Cang's Ramblings

Chapter 1002: 998. Comments on "Yang Shen"

Hello everyone, I am Cang Yiwei.

Today I would like to recommend a classic fantasy novel to you.

"Yang Shen", Meng Ru Shen Ji, level 5 author.

Category: Xianxia-Fantasy cultivation of immortality.

【Introduction】

The world is a big sea of ​​suffering.

People are in the sea.

The body is a ship.

The soul is the person in the boat.

The boat carries people and continues to the other shore.

Is it to cultivate the body, strengthen the hull, and reach the other side of the sea of ​​suffering?
Or is it to cultivate the soul and make the people on the boat familiar with water?
Practice martial arts and become an immortal.

Become a god by cultivating immortality.

Which one should I choose?

The levels of martial arts life cultivation: "training the flesh" means martial artist, "training the tendons" means martial apprentice, "training the skin" means warrior, "training the bones" means martial artist, "training the internal organs" means innate martial artist, "training the bone marrow" means grand master, "transfusing blood" means martial saint, and "training the orifices" means human immortal.

The levels of spiritual cultivation: calming the mind, hatching, night travel, day travel, driving away objects {yin spirit}, revealing form, possession, taking over another body {ghost immortal}, thunder tribulation, yang spirit {divine immortal}.

【Brief Comment】

I won’t go into too much detail about Mengrushenji.

"The Buddha is the Tao" pioneered the primitive style and single-handedly carried the banner of the fairy-tale novels in 06; "The Legend of Dragons and Snakes" promoted the national martial arts style and was the culmination of the national martial arts style; "Yang Shen" ranked first in the monthly ticket rankings for eight consecutive months and ascended the throne of "the number one god" on Qidian that year; "Eternal Life" pioneered the "cannibalism style", and so on.

Many readers firmly believe that "Yang Shen" is his best book, which is even more brilliant than "The Buddha is the Tao" on the surface.

After a trial reading, I discovered that this 2009 Xianxia novel has profoundly influenced many similar novels today. The protagonist is named Hong Yi, who later becomes Yi Zi. After devouring the Dream God Machine, Hong Yi stands atop the South China Sea, not leaving, but gazing into the endless void. "My power is limitless, and I wonder how many epochs it will take to achieve my aspirations?"

At the beginning, Hong Yi was just the child of a concubine in the Marquis's family. He had no inheritance rights and could barely go to school. He couldn't even afford the money to take the imperial examination.

However, he wrote good poems, and the Duke of Li praised him highly and even gave him rewards, all of which were rejected by the protagonist.

In order to prepare for the imperial examination, he went to Xishan to study hard. At night, he met Princess Yuan, who asked him to teach a group of pure foxes.

In the fox demon's cave, he saw that the demon was also interested in studying. This plot is very similar to the beginning of "Walking to the Abyss".

Later, the young Duke of Li and his entourage head into the mountains to hunt foxes in great fanfare. The protagonist, captivated by the foxes, wants to do something to protect them, but knows he's no match for them.

Bai Ziyue, one of the Eight Great Demon Immortals, took action, shouted back his opponent, and guided the protagonist in the method of cultivation. "Bull Demon Power Fist" appeared again. Seeing this martial art, I think many readers are familiar with it, because many novels have this martial art, as well as various derivative versions.

Some readers were quite amusing, suggesting that Meng Rushenji had opened his own martial arts school, pursuing the very pinnacle of martial arts described in the book: training marrow like frost, training blood like mercury. Reborn, shaving hair and cleansing marrow. These were all familiar words. This was cultivation, wasn't it?

There are also descriptions of the Martial Saint and the Yang God, which are both intimate and touching. However, the ending is really not very good.

However, the most passionate part was his declaration in March 2010 to compete for the monthly vote ranking: "Hit hard! Beat my opponent until he loses his temper! Beat him until he never dares to challenge for the first place!"

This is what it means to compete for the rankings. Look at the platinums and great players on the monthly ticket list now. Their declarations of competing for the rankings are too gentle!
Finally, I'm curious, who were the people who worked on "Yang Shen" at the same time? Chen Dong, Fanqie, Er Gen, Wang Yu? Interested readers can search and see which of his contemporaries were kept platinum by him for eight months?

【to sum up】

Writing is not easy, so cherish every moment.

I’m Cang Yiwei, and I’m here to promote “Cang’s Ramblings”.

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【Cang's Ramblings】

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