Chapter 782

Tea Party 7: Panlong in Your Eyes and Mine

Tea Party 7 - Panlong in Your Eyes and Mine: Jiufang noticed that the controversy regarding Panlongcheng in the comments section has flared up again, so we are holding another tea party today to chat about it.

The significance of Panlongcheng was discussed in previous tea parties. I compared the relationship between Panlongcheng and the present world to light and shadow because that was as far as the plot had progressed at the time.

By the end of the first part of "Immortal," it was fine to view the Great Fang Hu and Panlongcheng merely as He Lingchuan's cheat code or cram school; but as the next part of the plot advances, their content and meaning will inevitably expand further. Let me list a few clues for everyone to see: Clue 1: When He Lingchuan first ascended to the Heavenly Palace, the Divine Bone Necklace urged him to climb immediately, while the Floating Life Blade stopped him.

I believe everyone is already clear on what the necklace and the blade represent respectively. Why were their reactions diametrically opposed?

Clue 2: He Lingchuan once used the word "deduction" to describe Panlongcheng.

The book has long stated that Panlongcheng is not a dream, not a soul-homeland, and not the city of the dead that the mirror spoke of.

Then what exactly is it? Clue 3: Before the Great Fang Hu simulated the scene of "the dialogue between Naluotian and He Lingchuan"—a scene that never happened in reality—a bug appeared. Naluotian is the God of Fate, and the Great Fang Hu attempted to simulate the God of Fate.

Then what exactly is the Great Fang Hu? Clue 4: The Great Fang Hu never speaks directly to He Lingchuan.

What does it want to do? Between it and He Lingchuan, who is whose master?

Will it truly help He Lingchuan without hesitation, from beginning to end? If so, how did Zhong Shengguang and the Panlongcheng of that year fail? Combining this with the ongoing suspense of this book, which is Clue 5: Why do the Heavenly Gods want the Great Fang Hu?

Why did King Yuan want to destroy it, and Zhong Shengguang want to use it, even at the cost of gambling with the lives of millions of common people?

I've just listed a few; feel free to use your imagination for other questions.

If I don't write about Panlongcheng, the answers to the above questions cannot be deduced.

There are always friends who think Panlongcheng is just a cheat code or an illusory history, and as soon as I write about it, they say I'm padding the word count or that they won't read it.

Actually, Panlongcheng is the hardest part to write. You all spend your days staring at this bit of plot with magnifying glasses to criticize it; if I wanted to pad the word count, I wouldn't dare do it here.

Wouldn't it be a win-win if I just wrote the fluff you enjoy reading? If I had designed the Great Fang Hu and Panlongcheng as mere cheat codes for He Lingchuan from the start, this book wouldn't be worth me putting in so much effort, let alone giving up copyright opportunities and a major contract to move to Qidian. Based on annual performance and benefits, even 60,000 to 70,000 average subscriptions might not exceed the copyright income I had on my original platform.

Jiufang doesn't want to argue with everyone; if you don't want me to write it but I insist, it's only because the Great Fang Hu and Panlongcheng are the core designs of this book. Actually, given the current plot, I still have time to change it into a cheat code—at most, I'd bring his wife out, and a path of adventure and hot-blooded modes would also be quite lively.

But is that all you want to see?

If you remove Panlongcheng, this work becomes just a generic power-fantasy novel—too shallow, too floaty, like a paper airplane in the sky; by adding thickness and mass to it, it can instead fly higher and further.

The current He Lingchuan is becoming increasingly powerful and is beginning to show his talents in both worlds. Since Panlongcheng changed his predetermined tragic fate, as a form of repayment, is it possible for him to solve an "extra-credit" problem—saving the Panlongcheng within the Great Fang Hu? Of course, this brings us back to Clue 2: What exactly is Panlongcheng? People always ask me, as a transmigrator, what the protagonist brought to this other world—he doesn't recite poetry to shock others, nor does he build guns and cannons to sweep across the plane.

In future plots, perhaps you can slowly discover the answer; I won't spoil it here, I can only say: please look forward to it.

Please give Panlongcheng another chance, friends who don't like it. Don't look at it through the lens of "illusion" or "dream"; you might just harvest a vast new world. If you really don't want to read it at this stage, you can go and redeem some "free" chapters; if you feel it's okay when the book is finished, come back and give me a full subscription.

Still the same words: I will earnestly present the designed story to everyone in the most perfect and meticulous way possible, and I ask everyone to give it a little more patience.

Jiufang Ye, 2023.7.5

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