Arc 2Grenades and Rosy Cloud Forest

Lin Fan used grenades, his wolf-fang club, and his ability to revive to defeat bandits, Qing Mang, and Liu Feng while growing stronger and building ties with his companions. After returning to the sect, he created a powerful cultivation technique, sold copies of a sword technique, and left to hunt demonic beasts, where the Blood-Eyed Demonic Ape killed him.

  • Lin Fan accepted a bandit-hunting mission, retreated from the hidden bandits, then made grenades and killed them with explosives, eventually defeating the Third Chief and Li Xionghe.
  • Lin Fan joined Zhang Long's training mission, hunted wolves for points, advanced to the Eighth Level of Body Tempering, and defeated Qing Mang at Withered Spirit Swamp.
  • Liu Feng pursued Lin Fan for the Magic Lamp, but Lin Fan tricked him with a grenade and killed him after reviving, then returned to the group and helped sell Qing Mang's corpse to Wang Shufeng.
  • Lin Fan returned to the sect, developed the Golden Body Tempering Technique, and accepted Huang Fugui's gift of scrap iron while insisting on paying for it.
  • Lin Fan sold copies of Liu Feng's sword technique to disciples for two hundred thousand Flame Magnificence Currency, then advanced to the Body Tempering Ninth Layer and made hundreds of grenades.
  • Lin Fan hunted demonic beasts in Rosy Cloud Forest, raised his Points to 6,000, and was crushed to death by the Blood-Eyed Demonic Ape.
Chapters 26–50 Vol. 1 Read

Ch. 26Just You Wait

Lin Fan accepted a mission to hunt roaming bandits and left the Flame Magnificence Sect, eager to build his strength and points. He attacked a small bandit group, discovered it was bait for nearly a hundred men, and fled, promising to return and kill them.

  • Lin Fan congratulated Lü Qiming on becoming a first-class outer sect disciple and learned they had received the same rewards.
  • Lin Fan accepted a mission to hunt bandits near the sect and left alone, intending to roam until he became powerful.
  • Lin Fan waited for several days before confronting a group of bandits and killed one with his nine-ring broadsword.
  • The Third Boss revealed nearly a hundred hidden bandits who had been waiting to ambush Flame Magnificence Sect disciples.
  • Lin Fan fled from the overwhelming group and vowed to return in a few days, while the Third Boss angrily watched him escape.

Ch. 27Collecting Scrap to the Beat of Gongs and Drums

After returning from a failed mission, Lin Fan decided to make grenades and began buying scrap iron from fellow disciples. His first purchase went smoothly, but a rude First-Grade Outer Sect Disciple spat a nut shell onto his shoe, prompting Lin Fan to stop him.

  • Lin Fan hid that he had retreated from the wanted criminals and told Zhang Long he had failed to find his target; Zhang Long said he had reached the Body Tempering Seventh Stage and invited Lin Fan on a future team mission.
  • Lin Fan prepared to make grenades and went out with a cart to buy scrap iron, offering one Flame Magnificence Currency per jin.
  • Lin Fan attracted disciples with his gong-and-drum sales pitch, and one disciple sold him a rusty broken sword after Lin Fan persuaded him to accept a low weight estimate.
  • A First-Grade Outer Sect Disciple spat a nut shell onto Lin Fan's shoe and ignored him, so Lin Fan told him to stop.

Ch. 28Everyone, Please Take This as a Warning

Lin Fan confronted Huang Fugui over spitting a fruit pit, shamed him before the gathered disciples, and confiscated his nuts. After Huang left in anger, Lin Fan resumed buying scrap iron from the disciples.

  • Huang Fugui dismissed Lin Fan's complaint about being spat on and threatened to beat him.
  • Lin Fan argued that Huang's discarded fruit pits attracted buzzing insects and could endanger disciples during cultivation, persuading the crowd that Huang had behaved irresponsibly.
  • Lin Fan took Huang's nuts as punishment, and Huang stormed away while vowing to remember the grudge.
  • Lin Fan told the disciples to learn from Huang's example, then called for more scrap iron to buy at a high price.

Ch. 29An Extremely Terrifying Weapon of Mass Destruction Was Born

Lin Fan’s scrap-iron business was disrupted when Huang Fugui bought the iron at double the price to spite him, but Lin Fan continued making grenades with the iron he already had. Huang Fugui’s buying spree drove up scrap-iron prices across the sect, leaving Artifact Refining Hall disciples baffled.

  • Lin Fan stored the scrap iron he had collected and planned to buy more so he could make grenades.
  • Huang Fugui learned that Lin Fan was buying scrap iron, and his lackey persuaded him to buy it for twice the price to steal Lin Fan’s business.
  • Huang Fugui’s lackey bought all the scrap iron offered to Lin Fan, spending twenty-four thousand Flame Magnificence Currency, while Lin Fan left without confronting him.
  • Lin Fan returned to his residence and continued developing grenades, confident that the scrap iron he already had was enough to make several.
  • Artifact Refining Hall disciples found that scrap iron now cost two coins per jin, and the sect’s disciples told them Huang Fugui was buying it.

Ch. 30Despicable! Shameless!

Lin Fan completed thirty grenades and used them to attack a group of bandits waiting for him. After the explosions earned him Points and left the bandits panicking, Lin Fan charged into the fight and kept throwing grenades despite the Third Chief's protests.

  • Lin Fan finished making thirty Type 82-2 grenades and told Lü Qiming he was heading out after making progress in cultivation.
  • Lin Fan saw Huang Fugui give his savings to his mother and sister, Huang Qinghua, before they left for home.
  • Lin Fan found the bandits gathered on a hillside and threw a grenade among them, blasting several into the air and earning two hundred Points.
  • Lin Fan charged the bandits and threw more grenades as the Third Chief ordered his men to attack and then accused Lin Fan of using hidden weapons.
  • Lin Fan threw another grenade at the Third Chief, while the bandits screamed and pleaded for help.

Ch. 31I'm Going Back to Train in Techniques

Lin Fan wiped out the bandits with grenades and killed their third chief, earning 4,200 points before Li Xionghe arrived to avenge his men. After Li Xionghe overwhelmed him with the Wolf Fang Burst technique, Lin Fan was sent flying and decided he needed to learn techniques.

  • Lin Fan killed the third chief with his nine-ring broadsword and earned 70 points.
  • Lin Fan threw grenades at the fleeing bandits, clearing them out and bringing his total to 4,200 points.
  • Lin Fan looted the third chief and found ten thousand Flame Magnificence Currency and a bottle of pills.
  • Li Xionghe arrived, identified Lin Fan as the killer of his men, and attacked him with his spiked mace.
  • Lin Fan swallowed a Wind Travel Pill and dodged Li Xionghe’s attacks, but Li Xionghe used Wolf Fang Burst to strike him and send him flying.

Ch. 32The World Fell Completely Silent

Lin Fan tricked Li Xionghe into letting his guard down, then detonated a modified hand grenade at close range. The blast killed Lin Fan but left him unharmed after he revived, and he finished off Li Xionghe with the stolen spiked club.

  • Li Xionghe knocked Lin Fan down and prepared to kill him after his men and resources had been lost.
  • Lin Fan begged for a chance to tell a story and claimed he had a young wife, drawing Li Xionghe into lowering his guard.
  • Lin Fan revealed he had pulled the pin on a modified hand grenade, which exploded and sent both men flying.
  • Lin Fan was blown to pieces, but ten seconds later he revived with his injuries healed while Li Xionghe lay severely wounded and without his legs.
  • Lin Fan took Li Xionghe's spiked club, admitted his wife had been imaginary, and killed him with the weapon.

Ch. 33This world was full of good people

After defeating Li Xionghe, Lin Fan unlocked and upgraded the Violent Wolf-Fang Club until it gained an air-explosion attack, then returned to the sect. He turned in his mission and left Liu Feng fuming after claiming the club had been given to him.

  • Lin Fan looted Li Xionghe's corpse and found the Violent Wolf-Fang Club manual, then used points to learn and upgrade the technique.
  • Lin Fan reached the fourth layer, discovered its air-explosion ability, and demonstrated its destructive power.
  • Lin Fan returned to the sect and told Yin Xiaotian and Gao Dazhuang that he planned to join Zhang Long's training mission with them.
  • Lin Fan turned in his mission for a thousand and a mid-tier Human Grade cultivation pill.
  • Liu Feng questioned Lin Fan about the wolf-fang club, and Lin Fan claimed someone had insisted on gifting it to him before leaving Liu Feng angry and unsettled.

Ch. 34Off we go for training!

Lin Fan strengthened his Violent Wolf-Fang Club, used a draw to obtain a Mystic Grade pill, and spent the night trying to create a cultivation technique. The next morning, he set out for training with Lü Qiming and the others, only to discover Huang Fugui was joining them too.

  • Lin Fan upgraded the Violent Wolf-Fang Club to the seventh level, increasing his strength, then spent 600 Points on two silver draws and received an Azure Primordial Pill.
  • Lin Fan swallowed the pill, cultivated, and spent the night experimenting with creating a technique without success.
  • Lü Qiming, Yin Xiaotian, Gao Dazhuang, and Zhang Long arrived to leave for training, and Lü Qiming admitted he had forgotten to tell Lin Fan the departure date.
  • Huang Fugui arrived for the trip, and Lin Fan greeted him despite their dispute over Huang Fugui's scrap iron investment.
  • Huang Fugui told Zhang Long their dispute would not affect the mission, while Lin Fan called him petty.

Ch. 35Looks like I'll have to play dead

Lin Fan joined Zhang Long, Huang Fugui, and Lü Qiming on a mission to kill the eighth-level Body Tempering evil cultivator Qing Mang, then entered a beast-filled forest alone to test whether killing demonic beasts earned him points. He played dead to lure out a lurking wolf-shaped demonic beast, which charged at him.

  • Lin Fan asked Huang Fugui for more grenades, but Huang refused, and Zhang Long explained that the group was heading to Withered Spirit Swamp to kill Qing Mang.
  • The group stopped outside a forest for the night, and Lü Qiming warned them that demonic beasts made crossing it after dark too dangerous.
  • Lin Fan volunteered to hunt for dinner and entered the forest alone, hoping to find out whether killing demonic beasts would earn him points.
  • Lin Fan sensed a lurking beast but could not coax it out, so he lay down and pretended to sleep.
  • A wolf-shaped demonic beast rushed from the grass and opened its jaws to attack Lin Fan.

Ch. 36A Bountiful Haul

Lin Fan discovered that killing demonic beasts earned him points, then slaughtered a pack of gray wolves and used his immortality to recover after killing himself. He returned to camp with wolf corpses and began cultivating, intending to grow strong enough to defeat Qing Mang.

  • Lin Fan revived the frightened gray wolf, killed it with his wolf-fang club, and earned 30 points.
  • Lin Fan found a pack of gray wolves gathered around their wolf king and attacked them after they spotted him.
  • Lin Fan killed most of the wolves but grew badly wounded, so he struck his own head and revived ten seconds later.
  • Lin Fan killed the wolf king and the remaining female wolf, earning more points and reaching 3,850.
  • Lin Fan returned to camp with several wolf corpses, then went to his tent to cultivate for his future fight with Qing Mang.

Ch. 37Follow Me and Play It Safe

Lin Fan upgraded his Violent Wolf-Fang Club, drew an Eighth Level of Body Tempering Upgrade Pill and a strange magic lamp, then raised his cultivation to the Eighth Level. Days later, he and his companions reached the Withered Spirit Swamp and moved toward a fierce battle already underway, with Lin Fan insisting he would lead them safely.

  • Lin Fan spent points to upgrade his Violent Wolf-Fang Club to the eighth level and drew an upgrade pill and Aladdin's Magic Lamp.
  • Lin Fan swallowed the pill and advanced to the Eighth Level of Body Tempering.
  • Lin Fan and his companions found the Azure Wolf corpses reduced to skeletons, alarming Zhang Long and the others.
  • Several days later, the group arrived at the Withered Spirit Swamp to confront the evil cultivator Qing Mang.
  • After hearing fighting ahead, Lin Fan told the group to stay behind him as they approached cautiously.

Ch. 38Trash, how do you want to die?

Lin Fan and his senior brothers intervened when Qing Mang overpowered three Wang Lineage disciples, but Qing Mang soon gained the upper hand against them as well. Lin Fan put the rescued disciples down and challenged Qing Mang, leaving the fight poised for his counterattack.

  • Lin Fan watched Qing Mang defeat Wang Shufeng, Wang Ziyan, and their companion, while his senior brothers identified them as disciples of the Wang Lineage of Cloudfall City.
  • Zhang Long, Yin Xiaotian, and Lü Qiming attacked Qing Mang and sent Lin Fan to escort the injured disciples away.
  • Lin Fan carried Wang Ziyan over his shoulder and tucked the two men under his arms, despite their protests and warnings that Qing Mang was too strong.
  • Qing Mang overwhelmed Lü Qiming and struck Zhang Long, while Lin Fan put the three Wang Lineage disciples down and went to help his senior brother.
  • Lin Fan stepped between Qing Mang and his friends, declared himself the main damage dealer, and challenged Qing Mang to choose how he wanted to die.

Ch. 39Beaten out of sight

Lin Fan fought Qing Mang and gained the upper hand through trickery and relentless blows from his wolf-fang club. He battered Qing Mang so badly that the man was left hanging from the club with barely a breath remaining.

  • Lin Fan tricked Qing Mang into turning around, then struck his cheek with the wolf-fang club and drew blood.
  • Lin Fan kicked Qing Mang in the crotch during their exchange, leaving him in severe pain.
  • Lin Fan pretended to give Qing Mang time to recover, then charged and attacked him while he was distracted.
  • Lin Fan unleashed Wolf-Fang Big Bang and repeatedly smashed Qing Mang's raised arms until he could no longer fight back.
  • Lin Fan looked for Qing Mang, unaware that he had smashed him onto the wolf-fang club and left him hanging from it, nearly dead.

Ch. 40Boo-hoo! A flood of tears

Lin Fan killed the evil cultivator Qing Mang and gave healing pills to his injured companions. When a masked attacker ambushed Huang Fugui, Lin Fan took the sword strike for him and lured the attacker away.

  • Lin Fan discovered Qing Mang impaled on his spiked club, and Qing Mang died from his injuries.
  • Lin Fan handed out healing pills while Lü Qiming and the others marveled at his strength.
  • A masked attacker launched a sword strike at Huang Fugui, and Lin Fan stepped in front of him and was stabbed.
  • Lin Fan reassured Huang Fugui, then challenged the masked attacker and ran deeper into the area to draw him away.
  • Huang Fugui wept as the masked attacker pursued Lin Fan.

Ch. 41Daddy Magic Lamp, Come Out Already

Lin Fan used the Magic Lamp to lure Liu Feng out, hoping to exploit his greed and recover from his injuries. After the lamp healed Lin Fan through a staged death, Liu Feng attacked him and seized it.

  • Lin Fan realized Liu Feng had pursued him and planned a trick because he could not defeat the Earthly Dipper Realm expert.
  • Lin Fan summoned Daddy Magic Lamp and asked it to heal his injuries, then killed himself as instructed and returned healed.
  • Liu Feng emerged from hiding, demanded the Magic Lamp, and attacked Lin Fan when he refused to hand it over.
  • Liu Feng crushed Lin Fan's chest and pinned him to the ground with his sword, then picked up the fallen Magic Lamp.

Ch. 42I am the strongest god

Lin Fan disguised himself as the Magic Lamp and tricked Liu Feng into believing he could grant his wish to become the strongest god. The chapter ended when Lin Fan pulled the pin on a grenade Liu Feng had forced into his mouth, and it exploded.

  • Lin Fan revived while Liu Feng left the sword in his body, then watched as Liu Feng tried and failed to summon the Magic Lamp with the wrong incantation.
  • Liu Feng repeated the correct incantation, and Lin Fan appeared as the Magic Lamp and demanded that Liu Feng state his wish.
  • When Liu Feng wished to become the strongest god, Lin Fan pretended he needed to kneel and kowtow three times before being recognized as the new summoner.
  • Liu Feng kowtowed and called Lin Fan Magic Lamp Daddy, then accepted a hand grenade that Lin Fan claimed contained a divine inheritance.
  • Lin Fan pulled the grenade's pin and told Liu Feng to wait seven seconds before removing it; the grenade exploded.

Ch. 43The Misunderstanding No Longer Existed

Lin Fan killed Liu Feng after surviving his attack, then pretended to be badly injured when Lü Qiming and the others arrived. The group identified Liu Feng and decided to return to the sect after collecting proof of their completed mission.

  • Lin Fan revived, mocked the helpless Liu Feng, and killed him despite Liu Feng showing his fellow-disciple token.
  • Lin Fan looted Liu Feng's money, pills, and sword technique, then stabbed himself to make his survival look costly.
  • Lü Qiming and the others found Lin Fan, who reassured them that his wound was minor.
  • Lü Qiming identified the corpse as Liu Feng, and Lin Fan realized the dead man was the fellow disciple who had greeted him before.
  • Yin Xiaotian announced that the mission was complete and led the group to collect its proof before returning to the sect.

Ch. 44You're Way Too Ruthless

After killing Qing Mang, Lin Fan stopped Wang Shufeng and his companions from taking the corpse for free and negotiated a hundred-thousand payment. He distributed the money among his companions, who left impressed by his business sense.

  • Gao Dazhuang and Yin Xiaotian agreed that they should bring Qing Mang's corpse back as proof of their mission.
  • Wang Shufeng asked Lü Qiming and the others to give his group the corpse so they could complete their Lineage mission.
  • Lin Fan insisted that Wang Shufeng pay for the corpse, rejecting his appeal to sect brotherhood and refusing his offer of ten thousand.
  • Wang Shufeng agreed to pay a hundred thousand, and Lin Fan also stripped Qing Mang's belongings before completing the sale.
  • Lin Fan divided the money among his companions, and Gao Dazhuang declared that he would follow him from then on.

Ch. 45I Had to Get Stronger

After returning to the Flame Magnificence Sect, Lin Fan used his loot to boost his Hard Cultivation Points and continued experimenting with cultivation techniques. His experiments caused Qi deviation, but after killing himself and reviving, he discovered his newly created technique had regressed to a lower grade.

  • Wang Ziyan complained about being extorted, while Wang Teng carried Qing Mang's battered corpse and cursed Lin Fan for its condition.
  • Lin Fan realized the trip had earned him points from demonic beasts and had improved his standing among the team.
  • The group returned to the Flame Magnificence Sect, and Lü Qiming and the others agreed to conceal that Lin Fan had killed Liu Feng.
  • Lin Fan swallowed all his looted pills at once, raising his cultivation to the Eighth Level of Body Tempering and his Hard Cultivation Points to 60250.
  • Lin Fan experimented with a new cultivation route, suffered Qi deviation, and stabbed himself to restart after gaining 10 Hard Cultivation Points.
  • The Human-Grade Cultivation Technique Creation Guide produced the Bronze Iron Body Tempering Art, a Human Grade, Low Rank technique that strengthened the body but regressed from his previous creation.

Ch. 46This Makes It Hard to Communicate

Lin Fan created a high-rank Human-Grade cultivation technique that greatly increased his cultivation speed, while Huang Fugui visited to reconcile and give him scrap iron. Lin Fan accepted the iron but promised to pay later, leaving Huang Fugui unsure when he would get his money back.

  • After experimenting through the night, Lin Fan created the Golden Body Tempering Technique, a high-rank Human-Grade technique that granted three Hard Cultivation Points per second and strengthened the body.
  • Huang Fugui set out with a handcart of scrap iron to visit Lin Fan, while disciples discussed the rising price of scrap iron.
  • Lin Fan greeted Huang Fugui and was startled when Huang Fugui slapped away his lackey for rudely challenging Lin Fan.
  • Huang Fugui apologized for their past misunderstanding and offered Lin Fan the scrap iron as a gift.
  • Lin Fan insisted on paying for the scrap iron, and Huang Fugui agreed to let him pay later, despite needing the iron himself to make grenades.

Ch. 47Let me water you with chicken soup for the soul

Lin Fan shared the mission rewards with Zhang Long, then sought money to buy a powerful pill and decided to sell a cultivation technique. At the Grievance Arena, he comforted the defeated Bai Xin, preparing to make him a buyer.

  • Zhang Long brought Lin Fan the mission rewards, and Lin Fan kept only ten thousand Flame Magnificence Currency and two pills, giving the rest back to his senior brothers.
  • Lin Fan chose the Mystic Bone Flame Pill but found that its price exceeded his funds, so he decided to sell the mystic grade, low rank sword technique he had looted from Liu Feng.
  • At the Grievance Arena, He Xu defeated Bai Xin despite their equal cultivation, and Lin Fan followed the dejected Bai Xin afterward.
  • Lin Fan sat beside Bai Xin at a cliff and encouraged him with words about learning from failure, easing Bai Xin's disappointment as he planned to sell him the technique.

Ch. 48Reign over All beneath Heaven, Brimming with Vigor!

Lin Fan secretly sold copies of the Gale Sword Technique to sect disciples, earning enough Flame Magnificence Currency to buy a pill. He stopped after a disciple alerted law enforcement, leaving his illicit sales under investigation.

  • Lin Fan persuaded Bai Xin to buy a copy of the Mystic Grade, Low Rank Gale Sword Technique for twenty thousand and encouraged him to persevere.
  • Lin Fan sought out more sword-cultivating disciples and secretly sold them copies of the technique.
  • Lin Fan counted his earnings and found that the sales had brought him two hundred thousand in Flame Magnificence Currency.
  • A disciple led law enforcement senior brothers to the place where Lin Fan had made his first sale and reported the private technique sales.
  • Lin Fan stopped selling after his round of deals, narrowly avoiding being caught by law enforcement.

Ch. 49Set Out, My Fanfan

Lin Fan used an upper-tier Mystic Grade pill to reach the Body Tempering Ninth Layer and prepared to hunt demonic beasts for points. He left the sect alone and arrived at Rosy Cloud Forest, where he planned to hunt while avoiding stronger beasts deeper inside.

  • Lin Fan swallowed an upper-tier Mystic Grade pill and refined it overnight, then spent 128,000 hard cultivation points to advance to the Body Tempering Ninth Layer.
  • Lin Fan learned that the Law Enforcement Hall was investigating reports of a disciple selling cultivation techniques, but the investigators had found no leads.
  • Lin Fan gathered materials and made several hundred hand grenades before preparing to leave the sect.
  • Lin Fan declined to travel with Yin Xiaotian and Gao Dazhuang, then left the sect to farm points.
  • After traveling for three days, Lin Fan reached Rosy Cloud Forest and set out to hunt its weaker demonic beasts.

Ch. 50Lin Fan, Dead!

Lin Fan hunted demonic beasts in Rosy Cloud Forest with grenades, building his Points while explosions woke a powerful beast in the depths. After the Blood-Eyed Demonic Ape found him, it crushed him with one blow, and Lin Fan died.

  • Lin Fan spotted a group of Spine-Horned Eagles and threw grenades at them, killing many of the beasts.
  • Lin Fan killed the Spine-Horned Eagle King with his Violent Wolf-Fang Club and reached 1,690 Points.
  • Lin Fan continued bombing demonic beasts across Rosy Cloud Forest until his Points reached 6,000.
  • The explosions woke the Blood-Eyed Demonic Ape, which left its cave and headed toward the noise.
  • The Blood-Eyed Demonic Ape struck Lin Fan with its palm and crushed him to death.
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