Is this cartoonist mentally ill?.

Chapter 436: Mortals and Geniuses (Original)
"The true world view of "The Tao of Strange Immortals" is revealed for the first time! This world of immortals and Buddhas is alive!"

"Strange gods and Buddhas everywhere, crazy truths... "The Strange Dao of Immortality" takes you into a completely different world of immortal cultivation!"

"'Dao Wei Yi Xian' has been the most popular comic for two consecutive months! The number of online digital subscriptions has exceeded 50 million! The sales of the single volume has exceeded one million copies! It may become the third most popular and long-running comic after 'True Dragon God'!"

"A personal interview with the genius manga artist Aoyama! Taking you into the world of this genius!"

……

Yang Shuzhun looked at the news push from the official website of Manjie on the tablet in front of him with some numbness.

Seven out of ten were about Lin Qingshan and his "Taoism of Immortals", and the official even invited Lin Qingshan to do a personal interview.

He originally thought he was sure to win against this person, whom he regarded as his biggest competitor.

Unexpectedly...

"Why is this happening? What's wrong?"

Yang Shuzhun bit his lip and said in confusion, "I have walked for so long and made so much effort for this day, why... in the end I am still not as good as you!"

He looked at the personal interview push, where Lin Qingshan looked carefree and optimistic, and he was really jealous.

In his opinion, Lin Qingshan is a true genius, the kind that is born with it.

He used to be the youngest person to have a double degree as a doctor, and now as a cartoonist, he has shown an extremely terrifying talent.

"EdgeWalker" with its unique cyberpunk theme and cyborg setting, "Flame Fist" with its completely collapsed order and highly infectious plot, "Chainsaw Man"... they have been restrained for the sake of commercialization, but they still cannot conceal Lin Qingshan's talent.

This also applies to other works, such as Goodbye Eri, Parasyte, Uzumaki, Kill! Red Eyes, and Demon City Ghoul... In all of them, it seems that Lin Qingshan can easily accomplish things that others have to do with all their strength as long as he puts in a little effort.

Before this, comic fans actually thought that Yang Shuzhun was also a genius.

He was an excellent student since childhood, and was admitted to the top domestic university, Imperial University, with excellent grades, and then went abroad to study.

He came back and worked as an assistant to a famous cartoonist, where he practiced his drawing and storytelling skills, and then became a professional cartoonist.

Although his performance in the Rookie Grand Prix was not very good, that was mainly because Lin Qingshan was there at the time.

Therefore, comic fans think that if there was no Lin Qingshan, Yang Shuzhun would have been the rookie king of that year's Comic Newcomer Grand Prix.

Then his second comic work "Gods" became an instant hit and became a phenomenal fantasy youth comic work.

However, no one knew that "The Protoss" was not something he drew casually.

It wasn't that he just drew the finished draft and then obtained the qualification for weekly serialization in the comics industry.

When he was drawing "The Protoss", he ended up wasting six beginnings!
At the beginning, he thought that the main consumers of comics are still middle school students and college students, so he decided on the theme of hot-blooded boys' comics and the identity of the protagonist as a college student who is about to go to college.

Then he borrowed from one of the most famous fantasy comic series abroad, "Harry Potter" - borrowing its adventure mode.

It also draws on the theme of "Purple Air Coming from the East", which represents dreams and archetypes, and the boy's search for self-identity.

And of course there are Lin Qingshan's "Edgewalker" and "Chainsaw Man", which have twists and turns and make people feel regretful in their narrative style and plot design.

Among these six openings, he has a picture of an expedition team from the ancient past discovering ancient relics belonging to the gods in the desert, and at the same time discovering the bones of the gods...

In addition, the protagonist Yang Mingfei comes with powerful technological weapons and appears like a god descending from heaven to solve problems.

But he gave up after he drew all of these.

So for the first episode, he drew nearly two hundred drawings.

Until the end, I drew a picture of an ordinary good-for-nothing boy named Yang Mingfei, who had an average appearance and poor academic performance. He had a crush on a girl in high school for three years but didn't dare to confess his love. But one day, he unexpectedly received an admission letter from a mysterious academy, which opened the door to a new world for him...

(The original words of the interview with Nanjing University 0.0 Parallel World are changed here to refer to the following works)

So does Yang Shuzhun think he is a genius?

He may have claimed this to others, but he never considered himself a genius.

Compared to Lin Qingshan.

Even though he was admitted to Imperial Capital University, which is one of the top universities in China like Lin Qingshan was admitted to Jingfen University, he even studied abroad and obtained a master's degree.

But compared with a top genius like Lin Qingshan, the gap between them is like one is an ordinary academic master who was admitted to the top class, and the other is a top academic master who can get the first place even in the top class.

Both of them are in the top classes, but... the gap between them is too big.

It's the same in comics.

"The Gods" is a masterpiece that Yang Shuzhun prepared for a long time and learned from the strengths of many artists, which led to its huge success.

Someone like Lin Qingshan... only needs to make a little effort to easily achieve the success he has worked so hard for.

This made Yang Shuzhun very painful.

Moreover, his success was not as easy as Lin Qingshan's, and it could not last long.

Just like the recent reviews of "Protoss".

"Are you serious that you can run away like this?"

"Are you really planning to let the loser snatch the boss's woman? It's really unnecessary, right?"

"Escape to Japan... I can only ask why not just run to Siberia?"

"This is ridiculous. It suddenly turned into a civil war plot. It's so inexplicable..."

"Summon the little devil! What are you hesitating about now?"

……

Then Yang Shuzhun also appeared after a long time... I don’t know how to draw the next plot.

In other words, the plot was stuck, so he announced a break from time to time during this period, and the plot was intermittent and not coherent at all.

Tang Wei, who was previously in charge of comic assistant, also left. Because Yang Shuzhun had been on hiatus for a long time, Tang Wei conceived his own fantasy youth comic during that time - "Douluo Dalu". [Hehe:)]

I quit right now.

Yang Shuzhun did not get angry with Tang Wei because of this. Instead, he gave Tang Wei a chance and recommended him to submit his manuscript to the comic world.

He found a new comic assistant.

However, due to the plot jam, the serialization of the comic "Protoss" is currently more than twice as slow as before.

Yang Shuzhun felt very distressed. Although he had thought out the general plot for the follow-up, he didn't know how to draw the details and many of the transitional plots.

At this time, he was even more envious when he saw Lin Qingshan, who was known as a model worker in the industry and was actually a genius in his eyes. He had been serializing comics for so many years as if he had no worries in this regard.

"Perhaps... this is the difference between an ordinary person like me and a true genius."

Yang Shuzhun thought bitterly.

……

Of course, Lin Qingshan had no idea that Yang Shuzhun envied him. If he knew, he would probably be very embarrassed.

He is a plagiarist but not a real genius.

Yang Shuzhun is a genius, but geniuses are not omnipotent. Compared with the time travelers with cheats, they still have troubles and times when they lack inspiration.

Sometimes, a lack of inspiration really can't be solved by trying hard. This is obviously the case with Protoss recently.

Yang Shuzhun still couldn't escape such a fate. Lin Qingshan immediately decided to find a solution through his ability of [Prophet's Dream (Master)].

I plan to talk to him at the cartoonist gathering at the Comic Newcomer Grand Prix and ask him to help solve the problem of "Protoss".

however……

At this moment, something happened that he didn't expect.

In the dreams of [Prophet Huanmeng (Master)] for several months during this period, he saw parallel worlds such as "Gods", "Dragons", "Demons", "Dragon Boys", etc. There are more than 30 versions of the "Dragon" in other worlds.

but……

The endings of these works are all without exception, they were all cut short, suspended, or had a bad ending.

All the Teacher Yangs in those worlds are like this...

It feels like it's destined. No matter which parallel world it happens in, or what name "Dragon Clan" is given, it will not have a good ending.

After all...it is impossible for something to have a completely opposite ending in a parallel world.

Just like in Marvel's Avengers 4, among billions of endings, Doctor Strange can see the future where they will win, and there is only one possibility...

Perhaps in countless parallel worlds, we can definitely find a perfect ending for "Dragon Clan".

But Lin Qingshan has to search for it himself through [The Prophet's Dream (Master)] and find the only one from countless parallel worlds.

Suddenly, he was a little confused.

So he put the matter aside for the time being.

Maybe... Yang Shujun in this world will be luckier and be the only one?

……

The serialization of "The Taoist Immortal" is still going on.

In the following plot, Li Huowang successfully defeated Dan Yangzi in the resurrection match with the help of Baqi, and then was reborn in this world.

He was just reborn and saw everything in this world, and Bai Lingmiao helped him recall everything.

He only talked about what happened in front of the Yak Gate. As for the strange gods and Buddhas in the sky behind... he couldn't describe it.

Even when he thought of those things, he could still feel that "Bai Yujing" was calling him.

Finally, he shouted out from those heads, "Danuo! It's called Danuo!"

Nuo?

What does this have to do with the previous Nuo opera?
However, Li Huowang couldn't say more.

Later, the memory in his mind began to blur, but no matter how blurry it was, Li Huowang could still understand some things in it.

The Zhengde Temple that worships the giant flesh and blood Buddha, the Anci Temple that is dirty, lazy and greedy, the Zuowang Dao that plays tricks on people and gods, and the shaman dance that takes people's lives in exchange.

The magical powers used by everyone in this place are all strange.

Not to mention the eighteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, evil spirits like Mr. You, Great Grandma and the God of Joy.

Before, Li Huowang thought he had traveled to a world that should be so chaotic.

But now it seems that this is not the case at all. The most fundamental reason is that there is something wrong with the world itself.

It was as sick as myself, otherwise it shouldn't be like this, it should be... more normal.

"What on earth is going on in this world?"

Li Huowang asked in confusion, "It's called Da Nuo? Does it have anything to do with those Nuo operas? According to what Lu Zhuangyuan said before, Nuo opera is a very ancient opera and the ancestor of other operas."

"It sounds like those who perform the Nuo opera are worshipping the Great Nuo, but..."

Later, Li Huowang no longer insisted on the connection between Danu and Nuo opera.

However, comic fans became curious, is this world crazy?

So the world was originally normal? Something had happened to make it go crazy?

At that time, many comic fans discussed this matter online.

“Is it ruled by evil forces?”

"Is it really like what some big guys said at the beginning, like the IF line of "Purple Air Coming from the East", where the evil immortal cultivators won the final battle and turned into this weird state?"

"Not necessarily... I feel like these gods and Buddhas aren't all bad. For example, the Bodhisattva worshipped by Anci Temple should be good."

"That's not certain. We can only say that Master Jingxin and the others used it in the right way, but who can be sure that the Bodhisattvas and Buddhas who are in charge of decay are good?"

"That's right. This may not be a good thing. Forget it. I won't guess. I'm not a mental patient. I can't guess even a little bit!"

"Those who guessed correctly are advised to be more conscientious and apply for a postgraduate course in a mental hospital. Maybe you can become a genius like Qingshan the old thief!"

"F*cking advanced study class!"

……

After Li Huowang briefly recalled some things that happened in Baiyujing, he ignored it for the time being.

Then he took a group of fellow students and prepared to send them home.

Naturally, along the way, they came to Hou Shu again.

On the way into a village, Bai Lingmiao happened to notice that someone in the village was possessed by evil spirits, so he went up to help and get some rewards. On the way, he met a witch named Cui Xiangu.

However, there was no conflict between the two sides, and they just let it go peacefully.
After leaving the village, Gao Zhijian, the fool among Li Huowang's group, seemed to have thought of something, but he still looked like a fool and could not remember anything.

Later, he remembered something intermittently, but he still stuttered and looked stupid.

"I...I...I might...be...Huang..."

He believed in Li Huowang very much and said something.

But later he seemed a little embarrassed, and Li Huowang didn’t hear clearly what he said about his name being “Huang something”.

They set out on their journey again.

Unexpectedly, Li Huowang was soon mistaken for a spy from the enemy country because of the sharp sword from the Siqi You family on his body.

Then they were ambushed by soldiers and bandits, but Li Huowang was extremely powerful, so of course he would not be defeated like that.

There is also Chun Xiaoman, who has already mastered swordsmanship, and Bai Lingmiao, who is protected by two gods.

A group of people killed all the soldiers and bandits directly.

However, they discovered the evil deeds of the soldiers and bandits, and Lu Zhuangyuan and his group who had been traveling with them were also rescued.

Then they continued on their way.

(End of this chapter)