Recaps

Lin Fan cut ties with his family, used his Heaven Rewards Diligence fate to advance rapidly in martial arts, and endured the martial hall’s exploitation and Zhang Yu’s hostility. After becoming a martial artist, he was sent to guard Shopkeeper Tang’s herb garden, where bandits attacked and he hid among the herbs as a senior brother confronted one of them.

• Lin Fan confronted Father Lin over the seventeen taels taken to pay Lin Ming’s debts, declared he had repaid his family’s care, and left home despite Mother Lin’s offer of her savings.
• Lin Fan joined the Mountain Suppression Martial Arts Hall as a human training dummy and discovered that his Heaven Rewards Diligence fate let him track his rapid progress in Iron Cloth Shirt.
• Lin Fan clashed with Li Feng and his lackeys over the trainees’ medicinal food, while Wang Wu and others backed him and four of Li Feng’s roommates eventually killed Zhao Tao and fled.
• Lin Fan secretly advanced Iron Cloth Shirt to perfection, then entered the hall’s outer courtyard, where Zhang Yu assigned him to serve Young Master Tang as a live training dummy.
• Young Master Tang was pleased with Lin Fan’s endurance and arranged instruction in Gang-Breaking Fist and Gale Leg, while Zhang Yu tried to undermine him and Lin Fan secretly mastered the techniques.
• Lin Fan learned the Body Tempering Art, advanced through practice and sparring with Young Master Tang, generated Qi and blood, and became a martial artist as Zhang Yu arranged a mission to guard Shopkeeper Tang’s herb garden.
• Lin Fan survived an ambush by playing dead, killed two bandits, and reported the attack, then continued training through the night as other outer court disciples were killed.
• Lin Fan hid among the medicinal herbs as fireworks signaled further attacks, saw through a bandit’s bluff, and watched a rugged senior brother arrive to confront him.

Lin Fan survived the Green Snake Bandits, rose to become Yue Shan’s disciple, and settled scores with those who threatened him. After Chen Yang defeated Yue Shan and installed Li Feng as outer courtyard senior brother, Lin Fan gathered his friends and led them toward the Tang Family Estate.

• Lin Fan killed Tan Lin, the poisoned guardian, Zheng Huai, and the remaining bandits, then rescued Yang Kuan and another disciple and returned with them to Qingshan County.
• Zhang Yu and Li Feng plotted to cripple Lin Fan, but Lin Fan defeated Li Feng in a spar and humiliated Lu Hao when he attacked him.
• Lin Fan completed the Body Tempering Art, demonstrated his Iron Cloth Shirt mastery, and became Yue Shan’s disciple.
• Lin Fan exposed Hu Gao’s theft of the outer disciples’ medicinal food, helped Yang Kuan bring him to justice, and brought Tang Yan to learn alongside him.
• Lin Fan bought the Bone Forging Art on the black market, killed Zhang Yu, and defended Zhang Meng’s noodle shop before confronting Lin Ming over his gambling debts.
• Lin Fan advanced his Bone Forging Art and Gang-Breaking Fist as Chen Yang returned and forced the hall to appoint Li Feng outer courtyard senior brother.
• Chen Yang ruptured Yue Shan’s apertures, and Yue Shan sent Lin Fan and Yang Kuan to protect Shopkeeper Tang’s estate from the Green Snake Bandits.
• Lin Fan gathered Wang Wu, Meng Lin, Fang Xiang, and Sun Ming and led them toward the Tang Family Estate, saying the martial arts hall was no longer safe.