This book released its first chapter on April 18, 2024, and its final chapter on November 5, 2025. It took one year and seven months to complete.
When I started publishing it, I had just ended my single life. By the time I finished it, I was married.
Falling in love, getting married, buying a house, renovating it, losing loved ones, and holding a wedding—this book accompanied me through many important moments in my life. The readers who followed it from beginning to end also accompanied me through that important stretch of time.
Thank you all so much!
First, let me talk about the final volume, Above the Peak. Looking at a book's rise, development, turning point, and conclusion, the climax of this book had actually already ended with the Jing An the World volume.
The final volume, Above the Peak, was written to tie up the loose ends and give the story a complete conclusion. When it came to plot appeal and emotional momentum, it was inevitably heading downhill.
For that very reason, I chose to handle some plotlines that could have been expanded in detail more briefly. For example, I could have specifically described the rises and falls and twists and turns of a certain prince, the detailed resistance of each country, the cooperation with the underground resistance organizations in the Western Continent, and how the Western Expedition army gradually won the people's hearts and truly conquered this land.
If I had expanded all of that in detail, I could easily have written another hundred thousand words.
But I felt that would have been padding.
With the plot's appeal already beginning to decline, writing all that would undoubtedly have slowly worn away the readers' anticipation.
As for writing a few more great battles for Li Fei against the