My CEO Bai Fumei’s wife

When Meng Qianyun heard this, she froze. If she didn't buy it, what would she do? Steal it?

Qin Yu did not answer her, but took out a black token from his storage ring and twirled it between his fingers twice.

This token was a secret document used by Huang Lingtian to secretly trade demon cultivators' blood essence with Wanbaoge. It was the most inconspicuous item among the things Meng Qianyun stole from Huang Lingtian, but Qin Yu picked it out after searching through all the spoils of war.

The meaning of a hidden certificate is that the holder is not a customer, but a partner in Wanbaoge's internal system.

The partner didn't go through the front door, but through the back.

"You need to use this to sneak into the back of Wanbaoge."

Meng Qianyun's voice cracked. When she followed Huang Lingtian, she had personally witnessed the defenses of the Wanbaoge's back warehouse. It had three layers of restrictions and two patrol formations, and even Golden Core cultivators who went in couldn't come out.

"The word 'sneak in' is not right. I mean 'walk in'."

Qin Yu carefully put away the token, then took out the Thousand-Mechanism Veil from his storage ring and turned it over in his hand.

"With the Wanbaoge internal token and the face of the Wanbaoge clerk, what's the difference between me going through the back warehouse passage to get things and going back to my own home?"

Meng Qianyun wanted to refute but couldn't find a point. The token was real, the Thousand Machine Veil could even fool Emperor Wu, and the restrictions in the back warehouse were to prevent outsiders from entering but not to protect their own people. The three conditions combined were indeed a universal key.

But she still pressed on with one more comment.

"After taking the items, the Soul Purifying Elixir and the Western Underworld Secret Record will disappear together, and the Myriad Treasures Pavilion will be sealed off on the spot."

"Who said we were going to take two things?"

Qin Yu stood up and walked towards the door, leaving behind a single sentence.

"The Soul Purifying Elixir was switched, the catalog of the Western Underworld Secret Records was copied, and the auction item is still in the cabinet. Wanbaoge cannot find anything unusual."

Meng Qianyun opened and closed her mouth, suddenly realizing that she had underestimated this man.

He wasn't taking a risk; he was solving an arithmetic problem, with precise calculations at every step.

When Qin Yu left the inn, it was already completely dark. The moment the Thousand Machine Veil was applied, his features transformed into those of a thirty-something-year-old shop assistant at Wanbaoge, wearing a gray short shirt tied around his waist, his steps quick and light as if he were rushing to his shift.

The entrance to the back warehouse of Wanbaoge headquarters is in a dark alley at the end of the main street. Two Golden Core stage guards stand guard over an iron gate, and the three layers of restriction patterns on the gate shimmer slightly in the dim light.

When Qin Yu walked over, he had already shown the black token in his hand.

The guard on the left glanced at the spiritual energy mark on the token, then at Qin Yu's face.

"Why has Huang Lingtian's contact person changed his face?"

"Last month, the sect leader transferred personnel, and I just came from the Qingyun Prefecture branch to take over."

"name."

"Zhao Si".

The guard took out a roster from under the table and flipped through a few pages. Zhao Si's name was indeed on the list of successors that Huang Lingtian had reported.

The name was provided by Meng Qianyun. Huang Lingtian updates the list of his undercover contacts every year and submits it to Wanbaoge for record-keeping. Last year's list included a substitute named Zhao Si, but Huang Lingtian had no chance to use him before Qin Yu eliminated him.

The iron gate opened, and the three layers of restrictions automatically dissipated the moment the token touched it. Qin Yu stepped into the rear passage without any hesitation.

The passage was long, with densely packed lockers on both sides. Each locker had an independent sealing array, but these arrays only reacted to unauthorized spiritual energy fluctuations. Qin Yu did not release any spiritual energy; he was simply walking.

After turning the third corner, we arrived at the secret room where the auction items were stored.

There were no guards at the entrance to the secret room, because the three layers of restrictions plus the back passage itself were the best guards.

Qin Yu affixed the token to the door of the secret chamber. The internal verification array operated for three breaths, then the lights came on and the door opened.

Inside the secret room, there were hundreds of locked cabinets arranged neatly according to the auction item numbers, from number one to number one hundred and twenty.

Locker number thirty-seven contained the Soul Purifying Elixir. When Qin Yu went over and opened the locker, he already had a replacement in hand. Ye Qingxue had soaked the low-grade Soul Purifying Dew, which she had found in the storage ring of a Grandmaster of Array Formation from the Heavenly Mystery Sect, in the inn for two hours using the spiritual energy of a flower demon. In the short term, the spiritual energy fluctuations were consistent with the genuine product, but the efficacy was only 30%.

The moment the genuine item was taken out, Qin Yu used the Nine Dragons Sword's replication ability to memorize the sealing patterns on the bottle, and then engraved the same patterns onto the replacement item.

From opening the cabinet door to putting in the replacement item and then closing the cabinet door, the whole process took less than ten breaths.

The Secret Records of the Western Underworld are inside locker number ninety-two.

When Qin Yu approached, he did not open the cabinet door because the sealing level of this cabinet was two levels higher than that of the other cabinets. Opening it would trigger a recording array, and the steward of the secret room would be able to see that someone had moved the cabinet the next morning.

But the locker is semi-transparent.

To make it easier for the manager to count the number of items to be auctioned, Wanbaoge made all the lock cabinets in the secret room semi-transparent, so that the contents could be seen through the cabinet doors.

The Secret Records of the Western Underworld were unfolded and placed in the cabinet, cover facing up. It depicted a map of the outer islands of the Western Underworld Sea, with a dense array of entries next to it.

Qin Yu drew the Nine Dragons Sword and attached it to the outer wall of the locker. The golden light on the sword flashed slightly, and the replication ability was activated.

In the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, all the visible content on the cover was copied onto a blank jade slip.

Item 14 in the catalog: Netherworld Island, the origin of the Resurrection Herb, and the core area of ​​the third line of defense of the Demon God Clan.

enough.

Qin Yu put away the Nine Dragons Sword and the jade slip, then turned and walked towards the entrance of the secret chamber.

Just as I reached the door, I heard footsteps coming from the end of the corridor.

It wasn't a patrolling guard; the footsteps were too light and steady, indicating a cultivator deliberately suppressing their aura.

Qin Yu slipped into the shadows inside the secret room. The footsteps grew closer, and a figure appeared from around the corner of the corridor.

She wore a light blue uniform, had a petite figure, and her glassy eyes shone like two small lamps in the dimly lit corridor.

Zhuge Chuchu.

She walked over from the other end of the passage carrying a stack of appraisal reports for magical artifacts, seemingly having just finished the appraisal work for Wanbaoge and was about to leave the back warehouse.

The two were less than three zhang apart at the entrance to the secret room.

Zhuge Chuchu did not stop walking. Her gaze swept over Qin Yu's face, which was disguised as a waiter, but there was no fluctuation in her glass-like pupils.

But her left foot landed a beat slower than her right foot.

Just half a beat.

Then she continued walking forward, and as she passed Qin Yu, her lips moved slightly, her voice so soft it sounded like she was talking to herself.

"The third item from the right, which is the shopkeeper's private collection, is better than the items on the auction list."

Qin Yu's steps remained unchanged as he walked out of the secret room, heading in the opposite direction from Zhuge Chuchu. The two of them quickly disappeared at opposite ends of the passage.

Inside the Xuan Yin Palace, it was Qin Yu who kicked down the door and stopped Huang Lingtian from assaulting her.

Zhuge Chuchu repaid this favor with thirteen words.

Qin Yu didn't go back to retrieve the bottle of his private collection. The Soul Purifying Elixir in his hand was enough to save Kui Hong's life. Any further action would increase the risk of exposure, and he knew what was important.

When I came out of the back compartment, it was the same as when I went in; I didn't disturb anyone.

Back at the inn, Meng Qianyun was still sitting at the table, and her first words to Qin Yu when he pushed the door open were...

"Got it." (End of Chapter)