Chapter 151: Thoughts on Going VIP
The book is going premium on the first day of National Day. First, let’s celebrate our country’s birthday!
The Chapter comments section is gone. I guess this will have some impact on the initial 24-hour subscription numbers, but it’s probably only for these seven days, so it’s no big deal.
A guaranteed 10-Chapter release, just as promised. There will also be additional bonus Chapters based on the initial subscription results.
This book currently has 50,000 collections. Based on the data I’ve seen, a conservative estimate would be a 20:1 collection-to-subscriber ratio. So, let’s start calculating bonus Chapters from 2,500 initial subscribers. For every 200 subscribers after that, I’ll release one bonus Chapter.
I remember all the promised bonus Chapters from donations. I currently owe thirty-two Chapters, and I’ll pay them back gradually.
Thank you to all the new readers and the old fans who have followed me from my previous book, *Burning Steel*, for your support, votes, and donations. Without you, this book’s performance wouldn’t have so greatly surpassed my expectations. It’s even cured my neurasthenia quite a bit! The donations from Alliance Lords like Othinus Zhiyan Ji, Shou Bai Lian Bu Hei, fisher Man Yufu, Uim Youmi, and Aoran Yiyu have moved me to tears, making me want to shout, ’Rejoice! This is the moment of the birth of the greatest and most benevolent Alliance Lords!’
I’ve also thanked most of the other friends who donated in the author’s notes. The list is too long, so I won’t repeat it all here.
Thanks to my editors, Ziyue and Xia Jiao, for their support. They’ve given me a lot of precious advice on the plot and helped me realize some of the shortcomings I still have, which I can now work to improve—to put it bluntly, I write too much lore. I can’t help but want to detail every aspect of a dungeon world, and I end up writing too much.
If you’ve read my previous books, you probably know that this book’s style is quite different from my past works. That’s because I never intended to write two books with the same style, or two protagonists with similar personalities.
Su Zhou’s story has only just begun. This time, I will do my best to write every story, every character, and every world well, without cutting or neglecting content because of performance metrics or other reasons. The Otherworld arc is a bit long, but it’s necessary. Without gathering the nourishment of an entire world to grow, it would be impossible for Su Zhou to advance so quickly.
In short, over the past two months, I’ve put out 360,000 characters of free Chapters. I guarantee you won’t find many people on all of Qidian who write this much during the new book period. Most authors go premium at just over 200,000 characters, and I’m already approaching 400,000. Of course, I’ve had a blast writing it myself, so it’s a win-win.
I hope we can make this a win-win for the initial subscriptions as well. To all you dear readers, please subscribe, and give me a chance to burn the midnight oil and give you more bonus Chapters!
I’ve scheduled this announcement to be released at 11:30 AM. Twelve and a half hours later, at midnight, the book will go premium with a 10-Chapter burst release—one Chapter every five minutes. After that, I’ll release bonus Chapters based on the initial subscription numbers. I estimate I’ll be able to finish the Divine Wood World story arc and return to Earth today.
That’s about it. The plot is at an exciting point right now, so I won’t say much more. I’ll save any further thoughts for the end-of-volume summary, so I won’t waste any more of your time here.
My dear readers, I am Yin Heaven Shenyin.
I am writing a story.
—So, I hope you’ll look forward to it.
