On Being Published

It's finally going live—how exciting.

I lost this week's ranking battle and didn't make it into San Jiang. My editor, Pei Gen, helped me apply for a strong recommendation, but I still fell just short and didn't get it. I was supposed to wait until next week, but my plot is at such a good point right now. There might be a whole bunch of big names next week, so I decided to forget it and publish directly~~

I have about sixteen thousand collections now, which is pretty average. Still, compared to my previous flops, it's definitely much better. I think what I've written is pretty interesting, so let's talk about this book.

As everyone can see, this is a reincarnation-style novel.

I actually came up with this idea a very, very long time ago and had always wanted to write it, but I felt my writing ability wasn't good enough... The first book I tried was posted in January 2019. Back then, I was considering how, after reincarnating, digging up a huge stockpile of Spirit Stones and spirit medicines accumulated in a previous life would indeed be satisfying and let the protagonist skip the early accumulation stage.

But if that were all there was to it, a protagonist with poor talent would still have to consume enormous resources to cultivate. That was rather troublesome, and there wasn't enough staying power.

So I added a setting that increased talent as well.

Even then, I still felt there were major problems. After all, every life was a new beginning. If I wrote it like a mortal cultivating to immortality, then every life's opening would have to be extremely interesting. Otherwise, it would just be endless repetition, and the reading experience would deteriorate rapidly.

But if I wrote it with a fast