptionally complicated to set up. Besides these formation discs and flags, it requires a large quantity of formation materials."
"Such a formation is naturally inconvenient to deploy in the midst of battle. But as a grand formation to protect a mountain or island, nothing could be more fitting."
Halfway through her speech on the auction stage, Lu Congrong suddenly paused slightly.
Then, her gaze casually swept across the "Gui" section where Su Shi'er was located. As though nothing had happened, she calmly said, "Fellow Daoists