Li Qi slowed his pace as he observed the cultivators guarding the designated area around the Qin Yang shops.
He raised his gaze and looked towards the Qin Yang Merchant Association's headquarters, which was now clearly visible.
Li Qi glanced around his surroundings.
The area where he was currently located had no other external cultivators.
His eyes flickered slightly.
Li Qi concealed his aura, appearing utterly calm.
Then, he pretended to be unfazed and continued walking towards the Qin Yang Merchant Association's headquarters.
In a short while, Li Qi approached the perimeter guarded by the Qin Yang Merchant Association cultivators.
Soon, a cultivator from the Qin Yang Merchant Association, who was at the third heaven of the Tribulation Crossing realm, appeared before Li Qi in a flash.
With a calm expression, he politely blocked Li Qi's path and said,
"Esteemed guest, please halt. This is the headquarters of the Qin Yang Merchant Association. Outsiders are prohibited from entering without an invitation."
Li Qi stopped his advance. He had no intention of forcing his way through the obstruction. Even though he could instantly obliterate the cultivator at the third heaven of the Tribulation Crossing realm before him,
Li Qi's current plan was to directly locate the whereabouts of Qin Zhang, the president of the Qin Yang Merchant Association, and then destroy him.
After all, his purpose for coming here this time was precisely for this Qin Yang Merchant Association president who was on the verge of breaking through to the Mahayana realm.
Other cultivators from the Qin Yang Merchant Association, even the two peak Tribulation Crossing realm cultivators from Qin Tianyi's memories, would not have a significant impact on him.
However, a moment later, as if recalling something,
Li Qi's gaze suddenly sharpened.
He first looked at the Qin Yang Merchant Association cultivator who was blocking him, a hint of apology appearing on his face.
"My apologies, fellow Daoist. I was unaware. Since your headquarters prohibits outsiders from entering, I shall depart."
The blocking cultivator from the Qin Yang Merchant Association nodded slightly at Li Qi's attitude, a smile appearing on his face.
"Mm, no matter."
Then, a faint spiritual energy emanated from Li Qi, and he vanished from the cultivator's sight.
As Li Qi retreated, the Qin Yang Merchant Association cultivator paid him no mind and slowly returned to his patrol route.
As for Li Qi, after retreating a certain distance,
His eyes narrowed slightly again. He recalled the memories he had extracted from Qin Tianyi's mind through soul searching.
From Qin Tianyi's memories, a vague outline of the Qin Yang Merchant Association's headquarters appeared before Li Qi.
As the grandson of the Qin Yang Merchant Association's president, Qin Tianyi was generally very familiar with most areas of the association and had personally visited them.
It was precisely because of this that Li Qi had gained a slight understanding of the Qin Yang Merchant Association's headquarters.
However, it was also because of this.
From Qin Tianyi's memories, he still had not obtained information about his grandfather's seclusion location. This was why Li Qi had wanted to see if he could enter the Qin Yang Merchant Association headquarters earlier.
But now, his path was blocked.
He once again recalled the memories related to Qin Tianyi.
In Qin Tianyi's memories, he had an understanding of over ninety-five percent of the Qin Yang Merchant Association.
However, for the remaining half percent, even Qin Tianyi was unaware.
With his identity as the grandson of the Qin Yang Merchant Association's president, he was not even qualified to know or approach these areas.
Such places within the Qin Yang Merchant Association's headquarters.
There were three in total.
"The place where that fellow named Qin Zhang is in seclusion must be one of these three locations."
After all, only those three places, which even someone of Qin Tianyi's young master status did not know about, and which only the truly high-ranking members of the Qin Yang Merchant Association could enter, would be Qin Zhang's breakthrough location.
Otherwise, if Qin Tianyi's memories contained the location of Qin Zhang's breakthrough seclusion, Li Qi would not have had to go to such great lengths to investigate personally.
Having thoroughly recalled Qin Tianyi's memories once more,
Li Qi's gaze once again fell upon the location of the Qin Yang Merchant Association's headquarters.
His eyes flickered as he looked towards three different directions.
These three locations were situated in different areas.
The first location was at the center of the Qin Yang Merchant Association's headquarters. In Qin Tianyi's memories, it seemed that only less than ten high-ranking members of the Qin Yang Merchant Association were allowed to enter.
As for others, even approaching it was difficult.
The other two locations were situated in the east and west directions of the Qin Yang Merchant Association's headquarters, respectively.
Access to the location in the eastern direction was also restricted for those without sufficient authorization. Qin Tianyi's memories revealed nothing about this.
However, regarding the western location...
Li Qi's eyes flashed slightly.
The location in the western part of the Qin Yang Merchant Association's headquarters could be directly ruled out.
Although Qin Tianyi did not have the qualifications to go to that place,
Fortunately, Qin Tianyi was one of the young masters of the Qin Yang Merchant Association. One of the cultivators at the ninth heaven of the Tribulation Crossing realm who was willing to pledge allegiance to him, a person named Qin Changwan whom Li Qi had already killed, had revealed a small piece of information to Qin Tianyi.
The area on the western side of the Qin Yang Merchant Association's headquarters was one of its resource storage facilities.
The resources stored there were not ordinary; they were top-tier resources.
Qin Changwan had even accidentally mentioned to Qin Tianyi that
Some special items stored within were so valuable that even Mahayana realm cultivators would be tempted by them if they were released.
Any single item from there would be of immense help to cultivators, and it would not be an exaggeration to call it one of the Qin Yang Merchant Association's true foundations.
However, Li Qi was not particularly concerned about this piece of information at the moment.
If it were at any other time, upon hearing of a place storing such high-grade resources, Li Qi would have been willing to browse for a while.
But currently, his primary objective was still to deal with the person named Qin Zhang.
As long as this person was alive, Li Qi would not feel at ease.
"Only two places remain, which simplifies things."
With this thought, Li Qi's eyes narrowed slightly.
Despite the numerous Tribulation Crossing realm cultivators guarding the Qin Yang Merchant Association's headquarters,
In reality, for Li Qi, it would not be overly difficult to infiltrate.
At least... if Li Qi so desired, with the stealth abilities granted by his attribute points,
It would be impossible for cultivators below the fifth heaven of the Tribulation Crossing realm to track his movements.