"Do you know what Xiuzhen is?"

A simple sentence is the first sentence at the beginning of this "The True Biography of Hanging Silk Repair".

In a word, in a chapter.

Although it may seem a little unusual, it did not attract the attention of the watermelon editors. I've seen a lot of ideas, and in his opinion, it's just a more old-fashioned method.

Clicking on "Next Chapter", the watermelon continued to read.

"The sorrow of life".

The title of the second chapter is a big proposition. But as in the previous chapter, this is still not the main text. This is because it is not preceded by anything like "Chapter I", "I" or any other indication of the title.

Watermelon couldn't help frowning, in his opinion, this is obviously a novice, making many mistakes that novices will make, always like to write a lot of settings, backgrounds, big truths and the like at the beginning of the novel, but there is no story at all. In the current era of fast food literature, there is a great possibility that such a novel will basically see the light and die.

At the end of the day, online novels are all about engaging readers with fast-paced storylines, and readers don't care about whether your setting is subtle or not.

Although I am already a little optimistic about this book, Watermelon still continues to read it with a very professional attitude.

It was almost noon, and my colleague Cucumber got up and patted him on the shoulder and said, "Watermelon, don't get off work yet." ”

The watermelon said without raising his head: "There is still one left, go down after reading it, you can help me order a rice bowl first, and ask for fish-flavored shredded meat." ”

In the company, these people are almost all used to calling each other by their screen names on the Internet, which is also to make these network editors more comfortable with the rhythm and feeling of the Internet. The editors of Origin Chinese Network have different naming habits, and each group has its own characteristics, just like the watermelon group, which basically uses the name of the fruit as the screen name. Their editor-in-chief is called Momoko. A post-80s beauty, although she is just over 30 years old, she is already a veteran in the online literature industry. And watermelon and cucumber are both post-90s, and they only chose this profession because they simply like online articles. Neither of them has been in the industry for long. Watermelons are more than two years old, and cucumbers are even shorter, only a little more than a year.

The income of online editors also varies, and the quality of income depends on the quality of the works of the contracted writers in hand. Origin Chinese now has more than 100,000 registered writers, more than 7,000 new works every day, and more than 200 million original words. This is a huge literary monster, more than ten years of original accumulation in the industry, and also made Origin Chinese a well-deserved boss in the Chinese online literature industry.

However, there is also a lot of competitive pressure in the industry, for writers. With such a large creative group, it is not easy to fight a bloody path in such a mountain of works, and many people quit because they couldn't persevere. For editors, the biggest hope is to be able to sign a high-quality potential writer, if you meet the kind of genius writer who is a god of the book, maybe the commission income of a book is enough for these editors for several years of basic salary. But such things can be encountered but not sought. Most of the time, they have to bury their heads in these large numbers of low-level works.

“OK。 Then I'll go first. Watermelon, don't work too hard. After all, our group are all newcomers, and there are few high-quality authors in our hands before, so it's normal to be better than those old editors, and it's okay slowly. Cucumber comforted before leaving the door.

There is a seniority issue in any industry, and the same is true for the online editing industry. It's been a long time doing this line. The more works and authors you come into contact with, you will accumulate a fixed group of high-quality writers. These people don't have to be great gods, but they can bring steady profits to these editors. But for new editors, it's a long process.

"Yes, got it!" Watermelon nodded. Keep looking at the display.

He wanted to turn over this chapter, because this kind of pure truth narration does not see the potential of a work at all. However, a sentence in the first paragraph raised his attention a little.

"A person's life is like morning dew, and time is short. Born and died, it was only a few decades, whether it was fame or power, it would not be able to escape death. I have worked hard for a lifetime, and after death, the smoke will disappear, no matter how great your achievements are, it will not be sad that there is no trace! ”

There are not many words in this paragraph, but the meaning is very clear, and between the lines, there is a sense of helplessness and unwillingness. Even just looking at these words, the watermelon feels this strong unwillingness.

Of course he understands the reasoning above. But what if you understand? As an ordinary person, you still have to struggle to survive in this mortal world, even if it is still futile to know the final destination, but life is like having a strong inertia, which makes it impossible for people to leave.

Perhaps, this is the reason why so many people read online novels. In the world of the novel, the protagonist has all kinds of adventures, cultivating to become an immortal, immortality, beauty like clouds, wealth like the sea, who doesn't want such a life? Even if you know that everything written in the novel is fake, it is good to have a dream for a short time.

This passage touched some emotion in the watermelon, and he sighed and continued to read.

When reading this paragraph, Watermelon also thought that the author was just complaining, but when he saw the second paragraph, he couldn't help but laugh a little dumbly.

"Everyone in the world is greedy for life and afraid of death, this is not a shame, it is just instinct. Sadly, since ancient times, although there have been teachings about Buddhism and God teaching people to live forever, we have never heard of a single person who has attained eternal life by relying on these transcendent reincarnations. If you read this book right now, congratulations, it's your chance. Remember, this is not an ordinary web novel, if you are destined, you can find your own path to eternal life in the story of this book. Again, the author is not joking, if you are destined, you can be like Li Ergou, start from this book, and start your incomparable cultivation life! ”

The beginning of the second paragraph was written to the point, but after seeing it, the editor of Watermelon couldn't help laughing.

"It's a little interesting, it's a bit like the routine of mortal cultivators, want to write the cultivation as real as possible, and have a sense of substitution? The idea is good, but I don't know if I can have such pen power. Watermelon said with a smile.

He glanced at the author's pseudonym, "I eat big watermelons."

"Hey, hey. Another one who learned the name of a great god. Now these authors, when they see someone who has become a god, they want to follow the trend, but they don't know at all, and by the time you want to follow the trend, it's too late. Watermelon shook her head and thought to herself, a little amused.

At the same time, he also has a strange feeling about this screen name. His screen name is Watermelon. As a result, this benevolent brother named "I eat big watermelon", and he actually wanted to eat him?

"Next, please get ready in front of the computer. If you are an aspiring young man who has ideals and pursuits, and is not willing to decay in this ordinary reality, please read every next word carefully, or that sentence, if you are destined to be a person, this book will take you into a real world of cultivation! Now, the legend begins! ”

The third paragraph is quite succinct. After only saying these few words, it came to an abrupt end.

Watermelon clicked on the "next paragraph" tab, and this time I finally saw the words "Chapter 1". He secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and said in his heart that this author was finally not too abrasive. IF HE CAN'T SEE THE TEXT ANYMORE, HE WILL DEFINITELY PASS THIS ARTICLE DIRECTLY.

"Chapter 1, Li Ergou's shit luck", Watermelon looked at the title, and it was okay. Whether it is Li Ergou, the protagonist name full of suspense, or the popular language of shit luck. All of them meet the requirements of being close to reality in online articles, especially close to the reality of the general public. Nowadays, some writers come up looking for something different. The pursuit of loftiness and mystery, but the more this happens, the more impatient the reader will be. Unless you are a god-level writer, you can guarantee that no matter what kind of you write, there will be a large number of loyal fans who will follow you and subscribe to the reward. Otherwise, it's better not to be willful. Obediently start from the most orthodox routine, and the success side is the greatest.

Li Ergou is a small construction worker, who moves bricks and pushes ash on the construction site every day, working for ten hours a day, and the work is just like his name. Tired like a dog. At one point he thought that this was all he had for life, until one time he came home from work on a construction site and met Loeb, no, rather, the ghost of Loeb. I know it's a very cliché story, but it doesn't matter, the important thing is that he really happened. ”

After reading this first paragraph, the expression on the watermelon's face was not shocked. This beginning seemed nothing special to him. If there is any merit to be said, it is that there is no nonsense, and when I came up, I went straight to the topic and threw out the golden finger.

He continued to look down, the plot developed quickly, and the first chapter basically explained Lebo's identity - a soul that crossed over from the Xiuzhen Continent and attached to Li Ergou's body, and then the two of them communicated, and Lebo began to teach him to cultivate Zhen.

The first chapter is 3,000 words long, and this is the end of it. Watermelon clicked on the next chapter and looked at the chapter name, which was called "Sympathy between Heaven and Man".

"It's going to be used up." Watermelon muttered, but resisted the urge to turn off the interface and continued to read.

"Li Ergou, I will now officially teach you the method of cultivating the truth, the method of refining qi." In front of Li Ergou, there was a vague figure floating, and the latter's every word sounded directly in his sea of consciousness. Although there were workers living next door, no one noticed anything about it.

Li Ergou looked excited, nodded at the phantom in front of him, and then his voice sounded again.

After reading this paragraph, I feel that there is no problem, and they are all common descriptive techniques. He continued to look down, and Uncle Ou in the novel began to officially teach Li Ergou the method of refining qi.

"Although there are ten thousand laws, the truth is the same. At the beginning of cultivation, they all used external forces to refine the impurities in the body. From birth, people have come from the first to the day after tomorrow, and then with the passage of time, the impurities in the body have increased. Therefore, if you want to cultivate the truth, the first step is to draw qi into the body and remove impurities from the body. Uncle Ou said seriously.

Seeing this, the watermelon is already a little impatient. Until now, the author has not written anything new. As for this set of statements about what qi is introduced into the body, what is qi refining, etc., it has already been used in countless novels. It doesn't seem to make people want to read it.

"As a teacher, I will first teach you a basic posture, which can help you better enter the state of sympathy between heaven and man, and sense the existence of the vitality of heaven and earth. Cross your knees, place your hands three thirds below your umbilicus, close your eyes, and visualize yourself in the void of the universe......"

In the next large paragraph, Leber is describing how to "induce qi into the body" to achieve the realm of "sympathy between heaven and man". At first, Watermelon was a little unimpressed. He has seen too many of these basic routines. Many authors rely on the descriptions in some of the books they have read, and take it for granted that they make a few professional terms, such as "Yishou Dantian", "Hug Pu Shouyi" and the like, these words are used to fool Xiaobai who has just read the Internet, but for an old bird like him. There's nothing new about it.

Many insincere authors, even because they are too lazy to check the information, omit and don't write every time they write the professional part, and only simply write a paragraph "The protagonist has practiced for two hours, and he suddenly feels hot all over his body, how is the whole person", etc., and completed the description of the professional part lightly.

However, the watermelon continued to look at it, and soon saw the difference.

Starting from the novel, Ou Bo began to talk about "the sympathy between heaven and man" and "inducing qi into the body". He's been watching seven or eight paragraphs in a row. And this author writes a lot of words in each paragraph, basically not as small as ordinary online articles, but each paragraph has almost three or four hundred words.

In this way, just to describe this "qi into the body", the author used nearly 2,000 words!

If someone else writes like this, Watermelon will definitely feel that the author is mixing the word count again. However, after reading these two thousand words, the feeling of watermelon is very strange.

How so? Watermelon felt that this author was writing this paragraph. It's just too detailed.

In general novels, it talks about things like "dantian", "divine soul", "heaven and earth vitality". will pass by, and the process of practicing is basically skipped. The reason is very simple, everything is fake, and it is not only easy for people to see it, but it is also not easy to make up, and it is a thankless task. Therefore, when the author writes about the specific exercises and cultivation process. will use some vague language to fool the past. It's like a little white text routine created by a certain god is simpler, and he directly tells the reader, "After a painful breakthrough, the protagonist finally reached the XX layer, and now he throws a punch." is no longer the power of two cows in the past, but with the power of ten cows, it has increased fivefold" and so on, using intuitive numbers to give readers a clear understanding of the growth of the protagonist's strength.

But the author of "I Eat Big Watermelon" is different, he does not shy away from the technical details of the cultivation process at all, but describes it in great detail. For example, what is "dantian" and what is "qi and blood" are quite clearly described in these paragraphs.

There is also a detailed description of the cultivation method and some of the feelings encountered!

After reading these paragraphs, it feels as if what is written on it is true, and I even want to give it a try as mentioned above!

This kind of style, such a way of writing, watermelon has only seen one book before, it is written about national arts, and there are detailed descriptions of the cultivation methods of the inner family, including the basic Zama step, three-body posture and the like. There are also very clear descriptions of the realms of "bright energy", "dark energy", "chemical energy" and so on. Although there is an element of exaggeration, it is basically true. Later, the editor of the origin contacted the author and found out that the latter was really an amateur practitioner who had studied the national arts very deeply, and he really apprenticed later!

Such examples, of course, are rare in Chinese at the point of origin. Generally speaking, many technical streams will be written like this, especially when engineering students write some physical and chemical knowledge, they will use some professional terms, which makes people feel more credible. But in Xiuzhen novels, there are really few people who use this kind of brushwork.

Why? Because it's inherently fake, how can you make it true if you don't have zài?

But at this moment, the text that Watermelon saw made him strongly feel that everything written on it was true, and even really had an urge to try it according to the above method!

He had been reading the novel for a long time, and he was a little tired. Seeing the description in the novel, after practicing according to this method, even if he can't enter the state of sympathy between heaven and man, it will make people clear and drive away fatigue, and he is really a little excited.

Looking at the time, it is estimated that it will take a while for my colleague cucumber to come back, anyway, there is nothing to do, and now it is time to get off work, watermelon decided to give it a try according to what is written above.

He sat cross-legged in his chair, his hands three minutes below his umbilicus, and closed his eyes to contemplate the boundless universe in which he was surrounded by a pitch-black vacuum and countless stars shining in the distance. Around the body, there is the ubiquitous Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi, which is the most primordial power in the universe......

Every part of his body is adjusted to the standard posture as required in the novel, and even the breathing is trying to follow the above method.

As for visualizing the void, it is not difficult for watermelons. He was originally an online editor, and he usually saw too many of these things, and he had long been "trained" by no teacher. Although his eyes were closed, in his imagination, the starry sky around him became clearer and clearer, and he even felt a real chill!

Watermelon thought it was an illusion, but what he didn't know was that around him, the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi, which was invisible to the naked eye, was entering his body through the pores around him. Although because of the pollution of Yan zhòng, the slightest trace of heaven and earth vitality is pitiful, but after all, it is a genuine heaven and earth vitality!

Watermelon, this ordinary editor of the origin online article, because of a curious attempt, finally touched a corner of the real Xiuzhen world like the protagonist in the article! (To be continued......)