[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-dreaming-back-to-1997-i-became-the-forefather-of":3,"chapter-dreaming-back-to-1997-i-became-the-forefather-of-dreaming-back-to-1997-i-became-the-forefather-of-chapter-75":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Dreaming Back to 1997: I Became the Forefather of Web Novels",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2348309,4589,"Chapter 75: The Misled Jiu Ba Dao and Pizi Cai","dreaming-back-to-1997-i-became-the-forefather-of-chapter-75",75,"\u003Cp>In three days, Ke Jingteng finished reading all ten volumes of \"I Wish to Become an Immortal\" currently available for purchase.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, these ten volumes combined amounted to only a little over six hundred thousand characters; given his usual reading speed, it shouldn't have taken him three days at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But not only did it take him three days to finish these ten volumes, he stayed up late every night to read them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He read very slowly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because the content of this book was too novel for him, and he studied many of the settings within it very carefully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If a reader who frequently read Xianxia and cultivation themes were to read this book, they might glance over it ten lines at a time, just roughly scanning the plot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But for Ke Jingteng, what he cared about most in this book were the various settings, such as the cultivation levels, the various spells, and the various heavenly treasures...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the currency set for the cultivation world in the book—spirit stones—made him lose himself in thought for a good while, imagining a cultivation world that used spirit stones as currency.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I Wish to Become an Immortal\" gave him immense room for imagination.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he read the book, he would often lose his focus while looking at the cultivation world depicted within.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The evening three days later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he finished the last page and closed the book, he sat blankly by his desk, his mind unable to detach from the world within the book for a long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of the flying swords crisscrossing and primordial spirits leaving the body in the book, and how cultivation experts possessed lifespans of thousands of years, he suddenly felt the real world was dull and tasteless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He longed to live in the cultivation world of the book, rather than this boring real world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to the cultivation world, what was so good about the real world?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Working hard for a dozen years to study, working hard for twenty or thirty years, and finally having money and no longer needing to work, one is already old; those with short lives don't even live to the day they retire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is there an afterlife after death?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many religions say there is an afterlife, yet none can prove it truly exists.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, if a person really only has this one life to live, then what is the meaning of these dozen years of study and twenty or thirty years of work?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"All living beings suffer; mortals cannot transcend.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This line from \"I Wish to Become an Immortal\" flashed through his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately, he thought of another line from the book: \"Swallowing a single Golden Core into the belly, only then do I know my fate is determined by me, not by Heaven.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Longevity and eternal vision...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This has been a human dream since ancient times.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The book \"I Wish to Become an Immortal\" activated his desire for immortality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet it could only be a desire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The real world offered him no path to cultivation and immortality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, he felt a sense of loss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was as if he had seen a cultivation world ahead, but he himself could not enter that world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could this not make him feel dejected?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Putting down the \"I Wish to Become an Immortal\" in his hand, he turned on the computer on his desk, opened a document, and looking at the work within, he suddenly found he didn't want to write anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The work in his computer document was titled \"Strange Dreams,\" a novel he had been writing recently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Preparing for the postgraduate entrance exam again while writing this novel to vent the depression in his heart were the two things he had been doing during this time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before reading \"I Wish to Become an Immortal,\" he had great creative passion for his \"Strange Dreams.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After finishing the first ten volumes of \"I Wish to Become an Immortal,\" he suddenly had no interest in continuing to write \"Strange Dreams,\" and instead, he really wanted to write a Xianxia cultivation story himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of this, he suddenly remembered something, picked up a copy of \"I Wish to Become an Immortal\" again, and specifically looked for the publisher's name on the book.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, he found it—Xinchang Publishing House.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His eyes lit up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He thought: Since \"I Wish to Become an Immortal\" is so popular, this publisher must surely want to publish similar works, right? This is a good opportunity! If I can write one of the same type, even if the quality is slightly worse, this publisher should be interested in publishing it, right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if this publisher looks down on it, what about other publishers? Seeing that \"I Wish to Become an Immortal\" is such a bestseller, wouldn't other publishers want to follow the trend and publish a few similar works?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of this, he immediately created a new document on his computer, preparing to write a Xianxia cultivation work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A moment later, he typed the title he had just thought of into the document: \"Flying Sword Immortal.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, he wrote down the work type: Xianxia Cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Author: Jiu Ba Dao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had actually been led astray from his original life trajectory by Cao Sheng's \"I Wish to Become an Immortal\" and had started writing Xianxia cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Ke Jingteng began to try writing \"Flying Sword Immortal,\" Pizi Cai in Tainan had already taken the first step.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for his \"First Intimate Contact,\" which he started serializing in March this year?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Recently, every time he thought of this book, he felt stifled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ever since the heroine in his writing, Qingwu Feiyang, followed by the heroine Ran Jing in the work of Zhongyuan Yidianhui, kicked the bucket one after another, it was as if he had poked a hornet's nest; those book fans who had previously supported and praised him in the review section seemed to have all turned against him overnight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One cursed him for plagiarizing others' ideas, another cursed him for being crazy about wanting fame; the varied insults completely extinguished his creative passion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had originally thought these people would stop after cursing for a few days, just like when Jin Yong wrote about Xiaolongnü being taken by Yin Zhiping; after the fans were agitated for a period, they would still continue to read the subsequent plot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, he had never resurrected Qingwu Feiyang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He decided to stick to his established plot settings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He underestimated the resentment of the fans and overestimated his own state of mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fans continued to rant in his review section.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And his state of mind collapsed bit by bit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, a few days ago, he couldn't take it anymore, gritted his teeth, and hastily finished \"First Intimate Contact.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Writing this book until now, he had been doing it out of love; it was the appreciation and pursuit of the fans that kept his motivation for writing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the fans no longer appreciated or pursued it, what motivation did he have to continue writing?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, he gave the book a rushed ending.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only when he didn't have to look at the book's review section every day did his mood slowly improve a little.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later, he heard that Zhongyuan Yidianhui had another book that was selling very well in Baodao; in the review section of \"Days Living with a Flight Attendant,\" he also saw some Baodao readers posting in traditional characters, saying that \"I Wish to Become an Immortal\" was much better than \"Days Living with a Flight Attendant.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His curiosity was piqued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He specifically went to a bookstore to find \"I Wish to Become an Immortal\" and bought one volume first to sample it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then there was no stopping him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next day he went to buy the second volume, the third day he bought two more volumes, and on the fifth day, he simply went and bought all the subsequent volumes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After finishing the ten volumes of \"I Wish to Become an Immortal,\" he felt as if he had opened the door to a new world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could novels be written like this?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So it turns out that a beauty like Qingwu Feiyang, in the Xianxia world, might just be a maid beside a formal disciple of the Sword-Wielding Sect? If she wanted to serve in the bedroom, the Sword-Wielding Sect disciple, focused solely on the Dao, might casually reward her with a sword strike? Then curse: \"How dare you disturb my sword heart? You deserve to die!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Ke Jingteng in Taipei started writing \"Flying Sword Immortal,\" Pizi Cai in Tainan had already finished the third chapter of \"The Long Road to Immortality.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had started writing earlier than Ke Jingteng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like many young people who love writing in the original timeline, after seeing web novels that were mind-blowing, infinitely creative, and brilliant, they no longer had any interest in creating traditional love-themed works.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why was web literature in the original timeline able to develop so quickly?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was because it could quickly absorb and assimilate young people with a bit of writing talent, molding them all into the shape of web novel writers.\u003C\u002Fp>",1524,"2026-06-21T01:55:54.452Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","0e9cb98199b2ca353fd65de8cb8b43e5353bc3731946c33ab7a5a146a906d5ba","dreaming-back-to-1997-i-became-the-forefather-of-chapter-76","dreaming-back-to-1997-i-became-the-forefather-of-chapter-74",338,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fdreaming-back-to-1997-i-became-the-forefather-of-cover.jpg"]