Chapter 90: Martial Arts Style

  "Even if you think this division is problematic, we can still continue to negotiate."

  To keep Zhou Fan, Li Zhi Cheng made another strong move.

  "Don't worry, I'm very satisfied with our current cooperation, and unless something unexpected happens, I won't switch publishers."

  Although it's possible to make some more profit from the current situation, Zhou Fan is not that kind of person who takes advantage of every opportunity. Even if Li Zhi Cheng brought it up first, Zhou Fan wouldn't stoop to such a petty move. After all, he had no objections to the 50-50 split in profits. If you were to divide it again, the publishing company wouldn't make any money at all.

  "Thank you."

  Li Zhi Cheng was deeply moved.

  It's already rare to meet such a writer. You know, in some writers' circles he has contact with, when their works are selling well, they will ask the publishing company to raise the price. Of course, this is also reasonable. But Zhou Fanming knows that there are benefits to be gained, and still maintains his current stance, which is truly rare.

  "Right, judging from the situation, your 'Book of Sword Enchantments' is almost complete."

  "Yes, it's possible that I will finish reading the book recently."

  Jin Yong's works have always been concise, unlike the internet of past lives, which can be hundreds of millions of words. The Book and Sword: Gratitude and Revenge has a total of only 60 million words or so. If Zhou Fan hadn't been controlling the release of chapters all along, it would probably have been finished long ago.

  "When is the next one going to start, or rather, what subject will it be about?"

  "If everything goes smoothly, the next book will be published after the Chinese New Year next year. The theme will still be martial arts. And I can say that the next book is ten times more exciting than 'The Book and the Sword'."

  "Ten times more exciting?"

  Li Zhi Cheng took in a breath of cool air.

  The Book and Sword Enmity Record is already a great reversal of the heavens, with wonderful scenes unfolding, ten times more brilliant than The Book and Sword, truly unimaginable.

  "Yes, you'll know when the time comes."

  Zhou Fan smiled mysteriously. For the next book, Zhou Fan was considering whether to choose "The Legend of the Condor Hero" from the "Condor Trilogy" or "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils". Although he hadn't made up his mind yet, either choice would be more exciting than "The Book and the Sword". Especially since both "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils" and "The Legend of the Condor Hero" had completely left behind the constraints of the imperial court and entered the true world of Jianghu.

  Up to this point, the "wu" and "xia" in wuxia have been fully utilized.

  Only at that time will people discover what true martial arts are.

  "Haha, Brother Yi Fan, you've aroused my desire."

  Li Zhi Cheng burst out laughing. He really wanted to know what Zhou Fan's next work would be. But Zhou Fan didn't say, and he couldn't ask more questions either.

  After all, "The Book and the Sword" has not ended yet.

  "Alright, so I'm looking forward to your next masterpiece then."

  After chatting with Li Zhi Cheng in detail, Zhou Fan came to Tian Kong Wang.

  It's been many days, and "The Legend of Book and Sword" hasn't been updated. I'll update it today then.

  Of course, it's not that Zhou Fan didn't want to update, but with just this little bit of text, he could finish reading it in one breath, and before you know it, there was nothing left to read.

  After glancing over the last three chapters, Zhou Fan didn't want to drag it out any longer and directly released them.

  Three chapters were updated in one breath, which had already shocked tens of thousands of book friends.

  "Brothers, Monday Van big update, GO, grab fresh."

  Everyone has been waiting for a new chapter of "The Record of Sword and Enmity", but it's been a week, and not even one chapter has been released. Many people thought that Zhou Fan had abandoned the book, and some people were even burning incense for him in the comments section. Fortunately, Zhou Fan came back to life. Moreover, he updated three chapters all at once. However, after they finished reading, they suddenly discovered that there were no more chapters after those three.

  Vast and melancholy, vague and ephemeral, the short song ends, the bright moon wanes. The beautiful city is shrouded in gloom, with green blood within. The green too will eventually exhaust itself, the blood too will eventually be extinguished, yet a thread of fragrant soul remains unbroken! Is it or isn't it? Transformed into a butterfly.

  This is the last sentence of "The Legend of Book and Sword", which was written for the deceased Xiangxiang Princess.

  "Well, it's all over now."

  Seeing the three big words "the end", everyone was depressed.

  Such a good book, it's gone in an instant, can't help but feel nostalgic.

  Especially, the death of Xiangxiang Princess had already enraged countless people, and in the final chapter, they saw the depiction of Xiangxiang Princess. They couldn't help but scold Zhou Yifan again after finishing this chapter. However, no matter how much they scolded, "The Book and the Sword" had already ended, and besides, book friends knew that Zhou Yifan wouldn't easily change his work due to readers' preferences.

  "Yes, Xiang Xiang is dead, but what about Huo Qingtong, did she follow Chen Jialuo or..."

  Many book friends also asked about another heroine in the book.

  However, the book does not record it, leaving people with endless imagination.

  Of course, apart from this, someone else sighed, "After reading the whole article, Hong Hua's rebellion against the Qing dynasty still didn't succeed."

  Yes, the establishment of the Red Flower Society was indeed to overthrow the Qing and restore the Ming. Unfortunately, Qianlong didn't die until the very end. And Chen Jialuo and his fellow Red Flower Society disciples probably won't be able to achieve their great cause of overthrowing the Qing again. This should also be what everyone regrets the most. After all, after "The Book and the Sword" was written, everyone considered themselves as Red Flower Society disciples.

  Especially for the three or four thousand friends who participated in the Monday Fan Book Club, the couplet written on the Red Flower Group Heroes Association still lingers in everyone's heart. Unfortunately, such a score can only be a score, just like Water Margin. The list of 108 heroes is still there, but in the end, the great cause of the 108 heroes has not been completed at all.

  What a fate, a good anti-Qing career has disappeared like this.

  However, some people also expressed understanding.

  Some friends think that although "The Book and the Sword" is not a history book, it's a martial arts novel as said by Jin Yong. However, martial arts also take place in our real world. If the anti-Qing revolution had succeeded, there would be no Qing dynasty, and our current society would have changed too. Such a book that changes history probably wouldn't be accepted by the masses either.

  But anyway, the book "The Book and the Sword" not only wrote out the grand and majestic atmosphere of the Jianghu heroes, but also made the peasant uprising without much characteristic more rich and colorful. These are things that cannot be seen in history books. At the same time, this also lets us know that from ancient times to the present, although it is said that the winner becomes the king, those who failed also left a brilliant stroke in this piece of history.

  Just for this, "The Book and the Sword" is a classic work.

  "Well said."

  Seeing this post, countless people applauded with joy.

  This is exactly what they wanted to say. Such a post also makes them see the unpleasantness of finishing the whole book and quickly disappearing.

  Perhaps this doesn't seem like the most perfect ending, but it's actually the best one.

  As for what happened next, I'll leave it up to your imagination.

  Seeing book friends from the initial irrationality to the later rationality, Zhou Fan nodded and stopped worrying.

  In his heart, Zhou Fan was considering what kind of work to release for the second part.

  Is it "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils" or "The Legend of the Condor Hero"?

  If we look at the brilliance of both, they are both brilliant.

  At the same time, the characters in both works are also very vivid.

  No matter if it's Qiao Feng from Tian Long Ba Bu, Guo Jing and Huang Rong from The Legend of the Condor Hero, or Dongfang Bubai, Xidafeng, Nanyi, Beigong.

  Recalling the content of both works, Zhou Yifan has a tendency to prefer The Heavenly Dragon Eight first.

  Because Zhou Fan considered that "The Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils" has an advantage over "The Legend of the Condor Hero", which is that it gets straight to the point, directly entering the theme at the beginning and introducing the protagonist. On the other hand, "The Legend of the Condor Hero" has a problem, which is that the first several hundred thousand words are all about Guo Jing's parents and so on. Even the Jiangnan Seven Freaks had to run for a long time as extras. It wasn't until they reached the desert that Guo Jing finally appeared.

  If so, it would more or less leave readers speechless.

  Just as Zhou Fan decided that his next novel would be "The Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils", he suddenly saw a new martial arts section on Tianya Club.

  Martial Arts Zone.

  The martial arts category was first proposed by Zhou Fan. However, in the previous martial arts section, it was only hung under history and was considered a small category within the larger historical category. But now, martial arts has become a major category on par with history. This sudden change left Zhou Fan somewhat astonished, "No way, they've made martial arts a major category so quickly?"

  Zhou Fan thought that at least he would have one when he finished writing his second book.

  After all, "The Book and the Sword" is a good novel, but it's far from being Jin Yong's best work.

  The most brilliant ones should be "Shooting Eagles and Arrows", "Dragon in the Sky", "Pride of the Swordsman" etc. "Book and Sword" is definitely not among them.

  "Wuyue, when did the sky net open a martial arts category?"

  With doubts, Zhou Fan asked Editor Wu Yue.

  "You don't know, it's been open for several weeks already."

  Wu Yue replied.

  "Oh, I'm really not too sure, I usually just post and leave."

  If it were the previous life, Zhou Fan might have paid more attention to Tian Kong Wang and even studied the various data on this website. However, after coming to this world, Zhou Fan found that he had a lot of things to attend to. Every time he published a new chapter, Zhou Fan would leave immediately. This also made many book friends complain, it seems that Zhou Yi Fan Dada is really busy, very busy.

  Sweat.

  The five mountains are sweating, in the middle of the sky, such an unconcerned person, I guess it's just Zhou Yifan.

  Then, Wu Yue explained to Zhou Fan, "After the popularity of 'The Record of Sword and Book Enmity', many people were attracted to try writing martial arts novels. However, at that time, not enough works had been written. But when it was rumored that your book sold 10 million copies, authors from all over China rushed into the martial arts section like crazy. Feeling the increasing number of martial arts works, we decided to hold a meeting and directly promote the original historical category's martial arts to a major category. Now looking back, the effect is very good, we have seen several good martial arts works appear."

  "Really? Let me see."

  After hearing Wuyue's answer, Zhou Fan opened the martial arts section.

  You'd be surprised, there are actually some pretty good martial arts works. Of course, they don't have the same popularity as Zhou Fan's "Resounding", but they're still quite good. In fact, from the reviews section of these martial arts works, Zhou Fan gained a rough understanding of the situation. It turns out that some of these martial arts works were actually written by well-known authors who originally wrote for physical publication and had switched to writing martial arts novels.

  Seeing these works, Zhou Fan was secretly shocked. "Wow, it seems that the martial arts style is going to sweep across China."

  While thinking in his heart, Zhou Fan logged onto other media websites to see if there were any situations related to martial arts.

  This is unbelievable.

  When "The Legend of Book and Sword" broke through 1 million sets in sales, the entire media was shocked.

  In a world where only 30,000 sets of bestsellers are sold, the data of 1 million sets is simply dazzling to their eyes.

  At this moment, all kinds of media are studying why "The Legend of Book and Sword" can sell so well.

  Later on, it was finally researched out.

  They believe that "The Book and the Sword" created a new genre - wuxia.

  Up to this point, the martial arts style also officially appeared at this time.

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