It was broad daylight in the World Within the Book, with a light rain falling.
The Qiu Wuji in the book reclined against a stone pavilion, listening quietly to the drizzle as she read.
The thread-bound books looked impressively refined. The maids always assumed their sect master was reading some lofty Daoist scripture. Little did they know she was reading martial arts novels-and had already read dozens, finishing the complete works of both Jin and Gu.
Now she was reading Huang Yi... and only then did she realize where many aspects of Chu Ge's style came from.
Chu Ge's style bore a strong resemblance to Jin and Gu's works, visible everywhere. Her decisive battle with Yan Qianlie, for instance, was a classic example of drawing on Gu Long, but in many more places, it resembled Huang Yi.
This was what Chu Ge had told her at the time: "In a sense, Master Huang Yi could be considered one of the founding fathers of webnovels. A Step into the Past pioneered an entire branch of fiction. The worldbuilding and fantastical imagination in series like The Great Swordmaster and Interstellar Wanderer, as well as the way his martial arts works like The Tang Dynasty combined with struggles for dynastic supremacy, were hugely inspirational and groundbreaking for the later rise of fantasy fiction..."
"Then there are the profoundly mysterious descriptions in his fight scenes, his explorations of the spiritual plane, his time-stop-style presentation, and his use of awestruck onlookers. Those are things I draw on in terms of writing technique. They'll be very useful for the difficulties you were having before. Don't just focus on the naughty bits."
Qiu Wuji felt that her master Chu Ge had made some very good points, both about everything he had said earlier and that final remark