I only reached the Foundation Establishment stage at eighty years old, and then the system appeared.

Yang Hongbo headed towards the Demon Realm again, but he was now on high alert. After all, he had come to an unknown territory, so he had to be careful.

Suddenly, he came across an even more dilapidated town ahead. Most of the town was in ruins. In front of the town, he saw a woman worshipping something.

Yang Hongbo flew to the woman, who sensed his presence but glanced at him with surprise.

"Are you paying respects to this town, young lady?"

"Yes, my ancestor escaped from here over two hundred years ago. Now I've reached the Golden Core stage, so I've come back to take a look, after all, this was once our ancestral land!"

"Were there no demons or ghosts invading this place back then?"

"Yes, back in the day, before my ancestor, this place was thousands of miles away from the Demon Realm, but now, it practically belongs to the Demon Realm!"

"My name is Yang Hongbo. What's your name, young lady?"

"My name is Shen Yilian. Would you like to come and walk around here with me?"

"Sure, I don't have anything else to do anyway!"

Yang Hongbo followed her to inspect the area around the town, and finally they arrived at the foot of a mountain valley where there was a dilapidated temple.

This is a small temple, its age unknown, long since dilapidated, its doors tightly shut. Although it has lost its original purpose, no one dares to open it anymore.

It is built in a small valley, and you can see inside from both sides of the valley. If you are bold enough, you can walk up to the top of the wall for a clearer and more detailed view.

Shen Yilian led Yang Hongbo to fly to both sides of the mountain valley and saw that the temple was in ruins, with nothing inside, not even anything used for sacrifices or offerings, as if it had been invaded by demons after it was built.

Shen Yilian boldly walked onto the wall and said, "This temple was corrupted by demons not long after it was built. Actually, the demons in this temple are considered relatively mild. After all, they have never left the temple's boundaries."

"When the temple was destroyed, all that could be heard from inside was a pitiful scream. No one came out. At first, everyone was terrified and asked cultivators to exorcise the demon, but none of them succeeded. Everyone who entered disappeared."

"Later, everyone discovered that the demon that had invaded the temple had never left the temple, so everyone stopped looking for cultivators to exterminate the demon."

"More than a hundred years later, the expansion of the Demon Realm slowly approached this place, so we fled this region!"

"No one has ever seen the demons in this temple before. We don't know if they're zombies or ghosts. Heh, isn't that terrifying!"

Yang Hongbo followed behind her, walking slowly on the wall. Suddenly, Yang Hongbo sensed three Nascent Soul stage demons approaching at high speed.

"Oh no, Miss Shen, get out of here quickly! A demon is coming!"

The two hurriedly took to the air, but three demons had already appeared before them: one in the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm and two in the early stage.

Yang Hongbo, with his peak Nascent Soul cultivation, was naturally not afraid of them. He unleashed two palm strikes and killed the mid-Nascent Soul demon and the early-stage Nascent Soul demon. However, the remaining demon had already injured Shen Yilian with a single claw strike.

Shen Yilian let out a soft moan and fell into the temple's perimeter. Yang Hongbo was frantic and killed the demon with a single blow before jumping into the temple as well.

Although Shen Yilian was injured, she quickly stood up. Yang Hongbo pushed her hard from behind, sending her out of the temple. He himself flew out as well. While flying in mid-air, he felt a hand grabbing at him from behind.

With a "rip," a large piece of Yang Hongbo's magical robes was torn off from the back, but he still flew out of the temple's range.

Seeing that Shen Yilian, who was flying ahead, was already swaying, Yang Hongbo immediately picked her up and flew back to the dilapidated town. He did not expect that the zombie's poison was so potent that Shen Yilian's golden core was contaminated and her whole body was already pale.

"Brother Yang, kill me quickly! I don't want to become some kind of inhuman, ghostly thing before I die."

Shen Yilian's body was rapidly transforming into a demonic zombie form, with dark green veins appearing on her skin. Yang Hongbo had no choice but to painfully tap her forehead with his finger.

Shen Yilian finally passed away peacefully with a smile on her face.

"Ah..." Yang Hongbo roared angrily, and even the sky was changed by his momentum. The clouds rolled, dark clouds pressed down, and a torrential rain poured down.

Yang Hongbo stood in the rain, feeling powerless to change the world. He didn't use his spiritual power to protect himself from the rain, and the downpour quickly soaked him to the bone.

After some thought, Yang Hongbo concluded that the demons and ghosts in the temple could not have exceeded the Void Returning Realm, and were at least at the Divine Transformation Realm. After all, he had a defensive spiritual treasure that could defend against attacks from the peak of the Void Returning Realm.

The demons in the temple only tore his clothes when they attacked him, without breaking through his skin, proving that they did not have power beyond the Void Returning Realm.

Yang Hongbo stared intently in the direction of the temple. Within ten years, he would definitely come back and completely annihilate this demon.

He buried Shen Yilian. Although the two had only known each other for a day, Yang Hongbo felt as if they had known each other for a long time. The friendship between people is not about how long it lasts, but about trust.

Yang Hongbo piloted the flying boat towards Qingmang City. The flying boat was indeed very fast, and it covered tens of millions of miles in just two days. When he saw the huge Qingmang City, his desolate mood finally relaxed!

He flew directly into the city from above the city wall, making him the only person who could enter the city directly from the city wall, since he was the one who laid the protective shield for the entire city.

When they flew to Lianbo Mountain, they saw that Wan Yonghe was preparing for childbirth. Wan Yonghe was overjoyed to see him: "Husband, I thought you wouldn't be able to make it back in time. It seems our little baby is also eager to see its father!"

Yang Hongbo pulled her into his arms: "Yonghe, you've worked so hard!"

"It's not tiring at all, my husband. Just thinking about having children now, and twins at that, makes me so happy!"

"Yes, this is new life, a new beginning!"

The entire production process ended quickly. Yang Hongbo held his two sons, one in his left arm and the other in his right arm. He named the older one Yang Tuxin and the younger one Yang Tusheng, meaning new life.

This is simply to commemorate the woman who once accompanied him in investigating the Demon Realm Temple—Shen Yilian!