The entrance to the hidden passage in this storeroom was just as ingenious as the one on the other side, concealed by formations, with an entire row of shelves placed over it.
The spirit plants on the shelves were arranged in a single line, and different small-scale restrictions had been set outside each plant to protect them.
With so many layers of concealment, unless someone was as experienced as Jin Thirty-One and the others and searched with great care,
the ordinary shop clerks who came to the storeroom every day would never have discovered the hidden passage entrance. Besides, this was a place the young shopkeeper forbade others from entering.
Afterward, Li Yan and the other two opened the concealed door in the wall. Once outside, they found themselves in a back alley.
After walking some distance down this long alley and turning to one side, they reached another back alley—the long alley behind Jin Zhiyuan's shop.
The other party had indeed chosen this location well. So long as someone confirmed that Jin Zhiyuan's entire shop was covered by formations, their attention would be fixed on the formations.
If the shop's formations showed no abnormal fluctuations, naturally no one would think someone had broken out using magic. Who would have imagined that the problem lay in the neighboring shop?
The three followed the back alley for another stretch. No one appeared here in the night, and they soon left the alley and entered another main street...
Li Yan and the other two merely looked around that street before giving up on pursuing the matter further. This street was even wider than the one before Jin Zhiyuan's shop, with far more roads branching out in all directions.
They then returned to the young shopkeeper's store and made several rounds through it,