Chapter 47: Launch Statement

To readers: After persisting for over a month, it will go live tomorrow at noon 12.

No update tonight. Tomorrow I guarantee at least ten thousand characters.

If you think this book meets your expectations, please place an initial subscription.

If it doesn't meet your expectations, that's also a matter of ability, just as I can't force you to give an initial subscription—there's nothing to be done.

Let me report the results again.

The performance of this book is quite inflated.

So-called inflated means fake follows 2117, true follows 1550; the so-called true follows appear to be accounts with consumption records within three months. However, at the time of launch, paid follows also get cut; exactly how many initial subscriptions there will be depends entirely on your support.

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Let me add some side remarks.

System, I don't like writing it.

But nowadays, not writing a system seems out of step with the trend, which is somewhat troublesome.

So I can only write it, but in the book I will try to ignore the system as much as possible.

Because the protagonist is a person, a person with independent thought.

He will not become a fixed procedure.

For example, during a mission, he will kill the enemies.

Even when not in a mission state, he will also kill enemies.

This is according to his own wishes.

He will not say that in a mission state, everyone who is an enemy, regardless of good or bad, should all be killed!

Nor will he refrain from killing a killable person just because there is no mission; his actions are not solely based on that achievement value.

That is not the protagonist.

The protagonist has a proud streak in his bones; without a system, he will still walk the path he believes is right.

It merely means that in martial arts cultivation, the required process will be longer, and his age will also be greater.

This is actually not a problem.

After all, without a system, the protagonist will have talent.

Just like in the world of Jin Yong, the protagonist's powerful auxiliary tools are fate and aptitude.

And the system in this book is the protagonist's powerful auxiliary tool.

Those who are formidable in their twenties, and protagonists whose martial arts truly mature in their thirties, are also quite common.

So readers need not delve deeply into how the system works.

The principle is that one becomes two, and two becomes one.

Moreover, the protagonist's relationship with the system is also a process of exploration.

At first he thought killing people would give achievement points, but he did not indiscriminately slaughter just for achievement points!

This is the protagonist's nature as a human, and also the brilliance of his humanity.

Furthermore, for things the protagonist wants to do, if the system doesn't assign them, he will still do them; he does not necessarily have to obtain power that makes him stronger.

For example, attracting attention for Ding Dian, clearing out the Plum Gate's wicked disciples.

This is his gratitude and repaying kindness, his venting of frustration; it is not saying that by doing this he can gain any benefit.

Another example: if the system does not issue a mission to kill the Blood Blade Gate, upon encountering them the protagonist will still definitely kill them!

He could not say, 'Since the system didn't issue it, I won't kill.'

This is the protagonist's own sense of right and wrong.

Then his behavior is naturally affected.

It is not what some readers suggest—going to find some infant tower, slaughtering wildly to boost strength; nor is it what some suggest—sweeping through villages and cities, massacring them, etc.

This has nothing to do with the system—like forcing a cow that won't drink water to lower its head?

The protagonist is not a flawless saint, nor is he a demon who can extinguish all conscience and morality for his own sake.

Of course, some readers do not like the protagonist.

They think people like Gu Yue Fang Yuan are good.

This is a matter of preference.

I cannot demand that everyone like the protagonist, just as you cannot demand that everyone like Fang Yuan.

If all protagonists were measured against Fang Yuan, heh, ordinary people would have suffered eight lifetimes of misfortune.

This ordinary person—could it be you or me? Everyone could become Fang Yuan, or at least have his ideas, but in the end there is still only one Fang Yuan, brothers!

I've gone off track; my book is merely about Feng Yi.

Whether you approve of his actions or not, he is still himself!

He is just himself! You cannot impose your preferences on everyone.

This is like me saying, I wrote a book, and all of Qidian comes to watch me—equally absurd!

Some people in the book think that the Plum Gate's third disciple killed his master because the master was also at fault, so the disciple cannot be blamed, etc.

What respect for teachers and valuing the Dao, resisting seeing profit and forgetting righteousness—these are feudal dregs, the foundation of maintaining rule, etc.

They also despise loyal ministers and filial sons.

And what's this—Qi Changfa is more like a master than Mei Niansheng.

He treats Di Yun better than Mei Niansheng treats his disciples.

Seeing such comments, I suppress my temper; I will definitely retort him, but after thinking, I have nothing to say to people like him.

When did loyal ministers and filial sons also become derogatory terms!

When the nation faces any crisis, aren't loyal ministers and filial sons the ones who rush forward and turn the tide? Our generation has had good fortune, experiencing few of those trials! But we cannot lie on the historical stage created by our predecessors, performing like clowns, yet still thinking we are the most clear-headed!

As long as there's profit, why not do it! If everyone sees profit and forgets righteousness, everyone can disregard human ethics!

What would this society be like? Know this: most of us are ordinary people, and it's precisely because of this seemingly feudal dross that we are protected, not the big shots!

If everyone follows only power and does as they please.

Those big shots, the conditions for second‑generation heirs—aren't they more convenient for them than for us? What you can think of, they haven't? It's precisely because of this seemingly feudal dross that he binds society, giving the vast majority of us our living ground.

Just imagine, your own wife and daughter are taken a liking to by a big shot, and they snatch them away.

This thing has benefits, huh—why not do it, aren't you suffering?

What do you rely on to seek justice—is it yourself?

No, it's precisely the morality you scoff at and public perception.

If everyone shared your view, thinking others are stronger than you and thus should enjoy your wife and daughter, that would be your honor!

Who dares to imagine such a thing?

Don't think you're among the top tier.

Because those at the top aren't necessarily worse‑hearted than you, nor do they think as much as you imagine,

They also have families! If you say they're stupid, they don't understand these things.

But he still knows this is the cornerstone of social stability, yet he stubbornly maintains a critical attitude, calling it feudal dross.

I'd like to retort to him—how badass would you have to be in reality? Without the shackles of this feudal dross, could you grasp the moon in the nine heavens or catch turtles in the five seas? That person probably isn't you; maybe you'd be the first to have your kidneys ripped out.

I consider such a person's heart corrupt! I don't know what stimulus he's received, but he's wicked and filthy! In short, Old Jin's Linked City Method best reveals human nature, and his fan‑made works best test it—I speak no lie!

(Chapter complete)