Single Chapter: Answering Questions About the Story Background of "Senior Brother"
During a break from writing, I checked the book reviews and saw Laifu beating Chang... ahem, no, I saw readers pointing out the differences between "Hou Yi," "Da Yi," and "Yi."
There was really no need for this sort of dispute.
This author started writing novels in notebooks back in high school, then shamefully showed them to classmates and waited eagerly for their comments.
Later, in college, I got involved with Dian Niang—started creating webnovels there. At the time, I especially loved the systems of Norse Mythology and Greek Mythology, largely due to World of Warcraft, so I wrote many Western fantasy MMORPG novels with Magic Beast-style settings. I had already earned quite a bit in manuscript fees during college, you know. Hands on hips.
Later, I officially entered the industry and began writing full-time, and started encountering Chinese Mythology...
First year: Those foreign mythological systems were just little brothers!
Second year: Holy crap, why were these Mythological Stories so contradictory from beginning to end? Holy crap, holy crap, King Zhou was smeared! The Shang dynasty's advanced Bronze Age civilization being replaced by Zhou was a small step backward for Bronze Age civilization! The Mythological Stories reflected in it had also been distorted by all the ancient schools of thought! I had to prove Chinese Mythology right! This was the mission of us xianxia authors!
Third year: ...But the information I encountered had also been compiled step by step by later generations.
Fourth year: ...Why was the Chu Miao Mythology system so different from folk legends? Uh, Daoism had also compiled so much material across different eras. Damn it, why were so many Daoist legends inconsistent too... The logic here was obviously contradictory before and after... Why did this