The Dog Emperor is finally dead, and the fattened book friends can be slaughtered! (Waving the flag)

I have to say that as a rookie author, writing a novel of more than one million words is far more difficult than imagined.

Before I started the book, I thought I had accumulated a lot of material and inspiration.

However, after I started writing, I found that these things were almost consumed by three or four hundred thousand words. After that, the test is patience, perseverance, experience, and long-form architecture ability......

and how to weave a story of ups and downs when the brain is blank and there is no creative impulse.

Thank you very much to the book friends who have always supported me and insisted on seeing the current despite my intermittent and ineffective updates.

In the past two years, I have stumbled in writing books, and I have also stumbled in real life.

He has experienced a change from an incumbent employee, to a social idler who is preparing for exams at home, and then to a graduate student.

During the period, there were many ups and downs, and there were many ups and downs.

Constantly being taught to be a man by reality.

Because of your support, I have been able to keep writing until now.

Although because of the problem of breaking the update before, the current post-subscription is miserable - I can write a high-order book of 14,000 to the ups and downs of 100, and it is estimated that there is no one except me at the entire starting point.

But I will still tell this story completely, and try to fill in all the holes well, and give a satisfactory explanation to myself and to the book friends who have been chasing it.

In the process of writing the fourth volume, I also continued to reflect on the problems that arose in my own writing.

In addition to the influence of some book reviews and the change of the outline, the thing I regret the most is that in the first and second volumes, due to the immaturity and lack of experience, I did not pave the way for the social background and did not set up enough contradictions.

It's obviously a world where ghosts are rampant and people don't have a good life.

But the protagonist Yamen is harmonious and happy.

Although there are ghosts in the county, the people as a whole are simple and simple, and the people live and work in peace and contentment.

Except for bosses like Tang Hui and Kong Xuansan, there is not even a daily villain.

The problem that "the imperial court does not give resources to low-level monks" that book friends have been complaining about before has not been written in depth-

In fact, it is completely possible to spend more pen and ink to write that the emperor does not care about things, the bureaucrats are corrupt, and the family monopolizes resources, which squeezes the upward space of the low-level monks, causing them to take risks to absorb the Yin Qi cultivation.

can even set up a few villains of the type like Zhu Yanchao in the early stage - when the protagonist is not strong in the early stage, kill this kind of villain, and you can write a bloody climactic plot; But in the later stage, fighting this kind of villain is like destroying a minion, and there is nothing cool about it.

It is precisely because the emotional foreshadowing in the early stage is a little worse, and now when it comes to writing about rebellion and killing the emperor, it is a little difficult to let yourself enter the kind of writing state where the whole person is on fire.

However, in the case of the congenital deficiencies of the whole book, I personally feel that it is still a bit progressive to read the fourth volume alone.

After chewing a bunch of great gods' books, now I write about fights and grand scenes, and I finally have a little sense of picture, and I won't be like the first and second volumes like when I write about battles and drop the book.

[The Lantern Festival Ring Tournament and the Luoshui Conference, the two worst plots in the book, one made me subscribe from five digits to four digits, and one made my subscription change from four digits to three digits...... Looking back now, it's black history (maybe I'm not suitable for writing this kind of traditional fantasy plot). If you don't like it, you might as well jump straight away. 】

In addition, as an INTJ who likes to think crankily, when I wrote the fourth volume, I couldn't help but wonder what the social form of the immortal cultivation world was.

When will it take on the form of a jungle with many sects and the jungle of the weak; When will it become a state with law and order?

After reading a bunch of history books and sociology books in my spare time, I found that theories such as "the state apparatus converts power energy or violent energy into power energy" seem to be applicable in the society of cultivating immortals.

It's just that in the real world, power is bottom-up; In the world of cultivating immortals, because the cultivator himself has great power, the power can be top-down.

Therefore, a lone husband like Emperor Tianxing, who has been cultivating immortals behind closed doors for a long time and has not seen ministers, can also sit firmly in the country.

Even the stability of the country of Daqi depends to a large extent on his absolute strength.

In the same way, Gu Xu can also ignore the opposition and make drastic changes.

At the same time, in Xianxia novels, the relationship between immortal cultivators and mortals is often a very classic topic worthy of in-depth discussion.

In many books, strength reigns supreme, monks are like gods, and mortals are like ants. In the later period, ordinary people, even low-level monks, became cannon fodder, and hundreds of thousands, or millions, died at every turn......

Perhaps, since I am an ordinary person, if I cross over to the world of cultivating immortals, I will most likely be an ordinary person.

Therefore, I hope that the world I write about is not a pure heroic view of history, where history is dominated by a few elite figures (powerful cultivators), and ordinary people are just a bunch of cannon fodder NPCs.

A hero should be the one who stands up in the changing times and brings together the will and strength of all people to move the course of history.

"Incense" is a small attempt at this idea.

It can be seen that it is not the same as the traditional "incense" in Xianxia Wen.

The title of the fourth volume "Flying Dragon in the Sky" should not need much explanation, probably referring to the development of the protagonist's career to its peak.

The next volume, which should also be the last volume, is titled "Kang Long Has Regrets" (rest assured that it won't be, after all, the title of the volume doesn't necessarily refer to the protagonist, right?) ）。

Take a leave of absence tomorrow, sort out the follow-up details, and start working hard to fill the pits (you can remind me which pits have not been filled to prevent omissions).

Set a small goal in the next volume: strive for daily changes.

Now in graduate school, my homework is very busy, and my homework is very difficult to do (tears), and I often have liver codes until midnight, and it is generally difficult to explode.

But if it's in good shape, I'll try to write as much as I can.

Thank you for your support!