"So with great enthusiasm, they went into Senior Tang Qi's abode thinking it was an abandoned ruin of a long-dead cultivator.
They didn't detect Senior Tang Qi's presence, otherwise, they would not have intruded, and with no functional array in place, they assumed the area had long been abandoned. It was why they willfully grabbed everything in place and brought them to the sect.
Upon realizing the value of the items they brought back, I sent a few elders to Senior Tang Qi's abode, to confirm it was really abandoned, and they came back with the same report as them, that they detected no presence, and it didn't seem like anybody had been there for a while.
We thought it was our lucky break. With the Rising Tides Saber Art and the insights of Senior Tang Qi, we were able to rapidly increase our strengths in a short time span that even one of our grand elders broke through to the quasi-palace stage within that decade.