We were not at the front with the rich, but weren't sitting all the way in the back either, staying on the second floor and having a pretty good view of down bellow from where we sat, or at least for me since my eyesight is sharper and better than humans, cultivator or not.
And yet for the first few minutes there wasn't much to see that I did not already have outside, and as people came in and filled the place up the chitter chatter grows with it, filling my waiting time with gathering information as bored immortal cultivators seem to very kin to gossip.
"There are so many great items this time around, I'll be lucky to be able to buy even one!"
"Yeah, there will be quite the competition this time around… though if things go that way at least we can win over these kids."