Jia Xingzhi was one of the six Senior Hall Officials of the Jizhou Trading Company.
The arrival of someone like him in Shuzhou would inevitably affect many people.
Chen Yi understood this, but he had yet to decide what identity to assign to the man.
Most members of the Jizhou Trading Company were traveling merchants and ought to be regarded as Jianghu guests, but behind them stood many Aristocratic Families. Even Jia Xingzhi himself came from the Qinghe Cui Family, backed by that reigning Heavenly Minister.
Someone like him could not simply be treated as a Jianghu guest.
The Jizhou Trading Company, a Senior Hall Official-if he died in Shuzhou...
Lying on the bed, Chen Yi gazed at a corner of the gauze curtains, a slight gleam in his eyes as he worked through the possible aftermath.
It was not just Jia Xingzhi, but Zhao Yi, Zhao Wenjing, and the others as well. If something happened to them in Shuzhou, how could the Xiao Family stay out of it?
And other matters like these.
A little while passed.
Having refined his earlier plans, Chen Yi rolled upright, crossed his legs, and began cultivating the Four Symbols Technique.
As he sank deeper into cultivation, his body slowly drew in the surrounding Heaven and Earth Spirit Qi, its aura restrained by the Mysterious Turtle Breath Concealment Art, taking care not to alert anyone outside.
His cultivation base had already reached the Third Grade Upper Stage, and a breakthrough was not far off. A little diligence would not hurt.
Still.
For him now, unless his cultivation base broke through a major realm, such as the Grandmaster Realm, it would be difficult to make any great improvement.
After all, he was already strong enough to handle experts in the Great Grandmaster Realm and had