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Chapter 260: The End of "God's Tomb"

At lunch time.

Cao Sheng received a call from Feng Xiaogang.

On the phone, Feng Xiaogang first congratulated him on the sale of his new script for a whopping $220 million.

Then, he changed the subject, as if he was embarrassed, but his tone was also a little proud as he said, "I'm sorry! Brother Cao, we at Huayi can't compare to Paramount, so we can't give you such a high script fee. I tried my best to fight for it, but I could only help you get 100 million script fees. But, hey, 100 million script fees should be considered the highest in the mainland. In the future! When I become more famous and we work together again, I will definitely help you get more script fees, okay?"

100?
This number was a bit beyond Cao Sheng's expectations.

He originally thought that it would be good enough if Feng Xiaogang could give him three or five hundred thousand.

I didn't expect to be able to give so much?

Previously, he sold "The Hunger Games" to Oriental Films and Golden Harvest, and they were only given 100 million at the suggestion of Jackie Chan.

I didn’t expect that Huayi, which was established only a few years ago, could offer this price.

However, then I thought about it.

In a few years, Huayi will go public and become the first listed film and television company in mainland China.

Therefore, Huayi’s current upward momentum should be very strong, and the company’s decision makers should be quite decisive.

"So many? Thank you very much! I look forward to our next cooperation."

Cao Sheng spoke politely.

Feng Xiaogang was very happy, "Okay! Okay! Let's cooperate next time! We will definitely cooperate next time!"

……

End the call with Feng Xiaogang.

Cao Sheng continued to eat, and while eating, he thought about the next plot of "The Tomb of the Gods".

Although this book has a complete outline and detailed outline, when it comes to actually writing it, the outline and detailed outline become less and less useful as a reference as time goes on.

The possibility of being fully used is very small.

The main reason is that the length of super-long novels, short stories and scripts is too different.

Short stories and scripts can usually be written to the end according to the outline.

But for super long novels of two to three million words, the plot tends to deviate from the outline as it gets to the middle and late stages of writing.

If the plot in the early stage deviates slightly, the deviation will be magnified many times in the middle and late stages.

It's like drawing a straight line. When you first start drawing, even if it's only off by one millimeter, the deviation will become larger and larger as you continue drawing.

The saying "a slight error can lead to a great mistake" is exactly this truth.

Therefore, the outline of "God's Tomb" has been of little use recently.

He couldn't write the early plot exactly as set out in the outline.

The way online articles are written also means that as he writes, he will gradually deviate from the scope of the outline.

reason?

Very simple!
Online articles are serialized, and readers’ feedback is very timely.

Every online writer will constantly adjust the plot of the book based on readers' feedback.

For example: popular characters will be described in more detail, while the plots of unpopular characters will be compressed or even completely cut off.

For example: plots that receive good responses will be written longer, while plots that receive bad responses will be skipped as quickly as possible.

and many more.

In this way, as I write, the plot will naturally become different from what is set out in the outline.

The plot that Cao Sheng is thinking about is the ending of "The Tomb of the Gods".

According to his outline, this is a purely enjoyable novel, the kind that is enjoyable all the way to the end.

But as he was writing the current plot, an idea gradually came to his mind: he wanted to make a connection at the end and play up some sentimentality.

A novel that is exciting all the way through is certainly very enjoyable to read.

But after all, it is just a fast-food novel without much depth, which does not leave much room for people to think about.

Many readers, after reading the book, will forget most or even completely the plot of the book within a few years.

As an author, Cao Sheng naturally hopes that his works can be remembered by more readers.

Therefore, he recently wanted to write a more touching ending, to make it connect the beginning and the end, and to give the overall structure of the story a sense of fate.

how to write?
His current thought is: a long-lost legendary boss has appeared in the world of cultivation. This is a boss who has disappeared in the world of cultivation for thousands of years. Everyone thought he had died long ago, but in fact, over the past thousand years, he has been digging a tunnel according to the direction of the road to heaven recorded in various ancient books, a tunnel leading to the fairyland.

For thousands of years, he worked day and night. With the strength that was the best in the cultivation world at that time, he transformed himself into a mining machine and dug for thousands of years before he finally dug through.

The road to immortality that was blocked by the gods with their great magical powers was used by him to blast through those obstacles one by one by using all his magical powers.

He became the first cultivator to reach the fairyland in ten thousand years.

At the moment of success, his thousand-year-old wooden face gradually revealed a smile, as if the snow on a mountain was melting. Then, the laughter gradually grew louder and spread throughout the three realms.

His laughter became more and more heroic, and his momentum continued to rise from the moment he stepped into the fairyland. His realm, which had not been improved for a thousand years, began to break through continuously.

Amid his laughter that shook the three realms, his realm broke through all the way to the legendary Daluo Jinxian.

His entire body was shining brightly, and everyone on earth could see his golden figure in the clouds when they looked up.

All living beings in the three realms were shocked.

I can’t believe that someone can ascend to the immortal world?
Someone recognized the man's identity.

Can't believe he's still alive?

At this moment, this person became a legend and his identity spread throughout the three realms.

——Venerable Yishan!
It is said that this person started moving mountains from the beginning of his practice.

He carried stones from a mountain, piece by piece, to a lake ten miles away. His master told him: Once you have moved all the stones on this mountain into the lake, you will have completed your foundation!
By the time he finished moving the mountain, his foundation had been successfully built.

His master then asked him to move another bigger mountain, saying that once he finished moving this mountain, he would become a golden elixir master.

again and again.

His cultivation process is a process of moving mountains.

At first, those who knew about his way of practice treated it as a joke.

No one believes that moving mountains can lead to spiritual attainment.

No one believes that moving mountains can help one reach a high level of cultivation.

But as the years passed, this foolish cultivator moved one mountain after another day after day, and people who knew him gradually stopped laughing.

Because this idiot's cultivation level was really improving in the process of moving mountains day after day.

Moreover, although his promotion speed was slow at the beginning, he was gradually promoted faster than others.

Not only that, each level of his realm is more solid and complete than others.

When he cultivated to the Tribulation Realm and began to overcome the Heavenly Tribulation, the huge commotion shocked the entire cultivation world.

Those who knew his cultivation method couldn't believe that he could move mountains all the way to the Tribulation Realm. Some people were jealous of his cultivation method that could reach the Tribulation Realm without fighting with others. When he had just survived the Heavenly Tribulation and his body and true essence had not yet fully recovered, they suddenly appeared and attacked him, trying to kill him.

The person who attacked him was a master at the peak of the Tribulation Realm.

But when he rushed in front of him, he felt himself getting smaller and smaller, while the opponent's body was getting bigger and bigger. In the blink of an eye, the attacker felt that he was as small as an ant in front of him, while the opponent was as majestic as a mountain and tall as the legendary giant spirit.

The way he looked down at the attacker was as if he was looking down from the clouds.

He stretched out his hand and pressed down with a finger, and it was like an inverted mountain falling down, instantly pinning the attacker of a higher level to death in front of him.

In fact, this is a sensory illusion.

In the eyes of onlookers in the distance, the attacker, who was at a higher level, did not shrink in size from beginning to end, and the body of the Master Who Moves Mountains did not grow larger either.

But the closer the attacker got to Master Yishan, the stronger the mental illusion became.

Although the size of both parties' bodies did not change, in the eyes of the attacker, his own body was shrinking rapidly, while the attacker's body was expanding rapidly, as if the legendary magical power of controlling the heavens and the earth was being displayed.

The Master Who Moves Mountains became famous because of this battle.

Since then, there has been no defeat.

Every time he made a move, he won cleanly and efficiently.

All opponents would have a sensory illusion when approaching him. They would feel that they were shrinking rapidly, while the figure of the Master of Moving Mountains would quickly grow to the size of a mountain.

How can an ant-like creature defeat an opponent as big as a mountain?

When Venerable Yishan entered the Mahayana stage, he became an invincible existence in the entire world of cultivation.

No one can break his illusion of the sacred mountain.

As long as his illusion of the sacred mountain cannot be broken, he can kill the opponent's soul with just one finger, destroying his opponent's soul and spirit completely.

But he disappeared thousands of years ago.

There is no such person in the entire world of cultivation.

Gradually, everyone began to believe that he was dead.

At the beginning, many people were curious about how he died. Later, as time went on, fewer and fewer people were curious about the cause of his death.

When everyone had forgotten him and regarded him as a passing wave in the long river of history, his laughter shook the three realms.

His golden body shone brightly among the clouds.

Shocking all living beings in the three realms.

The Venerable Who Moves Mountains was renamed as the Immortal Venerable Who Moves Mountains.

but……

While the Immortal Master Yishan was laughing loudly and his cultivation base was rapidly improving to the Golden Immortal realm, the protagonist Chu Yun in the lower world suddenly changed his expression.

Because he had long remembered the battle between gods and demons ten thousand years ago.

Endless demons from outer space broke into the fairyland. The gods and Buddhas in the sky were alone and powerless, unable to resist and were defeated one after another.

In the end, they chose to cut off the path to immortality in order to preserve the lives of the creatures in the lower world.

The road to immortality was cut off, and the extraterritorial demons who lost their reinforcements were gradually destroyed by the gods and Buddhas. No! Not destroyed! They perished together.

But now someone has reopened the path to immortality, which is equivalent to opening a passage to the human world for the extraterritorial demons.

Will the seemingly endless demons from outside the realm that appear in my memory make a comeback?

What are you afraid of?

In Cao Sheng’s most recent imagination, when the Immortal Master Yishan entered the Golden Immortal Realm and was at his most proud, the immortal world, which had been dead silent, began to stir.

At first, it was just an inconspicuous breeze blowing on him, making him feel relaxed and comfortable.

But gradually, the wind became stronger and stronger.

Moreover, the white clouds in the sky gradually turned dark black.

Venerable Yishan felt it was a bit strange and couldn't help but look at it a few more times.

Some cultivators in the lower world found it strange, while others thought that this phenomenon might be caused by the ascension of Venerable Yishan to the fairyland, and was a normal phenomenon. These people looked at the increasingly obvious ink color in the sky with curiosity, wanting to remember this phenomenon.

But Chu Yun's expression changed drastically.

Because he remembered that when the demons from outside the domain invaded ten thousand years ago, the scene was exactly the same. First, the wind started to blow, and then it became stronger and stronger. Then, the clouds in the sky turned inky black, and the black color became thicker and thicker, and the area became larger and larger.

Soon, the ink will cover the sky and the sun, as if night has suddenly fallen.

Actually?
These inky colors are densely packed figures of demons from outer space.

Their individual combat effectiveness is not very strong.

But because their numbers are too large, as if endless, and they are fearless of death, once they invade, they will be like a swarm of locusts. The boundless extraterritorial demons will drain the magical powers of all gods and Buddhas, and no one can stop them.

The gods and Buddhas in the sky ten thousand years ago could not stop it.

Can the current cultivation world stop it?
Chu Yun knew very well that he couldn't stop it.

After a moment of hesitation, he made the same choice as his father ten thousand years ago.

His constantly awakening memories showed that ten thousand years ago, when the demons from outside the domain invaded massively, his father led all the gods under his command, soared into the sky, and fought against the seemingly endless demons from outside the domain.

At that time, as the youngest son of Emperor Gou Chen, he was ordered to sit in the Jiangxiao Palace in the South Pole.

Before going to the battle, all the brothers came to him and said goodbye to him with a smile.

The eldest brother stroked his head and said with a smile: "Don't be discouraged! We gods are different from mortals. At your age, according to our rules, you are not yet an adult. It is not your turn in this battle. Just watch how your brothers slay the demons and monsters."

The second elder brother, who had always been aloof, walked up to him and hugged him with open arms for the first time. While hugging him, he whispered in his ear: "Live on! Don't let my Gou Chen family die out."

The always carefree and unrestrained Third Brother came over, grinned at him, took off the jade pendant from his waist and stuffed it into his hand, saying with a smile: "Don't you like this magical jade of Third Brother very much? Today Third Brother gives it to you! Hehe, boy! This is your Third Brother's token of love! You actually wanted it all this time? Do you want this jade? Or do you want your Third Sister-in-law? Haha..."

……

That great battle was so fierce that the sky was dark and the earth was pitch black. Gods and Buddhas were shed in blood, and the palaces and temples of the immortals and Buddhas collapsed and shattered. When an endless number of extraterritorial demons attacked the Jiangxiao Palace in Antarctica, the remaining gods and heavenly soldiers had no choice but to go into battle.

It was not until this time that, as the youngest son of Emperor Gou Chen, he was finally able to draw his sword and fight.

……

The memory of that great battle made him feel very painful.

He knew that his father and brothers had all died in the battle.

At the beginning of that war, he was not allowed to fight.

And today, ten thousand years later, he can finally soar into the sky like his father and brothers did and fight a decisive battle with the extraterritorial demons.

He did not choose to block the road to heaven again himself.

He handed this matter over to other masters in the world of cultivation through shouting, while he himself rushed to the front line of the battle with the extraterritorial demons.

……

For Cao Sheng, such an ending echoes the beginning.

(End of this chapter)