Afterword should be my routine. But this book is a pro-son, so it's not completely over, and it may be changed in the future, I feel like it's still bloated, maybe it would be better to delete another 100,000 to 200,000 words, or it might be better to compress 200,000 words, and add 100,000 to 200,000 words of new content, haha. But that's all in the future.

Now let's talk a little bit about what's going on behind the scenes.

I'll do this in a tone that doesn't involve spoilers as much as possible. After all, this is a long story written for the sake of a concept.

By the end, the concept was also clear, that is, Tai Chi and Wu Ji, which came from the idea of reading a few sci-fi short stories several years ago. But in the end, it didn't look very similar to what I thought at first.

For example, in the first volume of the book, Taiji was directly discovered, and the second volume was discovered Wuji. I didn't think of the name of the second volume, but the name of the first volume seemed to be called Star Sea Voyage at first.

It's hard to write because it's like digging a tunnel from the earth to a place farther than the moon, and you can't actually write much.

I found that in the content of Tai Chi, before I started writing, I removed the part of the sea of stars. In fact, after I started writing, I regretted it a little, and I began to wonder if it would be better to remove the glow of Tai Chi and make a purer anti-earth worldview.

In this anti-earth worldview, we simply throw away all the less important concepts of day and night, cold and warm, clothing, food, work and rest, human form, and gender, and design them from scratch. But I was mediocre by nature, and out of fear in every way, I gave up on this idea.

Originally, I decided to keep the concept of the earth geologically, but in the end I wrote a more special layering idea. This idea of layering also leads to the process of discovering Wuji becoming more mysterious. It turns out that it's actually digging down.

The discovery of Tai Chi and Wu Ji is the origin of the Age of Discovery.

These are reflections from a long time ago, and they are at the heart of this book.

When I started writing this book, I thought that the current popular fiction has a very strong search for supernatural abilities and phenomena, and it needs a little bit of it.

Thus was born the concept of the curious. Strange objects are a minor add-on to this book, and exist to satisfy the supernatural abilities that exist at their disposal.

The concept of strange objects is very much in popular entertainment works, and at the beginning of the last century, there were fantasy novels with "pre-civilization relics" as a selling point. Personally, I tend to prefer a type of battle that uses a combination of items like "The Binding of Isaac". The game features hundreds of power-ups, and the combination of power-ups often results in many extraordinary results.

As for the properties of the ontology, they are usually secondary.

This is relatively rare in online articles.

The result is an initial version of the introduction:

"Strange objects whose functions cannot be explained with known knowledge, as well as thaumaturgy developed based on strange objects, are the main themes of this new world that Gu Chuan has seen for thousands of years. With the accumulation of strange things and thaumaturgy, the flames of change are brewing in every part of the world today.

Naturally, the history of this strange world will also befall some people, or make some people lucky enough to come forward and become the embodiment of history, go to the end of the world, understand the deepest part of the truth of heaven and earth, and then, forever change human cognition of all things in the world, becoming the epitome of historical turning. ”

Thaumaturgy is mentioned in it, but it was abandoned before it was written, but there are some hints of it.

The punishment of supplementing heaven and the punishment of severing life mentioned in the part of Ren Yu are the shadows left by the thaumaturgy conceived in advance, and they are mainly based on folklore and historical materials.

Strange things also want to be discarded in actual writing. Compared to my personal expression, supernatural ability combat is not necessary, and now it has lost the need to attract attention. If it is modified at a later date, this redundant element may be removed.

This kind of deletion does not mean that all kinds of special things mentioned in the text are deleted, but that this is no longer depicted as a detailed and special system, and from a different narrative perspective, people will not be too surprised by this, and they will not deliberately mention it. Nowadays, it is closer to the modern fantasy novel that emphasizes the existence of magic and immortality, but the effect I expect is not like this, and the effect I expect is closer to the attitude of the ancients towards mythology and folklore.

Next, let's talk about what you actually started writing.

My personal habit is to write as much as I can. A few years ago, the concept started with a prison break, which is a classic opening. At that time, some special monster holders were also designed as midway bosses, similar to the existence of superpowers in general fantasy works, or in Journey to the West, the goblin who fights Wukong with a magic weapon. However, in terms of force, the first cloud in this book is Wukong, and Gu Chuan is Sanzang, haha.

However, after actually starting to write, I was influenced by several books that depicted family, local and historical changes, and chose to start directly from my childhood. And the process of making a fortune was conceived a long time ago to engage in finance in a fantasy world. But in practice, it is more complicated, on the one hand, it is not the main line I want to write, but there is a lot of content to explain, on the other hand, my cognition is relatively shallow, and the writing is not mellow and vivid. On the other hand, the ideas of a long time ago have long been outdated now, and the results presented are not ideal.

After the escape, the change of celestial phenomena is an implicit thread.

This book only depicts the four stages of "sun, less yin, too yin, and less yang". In fact, more phases were envisioned halfway through, such as the full moon, the sun, and the solar eclipse. But that's too long.

The world of different civilizations, illuminated by different lights, seems surreal, but as I was writing, it suddenly occurred to me that the earth is not like this. And it was out of this that the Age of Discovery was born.

Not to mention that the theory of relativity is so far removed from the everyday, just to say that the celestial bodies are moving:

Summer in the Northern Hemisphere and winter in the Southern Hemisphere.

The Eastern Hemisphere is during the day, and the Western Hemisphere is at night.

Interestingly, or based on the necessity of geographical formation, the modern northern hemisphere represents the direction of advanced civilization, while the southern hemisphere tends to lag behind. The rainforests of South America, the islands of the Pacific Ocean, or Black Africa are all teeming with primitive tribesmen. These tribesmen worshipped airplanes as gods, and the only connection with the civilized world was the study, scrutiny, and entertainment of these backward people in the civilized world. If you go back in history, when the Eastern Hemisphere was in the long night of feudalism, the Western Hemisphere was vigorously engaged in the industrial revolution. The latter even more brutally pried open the bodies of the aborigines and took their land for their own use.

Although the modern Internet has brought the world closer, the vast sense of distance created by space and time is still suffocating.

Even though they are in the same time, people in different places seem to be in completely different worlds. So the world needs explorers, and it needs words. The former breaks the distance of space, and the latter breaks the distance of time, leaving behind the sighs of history and the feelings of the past, so that the people of the future know that our feelings are the same, and we are not alone.

The deceased is like a husband, reluctant to give up day and night, this is my favorite sentence in the Analects.

At the beginning of the second volume, it is the alien who changes his face, and it is the foreshadowing that he does not take away.

If you look closely at the last two volumes, you should be able to guess where they came from. In the early days, it was conceived that the face swap was a way to confront the Gear Man and interfere with the Gear Man's judgment, but these were later discarded.

In the third volume, Anafunta has several unwritten plots, and because the protagonist group has left, she can't be heard.

In the fourth volume, there is a branch plot that is not explicitly written, but only implied, it is about bugs, the oil washing worm from the Netherworld, which is a complete invasion of alien creatures for Qiongqiu, and one of the most serious problems facing the Xuanyao Dynasty. The infestation later stabilized. Only in the world line where there is a pest will a gear person using washing oil be born, and there is very little chance that a ground well will be cast. In other words, there must be explorers who travel through the netherworld, which means that the world has been gone.

The ending was already thought out for a long time, but when I actually wrote the fifth volume, I actually felt that it might be better for the newborn dragon to see all the roads in front of him clearly in Wuji, and finally gaze at the earth quietly in space, and not sink into "people's dreams" and "Zhuang Zhou's dream butterflies". At that time, I had in my mind a sentence from the Heart Sutra, revealing the truth, revealing the truth, revealing the truth (go, go, go to the other side). However, the epilogue is still necessary, and it is necessary to directly explain the two points of this article in the epilogue, which are about curiosity and the origin and change of animals.

There are also a lot of small details, which are not very good when they are broken, so I won't say more.

There may be something worth mentioning that can be broken, but I can't remember it all at once, so let's stop there. After that, the content of the main text may be deleted, and the fifth volume may be modified, which is only possible in a short time.

If anyone is paying attention to a new book, this may or may not be there.

Originally, I said that I was going to post it on the cat's side.、Urban text with a ** feeling.,I shouldn't write it in a short time.。

If I did, I would probably write a fantasy novel based on the imaginary history of the earth, but I don't know exactly whether I would write it or not, but even if I did, I wouldn't be more diligent.

In the second half of this book, I was very inattentive, always writing a little, cutting out and posting for a while, watching a video, doing something else, and so on.

This kind of lack of concentration makes me a little nostalgic for a long time ago, because I was so excited that I secretly hid a homework book and wrote an afternoon story with a pen. When I write about being happy, I run around on the floor, and when I'm sad, I get tired of staying in bed and don't move. But come to think of it, such a day will not be repeated.

Finally, I would like to present to the reader two poems written by people in the past, which are also one of the important conceptual sources of this book. If you have a chance, I hope to meet in a new world.

Appendix 1: Song of the Road

I walked on the road with ease and pleasure,

I am healthy and free, the world is in front of me,

The long brown road was in front of me, pointing to wherever I wanted to go.

From now on I no longer hope for good luck, I myself am good luck,

From now on I no longer complain, no longer hesitate, no longer need anything,

Eliminated the bad luck in the room, put down the books, and got rid of the harsh criticism,

I was strong and satisfied, and I walked on the road.

Air, you give me the breath of conversation!

All things, you summon my confused minds and give them images!

Light, you envelop me and everything, bathing us wonderfully and peacefully!

Flag-flying sidewalks in your cities!

You ferries! Sampans and masts on these docks! These timber piles up on the banks of the river! Distant ships!

You rows of houses!

You gray stones on the endless road! These crossroads have been leveled!

I believe in what you have gained from receiving people and things, and now you are going to pass on the same secret to me,

The living and the dead have bustled with each other on your peaceful pavement, and their souls are clear and dear to me.

The earth expands to the left and right,

A vibrant picture, with every part dazzling,

A pleasant voice rings where it is needed, and it is silent where it is not,

The public has a pleasant sound on the road, and the emotions on the road are fresh and joyful.

I think heroic deeds happen in broad daylight, and so do the psalms of freedom,

I think I can stop here and do a miracle,

I think that no matter what I meet on the road, I will like it, and the people who meet me will also like me.

I think the people I see will be happy.

From this moment on, I stipulate that I am free from the constraints of fetters and fiction,

Come and go as you like, be your own complete and absolute master,

Listen to others, ponder their words,

Pause, explore, accept, meditate,

I am gentle in temperament but irresistible in will, and I want to break free from the bonds that bind me.

I take the whole world into my mind,

The east and west belong to me, and the north and south belong to me.

I'm greater and better than I used to think,

I didn't know I had so many virtues.

I see everything beautiful,

I can say repeatedly to men and women, 'You have done so well to me, and I will repay you in the same way,

On the way I will restore myself and you to health,

On the way I want to join the men and women,

I want to inject new joy and boldness into them,

Whoever rejects me, I won't be upset,

Whoever accepts me, he will be blessed and bless me.

Now, if a thousand perfect men were to appear, that wouldn't surprise me,

Now, if a thousand beautiful women appeared, it wouldn't surprise me.

Now I have insight into the secret of making a perfect man,

That is to grow up in the sunshine and eat and sleep with the earth.

Let's go! Whoever you are, walk with me!

Walk with me and you will discover what you will never get tired of.

The earth never wears away,

In the beginning the earth was rough, silent, and unfathomable, and at first nature was rough and unfathomable.

Don't be discouraged, keep walking, there is something holy hidden,

I swear to you that there is more holy there than words can describe.

Let's go! There is an even greater temptation ahead,

We will sail on the wild sea, where there is no channel,

We're going to the stormy territory, and the American-style clippers are going to speed up with full sails.

Let's go! With power, freedom, earth, wind, rain, thunder and lightning,

With health, resistance, happiness, self-esteem, curiosity;

Let's go! Throw away all the clichés!

Let's go! But beware!

Walking with me requires blood, muscle, and tenacity.

Let's go! Follow the amazing buddies and be one of them!

And they walked on the great road -- they were mighty men -- they were the greatest women,

They are the admirers of the sea of tranquility and the sea of rage,

They have sailed a thousand ships and traveled thousands of miles,

They are frequent visitors to many faraway lands, to distant dwellings,

They are the observers of the city, the lonely laborers,

They stopped and meditated on the flowers, trees, and shells on the shore,

They danced at the wedding, kissed the bride, and zealously helped and raised the children.

They are travelers, walking through the seasons, through the years, through the wonderful years year after year,

Let's go! Embark on a journey that has no beginning and no end,

Go to the full experience and practice, trek during the day, rest at night,

You meet people, you have to get wisdom from their heads, you have to gather love from their hearts,

You must know that the universe itself is a great road, a great road, a great way, a path for the soul to embark on a journey.

Always vibrant, always forward,

They're walking! They're walking! I know they're going, but I don't know where they're going,

But I know they're going for the best – for greatness.

Appendix II: The Unlocked Door

Many years have passed

Suddenly I heard a knock on the door

I remembered that the door was unlocked

I can't lock it up

I then blew out the lights

Quietly walk on the floor

At the same time I raised my hands

Pray to God at the door

But the knock on the door rang again

My windows are swarthy and open

I gently climbed up to the windowsill

Jumped out of the window

I turned around and looked across the windowsill

Shouted "Please come in"

It doesn't matter who knocks on the door

What happens behind the door

And just like that, there was a knock at the door

It made me jump out of my cage

Immerse yourself in the world ever since

With the passage of time, it rises and falls