At last, I, too, typed the word "Afterword." To be honest, it felt a little like writing the acknowledgments after finishing every part of my graduation thesis back then. It really stirred up a thousand feelings.
First, let's talk about Earthly Immortal itself.
1. [Results]
This book's results exceeded anything I imagined. When I was writing it, how could I have known it would surpass ten thousand average subscriptions? My goal back then was just to get it onto the paid platform and have paid chapters. I never expected its results to keep climbing, with its monthly-vote ranking more or less holding its place as the gatekeeper of the xianxia top ten. Given how much I updated, I was truly overwhelmed by the favor of receiving so many monthly votes.
As of now, the book has seventeen thousand average subscriptions and has been added to three hundred and seventy thousand reading lists. Those are results I'm very satisfied with. Thank you all so very much for your support~~~
2. [Problems]
As for the book's problems, after reviewing and reflecting on them myself, the biggest was that I had no chapter backlog. Every day, I came up with things and wrote them on the spot. In other words, each day, I learned the latest plot developments only a few hours before you readers did.
This book had no detailed outline from beginning to end. Its basic premise was simply the six Chinese characters of its title: Shushan Earthly Immortal Who Suppresses the World. An Earthly Immortal in the world of Shushan whose ambition was to suppress the world's troubles and protect its people. Everything was an expansion of those six characters. What I wanted to express was very simple, too: a classical xianxia story about punishing evil and championing good. Nothing