He has been reincarnated through countless worlds, adorned with billions of mythological terms!

Tieshan, of course, couldn't understand any of this.

He could only feel that Yun Yi's body temperature was very stable and his breathing was very even, unlike the fragile state of a newborn child.

This slightly cooled the burning anger that had been raging in his heart ever since he saw the leader's corpse.

The convoy was hidden in the underground parking lot of an abandoned shopping mall three blocks away.

Tieshan led Yunyi through streets riddled with bomb craters, around a half-collapsed overpass, through a makeshift defensive line made of barbed wire and sandbags, and through a winding sewer before finally stopping in front of a rusty iron gate.

Behind the iron gate lies the Thorn Sanctuary.

Tieshan knocked on the door rhythmically a few times.

"Open the door, it's me."

A small window was opened in the door, and a pair of eyes peeked through the crack.

The iron gate slid open to both sides with a loud rumble.

Behind the door was a huge underground space.

It was originally supposed to be an underground parking garage, with two high floors and an area the size of two or three football fields.

Cement pillars stand tall, electrical wires and light tubes hang from the ceiling, and the walls are covered with repair marks—bullet holes have been filled with cement, and cracks have been welded shut with steel plates.

The ground was rough but clean, without dust or litter.

The air was filled with the smells of engine oil, sweat, rust, and a faint herbal scent.

At the end of the light, there were countless simple cubicles made of canvas, wooden planks and corrugated steel plates.

There were many people coming and going in the corridor, including the elderly, women, and children.

Everyone's clothes were covered in patches, but their faces didn't show the despair of someone who could be killed at any moment.

When they saw Tieshan return, they all stopped in their tracks.

"Captain Tieshan is back!"

"Have you found the leader?"

"Captain, those Holy Church bastards behind us—"

Halfway through their conversation, they noticed what was on Tieshan's shoulder.

A baby.

Wrapped in a hastily tailored gray robe, with her eyes closed, she lay quietly on Tieshan's thick shoulders.

Its skin was very white, its hair was very black, and its breathing was very light; it was no different from any other ordinary baby.

Tieshan held him between his arms, his back slightly bent, his posture restrained and solemn, as if he were holding a precious treasure that might break at any moment, or as if he were holding a sword that had not yet been drawn.

Everyone fell silent.

Tieshan gently placed Yunyi on a table.

That was the long table used for meetings at the shelter, made up of three old desks pushed together, with a battle map covered in red and blue markings on it.

Yun Yi stood on the table, and was shorter than the people sitting around him.

He looked at the shelter members who had gathered around him, remained silent for a moment, and then spoke.

"My name is Yun Yi."

The sound wasn't loud, but in the quiet underground space, everyone could hear it clearly.

A baby standing on a table talking should have been a funny sight.

But no one there laughed.

They had all just heard Tieshan's report—the leader was dead, killed in the Holy Church's incinerator.

This baby crawled out of her corpse's belly and killed five cultists in the blink of an eye.

No one thought there was anything wrong with a baby standing on a table and talking.

A savior, well, he's a bit different, isn't that normal?

"I regret what happened to my mother." Yun Yi's voice remained calm, without any deliberate sentimentality or feigned heaviness. "But now that I'm here, I will save this world."

Tieshan stood to the side, his fists clenched.

A certain light shone in the eyes of those around them.

"I've said everything that needed to be said."

"From this moment forward, I will take over the Thorn Sanctuary."

"Tieshan, you are my deputy. You will continue to manage the daily affairs. If you can't solve a problem, come to me."

"Everyone else should do their job: patrol, farm, or train."

He paused for a moment.

"I will give you cultivation techniques to make you stronger so that you won't perish in the dangers ahead."

This is not alarmist.

Nine level-three privileged individuals, a target of one hundred million points, and those evil gods—the chessboard is set up, waiting for the players to make their moves.

He must accumulate enough strength and confidence before that happens.

……

ten years.

For a city, ten years is nothing more than adding a few more marks of wind and sand to the bricks of its walls.

But for those who rise from the ruins, ten years is enough for a group of refugees who had been hiding to become the most feared force in this wasteland.

The name Thorn Sanctuary has long been abandoned.

What stands on this land today is a colossal city built of steel, concrete, and countless remains of true bishops—Yodu.

The city wall is thirty meters high and entirely black, with an energy reactor embedded in it, which was taken from the stronghold of the True Bishop.

There are three lines of defense, one inside and one outside, each line filled with captured automatic defensive turrets.

Every hundred meters along the top of the city wall, there is a watchtower. Instead of flags, hanging on the top of the towers are eerie green lamps that burn eternally—ghost fire lamps personally crafted by Yun Yi, fueled by the residual energy released from the Yin ghosts within the domain.

The lights swayed in the night wind, looking from afar like countless indifferent eyes looking down from the high walls at the wasteland below.

This is the origin of the name Youdu.

People outside say that the city is a ghost town, inhabited by man-eating demons, and anyone who dares to approach it will be dragged into the city walls and never be reincarnated.

In response, the residents of Youdu said: Yes, yes, we are man-eating demons, please don't come, or we'll have to arrange accommodation for you.

As for the true appearance of Youdu, only the people who live here know.

The city is planned in a neat and orderly manner.

The straight main road is wide enough for four armored vehicles to drive side by side. On both sides are uniform three-story concrete buildings with gray-white anti-corrosion paint on the exterior walls and solar panels and energy collectors on the roof.

Residential area, training area, workshop area, storage area—each area is clearly divided by different colored signs, making it more rational than the planning of some cities in the old days.

In the city center square stands a stone tablet, without a statue, bearing only a line of text—the words Yun Yi spoke at that long table ten years ago:

"Now that I'm here, I will save this world."

Every day, new residents gather around to look at the stone tablet.

The old people pointed to the words and said to the young people: "See? This is what the city lord said on the day he was born."

Yes, that was the day I crawled out of a dead person's stomach.

Young people usually look skeptical, only to be slapped on the back of the head by the old man: You don't believe me?

If you don't believe me, go ask Lord Tieshan. He saw it with his own eyes; the city lord wasn't even wearing pants that day.

The population of Youdu has exceeded 80,000, with combat personnel accounting for nearly 30%.

Twenty-four thousand warriors would be a force capable of crushing anything in this wasteland.

The core of this power is the body-refining technique that Yun Yi began promoting ten years ago—the "Divine Demon Body Refining Technique".

To be precise, it is version 4.0 of "The Divine Demon Body Refining Technique".

The first version was actually "Divine Skill Body Refinement".

He would then make slight modifications to each subsequent world.

The current version is the final result he deduced in the real world using twelve Enlightenment Leaves.

The cultivation method was simplified into nine levels, corresponding to the nine realms of the body refining system. The conditions for advancement, methods for breaking through bottlenecks, and routes for the circulation of qi and blood for each level were clearly written—the kind of method that anyone could master by simply following the instructions.