[A brief explanation] and a month-end Lunar New Year plea for monthly votes and continued subscriptions

The New Year is almost here, and everyone is getting busy. Traffic on Qidian has dropped sharply, and many xianxia novels have started limping along on measly daily updates of 4,000 or 6,000

words. This book is one of the few still putting out hefty updates, so I hope you'll support it and let fewer chapters pile up before reading~ Sob, sob!

Everyone says that if the plot moves slowly, I should write more. I think that makes sense, and I've been working hard to do just that.

The Yue Kingdom arc is about to end. Brother Heng will soon reap a tremendous, critically important harvest, the wider situation will be thrown into upheaval, and he will take his leave. Nor is it long now before True Person Lin descends upon his loyal Song Region!

There's one point I need to reiterate:

This book's setting differs slightly from those of other books, and I've pointed this out repeatedly in the story. Some readers may have skipped chapters and either missed it or overlooked it.

There is a huge gap between a false core and core formation, so everyone with a false core behaves themselves and shows plenty of respect before someone with a true core.

But the gap in strength between a true core and a golden core is not that large. There is an improvement, but not enough to crush the other outright. The main difference lies in the benefits to one's Dao path, overcoming cultivation bottlenecks, and reducing the difficulty of forming a nascent soul.

This is a major distinction.

The reason the Extreme South Palace doesn't want golden cores to emerge is that it fears you becoming a new nascent soul cultivator, not whatever your immediate combat strength might be. This, too, has been pointed out several