An Explanation of the Update Schedule

People say my chapters are short in almost every chapter, so I'm just saying this.

Please be understanding...

The worldview of this book is completely rooted in traditional culture, so it inevitably involves a large number of ancient documents.

Ancient texts are extremely obscure and difficult to understand.

This is not a problem with classical Chinese.

Let me give you an example.

For example, regarding celestial phenomena, I consulted the Star Studies Compendium written in the Ming Dynasty. Let me show you the original text.

"The above transformations may turn into evil spirits or auspicious stars and start from the winter solstice. If this year Bingxuzi is the mourning gate Yinguan talisman Wu Baihu Shen Diaoke Youbing talisman Xu Taisui, which is the November winter solstice of Yiyou year, it will become the Bingxu year star evil. Then the flowing earth will be the mourning gate and the flowing wood will be the official talisman. Flowing water will be the mourning gate. Flowing Yang will be the white tiger. Flowing fire will be the Taisui. If the winter solstice in the Bingxu year will become the evil star in the Dinghai year.

For example, in the Year of the Rooster, the flowing gold is Grand Duke Jupiter Dragon Virtue, Tian Heavenly Calamity; the flowing Year Breaker is Tai Death Seal Calamity Fiend Mourning Gate Moon Virtue; the flowing Official Seal is Great Yin White Tiger Lost God Sickness Seal; the flowing water is Bai Hu, Wang Shen, Hanging Guest. This method of interpreting changing stars first takes the Life Palace as the main focus, then considers the palace where the ruling star of each palace flies out, and compares its interactions with the original ruling star of the flowing Sui Xing in terms of their mutual generation, restraint, transformation, opposition, conjunction, and combination.

For example, if one's destiny is located in the Chou Palace during the Wu Zi year, then the flowing earth is the Grand Duke Jupiter, the flowing wood is the Mourning Gate Sickness Seal, the flowing water is the Robbery White Tiger Sha, and the flowing fire is the Great Yin Hanging Guest.

This is one section, and the entire book is composed of this kind of text.

I had to precisely extract the usable literature from this material, and because it was so obscure, I was afraid you wouldn't understand it, so I disassembled and reassembled it, and rewrote it in classical Chinese myself.

Yes, many of the classical Chinese passages in this book are not quotes, but my own writings.

For example, the part about the magical battle with Jin Buhuan, and the correspondence between the Three Fowl Days and the metal element, is not made up. It is written in accordance with the theory of the five elements of Heavenly Phenomenon in traditional Chinese culture.

Some popular classics, such as "Discourse on Balance", "Waterways Classic", and "Discourse of a Hermit", have been annotated by scholars before us and marked with punctuation marks, so people have become accustomed to the presence of punctuation marks in classical Chinese.

However, many of these obscure books are not labeled; they are just scanned images or images recognized directly. In order to conduct research, I have to bite the bullet and finish reading them before writing them into the book.

In addition, I also carefully crafted the plot and world-building, including the descriptions and language. As you can see, my descriptions are often quite literary and imaginative. These all require careful refinement. For example, I spent a lot of time thinking about the bustling street scene in Clear Mist City.

For example, I thought for a long time before writing down the words that Chanzhi used to persuade Sima, so that it would conform to the speaking habits of Buddhists, and I also quoted scriptures as evidence.

Therefore, writing this book is actually a very energy-consuming and mentally taxing task. I hope everyone can understand the update schedule. The author is already doing his best to maintain 4K updates per day.

I started writing online novels because I lost my ability to work due to health reasons. I didn't mean to play the victim. As you all know, I don't usually post author's notes. I just update regularly.

I genuinely have limited energy, please understand. If you find it too slow, then let's take it easy...

It would be even better if it could automatically subscribe while you're raising it...

Of course, I would be extremely grateful if you could recommend this book to your friends!