Chapter 840 A Good Novel

While Luoyang was busy writing "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch", the editorial department of "Jianghu" of Shuimu Culture received thousands of entries every day. Fortunately, after Shuimu Culture took over Scorpio Building, the number of editors expanded by nearly doubled, so everyone was not too busy and kept reviewing in an orderly manner.

As the editor-in-chief, Xiang Tao was not idle either.

He also needed to select the latest excellent entries and submit them to Luoyang every day.

In his free time when Luoyang was writing "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch", he would review the works submitted by Xiang Tao. If there was a more exciting work than "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch", he would not have to write "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch" for the time being. But unfortunately, these contributors were all newcomers after all, and their works were too mediocre. They almost imitated "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and "The Return of the Condor Heroes" without their own souls, not to mention surpassing "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch"...

I still had to write it myself.

In fact, the value of newcomers lies in their content, which should be more novel and dare to break the rules. This is why many publishing houses are willing to cultivate newcomers. If these newcomers just blindly imitate the orthodox martial arts, they are far behind the experienced martial arts masters who still retain some styles.

Of course, it is not that no newcomers have written good works.

But Luoyang always felt that it was a little bit lacking, and it did not touch the string in his heart, so the really good works never appeared. It is still necessary to complete "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch". Speaking of it, "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch" is not novel, but it is more than enough to supplement the orthodox martial arts...

On the other hand, Xiang Tao was secretly anxious.

He didn't know that Luoyang was already preparing to take over the work of "The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber".

He only knew that once The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber stopped being serialized in Jianghu magazine, the sales of Jianghu magazine would certainly fall, unless he could find a good replacement work. He did not seek to surpass The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber, as long as he could be better than the average martial arts masters.

Unfortunately, surpassing the average martial arts masters is not an easy thing.

On the surface, Luoyang beat all the martial arts masters in Longguo as easily as cutting vegetables and melons, but in fact, except for Luoyang, the martial arts emperor, the martial arts masters in Longguo are already the best martial arts writers in the country. How easy is it for newcomers to surpass them?

Days passed one by one.

The day to the end of the competition was getting closer and closer.

The outside world was paying attention to the original martial arts competition held by Shuimu Culture.

In particular, some fans who love martial arts were excited and looking forward to the emergence of interesting newcomers.

In order to cater to the fans who follow the competition, Xiang Tao will select some excellent entries to display on Shuimu Culture's official website every issue, but the fans' reactions are roughly the same as Luoyang's, because the level of these newcomers is too uneven.

"The content is so immature, there is no difference between the protagonist raising an eagle and Yang Guo raising an eagle."

"It feels like they are all imitating Luo Da's The Legend of the Condor Heroes trilogy, there is nothing new."

"In fact, there doesn't have to be anything new, you have to have some heartfelt plots in it, or touching, or bloody, or even funny, but these works are all high-imitation works of popular martial arts, without their own style, how can we appreciate them?"

Most readers are dissatisfied with the works.

Even major media have noticed Shuimu Culture's martial arts original competition. In fact, this is normal. Today's Shuimu Culture is a very large publishing company in Longguo, and Xiang Tao has spent a lot of publicity funds in it to make the martial arts original competition a hit.

[Shuimu Culture Martial Arts Original Competition, newcomers' entries are lackluster! ]

[The prospect of the original martial arts competition is worrying, and Longguo martial arts is heading towards a narrower and narrower alley! There is a lack of new martial arts writers, and the old martial arts masters are in a state of decline! ]

In October, Xinhuanet, Longguo Daily and other newspapers analyzed the situation of the competition. You know, the media always likes to attract attention. Of course, the situation they report is also true, just slightly exaggerated. These reports have turned into pressure and put pressure on Xiang Tao.

Xiang Tao became more anxious.

Xiaoyuan reminded: "The competition is not over yet, maybe there will be good works tomorrow. Look at you, your hair has turned white with worry."

Xiang Tao smiled bitterly. The deadline for the original martial arts competition will be tomorrow, and the good works that make people shine have never appeared. However, he did not want Xiaoyuan to see his too decadent side, so he smiled reluctantly and said: "Help me pick off the white hair."

Xiaoyuan agreed and picked off a white hair on the back of Xiang Tao's head.

This hair was shiny white, and Luoyang at that time had already written the 26th chapter of "The Legend of the White-haired Witch", which was called [Swordsman breaks through famous mountains, beauty seeks confidant, rosy clouds shine in the valley, white hair turns to black hair].

Yes, it happens to be white hair.

[Yu Luosha turned over and sat up, her wet hair scattered on her shoulders, feeling very uncomfortable. She looked at her reflection in the water and saw a strange white-haired woman in the mountain stream. Yu Luosha screamed, this scene was even more terrifying than the tiger she saw in her dream. She said, "Am I still dreaming?" She put her finger into her mouth and bit it hard, the skin was broken and bleeding, and it hurt to her heart. This is definitely not a nightmare. Yu Luosha hurriedly gathered her long hair in her hand, and took a closer look. Was there still half a strand of black hair? It was completely white...]

This plot is the most core chapter of the whole text.

Not to mention that the White-haired Witch finally hit the mark of the title of "The Legend of the White-haired Witch"--

Since then, the concept of white hair for love has been imitated by countless novels. Even Jin Yong's Yang Guo, who was written sixteen years later, had to refer to the plot of Yu Luosha's hair turning white overnight. I don't know how many readers were heartbroken when they saw this.

You should know that Yu Luosha was born with a peerless beauty and cherished her beauty the most!

Who knew that overnight, she turned from a young girl into an old woman with white hair and a haggard appearance.

This discomfort is simply indescribable. Yu Luosha fell to the ground dejectedly, her mind was empty and she dared not think of anything, but she saw pieces of floating clouds passing over her head, and the morning sun shone through the sea of ​​clouds, shining down, beautiful and dazzling. Wild flowers sent fragrance, forest birds sang, pine wind whistled, the whole mountain was full of vitality, and Yu Luosha's heart was stiff.

"There are six more words left."

Luoyang continued to type while talking to himself.

There is an idiom called "not knowing the cold and the heat", and Luoyang felt that he was quite in line with the idiom.

The next day, at three o'clock in the afternoon, there was one hour left before the martial arts original competition ended. When Xiang Tao had already given up hope, a new editor who had joined the company not long ago suddenly shouted excitedly: "Editor-in-chief, there seems to be a very good novel here!"