It was finished.
This book, From Mortal Flesh to Shattering Planets, had been published on March 13, 2023, and by yesterday, February 11, had spanned nearly eleven months and roughly three million words before finally drawing to a close.
Though if the final 300,000 words had been tightened and the story ended at around 2.8 million words, it would likely have made for a better reading experience for new readers. After all, the later plot had woven in a great many unresolved threads from my older books, making it quite difficult to follow for those who had not been reading Chengfeng's works all along.
However...
In the end, while striving for concision, I still wrote those 200,000 words containing so much material from the old books.
Before writing this book, I had already given it a detailed positioning.
The second part of Strongest from the Nuclear Blast.
Well, due to censorship reasons, that book had since been renamed Strongest from the Ruined Realm.
From Mortal Flesh to Shattering Planets had been deliberately written as a second part, yet it could not entirely carry the worldview of Strongest from the Nuclear Blast.
So I expanded the concept of Star Gods somewhat to make the plot easier to develop.
The main reason for writing this installment was also to bring the entire series together, beginning and ending it properly with a final full stop.
From mortals all the way to origin.
Thus, in this work, everyone could see the shadows of many previous works.
The path had twisted and turned, but in the end, every hole that needed filling had been filled.
Basically...
There should no longer be any major loose ends that everyone could point out.
The earliest point in the timeline of the entire story was Sword Devouring All Under