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Chapter 1431: Chapter 1181: Great Might Tianlong

A bookstore.

Lu Yang covertly observed the sales situation of two novels.

What frustrated Lu Yang was:

His own “The Thousand-Mile Journey” was selling well, but compared to Chu Kuang’s wuxia novel, it was clearly lacking some appeal.

What nearly made Lu Yang cough up blood was:

He also encountered fans of Chu Kuang shouting “Support Lu Yang” while purchasing “Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils”.

Crazy people!

You said you were supporting me?

Feels like you’re only supporting me with words?

Shouting so fiercely, yet all they bought was “Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils”!

The fiercer the shouting, the more they bought!

Such a trap!

Such a total trap!

Taking a deep breath, Lu Yang calmed himself: “Chu Kuang’s sales are indeed impressive, but the Blue Star author rankings take sales as just one reference point. What I need to compete on is reputation, and once my reputation rises, who says sales can’t overtake his?”

That’s right!

Reputation!

Lu Yang sneakily bought ten copies of “The Thousand-Mile Journey” before leaving alone.

Soon after.

The bookstore’s first wave of sales frenzy ended.

The number of book buyers finally wasn’t as crazy as at the beginning.

At the same time.

Readers who bought books went home and started reading immediately.

…

The novel “The Thousand-Mile Journey”.

Smooth writing, perfect pacing, profound content, interesting story, skillful technique.

Lu Yang truly deserves to be the top writer on Blue Star, as readers only need a few chapters to see the outline of a fantastical and magnificent story.

As if opening the door to a beautiful new world.

Many were captivated.

Forums across the continents.

“Master Lu indeed hasn’t lost his touch, the first three chapters have me completely hooked!”

“Is this the legendary golden three chapters?”

“Feels like Teacher Lu Yang is even better than before his hiatus!”

“No wonder the comeback!”

“So powerful!”

“The protagonist’s lines are so classic!”

“The visual sense of the story is very good too!”

“More literary than before, although I love it, it feels unsuitable for binge reading.”

“Good books need to be savored slowly.”

“You think you’re reading Chu Kuang’s wuxia novel, where it’s thrilling and fast-paced, learning martial arts after falling off a cliff?”

“It’s Lu Yang’s writing that really packs a punch!”

“If Teacher Lu Yang ever retires, it would be a loss for Blue Star’s literary world.”

“Feeling like Master Lu has stabilized this wave, this book seems very promising to become his new masterpiece!”

…

On the other side.

Chu Kuang’s readers also opened “Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils”.

Unexpectedly, the beginning wasn’t directly entering the plot, but rather an introduction.

To be exact, it’s an explanation of terms.

[“Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils” is a term from Buddhist scriptures. In many Mahayana sutras, when Buddha speaks to Bodhisattvas, Bhikkhus, etc., the Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils are often present, listening to the teachings. As in the “Lotus Sutra: Chapter of Devadatta”: “Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, humans and non-humans, all remotely saw the dragon princess attain Buddhahood.”]

As guessed by the popular professor.

This novel is related to Buddhism.

And at the end of the script, it briefly introduces the novel’s background.

[The historical background of the Legend of the Condor Heroes trilogy is fictional, that is, the well-known “Song Dynasty”.

Similarly, the Dali Kingdom is fictional.

It’s a Buddhist country, where emperors are devout followers of Buddhism.

The Southern Emperor, Prince Zhengchun, mentioned early in the Legend of the Condor Heroes, was the emperor of the Dali Kingdom.

The story of this book also occurs in the Song Dynasty.

To be precise, it takes place during the reign of Northern Song Emperor Zhezong, between 1094 and the ensuing years.]

The novel introduces the eight Buddhist divisions.

The end even provides the specific era of this fictional kingdom.

Other people writing fictional novels often use it just as a superficial term.

But Chu Kuang’s fictional kingdom always feels so real, as if it genuinely existed.

This sense of reality has always intrigued the public.

For this new book, it seems to be another background supplement to Chu Kuang’s fictional world.

Interest piqued.

Readers gleefully opened the first chapter.

…

A novel of 1.5 million words cannot be read in just one day.

Fast readers might finish in two days.

Slow readers might take three days.

Or even longer.

Chu Kuang’s “Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils” is like that.

Lu Yang’s “The Thousand-Mile Journey” is also like that, a novel with 1.3 million words.

In terms of length, the gap between their new books isn’t significant.

When evening arrived.

Lu Yang’s readers were even more excited.

“Teacher Lu Yang’s new book is getting more flavorful the more I read!”

“Totally falling in love!”

“I’m reading slowly, savoring every line.”

“Yesterday, it seemed this book might become Teacher Lu Yang’s new masterpiece, but today that still feels accurate, just with a different style than before, an ineffable feeling.”

“Too much stream of consciousness.”

“Later in the plot, there’s some heartache, inexplicable frustration, yet his writing has a charm that’s irresistible.”

“It’s a work deserving a score over nine.”

“By the way.”

“Who knows how it’s going with ‘Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils’?”

“Don’t know.”

“And who cares.”

“Let’s keep reading our book, Chu Kuang is bound to lose!”

…

At home.

My sister was reading.

Lin Yuan was beside her, feeding Antarctica water.

Suddenly.

My sister asked Lin Yuan, “Why don’t you read a book?”

Lin Yuan replied casually, “I’ve already read it eight hundred times.”

My sister paused, then asked, “What do you think of this book?”

What about this book?

Lin Yuan originally planned to say that it showcases Jin Yong’s profound scholarship in wuxia novels.

Before “Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils”, Jin Yong used traditional Confucianism to recount and interpret martial arts.

From Chen Jialuo, Yuan Chengzhi to Guo Jing, Zhang Wuji, their voluntary or involuntary patriotic hearts demonstrated this.

Jin Yong used these protagonists to express his views on life.

With the emergence of “Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils”, Jin Yong began using Buddhism’s “great compassion” to resolve desire and obsession!

In this work, he employs Buddhist teachings of “abandon greed”, “abandon love”, “abandon acquisition”, “abandon obsession” to guide readers, enhancing the philosophical and ideological depth of wuxia novels.

Wuxia then entered mainstream literature alongside traditional literature.

But clearly such remarks weren’t suitable for his sister, who didn’t know who Jin Yong was, or who Chen Jialuo and Yuan Chengzhi were.

So he asked, “Where are you in the book?”

Big Yaoyao responded: “Xiao Feng fell in love with Zhu, but he discovers Prince Zhengchun might be the ringleader who harmed his parents years ago.”

Lin Yuan thought for a moment, then silently stood up and said, “I’ll make you some noodles.”

Big Yaoyao: ???

Ten minutes later.

Big Yaoyao tearfully ate a bowl of noodles.

Her tears fell onto the egg floating in the broth.

Meanwhile, Lin Yuan wisely avoided all online comments.

Until the second night after the novel’s release, he dared to log into Chu Kuang’s account and go online.

As soon as he went online, he saw someone had mentioned him; it was the honorary professor from a certain university who previously wrote an essay criticizing Chu Kuang’s worsening wuxia writing:

“You really managed to soar like a dragon in the sky!”

Lin Yuan laughed.

This wave is called “Great Mighty Tianlong!”

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