Tomorrow, May First, this book will go behind the paywall. That counts as a new beginning, too.
So, following the usual procedure, let me talk about the book first.
First, regarding the characterization of the protagonist, Di Yi, I followed the descriptions in the original work.
In the original, the primordial spirit inside the Rotten Wooden Box was only part of Emperor Bone Brother's primordial spirit. It did not even quite qualify as a primordial spirit, and it was already in a state of amnesia. Here are two passages from the original:
"I am a lost ghost who suddenly awakened here." The Rotten Wooden Box rocked. (It was only after entering the Ultimate Ancient Land that the Rotten Wooden Box began to change.)
"I cannot remember clearly either. Too much time has passed. I am only a remnant soul, a wisp of a primordial spirit imprint." He was wistful, somewhat troubled, and filled with endless regret.
Di Yi's amnesia was not a setting I forced on him. That wisp of a primordial spirit imprint inside the Rotten Wooden Box was like that to begin with.
Perhaps because Perfect World ended many years ago, many people no longer remember this detail. Some ask how Emperor Bone Brother could have amnesia when he was an Immortal Emperor, but that is how the original established it.
I understand that many people want to see a protagonist with Emperor Bone Brother's memories, but some things are better taken step by step. Otherwise, he would ultimately still be walking the old road.
There is no need to walk a road that already led to failure. What Emperor Bone Brother, who returned without being thought of or remembered, wanted was to become stronger, not to reproduce the failed ending of his former self.
Next, let me