He once wrote the most classic work of online text, a book to seal the gods, and now Jiang Lang is no longer able to do it! Yes, the protagonist of this article written by An An today is Xiao Ding, the author of "Jie Xian".
Xiao Ding, whose real name is Zhang Jian, was born in 1976, a native of Cangshan, Fujian Province, who only began to create online articles in 2001, and published his first novel "The Dark Road" in Taiwan in 2002. It is commendable that this novel was bought out of the copyright for 28,000 yuan at one time.
Xiao Ding, who tasted the sweetness, worked hard and continued to create, and in 2002, he began to serialize "Xue Xian" in the Phantom Sword Book Alliance. With the experience of the previous novel, Xiao Ding chose to sell the novel at home and abroad when he wrote the first part of the novel.
Until 2007, the "Immortals" that lasted for nearly 5 years was finally completed.
Together with the novels "Journey of the Drifting Horse" and "The Legend of the Little Soldier", it is called the "Three Strange Books of the Internet", and is also known as the "Martial Arts Bible of the Post-Jin Yong Era".
Anyone who has seen the original book of "Immortals" knows what a wonderful xianxia novel it is, it is not only beautiful, but also ushered in an era.
"Sui Xian" is an extension of Jin Yong-style martial arts in the network immortals. Different from the traditional martial arts novel "sword fighting, happy to take revenge, laughing at the rivers and lakes, wandering the world" routine. "Immortals" is based on the growth of an ordinary person, with the struggle between good and evil as the auxiliary line, building a dreamlike and real and moving fantasy world.
The emergence of "Xue Xian" has made more people start to read online novels, allowing people to change the stereotype of the quality of online novels being shoddy, thus completely changing the reading habits of a group of people.
The exquisite language and the ancient charm revealed between the lines make "Xue Xian" look fresh and unworldly.
The delicate emotional psychological description and reasonable motivation also make the relationship between the characters very infectious and convincing.
At the beginning, many netizens were saddened by the stories of Xiao Fan, Xueqi and Baguio countless times, and the love-hate entanglement in the classic love triangle made fans cry bitterly.
As an author, Xiao Ding may not have thought that the successful characters he created were actually the keys to entering another temple: a grand world view, classic and successful characters, entangled love and hate, etc. are all successful elements with adapted IP.
Xiao Ding is a representative of the early successful writers of Chinese online literature, and his works have crossed the network serialization and traditional publishing, expanding the social influence of online texts, and "Xue Xian" has become the precursor of the IP adaptation of male frequency network texts.
"Immortals" has undergone many adaptations and has become the darling of many investors such as games, films and television. "Xue Xian" was adapted into a popular online game of the same name in 2007; in July 2016, it was adapted into a TV series "Xue Xian Qing Yun Zhi"; in 2019, the movie "Xue Xian" was launched, and the premiere box office has exceeded 100 million.
Unfortunately, in addition to the game is still successful, the others are difficult to say, even Xiao Ding himself has quite words.
However, it has to be said that in the male frequency network text, very few works have the IP influence of "Xue Xian". Every time it is rumored that "Xue Xian" is to be adapted into a film and television, there is no need to publicize it, and there will be many people to pay attention.
Xiao Ding was silent for many years after "Xue Xian", and occasionally created momentum to write new books in the middle, but most of them updated a chapter or two, and then stopped writing.
Under the anticipation of many fans, from April 1, 2012, Xiao Ding officially updated the real "XueXian II" on the grinding iron Chinese network, and during that time, it should be the time when the daily activity of small websites such as the grinding iron Chinese network was the highest.
Unfortunately, in 2014, only four volumes of "Xue Xian II" was published, and once again it was suspended. Since then, it has also completed "Killing Immortals" and "Heavenly Shadow", but unfortunately the response has been flat.
Since "Xue Xian", Xiao Ding is no longer able to prove himself, and now there are fewer people who still remember him, and "Xue Xian" has become more symbolic of youth.