Chapter 45, Detonation
Nowadays, the largest online forums in China, the average daily visits add up to millions, many netizens chat on it, the atmosphere is free and open, and because the quality of the forum managers is relatively high, there is no bad information in the major forums.
Of course, these forums are non-profit, because even they themselves have not yet figured out a mature business model, and at most they put a small number of ads on the forum page to maintain the operation of the website with these fees.
In the eyes of many netizens, these online forums are a paradise for them to talk freely outside of the real world.
Some people even published some short stories in the forum, becoming the first group of Internet writers.
Among these writers, there are not no people who write martial arts novels, but the threshold of martial arts novels is higher than that of general online novels, and most of the readers have been nourished by those excellent martial arts novels in the past, and the average level of novels cannot enter their eyes at all.
This is also one of the reasons for the decline of domestic martial arts novels today, in the case of those famous artists in the early days who have faded out of the rivers and lakes, there are no enough good latecomers to supplement, which has led to the lack of martial arts novels.
In the past week or so, two martial arts novels suddenly appeared on major domestic forums, causing quite a stir on the Internet.
One is called "The Peerless Double Pride", which was published by a netizen named "Big Bear".
One is called "Tianlong Babu", which was published by a netizen named "Lao Cha".
Both novels were published almost silently, and suddenly appeared in several of the most visited forums.
In the beginning, it was some old fans of martial arts novels who discovered them. And these old book lovers who have already finished reading the classic martial arts works in the past and are struggling to find the right novels, are suddenly shocked by "The Peerless Double Pride" and "Dragon Babu".
Different from those online writers who follow the example of the East, the language and plot structure of these two novels are extremely mature, and they attract these very demanding old book fans at the beginning of the novel, and then they are out of control.
Then, the old book lovers who dug up the treasure naturally couldn't help but share this shocking discovery, so the two novels quickly spread among netizens and continued to spread with a very high reputation.
In just a few days, netizens in several forums were almost discussing these two novels.
First of all, the styles of these two novels are completely different, but they are both equally excellent, "The Peerless Twins" exudes a different kind of romance, and "Dragon Babu" exudes a majestic atmosphere.
Although only tens of thousands of words have been serialized on the forum, it has already captured a large number of book fans.
Some people like "The Peerless Twins", and some people love "Dragon Babu".
After so many years of the decline of martial arts novels, after waiting hard but never waiting for excellent works, two extremely high-level martial arts novels appeared at once, which undoubtedly cast a boulder in this long-dormant circle.
After reading the two novels, many netizens also happily commented, saying that the level of these two martial arts novels is the highest in history, even if those classic works in the past are not as good as them.
As soon as these comments came out, many martial arts fans quit, they did not deny the excellence of "The Peerless Twins" and "Dragon Babu", but to say that they can be better than those classic works in the past, it is biased, after all, it is those famous works in the past that opened their martial arts dreams.
There was no shortage of supporters for both comments, and soon a heated debate ensued between the two sides.
As the intensity of the debate between the two sides became more and more intense, and even after the personal attacks on individuals, many martial arts novelists were shocked, and they couldn't help but join the discussion after watching "The Peerless Twins" and "Dragon Babu".
Many of these martial arts masters are not young, and they do not know how to speak online, but many newspapers and magazines provide them with channels for comment.
As a result, "The Peerless Twins" and "Dragon Babu" began to break away from the scope of the Internet and appeared in front of the public through newspapers and magazines.
Many martial arts masters have commented on the two novels, and with the extremely excellent quality of these two novels, they can't deny their excellence. However, many of them have reservations about admitting that these two novels can surpass the classics of the past.
After all, if they admit this, they are admitting that their representative work is not as good as others. has written too many martial arts novels, and they have more or less contaminated with the style of martial arts, not to mention that they have been famous for many years, and this big bear and Lao Cha are just fledgling newcomers, why can they be trampled down?
With the participation of these martial arts masters, the influence of "The Peerless Twins" and "Dragon Babu" began to spread outside the Internet.
Major domestic publishing houses have dispatched in the hope of finding these two authors. They can see that the decline of martial arts novels does not mean that their market has disappeared, on the contrary, the market's desire for excellent works is too great, as long as there are enough excellent martial arts works, there is no worry about sales at all.
However, both Da Xiong and Lao Cha published novels online, leaving little meaningful information other than this screen name and pen name.
Even the moderators of the major forums can't reach them.
As if they had made an appointment, they serialized a little bit every day, and after posting it, there was no movement, and they did not reply to the comments under the forum that increased in a geometric progression.
The same mystery, the same pride.
If it weren't for the completely different styles of the two novels, some people would be speculating whether the two books were written by the same person.
And the more Big Bear and Lao Cha don't speak, the more they remain mysterious, the more the fans who are conquered by them worship them.
Some newspapers even deliberately left a small page with the words "Looking for Big Bear, Looking for Lao Cha".
Since Da Xiong and Lao Cha both update the serials around 12 o'clock every night, millions of book fans stay in front of the computer at this time every day, waiting for them to update.
The climax came not long after, Zhong Luolei, one of the most famous martial arts novel writers in China and a famous writer who once set a single novel selling 8 million sales in China, publicly admitted on the review page of the newspaper that whether it was "The Peerless Twins" or "Dragon Babu", he wrote better than his works!
He wrote in the newspaper:
"I was shocked and relieved that before I left, there was finally someone who could carry the banner of martial arts!
I don't comment on other people's comments on "Dragon Babu" and "Peerless Twins", I personally think these two books are excellently written, much better than what I wrote!
Lao Cha and Da Xiong have different styles and penmanship, and they are full of the same talent.
The books they have published are not very long, most people see a round of rising sun, but what I see is the sun shining in the middle of the day!
This is by no means a young chivalrous man who has just come out of the rivers and lakes, it is clear that he is a generation of grandmasters who have already reached the peak of his internal strength!
I suspected that two old friends had reappeared, but after inquiring around, no one admitted it, and I was not afraid of offending all of my old friends, in my opinion, among the people I know, including me, there are really none, so I have to conclude that these are two masters who have completed their cultivation and are finally willing to take over this banner.
From my point of view, Lao Cha's penmanship is peaceful, and the plot unfolds slowly, opening up a majestic and picturesque landscape for us. The big bear sword goes sideways, and the story is strange and twisty, allowing us to get a glimpse of the chic romance of the rivers and lakes.
If I have the chance, I would like to visit and cook wine and tea with these two masters all night!"
As soon as this statement came out, the whole country was in an uproar!
said that it is the whole country, in fact, it is all the people in the country who like and pay attention to martial arts novels, and this number cannot be said to be small.
Zhong Luolei is one of the people with the highest status in the field of martial arts in China, exaggerating, saying that he is the second person in domestic martial arts, no one will dare to say that he ranks first.
While the septuagenarian has created many classic works, he also has a high reputation in China, mainly reflected in his unstinting promotion of younger generations, and he is open-minded and upright, never belittling the works of others for his own selfishness.
It is precisely because of this that his high evaluation of Da Xiong and Lao Cha is convincing.
In particular, Zhong Luolei directly admitted that his works were not as good as them, and said that they could take over the banner of martial arts novels, which made other martial arts writers unwilling and unable to refute.
Looking at the entire martial arts literature circle, there is no one who can surpass Zhong Luolei in his achievements, and at most there are only one or two people who can compete with him, so as not to fall behind obviously.
Those writers whose achievements and influence are lower than him have no confidence to oppose him at all.
As soon as Zhong Luolei's comment came out, the popularity of "The Peerless Double Pride" and "Dragon Babu" became even higher, and those fans who didn't know how to go to online forums asked Da Xiong and Lao Cha to publish physical books, so that they could also have a glimpse of this masterpiece.
However, the two generation of grandmasters in Zhong Luolei's mouth were not only unmoved, but even the updates that were originally in the major online forums suddenly stopped.
This makes many book lovers who are already addicted to it excited, and it feels like an addict who has been deeply addicted to drugs has been cut off from the source of drugs all of a sudden.
Their first reaction was to be suspicious of the forum they were in, and to wonder if they had taken some measures to restrict the updates of Da Xiong and Lao Cha.
As a result, these angry fans kept leaving messages on the forum, scolding the moderators for their misdeeds.
The moderators shouted again and again: We have wronged! We can't worship those two gods every day, how dare we offend them. Two great gods, come out quickly, if it goes on like this, our forum will explode.
After a whole day of surging emotions, Da Xiong and Lao Cha finally updated.
It's just that what they are updating is not a novel, but a message.
The news said that they have reached a cooperation with the Zhouguang blog website, and will no longer publish the novel on major forums in the future, but serialize it on the Zhouguang blog.
They also wrote that to watch their novels on the Zhouguang blog, it is best to register as a user on it. At the very bottom of the message, they also provide a link to their blog.
As a result, many netizens impatiently clicked on the link and entered this unheard of Zhouguang blog!