Today's update marks, without my even realizing it, the one hundredth chapter. Recently, after a reminder from Daoist Yuxin, I once again looked at the data for Reverend Insanity after several years. Looking solely at this book's metrics, the total number of recommendation tickets has approached three million. Member clicks have surpassed ten million. The book has reached 6.45 million characters, and based on my detailed outline, breaking through 6.66 million should not be difficult.
What moved me the most is that when writing today's chapter, Wu Yong's song verse was essentially written by me in a single flow. Of course, the parallelism isn't perfectly neat, but the feeling is right and the flavor is there, so I decided not to revise it.
Looking back, when I wrote the first song verse, it was incredibly difficult. I spent three whole days thinking before I finally crafted one. At the time, I wondered: when would I be able to write verses like this, in a single flow?
Now, I really want to answer my self from six years ago: "Don't rush. Take your time to polish, accumulate bit by bit, and in six years you'll have this level of skill!"
Just like the content of Reverend Insanity describes: people create the era, and the era in turn influences every individual. In this story, it goes far beyond just the main character — everyone is growing. Everyone's level of strength is different, so their thoughts are different; their circumstances are different, so their plans are different. And everyone's actions produce consequences that influence one another, interweaving together.
It is precisely this that weaves together the tapestry of a chaotic age, bringing forth a grand and turbulent era of warfare!
I think of the many messages from readers, quite a number of whom describe this kind of reading experience: Reverend Insanity has accompanied them for many years, starting from middle school or even elementary school, and now they've graduated from university or entered high school.
This feeling fills me with a quiet sense of gratification and joy, a gentle warmth that stirs the calm surface of my heart.
This gratification and joy come from growth.
Reverend Insanity, this book, has accompanied not only the growth of the characters within it, but also my own growth as an author, and the growth of countless readers who have followed this book.
That is wonderful.
Truly wonderful.