Parasite Spirit

After closing the websites about Shinjuku, Xia Jie opened a text editor and prepared to continue updating the novel he had published earlier.

Yes, just as the handsome readers had guessed, Xia Jie was going to become a plagiarist.

He had transmigrated into a parallel world similar to Jujutsu Kaisen. Although it shared many similarities with his original world, there were also enormous differences in many aspects.

For example, online literature.

Online literature in this world was still developing rapidly, but many outstanding works from his previous life had yet to appear, giving Xia Jie a foundation for becoming a plagiarist.

Of course, Xia Jie did not want to become a plagiarist for money, but to prepare for creating an Imaginary Cursed Spirit.

As long as I publish a bestselling suspense novel, won't I have a Special-Grade Imaginary Cursed Spirit?

It was precisely because of this idea that Xia Jie decided to start copying.

The first book Xia Jie planned to copy was a system novel that had been hugely popular in his previous life. His goal was clear—not to use it to create a powerful Imaginary Cursed Spirit, but to gather Legend Points for the Imaginary Cursed Spirit, System Spirit.

Xia Jie often felt that he was a failure as a transmigrator, because he! Did! Not! Have! A! System!

But ever since he awakened his Cursed Technique, he had come to terms with it. If I don't have a system, can't I just create a System Spirit myself?

There were plenty of system novels and similar anime in this world as well, but his Imaginary Becomes Real could not manifest those systems. It seemed his Cursed Technique judged that such systems did not fit the definition of a Cursed Spirit.

Therefore, Xia Jie could only redesign a system himself, but it also had to possess some characteristics of a Cursed Spirit.

In the end, Xia Jie designed a Parasite Spirit. The Parasite Spirit had two primary abilities:

1. Absorb energy from food to improve the host's basic attributes.

2. Absorb all kinds of knowledge from information, allowing the host to quickly master relevant skills.

The inspiration for this Parasite Spirit came from Parasyte. Since this world did not have Parasyte, Xia Jie could confidently place the Parasite Spirit in his novel and make it the protagonist's cheat.

The specific settings of the Parasite Spirit were as follows:

[Imaginary Cursed Spirit: Parasite Spirit]

[Grade: Grade 3 Possession-Type Cursed Spirit—Cursed Womb Form]

[Cursed Energy: 100/1000]

[Legend Points: 0.65w/150w]

[Cursed Technique: Absorption]

[Cursed Technique Effect: Absorb Biological Energy and skill knowledge for the host.]

[Binding Vow:

Parasite: The System Spirit must parasitize the host in order to survive. Since it continuously activates Absorption at all times, its host must consume 1,200 points of Cursed Energy daily to maintain its operation.]

[Cursed Technique Skill: The Parasite Spirit will convert the host's personal attributes and skills into data, helping the host absorb all Biological Energy and skill knowledge in daily life.]

The Parasite Spirit's functions suited Xia Jie's wishes well, and the Binding Vow was also within the range he could accept.

However, the system functions had been identified by Xia Jie's Imaginary Technique as a kind of Cursed Technique, causing the Legend Points required by the Parasite Spirit to soar directly to 150w.

This meant that if Xia Jie wanted to gather those Legend Points through spreading his book, at least 150w people would need to have read it.

That was an extremely terrifying number!

Honestly, Xia Jie was not confident.

Even if he was copying a bestseller from his previous life, there was no telling whether he could achieve such a goal.

But... he had to do it before he could know.

It would be best if he could obtain enough Legend Points. If he failed, he would only waste some Cursed Energy and time. He could just copy other books afterward.

Because the memories of his two lives had merged, Xia Jie's memory was unexpectedly good. He could recall almost every novel he had read in his previous life, so he did not have to worry about running out of books to copy, and he could copy them quite quickly.

Xia Jie's fingers flew across the keyboard.

He maintained the habits of his previous life. He woke up at eight every morning and began his morning exercises, rested for a little over ten minutes afterward, bought some breakfast downstairs, then returned home to start typing.

He occasionally went out for a walk in the middle of it all and exercised a little more, but he spent most of his time typing, only stopping at eleven at night.

Typing for long hours every day made the speed at which he updated his novel comparable to a production team's donkey. Breaking through 30,000 words a day was effortless, and Parasite Spirit had now been updated to nearly 400,000 words.

If he had not been updating the novel simultaneously in Chinese and Japanese, his update speed would probably have been even faster.

If this had been his previous life, that update speed alone would have crushed those online authors. Then again, rather than writing a novel, he was more like a typist.

Xia Jie registered the pen name "JOJO. Jie" on L.Q, Japan's largest novel website. He also bypassed the firewall and registered accounts on several domestic novel websites, beginning to update his novel simultaneously.

By targeting Chinese and Japanese readers at the same time, he could gather Legend Points even faster.

Unfortunately, his English was still only at the level of college CET-4 and CET-6. It was enough for barely managing a conversation, but writing articles in English was simply out of the question.

Otherwise, this book of his would definitely have been released on websites in other countries.

Because of his unusually fast updates, Xia Jie's book had gained some attention from netizens, but its readership had not completely exploded yet.

After typing for about two hours, Xia Jie looked up at the time and discovered that it was nearly eleven.

He stretched his somewhat stiff body, closed the editor page, then opened the author's dashboard to look through some reader comments.

Typing for long periods was a tedious and painful thing. Even though he was merely copying from the memories in his mind, he would still become irritated after enough time had passed.

At times like this, he needed to relax—either get up and move around, or look at something else to distract himself.

However, the best method was still reading the readers' comments. Their comments gave him the motivation to keep updating.

Xia Jie read through some of the comments. Many readers were amazed by the imaginative content, quite a few praised Izumiyama Yuto's intelligence, a small number marveled at Xia Jie's update speed, and several told him to take care of his health.

Xia Jie smiled silently and replied to the readers' comments one by one. Conversing with them across the internet made him feel less lonely inside.

After replying to the comments, Xia Jie discovered that the author's dashboard had also sent him an email.

He opened it and found that it was a contract invitation from the novel website. Its contents were roughly as follows: After review, the novel you have written has been deemed worthy of a contract. If you agree to sign, please submit a contract application and fill in the relevant information. An editor will contact you afterward.