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

That day, Yang Hongbo's wives, who were obsessed with alchemy, were studying an ancient elixir formula when they discovered they were missing a crucial ingredient. So they dragged their husbands to the trading market in the city center square to search for it.

Actually, Yang Hongbo also had this elixir in his secret realm, but he thought it would be fun to go shopping with his wives, so he went with them.

When this trading market was first established in conjunction with the Zhou, Wu, Zheng, and Wang families, it only occupied a few miles of the square. After several years of development, it now occupies more than thirty miles of the square.

Most of the stalls in this trading market are occupied by independent cultivators who set up their stalls for three to five days at a time before going out to find suitable items to sell. The stall rental fees here are also very low; a stall of two square meters costs one low-grade spirit stone for five days.

This market alone supports hundreds of thousands, even millions, of cultivators, and also revitalizes the row of large shops next to the square, as these shops would occasionally go to the square to purchase some scarce spiritual herbs and raw materials.

Yang Hongbo simply followed behind the ladies, watching them chatter about whether the spiritual herb was suitable for refining pills, or whether the herb was old enough.

Suddenly, Yang Hongbo saw a vine-like spiritual herb on a stall. According to records, this herb was already extinct, but he never expected it to appear on this stall after thousands of years.

This is a seventh-tier Tiger Roar Vine. If you roast its leaves with fire, it will create a mist that sounds like a giant tiger roaring, and the roar will echo in your mind.

But most importantly, there is definitely an eighth-order spirit gold mine shallowly buried beneath the Tiger Roaring Vine. It is precisely because of the existence of this spirit gold mine that the Tiger Roaring Vine has the conditions to survive.

The stall owner was a Foundation Establishment Level 7 cultivator. Yang Hongbo casually walked up to his stall, squatted down, and looked through the various spiritual herbs on it.

"What kind of elixir is this? What are its effects?" Yang Hongbo picked up the Tiger Roar Vine.

Although Yang Hongbo's attire wasn't particularly glamorous, the subtle but palpable pressure emanating from him still made lower-level cultivators feel uneasy.

"My lord, this is a fourth-tier Autumn Sun Vine, an auxiliary ingredient for the fourth-tier elixir, Huayang Pill. You only need to pay two thousand low-grade spirit stones for it!"

The price difference between fourth-tier and seventh-tier spiritual herbs is tens of thousands of times. Moreover, this is a spiritual herb that has been extinct for thousands of years, so it would not be unreasonable for the price to double again.

The actual value of this Tiger Roar Vine is over a hundred top-grade spirit stones, which is one hundred million low-grade spirit stones. Since he doesn't recognize its value, then he's just unlucky.

Yang Hongbo took out twenty mid-grade spirit stones to trade for the spiritual herb, then casually asked, "Do you have any more of this kind of spiritual herb? If you only have one, it might not be enough!"

"My lord, I searched the entire area for dozens of miles and only found this one plant."

"Only one? Sigh! Perhaps this is fate!" He pretended to turn around and leave, but after taking two steps, he turned back.

"Where was this medicinal herb picked? Could you tell me? I can pay an extra thousand low-grade spirit stones!"

The stall owner thought for a moment. Since he had already searched the entire area and this was the only spiritual herb he had found, he figured it wouldn't hurt to tell the other party. So, after receiving a thousand spirit stones, he told the other party the location where the spiritual herb was picked.

It was more than a million miles away from Qingmang City, located in the north-south direction. It was a very desolate region, covering an area of ​​twenty to thirty thousand miles in circumference.

Around the small valley where the Tiger Roaring Vine was located, on several small hills, there were some weeds and low thorn bushes growing sparsely. There were no trees here, and apart from the Tiger Roaring Vine, there was not a single weed.

Having obtained the address, Yang Hongbo didn't rush to dig for the spirit gold mine. Instead, he leisurely followed behind the ladies, enjoying their excited expressions as they discovered some rare spiritual medicine.

After strolling around for half a day, the ladies had purchased the medicinal herbs they needed, and then everyone returned to their families.

Upon returning to his clan, Yang Hongbo immediately summoned over fifty idle members of the Golden Core and Foundation Establishment stages. Their ages ranged from nearly two hundred to seventeen or eighteen, with the older members being mostly from his grandfather's generation. If it weren't for the pills provided by Yang Hongbo that enabled them to advance to the Golden Core stage, they would be buried in the ground by now.

Yang Hongbo didn't say much, he simply put them into his secret space and flew towards the spirit gold mine.

At the peak of the Nascent Soul stage, Yang Hongbo's speed was quite fast. Soon, he arrived at the desolate place and saw the small valley that was now barren of vegetation.

The people in the secret realm were released, and they were all bewildered when they saw the desolation of the place.

"Clan leader, what are we doing here?" This was Yang Hongbo's twenty-first cousin, who was currently at the seventh level of the Golden Core stage.

"Haha, I have some good news for you. There's an eighth-tier spirit gold mine underground here. I've explored it, and the entire valley is filled with this kind of ore beneath the surface."

"Now, our task is to mine this spirit gold mine. Everyone only needs to work hard for five days. Alright, let's begin!"

So, with everyone working together and using their magic, a three-foot-thick layer of topsoil in the valley was scraped away, revealing fist-sized, shiny black metal ores underneath.

These ores are still slowly absorbing the spiritual energy in the air, which is why this place is so desolate.

Although each ore is small, it is very heavy; a fist-sized one can weigh over a thousand kilograms.

After digging a few more meters down from one spot, they concluded that the Spirit Gold Mine was about two meters thick.

Everyone immediately began a vigorous excavation operation.

"We dig and dig in the little valley, and find tiny ore, which we secretly spend!"

Five days later, the entire valley was turned upside down. In this small valley with a diameter of over 10,000 meters, one million tons of eighth-grade spirit gold ore were excavated. Among them was a spirit gold essence, the size of two human heads and weighing over 100,000 jin. This was much heavier than Sun Wukong's golden cudgel in his previous life.

Yang Hongbo put all the spirit gold ore he had dug into the secret realm space. Instantly, his system points began to surge again. The essence alone contributed 500 billion points, and the rest of the spirit gold ore contributed more than 700 billion points.

Yang Hongbo then returned everyone to the secret realm space and flew towards Qingmang City. During the flight, he couldn't resist checking his system points; they were already over two hundred billion.

The system has a super lottery that requires 100 billion points. Since we have more than 2 trillion points, drawing 1 trillion points shouldn't be too much, right?

The lucky draw began, and the prize wheel started spinning rapidly. This amazing lucky draw even lacked the "thank you for your patronage" message!

"Congratulations, host! You have obtained two peak Tribulation Transcending puppets, two ten-thousand-year cultivation cards, one Chaos Spiritual Treasure, the Human Emperor Bell, three trillion top-grade spirit stones, one copy of the Chaos Heaven-Mending Palm technique, and one copy of the Soaring Cloud Ethereal Technique!"

Puppet, cultivation card, and spirit stone are self-explanatory. The Human Emperor Bell is a super defensive spiritual treasure, the Chaos Mending Palm is a palm technique, and the Soaring Cloud Ethereal Technique is a lightness skill.

With two puppets at the peak of the Tribulation Transcending stage, the Yang family felt no fear even if people from the Holy Sects of the Central Region of the Human Emperor Continent came.