Well, Investiture of the Gods had officially begun, and the curtain on the Beyond-Heaven Arc had officially risen as well.
As usual, to prevent certain disputes over the content later on, Bawan would make a few clarifications here.
First, regarding the Primordial Era Flow setting.
The Primordial Era Flow had grown out of classical Gods and Devils novels such as Investiture of the Gods and Journey to the West. It was a re-creation by contemporary webnovel authors, and it had fully taken shape in Meng Ru Shen Ji's Buddha Is Dao, becoming a genre setting. Later authors had continued expanding and refining this setting system on that foundation.
It was good, but it was neither traditional nor authoritative. Moreover, different authors' settings could vary or even conflict with one another, so it would not be appropriate to mechanically apply the settings of other Primordial Era Flow novels to this book. For the sake of the story's smoothness and entertainment value, Bawan would adopt or create some settings as appropriate. Interested readers could discuss their wild ideas in the chapter comments, but should try not to escalate things into fruitless arguments over "right and wrong," lest we end up with a situation like Guan Gong Fights Qin Qiong.
Second, regarding the book Investiture of the Gods.
First, the literary quality of Investiture of the Gods was far inferior to that of Journey to the West. The reason Bawan had placed this book after Journey to the West was that he was taking its power scale, not its literary level.
Second, Investiture of the Gods and Journey to the West were two self-contained books, and the settings in Journey to the West could not be forcibly applied to Investiture of the Gods. In particular, the Western Teachings and Buddhism in the two