Recently, I read some comments. Many thanks to all the enthusiastic readers for your guidance. Quite a few people felt the plot was padded, but I had actually put a great deal of thought into it. For example, the choice of several supporting characters in this chapter was carefully considered. On the surface, this chapter's thread was a dispute over reclaiming a house; beneath the surface, it was Justice Gu. What it revealed was the Heavenly Court's way of doing things, Star Lord Immortal Venerable's schemes, and the Tie clan's own way of thinking.
But I had to admit that this novel was not particularly suited to being followed chapter by chapter. There were too many threads and too many characters. Once I spread them out to write, the overall scale suddenly swelled. It was probably best suited for following updates around Chapter 13. That was why many people felt the earlier chapters were exciting.
There was also plenty of brilliance in the later stages, but that brilliance differed from the early stages. Once read through in one go, one would discover how the characters echoed one another and how events affected one another. Characters from several million words ago still had their moments in the later stages. Everyone had their own demands and thoughts; the entire world was alive.
By the final stages of this book, the life-and-death turmoil of these characters, the collision of their ideals, and their rises and falls within their respective fates would make them bloom with dazzling sparks!
This style of writing was closer to traditional literature, and indeed, it was a thankless labor. With web novels as a format, the content of every chapter would be infinitely magnified in readers' impressions, while the beauty of the overall structure would shrink and shrink instead.