"It's been six days since the Seeking for the Devil ended, and today is the seventh day.
"Let me tell you about my life over the past few days. Since the Seeking for the Devil ended, my temper has become even more violent than before. When I moved, I quarreled with my wife for a few days straight …
"I admit that there was something wrong with my temper. I was very depressed, very sad, and I can't describe it accurately. I felt this way when the Defiance Immortal ended, and now that the Seeking for the Devil has ended, I feel it again.
"It's as if I've been doing something for a few years, and suddenly, I don't need to continue. That kind of disappointment will drown me like a tidal wave. "Two years of Seeking for the Devil passed in the blink of an eye. I still remember six days ago, on the first day the Seeking for the Devil ended, I turned on my computer out of habit and opened a document out of habit, but I couldn't get used to writing Su Ming's name, because I saw the last line of the document I wrote the day before …
"Now, six days have passed, and I still can't walk out of the book. I know that this process will take a month, and only when I walk out of the Seeking for the Devil will I be able to start writing a new book, or else I will be being irresponsible to all of you, to my new book, and even to my life as a writer.
"Seeking for the Devil, seeking for the Devil, seeking for the Devil is a method. It is destined to be tortuous and desolate. Seeking for the Devil is a form of attitude. It is destined to be cold and persistent. I wasn't the one who wrote this. It was written by a reader in a post that I saw on Tieba.
"When I saw it, I was deeply moved. That was the first reader I saw who truly understood the meaning of Seeking for the Devil.
"Because my writing skills are limited, because my knowledge is limited, and because my experiences are limited, the things I wanted to express might not have been shown very well in the story, but he still understood it.
"I used this sentence in my article and in my novels. Novels should be easy to understand and entertain the public. This is the foundation of a novel, but I can't make it too popular. I've failed in this aspect, because I always want to put some experiences, some epiphanies, some … things I want to say to my daughter in the future, things I want to teach her about her personality and future.
I remember many years ago, in an interview with Cool Six, I once said that I loved my books very much, because I planned that when I was old, I could still read my books with relish, and would not feel that they were unsightly. Because I planned that when my daughter grew up and could read, I would let her read my books, and tell her about my life and my understanding of the world in the form of books and novels.
Therefore, in my books, love is mostly pure. In my books, you will not see the slightest bit of obscenity. Because of this, I do not want to write.
In the book, there was mutual deception, the strong preying on the weak, the persistence towards friendship, the one and only family, the loyalty towards love, all these beautiful things, as well as the understanding of the world, whether it was darkness or light, were all part of my life.
Celestial Renegade, I wrote about an insignificant person who was unwilling to accept his fate. He fought against the heavens and fought with his life. In the story, there was my arrogance when I was young, the ups and downs of my youth, and the vicissitudes of my middle age.
Wang Lin had sacrificed far too much for his success. Hidden under his bright clothes were his sacrifices.
"As for Seeking for Demon, I wrote about another story. It is a story about a person who lived, but died in everyone's hearts. He died, but lived in everyone's memories.
"It is a story about when he knows who he is, but he is not. When he does not know who he is, he is his own story.
"It is also a story about when everyone is drunk, but he is the only one who is sober, or perhaps … when everyone is sober, but he is the only one who is drunk.
"What is a demon? If I still care about the words' turning into a demon ',' becoming a demon ',' Demon Exalted Demon ', and other such words and care about why I can't find a demon in the entire Seeking for Demon, then that would be my failure.
"Because what I want to write about is not a demon, but … a Dao that pursues the extremes!
"When I see it, there is only one word that can describe this Dao, and that is demonic. It is just like the three thousand years before the Demon. That was the choice between cutting down the future or cutting down the past outside Ancient Zang's city.
"And that 'she' is not a person, but a general term. It refers to all the faces Su Ming cared about and could give up everything for in his life.
All of them.
"If you continue down your path, in the end, you will be the only one in the entire universe.
"Then what about your path? If you continue down it, in the end, you will be the only one who will disappear from the universe!"
"If I cut down the past, I will be the former, and if I cut down the future, I will be the latter.
This was Devil-Seeking. A single path, a single Dao. If you encountered something completely different, but experienced the same thing, what would you choose?
"I wrote about Su Ming's choice in Seeking for Demon, and it is also my choice.
"It is just like the change of heart in Seeking for Demon. My heart is also changing. What I am changing is the way I write and the way I create things. If I compare the Renegade Immortal's turning into a mortal to a stage of writing, then I will call myself Soul Formation.
"After a few times of Seeking for Demon's change of heart, I will deliberately change it. Sometimes, the marks will be too heavy, and sometimes, I will be at a loss. When it ends and I write the end of the book, I know that I have already gone through a change of heart. If I compare it to my cultivation base, then it is the initial, middle, and later stages of Soul Transformation.
"And the new book is my Aspiration!
"There are many regrets in Seeking for Demon. Due to the poor results in the beginning, it caused me to enter the stage of a change of heart ahead of time. I am asking myself, searching for a change.
"When I reached the middle stage of writing, I saw many readers saying that I had written well in the beginning but was only average in the later stages. But you don't know, every single time I see these words, I sigh.
"I sigh. A new book needs a lot of people to protect it during its growth stage. Only then can it grow better. There are too many people who want to nurture a book and wait and see. They want to wait until the number of words in a book increases before they read it. But Seeking for Demon has made me understand that nurturing a book also requires the author to know that nurturing a book requires the author to subscribe to it so that the data will increase and the author will have enough confidence.
"Writing a book requires support and encouragement. Even if it's nurturing a book, it needs to be subscribed to in the beginning stages. Only then can an author look at the data and have confidence instead of being at a loss when it comes to writing.
"These are all objective reasons. Subjectively, it's because the beginning of Seeking for Demon was written in a barbaric manner. It gave everyone too much discomfort. Their bodies weren't strong enough, causing them to not be able to explode out much. Their minds were also tired, and the tone of the book caused the entire book to be depressed. All of these factors caused me to be satisfied with a book that I was originally very confident in to only be 70%.
"That's why I called the two years I spent in Seeking for Demon my change of heart.
"Now that I've gone through the process of turning into a mortal and changed my heart, I am now confident that I can strike the drum and reach Aspiration. I will use my new book to charge forward, strike the drum, and reach Aspiration!!!
"1st of March is the third book of my Immortal Defying Seeking for Demon Empress. I won't write too much about depression. I will let all of you read it with great passion. This is the tone I set for this book when I first started writing it!
"Because the next book will still be about Xianxia, but it will also be about a path to rush to the clouds. All the obstacles on this path will contain Wang Lin's defiance and Su Ming's determination!
"That will be the book that will reach Aspiration after my change of heart! "In fact, the name of the book will no longer be two words, but four!
"My fellow Daoists, please wait and see. Here, I have a small request for you. My fellow Daoists who are used to nurturing books, if you agree with me, then I sincerely hope that you will support me by subscribing to my books, not wasting your recommendation votes, and come to my book review and comment sections more often, because in my next book, I will be trying to reach Ascendance Realm. I will need all of your help to reach this realm, and your help will be enough to change the fate of a book.
2013, 30th of December.
It was written on the seventh day after Seeking for Demon ended.
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