It was December, and the year was about to end. This book had been on the shelves since mid-October last year, fourteen months ago now.
By this point, you could probably tell that the Vassal States arc, along with the arcs involving Immortal God and Di Shitian, would soon be coming to an end. It would probably wrap up in another five or six hundred thousand words.
Within those five or six hundred thousand words, Da Li would likely make early contact with the Sacred Dynasty through clues involving the Wan family, Blood Transformation Divine Venerable, Yuan Ting Pavilion, and others.
Once we reached the Sacred Dynasty, it would be time to uncover the ultimate secrets and truths that had been foreshadowed and built up throughout the entire book. That part was not expected to take too long either—perhaps around a million words before the story ended.
So, in Jia Nan's original blueprint from beginning to end, this book was meant to be roughly five million words long.
For the remaining million-plus words, Jia Nan would do his best to keep writing well and give the readers who had stayed with the story the best possible return.
As for updates, it would still basically be over two hundred thousand words a month. There might be a little less during the Lunar New Year, but there would still be around one hundred and eighty thousand words.
I only just found out that I often updated right at 11:59 p.m. these past few months, causing those chapters' word counts to be swallowed up and not recorded in the backend. That meant several tens of thousands of words went uncounted every month, making me think I was terrible and push myself desperately to update more. Actually, I'm not terrible, okay! Great Strength Creates