[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-immortal-craftsman-s-creation":3,"chapter-immortal-craftsman-s-creation-immortal-craftsman-s-creation-chapter-1":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Immortal Craftsmanship",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":18,"prevChapterSlug":19,"totalChapters":20,"novelImage":21},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":12,"translator":16,"content_hash":17},2225738,4127,"Chapter 1: Three Challenges of Coming Down from the Mountain","immortal-craftsman-s-creation-chapter-1",1,"\u003Cp>Hello everyone, I am Gu Zhenren.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Today, I am bringing you a new book, *Immortal Craftsmanship*.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I have thought about it very clearly: writing this book presents at least three challenges!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first challenge: writing after coming down from the mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When I write web novels, it has always been out of interest and passion from the very beginning. Having written so many books, my main purpose has always been interest. Therefore, when I wrote *Reverend Insanity*, even when the subscription numbers were miserable, I persisted for at least seven years. Back then, I was still very young, my parents were not yet old, and I had no need to worry. If one person is full, the whole family is not hungry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, when I wrote *Infinite Bloodcore*, I was willing to revise the outline, and even if there was no subscription income during that period, it didn't matter if it lasted for several months.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I am not afraid of you laughing at me—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I am clumsy. When I was inside the mountain, I couldn't pluck the moon, and I fell until I was battered and bruised. This time, coming outside the mountain, my main goal is to fill my worldly stomach.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Reflecting on myself, the \"inside the mountain\" state might just be my personal comfort zone, circling the land to amuse myself. Perhaps the artistic pursuits of the past, the so-called dreams, were just a form of self-indulgence, a kind of delusional thinking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Outside the mountain,\" however, is where heroes contend for supremacy and a hundred boats race across the current!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The new book *Immortal Craftsmanship* is my first \"post-mountain\" writing. For the first time in history, I have begun to consider rankings, reader engagement, update schedules, the rhythm of the prose, and conforming to mainstream reading habits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I hope to be able to write articles that conform to mainstream reading habits and that everyone enjoys.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I am a very clumsy person. Doing this for the first time, it is possible I might not do it well, but I will learn with an open mind and strive to improve! I ask everyone to offer plenty of criticism and corrections; if you could offer some encouragement, that would naturally be even better!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The second challenge: social interaction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I am a homebody myself. Apart from writing and reading books, my biggest hobby is playing games.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I have social anxiety. Although it has eased with age, I am still not good at socializing with people or interacting with fellow readers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, I will listen to everyone's suggestions and strive to improve in this area, doing more activities on social platforms, conducting some live streams, and so on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The third challenge: the inner self.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is the greatest challenge of all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>People all have two lives. One is called the worldly life, and the other is called the ideal. Specifically for a literary worker, the second life is called artistic life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wrote *Reverend Insanity* for about 10 years, off and on, with miserable income for the majority of the time, yet I found it sweet as nectar. I spent months rewriting *Bloodcore*, closing myself off in a room, ignoring the outside world, yet I was full of interest, not diminishing in the slightest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I love writing books; writing itself is the source of my motivation. These processes are all nourishing my own artistic life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Writing after coming down from the mountain might be a bit different; for me, it might be consuming my artistic life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How long can my second life last? I am not very clear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because this is my first attempt, I also don't know if I am truly suited for this mode of writing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There are too many ways to kill the second life. It is extremely powerful, yet at the same time, incomparably fragile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I can only tell myself: coming down from the mountain is to go back into the mountain to chase the moon again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I will try my best to adjust my mindset, find a balance point within it, and strive to transform; perhaps I might be able to nourish my artistic life with this way of writing, who knows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I implore you all to bear witness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thank you!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>2024.4.20 ===== CHAPTER 2 =====\u003C\u002Fp>",709,"2026-06-17T22:16:29.439Z","Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","d2142047f877e1df44c9a83623aaeca3b55716a5ba3d286dc8c6a2c608a490c5","immortal-craftsman-s-creation-chapter-2",null,783,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fimmortal-craftsmanship-cover.jpg"]