After Reincarnating as a Useless but Beautiful City Lord

Demon Realm.

"The land is barren, the people destitute, order nonexistent, lives hanging by a thread, cultivation weak, tempers violent, and the people suffering so badly they wish he would just die."

"Rumor has it he maintains his position as city lord through his good looks."

Gu Yibai's face remained expressionless. All right, his heart was already suffocating. He was too weak.

The great clans within the city wielded more power than the city lord, doing their 'good deeds' without leaving their names behind.

The identity he'd traded for belonged to a puppet city lord, a scapegoat for others' misdeeds, and a weak, ill-tempered pretty boy to boot...

Fortunately, he had a secret he couldn't tell anyone.

In his first life, he was a modern man. In his second, he came here in a nonhuman form: an undead corpse sealed in a coffin for a thousand years. Apparently, if everyone found out he had emerged, they'd all want to get their hands on him... Ah, that is, kill him and take his place.

But news of the undead corpse's emergence had already spread. The major powers of the Demon Realm, Mortal Realm, and Divine Realm were turning the world upside down to find him.

Equally weak, Gu Yibai thought, "I have to be careful to conceal my identity, at least until I grow strong."

Armed with the supreme art of karma, which could alter people's fates and entangle the lives of all, Gu Yibai diligently managed the city: strengthening his cultivation, facing powerful foes, expanding his territory, strengthening his cultivation further, defeating powerful enemies, expanding his territory again, recruiting high-level cultivators... and repeating the cycle.

Yet Gu Yibai was choosy. The higher a cultivator's cultivation, the more tragic their fate, and the greater their talent and potential, the better. That would help him grow stronger.

He never expected the Demon Realm to be full of such talented, tragic people. One would show up at every turn, and even when he stood still, they would come crashing into him. Talented people from the Divine and Mortal Realms also came running to make trouble for him.

Before long, he was surrounded by beasts and powerful, tragic talents.

When the enemy army breached the city,

they found a towering, prosperous city filled with circling crows, where vultures roamed alongside monsters. The endless throngs of citizens gazed with reverence and fervor at a godlike, celestial man, with an aura as demonic as his appearance was divine, whom the monsters themselves worshipfully surrounded.

Gu Yibai's expression was cold. In his blood-red eyes, amid mountains of corpses and rivers of blood, lingered the sorrow of countless ages.

The crowd heard him say, "There is no good or evil in the body. Only the heart beneath it can become a vessel for entering the world."

The monster city lord was actually teaching people about good and evil. This was absurd!

Yet his voice rang clear as jade striking stone. Gentle, it flowed like a babbling stream and soothed the listener; rousing, it became a devil's temptation. The citizens and monsters below the stage were all entranced.

Every invader, without exception, became a stepping stone on his path to godhood. Wherever the army he led marched, all living things fell silent in fear.

Gu Yibai wiped away every mark of shame left by the original owner's past, and grew so powerful that no one could destroy him.

Let the army of my Corpse-Driving City march fearlessly through the darkness!

-- Gu Yibai

Reader's Guide: 1. No romance.

2. A fallen city rises.

3. Dark redemption [Proceed with caution]

4. Updates at 10:00 p.m. daily. New chapters on Saturdays, no updates on Mondays.

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Theme: Strengthen yourself