When Xiao Yu left the teahouse, he naturally changed his outfit. If he continued walking around in that black bamboo hat, someone would probably recognize him in an instant. He had only himself to blame for being so conspicuous at the auction.
Now dressed in a blue robe, he showed his true face and concealed his cultivation at the early stage, wandering the streets without attracting the slightest attention.
Anyone who carefully observed Xiao Yu's route would discover that, despite his seemingly aimless wandering, he was actually circling the area around the Secret Shop.
Xiao Yu was doing this to obtain the Great Evolution Art. He knew that the strange man dressed in gray cloth at the auction was the only son of the Thousand Bamboo Sect's former sect master-Yellow Maple Valley's "Uncle-Master Lin." That man carried the cultivation methods for the first four levels of the Great Evolution Art.
The burly man, meanwhile, had once served under Uncle-Master Lin and was now a sect-protecting Dharma King of the Thousand Bamboo Sect. He had come to the Yuanwu Kingdom to pull the weeds out by their roots and kill Uncle-Master Lin. The earlier spectacle of competing for the Mechanism Puppet Beast at the auction had been deliberately staged by him.
If Xiao Yu wanted to profit from this affair, he first needed to find and follow the burly man. But the man was far too cautious, and with numerous puppets to assist him, his strength was formidable. Xiao Yu might not come out ahead in a real fight, so he made another plan.
Several cultivators at the auction had shown a keen interest in the burly man, hoping to uncover the secrets of the puppet beasts through him. Xiao Yu only needed to identify those targeting the burly man and