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"Hahahaha, too busy to accept the challenge?"

"Not very harmful, but extremely insulting!"

"I can feel the contempt coming from the old rascal!"

"Chu Kuang: You Yan people just never stop, do you? Including that Hu who writes long fairy tales, I have already defeated ten of you. What else do you want from me?"

"Chu Kuang: I have no interest in continuing a literary duel with a defeated opponent."

"The old rascal’s speech is really arrogant. He must be dominant and brazen in reality!"

"After hibernating for a year, the Yan people initiated a literary duel against Chu Kuang. They must have been fully prepared. But the old rascal dismissed them by saying that he’s too busy. It’s really... satisfying!"

"I can already imagine the look of disdain on Chu Kuang’s face when he said he’s too busy."

"Old rascal: I asked last time, who else? You didn’t step up then, but now you’re all energetic?"

"..."

Others would also reject the Yan Continent writer’s invitation to a literary duel.

But when other writers reject, they are very polite, and their tone is very gentle.

Even if they make up a story, they will come up with a reason.

Only Chu Kuang, with just two words, "too busy"!

For a while, fans and netizens were overjoyed.

This is no different from Jin Mu’s prediction.

Chu Kuang’s arrogance and pride, along with his one-against-nine duel in the fairy tale world last time, and the deafening "Who else?", have truly become deeply engrained in people’s hearts.

Besides, Chu Kuang is someone who would dare to go head-to-head with The Primordial Chaos!

Such a fierce person, who would believe that he’s not arrogant?

Therefore, although Chu Kuang was brash this time, no one felt anything wrong.

Very few people thought Chu Kuang’s words were inappropriate.

Chu Kuang single-handedly suppressed the entire Yan Continent’s fairy tale world early last year!

He has the right to be arrogant and proud!

Netizens from the Qin, Chu, and Yi continents merrily gobbled up the gossip, but the netizens from the Yan continent were suffering.

"Damn, this Chu Kuang is still so arrogant!"

"Does he not take Teacher Bai Jie seriously?"

"Teacher Bai Jie is the number one person in our Yan Continent’s long fairy tales!"

"For a top-notch expert like Teacher Bai Jie to challenge any famous fairy tale master of Blue Star, the latter would only feel honored. Why is this Chu Kuang acting so arrogantly?"

"As a Yan person, I hate the fact that I despise Chu Kuang on one side, but on the other side, I also like Sherlock Holmes a lot!"

"I love ’Journey to the West’, but that wouldn’t stop me from supporting Teacher Bai Jie in defeating Chu Kuang!"

"Art has no continent, but artists have their continents!"

"Chu Kuang, is like a dark cloud looming over the mountain top of our Yan Continent’s fairy tale world, he must be defeated!"

"The fairy tale writers of Yan Continent are all brave, sooner or later they’ll take down this evil dragon, Chu Kuang!"

"..."

No doubt about it.

Ever since Chu Kuang battled the Yan Continent’s fairy tale world and miraculously achieved the legend of ’one against nine’, he became the major villain in the hearts of countless Yan people!

Yan people, though, do like Chu Kuang’s works.

But when it comes to fairy tales, Yan people would unite against an external enemy.

One against nine in fairy tales...

This is a wound that Chu Kuang harshly left in the hearts of Yan people!

Yan people dream that a local fairy tale writer can defeat Chu Kuang and wash away the shame of the Yan Continent’s fairy tales being suppressed by him alone.

Therefore, when Bai Jie initiated the challenge to Chu Kuang, all the blood of Yan people was boiling!

But Chu Kuang’s "too busy" is like a bucket of cold water, extinguishing the spark of hope just starting to light up in their hearts.

At this moment.

The people of Han Continent, who had just joined the merge, were bewildered and didn’t know what had happened.

Until netizens from Qin, Chu, and Yi continents explained to them about Chu Kuang’s legendary experience of one against nine, and his great battle with the fairy tale world of Yan Continent...

"One against nine?" @@novelbin@@

"That fierce?"

"This Chu Kuang seems to be very amazing."

"I’ve recently been getting acquainted with the culture of Qin, Chu, and Yan, and Chu Kuang’s novel ’Journey to the West’ is indeed excellent, but it seems to be a fantasy novel, not a fairy tale."

"I’ve been reading ’The Great Detective Sherlock Holmes’ recently, and the author is also Chu Kuang. But isn’t he a mystery novelist?"

"Um, I’m reading Chu Kuang’s short stories. Does he also write mysteries, fantasies, and fairy tales?"

"I just saw the news that Chu Kuang became the Supreme God of Fantasy. Did he write fairy tales last year and suppressed an entire continent single-handedly?"

"..."

The people of Han Continent were shocked!

They are in the process of continuously understanding the culture of Qin, Chu, and Yan.

But at this moment, the name "Chu Kuang" was resounding in their ears like the sound of thunder!

The Han people were just getting to understand the concept of "Chu Kuang" in the novel world for the first time.

This Chu Kuang, is quite abnormal!

...

Yan Continent.

Looking at Chu Kuang’s reply, Bai Jie’s face was filled with confusion, embarrassment, shock, and regret!

For a moment, his expression was incredibly varied!

Last year, he was completely focused on writing his new work, paying no attention to the outside world.

After coming out, he was dumbfounded:

Has our Yan Continent’s fairy tale world been bullied to such an extent?

Suddenly, he felt a sense of mission!

As the strongest long fairy tale writer in Yan Continent, he had to thoroughly defeat Chu Kuang and vindicate the name of Yan Continent’s fairy tales!

But...

He was ignored by Chu Kuang!?

Bai Jie was pissed off. Yet there was nothing he could do; if Chu Kuang insisted on not accepting the challenge, what could he do?

Just then.

On Bai Jie’s tribe, he suddenly received a notification.

Someone had mentioned him!

Bai Jie opened it impatiently.

To his surprise, it was a fairy tale writer from Han Continent who mentioned Bai Jie, along with three words:

"I’m free."

Bai Jie was stunned, took a closer look at the other party’s name, and suddenly became furious!

"David!"

Although Bai Jie didn’t understand the culture of Han Continent, he had heard tales of top-tier fairy tale writers from the Blue Star fairy tale world.

He was familiar with this David.

This guy was not simple at all, he was one of the most powerful fairy tale writers in Han Continent.

He challenged Chu Kuang, but Chu Kuang dismissed him. Unexpectedly, this David actually came to him!

"I’m free!"

The meaning of these three words is self-evident.

This is clearly a declaration of war!

The people of Yan Continent are not afraid of challenges!

After being rejected by Chu Kuang, Bai Jie had already been storing a bellyful of rage. Now, this David was walking straight into the line of fire...

Hold on.

After the merger of the five continents, Qin, Qi, Chu, Yan, and Han, David’s fame is confined only to Han Continent. He is attempting to ride on others’ popularity!

"You want to step on my shoulders, attain fame with a single battle, and let the readers of all the five continents recognize you?"

This utterly ignited Bai Jie’s rage!

He saw right through David’s intentions!

Fine then!

Since Chu Kuang won’t accept a challenge, I’ll handle you first, and let Chu Kuang see my strength!

"Do you wish for a Literary Duel?"

He directly mentioned David, declaring war with arrogance.

David responded quickly, "ok!"

Bai Jie secretly looked it up and figured out that "ok" meant there was no problem.

This ghost from Han Continent is fucking trying to show off his dialect to me?

Quite brazen, isn’t he?

He thinks he is Chu Kuang?

Enraged, Bai Jie immediately scheduled the release date of the novel with his opponent.

The opponent was also very forthcoming and stated that they could release their works on the same day.

Thus, a Literary Duel commenced!

However,

The spectators were dumbfounded.

What?

Wasn’t this supposed to be between Bai Jie and Chu Kuang?

How did a folk writer from Han Continent suddenly appear?

And Bai Jie directly settled the fight with him?

Is this because Chu Kuang didn’t agree, so he wants to vent his anger on David?

Immediately, the people of Yan Continent got excited: "This David really doesn’t know what death is!"

Bai Jie, being ignored by Chu Kuang, must be outraged.

This David actually had the gall to tease Bai Jie, wouldn’t he be flatted by Bai Jie’s fury?

Although the direction of the whole thing became strange, it did not seem to lose its excitement.

Someone from Yan Continent even shouted the slogan: "First annihilate David, then annihilate Chu Kuang!"

Meanwhile, in Han Continent.

Many Han people showed peculiar expressions.

David is not as simple as you Yan people think.

...

Lin Yuan also briefly went online to follow the aftermath.

When he saw the netizens commenting that he was "arrogant" and "boastful", he felt strange.

Where did I act arrogantly?

And those reactions from the people of Yan Continent...

They made me out to be a real villain-like boss.

They even claimed I was a wicked dragon and called for the brave warriors of Yan Continent to slay me.

But when he saw Bai Jie challenging a Children’s writer named David to a Literary Duel, he no longer worried about whether he was arrogant or a villain.

He remembered:

People of Yan Continent are indeed like honey badgers.

Not to be trifled with.

This David only said "I’m free", and Bai Jie is ready to duel with him.

Well, that’s fine.

It has nothing to do with me now.

Perhaps because the Spring Festival makes people lazy.

Lin Yuan recently has been really lazy: he doesn’t want to draw comics or write novels.

He gradually shifted from "Xian Yu" mode to "Salted Fish" mode.

Of course.

This also had to do with Lin Yuan focusing all his energy on the twelve consecutive victories.

He was hell-bent on challenging Maestro, felt pressure in his heart, so decided to relax a bit.

He even started nibbling on melon seeds leisurely, curious about the outcome between Bai Jie and David.

Previously, others used to gossip about him, but he rarely gossiped about others.

Looking at the commotion.

The people of Yan Continent are already at loggerheads with the people of Han Continent.

When it comes to regional conflicts, the people of each state can always unite surprisingly.

It seems this is also the tradition of the merger of Blue Star.

Every time a new state joins, there will always be some cultural regional conflicts with a state that has already merged.

Qin Continent has been involved in this several times too.

Lin Yuan himself has participated in this more than once.

"This David is not simple."

Jin Mu, who was also nibbling melon seeds on the side, suddenly said with a smile.

Lin Yuan was curious: "How so?"

"I looked at David’s resume. This writer is a bit like the boss. Although his folklore sales are not the highest in Han Continent, each of his folklore sells better than his previous works, and his last work was the third best-seller on the Han Continent’s folklore sales list."

Jin Mu began.

"Assuming David can continue to progress, following this trend, David and Bai Jie’s Literary Duel will result in a work with higher sales than his previous records."

Lin Yuan nodded.

There are two kinds of writers.

One is a genius type, the other is a progressive type.

The genius can become famous with one book, but the subsequent works may not be better;

And the progressive type may be mediocre when they debut, but their later works become better one by one.

If David is a progressive type writer, even if he loses to Bai Jie this time, he will definitely be better next time. Experience tales at NovelBin.Côm

Moreover, it’s not even certain who will win or lose in this Literary Duel.

Anyway, it has nothing to do with me.

Lin Yuan took a bite of his melon; it was very sweet.

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ps: It’s time to call it a day. I’ve been writing about Xian Yu’s plot recently, so it’s time for Chu Kuang to get some action.