Yan Qianlie had broken through the boundary by seizing on the spatial upheaval of Qiu Wuji's ascension and the tiny gap in which the Heavenly Dao tried to correct it, pinpointing a node of existence in another world. Taken as an isolated incident, it counted as an accident.
But in a certain sense, it had also been inevitable.
Once the outstanding figures of this world began to become aware of the "Heavenly Dao" one after another and devoted themselves to exploring it, this day would come sooner or later.
Qiu Wuji could come out, and so could others. If not now, then in the near future.
Especially... as they became increasingly real.
Chu Ge himself had not realized just how substantial his world's presence had already become.
Writers who spent all their time on Dian Niang tended to overlook one issue... distribution channels.
On the surface, Dian Niang was the leader of web fiction in people's minds. In reality, its daily active user count ranked very low among apps and could not support a proposition as grand as a "world's presence." Outside it were all sorts of distribution channels: paid ones, free ones, WeChat, browsers... and so on and so forth. (Author's note: this does not mean piracy!)
Many works that performed well on Dian Niang barely made a ripple on distribution channels. This was called "only appealing to the main site, with no traction on other channels." Certain serious historical works were typical examples.
Conversely, some works with ordinary results on Dian Niang could become massive hits on distribution channels, earning several times more than they did on the main site. This was called "mobile-friendly, channel-driven," and there were countless precedents.
Chu Ge was a seasoned web novelist, but even he had never had a particularly clear grasp of