Establish A Long-Lived Family From The Son-In-Law

Final Thoughts

The protagonist has completed the Foundation Building and is about to embark on a new chapter.

So, here's a concluding statement, just to say something.

Mainly, this statement was written last month, but due to my slow writing and procrastination, it got delayed until now, and I even forgot to post it yesterday.

Sigh, I don't even know how to evaluate my own pace. I won't say anything else, just give myself a pat on the back.

First of all, I want to thank all the readers for their support, which made this book a hit at the beginning of last month.

I still remember the excitement at that time.

Before it was published, the editor said the performance was good, with 2,600 followers, but only 1,000 pre-orders. I thought the book was a failure.

But unexpectedly, as I kept writing, the performance steadily improved, which pleasantly surprised me.

Looking back at the plot I wrote, I don't know what to say.

I'll give it a passing grade of 70 points, although I can still read it myself, there are indeed many problems.

When I was writing, I didn't have a detailed outline, I just started writing out of interest.

While writing, I thought about starting from being a useless son-in-law, marrying a worldly woman, having children, and then writing about spiritual sisters, spiritual bodies, fairies, princesses, empresses, goddesses, and so on, one level at a time.

But as I started writing, the plot began to slip out of my control.

And every day, I had different ideas and my thoughts kept diverging.

Writing a novel is such a thing, once it's written, there's no way to change it, you can only fill in the gaps later.

For example, the biggest gap in this book is the plot direction before and after it was published.

I realized there was a problem around Chapter 52.

My intuition, developed from years of reading, told me that the content I was writing was too plain and boring, it needed to be exciting.

But even though I knew that, I didn't know how to make it exciting and interesting.

So I released the plot of Qu Changge in advance, hoping to increase the excitement.

I even immediately introduced the Peach Blossom Gu to enhance the sense of excitement.

But after writing it, I still felt it wasn't enough. I thought the protagonist was trapped in Qingzhu Mountain and had to leave to have something to do and make it exciting.

So I came up with the plot of Jiulongfang Market.

But after leaving Qingzhu Mountain and arriving at Jiulongfang Market, I felt that something was missing, the warmth of family and the sense of security were lacking.

And coming to the market was like opening a new map, I had to lay out a bunch of things.

But the more I wrote, the more I realized that there were no exciting points, and I was trapped by daily trivial matters, making the content seem very mediocre.

Originally, the characters like the boss of the Lingfu Shop, the two apprentices, the neighbor Gaohe, and others were supposed to have other plotlines.

But when I got to this point, because the performance after it was published was not good, I was actually quite anxious and thinking about how to write.

In my mind, I thought about giving the protagonist something to do, letting the Lu family's affairs push the protagonist forward, and giving the protagonist a chance to show off, so I downplayed these plain plotlines.

The plot of the Gold Core sister was also brought forward for this reason, to enhance strength, increase trump cards, and give the protagonist room to shine.

But after finishing this plot and preparing to do something, I realized that I lacked the time for it to settle.

Things couldn't all come out at once, they had to be done step by step.

At this point, I thought about setting up the Lu family, creating problems both inside and outside the family, so that the protagonist could do something and show his edge, which led to the plot of Lu Miaoyang.

But this plot caused another wave of trouble.

My ideas kept changing, and they affected the subsequent plotlines.

There was no way, I had to revise the text.

After this round of revisions, I gradually gave up struggling.

Because on that day, I reread the book and realized where the problem was.

But knowing the problem didn't mean I could go back and fix it, nor could I immediately get back on track.

And this kind of plot in the beginning has already discouraged many readers. If the style changes again, it's like filtering out readers.

That's why everyone has been saying that the pace is slow, but the pace is still like this for a reason.

If you want to talk about being anxious, I'm definitely more anxious than you.

After all, this book is making good profits, I won't have to screw screws anymore, I can even consider buying a BYD car and driving for a ride-hailing service.

But I can't do it myself, I'm really stuck.

I don't know how to write a plot that's exciting enough.

And in this situation, the pace can't be solved just by improving the Foundation Building.

Because if the timeline doesn't progress, the protagonist's children won't grow up, and this plot will be difficult to handle.

If I rush through the Foundation Building, there won't be a place to show off, no plot will come out, and I'll fall back into the rhythm of forcing the plot, which will cause problems again.

And I don't have a detailed outline or even a general outline, so the way I write, one scene at a time, does have significant problems.

For example, after marrying Lu Miaoge and Lu Miaosong, I planned to resolve the current issues and have the protagonist immediately reach the perfect Qi Refining stage and go to the Immortal City for Foundation Building.

But in Chapter 128, I couldn't help myself and wrote a love crisis, which made me feel that this plot had to be written within ten years, and I couldn't delay it anymore.

As a result, as I wrote, various ideas came up and confused me, and I'm still writing now.

Otherwise, in my current view, this plot could have been saved for after the protagonist's Foundation Building, and the effect would have been even better.

After all this idle talk, everyone already knows what will happen in the next volume.

The protagonist obtains a spiritual land, establishes their own family, and starts farming, raising children, and developing.

Let me explain why the protagonist wants to establish their own family instead of taking over the Lu family or the Tian family's idea.

Before the story was published, many readers left comments saying that the protagonist could occupy the Lu family by having children.

But from the beginning, I never thought of doing that.

First, I think it would give the protagonist a bad reputation.

Perhaps when the protagonist rises to prominence, it would be a good story.

But in the early and middle stages, I don't think it would be a good reputation.

Second, if the protagonist takes over the Lu family, the ancestors of the Lu family would need to be worshipped.

It would be better to start my own family tree, and the entire family would feel like descendants of my own bloodline.

And I have always wanted to create a family tree for the protagonist, as well as similar bloodline treasures with certain functions and effects.

But the people from the original Lu family, whether they are added or not, would feel strange.

Third, since the protagonist becomes the patriarch, there are obligations and responsibilities.

Of course, it doesn't matter for their own children.

If they have spiritual roots for cultivation, they can also provide bonuses to the protagonist, so the protagonist can spend money and resources recklessly, and even use certain rewards obtained from the system directly on their children.

But what about the descendants of the original Lu family?

If all the care is given to the descendants of my own bloodline, I think it would give the protagonist a bad reputation.

If I also spend money to cultivate the descendants of the Lu family.

Let me put it this way, when the protagonist gave Li Feiyu resources, 300 spirit stones plus talisman puppets, I was afraid of giving too much.

It's like asking Gaohe to manage the shop and giving him double the salary, but later I changed it to an additional 50%.

After all, it's the protagonist's money.

It's also the money of all the readers, so I dare not be too generous.

So I think that if I were to distribute the limited resources in the early stages to the Lu family, to achieve fairness and justice, there would definitely be some unpleasant plot developments.

It's simpler and more direct to establish my own family.

As for the Lu family, when the protagonist's family rises and has the ability, they can lend a helping hand. This way, it's also much simpler and the reputation will be better.

Of course, everyone has different ideas, and this is probably my own idea (should I change the Lu family patriarch to the founder?)

As for the pace of the plot, as I mentioned before, after the protagonist reaches the Foundation Building stage, their cultivation speed will increase.

This is not just my idea, but it is also determined by the setting of the book.

Because next, the children must make an appearance.

When the children appear and start to improve, it is also the protagonist's improvement.

The more children there are, the better their talents, the faster their cultivation speed, and the faster the protagonist will improve.

In the future, the protagonist will have 840 million descendants to cultivate, and there will be 840 million True Immortals in their bodies. Tsk tsk tsk.

But I don't know how many words it will take to reach the Foundation Building stage.

Because this kind of thing depends on whether there are things to do, not the time limit in the book.

I don't have the ability to estimate how many plot developments and how many words there will be, I'm afraid of making wrong estimates.

But after writing so many words, I am deeply aware of my own shortcomings.

So I will try to pay more attention to this aspect and reduce unnecessary side plot developments and interweaving of too many side plots.

But I feel that there won't be too much happening from Foundation Building to the Core Formation stage.

It may take a little longer to obtain a spiritual land and accumulate resources to prepare for establishing a family.

Once there is a spiritual land, there will be no way to wander around and do whatever.

And it wouldn't be reasonable to wander around all the time.

Just focus on development, accumulate resources, and gradually become a king.

In this case, there won't be much going out, and there can't be something happening every day.

Just some farming harvests, and when the children grow up, they can go out and do some things, go to some dungeons, and write a little bit of plot.

In this situation, the plot will naturally be relatively boring, so the protagonist needs to level up quickly, reach Core Formation as soon as possible, and have new plot developments.

As for after Core Formation, there is only a rough outline of the development line.

But this can change at any time, so I won't say much.

Refining Qi is the most difficult period for the protagonist, relying on their own efforts, like an ordinary person cultivating immortality.

Foundation Building is the beginning of the family's establishment and steady development, accumulating resources, building high walls, and gradually becoming a king.

Core Formation is when the family starts to exert its strength and enter the stage of showing its potential.

Nascent Soul is probably when no one recognizes half a lifetime of cultivation, but once they succeed, the world will be shocked.

At this time, outstanding talents from the Lu family will emerge, and there will be signs of the rise of the Longevity Lu family.

That's about it.

Thank you to all the readers for their support so far!

Especially to those familiar readers who left comments and voted when I only had a few thousand words, and are still reading now. I am truly touched, thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

If anyone has any thoughts or suggestions, please leave a comment directly. I will read them all and reply depending on the situation. (I also want to copy some comments, please!)

(End of this chapter)