I Am Not Divine Presence—Volume Seven Summary
I Am Like Divine Presence was, to date, the volume in which I was most ambitious.
It was also the volume I wrote with the greatest difficulty, pouring the most effort and thought into it.
At the same time, it was also the most controversial volume, and seemingly the least liked by readers.
Now that I have finished the volume, its structure is already very clear.
This volume had two main threads running in parallel—
One was the stories of the various prodigies in "I Am Like Divine Presence."
The other was Jiang Wang's path toward attaining Divine Presence.
The two threads intertwined, colliding to create this volume's story.
When I was writing the Yellow River Assembly, I said that it was a true Assembly of Prodigies from Various Nations. The prodigies who appeared at that grand gathering would determine the fate of The Present World for the next ten years, decades, or even centuries.
How could they not be important?
It could even be said that the "I Am Like Divine Presence" volume was a more complex, more three-dimensional, and grander Yellow River Assembly.
Because the history those prodigies bore and the responsibilities they carried could only be glimpsed in fragments upon the River Viewing Terrace. Only beneath the Sword Discussion Platform, in the reality of life, could one see those weighty years.
Only when history reflected the present could one understand what kind of war the struggle for supremacy between Qi-Xia had truly been. Only then could one understand what Tai Yin and Chu Min had fought for on the River Viewing Terrace. Only then could one know what kind of lives Ge Fei and Xiao Shu, mentioned only in passing, had borne...
The gravity of The Present World was too