As you can see, fellow Daoists, this book is approaching its wrap-up (which doesn't mean it will end immediately, but it is going to end).
First, I owe you a sincere apology. I'm very sorry for my erratic updates all this time, and for my habit of putting them off until nearly midnight, making it inconvenient for everyone to finish reading and go to bed. But that has always been my schedule, and I've never had a backlog of chapters, so there really hasn't been much I could do.
What left me even more helpless was that quite a few things happened while I was writing this book, and I poured a huge amount of time and energy into a writing app I was making myself. You could pretty much say I was building it while learning C# and WPF. Although things went fairly smoothly overall, it still ate up a lot of time I'd originally meant to spend writing and resting. Not only did I fail to write the book well, my health also got much worse, and I often struggled to concentrate (poor sleep caused by cervical spine problems). Add rushing chapters to qualify for the full-attendance bonus, and the vicious cycle only got worse.
Writing takes an enormous toll on both body and mind. In this state, an entire book loses the careful carving and polishing it deserves. This is actually a common ailment of all webnovels: to keep updating, you have to compromise in certain areas. Some unfortunate authors have even worked themselves to death.
To be precise, most webnovels are "drafts," not finished works in the true sense.
Personally, I'm against comparing webnovels with traditional literature. They differ in nature and output. How unfair is it to webnovels to compare their quality?
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