All-rounder Artist

Chapter 235  -  219: The Old Pioneer_2

"With this book's release, his status as a GOAT is secured."

"..."

Some were puzzled.

How can you be so certain when the sales haven't even been released yet?

A majority of editors could only offer a bitter smile.

Do we really need to wait for the sales?

No need to wait for the sales figure.

It's just a talk based on experience.

Because since that night, all the various online forums have been filled with discussions about "Ghost Blows Out the Light".

Lieutenant Goldfinder, grave robbing....

There were even people who conducted specialist expose online to prove that the tomb raiding depicted by Chu Kuang was indeed real and very professional!

This fervent atmosphere for discussion already attests to the fact that the sales of "Ghost Blows Out the Light" will not be bad!

Yet, there were those who could not see through it all, or those who refused to believe.

In the end, they wanted to see substantial market results, to prove the popularity of "Ghost Blows Out the Light".

What if it was all talk and no action?

Only sales numbers are truly solid.

So, how were the sales of "Ghost Blows Out the Light"?

Compared to contemporary writer Devil Child's "The Sword Sage Descends the Mountain", how was it?

What about compared to Mister Sea's "My Other World is a Primitive Society"?

These were the suspense hyped by some people in the industry before the arrival of June.

However, such suspense, a week after the release of "Ghost Blows Out the Light", had completely lost any value for hype.

Because the sales of "Ghost Blows Out the Light", started to surpass other two hot books of the same period from the third day!

In the first two days, the sales of "Ghost Blows Out the Light" were on par with the other two novels.

Slightly higher than Mister Sea's, slightly lower than Devil Child's.

Devil Child was leading for a while.

The effect of signed books is indeed very good.

The simple reason for suddenly surpassing them on the third day was...

Chu Kuang's "Ghost Blows Out the Light" had gathered such tremendous word-of-mouth reviews that it exploded in popularity!

And when the week was up, the sales of "Ghost Blows Out the Light" had completely crushed the two aforementioned books.

With the explosion in popularity of the novel, readers who were initially observing finally had a clear target to buy.

Crash!

In bookstores, the number of readers purchasing "Ghost Blows Out the Light" jumped astronomically, all generously spending on Chu Kuang.

The gap widened to the point it seemed insurmountable.

Chu Kuang's "Ghost Blows Out the Light" deservedly became the top hit of June!

Also on this day, many bookstores naturally started promoting "Ghost Blows Out the Light" as their main product!

Even Devil Child had to step aside, not to mention Mister Sea.

Shortly thereafter,

Orders for Silver Blue Books came pouring in!

The publisher started to reprint "Ghost Blows Out the Light".

Obviously,

This one week was enough for many people to finish the book.

As more and more people finished the book, discussions about it naturally started to heat up.

Even on the forum and blogs, many renowned authors couldn't help but review "Ghost Blows Out the Light" after finishing it.

"When I first saw the title, I thought this was a supernatural ghost story. But as I read on, I was utterly surprised. The so-called 'Ghost Blows Out the Light' is a rule of tomb raiders. They would place a candle in the southeast corner of the burial chamber and leave one or two burial items behind when taking others. If the candle goes out, they must return all the stolen treasures... puzzling, isn't it? But it can be legitimately explained. The extinguishing of the candle indicates a lack of oxygen. This detail shows the depth in Chu Kuang's new book."

Moreover,

Among them was a notable one, the famous best-selling author from the Qin Province, the 38-year-old Mr. Antarctica:

"When I first saw the title, I thought this was a supernatural ghost story. But as I read on, I was utterly surprised. The so-called 'Ghost Blows Out the Light' is a rule of tomb raiders. They would place a candle in the southeast corner of the burial chamber and leave one or two burial items behind when taking others. If the candle goes out, they must return all the stolen treasures... puzzling, isn't it? But it can be legitimately explained. The extinguishing of the candle indicates a lack of oxygen. This detail shows the depth in Chu Kuang's new book."

Moreover,

Mercury, an author whose sales are not too far behind Mr. Antarctica, also expressed his opinion:

"Chu Kuang may not be the highest-selling author in the field of long fantasy, but he is certainly the most stunningly gifted! Tomb raiding has been prevalent two thousand years ago. With a millennium of development, continuous innovation in techniques has formed a hidden underground cultural undercurrent. I'm very interested in this industry, but I never thought someone would turn it into a novel, and write it so brilliantly."

"..."

Mr. Antarctica and Mercury, are considered as the top long fantasy authors in Qin Province, mainly because their work has high sales.

Both were highly regarded as the first generation of Supreme Gods.

Their comments allowed "Candle in the Tomb" to gain more widespread recognition.

Apart from top writers in the same genre.

The "Literature and Art Gazette", which is semi-official media, actually published an article about this novel:

"Chu Kuang's new book "Candle in the Tomb" has become popular due to its unique theme. However, its range is very vague. There are opinions in terms of thrill, supernatural, suspense, horror, etc. But on second thought, it might be more representative to call it tomb-robbing genre. The rules of the tomb-robbing industry are written in detail in the book, even with different categories, but the strange things in the book are not confined to the tomb itself. The queen of the Jin dynasty made a coffin with millennia-old sacred wood and planted Corpse Fragrance Demon Taro on it. Anyone who gets close will hallucinate and go crazy until they die. Many people think it's fantasy, but the prototype of this flower is the titan monster taro flower, which is planted in the botanical garden in Yan continent. Chu Kuang's seemingly true and false writing technique, which draws on Blue Star's ancient history, legends, and modern wonders, should also become popular soon. His purpose of writing is not to become a historical archeological textbook, but to pursue a kind of wonderful imagination that exists in the real world..."

This report surprised many people.

Firstly, "Literature and Art Gazette" confirmed the status of the "tomb-robbing flow" pioneered by Chu Kuang's new book.

The semi-official newspaper certified Chu Kuang as a pioneer.

Secondly, the content of "Candle in the Tomb" seems to be really solid!

Everyone thought Corpse Fragrance Demon Taro was a complete nonsense, a product of the author's imagination, but "Literature and Art Gazette" actually found a prototype?

Although these descriptions and situations are not completely congruous, they can explain some strange phenomena in the novel.

And there's the explanation of Antarctica.

Human lights the candle and ghosts blow it out, the light goes out when the cock crows, and gold is not touched...

This seemingly nonsensical setting is actually due to the lack of oxygen?

The deeper their understanding, the less simple "Candle in the Tomb" appears to them. All settings make sense and can be tracked, not to mention the geographical knowledge categorized by Feng Shui in the book!

Some people think that this report by "Literature and Art Gazette" aims to establish Chu Kuang's status in the industry.

The Literature and Art Association clearly sent a message through its newspaper:

Chu Kuang will definitely be one of the candidates for the Fantasy domain's GOAT!

While all other candidates are yet to be determined, Chu Kuang secured the first sure spot with "Candle in the Tomb".

In fact.

With Chu Kuang's new book sparking a sales frenzy.

If he doesn't get the GOAT spot, people may start questioning the fairness of the selection.

Therefore, the report of the Literature and Art Association was very smart and timely.

They set Chu Kuang as the typical.

There is no suspense about this archetype.

One look at the new book performance in June will reveal everything.

The new work of Mister Sea during the same period, an adventure in another world, is mediocre in sales volume.

The "Sword Sage Descends the Mountain" by Devil Child, relying on the freshness of the mythical martial arts genre, plus his own writing capabilities as a guarantee of the quality of the novel plot, the sales volume is quite pleasing.

Pity, it's still being crushed by "Candle in the Tomb".

The fact that "Literature and Arts Gazette" under the Literature and Art Association has not given an evaluation of Devil Child's new book already explains a lot.

Whether it's the outside world or the official, everyone greatly recognizes Chu Kuang's new work.

It's worth mentioning that...

The online voices basically think that although Devil Child's works are good, this novel not only can't match "Candle in the Tomb".

But also can't match his previous work "Zhu Xian" that was following the trend.

In some sense, Devil Child has been killed two times by Chu Kuang.

Somehow, there is a sentence floating in people's hearts again:

"Those who learn from me, live. Those who imitate me, die."

With each genre Chu Kuang creates, this saying becomes more and more apt.

Devil Child learned well.

He grasped the essence of "Zhu Xian", so the sales volume of his trend-following new book is quite good.

But success or failure, it's all because of Chu Kuang.

When everyone is learning from Chu Kuang, who can surpass him?

This question is almost unsolvable.

At least the Devil Child, who is best at following trends, has proven with his strength that he cannot surpass Chu Kuang by following trends.

"..."

All of this is not too surprising to Lin Yuan, after all, this is Candle in the Tomb plus.

The ancestor of the Tomb Robbing stream on the Earth, a phenomenal piece that sparked countless trends, should have this kind of influence.

As for anything surprising, it would probably be the top-rated comment below Xian Yu's tribe's move that confused Lin Yuan:

"Your Chu Kuang's new book is really good to read!"

Lin Yuan started to doubt if he had fallen off the horse.

How did this fan know that Chu Kuang... actually belonged to my home?