No one had ever imagined that a League pro could make a name for himself in so many games.
Honor of Kings was one thing—at least it was the same genre.
By Brother Infinite Borders' logic, training League through Honor of Kings was barely explainable…
So performing well there was normal.
But being this good at CF—casually killing even cheaters—was truly absurd.
And then today he suddenly pulled out Don't Starve Together too…
How many games does Brother Infinite Borders play that people still don't know about?
"Brother Infinite Borders, be honest—what games do you NOT play? Let's play together."
"Does anyone even play VALORANT in China?"
"These competitive shooters are basically the same. Brother Infinite Borders is cracked at CF and CS. Even if he can't use the hero skills, he'd still stomp with pure aim."
"Got any connections? Let's go VALO together!"
"At Tencent's pace, we'll definitely see it next year. When that happens, everyone play together. With Riot's style, they'll definitely crack down hard on cheating."
"I actually haven't played VALORANT. I don't even know what to set up. I heard from Tempo and the others that there are ways, but I haven't had time lately."
Hearing that, everyone thought about it—true.
This afternoon was the Douyu Cup finals, and in a couple days it was Spring Split finals. If they won, they'd go to MSI.
No time indeed. VALORANT plans had to be postponed.
"Infinite Borders finally posted the announcement. The settlement is into Season 2. Not gonna lie, I haven't played S2 in a long time. Since it's not an 8-cost start and there's no Command Hall, I'll need to study more. Can't mess it up, or I'll be letting down the nickname you gave me."
"Then I'd have no face calling you Brother Infinite Borders."
If your early progression goes smoothly, you can hit 5500 in 24 hours easily.
To be honest, Lin Fan was once a World Cup top-30 player.
Infinite Borders has a lot of formulas, but you still need real game sense.
Sometimes you look at someone's troop type swaps and their stat points and it feels weird as hell—then they march out and hard-stomp you anyway.
Even whiteboard, low-red, or full-red—everyone gets tested.
Once someone develops a new style, the whole Infinite Borders scene copies it like crazy.
Of course, after all these years, the game's potential has been mined almost completely.
Unless they release new cards, new archetypes, or a new treasure system that changes the meta,
otherwise the same five teams sit in your main city no matter what.
And at the core of the core is always the Divine Arms Showcase system.
Chat heard Lin Fan say that, and everyone's brains went blank.
"Damn. I thought Brother Infinite Borders meant Spring Split finals, then MSI if they win… and the twist is here?"
"I'm numb. Infinite Borders really is his true love."
"But S2 early progression really is hard. You have to level up step by step. I think the best is still a 7.5-cost lineup. Beauty Trap is pretty good."
"I remember my S2 was Ghost Lu Bu, Da Qiao, Zhen Luo. That's exactly 7.5-cost, and once you upgrade, it feels great. Opening five and six is no pressure."
"Brother Infinite Borders, if you're running Ghost Lu Bu 'Hooligan,' is Zhang Ji better or Zhen Luo?"
Lin Fan read the Infinite Borders questions pretty closely.
"Depends on your tactics. If you can run 'Battle Must' and 'Anti-Plan,' Zhen Luo is way stronger than Zhang Ji—way stronger. If you don't have those, Zhang Ji is more suitable."
"And Chunhua can't try to copy Sun Quan. Jiang Wei is even worse."
"In three days I can stream the early progression, then I'll pull my Ghost Lu Bu. I have to full-red him."
"Uh-oh. I see Brother Infinite Borders' eyes glowing. Do you guys feel the crisis?"
"It's starting. Infinite Borders is about to dominate stream time."
"From this moment on, the stream category officially switches to Infinite Borders."
"Damn it—then we won't see other games!"
"That's actually serious."
"Hey, hey—are you all derailing? Next is the Spring Split finals. It's huge!"
"I'll say it now: if mid lane ints in finals, I'm going to flame every single game he plays."
Lin Fan didn't pay attention to the rest of the chat.
He hummed a tune, opened Infinite Borders, scanned the code, and logged in.
"Haven't logged in for a long time. I wasted days of monthly card. If the group chat hadn't just notified me that settlement time is out, I wouldn't even know when to log in."
Infinite Borders was weird like that. During early progression, everyone is hyped, racing rankings.
If you develop well, you can't wait to fight.
But after mid-game clashes, you enter a slack period—passion isn't as high.
Then once everything is settled and you're just grinding merit points, you don't even feel like logging in.
Even if you see it, you won't log in.
"All this stamina is capped. I'll just fire a couple shots for fun. Infinite Borders entertainment for half an hour."
He glanced at his message panel—tons of messages.
From alliance leaders and randoms alike.
After all, "Li Xunhuan" was a famous ID. He'd streamed plenty and never hid his ID.
In S1, anyone could apply and join. A lot of fans who never played before joined just to add him as a friend.
So the spam was heavy.
"Brother, got a conquest group?" Brave Guanguan messaged him.
That "Ma Mei stacking blade" play left a deep impression, plus his ridiculous early progression data.
By Lin Fan's estimation, this guy was probably a World Cup top-10 player.
"No," Lin Fan replied casually.
That old small group was gone now. Unless he ran into them again someday, there was no way to reconnect.
But the chance was low. Infinite Borders has a relatively small playerbase.
And in Conquest starts, meeting again was pure coincidence unless two big alliances arranged a match.
Now that they'd lost contact, meeting again was even harder.
"Then come with us. We've got a small conquest group."
He didn't expect an instant reply.
"We'll see. There's still a whole season. Once we get to Conquest, we'll talk then."
Infinite Borders removed S3. When S2 ends, you go straight into prep.
So there was no need to agree so early.
Being good at the game was one thing, but teaming up depended on character.
This game really exposes character—selling alliances and selling conquest happens all the time.
Brave Guanguan understood.
Lin Fan logged in, fired a couple shots, burned his troops, and gained tens of thousands more merit points.
"Charged up. Sure enough, logging into Infinite Borders makes me feel way better. Looking at report after report, I feel like today is stable!"
"Uh-oh. The last streamer who said that got eliminated."
"Honglian popped champagne at halftime and got G'd in finals."
"Shen Chao hasn't done qualifiers in years, right? Gets eliminated every time."
"Old people can't keep up. TFT still needs speed and flexibility."
"Fortune was really speed-heavy. Shimmerscale doesn't need that much."
Like before, at 5:30 he went to the cafeteria for dinner, and by 5:50 he was seated at his PC.
Douyu officials sent the room password.
He found the room and joined immediately.
The finals lineup was obviously different from the qualifiers.
Everyone was a monster: Xun-ge, Liliuo, Ahao…
Getting top two would be extremely hard.
The rules changed too: to end the tournament, someone had to reach 16 points and win first place.
In that case, once someone hit match point, the other streamers would target them hard.
The competitiveness was maxed out. There was no way to play "for fun" like qualifiers.
Every game had to be played with the strongest comps.
The moment he loaded in, Lin Fan headed straight for attack speed.
At this high level, Adventure Xayah Knife was the safest for points. Once it forms, you're basically top two.
Unless there's a monster comp that can crush a completed Xayah Knife.
But this opener wasn't smooth. He grabbed attack speed, but he didn't have the unit quality to win-streak.
He thought for a moment and decided to look at the Augment and see whether to force levels for a win-streak.
The first Augment was Tome of Traits.
He picked it immediately.
That way he could lock his direction early. If he chose loss-streak, he wouldn't get baited by units and wobble.
One clear target makes your brain stay clean.
He opened the tome and saw a Dragonmancer Flame emblem.
Any hesitation?
Instant pick. This game had to be Dragonmancer Flame Daeja.
With attack speed, he only needed a rod to make Rageblade, then Quicksilver—full build.
And the comp was easy to assemble. Not many people played Corki. The only tricky roll was Sona, since some players would take her as an Evoker synergy filler.
With the comp locked, he decided to loss-streak for items.
Juanzi was also loss-streaking. The two started mind games.
At neutrals, Lin Fan went ruthless—he sold all units!
Juanzi didn't have Lin Fan's guts.
When they collided, Lin Fan's five-loss streak held.
But by Krugs he only had 64 HP.
He'd basically been full-smacked every round. The pressure was huge.
Now his fate was in the rolls.
And everyone was spiking fast—wait too long and the pool empties. Everyone's boards were terrifying.
If he didn't hit units to stop the bleeding, he could genuinely loss-streak straight out.
At level six, Lin Fan started rolling.
Two rolls and he hit Daeja! He found Leona, then added Sejuani to hit four Mirage.
This game's Mirage effect was perfect too—Duelist's Dexterity.
With Rageblade plus Dragonmancer Flame, the power spiked instantly.
He quickly found Jinx, Tahm Kench, and Shen.
Now his board was the strongest on the field.
He could finally breathe.
"Brother Infinite Borders just hit three Dragonmancer Flames, four Mirage, two Bruisers frontline—his backline carry quality is insane. Is this 'words become reality'? Are we watching immortal arts with our own eyes?"
"The moment that emblem dropped, Brother Infinite Borders already had the whole plan. Kind of absurd."
"This game, Brother Infinite Borders is extremely competitive. Stabilize HP, transition smoothly to eight—if he can go nine, I think he probably eats."
Lin Fan's chat was flying.
"This is an illegal high-roll."
"Daeja has no shame."
"This is the real 'think it and it appears' art. Fireworks emblem, then level six—two rolls and Daeja."
"Can't learn it, can't learn it."
With the right direction, stabilizing was easy.
Win-streak to eight, but by then the other players were spiking too.
He couldn't force a full lock-streak anymore.
Even into 6-4, there were still six players left, all at similar HP.
That alone showed how intense it was.
TFT players were calling it peak.
This was real top-level fighting.
"I have to find two-star Yasuo. Xun-ge's Jade 9-5 quality is too high."
He'd just fought it and got his whole margin for error erased.
So he had no choice—push nine, spend twenty gold, and see if he could hit two-star Yasuo.
Instant nine!
Roll once.
Nothing.
Roll twice—still nothing.
That was normal. Everyone relaxed.
If he could get whatever he wanted, who could handle it?
But on the fourth roll—three Yasuos.
"Damn it!"
"What kind of nonsense is this?"
"Sell Leona, slot him in. The gold is exactly enough to buy two-star Yasuo."
"Is the system calculating this?"
"Eat, eat, eat!"
With two-star Yasuo, the comp finally completed. Full synergies.
Then his mouse flew—rapid movement, nonstop board swaps.
He swapped sides instantly and successfully matched into the opponent's Soraka.
"It's done! He's Jade 9-5. Yasuo can cut in from here and delete his Soraka first!"
Without Soraka's sustain, Neeko's frontline couldn't tank like before.
Juanzi saw Yasuo matched into his Soraka and went dizzy.
"Brother Infinite Borders' board swap is insane. He switched from left side to right side instantly."
Before the fight even started, everyone was already praising.
And Yasuo delivered.
He sliced from bottom to top.
Soraka deleted, then Zoe, then Bard.
Dragonmancer Flame fireworks kept exploding too.
Crush!
Not full-smack, but still seven-smack.
Juanzi at 15 HP got sent out instantly.
Victory screen.
"Beautiful. Brother Infinite Borders with a perfect sequence—first high-rolling two-star Yasuo, then the board 'Living Shadow' swap. He styled on Juanzi."
"Yeah. Juanzi definitely didn't expect that he could move from the left side of the board to the right side instantly."
"This game felt amazing. Fighting monsters really is different."
And it's true—without two-star Yasuo, even cutting in wouldn't matter.
Only with two-star Yasuo can you actually win.
Then he could reach the backline. That was the foundation of victory.
"Who said TFT doesn't need speed anymore? Step forward."
"Brother Infinite Borders is absurd."
"I want to ask—how do you even swap like that? In the blink of an eye, the whole board changes?"
"Besides immortal arts, the other thing you can't learn is hand speed."
"Hahaha. Before the finals I imagined this exact scene. Didn't expect it to actually happen."
"First, take eight points. Do you think it ends in three games?"
"You kidding? Brother Infinite Borders is here to wreck the place!"
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