Chapter 909: Investiture of the Gods

"I don't know how many people here have read the novel version of this play, and I don't know if you all understand it, but I have one thing to say."

Lin Fan glanced at everyone present, and saw that they were all listening attentively: "The background of this novel is based on some settings of traditional Chinese Taoism and Buddhism, as well as folk myths, but I have re-set them, so it will be different from the legends in everyone's impression.

Everyone should clear all past memories and impressions, don’t worry about what happened before, just accept the background I set.”

This is also one of the reasons why Lin Fan agreed to Yang Hongxia's publication of these two novels.

Blue Planet China has its own mythology system, legends, and folk tales, which are roughly the same as the Earth's mythology system in framework, but when it comes to specific gods, fairies, and monsters, there are bigger differences.

Of course, there are also parts with a high degree of overlap. For these parts, Lin Fan has integrated and modified them according to the mythology system of Blue Star China.

But for those parts that were completely unrelated, Lin Fan simply kept the original version of the Earth. To the locals of Blue Star, this was equivalent to content created by Lin Fan himself, which was completely new and had never appeared before.

Therefore, people who see these contents for the first time will inevitably feel awkward.

The feeling is like: everyone on earth knows that Sun Wukong jumped out of a crack in a rock, but suddenly someone says that Sun Wukong is actually the biological son of the Jade Emperor and Queen Mother. It's so painful.

Therefore, Lin Fan had to give everyone a heads-up in advance, and also explained the background setting of the entire story to everyone in full, in order to help everyone better understand their roles.

However, Lin Fan is not particularly outrageous, and the integration of the two is still relatively good.

Therefore, this script reading session turned into Lin Fan’s personal storytelling session: “This story starts with the first person who attained enlightenment after Pangu created the world, the ancestor Hongjun.

Legend has it that after Patriarch Hongjun attained enlightenment, he began to lecture in the Zixiao Palace. A total of three thousand people went to listen to his lectures. These three thousand people were also called the Three Thousand Red Dust Guests.

Among the mortals, there are the Three Pure Ones, Fuxi and Nuwa, Demon Master Kunpeng, Zhunti Jieyin, and many others. When Daoist Ancestor Hongjun preached for the third time, he bestowed seven primordial purple qi, which were given to the Three Pure Ones, Nuwa, Zhunti, Jieyin, and Hongyun..."

Lin Fan started from when Hongjun attained enlightenment, and talked all the way through how the three religions jointly signed the List of Gods to fill the positions of the 365 gods in heaven, and then to the subsequent rise of Western religions and Sun Wukong escorting Tang Sanzang to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures. He spoke for more than two hours, and his mouth was dry and he drank a lot of water before he finally explained the entire mythological system clearly.

But the problem is, it’s not enough for you to think that you have explained it clearly, everyone has to understand it as well.

So Lin Fan asked: "Did you understand?"

Cheng Guohua: ⊙▽⊙! Li Xiaodong : ⊙□⊙! Lu Bingyang : ⊙０⊙! Everyone: (⊙﹏⊙)...

Lin Fan: "? Is it hard to understand?"

I feel like I've been quite detailed.

Cheng Guohua rubbed his head, which was about to burst due to Lin Fan's mythology system: "Let me slow down for a moment. The amount of information is too much, and my brain capacity is not very sufficient..."

Before Cheng Guohua finished speaking, Li Xiaodong had already jumped up excitedly, slapping his hands on the table. "Fuck! Brother Fan, how did you come up with such a grand mythology system? The key is that this "Investiture of the Gods" is a series of two parts of "Journey to the West"? This is so cool, it's incredible. Brother Fan, how can you have such a big imagination?"

"This, this, I originally thought that the background setting of Journey to the West was grand enough, but I didn't expect that the world view of Investiture of the Gods is even more grand! No, the background settings of these two dramas are the same, but Journey to the West only presented a part of it before, and with the background setting of Investiture of the Gods, this is the complete world view!"

"Oh my god, I got goosebumps! I have never been so excited to hear a fairy tale!"

"Does that mean that after we finish filming The Investiture of the Gods, we can then go on to film Journey to the West?"

"What are you thinking about? There are only a few overlapping characters in these two dramas... uh..." The man looked at Li Xiaodong and Lu Bingyang, and suddenly didn't want to talk anymore.

Because, Lai Siu-tung played Nezha in the play "Investiture of the Gods".

Lu Bingyang plays Erlang Shen Yang Jian.

These two characters appear throughout both "The Investiture of the Gods" and "Journey to the West", and they appear quite a few times. Their roles are quite important, and their personal charm has not been diminished at all.

Lin Fan really put a lot of effort into promoting Li Xiaodong, Lu Bingyang, oh, and Zhou Xiang!

envious!

I'm really envious! Yes, this time, Lin Fan chose "The Investiture of the Gods" as the work for newcomers! This work perfectly meets Yang Hongxia's three requirements of "group portrait", "ancient idol" and "leading newcomers", and it is also in the same vein as the subsequent "Journey to the West". When Lin Fan was drawing the lottery, he also won various versions of this novel.

It can be said that the time is right, the place is right, and the people are right. Lin Fan felt that if he didn't bring out this work, it would be a shame to throw out so much popularity! Lin Fan had already made up his mind to treat "Journey to the West" as the treasure of the Earthling Studio, so of course Lin Fan would not let go of "peripheral" works like "Investiture of the Gods".

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

However, how much shock would the people present at the scene be if the complete mythology system of Conferred Gods was brought out was not something Lin Fan could control.

As expected, after everyone figured out the relationship between the two works, the whole atmosphere became lively.

"Oh my god, I feel so moved as if I were witnessing history. Tears are about to flow!"

"Although I don't know if I can be selected for the role in Journey to the West, but compared to others, I have already won. After all, I have already got the role in Investiture of the Gods!"

"Will Director Lin make these two works into movies in the future? Although the TV series has not been filmed yet, just listening to Director Lin's description makes me feel that I must go to see the movie if it is made into a movie!"

"I will treasure this script. Maybe many years later, it will become a family heirloom!"

"Hey, your idea really hits my heart! And there's also the classical Chinese version that Director Lin sent me. This might be the first printed version of this novel. No, I have to find a safe to lock it up!"

…

The entire script reading session was as lively as a vegetable market, packed with middle-aged women buying vegetables. Everyone was discussing and fantasizing excitedly, and they were full of expectations for this work and their own future.

Lin Fan: ...Haha, as long as you are happy.

(End of this chapter)