Is this cartoonist mentally ill?.

Chapter 386: Breaking the Circle
"The Tao of Immortals" was only two months old, but it became a hot topic again because it was too crazy, which caused a wave of ridicule and discussion online.

Speaking of which, Lin Qingshan has always been regarded as the most interesting cartoonist of the new generation. His topicality that can make everyone laugh, his impressive talent, and his tragic life experience make everyone have a good impression of him.

Memes like "cyberpsychopath", "Subway Judge", "Yeah", "Banned Yeah", "Use the flaming fist on him", "Great! I gradually understand everything", "Snowball fight", and "Stir-fried pork with ginger" are really enduring in the circle of ACG fans.

However, when the comic "Parasyte" was serialized, basically no famous memes were born, which made everyone doubt whether Lin Qingshan had become a normal cartoonist.

Originally everyone thought it was a pity. After all, who doesn’t like a psychopathic cartoonist who has interesting and witty comics?
However, if Lin Qingshan's mental illness was really cured, they would only bless Lin Qingshan instead of wanting the disease to defeat Lin Qingshan.

At the very least, Lin Qingshan hasn't done anything that would anger God or people, and most comic fans still like him very much.

I just feel a little bit regretful that Lin Qingshan no longer creates memes, so much of the fun is lost.

As a result, as soon as the seventh episode of "The Taoist Ghost Story" came out, a new meme immediately emerged – "Hahaha, I’ve succeeded, Taoist Master!"

At this point you can basically see one or two comments like "Awards for meaningless human behavior that is unclear and incomprehensible to ordinary people" under posts in some ACG fan circles.

"Hahaha, Master Dao, I did it!"

"Master Tao, I understand!"

This also became the first famous meme of "The Taoist Immortal".

It also made comic fans start to pay close attention to "Daoguiyixian" again. This new comic by Lin Qingshan is really perfect.

In their impression, Lin Qingshan’s comics should be interesting like this!

In the week when the seventh episode was serialized, "The Taoist Immortal" broke the circle because of its memes and actually came to the second place in the popularity ranking.

Poor "True Dragon Selection" once again became a background board.

At the same time, it also made other cartoonists in the comics world scream in fear, "He's back... He's back!"

Lin Qingshan, the popular and despairing psychopathic cartoonist, is back again!
……

Lin Qingshan is not paying attention to popularity now. His editor Ayumi Ito also knows that Lin Qingshan is not paying much attention to the popularity of his works now, so she will not inform Lin Qingshan every week about the popularity of this week's work.

Of course...if the popularity of a work this week drops sharply, or drops to a dangerous level that is close to being cut in half, we will definitely notify you.

Generally speaking, a sudden drop in popularity of a work simply means that the quality of the work is getting worse and worse, and the quantitative change accumulates into qualitative change, which then causes the fans to abandon the work.

Another thing is that the comic author suddenly did a huge botch, which instantly ruined the work.

However, some bad work does cause a work's popularity to plummet, but some bad work can actually increase a work's popularity instead of decreasing it.

The one-eyed cat teacher in his previous life… This was the case after the 261st episode of “Jujutsu Kaisen”, and after making such a mess of things, he actually attracted the attention of people in and outside the circle.

Some people even claimed that they had not paid any attention to the series before episode 261, but they have been paying close attention to it every week since then...

This can be considered as a reverse way of attracting popularity.

However, the quality of Lin Qingshan's comic works has been very stable. Not to mention a sudden drop in popularity, there is not even a sudden and terrible plot operation that was criticized.

So Ayumi Ito was quite relieved, and she also saved some complicated and repetitive work.

However, it is indeed rare to find a cartoonist like Lin Qingshan who does not pay much attention to the popularity of his works.

In fact, even those big cartoonists who have become popular cartoonists are still very concerned about the popularity of their works.

Sometimes they even go on their own accounts to boost the popularity of their works.

It is very rare to see someone like Lin Qingshan who basically doesn't pay much attention to the popularity of his works after becoming famous.

In fact, the most important thing is that he is in a cheerful mental state and doesn't care much about popularity.

Also, there is no need to worry about the works he plagiarized. In his previous life, they were all popular masterpieces that have been tested by the market and the audience, so there is basically no need to worry about their popularity.

And he doesn't necessarily have to strive to be the first or second.

To put it bluntly, he is a Buddhist. After he became financially independent, he became relatively Buddhist.

My only motivation for continuing to draw comic series now is to bring the works that I once loved very much in another world to the people in this world.

The second is to... fulfill the system's wish, to help it complete its mission as soon as possible, to... transcend as soon as possible? Well... transcend, that's it.

Even though System Lao Deng is just a seemingly cold system and a series of codes, he wants to help System Lao Deng complete his task and be free as soon as possible.

Lin Qingshan also benefited from it, so he wanted to help the system Lao Deng back so that both parties could benefit. This was definitely a good thing.

In short, he is not paying much attention to the popularity of his works, but what he is paying attention to now is...

The animation production work of "Matou Ghoul" and "Akame ga Kill" is a long and complicated task after the storyboards and drawings are completed.

There are also music-related tasks such as BGM, opening and ending credits, but Lin Qingshan said... he is familiar with this!
Wouldn't it be enough to just copy the music from the two previous animations?
Especially the ghoul’s painful divine song, which was the key contributor to the ghoul’s breaking out of the circle in the previous life.

Lin Qingshan copied the music score and lyrics, made the arrangement, and then directly asked the male lead's voice actor and pop singer to sing the song.

The voice actors in this parallel world are actually the same as many Japanese voice actors in his previous life. They not only do dubbing work, but are also basically ACG pop singers.

The main idea is that he makes music when he has money and becomes a voice actor when he has no money.

At the same time, during the animation production process, Lin Qingshan continued to serialize the "Daoguiyixian" comics.

Lin Qingshan, who seems a little busy to outsiders, is actually not very busy. The plot of "The Tao of Immortal" is slowly unfolding.

After designing a plan to kill Dan Yangzi with a poison pill made from the evil and poisonous substance, Li Huowang and the entire Qingfeng Temple were completely liberated.

After knowing that Danyangzi was dead, the remaining disciples Changren and Changming were relieved and stopped bothering Li Huowang. Instead, they ran away. It was obvious that they had the same hatred and fear towards Danyangzi as the disciples like "Xuan Yang" who wanted to escape at the beginning, without any loyalty.

This bald head usually rules with terror and high pressure. Not to mention Li Huowang and other "disciples" in the material room, even his former senior disciple Zheng Kun can barely breathe under his fear.

So no one will be very loyal to him. Once he dies, not only will people not remain loyal to him, they will even celebrate happily with "Good death! Open the champagne."

Now that this disgusting bald head is finally dead, Changren Changming of course ran away directly.

After Changren and Changming ran away, Li Huowang came out and announced to Bai Lingmiao and others in the material room that they were free.

Those poor people burst into tears of joy. They finally no longer had to worry about being taken away by that scary bald-headed Taoist priest to make elixirs at any time.

Li Huowang also planned to take them away from Qingfeng Temple, a place of trouble and pain.

But at this time, they saw Changren Changming, who had run away, confronting the remaining Dandao disciple "Xuanyuan". Both sides took out their weapons and the atmosphere was very tense.

Li Huowang looked at the so-called heavenly book wrapped in black copper coins and naturally understood what they were fighting for.

He knew very well that what was written on it was not some cultivation technique but some scriptures, so he did not intend to fight for it. He even declined Xuan Yuan's invitation and turned around to leave with Bai Lingmiao and others.

But... in this strange world, Bai Lingmiao and the others still have a home.

But Li Huowang didn't know whether he had a family or not. He even suspected that the so-called modern world was just an illusion created when he had a hysterical attack.

When he and Dan Yangzi took the immortality elixir together, he had actually thought about not living. It would be enough to die together with his cheap master Dan Yangzi.

But unexpectedly, by some strange coincidence, Danyangzi died, but he did not die.

Where can he go now?
It’s better... to stay in this Qingfeng Temple and wait for death.

However, after being persuaded by Bai Lingmiao and the reappearing illusion "Yang Na", Li Huowang was immediately moved. He decided to live as well as possible no matter where he was. This was not only for himself, but also for those family members who might or might not exist.

Then they began to plunder the resources in Qingfeng Temple. After all, they would need money and food on the way home, and those elixirs were also good things.

Regardless of whether Dan Yangzi is an evil cultivator or not, and whether the skills he practices are fake or not, these pills are indeed effective.

However, Li Huowang accidentally discovered Hei Taisui, who was helped by Dan Yangzi to suppress his hysterical hallucinations. This was also the first time that Hei Taisui appeared in the comics with a complete and detailed appearance.

In the comics, the Black Tai Sui looks like a huge, slimy black mass covered in mucus. Its body is covered with what looks like hair, but if you look closely you will find that it is a densely grown, dark, slender tentacle, or an immature filament.

This scene also made comic fans feel a little disgusted.

But soon, for some unknown reason, Black Tai Sui became smaller and smaller, as if it had disappeared out of thin air.

Li Huowang was so anxious that he didn't care about anything else and bit the black Tai Sui directly, tearing and chewing it and eating it bite by bite.

This scene couldn't help but make comic fans give a thumbs up. This protagonist... looks like a real psycho. He dares to stuff something into his mouth without knowing what it is. You are amazing!

After that, when Li Huowang and his companions walked out of the Taoist temple, they saw a scene in which both sides were hurt.

To be precise, all three sides suffered losses. There is no need to say much about Xuanyuan, as he practiced alchemy. He could not be the opponent of Changren and Changming, who practiced swordsmanship, at one on two.

However, there seemed to be an internal conflict between Changren and Changming. Changren, who was originally in the same group as Changming, was stabbed to death from behind with a sword. It was obviously Changming who did it.

But Changming was not in a much better condition, he was only left with one breath, but his lustful eyes were still fixed on the so-called book of immortality.

In the end, the three people died because of their own desires, and their magic weapons, including the heavenly book they fought for, were taken away by Li Huowang.

In the end, they burned down Qingfeng Temple. This land of sin and desire was reduced to ashes in the thick fire, and they left the place where they were imprisoned.

Then, Li Huowang met a wandering opera troupe on the way of escorting Bai Lingmiao and the others home. The leader of the troupe was named Lu Zhuangyuan. He brought his eldest son and his family of three, two distant nephews he brought from the village, and a horse-drawn carriage carrying costumes and musical instrument boxes, and they went around singing for a living.

It just so happened that the troupe encountered an evil woman with bound feet who was similar to the one who came to ask for a title from Wong Tai Sin. At this time, Li Huowang and others appeared. Li Huowang used the deflated Taoist bell left by Dan Yangzi to directly drive away the woman with bound feet.

Therefore, Lu Zhuangyuan was very grateful to Li Huowang and others.

At the same time, he invited them to travel together. After all, Li Huowang's Taoist attire, plus his ability to drive away the evil spirits just now, proved that he might very well be a "Taoist master".

What they feared most was encountering evil spirits like the one just now on the road. They happened to meet a master like Li Huowang, so they would definitely invite him to travel with them to protect themselves.

Li Huowang just wanted to know from people like Lu Zhuangyuan from the outside world what kind of world it is.

Lu Zhuangyuan squatted down and drew a simple map on the ground with the end of his pipe.

Suddenly, Li Huowang guessed that this was a strange world similar to the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and there was currently no large unified country in this world.

But this was definitely not the ancient world in his modern world, because he had never heard of Dan Yangzi's weird methods of cultivating immortals, as well as those evil people like Gongpo Yu, Grandma, and Master You.

Along the way, Li Huowang and others, together with Lu Zhuangyuan's family's opera troupe, moved forward all the way and stopped at a place called Wuligang, preparing to perform opera there.

But after the performance, Lu Zhuangyuan received a commission. The local Mr. Hu family asked him to perform for ghosts.

In fact, it means going to the ancestral hall and performing opera in front of the tablets of their ancestors.

However, Lu Zhuangyuan also felt that this was weird and something was not very good, so he asked Li Huowang to join them and support them when they performed the ghost show.

Li Huowang refused at first, but later he agreed because the other party offered too much and they also needed food on the way to Jianye City.

But before that, he specially found a blacksmith shop and repaired the deflated copper bell.

At the same time, he finally summoned the so-called Master You.

(End of this chapter)