In the winter of 1994, an industrial city in Northeast China. Lu Ming, a 17-year-old boy, was in urgent need of money because his mother was seriously ill. He was tricked by his "relatives" into going to the train station and encountered a well-designed "lose the bag and share the money" scam. After being defrauded of all his life-saving money, Lu Ming chased into a dark alley and saw the coldness and cruelty of the world for the first time. Fortunately, he was rescued by "Master Qi", a con man who had lived in seclusion for many years. Master Qi saw that he was born with "thousand-hand bones" and accepted him as his disciple. This volume tells the story of Lu Ming's process of learning thousands of skills from scratch and making his first attempt to kill a liar. It also lays the foundation for the grudges of the eight sects in the world - Master Qi's identity, the "broken scroll" coveted by the stolen sect, and a mysterious enemy named Lin Chaodong. At the end of this volume, Master Qi is assassinated and Lu Ming is forced to go into exile.
