307: Get the gun, plan the road

After finishing breakfast, Xiao Fan hurried to General Yang Yuan's house, wanting to get the You Long Po Jun Spear martial art from him.

According to the Great General's original words, taking out a Tiger-level unit by himself, this achievement was enough to qualify for learning.

He completely understood why General Yang Yuan had set this threshold.

He even felt that if such a domineering spear art could be learned casually, it would be an insult to the Wandering Dragon Star Shattering Spear.

However, at this moment, he was a little worried if General Yang Yuan was even home; perhaps he was still lying in some hospital bed?

Would it be impolite for him to just go over like this?

Thinking of this, Xiao Fan paused, looked at the fruit stall next door, and bought two catties of apples.

Not going was impossible.

But bringing two baskets of fruit could also be considered… a Condolences Senior.

General Yang Yuan's family ran a small convenience store called Duo Duo Convenience Store.

The convenience store had two floors; the first floor sold goods, and General Yang Yuan himself lived on the second floor.

Xiao Fan nervously knocked on the door.

Suddenly, a surprised voice came from beside him: “You… is it necessary?”

Xiao Fan turned his head, only to see General Yang Yuan, covered in bandages, looking at him with a speechless expression.

What time was it now?

Seven thirty in the morning!

Even if you were going to be diligent, this wasn't how you did it, right?

Xiao Fan cleared his throat and quickly picked up his two baskets of apples.

But just as he was about to speak, General Yang Yuan interrupted him with a look of disdain.

“My family runs a convenience store.”

“Cough, cough…” Xiao Fan quickly cleared his throat to hide his embarrassment and said, “Convenience stores usually don't sell fruit, do they?”

General Yang Yuan chuckled, saying, “Duo Duo Convenience Store means it has everything.”

After speaking, he lightly pressed his finger on a spot on the outer wall, a fingerprint recognition sign appeared for a moment, and then the convenience store's rolling shutter slowly opened.

After the door opened, what came into view were goods piled haphazardly.

Cigarettes, snacks, fruits—all were there.

On the higher shelves in the back were some vacuum-sealed meats, which looked delicious but came from various powerful alien races and were very expensive.

General Yang Yuan limped inside and plopped down on the long bench at the convenience store's entrance, letting out a long sigh and complaining, “Those alien races are really sick; I just poked them once, and they got all riled up.”

After speaking, he casually pointed his hand, and a certain cabinet automatically opened, a yellow-covered book flying into his hand.

Then, he just threw the Wandering Dragon Star Shattering Spear Martial Arts book to Xiao Fan.

Xiao Fan caught it, a little stunned, thinking, was this progress a bit too fast?

Not a single polite word, just so direct?

“What are you standing there for? Want to buy something? Do you smoke?” General Yang Yuan casually took out a pack of cigarettes and threw it to Xiao Fan, saying, “This flavor is good; I like it myself.”

Xiao Fan took it, shaking his head, “I don't smoke.”

“What?” General Yang Yuan was startled, feeling like he'd misheard, “Didn't your resume say you lived in the marketplace since you were little?”

“It's hard for someone who grew up in that environment not to smoke, right?”

Xiao Fan, while placing the cigarettes on the counter, said seriously, “Mainly because smoking affects health. At that time, I didn't have much ability, so I definitely couldn't smoke.”

“Also… I heard smoking causes impotence.”

General Yang Yuan pouted, “We're not ordinary people.”

“Then it's fine, you can go.”

But Xiao Fan remained still, grinning, “Brother Yang.”

This address of “Brother Yang” completely threw General Yang Yuan off; his face showed a mix of surprise and uncertainty as he asked, “You… are you gay?”

“No… I just wiped out a unit, and there's no… reward?” Xiao Fan chuckled.

“This…” General Yang Yuan rubbed the back of his head, saying, “That's not my responsibility. You should ask the Great General's secretary. The Great General fought all night yesterday and is old now, so he should be sleeping.”

“Who the hell is old?” A curses sounded from the side.

Turning his head, he saw the Great General, his head wrapped in bandages, walking over, grumbling.

He lectured General Yang Yuan, “Little Yang, that's not how you do things. It's one thing if you're unhappy and hit someone, but what's with you almost beating someone to death?”

“Even if you did beat them to death, I wouldn't say anything, but the key is you didn't.”

“And you couldn't even make it back yourself!”

“You don't charge formations like that! I need you to be able to break the formation, and also be able to retreat unscathed!”

“Can't you learn some escape techniques?”

“Look at you, everyone in the Divine Hidden Team is now lying in bed because of you.”

General Yang Yuan pouted, “Got it, I'm learning.”

“That's good.” Jiang Shenyi touched the bandage on his head and sighed. He had fought all night yesterday to drag General Yang Yuan back from the battlefield.

Then, he looked at Xiao Fan and said, “Come with me.”

The two walked one after another, and the Great General threw a Storage Ring to Xiao Fan.

“These two things should be what you need most right now. There's also your new military rank inside.”

Xiao Fan quickly glanced at the Storage Ring.

He had to admit, the Great General really understood him.

He had never told the Great General what he wanted, but the Great General always knew.

There were only three things in the ring.

A saber, corresponding to Autumn Kill, and a long spear, corresponding to the You Long Po Jun Spear.

There was also a Sergeant Major's military rank, which was quite high.

Although both the saber and spear were only Saint-Grade, they were definitely enough.

Actually, a Great Grandmaster generally couldn't unleash the full power of Saint-Grade weapons. Normally, one would need to reach Martial Venerable to completely control a Saint-Grade weapon.

The reason there were so many Divine-Grade and Myth-Grade weapons in the class was entirely because the elders in their families wanted to get it done in one go, so they wouldn't have to change weapons later.

In reality, at their current Realm, they couldn't unleash even a tenth of the power of Divine-Grade weapons, let alone Myth-Grade ones.

Moreover, these two weapons weren't for Xiao Fan to use, but for his alternate identity, Deceased Blade.

He was now famous; going to the front lines to kill enemies, it was better not to use his real identity, as the danger was too high!

On the way, Xiao Fan was thinking about his future development direction.

It was roughly divided into two parts!

First, Fire of Resistance, but this required his mental strength to increase before he could possess more flames. However, to increase mental strength, he needed to experience truly dangerous battles. Using Deceased Blade as an alternate identity, he wasn't sure if it would be effective.

Second, the second gear. So far, the second gear in his body had not fully solidified; it was still missing something, likely the Realm. The power of the main slot could be confirmed as Fire of Resistance, but what to put in the secondary slot was still unknown for now.

For now, he would temporarily rely on the Deceased Blade alternate identity to go to the battlefield and absorb some essence blood by killing enemies!

Xiao Fan was looking forward to his dual-gear form.

When he fought Helden before, the Fire of Resistance had materialized into a crimson Divine Robe, but the flame concentration was too low now, so he couldn't do it yet.

The dual-gear state would probably involve wearing a crimson Divine Robe outside, with the Demon King Armor as internal Martial Arts.

However, at that time, the Demon King Armor's main purpose should be as a weapon.

The crimson Divine Robe was stronger than the Demon King Armor, mainly in defense. It wasn't afraid of abilities like elemental nullification and wouldn't be extinguished upon contact like the Demon King Armor.

However, Xiao Fan still had one point of confusion.

The Demon King Armor had Packages Martial Arts: “Demon King's Manuscript · Intermediate” and “Omni-Book · Demonic Path Intermediate.”

So, logically, the second gear should also have Packages Martial Arts, but it hadn't appeared yet. Was there a possibility that the gear hadn't solidified precisely because the Packages Martial Arts hadn't been activated yet?

The Demon King Armor's core was Demonic Path.

What was the Fire of Resistance's core? Was it human?

But what kind of Martial Arts would be related to humans?

Although he had doubts, Xiao Fan was not in a hurry. Anyway, now that he used the Fire of Resistance, he was absolutely invincible among his peers.

The struggle between the Demon King Group and the Super God Class seemed to be nothing to worry about.

But Xiao Fan also felt inexplicably nervous.

From childhood to adulthood, he had never obtained such exaggerated power. Although the process of obtaining this power was arduous, he seemed to have never truly seen through the Fire of Resistance!

The problem was still the same: the Fire of Resistance was too powerful, so powerful that it felt like a dream, unreal.

If the rule of this world was equivalent exchange… and the Great General said that this flame burned lifespan,

Then how much lifespan would it burn to exchange for such invincible power?

Xiao Fan thought, in the future, if he could avoid using the Fire of Resistance, he would try his best not to!

Subsequently.

He followed the Great General into a small room with recording equipment.

Then, the Great General's secretary handed him a slip of paper.

Xiao Fan lowered his head and glanced at the note, which read…

“All frontline warriors, please do not worry about whether the modified warrior plan can be mass-produced. I have personally fought against Kuang Xing.”

“I clearly felt that the power within Kuang Xing was extremely unstable. As the only successful case in hundreds of years since the modified warrior plan's inception, he is actually still in a state where he could die at any moment.”

“Moreover, power lies in refinement, not quantity. Those who have experienced many battles should clearly see from the video that Kuang Xing's control over his current powers is still superficial.”

“Most importantly, as long as I am here, any plans of the alien races will appear utterly ridiculous. No one in the entire Demon King Group is my opponent!”

Jiang Shenyi smiled faintly, “Although you won that battle beautifully, there are still many people who are panicked about the modified warriors.”

“War is imminent, so we still need to stabilize morale as much as possible. I'm troubling you.”

Xiao Fan nodded silently, saying, “It's a small matter.”

The people on the front line were very efficient; filming the video only took five minutes.

Afterward, he put on his black robe, transformed into Deceased Blade, and at eight in the morning, left the city to start killing enemies!