Niu Dachun entered the secret room and saw that the Chinese coins inside were piled up like small mountains.

Niu Dachun had seen piles and piles of Huaxia coins before, but this was the first time he had ever seen a pile of Huaxia coins as tall as a person.

Moreover, there was more than one such "hill". Niu Dachun quickly estimated that there were about ten "hills".

Looking at the endless mountains of money before him, Niu Dachun fell silent, utterly shocked. He experienced for the first time what it felt like to be surrounded by the pervasive scent of money.

At this moment, Niu Dachun truly understood the weight of Zhen Tianlong's words: the Yunnan Chamber of Commerce was a bloodsucker of Cangning County.

However, Niu Dachun had no interest in the money in front of him; he was more interested in the spiritual energy hidden behind it.

The perceptive Niu Dachun had already sensed the faint aura of spiritual energy permeating the air.

The strong smell of money in the secret room made the spiritual energy appear and disappear.

Niu Dachun crossed the "Mountain of Money" and arrived in front of a thick metal door, next to which was a combination lock.

Through X-ray vision, Niu Dachun discovered that what he wanted was behind this metal door.

Upon observation, the metal door is approximately 40 centimeters thick, almost meeting the standard for bank vault doors.

However, this metal door was like a paper door in front of Niu Dachun.

Niu Dachun grabbed the metal doorknob and began to concentrate his spiritual energy, circulating the energy within his body. Golden light gradually gathered in Niu Dachun's hand.

Niu Dachun let out a cold shout.

"open!!!"

With a loud bang, the metal door was forcibly yanked open by Niu Dachun.

Upon seeing the treasures in Zhao Nantian's vault, Niu Dachun finally understood why Chinese currency could only be kept outside.

Compared to the treasures inside the vault, the Chinese currency outside the vault was practically a pile of worthless paper.

All I saw was...

The vault gleamed with a dazzling yellow light, stacks of gold bars piled neatly together, radiating an alluring glow. In this world, gold is the only hard currency; money is merely a pile of paper. And now, even more absurdly, money has become an even less valuable number.

Niu Dachun picked up a gold brick and weighed it in his hand; the gold brick weighed a full pound.

Looking at the piles of gold bricks in front of him, Niu Dachun couldn't help but swallow hard, and once again realized that the weight of Zhen Tianlong's words was increasing.

Niu Dachun thought to himself, if all the gold bricks in the vault and the Chinese currency outside the vault were distributed to the people of Cangning County, how much money would each person and each household receive?

I can't even imagine it, I simply can't bear to think about it.

However, Niu Dachun was soon drawn to a row of exquisite boxes hidden behind the gold bricks; there were 25 boxes in total.

Upon seeing the 25 boxes, Niu Dachun was overjoyed.

Niu Dachun excitedly opened the 25 boxes. The first 15 boxes contained expensive Chinese medicinal herbs, including Ganoderma lucidum, cordyceps, and ginseng, with ginseng being the most abundant. Moreover, Zhao Nantian alone owned five century-old ginseng roots.

Although the other ginsengs were only a few decades old, Niu Dachun could still sense that they contained a certain amount of spiritual energy.

Niu Dachun opened the remaining 10 boxes, which were almost entirely filled with imperial green jade imbued with spiritual energy. To his surprise, he also found a spirit stone there.

This was quite a haul for Niu Dachun, with a pile of ginseng and expensive Chinese herbs, jade, and spirit stones.

Niu Dachun never expected that Zhao Nantian, who was just a vice president of the Yunnan Chamber of Commerce, would have so many treasures hidden away.

Sure enough, those so-called tycoons who frequently appear in the public eye are nothing compared to the real tycoons who are often low-key and unassuming.

With a wave of his hand, Niu Dachun put all 25 boxes into his spatial storage and then left Zhao Nantian's house.

Not long after leaving Zhao Nantian's house, Niu Dachun couldn't wait to enter the space.

Looking at today's harvest, Niu Dachun smiled with satisfaction. He sat cross-legged and began to absorb spiritual energy.

Niu Dachun closed his eyes, focused his mind, inhaled and exhaled, and circulated the Xuan Yin Technique.

The spiritual energy attached to the ginseng and jade, as well as the spiritual energy on the spirit stone, began to transform into a golden stream of light, flowing through Niu Dachun's seven orifices and into his body.

Along Niu Dachun's meridians, the spiritual energy dispersed throughout his body, solidifying his foundation. Finally, all the spiritual energy settled in Niu Dachun's dantian.

If a cultivator were standing next to Niu Dachun, they would see golden ripples emanating from the outer edge of Niu Dachun's body, constantly spreading outwards, and then turning into light particles that diffused in the space.

About ten minutes later, all the spiritual energy was absorbed by Niu Dachun.

Niu Dachun stopped the incantation and calmed his breathing. To his surprise, he had absorbed nearly a dozen ginseng roots this time without experiencing excessive yang fire in his body, which could lead to an imbalance of yin and yang.

During this cultivation session, Niu Dachun did not notice any significant changes within his body. However, he had a strong intuition that he was not far from the late Foundation Establishment stage, and might even be just one step away from it.

Thinking this, Niu Dachun continued to sit cross-legged and circulated the Xuan Yin Technique. Niu Dachun wanted to test whether he could reach the late stage of Foundation Establishment by relying on the weak spiritual energy in the space.

Niu Dachun calmly began cultivating in the space.

......

The backyard of Zhang Family Martial Arts School in Yunxi.

At this time, Zhang Family Martial Arts School had already been removed from the list of martial arts schools in Yunnan.

Zhang Daonian and Zhang Qing'er have almost finished packing their luggage.

Zhao Daonian sat on a stone bench in the courtyard, looking at the martial arts training ground he had painstakingly built up over ten years, his heart filled with countless emotions.

Back when the Zhang Family Martial Arts School was at its peak, this training ground was full of martial artists. Now, everyone has left, leaving only an empty training ground.

Zhang Daonian couldn't help but sigh repeatedly.

Sitting to the side, Zhang Qing'er also wore a helpless expression.

"Dad, is this the end for our Zhang Family Martial Arts School?" Zhang Qing'er sighed.

Zhang Daonian fell silent.

Although Niu Dachun promised to help him open a martial arts school in the village, opening a martial arts school in the village sounded like a joke.

Suddenly, a series of hurried footsteps sounded, and a strong killing intent instantly surged in the air.

"Is Zhang Daonian here?"

A voice came from the front yard...