It was finished, and it felt so damn good!
Although it differed somewhat from how I had imagined finishing it, at least it ended properly.
There was no helping it. My health suddenly collapsed this month. I was sick for half the month alone, and it felt awful.
I had posted a separate update before—because of my health, I could only cut some unimportant plotlines, wrap up some important loose ends, and finish the book.
In fact, by this point, it could basically end. After all, the protagonist had reached Greater Divine Power and was ready to advance to Great Divine Power at any time. The rest would have been hard to write.
Of course, if I really wanted to, I could have stretched it out for several hundred thousand more words. But I didn't think it was necessary. Even though everyone says I pad things out, I never deliberately padded for the sake of padding. It was simply my writing habit, and I had been trying my best to correct it.
In all my years of writing, I had never deliberately padded a story to scam money. Old readers should know that.
So I felt it was time to end it.
Now, let's summarize this book's problems.
It was clear from reader feedback that the early part of this book was very good, but it went off track in the middle and later stages. Many readers did not like this type of all-worlds-descending story, which showed that I had made the wrong choice.
But there was no helping it. Mine was the longest Deity Stream novel out there. With no predecessors to follow, I could only carve out a path myself and choose my own direction. Unfortunately, everyone didn't like it.
If I could go back to that