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They should have added a pop up notification to the novel itself and not just post on the forum... :(

ematan This information appeared on the top of banner named TGIF. It would appear in the apps and the website.

I believe WN would prefer you didn't know about this and used some SS instead. Gwahahaha.

Eh? Locked since hundred pages? When it's not complete it only locked in chapter 700s something

MasterRabbink However, the app opens to the library view and the announcement was not there. I believe many users don't check main page unless they are looking for new novel. In my case I had already 5 in my library and had zero need to open up any other tabs than library. Thus I say it is soddy design.

I still had some hundred chapters left and there is no way I am going to support this kind of practice by paying for the rest.

ematan The banner is in the second tab (the place where you could go to forum, find new novel, etc). It would direct you to a very hidden thread in the forum. I have tested it. There is a method bro...

For example, ask your sister, brother, father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, granduncle, and other 10 generations of your family similar to in other xianxia novel to make an account here. You will get a spirit stones for recruitment here. You can read it. ... As a family we should help each other, right? You know what I mean, right?

Jajaja

ematan my problem with this is chapters that I unlocked with spirit stones got locked again

Wrester123 mine too. and i don't know why. it happen since the new version.

Wrester123

funky_monkey

You need to make a special thread and post your SS stone usage (that you use to unlock the chapter) and the locked chapter. WN staff should unlock the chapter again for you. I have seen that in other threads.

Nyria1325 It’s a premium system. Premium novels require you to use spirit stones to unlock chapters so that translators and editors can get paid when you purchase more spirit stones.
If you do not want to purchase spirt stones, you can get free spirit stones by
1. voting using the energy stones () in the “what’s next” section. You get to vote for the next novel to be released. As you level up, the amount of energy stone you get increases. Your very first vote gives you 5 SS. Only one vote counts towards getting the SS.
2. voting using the power stones () for your favorite novels to go up in rank. Also, only the first vote gives you 5SS.
3. if you’re using the app, you can go under the profile tab and click on “earn rewards” to watch a video. You get a random amount of SS from 6-15 after the video ends. It’s a random draw.
4. checking in daily also gives you a random amount of SS.
5. By inviting friends. When you send an invite to friends and they successfully open a webnovel account using your invite, you get between 88-102 SS depending on which level you are.
Note that spirit stones you earn this way expire after 30days. If you end up saving SS to use for the future, make sure you use them before the 31st day of when you received them. You can check the expiry time of spirit stones by clicking on the number of spirit stones displayed in the profile tab. It will bring it your deposit and consumption histories.

For long lasting spirit stones, you can purchase. Purchased spirit stones do not expire. You get bonus spirit stones when you purchase. Bonus spirit stones expire after 90days.

QueenCL sorry, promo for what? and how do i know if i'm a premium user or not? the novel that i talk about, it got like 500-ish chapter (from 102-645) got lock, the rest until the end it remains unlock.

MasterRabbink i already make a question thread, but i still don't know how to post screencap of my SS consume history. could u tell me how? tq

funky_monkey
That's why are asked of you were a premium user.
That was just a hypothesis. It might be that chapters become locked again for non-premium users or it might be a bug.

During some TGIF events, completed premium novels become completely unlocked for a certain period of time. Once that period is over, they become locked starting from chapter 101, and they are excluded from the 1chapter per day release.

QueenCL
For the invite one just sign up using fake accounts
Great way to get more stones
And you have behind QueenCL
and funky_monkey as they announced that some novels would be made completely free for 2 weeks before all the chapters get locked and you have to re unlock them
You can provide an SS so they re unlock it for you
Which honeslty sounds pretty stupid and make the reader go an extra mile to read a novel
And the relocked novels have no free chapters, all chapters are locked unless they decide to unlock them, this really gonna kill the novels as they wont get posted on Novel updates as it goes against their policy

QueenCL i seriously (at this moment, still not graps the meaning of becoming premium user, forgive me, n pliz don't get bored at me). but the novel that i talked about, get lock in the middle like 101-645 chp, the rest is unlock. so, i don't know why it happen.

@QueenCL @Gothic_Temptation @MasterRabbink Thank you for ur help.

funky_monkey
A novel that requires you to unlock chapters with spirit stones without giving you an option to watch an ad is a premium novel. To become a premium user, all you need to do is purchase spirit stones.

If the novel you’re talking about is a completed novel, my guess is that the novel was featured in a past TGIF event where all the chapters were unlocked by Webnovel for 2weeks. After 2weeks, the novel goes back to being premium and all the chapters will be locked again starting from chapter 101.

The reason why I made a guess that it might be an issue for non-premium users is because I didn’t experience that with my completed novels, and I’m a premium user. My premium completed novels (both were unlocked for two weeks for TGIF) are still unlocked, but when I log off and access the site, the novels are locked from chapters 101.

From past forums, I think you’ll need to present your SS history of unlocking the chapters for the novel you’re asking about to a Webnovel rep. Then they’ll unlock the chapters for you.