I've finally finished writing the seventh life.
There were too many relatives around during the New Year, and I wanted to have fun with them too, so my writing was on and off. On top of that, I caught COVID once, and I feel like my health has gotten quite a bit worse. Because of that, I directly cut the eighth life that was originally supposed to be there.
Originally, I envisioned the seventh life ending in a major setback: not only would Yun Ye die, but the information about his reincarnation would also be exposed, plunging the Crimson Heaven into a crisis of destruction. Then, when Yun Ye returned through reincarnation, a True Immortal would erase him outright, forcing him to reincarnate into another universe and return only after transcending it.
But I found that creating a transcendence system for a new universe was too exhausting and not very worthwhile. It would also have strayed eighty-one thousand miles from the theme of cultivation. In the end, I gave up on that idea and decided to bring the story to an end directly. Making things so complicated would only give everyone a headache. It was better to resolve everything in one go and stick with the wish-fulfillment power fantasy approach to the very end.
Sigh, I'd originally wanted him to meet Caixia in the eighth life. Caixia was designed as a loli character, and I wanted to play up the contrast in her cuteness. I'd even imagined a very dreamy scene: by a lake, Yun Ye would rest his head on Caixia's lap, and when the protagonist woke up and asked who she was, Caixia would frankly tell Yun Ye her real name...
Wouldn't that have been such a delightful surprise? Sadly—bam, I caught COVID, and that was the end