Explanation

I hadn't planned to make a separate chapter like this, but after thinking about it, I decided to explain a few things.

Recently, I saw that many readers were a little confused about the part in the earlier flashback arc where the protagonist's parents entered the Sin Domain, and then the Martial Ancestor's storyline.

According to many readers, there are several questions.

First, why didn't the Martial Ancestor intervene despite clearly having connections?

Second, why did the Ice Spirit Clan dare to do this?

Third, why was this matter never dealt with, even later on?

Actually, the answers to these questions were more or less the same. To avoid spoilers, I'll just give a brief explanation.

Let me answer the second question first: why did the Ice Spirit Clan dare to do that?

Two phrases: scheming and intrigue, and a fait accompli—along with ancient clan rules and differing factions.

Of course, those were only the simplest reasons, the most surface-level ones.

As for the first question, why didn't the Martial Ancestor intervene? The answer was the same as the third question.

All I could say was that Lin Dong intended to act, intended to intervene, and had indeed intervened.

But for certain reasons, he gave up.

That decision was not voluntary, nor was it due to being forced by a lack of strength.

In short, entering the Sin Domain was not as straightforward as it currently seemed.

The reasons would appear very soon. Also, I thought I had planted a tiny, tiny bit of foreshadowing earlier.

Well, that was all I'd say about the plot for now. If you had any questions, I'd try my best to answer them in the comments.

Next, let me talk a little about what I thought of this book. (Readers who aren't interested can close the chapter now.)

Actually, this book started out as a discarded idea. I hadn't planned to write a Great Ruler fanfic. Before this, I had been writing Sword Art Online fanfiction.

They were both niche subjects, the kind very few people read.

I could be considered a newcomer. Although I had registered this account a long time ago, I only truly started writing novels with Sword Art Online. Oh, and there was also a dating show fanfic I wrote out of boredom about a year ago, but I didn't write much of it.

Mainly because I couldn't settle down and write at the time. It was purely for my own amusement.

Back to the point: this book was prepared in quite a rush. It was just a sudden idea after I saw a copy of Great Ruler on my bookshelf. Strictly speaking, the first novel I read was Douluo, and the second was Great Ruler. At that time, Great Ruler had only been serialized up to the Spirit Academy Tournament arc. Great Ruler was truly the first novel I ever bought on my own, and it was also the culprit that dragged me into the huge pit of reading web novels.

But if inspiration hadn't suddenly struck, the next fanfic I originally wanted to write was Dragon Blood. The kind where the male lead wasn't a dragon, just an overpowered mixed-blood, with a single female lead—but not Eri Yi. (P.S. It wasn't that I didn't like Eri Yi. I liked her too much, actually. It was just that I had read so many Dragon Blood fanfics like that that I was suffering from aesthetic fatigue. I wanted to write something different, like an older-woman-younger-man romance with Jiu De Ma Yi. Of course, that was only an idea for now. I'd put it into practice after this book.)

As for original fiction, I wanted to write that too, but my writing wasn't good enough. I felt I couldn't handle it yet.

Oh, another question—some readers had asked before why I wasn't writing multiple female leads.

One reason was simply my own preference. I used to like harems too. What teenage boy didn't? But after reading too many of them and growing older, my personal preferences gradually shifted toward a single female lead.

Another reason was that I felt I couldn't write a harem well. It was better to keep one pure romantic storyline. If I wrote too many, I was afraid I'd make a mess of it—write something you wouldn't want to read, and something I wouldn't want to write.

I had always written fanfiction by feeling. That was how I wrote Sword Art Online, and that was how I wrote this book too. Uh... I seemed to have gone off topic.

Forget it, I'd even forgotten what the original question was. Let's leave it at that. To those of you who made it this far, that's great.

My deepest thanks, even though what I said was rather boring.

Also, Great Ruler had a very expansive worldbuilding. I was actually worried about whether I could handle it well. Especially when studying this book again from a god's-eye perspective, I always came away with different feelings.

Well, that was it. There wasn't really anything else to say.

I'm going to write now. See you in a bit.