Chapter 1105: Infiltration
Since Madam Yu specifically asked to pick a suitable maid, the auction house reacted quickly and delivered a roster to her.
The roster recorded the “merchandise” for this session.
The auction house differed from the West Shakya Company. The Heavenly Court preferred quality goods, whereas the West Shakya Company dealt in disposable “consumables.” Thus, the former mainly sold women, while the latter dealt mostly in men.
Star Lord Yuheng did not mind buying a woman. After all, those who had suffered greatly were often the best candidates for recruitment into the Ziguang Society.
That was because most top-tier talents went to the Daoist Order or the Imperial Court. Secret societies competed fiercely for the rest. Unlike the Heavenly Court, which took in anyone, the Ziguang Society preferred women and excluded men, with certain requirements for looks, aptitude, and ability. After all the filtering, their selection pool was small.
Zhang Yuelu did not care about these details. She was not here to bust the underground auction. After all, Qi Xuansu could not wage war against both the Nanyang United Trading Company and the Heavenly Court at the same time. Since the Golden Patriarch had just helped the Daoist Order defeat Chen Shuhua, there were surely conditions attached. Thus, even if Qi Xuansu wanted to crack down, Sage Donghua would not allow it. As someone from the Lingnan Daoist Mansion, Zhang Yuelu had no authority to directly intervene in Nanyang’s affairs.
Right now, Zhang Yuelu was pondering how to use the auction house to uncover clues related to the Nanyang United Trading Company.
Revealing her identity and coercing the auction house was impossible, unless she was Li Changge. But after years of rivalry between the Zhang and Li families, why would the Heavenly Court sacrifice its interests to help her?
Thus, the only option was to act covertly. Nanyang was the Heavenly Court’s home turf, with Lion City as its heart. Their entrenched power here was obvious. This was one of the reasons Zhang Yuelue had to come personally. But even she found this task difficult.
In just a short time, Zhang Yuelu had already detected traces of three formations. This was proof that the place was heavily guarded, so sneaking in silently would be difficult. After all, even a Zaohua-stage Heavenly-Being like Star Lord Yuheng was only a guest here. The auction house’s owners were an Immortal and a Pseudo-Immortal. Their formations would not be low-grade, but it was also not as sophisticated as the Sheji Temple.
Simply put, breaking the formations was not the issue. The real challenge was doing it without alerting the auction house. It was just like how picking a lock was not hard, but doing so unnoticed and in plain sight was the real test.
At that moment, Star Lord Yuheng suddenly asked, “Miss Zhang, would you like to see the auction house’s storage area?”