Lin Fan

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Lin Fan (林凡)
Alias(es)	Ah Xuan
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Maoshan; Uncle Jiu's lineage
Occupation/Role	Daoist priest; Senior Disciple Brother
Status	Active
First Appearance	Chapter 1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Houtian Fifth Heaven	1	Initial documented realm after awakening the System; his Five Thunders Spell, Soul Suppressing Talisman, and Calming Heart Talisman are raised to Grand Perfection.
Houtian Seventh Heaven	5	Five Thunders Spell is optimized into Purple Heaven Divine Thunder, producing a celestial anomaly and driving successive breakthroughs.
Houtian Ninth Heaven	10	Breaks through the eighth and ninth layers while improving his talisman arts.
Xiantian Realm, First Layer	17	Reaches Xiantian after optimizing the Eye-Opening Technique into Heaven-Piercing Eyes; gains the ability to shape qi into attacks.
Xiantian Realm, Fourth Layer	25	Breaks through multiple layers through body refinement after learning the Body Refining Technique.
Xiantian Realm, Fifth Layer	32	Optimizes the Body Refining Technique into the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts and reaches Skin Refining Realm (Minor Accomplishment).
Xiantian Realm, Seventh Heaven	44	Breaks through after advancing Shattering Order and optimizing the Nether Sleep Array into Marquis Wu's Qimen Dunjia.

Background

Lin Fan is a transmigrator who spent eighteen years in the Age of Dharma's End with only slightly better talent than Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng. Before the System appeared, he was stuck at Houtian Fifth Heaven and considered himself merely decent rather than exceptional. 1 6

On his eighteenth birthday, he awakens a System that generates one Skill Point per second. It lets him rapidly upgrade Daoist arts and later optimize techniques with Merit Points, fundamentally changing his cultivation prospects. 1 3

He serves as Uncle Jiu's eldest disciple and is regarded by his peers as the Senior Disciple Brother. His explosive growth repeatedly shocks Uncle Jiu, Daoist Priest Four-Eyes, and other Maoshan practitioners. 3 6 17

Appearance

Lin Fan is a young Daoist with delicate yet sharp features, a sturdy build, and a heroic, upright bearing. 6 29

• Sharp brows and sword-like eyes. 29 41
• Often described as having a righteous aura and composed demeanor. 29 41
• His physique becomes notably tougher through the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts; at Skin Refining Realm, blades leave only temporary white marks on his skin. 32

Personality

Lin Fan is ambitious and openly eager to acquire more Daoist arts, Skill Points, and Merit Points. He habitually evaluates threats in terms of how they can strengthen him, but he does not abandon allies for personal gain. 17 23

He is calm under pressure, often acting with greater maturity than his age suggests. He remains composed when confronting demons, zombies, and hostile cultivators, and he frequently minimizes his own achievements after others praise him. 8 21 27

Lin Fan can also be cunning. He and Uncle Jiu manipulate Daoist Priest Four-Eyes into teaching him the Spirit Invocation Technique, while Lin Fan repeatedly conceals the System by attributing breakthroughs to dreams, ancestral masters, or possession. 6 22 24

Abilities & Skills

System

Lin Fan's System grants one Skill Point per second and allows him to upgrade learned techniques through the stages of Beginner, Minor Accomplishment, Major Accomplishment, and Grand Perfection. 1

• Uses Skill Points to raise Daoist arts directly. 1 17 24
• Uses Merit Points to optimize techniques into stronger or entirely new arts. 3 32 44
• Gains Merit Points by slaying supernatural threats, including demons, ghosts, zombies, and evil cultivators. 8 16 21 38
• His realm advances in conjunction with major technique upgrades and optimizations. 5 17 32 44

Purple Heaven Divine Thunder

An optimized evolution of the Five Thunders Spell. It is Lin Fan's foremost lightning art and has reached Grand Perfection. 5 12

• Initially manifests with a purple-lightning celestial anomaly. 5
• Can be manipulated more freely than ordinary summoned lightning once perfected. 13
• Kills the Flower Demon, Fox Spirit, Purple Zombie, and a Xiantian fifth-layer Feng Shui Master. 8 21 27
• Its power is amplified by Lin Fan's Peachwood Sword. 1 13

Soul Locking Evil Dispelling Talisman

An advanced talisman evolved from the Soul Suppressing Talisman. It can suppress ghosts and monsters rather than merely repel zombies. 10

• Forms a golden net covered in dense incantations. 16 24
• Captures or suppresses supernatural entities. 10 16
• Reaches Grand Perfection, producing a larger and more resilient net with tens of thousands of visible scriptures. 24

Heaven-Piercing Eyes

An optimized form of the Eye-Opening Technique combined with the Calming Heart Talisman's purification effect. 17

• Greatly enhances Lin Fan's senses and allows him to perceive hidden threats. 17
• Removes harmful effects and dispels obstructions such as Soul-Scattering Smoke and Chaos Spirit Mist. 20 48
• Detects the Prosperity Flower hidden beside Master Ren's bed. 13

Eight-Nine Arcane Arts

A body-refining Daoist Scripture obtained by optimizing the Body Refining Technique. 32

• Current recorded physique: Skin Refining Realm, Minor Accomplishment. 32 44
• Grants exceptional durability; ordinary sword strikes cannot break his skin. 32
• Enables him to fight zombies directly with punches and kicks. 38 41
• Its first three recorded stages are Skin Refining, Muscle Refining, and Tendon Refining; each has Minor Accomplishment, Major Accomplishment, and Grand Perfection. 32

Marquis Wu's Qimen Dunjia

A Daoist Scripture gained by optimizing the Nether Sleep Array. 44

• Uses the central palace, four plates, and eight trigrams to manipulate a formation. 44
• Produces a powerful aura barrier over a wide area. 44
• Lets Lin Fan counter formation-based techniques, including Chaos Spirit Mist. 49
• Grants the associated techniques Eight Extremes Fist and Wind Rope. 44

Martial Arts

Lin Fan supplements Daoist magic with close-quarters combat, backed by his body-refining cultivation. 38 41

• Eight Extremes Fist — A close-combat art learned through Marquis Wu's Qimen Dunjia. 44
• Wind Rope — Condenses wind into ropes or whip-like strikes; can remove Witch Marks from controlled corpses. 44 50
• Uses bare-handed strikes to kill the Imperial Zombie and defeat mutated Green Zombies. 38 39 41

Other Daoist Arts

• Seven Kills of Gods and Ghosts — Tier 1 Daoist Scripture obtained by optimizing the Blazing Fire Talisman. 24 25
• Shattering Order — Offensive Daoist art advanced to Grand Perfection; its first stage is described as capable of tearing heaven and earth apart. 44
• Nether Sleep Array / Netherworld Sleep Spell — Instantly learned and brought to Grand Perfection during the Imperial Zombie crisis, allowing Lin Fan to suppress enemies with a formation. 37 40
• Calming Heart Talisman — Reaches Grand Perfection early and dispels the Flower Demon's poisonous pollen. 1 8
• Blazing Fire Talisman — Learned from Uncle Jiu and quickly advanced to Grand Perfection before its later optimization. 18 24

Equipment

• Peachwood Sword — Beginner's Gift Pack item that amplifies Lin Fan's Daoist arts by 100%; he uses it to channel lightning and contend with powerful zombies. 1 20 38
• Hundred Treasures Pouch — Received in the Beginner's Gift Pack. 1

Relationships

• Uncle Jiu — Master and mentor. Uncle Jiu becomes increasingly proud of Lin Fan's talent, though Lin Fan often misleads him about the source of his breakthroughs. 6 17 22
• Daoist Priest Four-Eyes — Martial uncle and frequent sparring partner in wit. Lin Fan learns body refinement from him and later earns his respect by saving him from the Fox Spirit. 25 27
• Wen Cai — Junior disciple who relies on Lin Fan during supernatural attacks and develops greater respect after seeing his talisman arts. 3 16
• Qiu Sheng — Junior disciple whose resentment toward Lin Fan persists after punishment, though the two also exchange jokes and fight beside one another. 17 21
• Ren Tingting — Member of the Ren family whom Lin Fan protects from the Flower Demon and later the Feng Shui Master's attack; she shows concern and affection toward him. 8 21
• Daoist Priest Qian He — Martial uncle whom Lin Fan aids during the Imperial Zombie transport mission; Qian He comes to admire Lin Fan's combat ability and talent. 37 41 45
• Jia Le — Fellow disciple and friend. Lin Fan agrees to travel with Four-Eyes partly because he is concerned for Jia Le. 23 40
• Qingqing — Buddhist cultivator who challenges Lin Fan after learning his realm; she is overwhelmed by his Xiantian fourth-heaven aura. 30 31
• Master Yixiu — Buddhist master who recognizes Lin Fan as an extraordinary talent and later witnesses his physical combat against zombies. 31 41

Story Role / Major Arcs

System Awakening and Ren Family Town

Lin Fan awakens the System, perfects several basic Daoist arts, and saves Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng from Black Zombies. His Five Thunders Spell is then optimized into Purple Heaven Divine Thunder, causing a visible heavenly anomaly and rapid advancement to Houtian Seventh Heaven. 1 3 5

At Ren Manor, he kills a Flower Demon, uncovers the danger posed by the Prosperity Flower, and eventually defeats both the Feng Shui Master and Old Master Ren's Purple Zombie transformation. He gains 400 Merit Points from the latter battle. 8 13 21

Xiantian Breakthrough and Journey with Four-Eyes

After optimizing his Eye-Opening Technique, Lin Fan enters the Xiantian Realm. He travels with Daoist Priest Four-Eyes, learns body refinement, reaches Xiantian Fourth Heaven, and slays a Fox Spirit connected to another Prosperity Flower. 17 25 27

Imperial Zombie Transport

Lin Fan joins Daoist Priest Qian He's group in transporting the Bronze Horn Golden Coffin. He repairs and perfects the Nether Sleep Array, then relies on the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts and martial arts to destroy the Imperial Zombie and later protect Qian He from a mutated Green Zombie. 34 37 38 41

Qimen Dunjia and Evil Cultivator Conflict

After optimizing the Nether Sleep Array into Marquis Wu's Qimen Dunjia, Lin Fan reaches Xiantian Seventh Heaven and gains Eight Extremes Fist and Wind Rope. He subsequently uses Qimen methods and Heaven-Piercing Eyes to counter Chaos Spirit Mist and Witch Mark-controlled corpses wielded by a masked Evil Cultivator. 44 48 50

Trivia

• Lin Fan repeatedly claims that his cultivation relies on his own “hard work,” despite privately acknowledging the System's role. 1 6
• He uses knowledge from his prior life to recognize events and dangers associated with the Ren family and the coffin-transport storyline. 4 34
• Although he is a Daoist priest, multiple observers are stunned by his preference for directly fighting zombies with martial arts. 38 41