Chapter One: The Sword Sheath

  In a plain white room, a young man stared at the sword case in front of him with an extremely strange expression.

  The scabbard is gray in color, square and flat like a wooden box, with arc-shaped patterns on the surface. Due to its age, it appears somewhat dull and old.

  In the world of light and darkness, this is a very ordinary armor, but its former master was by no means ordinary.

  The world of Guangyin Wu is divided into the Twelve Ranks of Light and the Twelve Ranks of Darkness, with one rank corresponding to one world, one rank corresponding to one king, and the twelve ranks being governed by an emperor.

  The former master of Jian Xia was Emperor Lie Canghai, the master of the Twelve Levels of Darkness. He was the lord of the city of Zangwu, and countless challengers fell under his sword, Zangshen. The armor left behind by those who lost filled the entire city, which is how Zangwu City got its name. As for the original name of the city, no one remembers it anymore.

  But now, Lǐ Cāng Hǎi's Burial God Sword is hanging in the great hall of the Light Emperor, becoming a glorious monument to the Light Emperor. Only this scabbard was left behind, passed from person to person until it reached Bái Cāng Dōng's hands.

  Heaven knows, Bai Cangdong was just a small figure living in the lowest level of the Twelve Ranks of Light, struggling for his life every day. He was only rescued by Lü Canghai on his way to fight against the Emperor of Light. Why did Lü Canghai send the sword box to him after his defeat and leave a message asking him to defeat the Emperor of Light? Only heaven knows.

  "Let me go defeat the Emperor of Light, I don't know if I'm crazy or Lian Cang Hai is crazy." Bai Cang Dong looked at the sword scabbard and lightly spat out two words: "Armament."

  The scabbard suddenly emitted a vast and ancient light, suspended in mid-air, transformed into a flowing light that shot into the body of Bai Cangdong, and then appeared on his back.

  Arms, for the people of the world of light and darkness, are a must-have for survival. From birth to twenty years old, humans here do not change in appearance, but only their life balance changes. Each person's life balance is displayed on the life mark above their heart position. When the countdown of life balance returns to zero, it is the time of their death.

  The only way to obtain life surplus is to kill the undead tribe that coexists with humans in the world of Guang'an, which sounds contradictory. How can the undead be killed? In fact, the undead can be killed, but they can revive on the altar as long as the altar is not destroyed, so they are called the undead.

  The human body is weak, even if it can be cultivated to strengthen the body with longevity techniques, it is still not a match for most of the undead. Only by relying on armed forces can they easily slaughter the undead.

  The ranking of the first stage of light, the first is the King of Light, followed by Gong, Hou, Bo, Zi, and Nan, and then the most ordinary soldiers.

  Dukes, Marquises, Earls, Viscounts and Barons all have titles, which can be seen in the ranking of martial prowess. Ordinary soldiers do not have titles, only a single character for "soldier" is displayed, followed by a name that only they themselves can see.

  Bai Cangdong started from the top of the martial power ranking and pulled down, but he didn't see his name among the dukes and marquises. He pulled again, but still didn't see it among the earls and viscounts. Even when he was in the most ordinary soldier rankings, Bai Cangdong's name only appeared after tens of billions of others.

  "It's really a scam, at least you're also the armed forces of the Dark Emperor, although it's just a sword sheath, at least it should make my military rank higher, not to mention promotion to duke or marquis, even making a viscount would be fine, but after all this time, there's no improvement at all." Bai Cangdong hid the sword sheath and looked at his life seal, which still had less than two years of life left.

  Bai Cangdong was a premature baby, born with congenital insufficiency, and had less than twenty years of life expectancy from birth. His parents passed away early, leaving him to struggle alone, fighting for his life every day.

  "Ah Dong, going to hunt down Xiao Dao Mo again?" White Cangdong had just walked out of the room when the neighboring youth loudly said this, his voice carrying a hint of mockery.

  Bai Cangdong lived in Dao Lun City, where there were many undead creatures called "Little Knife Devils" nearby. Although the Little Knife Devils were very weak and could be killed by ordinary people with just one knife, few people were willing to hunt them down. The main reason was that after killing a Little Knife Devil, the probability of obtaining life surplus was only about 1%.

  Another reason is that the actions of the small knife demons are extremely swift, and it's not easy to catch up with them. Therefore, many people do not want to hunt and kill the small knife demons, but instead go further away to hunt and kill those undead who have more remaining life.

  Bai Cangdong was nicknamed "Little Knife Demon Terminator" because he had been hunting Little Knife Demons for years. It wasn't that he didn't want to hunt those undead creatures that were easier to obtain life surplus from, but rather because he didn't have any good equipment and wasn't a match for those powerful undead creatures, so he could only take down Little Knife Demons.

  Outside the city, after walking not far, came to a piece of grassland as tall as one person. The small knife demon was hiding in the grass, and when someone passed by the grass, they would throw out their small knives. Although generally, they didn't have much accuracy, because the knives were too small, and couldn't kill anyone, but there was a kind of poison on the knives, after being stabbed, it would make people suffer for three hours, this was also one of the reasons why few people wanted to come and hunt the small knife demon.

  Known as the "Little Knife Devil Terminator", Bai Cangdong understood that if he wanted to hunt down Little Knife Devils, competing with them in speed was out of the question. The only way was to be better at hiding and more patient than they were.

  Like a black cat in the dark night, it quietly and silently slips into the grass, lurking in one place, its eyes searching around like a leopard, its ears standing upright, not missing any slight sound around.

  "Crack!"

  The moment he locked onto his target, Bai Cao's right hand swiftly flicked out, a steel needle shooting out in a beautiful straight line, heavily piercing the body of a small Knife Devil hiding in the grass and pinning it to the ground.

  The little knife devil let out a miserable cry, and its body suddenly turned into countless light spots that disappeared without a trace, leaving nothing on the ground.

  Helplessly, he licked his lips. Although he had long known that the Small Knife Demon was not so easy to leave behind a remaining life, yet every time he killed the Small Knife Demon, Bai Cangdong still held great expectations.

  He pulled out the steel thorn and lay in ambush again in the grass, and soon killed seven or eight small knife demons. Each time the steel thorn was a fatal blow, with an astonishing accuracy.

  "Life remaining!" After another Small Knife Demon was hunted down, the Small Knife Demon's body disappeared, but a light ruler was left on the ground with markings.

  Bai Cangdong touched the light meter with his hand, and the light meter instantly merged into his body. He felt that there was an additional life quota on his life imprint, and Bai Cangdong's mood improved a lot.

  The smallest unit of life balance is a tick. The remaining life balance left by the Small Knife Demon is usually one tick, and it will not exceed four ticks at most.

  Lying in ambush in the grass for a day, nearly a hundred small knife demons were killed, and eleven life quotas were obtained. Compared to before, today's luck seems not bad.

  "Ding Dong!"

  Bai Cangdong was just about to kill a few more Small Knife Demons before heading back to the city to eat something. Suddenly, one of the Death Returned Small Knife Demons that had been sent back to the altar left something on the ground.

  "Armed!" Bai Cangdong's eyes widened as he stared at the small knife on the ground that was less than a foot long.

  It's been several years since the White Tiger Eastern Hunt killed the Small Knife Demon, but I've never seen the Small Knife Demon drop equipment, nor have I ever heard anyone else mention getting equipment from killing it.

  Picked up the small knife, muttered a sentence "armed", that small knife suddenly shone brightly and then hid into Bai Cangdong's body, and some information was added to the life mark.

  "The Pain Knife causes the injured person to feel extreme pain for a period of time." Although it was only a very low-grade weapon, it still made Bai Cangdong extremely happy.

  This low-grade armor can be exchanged for half a month's worth of food expenses in White City.

  But before Bai Cangdong could rejoice for too long, the sword sheath that he had originally hidden suddenly floated out on its own and opened up, sucking in the painful dagger in an instant.

  The small knife disappeared, and the information on the sword scabbard originally had only two words "sword scabbard", but now there were three more words.

  "A broken scabbard!"

  No matter how much Bai Cangdong commanded the sword sheath, he didn't see the sword sheath spit out the painful knife, as if it had completely disappeared.

  On the sword scabbard, however, some words appeared. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a set of martial skills.

  "Painful Blade Technique: Wounding without killing, aching without dying, thousands of cuts and slashes, endless suffering......" Bai Cang was overjoyed, if there's anything more precious than martial arts in the world of light and darkness, it would undoubtedly be martial skills.

  The world of Guangya Wujie is a world with extremely distinct levels, where different titles come with different powers. The martial arts are something that ordinary soldiers without titles can hardly touch. Whenever an ordinary person obtains a martial art, they will cherish it as their life and secretly practice hard in the dark, hoping to rely on this martial art to get a better ranking in the martial power rankings, obtain a title, and become a superior being overnight.

  "You... that you... it's you... come here... Marlon Baron has something for you to do..." Bai Cangdong had just walked out of the grassy area, wanting to return to Dalun City, but was stopped by a group of over ten people.

  "Damn it!" Bai Cangdong cursed silently, but had to walk over and listen to the other's orders. Among the people in front of him was a baron, and in the world of light and darkness, being one rank higher meant that the other party held the power of life and death over you, and didn't need any reason at all to take your life.

  "What are your orders, Baron?" asked Bai Cangdong helplessly.

  "Marong will go to kill the giant rock demon, you all have to follow him and clear those small rock demons." Dog Leg shouted at the crowd with a false bravado.

  "It's really infuriating. We don't even have anyone to deal with the small Rock Demons, and yet we're being used as cannon fodder." Bai Cangdong cursed in his heart.

  Giant Rock Demon is very famous in the area of Kaido City, with a power level equivalent to that of a Baron. After being killed, it will take about a month or so to revive from the Undead Altar.

  Along with the revival of the giant rock demon, there was also a group of less than 100 small rock demons. Although each one was only at the soldier level, they were extremely hard-bodied and had boundless strength. Moreover, the small rock demons always acted in groups, making them not opponents that ordinary people could handle.

  Many barons like to hunt and kill the Boulder Golem, because when they die, they drop a full-body armor called "Boulder Golem's Hardness", which is a baron-level equipment with an astonishing hardness that can almost rival viscount-level armor.