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Chapter 130: The publisher that cannot imitate and takes the blame
Xiaozhi is a junior high school student. After watching the last two episodes of "I Want to Become a Fairy" last month, he fell into a book shortage.

I've been waiting for "God's Tomb" to be released recently.

I felt both extremely anxious and a little nervous.

I'm afraid that the quality of Zhongyuan Yidianhui's new book is not as good as "I Want to Become an Immortal". This is not impossible. Even Huang Yi, who wrote works such as "A Step into the Qin Dynasty", cannot read some of his works.

He also cannot appreciate some of the works of Gu Long and Jin Yong.

Who knows if Zhongyuan Yidianhui’s new book will not suit your taste?
Despite such concerns, when he heard at school this morning that "God's Tomb" was already on the market, he still went to a nearby bookstore to queue up as soon as he got out of school at noon.

What disappointed him a little was that only one episode of "God's Tomb" had arrived so far.

How many chapters are there in one episode?
Doesn't Zhongyuan Yidianhui write two or three episodes every month? Why only one episode was published this time? Is the publisher testing the market again?

That's for sure!
These publishing houses have always been timid and do not want to take any risks. Every time they publish a new book, they always release it one volume at a time. After two or three months, if they see a good market response, they will speed up the publishing process. If the market response is not good, they will notify the author to finish it as soon as possible to reduce the publisher's losses.

Thinking of this possibility, he spat on the ground.

But also a little happy.

Because he doesn't have to worry about it anymore.

On the way here just now, he was still wondering whether he should just buy the first episode to try it out?
If it’s good, I can buy the second episode in the afternoon. If it’s not good, I don’t need to buy the second episode and I can save some money.

With such mixed feelings, he bought a copy and took it back to school.

"God's Tomb", which has more than 18 words per chapter, actually has only chapters in the first volume.

He finished watching the episode before class in the afternoon.

After reading it, he was in a daze, and suddenly slapped the desk, angrily saying: "Damn publishing house! Coward! Bastard! Damn you! Such a good book, and you are still so cowardly? Only one volume was published this month? Who can read this? How am I going to get through the next 29 days? Damn it!"

His angry curse attracted the attention of several students in the classroom.

Several of the students looked curious and puzzled.

But two classmates agreed.

"Yes! This publishing house is too timid! This is Zhongyuan Yidianhui's new book, and they don't even dare to publish an extra episode! Even one extra episode would be great!"

"That's right! When I think about the second episode not being available until next month, I feel like smashing Xinchang's glass."

Xiaozhi was a little surprised that when he scolded the publishing house, someone agreed with him?

But he didn't continue to scold the publishing house with them. Instead, he frowned and said worriedly: "Hey! Do you think Xinchang will publish another volume next month? I remember that this publishing house's practice is to only publish one volume in the first three months, right?"

When the two students heard this, their faces changed slightly.

One of them frowned and said, "No way? Zhongyuan Yidianhui's new book is also doing this? Are they crazy? They don't know how to make money?"

Another classmate said, "It's hard to say! Didn't they only publish one volume this month? How about we call and protest?"

Xiaozhi nodded, "That's a good idea!"

Soon the three of them unanimously decided to call Xinchang to protest after school today.

It just so happens that every book published by Xinchang comes with a contact number.

……

Pizi Cai is also paying attention to Cao Sheng’s new book.

Ever since his "First Intimate Contact" had the same plot as Cao Sheng's "Living with a Flight Attendant", and the heroine Qingwu Feiyang died right after Ran Jing, he was scolded by excited book fans to the point of becoming autistic. After hastily finishing the book, he began to pay attention to Cao Sheng's information intentionally or unintentionally.

He even finished reading Cao Sheng's "I Want to Become an Immortal".

Naturally, I also saw a preview of the new book at the end of the work.

"Tomb of the Gods"?
This book title has been circling in his mind recently.

I'm curious about what kind of story this book tells?
It just so happened that his own work was about to be completed soon, and he thought that if "God's Tomb" was a completely new subject and exciting enough, he might be able to follow suit and write another one.

Previously, he followed the trend of "I Want to Become an Immortal" and wrote "The Long Road to Immortality", which was published very smoothly. The royalties greatly improved his life and made him taste the sweetness.

People are most afraid of getting something good from something.

Because once you have tasted the sweetness, you will be eager to try it next time you have the opportunity, and you will rush forward without anyone's persuasion.

"God's Tomb" was just released today.

So he went and bought one.

With curiosity and a learning attitude, I opened this book in the rental house.

He was mentally prepared to appreciate it slowly.

But when I read the first chapter, I unconsciously sped up my reading speed. It was exciting! So exciting!
In terms of subject matter, it is obviously not as novel as "I Want to Become an Immortal", but the first chapter of "God's Tomb" is about Erlang Shen's three-pointed double-edged sword, Sun Wukong's Ruyi golden hoop, Taishang Laojun's Eight Scenery Palace Lantern, and even Nuwa's map of mountains, rivers, and the country, all of which were picked up by the protagonist. Even though the map of mountains, rivers, and the country that he picked up was in tatters, it was still the map of mountains, rivers, and the country!
Is that something you can just pick up?
He wanted to say this is impossible! It's unscientific!
But the male protagonist is in the Tomb of God, and this Tomb of God is the final battlefield of the war ten thousand years ago, and the place of the final battle between the gods and Buddhas in the sky and the demons from outer space.

In such battlefield ruins, it seems that nothing is surprising to pick up.

What made him a little regretful was that the several books the male protagonist found in the ruins of the imperial study were not actually about cultivation techniques.

but……

Such regret was soon diluted by the speed of cultivation of the male protagonist after he walked out of the God's Tomb.

How could a casual practice cause clouds to move in all directions? The spiritual energy around him was so dense that it formed a vortex of spiritual energy? Was it really that exaggerated?

But when you think about the fact that the male protagonist walked out of the tomb of the gods, it seems quite reasonable.

When he saw the male protagonist using the White Tiger Killing Halberd in his memory, which was the first halberd technique in heaven created by the White Tiger Star Lord who was in charge of weapons and killing, several masters in the Golden Core Realm were killed by the male protagonist who had just recovered to the Foundation Establishment Stage with this halberd technique.

He also killed thirty-six people in one breath.

Ruffian Cai was pleasantly surprised.

He didn't expect that this temple guard (the male protagonist), who thought himself to be ordinary and mediocre, had such amazing halberd skills in his memory.

At the same time, he was also curious about whether there were any more powerful skills in the protagonist's memory?

……

When he came to his senses, he had already finished reading the book "God's Tomb" in his hand.

Only seven days have passed in the book.

The hero’s cultivation has been restored to the late stage of Golden Core from the point at which he had lost all his cultivation at the beginning.

This speed of cultivation still made Ruffian Cai feel incredible after he came to his senses.

How can you practice like this?
When you wrote "I Want to Become an Immortal", the male protagonist's cultivation was also very fast, but not to this extent, right?
Shouldn't a cultivator calculate the time in years when practicing?

It was you who set it up in "I Want to Become an Immortal". Many people would be stuck in one realm for decades. But in "God's Tomb", you let the male protagonist improve his realm at a speed calculated on a day basis?
The enemy set out and rushed to you at full speed. In just this short time, the hero in your novel has broken through two realms? Are you playing?

But he also admitted in his heart that he felt really good when he watched this episode.

The protagonist's cultivation level improves too quickly, causing his enemies to always misjudge his strength.

He really wanted to write a book imitating such a cool work.

He actually opened his computer and created a new document, ready to follow suit.

However, after opening the document, he suddenly felt a little hesitant to do anything when facing the blank document.

Because the plot progresses so quickly and the hero's cultivation level improves so quickly, he doesn't know how to write the rest of the plot?
I can't possibly imitate every episode of "God's Tomb" that comes out, right?

Wouldn’t that be plagiarism?
After sitting in front of the computer for more than an hour, he closed the document on the computer with a wry smile.

He felt that he would not dare to imitate the writing style of this book until he had read the entire content of the book.

He never dreamed that the hero's cultivation would improve so quickly.

He didn't have the confidence to handle such a work.

Unless you only write 200,000 or 300,000 words and finish it.

But that's not what he wanted.

He really wanted to see how long Zhongyuan Yidianhui could write this book. How should such a book be written?
……

On this day, Ke Jingteng also bought the first episode of "God's Tomb".

When he saw it, he was a little dumbfounded.

What the protagonist saw and heard in the tomb of the gods and the magical weapons he picked up left him dumbfounded.

The protagonist's exaggerated recovery speed left him dumbfounded.

The power of the White Tiger Killing Halberd, the magic of the Eight Scenery Palace Lantern, and the protagonist's endless means and magic spells all left him dumbfounded.

The protagonist obviously does not have a high level of cultivation, but he still fights with an aura of killing gods and Buddhas.

What surprised him most was the pace of the book's plot.

The plots are all linked together so tightly.

The only bit of slow plot was the heroic beauty in the book pursuing the protagonist, which also attracted him to watch it.

After watching this episode, he did not open his computer to try to imitate it.

Because he felt he couldn't imitate it.

He had no confidence that he could arrange such a compact, tense and exciting plot.

He even suspected that Zhongyuan Yidianhui's book "God's Tomb" was just a show of skill.

Showing off his skill with plot design.

How can a novel have a plot designed like this?

After reading works like this, will readers still be able to read slow-paced works?

Compared with this book "God's Tomb", what other novel in the world can be said to be not a slow-paced work?
……

Before leaving get off work that evening.

Xinchang’s customer service department’s phone was flooded with calls from readers.

The phone kept ringing.

The two operators were overwhelmed, simply overwhelmed.

Each call came from readers of "Shenmu".

Some people protested that such a good work only had one volume published this month, and strongly demanded that Xinchang quickly publish the second and third volumes.

Someone yelled at me on the phone, questioning why Zhongyuan Yidianhui's works also needed to test the market's reaction? Why only one volume was published?
Someone even threatened on the phone that if only one episode of "God's Tomb" was published next month, the consequences would be at your own risk!

(End of this chapter)