The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

Actually, writing manuscripts every day is also a very painful thing. Even if I have a story in my mind, I still want to be lazy and not work.

However, for the sake of life and the meager royalties, I still have to sit at the table honestly.

Xiao Han didn't know whether those modern online novel writers wrote out of interest or for the royalties like her. Anyway, if there was no money, she would never bother to write.

While Xiao Han was working hard every day doing physical labor in the morning and mental labor in the afternoon, eating pickled vegetables and porridge, and living a poor life, Qian Wanshan printed out the beginning part of the adapted script and started selling it.

Fuyuan City is a gathering place for low-level cultivators, and business in such a place might not be very profitable. However, as with every advantage, there are also disadvantages. Low-level cultivators are a group of people with poor aptitude, facing difficulties in advancement, and no hope of achieving immortality. Precisely because of their poor aptitude and hopelessness in building a foundation, they tend to have a somewhat resigned mentality.

With this mentality, people were less motivated to cultivate and level up. For poor, low-level cultivators, lacking other entertainment options, reading storybooks became a hobby for many.

Therefore, the most profitable books in Qian Wanshan's bookstore were storybooks. Because of this, he naturally got to know many monks who loved reading storybooks.

When a new book hits the shelves, it's natural to seek out acquaintances to promote it. Previously, if a new storybook was sold in two volumes, the first volume would be priced at a minimum of fifty spirit pearls. The price of the second half would be determined based on the sales of the first and reader feedback.

If there are many monks who like the book and want to see the subsequent plot, the second half of the book may cost 60 or 70 spirit beads. If the response is mediocre, the price of the second half will be reduced to 40 or even 30 spirit beads, and you can see the finale.

This time, Qian Wanshan placed all his bets on the second and third books, pricing them at twenty Spirit Pearls each. This was practically the cost price, and it was a new marketing model he had in mind.

With less money, more monks will be willing to buy, more readers will read the beginning, and more readers will want to read the subsequent plots. Then, if you raise the price significantly, you will make back all the money.

Just when there were only four or five days left in Xiao Han's one-month work deadline at Grandma Yuan's, Qian Wanshan's note urging him to submit his work arrived.

According to the contract, Xiao Han had to write at least 100,000 words for the second part of the plot. However, she had been writing non-stop every afternoon for the past two weeks and had only managed to write about 80,000 words. After all, this was her first time writing a book, translating the plot from her mind into words. If she wanted to write well, she needed to think more deeply, and she couldn't write quickly.

It was just a reminder for the manuscript, and it was not yet the deadline stipulated in the contract, so Xiao Han was not worried.

However, after hearing the news, Granny Yuan told her not to come to the orchard for the remaining five days and to stay home to write her book. The condition was that Xiao Han give her a sneak peek after he finished writing the plot for the second part.

No, to be precise, it’s better to listen first.

Because Xiao Han's first draft of the second part of the plot was written in simplified Chinese characters, Granny Yuan couldn't read it at all. Therefore, Xiao Han read the manuscript to her every day.

According to Xiao Han’s own comments, it is a live-action audio novel in a different time and space, read by the author himself.

After completing the bug-finding task, Xiao Han stayed at home, writing the book wholeheartedly. After finishing it, he would transcribe and revise it using the language of this time and space.

During this time, Xiao Han received another note urging her to submit her manuscript. In this note, Qian Wanshan said he would give her an extra fee when she submitted the manuscript, hoping that she would submit it as early as possible.

The main reason was that Qian Wanshan was exhausted by the monks who were urging him to watch the subsequent plot.

He guessed that this statement should be attractive, but he didn't guess that it would be so attractive that it would make his life difficult.

Those monks who read the first tens of thousands of words came to his shop three times a day to ask when the second part would be released, and threatened him that if he did not publish the subsequent stories quickly, they would never come to his shop to buy stories again.

Qian Wanshan was really happy and worried.

As a last resort, he also sent a threatening sound transmission note to Xiao Han, stating that if Xiao Han could not submit the manuscript on time, in addition to compensating Xiao Han with spirit stones according to the contract, he would also make it impossible for Xiao Han to survive in Fuyuan City.

When Xiao Han received the sound transmission note, he rolled his eyes and simply copied it in a sloppy handwriting.

If we want it to be quick, this is the only way, and it’s not her fault.

After finally completing the copying and revision, with five days left before the deadline stipulated in the contract, Xiao Han went to the main urban area with a large stack of manuscripts.

As I approached the door of the bookstore, I saw four or five people standing outside the bookstore, talking excitedly.

When she got closer and listened, Xiao Han realized that these people were actually discussing the plot of her novel.

Reader A: "I think the story about Nascent Soul cultivators ascending to the Immortal Realm in 'Wandering in Another Spacetime' is probably true. Otherwise, a Nascent Soul cultivator's 1,500-year lifespan wouldn't be considered immortality."

Reader B: "According to my experience from reading the storybooks, Ye Tian will definitely be able to ascend to the immortal realm in the end."

Reader C: "If only I had the same opportunity as Ye Tian, I wonder if there is a pill deep in the Immortal Mountain that can improve the aptitude of spiritual roots, so that I can become a single spiritual root, and then practice rapidly and achieve the path of immortality."

Reader Ding: "Stop dreaming! The most urgent thing is to find a way to read the sequel. Damn it, after reading this book, I haven't been in the mood to do anything else these days. I'm only thinking about reading the sequel."

These words immediately resonated with everyone.

The genuine feedback from readers surprised Xiao Han so much that he could only grin and laugh.

She is going to become a legend with just one book!

At this time, Qian Wanshan, who was comforting readers in the store, turned his head and saw Xiao Han. He was immediately happy and surprised.

He hurriedly blinked and shook his head at Xiao Han, telling her not to come in.

If the people inside and outside the store knew that Xiao Han was carrying the manuscript of the sequel, he was worried that they would rush over to read it.

Qian Wanshan then announced loudly, "Fellow Daoists, how about this? I'm going to go find the monk who wrote the storybook now and ask him to give me as many copies as he can. I'll make copies tomorrow, and you'll be able to read the sequel the day after tomorrow morning. If I break my promise and there are no sequels the day after tomorrow, I won't charge you for buying the storybook from now on."

When the monks heard this, they were satisfied. They chatted with each other and left. No one paid any attention to Xiao Han who was standing by the gate with a large cloth bag on his back.

After these monks left, Qian Wanshan invited Xiao Han in and quickly closed the shop door.

Xiao Han was immediately horrified and asked, "Fellow Daoist Qian, what do you want to do?"