Final Thoughts
After nearly two months, this book had finally come to an end. (Scratches head.) I didn't have much experience as an author, and the story started going off course around the middle to later stages.
I had originally wanted to write something similar to Dragon Phoenix, so I borrowed elements from the Primordial Realm setting. But the Primordial Realm had always been on such a high pedestal that it quickly made the protagonist invincible. That was a problem with my own poor planning in a moment of impulsiveness. My fault.
Once the protagonist became invincible, I didn't want to write childish play-fighting with these characters. That would have been far too beneath the story's dignity—though it didn't have much dignity now either—and I definitely would have been cursed to death for it.
So the protagonist began living behind the scenes, while the main plot became the battle between the Soul Beasts of Star Dou and humanity. Those who had followed the story all the way knew that in the last thirty chapters, the protagonist might not have appeared as often as he had in the first three.
In a sense, it really did fall apart, and the content no longer matched the synopsis. My fault, orz.
As for the point people complained about—Bai Ze being called Lu Wu—that really was worth complaining about. Mainly, I wanted to write the protagonist as Bai Ze, someone who truly knew a great deal and could teach the Soul Beasts. But I couldn't write the Primordial Realm's Bai Ze, because making the protagonist a transmigrator made him easier to relate to.
At the time, my brain short-circuited. I couldn't think of a good name, so I flipped through the Classic of Mountains and Seas for one that fit the Primordial Realm style.