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Chapter 12 I Want to Become an Immortal

After pondering for a long time, Cao Sheng wrote on the draft paper: "I Want to Become an Immortal."

When he wrote these four words, he had already thought about what kind of story he wanted to write.

He felt that as the first cultivation novel in the online literary world, it should be written in a more conventional way, as a model for those who came after it.

As for what is considered standard?
He planned that as soon as the male protagonist appeared on the stage, he would go to a certain cultivation sect to become an apprentice and learn skills.

In order to increase the reader's sense of involvement, he also planned to set the protagonist as a time traveler who traveled from modern society to the fairy world and then to the body of a child.

As a child, the protagonist cannot freely arrange his own destiny and can only obey the arrangements of his parents. His parents decide to send him to a sect of cultivation to learn from a master.

In this way, in the process of the protagonist learning skills, the veil of this fairy world can be unveiled little by little, including the level of cultivation, various natural treasures, magic weapons, etc.

Cao Sheng felt that this conventional writing style could allow readers who had never read any cultivation literature to gradually enter this fairy-tale world.

Simply put, he is consciously lowering the reading threshold of this book.

……

Writing an outline is a very brain-intensive task.

Because any setting in the outline requires thinking, and sometimes, you suddenly want to change the settings you made before.

The more detailed the outline, the more difficult it is to write.

Unless you write nonsense.

Time flowed slowly. Cao Sheng, immersed in his inner world, was unaware of the passage of time. He kept frowning and looking down at the manuscript paper in front of him. He wrote down whatever he thought of.

Because he didn't intend to show this outline to anyone else, he wrote it in a very sloppy and flamboyant manner.

Although the handwriting is difficult to recognize, others may think it is quite cool when they see him writing in this way.

For example: Wu Can.

She had feelings for Cao Sheng, and during evening self-study, she would glance at him from time to time.

She glanced at Cao Sheng several times tonight and saw that he kept his head down writing something and didn't even look at her, which made her feel a little unhappy.

Fortunately, she had the spirit of Ah Q and was able to adjust her mood. She thought: Although he didn't look at me, he didn't look at other girls either. Moreover, he was always looking down at writing something, so he was obviously doing something important. Therefore, there is no need for me to be angry.

Thinking of this, when she saw Cao Sheng lowering his head and writing something casually, she thought he looked so handsome when he was writing seriously.

As she looked at it, she couldn't help but want to go over and see what he was writing.

The atmosphere of evening study in university is very free.

As long as you don't deliberately make any noise, generally no one will bother you.

So, Wu Can, who acted as soon as he felt like doing, glanced at the other people in the classroom, suddenly packed up his things, stood up, hunched over, stood on tiptoe, and trotted quickly to Cao Sheng and sat down gently.

When she sat down, there was a hint of excitement in her smile.

As soon as she sat down, she leaned over to look at what Cao Sheng was writing.

Cao Sheng noticed the movement around him, frowned and turned to look over.

When he saw it was Wu Can, his brows furrowed even more tightly, and he felt that this girl was influencing him.

Wu Can looked at the title of the book on his draft paper and read it with a puzzled expression: "I want to become an immortal? What is that? You want to become a monk?"

Cao Sheng looked at her speechlessly.

Wu Can turned to look at him, frowned and said, "Cao Sheng, you don't really want to become a monk, do you? Let me tell you, I heard that ordinary people are not qualified even if they want to become monks. I heard that if you want to become a monk now, you need at least a bachelor's degree from a Buddhist college. Haven't you heard of this?"

Cao Sheng frowned and looked at the manuscript in front of him, and discovered that among the thousands of words he had written on the manuscript, only the four words "I Want to Become an Immortal" were written fairly neatly, while the rest were very sloppy and difficult to recognize.

So, it doesn’t seem like we can blame Wu Can for only recognizing these four words?

"Why did you sit here suddenly?"

Cao Sheng did not answer but asked instead.

Wu Can frowned, "Can't I sit over here?" Cao Sheng looked at her and didn't answer.

But the meaning was clear - he didn't welcome her to sit over suddenly.

He didn't know whether others liked having someone watching them when they were writing, but when he wanted to write something, he was not used to having someone watching him.

As long as someone is watching him, he cannot concentrate and has difficulty thinking.

Let me put it this way! Wu Can suddenly sat down next to him, and he couldn't continue writing the outline. He couldn't concentrate, so how could he write?
"you you……"

Wu Can said the word "you" twice with a grim look on her face. Seeing that Cao Sheng's expression remained unchanged and he still said nothing, she suddenly stood up, picked up her things, and trotted out of the classroom without continuing the evening self-study.

But for schools like theirs and college programs, evening self-study is not compulsory.

Every night, most of the students in their class do not come to the classroom for evening self-study, and the teacher does not care.

However, Wu Can's sudden running out of the classroom in anger with things in his arms still attracted the attention of some classmates in the classroom, and then their eyes subconsciously turned to Cao Sheng.

The students had different expressions.

But no one said anything.

After Wu Can's commotion, Cao Sheng felt a little annoyed. Looking at the draft book in front of him and the various settings written on the draft paper, he was unable to connect with his previous thoughts for a while.

In addition, some classmates in the classroom were looking at him strangely, which made it even more difficult for him to get back to his previous state.

So, after sitting in silence for a while, he packed up his things and left the classroom.

After walking out of the teaching building and being blown by the cold night wind outside, he gradually calmed down, and the irritability in his heart seemed to go away with the wind.

The learning atmosphere in their school is not strong.

Cao Sheng walked in the campus at night. Through the lighted windows of the teaching building, he could see that there were not many people attending evening self-study classes in each classroom.

On the sidewalk outside the teaching building, people were coming and going, and some young couples were holding hands, hugging waists, and touching buttocks as if no one was around.

On the basketball court not far away, some people were playing basketball and some were watching the game on the sidelines.

In some dimly lit corners, you can vaguely see people hugging and kissing each other. At the entrance of a nearby convenience store, a few boys and girls gathered together, flirting and laughing.

Compared to the high school he attended, the air here seemed to be filled with a breath of freedom.

Few people study seriously.

There are many people who are completely relaxed.

But as a time traveler, Cao Sheng could no longer allow himself to waste his time like that.

He held his things in his hands and walked slowly to the adult education building.

The adult education building and the teaching building are more than 100 meters apart.

But the atmosphere in the two buildings was completely different.

The teaching building is 6 stories high and covers a large area, while the adult education building is only 3 stories high and covers a small area. It is just a small building.

The Adult Education Building is used for adult education and generally enrolls correspondence students, so it is empty most of the time.

But the classrooms in the adult education building are open every day.

Water and electricity are also available.

Therefore, a few students in the school who want some quiet time will come here to study at night.

But the number of people is really small. At night, there are often only three or five students in each classroom in the adult education building. Sometimes, some classrooms are simply empty.

Cao Sheng took his draft book and entered a classroom on the first floor. There were only four people in the whole classroom, and including him, there were only five people in total.

Sitting down in an empty corner, Cao Sheng decided to come here to write manuscripts every night.

He believed that no one would disturb him here.

(End of this chapter)