The earth has been destroyed and Mankind is looking for new place to live.

In the year of 2030, a meteor crashed on earth releasing a deadly virus, turning people in monsters of fantasy, “Flood”, that’s what we call these demons of hell, the people infected will turn into a demon forever etched into the darkness, the speed at which the infection grew gave the scientist no chance to study it…the demon’s heart was protected by a layer of iron like substance seemingly impenetrable with normal weapons and with their speed and dexterity and the rate of new variants and evolved ones the countries with regime of top slowly fell like dominoes. Join this fantastical tale with our main character Polaris Black, the unknown, into his journey of conquering the world. He is a pure badass character with no remorse nor regret, originally just wanted to save his people but after learning the truth leaving him in despair, He turns into an emotionless killing machine, watch and read how a lowly insect become one the worshipped in this war with demons.

In the year of 2030, a meteor crashed on earth releasing a deadly virus, turning people in monsters of fantasy, “Flood”, that’s what we call these demons of hell, the people infected will turn into a demon forever etched into the darkness, the speed at which the infection grew gave the scientist no chance to study it…the demon’s heart was protected by a layer of iron like substance seemingly impenetrable with normal weapons and with their speed and dexterity and the rate of new variants and evolved ones the countries with regime of top slowly fell like dominoes. Join this fantastical tale with our main character Alex backway, the unknown, into his journey of conquering the world. He is a pure badass character with no remorse nor regret, originally just wanted to save his people but after learning the truth leaving him in despair, He turns into an emotionless killing machine, watch and read how a lowly insect become one the worshipped in this war with demons.


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King Grey has unrivaled strength, wealth, and prestige in a world governed by martial ability. However, solitude lingers closely behind those with great power. Beneath the glamorous exterior of a powerful king lurks the shell of man, devoid of purpose and will.

Reincarnated into a new world filled with magic and monsters, the king has a second chance to relive his life. Correcting the mistakes of his past will not be his only challenge, however. Underneath the peace and prosperity of the new world is an undercurrent threatening to destroy everything he has worked for, questioning his role and reason for being born again.

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Okay guys, time to tackle the elephant in the room. What the hell happened to this novel, why am I not updating it almost at all, and generally why have I turned into the sht author I always despised on this novel while somehow maintaining a proper rate on my other novels?
Let me explain everything points by point.
1st - Ending "Road to the Crown"
- This was the first instance that got me lazy with Battlesmut. I simply wanted to focus on the ending novel, so that once it would be over, I would have twice the time to write this one. Sadly, even after finishing the novel, I got so used to the relaxed days where I could actually do anything outside of writing, resulted in the first crack in my mostly spotless record of writing regularly (not fully, mostly...)
2nd - Sudden project falling on top of my head
- Don't misunderstand. This is something that I believe to be able to change my life, but over the last month, I was extremely absorbed with several things that are of utmost importance for me. As such, the time that I could spend writing (not to speak, the willingness to do so) were even smaller
3rd - Caught covid
- While I didn't really suffer from it that much (just some slight fever symptoms), the fact that I contracted it from my parents (who were tested positive) meant that for about the last two weeks (and quite honestly, still) I was insanely worried not about myself, but about my parents. While for some finding something one wants to do in life and actually doing it is a major step in reaching maturity as a person, I still love my parents very much and I can't imagine anything happening to them right now or anytime soon. That's just another reason why I wasn't very productive over the last few weeks.
4th - but by no means, the least important one. Here I will go on a little ramble, so bear with me or jump to the TL:DR at the bottom.
- From a long while, I had a problem with this novel. Partially it could be caused with my focus being diverted to other stories, partially it could be the responsibility of the situation I appeared and new ideas that I started adopting... But the truth is sadly quite obvious.
This novel is slowly nearing its end. This time, contrary to what I did in Road to the Crown novel of mine, I will be able to say that the entire story got perfectly fulfilled. The ending that is slowly (really slowly) approaching, is the one that I foreshadowed ever since the beginning, ever since I started treating this novel seriously. Obviously, it's adopted to my current ideas and all, but generally, this is the ending that this novel was supposed to end with. 
But.
Whenever someone writes like me, then outside of the general outline, they don't really need anything else. You just get the last even that happened, figure out its placement on the timeline, what is it supposed to be its aim, the ultimate goal etc...
And ever since I started wrecking my release, I was plagued with a single problem.
You cannot end the novel with a precise outline.
Not when it was built for so long and using so many deep ideas. You HAVE TO plan it out to give the ending its justice... But doing so, forces you to accept the fact that the novel is about to end. And I wasn't ready to do so for a long while.
For me, battlesmut is that bastardly but still loved child. It's beginning is awful, I always admitted it. It's a novel that allowed me to learn how to write. Although I'm not claiming I climbed that mountain all the way, I'm definitely far further than I was when I began. 
For me, battlesmut turns into this safe area of a huge project that came entirely from my head. With all its groundwork, character building, foreshadowing, I knew that I could always write about and based on something that only the readers of this novel are privy to. With the end of my second novel, it is my last novel where I managed to establish the world I created for it.
But the time where I would write the outline of everything until the end, had to come.
It happened a few days ago. I just sat down, decided to accept the fact that I will soon have to say goodbye to this child of mine... And I did it. I already know how will this novel end, what will happen behind it, what it will imply for the future... To a point I can even predict how some of you will react to the ending I have in store. All that's left for me to do is to sit down and write those last chapters, right?
Yeah, but as if it was that easy. 
Today, I made the first step to give the ending of this novel proper honours. I won't laze around anymore, I won't treat it as the story I can always come back to. I will respectfully bring the end of battlesmut to its fruition, and allow it to become a completed novel in the way I always envisioned it would. With daily releases and surrounded by loving readers. 
At this point, I also need to point out one thing - This novel still has a lot to go through before it will end. When speaking about nearing the finish, I meant it on the global scale, on the scale that the author needs to think in. In terms of the number of chapters... No, I won't give you that :D 
I can at least say, that while it will take a while, this novel will reach it endings properly, in due time and with respect it deserves for turning me from a random cashier in some local shop to a damned author of several novels who bounds his future entirely with writing.
TL:DR - I got emotional over the fact the novel is somewhat nearing its ending.
Thanks to everyone who stuck so far to read this rambling of mine. Thanks for the continuous support of this and other novels of mine, that allowed me to keep living the dream of being a full-time author. I hope that this time, I won't have to cover before myself for breaking my promises, instead properly fulfilling them and allowing this novel the lay the groundwork for the greatest and most insane project I ever could figure out, and that I already somewhat begun.
Cheers!
MotivatedSloth, signing off.


Did I reincarnate? Or was I transported to an Isekai cultivation world? To be honest, I have no clue!

What matters is that I turned from being useless, bullied, and trash, to fully-fledged garbage in my new cultivation world! 

But what is this strange bleep that keeps ringing in my ears? Is this some kind of system? Oh God! Did you gift me such a cliché, right at the start of my journey?

Wait, why are you trying to kill me? Did I do something to you? Stand back or I will be forced to use unstoppable Exhudia!

Tell me, what did she do for you to treat your significant other in this way? Let me show you how girlfriends should be taken care of!

Wait, everyone was always telling me that demons are bad, so why is this demonic queen trying to seduce me? Wait! KEEP YOUR HANDS AWAY FROM MY PRECIOUS SWORD!

I just came back from a mission and was promised at least a half a year of break. Why are you bothering me again with something as silly as subjugating a devil general?


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Author: 314 (Yang Chen)
 
After you confirm what genre and topic you wish to write about, it's now time for you as an author to design your settings and write the overall planned outline for your plot. As for why I'm putting these two elements together, that's because these two elements are deeply interconnected and inseparable.
 
When you're writing the overall outline, this is basically coming up with the story's plot. As you write the outline, what you're actually doing is fleshing out the details for your setting.
 
When you're writing a story, of course, you need to first consider where your story will happen, when it happens, who it happens to, and what type of person it happens to. As the story progresses, you also need to consider who the main character will meet in the story, what time and place he or she meets them at, along with who's stronger and who's weaker than the main character…
 
This is why by the time that you're finished with your overall outline, the world's background, various factions, levels, special abilities, treasures, all the important characters… and such settings will be naturally completed during the course of outlining.
 
The reverse is true as well. If you first work on designing the detailed settings instead, then you'll basically end up with an outline for the story's plot and how the main character grows over the story as well.
 
Of course, there's still some differences depending on which angle you start from. However, newcomer authors like you don't need to worry about this. You can simply create based on your personality and whatever you prefer. It doesn't matter whether you start from the settings or the outline. You can even do both at the same time.
 
For newcomer authors like you, there's only five points that are critically important for you to understand.
 
1.      Having an overall outline isn't absolutely necessary, but having one is always better than not having one
 
Theoretically speaking, even if you didn't prepare an overall outline, it might not affect the progress of you writing your novel at all. There are some authors out there that simply write whatever comes into their mind and go with the flow.
 
Of course, this is all just a best-case scenario in theory. For the great majority of authors out there, once your story's plot exceeds your planned outline... 

Your outline will help your story stay on track in the early stages, but once you reach the mid and late stages, all sorts of problems often appear, such as too many plotlines all at once, self-contradictory plotlines, or writer's block…
 
At such a time, authors will typically regret not creating a more detailed outline, but it's already too late now. Actually, overall outlines have more uses than you think.
 
Since webnovels are typically longer than normal novels, they take much longer to write as well. Typically, it takes an average author several months or even longer to finish writing everything in their overall outline. By the time that they're finish writing everything in their overall outline, most authors will have new ideas and insights into what they want to write. Once they combine their new ideas with their original outline, in a way, this gives them two sources of inspiration. It's basically the equivalent of two people working together, and on top of that, these two people know exactly what each other are thinking.
 
It's easy to see how this can be helpful in improving the quality of your novel.
 
Apart from this, while creating an overall outline, the author can also discover many topics or problems with the settings and correct them in time.
 
To give an extreme example, if you're having a great difficulty with writing your overall outline and don't know what to do with your own plot, this proves that there's a large problem with your plot. You should either make major changes, or delete this part of your plot entirely.
 
So, newcomer authors definitely shouldn't overlook the uses of having an overall outline. No matter if you have a good or bad outline, a simple or a detailed one, as long as you have one, that's good.
 
What needs to be noted is that only outlines that have been written out truly count as outlines.
 
Even if you as an author have a very detailed outline, and even if you've solidly memorized every single plot point in your outline, any outline that hasn't been written into your novel doesn't count as a true outline. That's because when you actually start writing, you'll discover that what you finally end up writing will always have differences from what you envisioned.
 
2.      You need to finish your outline, but it doesn't need to be complete
 
Thinking about your outline is equivalent to thinking about your novel's plot. You need to consider both the beginning and the end. You also need to think about everything that the main character experiences from the beginning to the end of the story.
 
If your outline isn't finished, but only half-finished, you won't even be able to predict the storylines that come later, which will cause you to have difficulties writing your plot once you finish the beginning stages. This is basically the same as not having an outline at all.
 
Still, there's no need for us to make the outline as detailed as possible from the very beginning, with so many specific scenarios for all your plots. The reason for this is quite simple—none of us know just how long our novels will turn out to be in the end.
 
A story that's written with the intent of becoming a commercial product needs to be sufficiently long enough right from the planning stage. The longer your potential story, the better. But actually, how many words it finally ends up with depends on how well your story performs.
 
If your story is incredibly popular and performs well in the market, then we can consider writing it for as long as possible. However, if your story obviously isn't popular with readers, then you can consider ending your story in a timely fashion at an appropriate point in the plot so that you can think of a new story instead. That would be a wiser decision if you wish to become a professional author.
 
Of course, when you're only in the outlining stage, it's impossible for you as a newcomer author to know how readers will react to your novel. Precisely because of this, you need to have a flexible writing plan. What this means is that you should have an outline that's detailed in the beginning and general near the end. For the beginning of your story, you should have as detailed an outline as possible, while for the middle and especially the later parts of your story, you only need some general ideas. All you need is to consider the overall development of the plot so that you know what direction to take your storyline in.
 
For example, maybe you planned that the beginning of your novel will be approximately 80,000 words, and you've prepared a 4,000-word outline for just the beginning. In that case, your outline for the next 80,000 words, the middle of your story, might only need 3000 words, and the meat of your story, another 240,000 words, might have an outline that's less than 1000 words.
 
Of course, as you continue writing your story, you should constantly update your outline as well. You should complete your outline for the next 80,000 words before you finish writing the first 80,000 words.
 
3.      Your settings need to be constantly updated

Just like writing an outline, you should first come up with the basic settings before you even begin writing, which includes your world background, main character's personality, power levels, and so on.
 
More specific settings, such as a powerful artifact that appears in the story, can be added as you write your story.
 
Unlike an outline, you don't need to fully plan out all of your settings at the very beginning. It's perfectly acceptable to think of new settings while you're writing.
 
However, newcomer authors need to note that while it's okay to come up with new settings as you write, you should write these settings down and add them to your outline or settings document as you write.
 
This is to help yourself check your own settings later in the future. Otherwise, a novel that reached over one million words and has lasted for one year or longer might cause you as an author to completely forget about something you wrote before in the past. It's even quite common to make a mistake when writing about the items that the main character possesses. Yet, there will always be a sharp-eyed reader or two that catches the author out in a misstep.
 
If you have a very detailed document on your settings, not only will you be able to greatly reduce your own plot continuity errors, you'll also be able to look through your settings whenever you have writer's block and find some inspiration in a side character that you have already forgotten about or some item that was mentioned before but never used again.
 
4.      It's better for your settings to be cliché
 
Here, this means the systems and names that you use for your settings. For example, the names and levels you use for a martial arts society.
 
Many newcomer authors will mistakenly think that using already existing well-known settings will make their novel seem too cliché, causing them to want to be as "unique" as possible. These authors will use their imaginations to come up with all sorts of fictional vocabulary words, which in their minds will make their novels "stand out." These newcomer authors don't realize that this is the worst possible way to write a novel. In the great majority of situations, this will have the opposite effect from intended.
 
A new original novel that you write should be a new interpretation or story about some specific genre or story type. How to make your novel stand out depends on the conflicts you create in your story and how the main character resolves them. As for coming up with new vocabulary words and names for your novel, even if you make them sound really cool, or make some modified slang words, it's almost never a good thing for you.
 
The reason for this can also be understood in my article about how to write the beginning of your story. By doing so, the author is placing more burden upon the readers to understand a larger amount of information.
 
There will always be other already existing words that you could have used, which are easily understood by all your readers. Instead, your readers now need to spend their time and effort on reading your explanations. Obviously, readers aren't here to read your technical manuals or info dumps. The more explanations that you have in your novel, the lower your novel's appeal and flow will become. But, if you don't add any explanations for your self-created words at all, the readers won't even understand what's going on.
 
This is why newcomer authors should avoid this useless type of "creativity" as much as possible. You should simply rely on settings that all readers are familiar with instead.
 
5.      The storyline should be pushed forward by using conflicts
 
Many newcomer authors will often develop writer's block when planning their outline or working on their novel.
 
Sometimes, this is because the author has made their storyline too messy. But most of the time, it's because the author feels like there's nothing to write about, or doesn't know what they should make the main character do. The author has no idea how to continue their own story.
 
In order to deal with writer's block, or in other words, how to push your storyline alone, the answer is actually incredibly simple.
 
You can answer this question using only one word – Conflicts!
 
Actually, the critical element of all webnovels can be summed up into one word – conflicts. For example, leveling is the desire or need of the main character to become stronger, which is a conflict between the main character and his or her own current weakness.
 
And since there is a conflict, you must resolve the conflict. And so, your main character wants to cultivate to become stronger, which means he needs to travel around the world in order to find cultivation methods…
 
All sorts of conflicts will both push forward your storyline as well as create numerous climaxes for your readers. It can be said that how you design your conflicts is the very foundation of writing any novel, not just a webnovel.
 
As for a more detailed analysis on how to design your story's conflicts, please read my intermediate-level article on the topic. For newcomer authors like you, you simply need to understand this concept, and know that you should keep coming up with new conflicts whenever you're having trouble keeping up with your own storyline. Try finding potential conflicts from plots, characters, and items you've already used, or forcefully introduce a new element into your story that creates a new conflict.
 
This can be said to be one of the most basic techniques of planning your storyline.

If you’re confused about how to write a popular webnovel, perhaps this book will be able to help you out. 

This book contains articles written by the best editors in the Chinese webnovel industry. There are introductory guides, intermediate guides, and assorted topics, with different numbers of guides in each type. Each week, we’ll be publishing three guides. If you believe that these guides are useful, please let us know by leaving your reviews. We can adjust the update rate based on your feedback.

Author introduction:

314 (Yang Chen): He is China Literature’s general manager, Xiaoxiang Academy’s general manager, Qidian’s head editor, China Webnovel Literature Committee member, Jiangsu Province Webnovel Author Committee vice-chairman, and a qualified expert on all internet literature. He has discovered many popular topics and greatly helped the industry to expand, along with having personally advised many top-tier authors. He is from the first generation of webnovel researchers. Yang Chen started working in the webnovel editing industry in 2005, and is highly skilled at summarizing and analyzing the business theories behind webnovel literature and is famed for his outstanding creativity in the industry.

 Small Team Leader（Zhou Binglin）：Small Team Leader is a high-ranked general manager for China Literature, as well as the head editor for chuangshi.qq.com. He is originally from Guilin, Guangxi.

Small Team Leader is a top-ranked editor for original novels as well as a veteran web novel expert. He has helped to discover countless popular topics as well as frameworks and has advised numerous platinum-ranked authors. He’s also one of the first generation of web novel reviewers as well as authors.

Jing Jiu understood what she meant after the initial bafflement; and they didn't continue the topic. "How to write it?" asked Jing Jiu.
It of course had nothing to do with the skill of writing. "There are two common types of writing: One is to write with your awareness and the another is to directly collect the waves of your awareness and then describe it in words," explained Zong Lizi. "But the latter has a major problem, which is that many chaotic thoughts will come up since the minds are hard to control. The writers who are inclined to win prizes in literature prefer this type of writing; but it's seldom used in the business writing, and it's because modifying it is too cumbersome, while another reason is that the equipment used to collect the awareness is too expensive."
"Is there another type?" asked Jing Jiu.
Zong Lizi brought out a small item that looked like a finger wrapper from her room, saying, "Another type is to use the remote-control pen."
Having said that, she demonstrated how to use it. Zong Lizi put on the finger wrapper on the forefinger of her right hand before she vibrated her finger at a high speed; a line of words appeared on the computer screen without any mistakes.
"What's the difference between this method and writing with pen and paper?" asked Jing Jiu.
Zong Lizi replied earnestly after setting down the finger wrapper by the computer, "It's faster and cheaper than using pen and paper."
Jing Jiu thought that the things he didn't care about were not something the mortals didn't care about as well; he returned to his own room with the computer in his arms.
After pulling back her gaze from the tightly closed room, Zong Lizi went to the kitchen and started cooking supper.
The flavorless but healthy nutrient bars were hard to swallow and tasteless even thought they were washed down with the help of tea.
Usually she would have complained a little about the food, but she didn't today. She was somewhat at a loss, unable to notice how she had swallowed the nutrient bars.
In fact, every writer's first novel was about oneself. He was writing a story about himself in his room; the background must be the beautiful world above, and the story would be entanglements of love, hatred, hostility and revenge between the people in the upper class. Maybe, he would write about the secrets of the rich and famous families and even about a certain mistress in the priest clan…
The girl with silvery hair wondered if she could earn some royalties after the novel became popular online.
It was a wonderful thought.
And the better outcome would be that he brought her to the upper world because he didn't want to depart from her after he was brought up to the upper world by his family; and…well, I'm a naïve girl who craves wealth and nobility, and it's his fault for having such a handsome face!
Thinking of all this, she dusted off the crumbs of nutrient bar on her hand, took out a tea bag to make a cup of tea, then pushed open the door and walked in.
"It must be hard to write the novel in the beginning. I'll help you write it for the first few days, and you'll be able to do it more efficiently later on."
Zong Lizi put down the cup of tea on the windowsill before she turned to Jing Jiu, who was sitting on the floor. "You shouldn't be too concerned at first," she said with a worried expression on her face. "What…you've finished writing it!"
Her voice grew higher and higher until the tone of her voice lifted up in the end to express an inquiry.
"The end of the seventh book…He saw the battleships."
Jing Jiu turned off the computer after he wrote this line. "I haven't finished it yet; but this is a temporary ending," said Jing Jiu after he turned to face the girl with silvery hair.
Zong Lizi came back to her senses after feeling bewildered for a while. "You're a liar. You must have written it ahead of time and had the saved files," she exclaimed.
However, where were those saved files if he had written them beforehand? It was not on the network of the institute for sure. And he didn't wear any bracelet; and it seemed that he hadn't had the chips implanted…
Jing Jiu had no idea what "saved files" meant; so he didn't pay any attention to her accusation. "How to publish it?" he asked.
Zong Lizi hadn't recovered from her shock yet, as she answered, "There is a forum on the network of the institute; you can upload it everyday after you register with it."
Jing Jiu knew what "registration" meant, saying, "But I don't have any ID and can't register."
Zong Lizi offered while covering her face with her hands, "Or…use my ID."
Jing Jiu uttered "hmm" after some thought.
Zong Lizi typed something on the computer; soon after, twenty thousand words had been updated.
Seeing her pay close attention to the number of visitors and have no intention of uploading more files, Jing Jiu wondered, "Aren't you going to upload more?"
"It's enough to upload twenty thousand words a day," she replied in a casual manner. Zong Lizi stared at the computer screen and wished to find out who had posted the first comment.
Jing Jiu thought that it would take one hundred days to upload the novel this way. "Upload them all," said he.
Zong Lizi lifted up her head to glance at him as if she were staring at an idiot, but she found he, as an idiot, was truly handsome. "If we upload it all at once, it will be drowned at the bottom of the forum, and nobody will be able to find it," she said while lowering her head in embarrassment.
Jing Jiu wondered how it should be handled this way.
"Nobody will read it if the novel is finished," explained Zong Lizi patiently.
"It's not finished yet," said Jing Jiu. "It's just the beginning of the story."
"Let's compromise a little; upload…thirty thousand words a day?" she suggested after she found he was rather persistent.
"Five hundred thousand," said Jing Jiu.
Zong Lizi said, "Fifty thousand…one hundred thousand then. Deal?"
Seeing her hand stretched in front of him and the naïve expression like that of a small animal on her face that reminded Jing Jiu of the disciples on Shenmo Peak, he tapped her hand with his right hand.
Zong Lizi said while pointing to the computer, "I'll read it first tonight."
Thinking that he would spend time digesting his knowledge about the theorem that night, he nodded in agreement.
Zong Lizi picked up the computer in her arms and went back to her bedroom gleefully.
Overnight, the dim glow from the light screen had been streaming out from the crack on the door of the bedroom, and a sobbing could be heard once in a while.
Early next morning, she walked out from her bedroom while holding the computer in her arms, her silvery hair a bit messy, her eyes red, and her face a bit tired, indicating that she hadn't slept the whole night.
Lying on the couch, Jing Jiu was watching the morning news on TV. Seeing her in such a condition, he couldn't help but glance at her twice.
"The novel is not too bad," said Zong Lizi in a pretentiously casual manner, as she rubbed her slightly red nose with a paper tissue.
Jing Jiu uttered a "hmm" in a suspicious tone and pressed, "It's merely not too bad?"
Zong Lizi sat beside him and said, "The story is okay, but the emotions are not strong enough, and the conflicts are not vehement enough. The most pressing issue is the skill of writing. When Lian Sanyue died, I felt exceedingly sad but couldn't cry."
Jing Jiu wondered which plots she cried over the night before; was it the spring rain that Liu Ci turned into or the fight between him and Nan Qü?
"That young master Li was too pitiful…"
Zong Lizi felt increasingly more depressed when she recalled the lonely grave at the Three-Thousand Nunnery and the music of "Prelude to a Wonderful Night"; and furthermore, she hadn't slept the whole night before. As a result, she couldn't help but cry out loudly.
Jing Jiu didn't say anything, nor did he try to console her. All he did was look at her quietly.
It was boring to cry by herself, so Zong Lizi stopped crying gradually. She picked up the backpack and went to the institute after shooting an irritated glance at Jing Jiu.
…
…
Zong Lizi thought the novel "The Path toward Heaven" was a pretty good one; but she forgot the fact that she had read it from the beginning to the end nonstop, so she didn't have to bear the pain of waiting for updates.
It was quiet in the forum at the network of the New Era Institute; the first chapters didn't cause much reaction, except for a few comments. And the comments were not on the content of the novel but the rumors about the author.
Zong Lizi was not convinced, though. She touched on the topic in class and asked her friends to read and comment on it; it would be helpful for the novel if they could give some positive reviews.
A few days later, she heard what the classmates complained in the class, and she couldn't help but tell Jing Jiu about what they complained.
By the time the news was over on TV, Jing Jiu turned to Zong Lizi, "What did you say?"
"I offer you some suggestions on behalf of the readers. Your style of writing is pretty good; it's straightforward and distinct. However, the plots in the beginning and in the end are too disconnected, and it's written in a slow and careless manner. It's hard to remember what you have written earlier when a reader reaches the end of the novel." Zong Lizi continued after some thought, "There is one important issue: Jing Yang always pretended to be carefree and indifferent. He was too pretentious and therefore repulsive."
Jing Jiu thought to himself that he was a fairy man with a free spirit to begin with; there was no need for him to be pretentious.
…
…
Time passed like the flowing water as one lived a leisurely life.
The novel uploaded to the network of the New Era Institute didn't attract much attention like most of the novels.
Zong Lizi felt increasingly more dejected, but Jing Jiu didn't care so much about others' responses. He spent most of his time and effort on studying.
One day, he had finished studying all the materials in physics and mathematics on the network of the institute. He had basically learned them based on his own standard.
It was impossible to find more advanced knowledge of physics and mathematics on the network of the institute.
Most of the books on the three bookshelves in the study room contained specialized knowledge about economics, finance and accounting.
It was because Zong Lizi's father had been a professor in economics.
Jing Jiu couldn't help but shake his head when it occurred to him that a professor in economics opted to commit suicide due to a mutual fund scam. In his mind, the mortals were a bunch of pitiful as well as interesting people, be it in this universe or in Chaotian.
By dusk, Zong Lizi came back to the apartment under the intermittent twilight after she received the foods for the next week. Seeing Jing Jiu lie on the couch watching TV, she couldn't help but feel curious as she remarked, "I don't believe that you have actually rested."
Jing Jiu uttered "hmm". After some thought, he explained further, "I've studied all of them."
"All of them? Those are the courses for four years' study at the institute. How could you finish studying them a few weeks?"
Zong Lizi couldn't believe him. She turned on the computer on the coffee table and said, "You should write the graduation thesis and show me if you're really good."
Jing Jiu returned without drawing his gaze away from the TV screen, "No."
He actually meant it because he had no need to prove himself; on the other hand, it was mainly because he was lazy.
Zong Lizi asked after some thought, "Should you take a test? Otherwise, you don't even know if you have actually learned the knowledge."
Jing Jiu answered casually while staring at the TV screen, "I've done it already."
Zong Lizi was a bit startled to hear it. She logged in the network of the institute and the test database, and found that he had done seven tests, and that he earned full scores for all the tests.
The room was exceedingly quiet, except for the familiar voice of the news anchor.
"Have you…copied the answers?"
"Hmm?"
"Otherwise, how could you earn so many full scores?"
"I've never got any other score."
Squatting on the couch, Zong Lizi looked down at Jing Jiu's face, her eyes full of awe and respect.
In the next moment, the expression of awe turned to pity in her eyes.
It was said that the students above had the inputs of primary knowledge implanted directly into their brains; they had no need to learn from notes.
A genius like him had to study, meaning that he was neglected and even oppressed by his clan, which is why he fled to this place.
It seemed as if she had encountered an inspiring story.
In the story, the talented youth had finally won back what belonged to him in the first place.
And she was the bright light, company, and even partner of the talented youth when he was at the bottom of his life.
"Do you…want to attend the school?" offered Zong Lizi while staring into Jing Jiu's eyes. "You shouldn't waste your talent on primary school knowledge. What you should study are all in the library and database of the institute."
Jing Jiu was aware that she attended the school. The New Era Institute and other colleges were something similar to the One-Cottage House. "Okay," he replied.
Zong Lizi seemed to imagine that a legendary episode would come about; she was so excited that she couldn't help coughing nonstop.
Jing Jiu shot a glance her way.
She waved her hand to indicate that she was fine. She turned to walk back to her bedroom; \she didn't notice that Jing Jiu had followed her into her bedroom.
Jing Jiu had turned into a ghost like he had done a few days ago, standing in a corner of the bedroom while watching her on the bed quietly.
She wrapped her head in the quilt while facing the door with her back. She was coughing softly in an attempt to avoid disturbing Jing Jiu, who she believed was still in the living room.
Along with her coughing, the bed was quivering slightly; and the silvery hair outside the quilt was trembling as well. It was a pitiful scene.


I am the sword.
Killing a man amidst a thousand miles, no one dares take ten steps.
Killing a man amidst a thousand miles, no one can take ten steps.
Killing a man amidst a thousand miles, ten steps? Not possible!
I am the sword, the sword is me,
On the path towards heaven, each shall wield their own.

Needless to say, the novel went on to vividly describe how the two more than slightly drunk men made use of the so-called bridal chamber that night. Su Yan took one look at the first few paragraphs, grimaced and immediately skipped three chapters.
Well, thankfully … Su Yan just wanted to praise that he could skip chapters when a few of the words entered his line of sight.
["Ah Ying, how about I call you Xiao Gui? Wouldn't you feel much closer to my brother then?"
"I don't mind, I don't mind. Just continue. Ah! Mn, Ah Ting …" Huan Gui Ying only managed to get out a few words before the pleasure overwhelmed him. He clung to Wang Ya Ting's body, moaning incessantly.]
Su Yan's brows twitched. What was going on here? Hadn't he immediately skipped three chapters when Wang Ya Ting and Huan Gui Ying entered that room? How come they were still at it? Or had something else happened in between?
He bit his lower lip, debating with himself whether or not he should have a look. Unfortunately, it was always curiosity that killed the cat. Su Yan went two chapters back and started to read the beginning of what had happened immediately after the two characters entered the room.
[Wang Ya Ting and Huan Gui Ying went through the motions of a wedding as good as they could in their intoxicated state. This actually just meant that they promised themselves to stay together and then bowed to make everything seem more official. After that, they turned to look at each other.
Huan Gui Ying's cheeks reddened and his breath came in short huffs. "Then … should I strip?"]
Su Yan skipped to the next chapter as soon as he saw Huan Gui Ying uttering this sentence. Just as he had thought. This stupid novel had let the birds out again. And it hadn't even taken the time to describe the wedding before that! What was it with that two-sentence description of such an important plot point?! How could the author just gloss over it like that?!
He shook his head and tried to concentrate on the next chapter but, naturally, it didn't get any better.
[Wang Ya Ting finally couldn't take it any longer. With a wild growl, he ripped his own robe from his body and pounced on his newly-wedded bride. It was time for the rice to become cooked!]
Su Yan sighed and went back to the chapter where he had originally wanted to continue to read, then he skipped to the chapter following it. He would never believe that this shitty novel would actually manage to conclude everything somewhere in this chapter. It would at least drag things out until the end and only start with the next actual plot point in the following chapter.
Su Yan wasn't completely wrong with that. The novel indeed used the rest of the chapter to describe how Wang Ya Ting and Huan Gui Ying went at it. Unfortunately … Su Yan was still mistaken about the other point: The plot didn't start to continue at the beginning of the next chapter. Instead, Su Yan was once again met with something he didn't like.
[Huan Gui Ying arched his back and groaned when Wang Ya Ting's finger entered him. He clutched his husband's shoulders and burrowed his heels into the bed, trying to somehow alleviate the arousing sensation.
"Ah, Ah Ying, don't! I can't take it! I'm going crazy! I …" His words ended in a yelp when Wang Ya Ting's finger dug deeper.]
Su Yan grimaced. Ah, he really wanted to give his phone to Nie Chang and have him skip chapters in his stead until he was finally past this stuff! Why were there so many chapters just describing how two people had sex in this novel?! Was there no plot at all?
He frowned at his phone and continued to skip, only taking a glance at each chapter before deciding if he could safely read it. Most of them weren't. Well, actually, it wasn't too surprising. The system had said that this was a spicy BL novel, after all. He should have expected this.
Su Yan stopped moving and just stared blankly. Actually, this task wasn't too bad. Sure, he didn't like reading this stuff but he had learned two very important things from it.
First of all, he knew he never wanted to write any kind of spicy BL novel. He would just keep to the sweet ones. And secondly, he finally knew that having sex wasn't as easy as his mother had claimed. If he hadn't gotten this task from the system, he wouldn't have found out and things might go wrong on Friday.
Come to think of it … How would this bout of Wang Ya Ting and Huan Gui Ying end? He had skipped a lot of stuff including a description of Wang Ya Ting's body but it couldn't be that he would be just as well-endowed as Ling Yu, could it? Su Yan couldn't imagine it. Wouldn't that be too unrealistic? But in this case, the aftermath of them fooling around shouldn't be as bad as the one from when Wang Ya Hui and Ling Yu had had sex, right?
Su Yan scrolled further down until he finally found the scene where Wang Ya Ting and Huan Gui Ying fell asleep. The next chapter should talk about the issue, right? He held the phone closer to his face and stared at the lines of text intently so he wouldn't miss it.
There! That should be it! Su Yan stopped scrolling and read on.
[Huan Gui Ying woke up feeling groggy and confused. There was a blissful smile on his lips but he didn't actually know why. He didn't feel all that good. His head hurt, his arms hurt, his shoulders hurt, his back hurt, his legs hurt and especially his rear end hurt.
This was probably how a man felt if he was pushed onto the road and then run over by a carriage drawn by four horses.]

Su Yan always wanted to be an author. Being moved by his determination (Well, in fact, she was just an avid reader of his fan-fictions and wanted him to write full time …) official Shen Lu grants the aspiring author a system: The Lovely Writing System!
Finding a strange app on his beloved notebook, Su Yan is sure he has fallen prey to a hacker. But why is this strange app issuing tasks related to his favorite hobby? Wait … What? He is supposed to write BL?! And what is this shitty task about experiencing story immersion?! No! He’d rather not become an author if that means he also has to become a shou!

Follow Su Yan on his path to becoming the world’s greatest BL author … and to reluctantly becoming a beloved shou thanks to a shitty Lovely Writing System!

Release schedule: The story is finished.

Author: Chugong
Status: Complete (270caps.)
Type: Novel
Synopsis:
10 years ago, after "the Gate" that connected the real world with the monster world opened, some of the ordinary, everyday people received the power to hunt monsters within the Gate. They are known as "Hunters". However, not all Hunters are powerful. My name is Sung Jin-Woo, an E-rank Hunter. I'm someone who has to risk his life in the lowliest of dungeons, the "World's Weakest". Having no skills whatsoever to display, I barely earned the required money by fighting in low-leveled dungeons… at least until I found a hidden dungeon with the hardest difficulty within the D-rank dungeons! In the end, as I was accepting death, I suddenly received a strange power, a quest log that only I could see, a secret to leveling up that only I know about! If I trained in accordance with my quests and hunted monsters, my level would rise. Changing from the weakest Hunter to the strongest S-rank Hunter!
My Opinion:
This is one of the best novels I have ever read, it is so exciting that you read from beginning to end without wanting to stop. Action, adventure, comedy, suspense, everything was put in the right measure. I strongly recommend this novel to everyone. Best of all, this novel has its own manhwa, where you can see the story from another point, but I still recommend reading the novel first.

This is simply a list of novels and fanfics that I have read and recommend, if you are looking for something to read, feel free to take a look, but you will find mostly Naruto fanfics.

Author here! This is just another note before the story, alright? Well, I hope it helps new authors on here! Bye and have a good day.
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Hello, Webnovel authors, I'm Ren Wo Xiao. The author of "I Have Countless Legendary Swords!"
 
Here are some tips on novel writing for Novice Writers.
 
 
Topic Selection
 
1. Story background:
 
Authors who like Modern Urban may select Modern Urban. This theme has the strongest ability to generate empathy, as it has a connection to real life so that the reader is easily drawn into the story. Within this genre, Urban Superpowers enjoys great popularity. The reader develops a high from identifying with a protagonist who displays supernatural ability in ordinary life, much like how  superhero movies and comics are wildly popular.
 
Those who like Alien Fantasy will have to pay attention to the power system of the world and the protagonist's cheat system set-up. Usually, this theme focuses on adventure and counterattack revenge. The advantage offered by this theme is that you can write to great lengths, and because it's an unknown world, it is more relaxing to handle than the Modern Urban genre.
 
Normally I'll think about the specifics of the world background according to the genre of story I wish to write. For example if I wish to write a Urban story, I'll think about the sort of disagreement or conflict situation that could be my springboard. Then from a conflict situation that people can generally empathize with, I'll start to unfold the set up of this world. If I wish to write an Alien Fantasy story, I will first consider the power system of the world and what it might be like after the improvement. Then I will begin to develop the preset story.
 
2. Market research:
 
You can draw elements of your story from the current trends. Most of the time, the core elements of popular online entertainment products in the market will be similar. Apart from the innovation around the power and world perspectives, the plot normally centres around counterattack, revenge and invincibility. Internet literature is usually explicit from the opening, using the most direct way possible to attract readers.
 
 
Outline
 
1. Objectives system
 
Generally, the protagonist's objective is vengeance or a treasure hunt. A treasure hunt is simple, you may design a legend. And the opposition's objective is an essential element in a web novel. The disagreement or contradiction set up in a web novel is something very prominent, and often, right from the beginning of the story there will be the presence of an opposing character that suppresses the protagonist. This character may be very strong, or very wealthy. During the time when the protagonist is strong, you may depict other characters who are more powerful than the former. It may be someone whom the former depends on, or it may be a renowned influential figure. You can create a deep impression in the reader before the target personality makes an appearance. A common approach is to have some walk-on characters play up the greatness of this target character, making it seem as though the protagonist would surely not be able to defeat the target character. This way, when the protagonist actually manages to do so, it creates a greater high for the reader.
 
2. Map design
 
Map development in web novels, be they of Fantasy or Urban genre, mostly begin with small places, then progress into bigger places. This sequential approach allows the preservation of a sense of novelty. The most popular method currently is to re-create a certain period in history. For example, you may create magic, or a fantasy world, that ordinary folks may not know about in a period of the Central European history; or you may create a world of great eastern martial arts in ancient China.
 
When I write Fantasy, I will usually re-create a certain dynasty in ancient China. Although it doesn't square with its actual history, it attracts readers nevertheless.
 
3. Characterization  
 
Generally, there are two ways to design a character in web novels. One is a character that doesn't change from the beginning right through to the end of the story; the other is one that changes drastically, for example, from being a timid person to one that is arrogant and conceited; or from a jovial person to a cold and callous one. The former might better suit a modern background. It's happy and relaxed. A protagonist is more likable when there is a dark side to him or her. The latter might better suit an alien world background. The change in the protagonist's personality may create a deeper impression of your story in the reader. When a chatty and optimistic protagonist evolves into a cold and ruthless character through his sufferings, it will trigger the reader's empathy.
 
Apart from the protagonist, the other character that should be made outstanding would be the villain. The more distinct the villain's character is, the more interesting the novel becomes. After all, web novel readers focus on the protagonist most of the time, hence the role of the protagonist's opponent becomes very important.
 
4. Disagreements and conflicts
 
The most common types of opening disagreements would be parental misunderstandings, or being despised by fellow students or relatives, as well as the very classic break-up-with-girlfriend routine. These are enduring routines that never fail to draw the readers' empathy.
 
 
Main Body
 
1. Opening
 
Start with a simple introduction of the protagonist's identity, it's best that the character has the qualities of an ordinary person. Normally the disagreements will surface right from the first chapter. At the same time you may drop some hints of the possibility that the protagonist's fate may change. For example in Spider Man, the super spider's message made an appearance very soon after Spider Man was bullied in school. This leads the audience to make a connection between him and the super spider.
 
2. Moving into monetized chapters
 
The chapter that transits into monetized chapters is eminently important, in fact no less so than the story opening. You may stop just before the climax of the plot or during it. When you arrive at this chapter, you will need to draw your readers' desire to know the story's subsequent development. At all cost, avoid inhibiting the protagonist at this point of time. Allow him to fall into a suppressive situation. It could be the villains doing an evil deed, injuring the protagonist, for instance. When everyone thinks that this is the end of the protagonist, the protagonist's great power suddenly awakens within. You may end before the manifestation of this great power. After this awakening, the paid chapters will kick in.
 
 
Packaging and Later Stages
 
1. Title
 
In the context of this fast-paced world that we live in, a book title has to be eye-catching. It has to be able to highlight the core attraction point of your novel which, mostly, is the manifestation of the cheat system.
 
2. Introduction
 
Like a book title, the introduction of the story has to highlight its point of attraction. On top of this, its type setting has to be clean. Rather than a single paragraph containing all the information, it's better to break the content into short paragraphs. The first paragraph may be a simple introduction of the story background. For example, in my novel "I Have Countless Legendary Swords!", I put it quite directly that the prince had suffered calamity. There is no need to provide details of the calamity. You may mention outright the protagonist's cheat system. This is the best way to attract readers.
 
3. Interaction with readers
 
It is very important to interact with your readers. At the end of a chapter, you may leave a note to reveal your recent state of mind as you are writing. This can close the gap between you and your readers, it can also spark off a discussion of the plot among your readers. Ultimately, it's a good thing to be close to your readers.
 
 
At the end, I'll promote my novel "I Have Countless Legendary Swords!". The background of this story is like a fusion of many dynasties of ancient China, there are classic scenes of mortals vs. immortals. The protagonist receives a legendary sword each year of his life, and he is able to control these legendary swords perfectly. When the protagonist turned ten thousand years old, he had that corresponding number of legendary swords. He was able to take on the immortals and so earned himself the reputation of being the unparalleled King of Swords.

Hello readers. Especially to the most loyal ones.

In the beginning, I am writing this novel for the sake of enjoyment and fulfillment. I know you experience this too, after reading too many novels, you will have the urge to write one yourself. 

Writing a Zombie Apocalypse Novel was pretty hard. After reading the novel "Apocalypse Meltdown System" sadly it got dropped (as far as I know), the zombie novels I read are really not on par with the Apocalypse Meltdown System. It was also the other reason why I wan't to write a novel with zombie's all over it. And man, comparing this novel to AMS, truly crappy I admit.

After a couple days, my collections and views just keep on increasing. Seeing that, I pretty much feel happy and overwhelmed. After that, writing this novel has become another part of my daily life. It was hard, exhausting and of course enjoyable. 

Writing a novel is really hard. Especially for me as I like to procrastinate a lot. Remember that time I did not update for days? Procrastination my man.  

At first, I was really not hoping for this novel to get contracted, you know crappy grammar, crappy story line and various other reasons that I myself did not know.

But, during the release of chap 10-15, I was offered  with an exclusive contract by webnovel, and of course, after a couple of weeks, I signed it. 

It was opportunity for me to write in enjoyment and earn at the same time. I know I only have low amount of readers, but I am pretty much only taking advantage of the minimum guarantee system of webnovel (hehehe). 

So for the sake of money and enjoyment, Chapters from 60 onwards will become premium starting from August 27, 2020 onwards. 

Being contracted, it means that this novel will not be dropped. I am also required to publish 1.5k words a day to be eligible for the minimum guarantee system, for me who only write more than 1k words but less than 1.5k, it was an equivalent of two chapter. It means I will have to publish two chapter daily. 

Dmn, how about my procrastination? It looks like I wlll not be able to do that again huh. Sigh*.

If you like my novel, please support me by buying and reading the premium chapters here in webnovel. 

But even if you don't want to spend your coins on this novel to unlock the premium chapters and decided to drop this novel once and for all, although reluctant, that was also fine by me. I was already thankful that you have been with me during this two months.

That's all for me, I really hope that you will accompany me towards the end of this sh*t that I started two months ago.

Again, Thank you very much. 
The lazy author, Neil_Ads

After getting run over by a truck, Nile finds himself in the body of a man with the same name as himself. 

He soon realized that he had just been transported or transmigrated into another world that was experiencing a Zombie Apocalypse.

Nile was rambling on how dangerous the zombie world is. It turns out that the zombies were evolving, getting stronger every second. 

Nile was already at his wits end when a 'System' butted to his rescue. 

He felt elated as he found out that humans could evolve too. And compared to other humans, his way of evolving was even easier due to the System's help.

Follow Nile as he ventures and comes across different kinds of people and zombies in this Zombie Apocalypse World.

Getting addicted to the notion of becoming stronger. 

He searches for zombies every day to kill and Level Up.

Getting stronger every kill, he felt that farming zombies has never been easier. 


.....

Early chapters are being re-edited. Sorry for the inconvenience.

There's a lot of grammatical error here. I will try to edit every chapter and find an editor(If I have the money) to improve the quality of the novel. 


But suggestions and tips are more than welcome.

.....
The cover is not mine. 

This is a work of fiction. Names of people, places, and events are all works of fiction.

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Beginning after the end

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The Beginning After The End

While Others Cultivate, I Use My Unique RPG Leveling System to Cultivate Smut Romance With Their Girlfriends!

Book of Authors

The Path Toward Heaven

Lovely Writing System

List of readings

Well, I Don't Really Have Anything: Like A God. Later's..I Think So

Into the Zombie World

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