Jin Yong is one of the founding masters of new martial arts novels and plays an important role in the minds of everyone. The topic he is going to talk about now is closely related to everyone here, so for a moment, the audience was silent, and even a needle fell to the ground could be heard.

"But everyone knows that I am not good at speaking, so I want to ask Xiaoyou Xia Tian to do it for you." Jin Yong said again.

Everyone was stunned when they heard this. "Xia Tian Xiaoyou", this title is too unusual. Doesn't this mean that Xia Tian and Jin Yong are friends for ages? Then his seniority is too high, right? Everyone here looked at Xia Tian in surprise. I wonder what kind of ability this young man has to win Jin Yong's favor. It's really incredible.

Xia Tian also stood up slowly at this time, without any shyness or stage fright. Because he had already seen that today's stage was specially built for him by Jin Yong, with the purpose of making him famous.

If he had a slightest performance, he would not only lose his face, but also lose his face from Mr. Jin Yong. Therefore, he would never be timid at all.

"Thank you for your appreciation by Mr. Cha." Xia Tian walked forward, thanked Jin Yong first, and then bowed to everyone.

"Dear seniors, I am just a nameless young man who has just begun. I am very honored to say a few words here today. If there is something wrong, please give me some advice. Let me talk about the future development of martial arts novels below..."

Although everyone was surprised at his youth, they felt that he was not ashamed of his hairless and unscrupulous assumptions, although they did not agree with it, they still looked at him with a scrupulous look. Because they also wanted to see what Xia Tian had to do, which could make Jin Yong admire him so much.

I heard Xia Tian say solemnly: "I think Hong Kong martial arts novels have reached a very dangerous situation, and it can even be said that they have reached the moment of 'life and death'!"

As soon as this said, everyone here was shocked.

You should know that although the martial arts novels in Hong Kong are not as popular as Jin Yong and Gu Long during their heyday, they are also very popular with readers. Younger writers such as Huang Ying, Long Chengfeng, Wen Ruian, etc., their novel sales are also pretty good. So it is a bit alarmist and exaggerated to say this in Xia Tian.

For a moment, everyone's faces were not very good-looking.

Xia Tian ignored everyone's reaction. He just told the truth. If they even felt the truth was harsh, it would be their own problem.

Therefore, he continued, "The main problems facing Hong Kong martial arts novels now include the same style, the themes are repeated, the plot is old-fashioned, the sales volume decreases, and the impact is weakened..." Then Xiatian further explained these issues.

Every time a question is discussed, the faces of everyone present look a little ugly.

For example, the styles are similar, and almost all the young writers here have this problem.

Wen Ruian, Long Chengfeng, Huang Ying, Ye Zhantong... The shadow of Gu Long can be found almost all of the novels they created. Especially Huang Ying, who is recognized as the "second Gu Long", may be a praise for him, but it also shows that he is weak in innovation and does not have his own creative style.

The subject matter is repeated and the plot is old-fashioned. These two points are inevitable for all the writers here. For example, Long Chengfeng's "The Sword of the Sword" has written thirty or forty works, and there are more than a dozen evil martial arts schools destroyed. Huang Ying's "The Hero Shen Shengyi" has also written 10 or 20 works. I won't mention the style of the ancient dragon. The plot is also very similar, and it is almost real.

The most serious thing is that the Wesley novels created by Ni Geng were written very innovatively at the beginning, but in recent years, Wesley novels have fallen into a dilemma of routineization.

The basic routine is: something strange and unexplainable happened - Wesley intervened in the investigation - Ah, it turned out that it was done by aliens - express emotions and criticize the ugly humans and the sinful earth civilization.

Therefore, when he heard Xia Tian talk about this disadvantage, Ni Geng's face was a little embarrassed. He knew his own affairs, after all, he was old and his mind was not as flexible as before. In addition, the bookseller was urging him tightly, so he could only write according to the routine.

Even though he doesn't have to worry about sales, booksellers and readers can accept it, but being said in public by Xia Tian still makes him feel embarrassed, as if the only fig leaf on his body was torn off by him.

In fact, Xia Tian did not point out his name, and he did not dare to name a writer, but he could not resist these writers having problems and a ghost in their hearts, so he naturally took the lead.

Xia Tian then talked about the issue of weakening influence. "The film industry has always had a tradition of adapting martial arts novels into movies. It is as far away as the "Burning of Red Lotus Temple" series adapted from Pingjiang Buxiaosheng's original work "The Legend of Jianghu Qihan" to the "Tathagata's God Palm" series adapted from Liu Canyang's original work "The Buddha Palm" in the 1950s and 1960s, and the last series of movies adapted from Gu Long's novels in the 1970s..."

"Many of the works of Mr. Cha, Mr. Ni Geng, Mr. Huang Ying and others here have been adapted into movies and TV series. Those movies and TV series have been widely praised, making their works well-known for this. Even those who are illiterate know these stories." Xia Tian praised everyone again.

After hearing what he said, everyone's faces looked better.

"So you know how powerful I am, too." Ni Geng nodded, his face cleared a little.

"But in the past two years, this kind of adaptation has almost disappeared." Xia Tian changed the subject, "Even Mr. Gu Long, who was extremely popular before, has lost his popularity now."

The martial arts movie adapted from Gu Long's novel was extremely popular a few years ago. It not only achieved box office results in Hong Kong, but also sold very well in Nanyang, Taiwan and other places, and achieved extremely high box office results.

Chu Yuan, the director who made Gu Long's movies at that time, was famous as "Chu Qianmian" because each work exceeded 10 million Taiwan dollars. A Taiwanese film dealer once invited him to film, and his film pay was as high as 1.1 million Hong Kong dollars, making him the most valuable director at the time.

But now, the Gu Long movies are no longer in popularity, and Chu Qianwan has not filmed Gu Long for four years. Even with his old boss Shaw Brothers closing down, he is facing the danger of unemployment.

Everyone here is very clear about this matter, so when he heard what he said, although he was unwilling to admit it, he could only nod.

"The loss of the opportunity to adapt it into a movie not only means that everyone here has lost a considerable royalty, but also shows that the martial arts novel is losing the favor of young audiences." Xia Tian continued.

After hearing what he said, everyone here changed their faces. If what he said was true, wouldn’t they almost lose their job?!

"Don't think I'm talking nonsense and talking nonsense. To be honest, I'm working at Shaw Brothers now. I know more about the film industry than you," Xia Tian said.

"American film companies have conducted surveys on the age of audiences and found that more than half of those aged fifteen to twenty-five account for, so the types of movies that Hollywood has invested in in recent years are commercial films that young people prefer."

"The age composition ratio of Hong Kong movie audiences is basically the same as that of the United States. This means that young audiences of this age are gradually losing their enthusiasm for martial arts novels, and they are the source of readers we rely most on." Xia Tian concluded, "so this phenomenon cannot be ignored."

After hearing what he said, everyone thought he was exaggerating and exaggerating, but now they think he is very reasonable.

A large part of movie audiences and novel readers overlap. If they lose their enthusiasm for martial arts novels, wouldn’t it mean that their good days are over?

"So, it's no longer time to enjoy the fruits of your life and rest assured. Martial arts novels must be transformed to revitalize and win the favor of readers again." Xia Tian shouted loudly again.

"Then how should we change?" Ni Geng asked at Xia Tian. He was feeling very unhappy now.

Xia Tian just talked about his work out of date. Although he only clicked Gu Long, Ni Geng himself knew it and everyone knew that he was the novelist who had the most adaptations of his works.

He wrote more than 200 scripts for Shaw Brothers alone, such as "One-Armed Knife" and "Six-Fingered Piano Demon" were adapted from his works. Until Shaw Brothers closed down, none of his scripts were finished. In addition, he wrote more than 400 scripts for other film companies, which was more than ten ancient dragons combined.

Moreover, a few years ago, his market was even more popular than Gu Long, and even Sir Shao and Boss Zou were very polite to him. However, in recent years, no film company has invited him to scripts, nor has the film company boss invited him to have dinner or have fun again. He is already tomorrow and he is worried.

Therefore, Ni Geng was so angry that he had nowhere to go. Although Xia Tian was talking about Gu Long, he had already taken the role automatically. It felt that Xia Tian was just pointing at mulberry and scolding the locust, and every sentence was pricking his weakness, which made Ni Geng feel very uncomfortable.

"I think that the first thing to change is to expand new themes for martial arts novels. Martial arts novels are actually rooted in the traditional Chinese farming culture. In the novel, the heroes and righteous men are heroes and righteous men, helping the weak, and fighting against injustice are what these farmers and ordinary citizens like the most and hope for the most." Xia Tian replied.

"But now, Hong Kong has developed from a fishing village decades ago to an international metropolis. Agricultural civilization has long been replaced by industrial civilization, and martial arts novels have also lost the soil for survival. Although the heroes have excellent martial arts skills, their world has become more and more distant from the young people today."

"So in order to win their favor again, we need to expand new themes, such as urban martial arts, such as Mr. Ni Geng's "Asian Eagle Rocai" series, "Yuan Zhenxia" series, "Wesley" series, Mr. Gu Long's "Never bow his head", etc., are all bold attempts in this regard."

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