Actually, I had thought many times before about how I should post my completion thoughts, and how to do it with grace, so readers would like it, while bringing back everyone's memories of the past plot and making them look forward to my new book...
But when the time really came to write my completion thoughts, I found that my heart was actually incredibly calm.
There was a sense of relief, of liberation.
This book accompanied me through a period of growth. In October 2020, I had only graduated a year earlier. I wasn't used to the pace of work, and my immature worldview was crushed by society's iron fist. I was completely emo.
When I used to write, my style was always that of an angry young man—standing up for the people, idealism, and all that...
Li Fan was my third book—not counting the one that never succeeded. When I wrote this book, a large part of it was actually to escape from life.
It was just for fun. I didn't care what it would become. I simply followed whatever wild ideas made me happy.
So the first million words, the Immortal Dao Era section, were written at my happiest. I didn't have to consider anything at all.
When the Sacred Dao began, I started worrying. I had to connect what came before and after, and keep the overall plot from falling into chaos while still giving readers a good reading experience.
Moreover, this kind of novel was especially difficult to write, because the protagonist himself was invincible. At most, you could keep stacking plot twists for a million words before everything began to collapse.
Most novels of the same type were like that too. Once they passed a million words, they either became lazy updates or dragged things