After typing the final three words—"The End"—I felt completely hollow.
Endless Dantian had been with me for far too long.
This book was first released in traditional Chinese. When I first began planning it, my child had not yet been born. Now that I had finished writing it, she was already over three years old and attending kindergarten. This book had witnessed her birth and her growth.
It had also been online for more than three years.
Since I began writing, this was the book I had worked on for the longest time and written the most words for.
When I first submitted the manuscript for review, they offered me only twenty yuan per thousand words. I swallowed my resentment and posted it online. After it went premium, I erupted in a frenzy, and in the end, I won everyone's support and earned far more than twenty yuan per thousand words.
All of that was in the past.
Actually, the main reason everyone later criticized this book was because the updates could not keep up.
First, I admit that this was my fault. Second, I also want to explain.
When I first designed the outline for this book, it was supposed to be around three million words. By the time I had written about 3.2 million words—during Volume Twenty-One, I Am the Heavenly Dao—the outline was already gone.
At the time, I planned to end it. But then... my editor told me that the book was doing well on mobile platforms, while my new book, Myriad Realms Supreme, had flopped miserably. My child was still young then, and I had no proper job. Ahem, ahem, everything was for survival, so I could only keep writing.
Because I had no outline, I had to redesign the later story while linking it