The ending came very suddenly, but it truly had reached its end; the story's meaning should have stopped there. In the original outline, I had planned for Little Meng and Xiao Sang to furiously clash with the Golden Emperor and bring things to a close with a blood-pumping battle. But halfway through, the more I wrote, the more I felt the Golden Emperor's terrifying scheming and determination in pursuing the Great Dao. Someone at the Other Shore, a BOSS like that, could never allow himself to meet such an ending. To scheme through every possibility only to be too clever for his own good—having a heart of iron on the road to the Dao should have been his final destination. Thus, the final climax could not rise, and I was unable to bring the story to a truly exhilarating close. For a creator, being unable to have both fish and bear's paw was unbearably painful.
Still, I ultimately decided to respect the Golden Emperor as a character, to respect the villain who had supported the final third of the story, and to respect his personality and established traits. That was also the original intention behind writing Renegade Immortal: with every book, I would consider which of my weaknesses I needed to improve and make up for.
Destroyer of Fate was a complete story of cultivating the mind. With no other version of myself involved, I wrote what was in my heart with my own hands, and that brought out an immortal quality. But it lacked too much: prose, plot design, pacing, and characterization. There were flashes of brilliance in those areas, but overall, it was still too ordinary and thin. Thus, Arcane God Seat was guided by the unraveling of its worldbuilding. Its pacing was handled very well, its intricate