Hello, dear readers. The main text of this book has now come to an end. I have been tremendously fortunate to receive your support all this time, and I, Guishen, am deeply grateful.
My pen name is "Ask Not of the People, but of Ghosts and Gods," and my real surname is Chen. Before I knew it, I had reached my thirties. Most of you readers are probably in your twenties, so I'll presume upon my age and call myself Old Chen here. Of course, if you're older than me, just call me Little Chen. I'd like to take this opportunity to chat with you all, and let this serve as my closing remarks for the book.
Looking back on the process of writing this book, whatever its strengths and weaknesses, successes and failures, it was an experience unlike any other.
No two leaves in the world are exactly alike, and naturally, neither are any two novels. My humble work, "Puppeteer Dao Path," began with a chance idea. Later, I added all sorts of settings, turning it into a story about the history and development of a cultivation civilization whose people were known as Puppet Masters. Given the limits of my abilities, along with the mundane distractions, illnesses, injuries, pain, and all the other things that affected the writing process, there may be any number of unsatisfactory aspects. But just as a tree's rings can tell you whether a particular year brought abundant rain or severe drought, every chapter and passage you read may contain shortcomings, the dreamlike babblings and arguments of a fool, the padding and roughness inevitable in serialized webnovels, or perhaps a flash of insight even a fool occasionally has. All of these can be seen in the book.
Attentive readers might even be able to tell