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

After leaving Anxi City, Yang Hongbo continued flying forward, encountering many cities of varying sizes along the way. Each time they flew over a city, he would have Yang Tian use his divine sense to investigate what good things were inside.

Although it's extremely impolite to use one's divine sense to probe others indiscriminately, what can you do when Yang Tian is at the peak of the Tribulation Transcending stage? You have a problem with that? Keep it to yourself!

There were even high-level cultivators blocking the road and robbing people. It's really the world going to the dogs. Even those in the Void Realm have to resort to robbery to make a living. Yang Hongbo was very merciful and told Yang Tian to scatter the ashes of the other party so that people wouldn't know that such a powerful person had to resort to robbery and embarrass high-level cultivators.

On this day, a giant city appeared in front of Yang Hongbo and Yang Tian. After exploring it, Yang Tian estimated that it had about fifty to sixty million people. The city lord was a late-stage Saint Emperor of the Void Realm, and there were also four early-stage Void Realm cultivators in the city, who seemed to be the ancestors of four families.

This was the second large city with tens of millions of people that Yang Hongbo and his companion encountered on their journey. Once inside, the city was quite lively, with teahouses, restaurants, and other high-end consumption venues for disseminating and receiving information from all directions.

Yang Hongbo still led Yang Tian into a teahouse, where they sat down at a small square table, ordered tea and snacks, and listened to the gossip circulating in the teahouse.

"Hey, did you hear? The Xuanfeng Canyon secret realm is opening again next year!"

"Is that the secret realm that opens only once every hundred years?"

"That shouldn't be considered a secret realm; it's just a small world where indigenous people live, and they're quite powerful!"

"When the secret realm opened last time, some people saw natives at the Mahayana Realm inside. It was only because the senior did not kill them that they were able to survive. Otherwise, at least 70% or 80% of the people who entered the secret realm that time would have been wiped out."

"Come on, what do you mean by 70% or 80%? Every time someone enters that secret realm, half of them die. Just because others don't kill them doesn't mean that those who go in won't kill each other."

"That's right. There are so many good things in the secret realm, and there are no restrictions on the number of people or their cultivation level entering. I heard that once a few Foundation Establishment stage kids even sneaked in, and one of them came out later."

"Your information is too outdated. He's not a little kid anymore. Since obtaining the spiritual medicine from the secret realm, he's cultivated to the Void Realm in three hundred years!"

This news left everyone present speechless with amazement; it was truly...

The world is out of my generation, and the years are reminded as soon as I enter the world.

Imperial ambitions and great achievements are discussed in jest; nothing beats a life of blissful intoxication.

Sword in hand, mounted on horseback, unleashing a rain of ghosts; white bones piled high, birds startled into flight.

Worldly affairs are like tides, and people are like water; it's a pity that so few return from the world of martial arts.

—Wong Jim, *Life and the Jianghu*

Then someone else said, "I heard that the four great sects will have elder-level cultivators leading the way into the secret realm this time. I wonder if it's true."

"It should be true. Ever since the entrance to this secret realm was discovered a thousand years ago, everyone who enters has brought out many high-level spiritual herbs and medicines. Just going in and making it through once is a huge win!"

"Then why don't they send people to seal off the entrance to this secret realm and prevent others from entering?"

"It's probably because it's a small world inside, and no one who's entered in the last thousand years has been able to fully explore it. They were also afraid that if only their own people went in and died, it would be difficult to explain to their disciples!"

"Let's team up this time, whoever wants to go in."

"Hey, are you going to your death? You're just a mid-stage Void Returning Realm cultivator. Even I, a late-stage Void Cave Realm cultivator, don't want to go. You dare to go?"

"A person should have ideals; what's the difference between someone without ideals and a salted fish?"

"Heh heh, you're just a salted fish in the Void Returning Realm. No matter how much you jump around, you're still just a salted fish. Tell me yourself, you've been cultivating for over two thousand years, and you've only reached the mid-stage of the Void Returning Realm. Instead of just lying low, you still want to have any ambitions?"

"Hahaha," the people around him laughed, making the idealistic salted fish feel embarrassed.

Yang Hongbo and Yang Tian exchanged a glance, both sensing a hint of interest in each other's eyes. Yang Hongbo also noticed that Yang Tian's puppet was becoming more and more human-like; could it be that the system had equipped the puppet with an intelligent accessory?

In preparation for the opening of this secret realm, Yang Hongbo decided to further improve his cultivation. So he took Yang Tianfei out of the city called Tianyou and searched for a monster forest covering tens of thousands of miles away.

At the summit of a mountain, Yang Tian unleashed his aura, causing all the demonic beasts to flee for thousands of miles in terror. Yang Hongbo purchased a Void Clarity Pill from the system and, after consuming it, initiated a breakthrough.

Time flies, and more than half a year has passed in the blink of an eye. On this day, thunderclouds rolled across the sky, covering an area of ​​tens of thousands of miles.

Powerful bolts of lightning struck down towards Yang Hongbo, but Yang Tian remained unharmed while hovering in the air, because he was not human and had no aura.

Yang Hongbo endured eighty-one tribulation lightning strikes. Although his bones and muscles were cracked from the blows, he laughed heartily. This was because when his inner demons attacked, he gave that guy from his past life, whom he wanted to beat up but dared not, a good beating. It was truly gratifying!

After the thunderclouds dissipated, strange phenomena appeared in the sky, and spiritual energy poured down. Nourished by the spiritual energy, Yang Hongbo's damaged body began to repair itself automatically and was soon completely healed.

"Congratulations, Master, on breaking through to the Void Realm!"

"Haha, that's nothing! Compared to you, I'm nowhere near as good!"

Yang Hongbo took out two 10,000-year cultivation cards from the system, crushed them, and instantly, his spiritual power surged to the peak of the Void Realm. Now, he had finally used up all the cultivation cards he had drawn from the lottery system.

It only took me a little over twenty years to go from Foundation Establishment to the peak of the Void Realm, and I'm only a little over a hundred years old now. I have an inexhaustible lifespan! Thinking about the super long lifespan of 100,000 years for those in the Void Realm, I'm really embarrassed! I'm just a little kid!

The two returned to Tianyou City. The opening time of the secret realm was getting closer and closer, and there were more and more cultivators in the city. Finally, they saw that the Void Returner was no better than a dog, and Kongming was just walking around.

Due to the surge in population in Tianyou City, some cultivators had already gone to Xuanfeng Valley to guard it. Yang Hongbo didn't care, since there was still more than a month left and he had plenty of spirit stones. He found a magnificent hotel to stay in and waited for the secret realm to open.

Finally, the day arrived when the secret realm opened. Yang Hongbo and Yang Tianfei arrived at Xuanfeng Valley, where more than a million cultivators had gathered. Most of them were at the Void Realm and the Sky Realm, and there were also more than a dozen Mahayana cultivators.

"Those eight peak Mahayana cultivators in front are the elders of the four great holy sects, and there are several Mahayana cultivators who are the ancestors of cultivation families. These Mahayana cultivators alone have brought more than 300,000 disciples!"

"Hehe, I wonder how many of those who went in this time will come back alive?" The scattered cultivators and clan cultivators around were whispering among themselves!