Hahaha, I switched volumes on a whim and forgot all about this.
The chapters for the new volume are already up, but as long as I remembered to write the end-of-volume notes, that counts as a success!
Anyway, thank you all for staying with this (damn, how is it still not finished?) book for another full 174 chapters. Now that we're in March, it's been a whole year since I posted the first installment on Qidian!
Through instigation, imagination, conspiracy, provocation, and distortion, this book earned the title of "YOU KNOW WHO" on the Lord of Mysteries Tieba forum, becoming an unnameable, unmentionable book whose very presence was a traffic magnet, and also earned a collective reporting campaign from female Lord of Mysteries fanfic fans.
At this point, pop the champagne! If the Aurora Order flourishes, I win! If the Aurora Order gets banned, I become a god!
People keep bringing up "fanfiction should make up for regrets." Leaving aside the fact that fanfiction is inherently free, a place to let yourself loose and write whatever you want, and that you can simply not read it if you don't like it, what's the point of policing creative work like this? Besides, could it be that everyone comes away from a book with different regrets?
I'm afraid the Provokers and Lawyers can't grasp that. Or maybe everyone's just letting loose online under the pressures of life.
And no matter how outsiders distorted the plot, Decay never became the Southern Continent's savior, nor a borderless fighter against colonialism and feudalism. Comrade Klein also made it safely to Sequence 3, and everything was moving steadily forward. Many people left us in this volume: Antigonus's two older sisters became a super-powerful two-in-one; the Eternal Blazing Sun took the lead in forming the heart (I