Notice: The book title has been changed; a few casual words

First, the main point: because the title wasn't drawing readers, I changed it from the original to "Two Worlds: Grinding Out an Immortal Martial Colossus from Low Martial Arts." Hopefully the numbers will look a little better afterward.

Now for the less important things:

As for performance: compared with books released around the same time, the growth in bookmarks has been very slow. To give one figure, the average conversion rate from recommendations to readers for similar books is nine per thousand, while my title only brings in five per thousand—barely half the average.

But! But! This book's retention rate is still very, very decent! At least, that's what this author thinks!

Out of two thousand bookmarks, four hundred and thirty are genuinely following along.

What does that mean?

Out of every five bookmarks, one is a paying reader keeping up with the story!

For that alone—

This author kowtowed to everyone. Thank you all for your support.

As for the plot: there really were some poorly handled settings in the early stages. For example, some readers pointed out the issue with silver: modern silver is far too pure. I hadn't considered that at the time, but since it didn't affect the overall reading experience, I won't be revising it.

Then there was the school arc, which quite a few people criticized. I agonized over it for several days, wondering whether I should revise it. In the end, I decided against it.

The main reason was that the entire arc served as a bridge between what came before and what came after. If I changed it rashly, the later plot wouldn't connect properly.

Some readers said that arc was incredibly padded. But you could look at it from another angle. In a novel where the cheat is a Panel, after one hundred thousand words, the Panel has appeared very few times, right? Sometimes, when the protagonist broke through, I merely brushed over it in a stroke instead of pulling out the Panel to pad things out by another one or two hundred words.

If I really wanted to pad things out, I wouldn't have done it in the plot itself, would I?

And padded things out during a plot arc that could have been about showing off, slapping faces, and creating satisfying highs, right?

That arc was written badly—I don't know whether any readers thought it was good—and a major reason was that my writing ability wasn't strong enough. I could build up the atmosphere fairly well in the early stages, but the punch behind the fist I threw was lacking. That made the plot horribly constipated, like in bed: the foreplay was decent, but the actual process lasted only three seconds. It really was maddening.

I had considered one way to revise it: cut two chapters and end it in a quick battle. But if I did that, I'd have to move later chapters forward, which would also affect the readers' experience.

When weighing two harms, choose the lesser one.

If any readers thought that arc was terrible but still kept following along—

This author kowtowed here. Thank you for your support.

Because of that arc, I actually revised part of the later detailed outline. For example, when I wrote about the Luo Family Pharmacy, the original plan was for a minor character, the illegitimate son of a wealthy household, to appear. But I felt I still couldn't handle that part properly, so I shelved it and wrote it another way. Since the school arc had been padded, I pushed the plot forward in Pingling County and sped up some of the progress.

Now, the whole book has reached one hundred thousand words.

The first realm, the Skin Grinding Realm, and Ming Jin—the protagonist hasn't reached either yet.

In terms of realms, that pace is undoubtedly extremely slow.

But in terms of the plot, I feel that the content is still quite full.

The development of the characters and the worldbuilding are both progressing steadily.

From the very beginning, this author wanted to make this book as long as possible. To write out the distinctions between every realm. Faster advancement is certainly more satisfying, but it is also more likely to collapse. Readers should all understand that principle.

Originally, I planned to say these things in the launch note.

But the mood struck today, so I said them now.

Before I knew it, it had already been a thousand words.

If any readers have made it this far—

This author kowtowed.

Please bookmark it.

Please keep following along.