Writing Novels Will Make You Invincible

Chapter 6 : The Miraculous Effects of the Lesser Marrow Cleansing Pill and Readers’ Comments

The Miraculous Effects of the Lesser Marrow Cleansing Pill and Readers’ Comments

As the golden Lesser Marrow Cleansing Pill in his inventory slot transformed into a streak of golden light and vanished, Chu Tianxing suddenly felt a warm current spreading from his stomach, instantly flowing through his limbs and bones.

Under the cleansing rush of this warm current, he felt like he'd shed some invisible burden and his body gradually became lighter and more agile. It was like recovering from a long illness; every breath he took was filled with a sense of ease and comfort.

After a good while, the warm current slowly faded away.

Chu Tianxing closed his eyes, quietly experiencing the changes in his body.

"The effects are immediate! I always felt something was off with my body before. It was constantly tired and sluggish, which even affected my writing pace. But now... although there's no obvious change in my strength, I feel completely renewed. My mind is sharp, my stamina is abundant, and that sense of weariness has been swept away entirely..."

Although a mere Lesser Marrow Cleansing Pill was not enough to let him be reborn and completely transformed into a martial arts genius, it had at least made his body no longer as frail and feeble as before.

At the very least, he could now engage in strenuous exercise.

Chu Tianxing didn't strike while the iron was hot and immediately started practicing the External Refinement Section of the Muscle-Transforming & Bone-Tempering Chapter.

While this technique could improve constitution, unlock potential, and enhance natural talent, it wasn't something that would show results overnight.

So he wasn't in any rush to start cultivating.

He first went to take a shower to wash off the oily sweat-like impurities that had seeped through his skin during the pill's body cleansing process. Then he pulled out his phone and scrolled through his contacts to find his parents' phone numbers.

After hesitating for a moment, he dialed his father's number.

However, the number he was calling was not in the service area...

"Not in service?"

Chu Tianxing frowned slightly and tried his mother's number.

The result was the same.

"What's going on? Where on earth did the old couple go? Don't tell me they went abroad?"

Of course, Chu Tianxing didn't think his parents had gone overseas to collect his dad's inheritance.

In his original world, his father had an inheritance to collect because his uncle, a member of the losing side in a civil war, had fled to the other side of the Pacific.

But this world was still the Great Ming Dynasty. The war that was spun as a series of successive victories, annihilating hundreds of millions of enemy soldiers before culminating in a "successful advance" to Treasure Island had never happened.

Since that was the case, Chu Tianxing's father naturally wouldn't have an uncle who fled across the Pacific and mysteriously became a billionaire.

"Come to think of it, I don't even know what my parents in this world do for work. For both their phones to be out of service... could they be working abroad? Or maybe they went to work in some remote area with poor infrastructure? When Qin Ling comes to cook tomorrow, I'll have to find a way to subtly probe for information..."

After pondering for a while, Chu Tianxing put down the phone and powered up his computer to check on his novel’s situation on Huankong Net.

Writing novels was the foundation of his strength.

Just adding a new book to the bookshelf status had brought him such great benefits. Obviously, he had to pay special attention to it.

The web novel scene in this world was in its initial pioneering stage, a backward era where a chaotic horde of styles ran rampant.

Huankong Net had only been established for two years. Though it had quickly become popular throughout the Great Ming and became the largest Chinese novel website, its library didn't contain many books.

It also didn't have the diverse categorization system of the novel websites from Chu Tianxing's world.

The entire website layout was simple. The homepage's recommendation section only had two major categories: "Hot Recommendations" and "Editor's Picks." There wasn't even a featured book section.

Besides those two recommendation sections, there were just the Click Rankings, Recommendation Rankings, Collection Rankings, and New Book Rankings.

Secondary pages only had the library and various ranking lists.

There weren't many online fiction authors either, and the number of new books entering the database each day was quite limited.

Therefore, even without getting recommended, without making it onto any homepage rankings, and without even appearing in the homepage's book recent update section, newly added novels wouldn't get buried.

There were always enthusiastic readers who, after finishing their updates and still wanting more, would search the library for fresh potential gems that had just been added.

Chu Tianxing had just uploaded eight chapters totaling sixteen thousand words of the Legend of the Condor Heroes and some readers had discovered it.

That’s why when he opened his author dashboard, he was surprised to find that he already had over thirty collections.

(TL Note: The system mimics Qidian of old. Just treat the collections like bookmarks.)

Clicking on the novel page, he saw it already had over 300 clicks and even a dozen recommendation votes.

The comment section even had people leaving messages:

OldGluttonOfTheBookSea: Good book, update faster!

FlowerOfTheEasternDepot: Can't wait to see what happens next!

EunuchLi: Complete garbage! Over ten thousand words in, so many characters introduced, who the hell is the protagonist?

JinyiweiUnderHeaven: The kindergartener upstairs is only fit for reading those trash novels where eating a sweet potato gives you a hundred years of cultivation. Has zero ability to recognize the potential of a quality novel like this.

XiaoHu2215: I second the comment above. Though this novel seems ordinary at first glance, it has real depth when you savor it. As for the protagonist, with my experience of reading over ten thousand books, I'd bet my right hand that packs 2,215 catty of punch that the main character is definitely one of the little guys—either little Guo or little Yang—who received daggers and names from Daoist Qiu.

...

Though there were only a dozen or so comments, it was enough to make Chu Tianxing breathe a long sigh of relief and gain greater confidence in the Legend of the Condor Heroes' future.

Originally, he'd still been somewhat worried about whether the Condor Heroes series could become popular.

Just as the reader "EunuchLi" had said, the opening was over ten thousand words long and introduced quite a few characters: the storyteller, Cripple Qu San (Qu Lingfeng), Old Guo and Old Yang, Daoist Priest Qiu, as well as experts from the imperial court and the black-clad men pursuing Daoist Qiu.

So many characters appearing, yet not a single protagonist in sight.

Most critically, the protagonist still wouldn't appear for the next several tens of thousands of words.

In Chu Tianxing's original world, a novel that didn't introduce its protagonist for the first tens of thousands of words was absolutely destined to flop.

However, in this pioneering era of online web novels where even pretentious masochistic literary fiction could become popular, most online readers had just transitioned from offline physical books to online reading and hadn't yet been baptized by the "golden three chapters," "golden first chapter," and various formulaic approaches.

(TL Note: Basically, hooking the readers in three chapters.)

Since they could read pretentious masochistic novels with relish, painfully but happily chasing updates, then readers of this era clearly had far stronger tolerance for novel pacing than readers from Chu Tianxing's time.

"If this were a few years later, no matter how exciting this Condor Heroes is, its chances of becoming popular would be slim. After all, as web novels become more numerous, the formulas become richer, and the pacing gets faster, readers' tolerance keeps decreasing over time.

"In my world, even the top-tier gods who were popular across the entire web with super strong influence absolutely wouldn't dare have their protagonist officially debut only after tens of thousands of words..."

Realizing that the Condor Heroes series still had the possibility of becoming hugely popular in the current era, Chu Tianxing decided to strike while the iron was hot and press his advantage. He wrote the opening tens of thousands of words as quickly as possible and uploaded everything up to the protagonist's appearance before slowing down the update pace.

After all, though readers of this world had super strong tolerance, the popular online novels now still had protagonists appearing within three chapters at the latest.

Chu Tianxing's Condor Heroes had the protagonist appearing far too late. If not for the good fortune of being in the right era, if his writing skills weren't genuinely well-honed, and if the Condor Heroes itself wasn't truly charming, he'd basically only be able to resort to copying Battle Through the Heavens...

But Battle Through the Heavens was one of the killer weapons of the fast-paced era of web novel evolution; Chu Tianxing didn't want to unleash it just yet.

"Since I’m full of energy thanks to the pill, let me strike while the iron's hot and write tens of thousands more words all the way until little Guo appears!"

Chu Tianxing rubbed his face, steeled his spirit, and started grinding through the night.