Whatever their level of Daoist cultivation, as long as they had not shed their mortal nature and become immortals, wholly abandoning worldly pleasures, people could hardly resist watching gossip and drama unfold. Once the auction ended, the assembled heroes began studying the blind boxes on the Hundred-Treasure Rack again. Chen Yishan had enjoyed a stroke of luck, obtaining Tiger Bone Vine for a single Azure Spirit Pill, and nearly every cultivator below Transcendent Grade present lost their minds on the spot, emptying their reserves to try their luck. Naturally, nine bets out of ten ended in losses.
Lü Yan had suffered a crushing loss yesterday and had initially been fairly cautious, unwilling to wager lightly. But Chen Yishan flaunted his medicinal herb right in his face and even asked 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 just as Lü Yan was seriously studying the black boxes, he caught sight of the Northern Darkness Sect's party in the distance performing divination.
The Blessing and Sacrifice Faction had evolved from the sacrificers of ancient tribes, while the Daoist Sect originated from the Witch Cult of Ancient Times. The Divination Sect was a branch of the Daoist Sect, so 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, Eight Trigrams, and Taiyi Six Ren.
As for whose predictions were more accurate, that was difficult to say. With natural disasters and changes in heaven and earth, the laws of the Heavenly Dao left traces to follow, so both