After a long while, Li Qi had a pretty good understanding of the competition between the Qin Yang Merchant Guild, which came from a prosperous region, and the local merchant guilds.
His brows furrowed deeply.
In the end, his Penguin Medicine Pavilion was also a member of the local merchant guilds.
The actions of the Qin Yang Merchant Guild were clearly intended to bring down all the local merchant guilds, and then to completely seize the trade rights of the dozens of void black markets in the vicinity for themselves.
Fundamentally, the current actions of the Qin Yang Merchant Guild had thoroughly infringed upon the interests of Li Qi's Penguin Medicine Pavilion.
And this infringement of interests was extremely significant.
If it weren't for the low cost of refining pills in his Penguin Medicine Pavilion, it would likely be similar to the situation of the Exquisite Artifact Pavilion and many other shops right now.
It was almost reaching the limit of his selling price.
But even so, his Penguin Medicine Pavilion had not yet been forced to its limit.
However, if the current situation continued, and they competed with the Qin Yang Merchant Guild on price to see who would collapse first.
During this period, Li Qi would likely lose an unknown amount of money.
After all, he currently had two big money pits.
One was the Earth Void Heavenly Dao, and the other was his own Annihilation Space.
The improvement of these two was extremely urgent for him at present, especially the Annihilation Space.
The spiritual energy in the Earth Void Realm had already been drained to its lowest limit by the Annihilation Space.
For the next at least several decades, Li Qi could only rely on massive resources to replenish it.
"Dragging this out is not a solution. Do I have to personally go to the Qin Yang Merchant Shop and settle it with force?"
Li Qi's brows furrowed slightly.
Experts at the ninth level of Tribulation Crossing might seem very strong to the experts behind other local goods. Not only would they be unable to resist, but no single person would be willing to confront them.
However, experts at the ninth level of Tribulation Crossing were not much for the current Li Qi.
For Li Qi, whose strength had already reached the peak of the second level of Tribulation Crossing, he could easily deal with a cultivator at the ninth level of Tribulation Crossing in a short period of time without even activating his two secret arts, only activating the hundredfold amplification. This was a certainty.
Li Qi had no intention of being polite about this.
After all, besides legitimate business, strength indeed played a larger role. If his Penguin Medicine Pavilion hadn't repeatedly displayed considerable strength and his casually fabricated terrifying background, it might not have been so peaceful during the time it was just founded.
Since it could be resolved with hard power, Li Qi naturally would not adhere to the "gentleman's agreement" of simply using commercial battles to drag out time and win.
Simple and direct was the most important thing.
But soon, Li Qi's eyes furrowed again.
"No, I haven't figured out the strength behind the Qin Yang Merchant Shop yet, so it's not appropriate to act rashly."
The term "prosperous region" still carried a considerable amount of pressure for Li Qi, and it was mixed with a lot of mystery.
Although Li Qi had heard this term before.
But the specifics of the prosperous region were basically unknown to the current Li Qi.
The only information was that places that could be called prosperous regions were located in smaller worlds not far from the upper realm.
Because these smaller worlds were close to the upper realm, their spiritual energy resources and various rare treasures were completely incomparable to those of their remote smaller worlds.
It was precisely because of this inherent advantage that cultivators from prosperous regions were far superior to cultivators from remote places in terms of strength and other aspects.
What Li Qi was currently worried about was the strength of the forces behind the Qin Yang Merchant Shop, which was located in a prosperous region.
After all, Li Qi did not believe that the strongest person from that place was only a cultivator at the ninth level of Tribulation Crossing.
Or rather, what Li Qi was now wary of was the fear that the Qin Yang Merchant Shop had cultivators of the Mahayana stage behind it.
Because Li Qi might not fear cultivators of the Tribulation Crossing stage now.
With his strength, even peak Tribulation Crossing cultivators were not his match when he went all out.
But if it were true that there were cultivators of the Mahayana stage behind the Qin Yang Merchant Shop.
Li Qi had no confidence in fighting against cultivators of such a level, given the gap between realms.
After all, the gap between the Mahayana stage and the Tribulation Crossing stage was something that everyone could hardly imagine.
In addition, Li Qi had seen Xu Qingfeng's memories before.
From Xu Qingfeng's memories, Li Qi knew even more about how terrifying the combat power that cultivators of the Mahayana stage could unleash, even those who had just become Mahayana cultivators.
With a wave of his hand, he could easily annihilate everything in a small galaxy.
If a Mahayana stage cultivator wanted to act against their small region.
It was likely that all the experts in the dozens of void black markets around them combined would not be enough to match one of his fingers.
Such power could be said to be enough to establish a small divine dynasty.
After all, based on Xu Qingfeng's memories from back then.
It was when Xu Qingfeng broke through to the Mahayana stage that he expanded his influence and attracted countless experts from various planes and small worlds to join him.
Before he broke through to the Mahayana stage, he had similar ideas, but in the end, it was just petty tricks.
"I should wait first. I don't believe that the other local merchant guilds won't send people to investigate the background of the Qin Yang Merchant Shop. It won't be too late to act after their background is clarified."
Li Qi muttered to himself.
He temporarily abandoned the idea of directly taking action to resolve the Qin Yang Merchant Guild.
He would act after clarifying the strength behind the Qin Yang Merchant Guild.
If there were only cultivators at the ninth level of Tribulation Crossing or peak Tribulation Crossing behind them, Li Qi could directly deal with them, so as not to let them continue to disrupt his business.
But if there were truly any Mahayana stage cultivators behind them.
He, Li, would definitely strictly adhere to the bottom line of a businessman and would absolutely not use force if it could be resolved through business.
Li Qi pondered quietly, his thoughts gradually shifting away from the suddenly appearing Qin Yang Merchant Guild.
In the final analysis, it was still his own strength that was too weak.
If his strength could be a little stronger.
With the strength of the sixth or seventh level of Tribulation Crossing, he wouldn't have to be so cautious in his actions.
If he had that kind of strength, with his full power, he would definitely be no weaker than low-level Mahayana cultivators, and he wouldn't need to be like this.
"My strength is still too poor. If only I had a few more centuries."
Li Qi thought to himself and shook his head. Since the current situation was stable, he didn't need to worry too much.
He might as well take this opportunity to break through to the third level of Tribulation Crossing.
And as Li Qi was thinking this.
Suddenly, his eyes, which were about to close and break through to the third level of Tribulation Crossing, opened again.
At the same time, a trace of his consciousness took control of his natal spirit puppet, which was located in the void black market.