Whatever their Daoist cultivation, as long as they had yet to shed their mortal nature and become immortals, completely abandoning worldly tastes, people could hardly resist watching a good spectacle.
Once the auction ended, the assembled heroes began studying the Blind Boxes on the Hundred-Treasure Rack again. Chen Yishan had been lucky enough to get Tiger Bone Vine with a single Azure Spirit Pill, and nearly every cultivator below Transcendent Grade present lost their minds on the spot. They began digging into their savings to try their luck, and naturally, nine gambles out of ten ended in losses.
Lü Yan had suffered a crushing loss yesterday and had initially been fairly cautious, unwilling to place bets lightly. But Chen Yishan was showing off the medicinal ingredient right in front of him, even asking him to help identify it. It was too damned infuriating. Lü Yan had always had a fiery temper, and now he was itching to throw money around again.
Yet while Lü Yan was carefully studying the Black Boxes, he caught sight of the Northern Darkness Sect's group in the distance out of the corner of his eye. They were actually performing divination.
The Blessing and Sacrifice Faction had evolved from the sacrificial rites of tribes in Ancient Times, while the Daoist Sect originated from the Witch Cult of Ancient Times, and the Divination Sect was a branch of the Daoist Sect. Strictly speaking, the two shared the same roots.
However, the Blessing and Sacrifice Faction focused on ancient divination methods, mostly using Shells and Beast Bones, while the Divination Sect was more modern, judging fortune and disaster through methods such as the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams or Taiyi Liuren.
As for which was more accurate, that was difficult to say. For natural disasters and changes in