Recently published, the Xianxia Fantasy Novel "Mortal Pen Talk: Killing Demons" produced by Beijing United Publishing Company and United Reading, is a reconstructed fantasy novel of Xianxia, set in the first Fairy War triggered by Sun Wukong after he made a big fuss in the sky, and people, demons and immortals with different personalities and identities are forced to get involved in a conspiracy and embark on a journey to The Demon Mountain.
The story takes place after the first Fairy Demon War, the gods of the Celestial Realm are plotting to wipe out the Demon Clan, the Demon Realm Group plans to take revenge again, the human world is in the midst of the Red Brow Disaster, the world is about to be in chaos, a group of people, demons, and gods with different personalities and identities gather together.
There are snake demons trapped by love, there are also cat demons who are ignorant and naïve, running thousands of miles to repay the favor of the teacher, stubborn and persistent teenagers, etc., they are caught up in the whirlpool of conspiracy, and have to embark on a journey to the heart of the demon world, Huaguo Mountain, and the story begins.
The author of this book, Huang Wan, whose job is a criminal law lawyer, unusually did not write suspense and reasoning novels, but chose to write Xian Xia Xuan Fantasy, asked why, Huang Xiang frankly said that the theme of Xian Xia is more imaginative, very suitable for the creation of various characters.
In "Mortal Pen Talk: Killing Demons", the author does not focus on the creation of big people in traditional mythology, but prefers to write small people, just as the book repeatedly mentioned "immortal demons and demons are not extraordinary people", the author deliberately makes these characters less fairy and demon qi, and more ichijing qi jianghu qi book volume qi.
During the serialization of the novel on the network platform, it has received countless readers' praise and praise, many readers said that the author's writing is sharp and light, the text is permeated with cold humor, many dialogues between the characters seem to be nonsensical and funny, but there are all kinds of helplessness, some netizens said that they saw the feeling of "Liaozhai" from this book, and a few strokes are infinitely meaningful.
The reporter learned that the adaptation of the film and television drama of the same name of "Mortal Pen Talk: Killing Demons" is also in production, and the author said that he hopes that this work will bring readers a firm strength, no matter what the world is, to laugh three times and continue to move forward.
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No matter what the world is, laugh three times and move on
Purple Cow News: On what basis did you start writing on the Internet?
Author: After the college entrance examination, I have not written a story article for nearly ten years, and I have no plans to serialize novels. It wasn't until 2015 that a very good friend turned to a lawyer and was doing a marketing public account, that I squeezed the time to help him write some small stories related to the law. In the end, his marketing number was not done, but I still wanted to continue to write stories, and I just found that reading this APP that specializes in publishing short stories is very suitable for my amateur creation, so I insisted.
Purple Cow News: You are a criminal law lawyer, you have been practicing for so many years, you should have seen the dark side of many people's humanity, why didn't you choose to write suspense and mystery novels, but wrote Xian Xia?
Author: I have seen more dark sides, but I want to write some positive, warm, tearful characters, and the fairy tale theme is more imaginative, suitable for my character creation needs. In the future, if you have time, you may write some career-related sitcoms to explore the goodness of people from the dark side.
Purple Cow News: In the work "Mortal Pen Talk: Killing Demons", there are many deconstructions of the contents of "Journey to the West", such as the story of the canopy. There are many such literary works on the market that deconstruct "Journey to the West", but the story you wrote still writes new meanings, how did you conceive this story in the first place?
Author: Actually, it can't be said to be specifically conceived. In our history, there have always been characters of this type, tragic, righteous, indispensable. And I have studied history for a while, and I am more familiar with such characters, so when I want to write about this theme, the character image jumps out.
Purple Cow News: A lot of the content in the book will unconsciously remind people of scenes in some Hong Kong comedy movies, especially Chow Sing Chi's "Journey to the West", does this movie provide some brain holes or inspiration for the writing of this novel to a certain extent?
Author: Not only "Journey to the West". I have a certain preference for the civic culture and small character images produced after the collision of traditional culture and market economy, and many mantras and joke routines are also born from this. I hope that in the future, I can write novels that are more relevant to our lives and more reflective of the changes in our humanities and society.
Purple Cow News: As a literary creator, what type of literary novels do you usually read? Do you have any views on the current occult literature?
Author: In fact, my favorite theme is science fiction, but in recent years, I mainly read social science books and read fewer novels. The fantasy theme is a very free creation, but at present there is a tendency to homogenize, hoping that this "old bottle" can be filled with more "new wine" with different themes.
Purple Cow News: For you, from the beginning of serializing novels on the Internet, to the successful publication of the first physical novel "Mortal Pen Talk: Killing Demons", and the web drama of the same name is also in production, what is your biggest feeling?
Author: Because I'm an amateur codeword, it's slow, thanks to readers who didn't give up on me.
Purple Cow News: What kind of feelings and thoughts do you hope this work will bring to readers?
Author: The life of any character is mixed, no matter what the world is, laugh three times and continue to move forward. Yangzi Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Huang Yanwen