After some thought, I decided to write a final note.
Before I knew it, I'd been writing Spirit Realm for two years. For the first year and a half, I wrote furiously, staying up late every night. Then I fell apart during the latter half. I've mentioned my health problems many times, and even made a separate post explaining them in detail, so I won't dwell on them here.
All I could do was quietly endure the criticism, quietly get medical checkups, and recuperate during the completion period. But please believe me: my health really did fall apart, which was why the updates became like this.
As for the readers who often cyberbullied me, the further into the later stages we got, the more tolerant I became of readers who insulted me. Of course, my tolerance was high in the early stages too. After all, anyone who followed the story all the way to the end was a true fan. As an author, how could I bear to blame a true fan? Just like how a father couldn't bear to blame his son—no, that's wrong. A son couldn't bear to blame his father. [doge]
Back to the novel itself. Although Spirit Realm had some flaws, its overall completion was still quite high. For a four-million-character novel, most of its foreshadowing was resolved. The setup that Yuanzi and the Demon Lord were the same person had plenty of hints from the very beginning all the way to the end—so many that many readers guessed it. The shift in identity didn't feel abrupt because there was a relatively complete outline.
That included the historical foreshadowing of the Spirit Realm itself, as well as the foreshadowing involving the Star Lord.
Small details suffered from flaws and omissions due to two years of exhausted