Chapter 3: Instant hit
"No matter what, Zhu Xian is the book I once neglected sleep and forget about food to read back then, spending several sleepless nights. It is now time to reap the harvest of my hard work from back then. Sigh, why didn't I read more books back then?" Jiang Bai lamented in regret. He opened his computer again and started typing with mad speed, extracting everything from his memory.
With his photographic memory, Jiang Bai did not even need bother trying to recall the contents of the book. Sitting there, his fingers danced around the keyboard. In a few hours, he typed tens of thousands of words. Then, he found the largest Chinese webnovel website of this world, registered an author account, wrote a summary for the book, and submitted two chapters to be edited. After he was done, he stretched lazily and stood up.
"Holy shit!" Jiang Bai’s stomach started rumbling. After working for several hours straight, he was getting hungry again. He wasn’t even full from his first meal in the first place. A miserable expression surfaced on his face as he prepared another bowl of instant noodles for himself. This time, he added two poached eggs and started stuffing the noodles into his mouth.
"Oh, right, I earned five prestige points today. I wonder what I can do with it? System, you here? What can I get with five prestige points?" Jiang Bai suddenly recalled that he could exchange his prestige points for rewards from the system. Thus, he asked in his mind while eating.
"Young man, five prestige points are a tad bit too low. But don't worry. A great system like me is omnipotent. You can still get a lot of rewards with five prestige points. Here, let me list them out." The system's annoying voice rang out.
In truth, Jiang Bai had intended to give this fellow a name. But after he heard that annoying voice, he gave up on that idea. He would just continue calling this fellow system. Next, a list appeared before his eyes. The list looked like it was ripped from some online shopping website. There was a long list, and apart from the names, pictures and detailed introductions were given as well.
First on the list was prestige to cash conversion, one prestige point for RMB 1,000. Jiang Bai found the conversion rate acceptable. In fact, it was higher than expected. But this was a one way conversion, and money couldn't be converted to prestige points. Thus, only an idiot would convert the prestige points to cash.
As Jiang Bai continued going through the list, he started feeling helpless. One computer? One Iphone 6? One high-grade sex doll? Electronic sex toy? He started cursing as he found that with only five prestige points, he couldn't get anything worthwhile at all...
"By the way, the high-leveled mixed martial arts proficiency from the slot machine today, how many prestige points for that?" Jiang Bai asked when he recalled the blue reward, high-leveled mixed martial arts proficiency he saw today.
The system did not say anything. The next second, the screen before Jiang Bai changed. Apart from the high-leveled mixed martial arts proficiency, there were also high-leveled Taekwando proficiency, high-leveled Xingyiquan proficiency, high-leveled Muay Thai proficiency, and so on. In short, a long list of martial arts were listed.
Jiang Bai was shocked to find that high-leveled mixed martial arts proficiency was the cheapest. Even so, it was still priced at 500 prestige points. As for the other martial arts, they were excessively expensive. The high-leveled Xingyiquan proficiency required 1,500 prestige points! What was the concept of 1,500 prestige points? A similar situation like what happened today with Liu Bin where he beat someone up with followers and onlookers, frightening all of them needed to be repeated 300 times to earn that much prestige points.
Three hundred times? If Jiang Bai had to leave seven gaping wounds on someone's head each time like Liu Bin today, not to mention 300 times, just doing it 30 times would probably land him a long time in jail.
"What the hell is this? What a scam!" Jiang Bai couldn't help but to start cursing. Next, he checked the price of the purple reward, photographic memory he had obtained. Then, he felt incomparably lucky to have gotten the reward. Why? Because he found that the ability photographic memory would cost him 100,000 prestige points! Yes! 100,000 prestige points!
That made Jiang Bai felt like he had truly struck jackpot, and all his dissatisfactions vanished. While going through the rewards list, he fell asleep without realizing it. Unknown to him, in many parts of the world, many people were unable to fall asleep due to a certain action of his earlier.
One of these people was a reader with an ash-gray account at the webnovel website. He had some idle time so he decided to check out a random new book he saw. And the first thing he saw when clicking on the book was: "The heavens and earth were cruel, all living beings were akin to dogs for the slaughter!"
"Huh? Interesting...let's read more..."
"There were no gods in this world. But since time immemorial, humanity observed that there were numerous natural phenomenons from the world around them such as lightning bolts, howling winds, torrential rains, and natural calamities capable of causing countless deaths. These phenomenons were seemingly unstoppable. Thus, humanity came to the conclusion that on the ninth heaven above them, there were various deities, while deep down in the underworld, there were numerous spirits and devils where Yama, the King of Hell resided."
"Thus began the legend of gods..."
As the owner of an ash-gray account, Qin Feng frequently spend his nights reading books online. He mostly focused on Wuxia books, and longed deeply for the life of those Wuxia heroes that were so carefree and powerful. As for those romance books which emphasized greatly on emotions and relationships, he viewed those books with disdain.
With the rise of internet, many people started reading online. Even so, the contents of the books were mostly similar. Thus, some people started getting burnt out by the same rehashed generic plots. Even so, they still greatly enjoyed reading online, and Qin Feng was one such person. However, it had been a year since he had lost the initial passion he had toward these books. But this particular new book seemed to have given him those feelings all over again. He had only read two paragraphs, yet an incredibly magical and majestic world had been laid before him, something that was completely different than what he had seen before.
"Holy shit! A human can have a lifespan of 300 years? Thousands of years? Qingyun Sect? Six Character Bright Curse? This...this...damn it! Why are there only two chapters?"
Two chapters were sufficient to completely suck Qin Feng in. Alas, the joy of reading ended soon for him, causing him to curse. After smoking a cigarette and thinking about it, Qin Feng decided to recommend this book to all his friends. He could not afford to allow a good book like this to be buried. What if the author stopped because of low views? It would be too much of a loss!
The background and setting of this book, the narrative style of this book, they were something he had never seen before. And Qin Feng was not the only one who had this thought. In fact, several dozen people were reading this book at the same time, all coming to the same conclusion. In a few minutes, the readers multiplied to several hundreds, then several thousands...and on and on it went.
Thus, the first abnormality since the establishment of the webnovel website appeared. A book that had only released two chapters took the entire internet by storm. In the span of one night, it accumulated over 80,000 views. Donations started raining in. Although each individual donation was small in amount, but with hundreds of people donating, this book with only two chapters released became a new hit, occupying the top spot on the new book ranking.
All that was unknown to Jiang Bai. He was busy sleeping and dreaming of his future great life, drawing up a blueprint for his future life in his dream. At noon the next day, the first thing he did after waking up was to open his computer and post some more chapters.
When Jiang Bai opened his instant messenger software, a message appeared. The message had arrived from an editor of the website. He had a simple screen name: Second Fatty. He immediately offered Jiang Bai a contract. After the contract was signed, he started giving Jiang Bai encouragements and various suggestions. Done with all that, Jiang Bai finally had the time to check the status of the book he pirated. He was shocked by what he saw. A total of 120,000 views and 10,000 shares!
That stunned Jiang Bai. That result was in fact quite shocking. Even though he did not know too much about the webnovel industry, he knew that such a terrifying result was something unheard of in his previous life.
Chapter 3: Instant hit
"No matter what, Zhu Xian is the book I once neglected sleep and forget about food to read back then, spending several sleepless nights. It is now time to reap the harvest of my hard work from back then. Sigh, why didn't I read more books back then?" Jiang Bai lamented in regret. He opened his computer again and started typing with mad speed, extracting everything from his memory.
With his photographic memory, Jiang Bai did not even need bother trying to recall the contents of the book. Sitting there, his fingers danced around the keyboard. In a few hours, he typed tens of thousands of words. Then, he found the largest Chinese webnovel website of this world, registered an author account, wrote a summary for the book, and submitted two chapters to be edited. After he was done, he stretched lazily and stood up.
"Holy shit!" Jiang Bai’s stomach started rumbling. After working for several hours straight, he was getting hungry again. He wasn’t even full from his first meal in the first place. A miserable expression surfaced on his face as he prepared another bowl of instant noodles for himself. This time, he added two poached eggs and started stuffing the noodles into his mouth.
"Oh, right, I earned five prestige points today. I wonder what I can do with it? System, you here? What can I get with five prestige points?" Jiang Bai suddenly recalled that he could exchange his prestige points for rewards from the system. Thus, he asked in his mind while eating.
"Young man, five prestige points are a tad bit too low. But don't worry. A great system like me is omnipotent. You can still get a lot of rewards with five prestige points. Here, let me list them out." The system's annoying voice rang out.
In truth, Jiang Bai had intended to give this fellow a name. But after he heard that annoying voice, he gave up on that idea. He would just continue calling this fellow system. Next, a list appeared before his eyes. The list looked like it was ripped from some online shopping website. There was a long list, and apart from the names, pictures and detailed introductions were given as well.
First on the list was prestige to cash conversion, one prestige point for RMB 1,000. Jiang Bai found the conversion rate acceptable. In fact, it was higher than expected. But this was a one way conversion, and money couldn't be converted to prestige points. Thus, only an idiot would convert the prestige points to cash.
As Jiang Bai continued going through the list, he started feeling helpless. One computer? One Iphone 6? One high-grade sex doll? Electronic sex toy? He started cursing as he found that with only five prestige points, he couldn't get anything worthwhile at all...
"By the way, the high-leveled mixed martial arts proficiency from the slot machine today, how many prestige points for that?" Jiang Bai asked when he recalled the blue reward, high-leveled mixed martial arts proficiency he saw today.
The system did not say anything. The next second, the screen before Jiang Bai changed. Apart from the high-leveled mixed martial arts proficiency, there were also high-leveled Taekwando proficiency, high-leveled Xingyiquan proficiency, high-leveled Muay Thai proficiency, and so on. In short, a long list of martial arts were listed.
Jiang Bai was shocked to find that high-leveled mixed martial arts proficiency was the cheapest. Even so, it was still priced at 500 prestige points. As for the other martial arts, they were excessively expensive. The high-leveled Xingyiquan proficiency required 1,500 prestige points! What was the concept of 1,500 prestige points? A similar situation like what happened today with Liu Bin where he beat someone up with followers and onlookers, frightening all of them needed to be repeated 300 times to earn that much prestige points.
Three hundred times? If Jiang Bai had to leave seven gaping wounds on someone's head each time like Liu Bin today, not to mention 300 times, just doing it 30 times would probably land him a long time in jail.
"What the hell is this? What a scam!" Jiang Bai couldn't help but to start cursing. Next, he checked the price of the purple reward, photographic memory he had obtained. Then, he felt incomparably lucky to have gotten the reward. Why? Because he found that the ability photographic memory would cost him 100,000 prestige points! Yes! 100,000 prestige points!
That made Jiang Bai felt like he had truly struck jackpot, and all his dissatisfactions vanished. While going through the rewards list, he fell asleep without realizing it. Unknown to him, in many parts of the world, many people were unable to fall asleep due to a certain action of his earlier.
One of these people was a reader with an ash-gray account at the webnovel website. He had some idle time so he decided to check out a random new book he saw. And the first thing he saw when clicking on the book was: "The heavens and earth were cruel, all living beings were akin to dogs for the slaughter!"
"Huh? Interesting...let's read more..."
"There were no gods in this world. But since time immemorial, humanity observed that there were numerous natural phenomenons from the world around them such as lightning bolts, howling winds, torrential rains, and natural calamities capable of causing countless deaths. These phenomenons were seemingly unstoppable. Thus, humanity came to the conclusion that on the ninth heaven above them, there were various deities, while deep down in the underworld, there were numerous spirits and devils where Yama, the King of Hell resided."
"Thus began the legend of gods..."
As the owner of an ash-gray account, Qin Feng frequently spend his nights reading books online. He mostly focused on Wuxia books, and longed deeply for the life of those Wuxia heroes that were so carefree and powerful. As for those romance books which emphasized greatly on emotions and relationships, he viewed those books with disdain.
With the rise of internet, many people started reading online. Even so, the contents of the books were mostly similar. Thus, some people started getting burnt out by the same rehashed generic plots. Even so, they still greatly enjoyed reading online, and Qin Feng was one such person. However, it had been a year since he had lost the initial passion he had toward these books. But this particular new book seemed to have given him those feelings all over again. He had only read two paragraphs, yet an incredibly magical and majestic world had been laid before him, something that was completely different than what he had seen before.
"Holy shit! A human can have a lifespan of 300 years? Thousands of years? Qingyun Sect? Six Character Bright Curse? This...this...damn it! Why are there only two chapters?"
Two chapters were sufficient to completely suck Qin Feng in. Alas, the joy of reading ended soon for him, causing him to curse. After smoking a cigarette and thinking about it, Qin Feng decided to recommend this book to all his friends. He could not afford to allow a good book like this to be buried. What if the author stopped because of low views? It would be too much of a loss!
The background and setting of this book, the narrative style of this book, they were something he had never seen before. And Qin Feng was not the only one who had this thought. In fact, several dozen people were reading this book at the same time, all coming to the same conclusion. In a few minutes, the readers multiplied to several hundreds, then several thousands...and on and on it went.
Thus, the first abnormality since the establishment of the webnovel website appeared. A book that had only released two chapters took the entire internet by storm. In the span of one night, it accumulated over 80,000 views. Donations started raining in. Although each individual donation was small in amount, but with hundreds of people donating, this book with only two chapters released became a new hit, occupying the top spot on the new book ranking.
All that was unknown to Jiang Bai. He was busy sleeping and dreaming of his future great life, drawing up a blueprint for his future life in his dream. At noon the next day, the first thing he did after waking up was to open his computer and post some more chapters.
When Jiang Bai opened his instant messenger software, a message appeared. The message had arrived from an editor of the website. He had a simple screen name: Second Fatty. He immediately offered Jiang Bai a contract. After the contract was signed, he started giving Jiang Bai encouragements and various suggestions. Done with all that, Jiang Bai finally had the time to check the status of the book he pirated. He was shocked by what he saw. A total of 120,000 views and 10,000 shares!
That stunned Jiang Bai. That result was in fact quite shocking. Even though he did not know too much about the webnovel industry, he knew that such a terrifying result was something unheard of in his previous life.
