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

Yang Hongbo wandered around Qingmang City, but he had changed his appearance and suppressed his cultivation to the third level of the Golden Core stage. Now there were several Golden Core True Monarchs in the city, all of whom were shopkeepers of various businesses.

After all, this is a large city with a population of 15 million. Even if only one percent of them are cultivators, that's still over 100,000 people, not to mention more.

Yang Hongbo walked into a shop called Zhenbaofang. Although from the outside it looked like a small shop of just over 100 square meters and three stories high, once you went inside, you would discover its special features.

The interior area is at least four or five thousand square meters. Just from the introduction, you can tell that at least three floors are open to the public, one floor is only open to big shots, and then the offices of the shop assistants and the manager take up at least two more floors, so there are at least six floors here.

Yang Hongbo went inside and browsed around. He found that although there were many treasures inside, he also had everything they had, and even better items. He also had things they didn't have.

Looking at the billions of points in his system, he sighed inwardly, "I can't spend them all, I really can't spend them all!"

Currently, the cultivators in the family who work in the City Lord's Mansion only work on a yearly rotation, and they work in three shifts. Many miscellaneous tasks are handled by ordinary people.

Currently, the logistics of various departments in the City Lord's Mansion are mostly managed by ordinary members of the family, because these jobs do not require cultivation. What a cultivator can handle, we can assign to ten or even a hundred ordinary people, and the cost is low, sometimes only one percent of the cultivator's salary.

For ordinary people working in Qingmang City, the pay is actually quite good. In other cities, the average monthly income for ordinary people is one to two taels of silver, while in Qingmang City, the minimum is five taels, and that's for the elderly people sweeping the streets.

Moreover, prices in the city are very low for ordinary people. One tael of silver can buy more than 200 catties of rice, and a good meal at a restaurant only costs a few dozen taels of silver, which is just a few taels of gold.

As for cultivators, a low-level Qi Refining cultivator needs at least three to five spirit stones a month to maintain their cultivation needs. Going to a restaurant also costs at least three to five spirit stones, and the exchange rate between spirit stones and gold is 1:1000.

Therefore, in Qingmang City, as long as you are diligent enough, you will not lack work, because by saving one low-level Qi Refining cultivator in non-essential positions, you can hire ten thousand elderly people to clean the streets.

As the people of this city strive for a better life, a figure millions of miles away appears who will become connected to Qingmang City.

Tens of millions of miles east of Qingmang City, an earth-shattering battle had just ended. The last survivor of the defeated army was covered in blood, with his left hand and right leg broken.

He lay on the ground, glaring at the person floating in the air: "Crimson Flame Demon, don't be so smug! Our Canglan Holy Sect has already dispatched dozens of teams to track you down. You can't escape!"

"Hahaha, even if there were ten or twenty more of you Nascent Soul stage brats, you wouldn't be a match for this old demon."

Without waiting for the other to speak, he pierced the other's head with a single finger: "Blood Coagulation Technique! Activate!"

The Crimson Flame Demon activated his technique with all his might, and the blood of the dozen or so people on the ground began to gather like small snakes, quickly condensing into a crystal-clear blood crystal containing violent energy.

The old demon tossed the blood crystal into his mouth, slightly replenishing the deficit he had incurred during his battles with the Canglan Holy Sect's pursuit team.

"News of my presence here will soon reach the Canglan Holy Sect. They will definitely send experts at the Nascent Soul or even Void Return realms to hunt me down. I need to think of a way to mislead them."

I took out a map of the area and looked at it. I found that there were two small towns more than 100 miles to the south, each with a population of about two million.

"Hehe, then I'm sorry, I'll have to use you as my starting point. At least a few million people are worth ten or eight Nascent Soul stage cultivators!"

So the Crimson Flame Demon flickered and flew rapidly southward, soon approaching a small city called Yeku. He probed the city with his divine sense and found that the highest level of cultivation in the city was only the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm, and the protective shield was only at the fourth level.

The Crimson Flame Demon immediately took out a magic array plate, and after activating it, a large array enveloped the entire city. Then, he unleashed a powerful attack, and the city's protective shield shattered instantly.

The city's guardians, sensing the breach in the protective barrier, immediately soared into the sky: "Who dares to act so presumptuously here!"

But when he saw the Crimson Flame Demon, he was so frightened that he turned around and tried to run away, but how could he escape the Demon's grasp?

The Crimson Flame Demon reached out and grabbed the guardian, who flew into his palm. Then, the demon conjured a giant hand and pressed it down on the city, causing everyone in the city to bleed from all seven orifices and die.

Under the old demon's control, everyone's blood gathered upwards in strands, quickly condensing into a blood crystal. "Alas! A mortal's blood crystal is never as good as a cultivator's." He tossed the blood crystal into his mouth.

The Crimson Flame Demon rushed to the next city. In this way, within a day, the Crimson Flame Demon attacked and killed five small cities within a radius of one million miles, giving the impression that the demon was heading south.

However, the old demon actually went to the north. Although he had heard that the area was very barren and there were few even Golden Core cultivators, such a place was the perfect place to hide.

To conceal his whereabouts, the Crimson Flame Demon deliberately reduced his flight speed after entering the northern region, only slightly faster than those at the Golden Core stage, and refrained from further killing, all in an effort to sever all traces related to himself.

Heading north, the places we visited were so barren. The spiritual veins we saw were all first or second tier, and there were no cities, only small towns with a population of around 100,000.

The Crimson Flame Demon was also worried about his future. Without high-level spiritual veins and the blood of high-level cultivators, how could he quickly repair his injuries?

While flying high in the sky, the Crimson Flame Demon suddenly noticed several caravans of merchants heading towards a certain place, perhaps indicating a large city ahead.

The Crimson Flame Demon increased its flying speed, and soon a huge city appeared ahead. After probing with its divine sense, it was found that there were more than 17 million people inside.

"Hahaha, Heaven hasn't forsaken my path, Crimson Flame Demon! Such a colossal city—absorbing their blood will at least heal eighty percent of my injuries."

The Crimson Flame Demon immediately took out a magic array plate and activated the array to cover the entire city. However, he did not know that his divine sense had already activated the city's guardian—the Void Returning Realm puppet.

Just as the Crimson Flame Demon was about to attack the city's protective shield, an old man in blue robes suddenly appeared before him, looking at him indifferently.

The Crimson Flame Demon had only uttered one word: "You..."

The old man in green robes reached out and grasped, turning the Crimson Flame Demon into ashes. After killing the Crimson Flame Demon, the old man in green robes turned around and returned to the void of the Lotus Wave Mountain Small World, taking with him the array plate set up by the Crimson Flame Demon.

No one noticed any of this; everyone was just doing what they were doing. Only Yang Hongbo received a telepathic message from the old man in blue, knowing that there had once been someone who had come and said a single word before vanishing with the wind!