Watching Xiao Fan and Shao Yan acting all lovey-dovey left Yun Jinyu feeling thoroughly miserable.
I'm only eighteen, and you're already stuffing me with this much dog food?
I can't take it anymore!
"Let's go, Shao Yan!" Yun Jinyu said with a cold snort.
Xiao Fan frowned. "Right, I still don't know where you're going."
"And what do you mean you'll be gone for years?"
Shao Yan said solemnly, "King Star God and a demon god are going to train me, to help me become strong enough to completely fuse the Dead Soul Fire with the Armor of Alpha."
"That will take a long time."
Xiao Fan nodded thoughtfully. "I see."
"Lord King Star God had it all figured out that day," Shao Yan said with a smile. "He knew that with your current strength, having a few female confidantes... wasn't very likely."
"But once you've won the Battle of Dignity and have me as your little undershirt, it'll be a different story!"
Shao Yan then turned and smiled. "Cousin, wait for me a bit. There's no rush anyway."
"What else are you going to do?" Yun Jinyu curled his lip.
"I'm going to... sleep!"
With that, Shao Yan took Xiao Fan by the hand and excitedly led him away.
Yun Jinyu had dog food shoved right in his face, and all desire to live drained from his expression.
He opened the messaging app on his phone, hoping to find a girl to chat with, but a glance showed him nothing but groups for sharing techniques. There wasn't a single girl!
His mother absolutely wouldn't let him go near women!
This is infuriating! I'm eighteen already, a grown man. I have certain physical needs, all right?
But he didn't dare defy his mother, and so, among the powerful experts and monstrous geniuses, he had earned the title of mama's boy.
Early the next morning, Xiao Fan said goodbye to Shao Yan and rode his heavy motorcycle home.
As soon as he entered, he saw their little heavenly fairy wearing an apron and cooking, following an instruction manual as she worked.
The smell, however, was rather hard to stomach. Lin Lianshen had even fled in panic, deciding to see what good food Green Leaf City had to offer. His little sister's cooking left much to be desired!
Hearing Xiao Fan's footsteps, Lin Xianhuo held up her phone, a teasing smile all over her face.
Xiao Fan took the phone and looked at it, and his expression immediately froze.
With Lin Lianshen nearby, the two could only exchange frantic looks.
One was smiling, and the other was smiling wryly.
Then Lin Xianhuo brought out breakfast.
It was quite distinctive. Even the fried eggs were black, making Xiao Fan's scalp tingle, but he gritted his teeth and swallowed them anyway. He even had to praise them. "Delicious, though there's plenty of room for improvement!"
That afternoon, the two sparred, and Lin Lianshen joined in, ready to try his hand against Xiao Fan again.
The result was no surprise. He went down in five minutes.
Lin Lianshen refused to accept it. Again!
This time, the fight ended in four and a half minutes!
Again, and it was over in four minutes!
He lost faster and faster, and Lin Lianshen was on the verge of a mental collapse. He had thought he had found a flaw in Xiao Fan's defenses, but it turned out Xiao Fan had found one in his!
"Tch, the space is too small. If I really unleashed my Undying Fire, you'd definitely lose!" Lin Lianshen had lost the fight, but he wouldn't admit defeat.
Xiao Fan seemed rather eager. "Why don't we find a place outside and try this Undying Fire of yours?"
Lin Lianshen shook his head. "No, I still can't control it as I please. One careless mistake, and I could burn the entire terraced field dry."
At that, Xiao Fan began lecturing him earnestly. "A power you can't control is a power that doesn't belong to you. Remember that!"
The lecture made Lin Lianshen's temper flare. "What gives you the right to lecture me? You're only a month older than me!"
"Because I'm stronger than you, and I can beat you whenever I want." Xiao Fan's face was full of disdain.
"You! I have mythic-grade talent! Once I master the use of the Undying Fire, your chances of winning will be zero!" Lin Lianshen roared.
"Then go master it. We can talk once you've done that." Xiao Fan was unconcerned.
That afternoon, he went to the Liu Family to collect two martial arts manuals. The Liu Family didn't dare provoke him; they all knew Xiao Fan was an important figure now, so they handed the manuals over with both hands. Even though their child had died at his hands, they didn't dare say anything.
After all, Wang Lou and Zhou Qiong had both died at Xiao Fan's home!
Then Xiao Fan went to school and applied to enter the Scripture Repository. He got in just as easily and obtained two third-tier enhancement-type martial arts he hadn't learned, along with more than a dozen low-tier martial arts.
After returning home, he immediately began fusing all those assorted things.
He fused the Divine Ape Golden Body directly into All-Round Enhancement, and the result was excellent. All-Round Enhancement Five advanced to All-Round Enhancement Six, and his realm suddenly broke through as well!
[Infinite Martial Dao Cultivation System host: Xiao Fan] [Talent: All-Round Venerable] [Realm: martial artist seventh stage] [Maximum strength: 5,600 kg!] [Maximum speed: 100 meters in 1.6 seconds!] [Key martial arts: Demon Man Scripture, All-Round Enhancement Six, Flying and Earth Escape Technique, Wind and Lightning Art.] [Elemental attributes: ordinary wind, ordinary lightning.] [Special mission: activate All-Round Great Sage (3/30)]
The only pity was that, even after he had fused dozens of martial arts into the Demon Man Scripture, it still hadn't changed much. It would take more than a dozen more before it could break through to the eighth tier and undergo a small qualitative change!
The days that followed were peaceful, with hellish training every day. Xiao Fan's combat awareness utterly shattered the Lin siblings' view of the world, making them realize that this was how fighting was done!
[First law of combat: hesitate and you will lose!] [Second law of combat: kill your opponent at any cost. Even if your opponent is still asleep at home, if you know he's going to attack you today, it's best to assassinate him at night!] [Third law of combat: know exactly what your objective is, whether it's robbery or fighting. Once you've achieved it, run when you should, and don't look back!]
Lin Lianshen suddenly realized that this brother-in-law of his didn't seem quite so honest.
So he asked again, "Have you and my sister done that yet?"
Xiao Fan looked helplessly at Lin Xianhuo, who fidgeted and pouted. "I'm not ready yet!"
"So you haven't..." Lin Lianshen breathed a sigh of relief.
But at night, once Lin Lianshen was snoring away on the sofa, dead to the world, Lin Xianhuo would sneak out of her room.
Having found the right person, his happiness in life soared, and soon, the day came to prepare for the expedition to the Fire and Flame Mystic Realm.
At that moment, Lin Lianshen suddenly received a list in a message from his father.
Frowning deeply, he called Xiao Fan and Lin Xianhuo over. "This time, we're in trouble!"
"How so?" Xiao Fan asked seriously.
Lin Lianshen said solemnly, "This time, the place where the Flame Mystic Realm opens is on the border between the human race and the other races."
"So the other races will come too!"
"And the two sides have already reached an agreement. Once inside, the people there will be allowed to slaughter one another!"
"Life or death, it doesn't matter!"
Xiao Fan frowned slightly.
The Fire and Flame Mystic Realm was a low-tier mystic realm with a realm restriction on those who entered, but the highest allowed was still lesser grandmaster peak. The same applied to the other races, a full major realm above Xiao Fan.
But danger also meant opportunity. The other races who came to the mystic realm would surely all be geniuses with powerful bloodlines, and their essence blood would definitely help Xiao Fan break through!
Lin Lianshen couldn't beat him now, but his goal was to master the Undying Fire and break through to lesser grandmaster before the class-opening battle!
Those two things could more than double Lin Lianshen's overall combat power!
All the geniuses were working hard in secret now! He had to hurry and push himself too. After all, being one major realm lower meant at least 1,000 kg less in base strength!