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Chapter 278 - Chapter 278 Chapter 278 Brother Hao Talks about Martial Heroes

Chapter 278: Chapter 278: Brother Hao Talks about Martial Heroes Chapter 278: Chapter 278: Brother Hao Talks about Martial Heroes “Brother Hao, you… you’re… the Wang Ritian from the chat group?!” Lan Zihuang’s eyes bulged out, staring fixedly at Wang Hao. “You’re Dou Dou? Heavenly Silkworm Dou?!”

“Yep, it’s me,” Wang Hao was also quite curious at this moment. “What’s up, you’re in the group too? Which one are you?”

“I’m Purple Phoenix!” Lan Zihuang exclaimed. “I’m the Purple Phoenix from the group!”

This time, it was Wang Hao’s turn to be flabbergasted. “You… you’re Purple Phoenix?! Holy crap, is the world really this small?!”

Lan Zihuang, the Kung Fu queen, didn’t say another word. She stood up, pointed at Wang Hao and yelled, “Security, where’s security?! Security, come over here and hold this man down for me!”

Wang Hao: “… ” What the hell do you mean by this?!

Swish swish swish– Suddenly, four security guards rushed out from one side and pinned Wang Hao down in his seat. Then they heard Lan Zihuang laugh triumphantly. “Hahaha, Dou Dou, I’ve finally caught you–now let’s see if you’ll add more chapters or not!”

After Lan Zihuang finished speaking, everyone on the scene burst into laughter. “Hahaha, this is too funny, you can’t run now!” “Poor guy, getting caught red-handed, if you don’t add more chapters now, your fate will be truly miserable!” “Lock him in the little black room! Just write every day! If you don’t write twenty thousand words a day, you’re not allowed out!” “I can’t take it anymore, I’m dying of laughter, hahaha!”

Wang Hao: “… ” Damn it! I’ve walked into an ambush!

“Let’s talk this over,” Wang Hao broke out in waterfall sweat. “I’ll add more chapters, isn’t one more chapter enough…”

After some laughter and commotion, everything calmed down without any real danger. Looking at Lan Zihuang’s expectant eyes, Wang Hao forced a smile and said, “Can you stop looking at me like that, please? It’s really frightening…”

“Haha, who would’ve thought that Brother Hao is actually the author of Break the Heavens,” the investor slapped the table and waited for the room to quiet down before speaking. “Hey, I’ve been reading that book of yours and it’s indeed very, very good. Brother, how about this, I’ll just buy the rights to the book and adapting it directly would save us a lot of trouble, right?”

Now that was a rich man talking; him wanting to buy the rights was actually not a bad option.

But after thinking it over carefully, Wang Hao still shook his head–there was no helping it, Break the Heavens had only been updated with a little over three hundred thousand words; how could it be adapted with so few…

“I have no objections,” Wang Hao replied with a smile. “But the problem is that there’s really too little content right now, just a little over three hundred thousand words. To think about adapting it, it’s definitely not enough.”

“That’s a problem indeed,” the investor stroked his chin and then asked, “So brother, what do you think we should do with the screenplay? It would be such a waste to disband such a big crew, but Meng Zenan’s screenplay is really unbearable and impossible to shoot. Do you have any better ideas?”

Investor Boss Ren had the look of a street boss, but making it to his position, he was no simple character. With that question, he hit the nail on the head–now that the original screenplay couldn’t be shot and Break the Heavens didn’t have enough material, what to do?

For a moment, everyone’s eyes were focused on Wang Hao, waiting to see how he would solve the current predicament.

Lan Zihuang, her eyes literally shining with golden light–could Wang Hao really have a solution?

“As for Martial Heroes,” Wang Hao thought carefully before saying with a chuckle, “I actually have some ideas.”

“Oh? Really?!” Hearing that Wang Hao indeed had ideas, Boss Ren immediately waved him over. “Brother, come over here and speak into the mic! Let everyone have a good look at what a good screenplay, good storylines are!”

Wang Hao grinned and gave a fist salute first, throwing out a bit of flattery, “Boss Ren is mighty!”

“Haha, no problem at all!” Boss Ren specially added a chair next to him for Wang Hao and laughed, “Young brother, sit here!”

Once Wang Hao was seated, he then took the microphone, looked around the audience, and smiled, “Then I won’t stand on ceremony, and I’ll share with you a plot I thought of when I was bored.”

The audience fell silent, the scene very much like employees listening to a leader’s speech.

“First off,” Wang Hao said, “for a martial heroes film, we need to set the historical background, as well as the good guys and bad guys. For the good guys, my setting goes like this. The famous Five Mountains: Mount Tai of the East, Mount Heng of the South, Mount Heng of the North, and Mount Song in the center–these everyone knows. The righteous faction, then, is named after these Five Mountains, called the Five Mountain Sword Sects…”

Wang Hao began to explain to the audience the foundational setting of one of the most famous martial arts novels from his previous life, “Smiling Proud Wanderer.”

In fact, in the realm of martial arts films, Jin Yong’s works are all well-known, and any one picked at random is sure to be a huge hit without a doubt. But the historical background of the other works is too distinct, and Wang Hao wasn’t too familiar with the alterations in this world–who knows if ancient history had undergone some changes?

Therefore, he finally chose “Smiling Proud Wanderer,” with its vaguest background–it should at least cause no problems wherever it was presented, right?

“The Five Mountain Sword Sects, that’s a good setting,” Boss Ren smiled and nodded his head, “Continue, continue!”

Meng Zenan was truly attentive this time–taking out his pen and starting to write rapidly.

“Then, the bad guys in martial arts novels are typically some form of evil cult,” Wang Hao continued explaining to everyone, “So, in our book, we need to have the biggest baddies, the Demon Sect, the Sun and Moon Divine Sect! This sets up the conflict between good and evil quite clearly but, obviously, just these sects alone are still somewhat flimsy. So, we can add two more major righteous factions–Shaolin and Wudang, as well as several other soy sauce sects such as Qingcheng, Kunlun, Emei, etc., sprinkling in some martial wanderers throughout the jianghu, and the overall framework of the martial world begins to take shape.”

When Wang Hao got to this point, the audience was simply stunned!

Actually, they all watched martial arts films routinely, but who could explain the model of the jianghu in such simple words like this? This was really the first time they had seen such!

For instance, the wanderers in the jianghu, some soy sauce-type sects, some famous righteous sects, some martial titans, as well as the most powerful Demon Sects–a few simple words had already made the audience feel the storm of blood and wind in the jianghu!

“Now that we have set up the basic background, it’s time to talk about plot settings!” Once Wang Hao started, he was off, talking non-stop like the flowing waters of the Yangtze River, endlessly, or like the Yellow River bursting its banks, unstoppable, “First, we must introduce something utterly awesome that runs through the entire plot! What is this thing? It’s a secret manual! Its name is ‘Evil Extinguishing Sword Manual’! How powerful is this ‘Evil Extinguishing Sword Manual’? Anyone who masters it would become invincible under the heavens, thus creating a storyline revolving around this manual!”

“Once we have arranged all that, then we can continue to set the characters!”

“As we said before, this story is mainly about the feud and entanglement between the Five Mountain Sword Sects and the Demon Sect, the Sun and Moon Divine Sect, so we should start with characters from both the righteous and evil paths!”

“First, there are the Sect Leaders of the Five Mountain Sword Sects. The Sect Leader of the Songshan Sect, Zuo Lengchan, with his thirteen protectors of Pine Mountain! The Heng Mountain Sect of the North is a nunnery, Sect Leader Reverend Dingxian, assisted by two others, Reverend Dingjing and Dingyi. Mount Heng of the South, Sect Leader Mo Da, who plays the erhu, nicknamed the Night Rain of Xiaoxiang. Mount Tai of the East, Sect Leader Taoist Tianmen, wielding a broad iron sword. Lastly, the Sect Leader of the Hua Mountain Sect, where our main character is from, Gentleman Sword Yue Buqun, whose mastery of the ‘Purple Mist Divine Skill’ is nothing short of miraculous!”

Wang Hao’s words flowed naturally, leaving everyone in the conference room utterly amazed!

Usually, the martial arts films they watched were almost always about two sects fighting back and forth, round and round like grinding a mill–when had they ever heard of such an incredible concept?!

Meng Zenan and Hou Yu were dumbstruck, having never seen such an amazing setting!

Boss Ren slapped the table forcefully, “Good, this setting is just too damn awesome! This is what you call a jianghu!” Then he looked at Wang Hao with eyes sparkling, “You’ve finished with the Five Mountain Sword Sects, so what about the Demon Sect?”

“Speaking of the Demon Sect, there’s even more to say!” Wang Hao, with a chuckle, glanced at Boss Ren and said, “The previous Sect Leader of the Demon Sect, Ren Woxing, practiced the ‘Absorption Star Method,’ which could absorb others’ inner strength, making him an unparalleled figure in the jianghu!”