On his way to the abandoned cannery, Lin Yan avoided the main roads, choosing instead to travel across the rooftops of the city's high-rises.
He moved like a wisp of smoke, crossing several blocks in a few bounds without alerting anyone.
As he traveled, he slowly spread out his divine sense while activating the Qi Observation Technique, carefully studying the flow of energy throughout Yorknew City.
Neon's prophetic poem had explicitly stated that the "essence of Li Fire" would be at the Yorknew City auction.
But there were thousands upon thousands of auction lots. Lin Yan couldn't search them one by one. The most direct approach was to pinpoint the treasure's location with the Qi Observation Technique.
Each of the five elements had its own distinctive aura.
The essence of Yi Wood radiated boundless vitality.
The essence of Li Fire would undoubtedly carry an intense, savage aura of flame.
Through Lin Yan's Qi Observation Technique, all of Yorknew City appeared as an enormous, multicolored energy field.
Ordinary citizens had a muddled, grayish-white aura, faint as fireflies.
Gang members and hired thugs had vicious, dark-red auras, like clumps of cheap coke that had failed to burn completely.
The wealthy who had arrived from all over the world were wreathed in thick yellow fortune energy, representing greed and desire.
Amid these muddled auras, dozens of powerful Nen users shone as brightly as torches, scattered throughout the city's corners.
Lin Yan recognized a few of them.
One was Kurapika's Nen of vengeance, blazing like golden fire.
Another came from the top floor of a luxurious hotel in the city center: pink Nen aura as thick as chewing gum, filled with distortion, change, and malice-Hisoka.
Lin Yan's gaze did not linger on these Nen users.
Like an invisible net, his divine sense passed beyond