After uploading the final chapter, I felt both the relief of a burden lifted and a deep reluctance to let go.
After all, Author-kun has been writing for ten years, and Nine-Rank Immortal Path is the only book that has shown any real promise or achieved any results. The previous ones did not even qualify as flops.
Let me report Nine-Rank Immortal Path's current results: over 66,000 bookmarks; 8,379 peak subscriptions; 2,084 average subscriptions; around 1,400 follow-up subscriptions within 24 hours, with the later chapters generally reaching over 1,500.
Before I finished the book, its bookmarks had been growing by dozens or even hundreds every day. They had never once declined.
Moreover, from the comparison between average subscriptions and follow-up subscriptions, it was clear that Nine-Rank Immortal Path was still on the rise.
If I could have maintained those results and written another million-plus words, there would have been a very good chance of reaching premium status.
For a flop author like me, a premium novel would undoubtedly have carried immense benefits and significance alike.
So, purely from the perspective of profit, I myself had been extremely reluctant to finish Nine-Rank Immortal Path.
But on the other hand, I also knew full well that the little success Nine-Rank Immortal Path had achieved was due more to the Immortal Dynasty system it built, the social structure of the Nine-Rank Central Rectification system, and its other background elements.
When protagonist Liang Zhaohuang led the Liang Family from humble origins into the Nine Ranks, then rose step by step until they reached the First Rank, were granted kingship, became emperors, and finally even became the masters of a realm.
Liang Zhaohuang and the Liang Family's story within the Immortal Dynasty system had essentially been told.
As for the remaining loose ends—the Demon Realm,