Writing Novels Will Make You Invincible

Chapter 7 : First Contract Gift Pack!

First Contract Gift Pack!

It was two in the morning.

After grinding away for five straight hours at an average speed of eight thousand words per hour, Chu Tianxing finally stopped as his fingers were practically cramping up by this point.

He went through the fresh forty thousand words he'd just written, checking and editing everything before splitting it into twenty chapters. For now, he uploaded the first five chapters or about ten thousand words total.

The rest? He'd save those for later, updating at a steady ten thousand words per day from now on.

After publishing the update, Chu Tianxing didn't immediately crash into bed. Instead, he pulled up that interface that only he could see and clicked on the blue manual sitting in his inventory slot.

The blue manual dissolved into golden light, melting into his mind and flowing through every part of his body. In an instant, he'd mastered all the training routines from the External Refinement Section of the Muscle-Transforming & Bone-Tempering Chapter.

And this wasn't just theoretical knowledge either. His body could naturally and smoothly perform every single movement like he'd been practicing this stuff for ages and had built up serious muscle memory. Of course, he'd only learned the techniques. He hadn't actually gotten any real training benefits yet.

But now that he'd learned it and cleared that initial hurdle, all Chu Tianxing had to do was follow the routine step by step. His constitution would keep improving, and his natural talent would keep growing.

"Man, cheating feels good once, and it feels good every damn time!"

Chu Tianxing couldn't help but grin as he started practicing his forms.

Right there in his tiny bedroom, he spent half an hour going through the complete routine. By the end, his whole body was burning up and he was drenched in sweat like he'd just run five kilometers.

But underneath all that physical exhaustion, there was this strange sense of lightness and comfort bubbling up from deep inside.

"The effects of improving my constitution and enhancing my root bone feel very obvious. Although I don't have any concrete data, this one session has definitely made my constitution even better!"

After resting for a bit, he was tempted to go another round. But between the five-hour writing marathon where he'd cranked out forty thousand words and this training session, his body was tired. His mind was struggling to keep up.

So he had no choice but to hit the shower again and then go to bed.

The moment his head touched the pillow, he fell into a deep slumber. The quality of his sleep was better than anything he'd ever experienced in his life.

Five in the morning.

While most people were still lost in sweet dreams, Chu Tianxing was already wide awake.

Even though he'd only slept for a little over two hours, he didn't feel off at all. He felt energetic, his body felt light, and he was practically buzzing with energy.

After taking care of his morning routine, Chu Tianxing went through another round of the Muscle-Transforming and Bone-Tempering.

This time wasn't as exhausting as the night before, but it definitely wasn't easy either.

Still, Chu Tianxing felt pretty great about it.

That feeling of ease and comfort after practice, which seemed to emanate from the very marrow of his bones and radiate throughout his body, had given him a taste of something exquisite, and he was becoming faintly addicted.

"No wonder that Zhou Botong said martial arts was the most interesting thing in the world. I'm just a complete beginner and I'm already hooked..."

Training felt amazing, but too much of a good thing could be bad.

Chu Tianxing fought back the urge to go for another round. He took another hot shower, then boiled up some instant noodles with four boiled eggs and called it breakfast.

By the time he finished breakfast, it was still only six o'clock in the morning.

The early bird gets the worm, and he wasn't about to waste the morning.

Chu Tianxing only rested for ten minutes after breakfast before firing up his computer again to get back to writing.

His plan was to finish the entire Legend of the Condor Heroes in fifteen to twenty days.

The original novel was just barely over a million words. With Chu Tianxing's average speed of eight thousand characters per hour, he would only need to work intensely for eight hours a day to finish the book in under twenty days.

Under normal circumstances, even with the original novel and various television adaptations as references and even with his perfect familiarity with every plot point and character, it would be impossible for him to maintain that top speed for eight consecutive hours.

But hey, the Lesser Lesser Marrow Cleansing Pill wasn’t just for show.

And neither was all that training with the Muscle-Transforming & Bone-Tempering Chapter.

When he got tired from writing, he'd just run through the training routine, take a quick nap, and immediately recover his spirit and stamina.

That's just how it is.

And so, Chu Tianxing went into full grind mode.

Under his lightning-fast typing, the keyboard rattled like machine-gun fire.

Before he knew it, three hours had flown by.

Just as Chu Tianxing was getting completely absorbed in his writing, a screen suddenly projected in front of his retina and displayed a line of text.

"Congratulations! Your new book has passed the editor's review and meets contract standards. Growth Pack obtained: First Contract Gift Pack. Open now?"

His novel had already passed editor review and he could get a contract?

Chu Tianxing quickly opened the Huankong Net website and checked his author dashboard. Sure enough, a contract message was waiting.

"Dear Author, Your novel has reached the standard for a contract offer. Please contact an editor to proceed with the signing process. Contact method: DangDang ID..."

Followed by a string of digits.

DangDang was currently the most popular instant messaging app in the Great Ming Empire. Its icon was a cute little bell, and the interface was pretty similar to the messaging apps from Chu Tianxing's original world. For now, it was still pretty clean and simple.

Chu Tianxing didn't immediately reach out to the editor about the contract.

Right now, the most important thing is obviously checking out what goodies are in that First Contract Gift Pack.

He silently commanded in his mind, "Open the pack."

The text on the screen changed.

"Pack opened. Obtained: Lesser Lesser Marrow Cleansing Pill x1, Lightness Skill: Snake-Crawl Raccoon-Tumble."

Another gleaming golden pill and a blue-covered manual appeared in his inventory.

He'd already taken a Lesser Marrow Cleansing Pill once, and the effects were immediate. Getting another one now would push his constitution to the next level.

As for that Snake-Crawl Raccoon-Tumble Lightness Skill, it was actually a high-level technique from the Nine Yin Manual specialized for dodging enemy attacks.

The Muscle-Transforming & Bone-Tempering Chapter was a training method that could improve his constitution and boost his natural talent, but it didn't give him any actual combat abilities.

The Snake-Crawl Raccoon-Tumble, on the other hand, could be used in real fights. It was a top-tier life-saving movement technique of the Condor Heroes world.

In this world, True Qi Realm experts could turn the illusory into reality by refining their internal energy into actual True Qi and unleashing all kinds of attribute-based special effects.

When Chu Tianxing had been researching martial arts the day before, he had seen a video online.

It was a demonstration video by a True Qi Realm martial artist.

The guy threw a single punch, and this olive-shaped crimson blast shot out like a cannonball, traveling over a hundred meters before completely demolishing a car.

Faced with that level of destructive power, a skill like Snake-Crawl Raccoon-Tumble probably wouldn't be much help.

You'd need a movement technique that can move you at high speed, like the White Camel Mountain's A Thousand Li In An Instant, to have any chance to survive.

However, it was said that True Qi Realm experts could lock onto enemies with their qi and make their long-range attacks auto-track. So even regular lightness skills probably wouldn't cut it.

"A journey of a thousand li begins with a single step. I'm just a complete beginner who hasn't even developed internal energy yet, so why do I need to worry about stuff that's way down the road? Just having something to practice is already pretty good.

"The Snake-Crawl Raccoon-Tumble technique is at least way better than the basic martial arts they teach at school or the ordinary techniques you can find on the market..."

Without hesitation, Chu Tianxing immediately consumed the Lesser Marrow Cleansing Pill and clicked to learn the Snake-Crawl Raccoon-Tumble movement technique.