Chapter 2: The Pure White Knight's Greatsword

  A line of hundreds of people surged forward towards the valley where the giant rock demon was, except for Marlon Baron and his few confidants, everyone else were like Bai Cangdong, temporarily caught cannon fodder.

  The mountain valley was completely barren, without a single blade of grass. Everywhere were dark-colored rocks, and the valley was filled with two-meter-tall small rock demons that were entirely made up of rocks. A giant rock demon over five meters tall sat on top of a massive boulder, looking like it was asleep.

  "You, you, you... and you... charge into the valley... kill those little rock demons." Baron Malorne shouted loudly, pointing at a group of cannon fodder.

  Bai Cang Dong had no choice but to follow the crowd rushing towards the valley, most of these people were unarmed, a few had one or two armed men, but they were all useless trash with no combat power, how could they possibly defeat those incredibly strong Xiao Yan Mo.

  "What's the difference between rushing over and sending ourselves to death?" Bai Cangdong saw that a group of people were about to rush in front of Xiao Yanmo, and he spotted a narrow rock crevice beside him. His eyes flickered, and without any hesitation, he let out a miserable cry and rolled into the crevice.

  If it weren't for fear of overacting, Bai Cangdong really wanted to shout: "I'm dead!"

  Someone had already rushed to the front of Xiao Yan Mo, and everyone's eyeballs were attracted by the battle. No one noticed Bai Cang Dong rolling to the side and pretending to be dead. Under the shout of Marquis Ma Long, a group of people launched an intense battle with Xiao Yan Mo.

  The small rock demons' bodies were hard as steel, with boundless strength. Ordinary people without arms couldn't be their opponents. Several people surrounded a single small rock demon but still couldn't defeat it. In no time at all, the cannon fodder was killed by the small rock demons and fled in disarray. Everywhere there were severed limbs and broken arms, yet only two or three of the small rock demons had died.

  "What a useless piece of trash." Baron Malon cursed and ordered his trusted men to prepare for battle.

  Those people summoned their own armed forces, all of whom had armor and weapons. Although they were not uniform in appearance, they were much better than those cannon fodders.

  Those people rushed to slaughter the Small Rock Demons, and indeed they were much stronger than the Cannon Fodders. Several cannon fodders couldn't even handle one Small Rock Demon, while those people didn't take much time, each of them beheaded at least one Small Rock Demon.

  Baron Malakai's expression turned relieved, still watching from the side without any intention of intervening.

  "Boom!" A large number of small rock demons were killed, which enraged the giant rock demon. It stood up and rushed towards the crowd with a loud roar. Due to its enormous size, every step it took caused the valley to shake violently.

  "Ah!" A massive fist came crashing down, and one person tried to use their own armed shield to resist, but ended up being smashed into pieces along with the shield, blood splattering everywhere.

  "Damn it." Marlon, the baron, was heartbroken. It would have been fine if his trusted aide had just died, but the armor on his body was something he had managed to obtain with great difficulty, and now it was ruined.

  No longer a spectator, Baron Malakai summoned his own armor, shining like gold plate mail, flame-embroidered gauntlets, and a pure white two-handed greatsword, even the boots were a piece of black metal armor.

  "Kill!" Baron Malakai leapt into the air, his massive greatsword flashing in the dim light as he brought it down in a powerful arc, cleaving the small Rock Golem before him in two with a single, swift stroke.

  The strength of the martial arts made Bai Cangdong, who was pretending to be dead on the side, extremely envious.

  "You take care of those small Rock Golems, I'll handle the big one." Baron Malakai charged towards the giant Rock Golem, his large sword flashing quickly as he struck, slicing off chunks of rock from its body.

  As Marlon Baron was entangled by the giant rock demon, others quickly slaughtered those small rock demons and soon cleared them out. The small rock demons left behind a lot of life plates, but no one paid attention to them at this time, as everyone ran over to help Marlon Baron.

  A crowd of people attacked the giant rock monster for half a day, cutting off many rock fragments from its body, but the giant rock monster still fiercely swung its huge fists at the crowd, showing no signs of falling.

  "Baron, something seems off. The Boulder Giant's body appears to be self-repairing. Look at the spot where we cut off its rocks earlier - it's already restored to its original state. I've never heard of a Boulder Giant having this ability before?" one of his trusted men said suspiciously.

  "The devil knows why the Boulder Giant has this ability, but no matter what, I must kill it and get its armor. Otherwise, I'll lose face in front of the other barons." Baron Marlon roared: "You guys surround the Boulder Giant and hold it down, I'll go up and behead it, see how it recovers then!"

  Several confidants had bitter faces, usually hugging the thighs of Marquis Malong, bullying men and women, but now it's their turn to be cannon fodder.

  They didn't dare disobey Marlon's orders, so several trusted followers gritted their teeth and charged forward, surrounding the Boulder Giant and preventing it from moving smoothly.

  The giant devil was enraged, bent down and a pair of huge fists came crashing down, instantly crushing the two people in front to death.

  "It's now." Baron Malakai took advantage of the giant rock demon's bent waist and low head, instantly jumping high, his pure white double-handed great sword slashing heavily on the giant rock demon's neck.

  Crack!

  The skull of the giant rock demon was chopped off directly and smashed onto the ground, smashing a hole in the rocky floor.

  "Hahahaha!" Baron Malakai burst out laughing, his hands on the hilts of his swords.

  Boom!

  Before Baron Malakai could finish laughing, the headless golem suddenly swung its massive fists and slammed them into his skull, completely unguarded. Baron Malakai's head was instantly crushed, and even his armor was shattered.

  The giant rock demon that had its head cut off suddenly burst into flames, burning everything in its path, including rocks. The remaining people didn't even have time to wait for the giant rock demon to make a move before they were burned to death by the flames.

  The headless giant rock demon dragged a body of flames back into the depths of the valley, and Bai Cangdong, who had narrowly escaped by hiding in a rocky pit, dared to crawl out. Just as he was about to leave the valley immediately, he suddenly saw Marquis Malakar's pure white two-handed greatsword lying nearby. All other equipment had been destroyed by the giant rock demon, but this two-handed sword remained intact and undamaged.

  Bai Cang rushed eastward with his giant sword in hand and fled the valley without looking back.

  "The pure white knight's greatsword, a greatsword with the unyielding conviction of a knight, cannot be destroyed." Returning to his own home, Bai Cangdong almost couldn't help but let out a cheer. Judging from the markings on the sword, this was a baron-level equipment, its value immeasurable.

  "Rocky Brother is so cool." Bai Cangdong repeatedly played with the big sword, reluctant to put it away, and couldn't make up his mind for a while, whether to take it to sell and exchange for life points or keep it for himself.

  "The style of this great sword is too eye-catching, I'm afraid many people know it belongs to Baron Malon. If I take it out to sell and am considered the killer of Baron Malon, it would be bad. It's better to keep it for myself." Bai Cangdong found a reason to keep the pure white knight's double-handed sword.

  Sheathing the great sword, Bai Cangdong summoned out a scabbard and carefully examined the painful sword techniques on it. The more he looked at it, the more entranced he became. This was an extremely exquisite sword technique that required extremely high control power. Only when one could reach the realm of dancing on the tip of the knife could this sword technique be considered as having entered the gate.

  Moreover, this knife method also comes with a diagram of the distribution of human body pain points. When using this knife method, it does not attack the vital parts of the person, but instead attacks these painful areas, making people unbearable and unable to control themselves. Originally having 100% strength, in the end only 20-30% can be exerted.

  "It's indeed a terrifying sword technique, but this is the world of Light Rank, unlike the Dark Rank where killing one's own kind can gain life points. The Painful Sword Technique only has a pain weakness distribution map for humans, but not for the Undead, which clearly makes it a martial skill from the Dark Rank." Bai Cangdong said with some regret.

  "It can't be helped, the undead also have pain and other sensations. Since there's no diagram of their pain points in the sword technique, I'll just have to experiment and find them myself." Bai Cangdong didn't want to give up on a martial skill he had finally obtained, despite its flaws.

  Practicing sword techniques is a very tedious thing, especially for this kind of sword technique that requires extremely high control, it needs a lot of time to practice repeatedly.

  What others considered a painful thing, Bai Cangdong took it as a pleasure, every day except for eating, drinking and excretion, almost all the time was spent practicing knife skills with a wooden knife, with only a very short time for rest and sleep.

  At first, progress was rapid, but after half a month, no matter how hard Bai Canghai practiced, his control over the knife technique did not improve.

  Bai Cangdong knew that he had reached a bottleneck and if there wasn't a special method, continuing to cultivate in this way wouldn't lead to any major breakthroughs.

  Bai Cangdong thought for a long time and suddenly remembered the pure white knight's great sword that he had put away.

  "When I practice with a light wooden sword, control is naturally easy. If I were to practice with the heavy White Knight's greatsword, the difficulty would increase greatly. But if I can master controlling the White Knight's greatsword like I do with the wooden sword, then when I use a light sword again, my control will naturally become even stronger."

  Wanting to do it, he threw away his wooden sword and picked up a pure white knight's greatsword to practice the painful knife technique.

  The difficulty was greater than he had imagined, the painful knife method was a single-handed sword, while the pure white knight's greatsword was a two-handed greatsword, and it was even heavier than ordinary two-handed greatswords. Practicing the painful knife method with such a greatsword was already very difficult just to lift the greatsword with one hand.

  In the first few days, Bai Cangdong only held the big sword with one hand every day and didn't even have the strength to swing it. When his right hand couldn't hold on, he switched to his left hand, and when his left hand couldn't hold on, he switched back to his right hand. After repeating this exercise for almost half a month, he could barely swing the big sword for a while, but at this point, it was still not possible to use any sword techniques.

  "Open the door! Open the door!" The urgent knocking and impatient shouting woke up Bai Cangdong, who had been practicing all day and was just falling asleep.

  Upon hearing that detestable voice, Bai Cangdong knew it was time for him to pay his protection fees today.

  Dorlen Castle belongs to Count Dorlen. To live in Dorlen Castle, one must pay a certain amount of life force to Count Dorlen every month.