With the story having reached this point, this book has been on the shelves for a full year now. To have written 3.25 million words and still kept it steady has far exceeded the author's cautious expectations at the very beginning.
Over this past year, the author can finally be considered to have successfully transformed, from feeling his way across the river by touching the stones at the start, to now having gained a bit of experience—all thanks to the companionship of you fellow Daoists along the way.
Now that the protagonist's cultivation has reached Nascent Soul Late Stage, the author has also made an attempt regarding Ascension, setting up a scheme where he first sneaks across and lays the groundwork, then returns to ascend.
Over this year, the protagonist has gone from Qi Refining → Foundation Establishment → Core Formation, Nascent Soul, advancing step by step just like the author.
Thank you, fellow Daoists, for accompanying me all this way.
The goal for June: with the plot written to this point, in about a week the protagonist will return to the human world, then meet one or two old acquaintances, while also completing the major lower-world instance of the Demon Sealing Abyss and opening the sealed path of the lower world.
After that will be Spirit Transformation and Ascension, officially opening the Spirit Realm arc. I hope you fellow Daoists will like it.
While I'm at it, I'd also like to ask for monthly votes. Along this journey, I dare not say the author's writing is especially good, but I have never stopped updating for even a single day. All newly arrived fellow Daoists can rest assured and keep reading; becoming a eunuch is impossible.
The author has been full-time for exactly four years and has never stopped updating