Writing Novels Will Make You Invincible

Chapter 22 : The First Time in Life Gift Pack Series

The First Time in Life Gift Pack Series

At twelve o'clock midnight, Chu Tianxing's novel went live on the premium service and he immediately dropped thirty chapters in one explosive release.

Although he had long since evolved into the evil 2K-chapter club member, thirty chapters still meant over sixty thousand words. That’s a lot of words for one update.

This massive drop absolutely set the comment section on fire. Readers who'd stayed up waiting for updates flooded in with comments, singing his praises left and right.

2K-chapter club: Great Author Skywalker's work ethic is incredible. I've got nothing to say except for full subscription support!

XiaoHu2215: Nothing more to say. I'm opening ten alt accounts right now and subscribing with all of them!

AudaciousBaldDonkeyHowDareYouSnatchTheDaoistMasterFromThisPoorNun: Benefactor Hu's only opening ten alts? How stingy. This poor nun shall create a hundred, starting with a full subscription for each. On another note, my heart aches for the Great Author Skywalker. To update this much every day, how many years must you have been single to train up a hand speed like that? Why don't you drop your contact info, my dear author? Maybe this poor nun can help you put that hand speed to its real intended use~ ♡

EunuchLi: This is a travesty! Skywalker's explosive updates are going to spoil readers rotten. Other authors will have to follow suit just to keep their readers. How can they maintain quality if everyone starts mass-releasing like this? The whole web novel scene is going to hell; no one's going to bother crafting quality work anymore. We'll all drown in a flood of trash writing! Absolutely heartbreaking!

LoveIsAGreenHolyLight: Huh, eunuch up there sounds so heartbroken, but looking at your fan level... aren’t you a full subscriber too?

BookFriend201121254: Poor student here, summer allowance is tight and I don’t have much spending money. Could one of the kind souls who bought the full subscription tell this little brother which chapters Huang Rong appears in?

FlowerOftheEasternDepot: Keep it up, author! Looking forward to your updates every day!

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In the few minutes following the mass release, hundreds of new comments flooded the section within just minutes.

In addition to the familiar active readers, many who had previously only read in silence and rarely commented made a rare appearance to express their astonishment and support for Chu Tianxing's explosive update.

You couldn't blame them. Most authors these days are total slackers who could barely manage a chapter a day after starting the paywall.

To see someone drop a 60,000-word bomb of consistent quality on day one was unheard of.

An author like Chu Tianxing, dropping thirty chapters and sixty thousand words on launch day while maintaining the same high quality? That was absolutely unprecedented—a first in history.

Faced with such a diligent and conscientious author, how could the readers not show their support?

The comment section was buzzing, and subscription numbers were skyrocketing.

From the moment the first chapter went live, Chu Tianxing kept his eyes glued to the translucent screen floating before him.

"Congratulations, you’ve gained 100 subscriptions for the first time in your life. First Time 100 Subscribers Gift Package obtained. Open now?”

"Congratulations, you’ve gained 200 subscriptions for the first time in your life. First Time 200 Subscribers Gift Package obtained. Open now?”

"Congratulations, you’ve gained 300 subscriptions for the first time in your life. First Time 300 Subscribers Gift Package obtained. Open now?”

"Congratulations, you’ve gained..."

At first, Chu Tianxing was pretty excited about it all.

But as the screen kept refreshing with message after message, his excitement gradually turned to numbness, and he even began to feel a mild irritation.

Why does this stupid system have to emphasize "for the first time in your life" every single time?

Okay, fine, I've never had a launch day this good, but come on! I've been at this for a decade, even if I was a total failure! A guy's gotta have some dignity!

Cut me some slack! Give me a bit of face here.

But his cheat system was nothing more than a ruthless reward-dispensing machine that couldn't give two shits about his feelings. It just kept coldly refreshing notifications and handing out rewards.

"Congratulations, you’ve gained 500 subscriptions for the first time in your life. First Time 500 Subscribers Gift Package obtained. Open now?”

“Congratulations, your average subscription has exceeded 100 for the first time in life. 100 Average Subscriber Gift Pack obtained. Open now?"

"Congratulations..."

As more readers binged through all thirty chapters and others gradually subscribed chapter by chapter, the novel's average subscription count climbed steadily.

So while Chu Tianxing kept breaking his personal "first time in life" subscription records and earning gift pack after gift pack, the average subscription "first time in life" series also started rolling in.

Since he can’t do anything about his system’s brutal honesty, Chu Tianxing tried to ignore the constantly refreshing "first time in life" notifications and focused on opening the gift packs instead.

Though this batch of rewards all belonged to the "first time in life" series, achievements like breaking 100 initial subscriptions or 100 average subscriptions were honestly pretty pathetic for a seasoned web novel veteran with ten years under his belt. They couldn’t be compared to things like making it onto the New Book Rankings, Click Rankings, Recommendation Rankings, or landing major promotional spots.

Back in Chu Tianxing's era, you could have 3,000 initial subscribers and premium status and still not make it onto the front page New Book Rankings.

And unless you paid for promotion, 3,000 subscribers would almost never get you onto the homepage's Click Rankings or Top Recommendations.

As for authors with hundreds or thousands of subscriptions who never got major promotional spots? They were a dime a dozen.

Therefore, the gift packages Chu Tianxing received previously for getting on various homepage rankings and securing a major feature were of a relatively high quality.

In contrast, the quality of the items from this batch of "First Time in Your Life" gift packages was pretty mediocre.

"Opening the First 100 Subscribers Gift Package. You’ve obtained the Yang Family Spear Techniques."

"Opening the First 200 Subscribers Gift Package. You’ve obtained the Soul-Breaking Saber."

"Opening the First 300 Subscribers Gift Package. You’ve obtained the Life-Chasing Spear..."

"Opening 100 Average Subscriber Gift Package. You’ve obtained the Huyan Spear Technique."

"Opening 200 Average Subscriber Gift Package. You’ve obtained the Golden Dragon Whip Technique."

"Opening 300 Average Subscriber Gift Package. You’ve obtained the Quick Hand..."

The first few gift packages in the series yielded either battlefield skills like the Yang Family Spear Technique or throwaway skills of minor characters like the Four Ghosts of the Yellow River, or second-rate martial arts from the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan.

The highest quality item among them was just Zhu Cong the Scholar's pickpocketing skill, Quick Hand.

But Chu Tianxing wasn't disappointed at all.

Low-tier achievement producing low-tier martial arts, wasn't that only to be expected?

Once the numbers climbed higher and his subscriptions hit one thousand or more and his average subscriptions rose accordingly, the rewards would naturally rise in quality as well.

As for those basic martial arts...

There is no such thing as having too many skills since Chu Tianxing could master them instantly with a click and wouldn’t run into the classic case of biting off more than you can chew or being the jack of all trades but master of none.

Furthermore, they were all practical weapon techniques and external martial arts that wouldn't conflict with his internal art, so Chu Tianxing did not look down on them and simply learned them all.

"Saber, spear, sword, halberd, axe, battleaxe, staff, hammer... mastering all eighteen traditional weapons is standard for any expert or famous general.

"Although most of these weapon techniques and external arts are mob-level or second-rate, they aren't without their merits. After learning them, I'll at least grasp the fundamentals of various weapons immediately."

"Rome wasn't built in a day. Once I've got the basics mastered, I'll pick up higher-level weapon arts much faster. And when my martial arts foundation gets even deeper, I can extract the best parts, discard the crap, and maybe even develop stronger weapon techniques myself..."

In the first hour after going premium, Chu Tianxing's subscription count reached over nine hundred, and his average subscription count was over seven hundred.

By the standards of his original era, these numbers were absolutely nothing.

Back then, a popular novel would easily reach thousands of subscribers in its first hour of premium launch. A first-hour count of just over nine hundred would project to only around three thousand-plus in the full twenty-four-hour period.

And if your twenty-four-hour initial subscriptions didn't break 10,000, how could you call your novel a major hit?

But this world, this era, was completely different from his time.

Web novels in this world were just getting started; it was still in its pioneer days.

Huan Kong Net had only been running for two years, and its pioneering paid subscription system had been around for less than a year.

Before Chu Tianxing's Condor Heroes appeared, the highest-selling novel on Huan Kong Net had peak subscriptions of just over 5,000 and average subscriptions of barely 3,000+.

And that was already considered a "phenomenal" work that set all kinds of digital subscription records.

Chu Tianxing's Condor Heroes was projected to break 3,000 initial subscriptions in just twenty-four hours, making it practically guaranteed to shatter the site-wide peak subscription record. This novel would definitely set future subscription records on Huan Kong Net.

Right now, Chu Tianxing was only getting throwaway-level and second-rate martial arts from the Four Ghosts of the Yellow River and Seven Freaks of Jiangnan.

But once his subscriptions started breaking the thousand-mark and he started constantly setting new site-wide subscription records, the rewards he'd receive would definitely take a massive leap forward.

"Who knows? I might end up mastering all of the Five Great’s martial arts, and maybe even complete the entire Nine Yin Manual."

Chu Tianxing kept refreshing his author dashboard and watched the numbers steadily climb.

His heart was full of anticipation for what was to come.