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Chapter 1701: The Legend of Bai Ze

Liu Xu has written many novels in his life. Logically speaking, writing this novel should not be a difficult task for Liu Xu, but Liu Xu found it very difficult to write, especially the second half. He could only produce a few thousand words in a day.

There is no way, since this novel is "The Legend of Bai Ze"!

Unlike many of the novels Liu Xu had written before, his previous novels were either historical novels with detailed historical materials as references, and Liu Xu only needed to write according to history.

Or if it is a mythological novel, Liu Xu can write it based on the worldview of The Investiture of the Gods and the prehistoric world. If he encounters something he doesn't know, he can just add some self-creation. Although the history created by himself is definitely different from the history of the prehistoric world, who would care about that? The characters reflected in this way may even be more powerful.

After all, the prehistoric world is gone, and all the powerful men in the prehistoric world in the future will be Liu Xu's subordinates. Can they still turn against Liu Xu just because their stories are different?

However, "The Legend of Bai Ze" is different from the above two.

Some readers may find it strange. Isn’t "The Legend of Bai Ze" also a standard mythological novel? Can't it be written according to Liu Xu's previous routine of writing mythological novels? What's the difficulty?

If it really follows the routine of mythological novels it would naturally not be difficult, but "The Legend of Bai Ze" cannot be written according to the routine of mythological novels. Instead, it must be constructed according to the standards of historical novels.

Because it is different from other mythological novels which are just for creating powerful character combat power, "The Legend of Bai Ze" needs to reflect a real Bai Ze who can understand all the current status and strength of Bai Ze. Therefore, "The Legend of Bai Ze" must be as close to reality as possible and be written with the standards of writing history books... No, sometimes history books also allow all kinds of fooling around and adding some personal private life into them.

But it’s not the same for “The Legend of Bai Ze”. Liu Xu absolutely cannot add his own personal opinions, otherwise the Bai Ze reflected will be wrong, and that would be a big trouble.

Therefore, the "Biography of Bai Ze" written by Liu Xu seems particularly painful and slow. After all, it was written according to the standards of historical books.

In fact, the first half of "The Legend of Bai Ze" is not bad. After all, Bai Ze himself is here. He only needs to narrate, and Liu Xu can record the most standard Bai Ze.

But Bai Ze himself didn't know the story after that, so Liu Xu could only collect information by himself to sort out this part of Bai Ze's history.

So, Liu Xu spent a day calling all the ancient saints under his control to his side one by one, asking them to tell him all the thoughts related to Bai Ze in their memories. Then he put all the ancient saints' memories of Bai Ze together and compared them with each other. Only then was he able to piece together the general life context of Bai Ze in his later years.

But the Bai Ze in these memories is still not enough. There are still many things related to Bai Ze that are not comprehensive, and these things cannot be omitted in the novel, otherwise the whole novel will appear seriously fragmented.

But Bai Ze has always been good at hiding himself, and he rarely shows up in the world after the Lich War. The relevant information Liu Xu could collect was pitifully little. Finally, Liu Xu had no choice but to venture into the long river of time and determine many key nodes of the story by observing Bai Ze in the long river of time.

Logically speaking, if Liu Xu was not Liu Nianxu, and the one guarding the Long River of Time was not Liu Xu's ancestor, Liu Xu would have been chopped into pieces by countless sword qi. But it was precisely because the one guarding the Long River of Time was his own family that Liu Xu got a lot of convenience. The ancestor hardly stopped Liu Xu, allowing Liu Xu to look around in the Long River of Time and piece together the information about Bai Ze bit by bit.

Of course, even if Liu Xu is Liunian Xu, the Liunian family still has to abide by some rules. After Liu Xu fished out about 20 time fragments from the long river of time, he was kicked out of the long river of time by his ancestor.

Fortunately, these more than 20 time fragments were enough to piece together some key nodes. Liu Xu finally completed the draft outline of the entire "The Legend of Bai Ze" and began to perform his rare job and started to create novels again.

However, the entire creative process was also very self-contained, because it had to be created according to the standards of history books. Therefore, Liu Xu had to repeatedly confirm and screen the relevant plots and stories when creating. Only those stories and details that could be confirmed to be more than 90% true could be written into the novel. As for the rest, even if there were many confirmations, as long as there were some places that were difficult to prove, they would be directly excluded from "The Legend of Bai Ze".

Because if we want to portray Bai Ze as realistically as possible, we must extract documents that are as authentic as possible. Even if there are fewer words and stories, there cannot be any untrue parts, otherwise what is reflected will be biased.

In the end, Liu Xu spent a full twenty days in the White Elephant World before he finally finished creating "The Legend of Bai Ze", a book with less than 100,000 words.

After the creation of "The Legend of Bai Ze" was completed, the next step was naturally to release it. Logically, it should be released through all Liu Xu's existing channels, but after thinking for a long time, Liu Xu gave up this plan.

Because whether it is the author's world or other human worlds, it is very difficult for a novel with monsters as the protagonist to spread quickly in a short period of time and gain unanimous recognition from readers.

Not to mention that Liu Xu's "Legend of Bai Ze" was written in a hurry and he pursued authenticity too much, so the writing is quite poor, the plot is quite fragmented, and the whole story is straightforward. Even if the name of Yuanshi Tianwang was used, no one would really recognize this novel, and it might even ruin Liu Xu's character.

Therefore, after careful consideration, "Legend of Bai Ze" will only be sold separately in the demon world.

The reason for this choice is, firstly, because "The Legend of Bai Ze" tells the story of the Demon Emperor. The monsters will naturally be very curious about the story of their own emperor, and will naturally be interested in this novel.

Secondly, only monsters can truly understand monsters, and only by reflecting on Bai Ze, which is composed of the will of all monsters, can we get closest to the real Bai Ze.

Finally, the ancient demon saint has absolute authority in the demon clan. He only needs to order all demons to read "The Legend of Bai Ze" and write a 3000-word review. If any demon dares not to write, that demon will be beheaded.

If there is a monster that is really in trouble, we can really chop off its head.

(End of this chapter)