End-of-Volume Summary

As the title suggests, let's do a summary at the end of the paper, as usual.

This volume is probably the best-received of the three volumes released so far, which surprised me somewhat, but not entirely. This is because I abandoned the writing style of volumes two and three and returned to the style of volume one, which closely follows the host. In terms of length, it is not much different from volume one, and can be considered a short story.

This also made me realize my biggest problem besides combat: once the world-building expands and there are more things I want to write, I lose control. But if it's just a simple storyline, it's much better.

To be honest, the first and fourth volumes, which are currently the most well-regarded, are actually the ones I put the least effort into, while the second and third volumes, which aren't so great, are the ones I racked my brains over for a long time.

Regarding the first volume, when I first started writing it, I had absolutely no idea what to write. The beginning was revised many times, from the initial protagonist possessing most of the body, to possessing someone else's body and directly killing the host, then using the host's body to act, and now to this version. These three different settings naturally correspond to three completely different writing styles. And at the beginning of this version, I had absolutely no idea how to write it; I was very confused. That's why there were so many cheesy jokes in the early parts of the book—because I didn't know how to write them, so I was going to go for that kind of hellish joke style.

But as the writing progressed, it veered off course, leading to the book's first climax—the scene where Ulu sacrifices himself to save the little boy. And the line that many loved, "He became a flower because he met me," wasn't something many thought had been carefully crafted over a long period; it was simply something written casually, or perhaps... when emotions were running high?

So many people say that I meticulously crafted my work before it was published, but after that I just wrote whatever came to mind, but in fact it's the other way around.

Like this volume, because I was exhausted from writing the ending of the previous volume, I didn't really have any ideas for this volume. I just had a general idea and started writing, and the result was actually pretty good?

Of course, I did go "off" in my writing. Before starting this volume, I spent an entire night talking with an author friend about why the first two volumes were so difficult to write. His advice to me was that I kept trying to write a good protagonist, but good people are often hard to write. It would be much simpler to just write a bad guy who commits heinous crimes and gets killed by the protagonist. That way, it would be much easier and I wouldn't mess things up.

So initially, I envisioned A De as a purely evil character who gradually remembers everything along the way, then discovers he can't suppress his animalistic instincts and ultimately tries to kill Bai Wei the way he killed Wei Ke, but is killed by Bai Wei instead. This approach was indeed simple and wouldn't lead to any major mistakes, but as I wrote, it ended up like this... well, you can judge for yourselves.

This volume didn't have many twists and turns, so I won't go into too much detail. Let's talk about the plans for the future.

I originally planned to finish it after two more volumes. Although the book has a vast framework— Eight Great Churches plus the Contract Land —writing about each location one after another could easily fill five or six more volumes. However, I also feel that writing it that way wouldn't be very meaningful. This book is different from others; it doesn't have clearly defined, recurring "satisfying" elements, such as leveling up or building a harem. Most readers are simply reading about the stories of the various hosts I've created. So, if I can't come up with new stories, simply collecting corpse parts in a predictable way really becomes rather uninteresting and a bit like a monotonous chronicle.

But I'm not willing to end it hastily. This is my first book to achieve success on Qidian. I want it to have an ending that, while not perfect, is at least not a bad one.

Hmm... so I'll take another day off to think it over.

That's all~