The Path Toward Heaven

What would Jing Jiu and Xu Le say when they first met?

It is self-introduction.

I originally prepared some words like Xu Le did, such as Xiaofeng, from Yichang, Hubei, former names, resumes, and the names of my family members.

That's too awkward, so let's keep it short.

I live in a very happy and happy family.

Many years ago, Zhuo Siming, my best friend from college, went to Yichang to play and stayed at home for two days. Later, he often recalled that it was just right to see the sun when he got up. My parents were talking to the computer with a smile, and the whole family was full of happiness.

The leader also said many times later that the first time she went to Yichang's house, she felt that the atmosphere was very good, and her niece Yoshiko was very well-behaved and pleasant, making her very comfortable.

I grew up in such a family. I was free to do whatever I wanted. I changed my name when I wanted to, and I didn’t go to work if I didn’t want to. Later, I started writing books according to my interests. In the end, I was still earning money... It’s been a wonderful and smooth decades.

Even when I was young and had no money, I got up every day to eat a bowl of noodles, and went to the children's park with the sports weekly newspaper to sit on the grass facing the lake in a daze. I didn't have the feeling of pretending to be lonely and imitating despair like a literary youth, but a kind of happiness of doing nothing.

So if I could start my life over again, I would definitely live it like this.

There is also a large lake outside the window of Daqing’s house. The scenery varies with the weather. I am also very happy now, but I rarely stare at the lake in a daze.

When the sky is cloudy, when the wind is howling, when the rain is falling, the lake is very beautiful. The most beautiful thing is that one day at four o'clock in the morning, I was about to go to bed, and suddenly found that the world outside the window was still... There was faint fog on the other side of the lake, and the lake was calm and flat like a mirror, reflecting the blue sky and white clouds in the sky.

Accompanied by such beautiful scenery, I had a comfortable sleep, and when I woke up, I threw the photo into the group, and San Shao and Sandbag jumped out at the same time and said——the mirror of the sky!

It does have that feeling, but this kind of picture is too rare. I have been in Daqing for ten years, and only when there is no wind on that day can there be picturesque scenery.

Life is like the lake outside the window of Daqing, there are few times when there is no wind.

My mother didn't have any clear consciousness before she left. We stayed by the bed and listened to what she said very clearly with her eyes closed.

——Calm and calm, let’s go.

This is my mother's last words.

Now the words on her tombstone are: The wind is peaceful forever, the waves are quiet forever. This sentence was written on the glass wall of the study and used in the story.

When there is no wind, you have to pay attention to the scenery outside the window, and when the wind is blowing, you must also strive to see some beauty. Happiness needs to be found. You have to find novels to read, variety shows, TV, movies, sports, eating, drinking and having fun, or beautiful scenery and people.

If you really can't think about it, go to the deepest part of life to peek into the deepest part of life, it must be a popular word for mourning, although most people may not really understand what it means.

Here is another quote from Romain Rolland - There is only one kind of true heroism in the world, and that is to recognize the truth of life and continue to love it.

As I said before, this sentence is a compromise of accepting fate and a helpless self-comfort, but now it seems that it is actually very good, because everyone needs comfort.

What is the meaning of living? It is to look at the other side of the mountain, to think about why the water flows down, to find the origin of everything and the reason for existence. What if you can't find it? Then keep looking. So what if everything, including existence itself, is meaningless? This is a false proposition, as the book said, eternal life cannot be proved, and everything is meaningless and cannot be proved. That's why Jing Jiu keeps moving forward, proving that he is alive by being alive, and proving the existence of meaning by pursuing meaning.

We are not him, just need to think about it.

I have been very afraid of death since I was a child, and I often think about this issue. After the age of forty, my stage view is that the purpose of living should be to explain the matter of living.

Of course I can’t explain clearly, and the story of Dao Chaotian is not used to explain this matter, but just to describe the process.

This is different from Choosing the Day. Zetianji says that there is no destiny, only choice, and the focus is on the change of our own destiny every time we choose. Although there are many forks in the road to the sky, Jing Jiu has different choices from Daoist Taiping, Lian Sanyue, Patriarch, General Li, and Zhao Layue and other juniors, but that is not important. Because all roads ultimately lead to the same place.

The avenue is facing the sky, each side walks.

No matter which way you go, just keep going.

The story of Dao Chaotian is not very reasonable, it just wants to write what I think is about cultivating immortals. There used to be a sentence in the introduction of the Toad Book—Thousands of magic spells, infinite avenues, I just ask, can you live forever? This is the principle of cultivating immortals that I thought since childhood. Why do human beings cultivate immortality? For higher, faster and stronger? Even if you want to increase your personal strength, it's just for self-protection, not for fame.

It's hard for me to accept that a novel about cultivating immortals fights every day, engages in conspiracy, and engages in power tricks. If you practice, you should practice. If you can, Jing Jiu should hide in the cave and never go out like in the previous life. The problem is that it would not be called a novel.

In fact, what I did in the end was still relatively unsuccessful. I still often resorted to plotting, engaging in more exciting plot ups and downs, and never forgetting to put on a show... No way, the professional ethics is too strong, and it has become a habit for readers to give priority to reading.

Fortunately, I like most of the plots, such as eating hot pot in Shenmo Peak, eating hot pot in Yunji Town, eating hot pot in Jingyuan, riding the sea of ​​clouds in Tianguang Peak, turning Liu Ci into a sword, and sharpening swords along the way of Jingjiu. Because that building and that snow and the cats and the birds were my life, and I fed a lot of cats there.

Pursue plainness, the plot and characters will not be strong, and the long life of the ascetic will also give another layer of feeling to life and death. I have said to you before that the plot will fade away with time. This is what I foresee and look forward to when I write Dao. Just like a modern poem, you can feel it when you read it, but few people can remember what the poem actually said.

In those volumes in Chaotian Continent, the prefaces were all ancient poems. After ascending to the Galaxy Alliance, all modern poems were used. Of course, they were done on purpose. I really like those prefaces—Student Haitang has devoted a lot of time and energy to this aspect—combined with what was said in the previous paragraph, my real idea is to write Dao into a poem.

Which poem is it? That's the phrase that was used in the book. The last paragraph of Shi Tiesheng's I and the Temple of Earth has been comforting me for several years. I think it is a good poem that cannot be better. Please allow me to transcribe it here again:

But the sun, he is both the setting sun and the rising sun at every moment. When he is extinguished and goes down the mountain to collect the desolate afterglow, it is the time when he is burning on the other side and climbs up the mountain to spread the fierce sunrise.

On that day, I will also walk down the mountain calmly, holding on to my crutches...

One day, in a certain valley, a romping child is bound to run up, holding his toy.

Of course, that's not me.

But isn't that me?

The universe, with its unceasing desire, refines a song and dance into eternity.

What kind of human name this desire has is negligible.

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What kind of human name this desire has is negligible.

Maybe his name is Gu Qing, maybe Nan Chi, or Shen Qingshan and Shen Yunbu, maybe Xueji, maybe Xu Le, and of course it's more likely to be Jing Jiu.

At the beginning, I considered whether to write Dao as a group portrait, and I had the above considerations. The main reason was that I was worried that Jing Jiu would be too boring—his body is special, his mind is also special, and he is invincible. Such a life is bound to be boring.

Many readers are saying that Jing Jiu is tasteless. Once I saw a title called Smellless Man on the Internet. I almost used it on him, because he can't taste the taste, and he can't experience many tastes in life.

It is of course very risky to use him as the hero, but I decided to do so when I opened the book, because I confirmed that under his tasteless and uninteresting, there is the greatest enthusiasm and deepest attachment to life, and those are the common parts in each of us, and the part that life needs most, is the life itself.

Such talents are qualified to be the embodiment of the endless desire of the universe, and naturally they are more qualified to be the protagonist of our story.

Among the protagonists I have written, there is another one who is also very qualified, and that is Xu Le, because he has become a god, but he chose to leave his life.

When I wrote the postscript of Suzaku Ji many years ago, I said that I wanted to write a trilogy of nerves, which are ecstasy, ecstasy, and ecstasy.

Many friends probably haven't noticed that the last volume of Da Dao Chao Tian is called Out of the Gods. Yes, this is the last part of the trilogy.

In fact, after ascending to the Galaxy Alliance, most of my friends who have seen Jianke have already guessed what happened. Yes, from Qingyu Nian to Jianke to Chaotian Dao, this is a world I have always wanted to complete, and it is something everyone has always known.

When Da Dao opened the book, I had already determined that this would be the last long novel. The reason why I said in the new book testimonials that it would be the last two or one novel was because I didn’t want readers to think that this story was the last of the trilogy, because if it was determined to be the last novel, then I would definitely finish the trilogy.

Since it is the last long novel, I wrote it more seriously, more cautiously, and more presumptuously than before. As mentioned emphatically in the new book testimonials and the two million-word testimonials, the preparations for Dao Dao are very meticulous, and the writing method is very deliberate. Even if it may seem ingenious, I will definitely stick to it.

When I opened the book, I once said in my testimonials, will I worry that the story will be too dry when I write it this way? The hero in the book will say later: I never thought about this question.

I am extremely cautious in terms of technical details, but I am very presumptuous in terms of interest and core. I will not make any adjustments and self-restraints, and only hesitated on one thing.

At the beginning, I planned to write Xu Le as the villain—the gods are always on the opposite side of human beings, and I became the kind of person I hated the most—this kind of literary chant, this kind of subversion of the past is too deliberate.

I don't care about being deliberate, but I like Xu Le, why write him as someone I don't like? More importantly, I don't think the past needs to be overturned.

The stories I write about the people, good or bad, brave or cowardly, are the ones I want to write about.

Jiang Yicao and Achou left Gaoyang covered in blood, where is Chunfeng? The old dog is teaching in Jiujiang, the white elephant is passing by in the distance, Maitreya is about to explode, and Zou Leilei is still sleeping quietly. Fan Xian finally stood up in Kusama, and Chen Pingping still waited for him to come back. The arms of the second brother, Wang Po, and Xi Lai were all broken. Chen Changsheng and Tang Thirty-six watched the fat carp sinking N times into the mud at the bottom of the pond from the tree of the Orthodox Education College. Heaven does not give birth to a master. Eternity is like a long night. Sang Sang was cultivated into a Buddha by Ning Que, so naturally he forgot how to make fried egg noodles. The spring breeze of Liu Ci came and went lightly, the morning light was like yesterday, the wind and snow were like before, and there were only black and white in front of the 720th building.

A cat was lying on the wall of the old pen studio, and also lying on the edge of the cliff of Shenmo Peak, watching all this, but when it was in the small bookstore, it was still a mouse.

This is my past.

very simple.

Just write stories, write about those people.

Such a life begins with boredom.

In 2001, I tricked my family members into chipping in to buy a computer for reading novels and listening to music. When I had nothing to do, I wrote a martial arts novel with the background of the Northern Song Dynasty. To this day, no one except my family has read it.

Then came 2003. At that time, I was crawling around the forum, bored, and wanted to strike up a conversation with the moderator of the information section, Achou, so I wrote about Yingxiu's ten years and included her in the book. She wrote a few short poems in Qing Yu Nian. When I mentioned it to her last year, she actually forgot it. After going home and checking for a long time, she said that it seemed that she really wrote it. The time was terrible. At that time, the leader was the moderator of the comment area, and he knew it naturally, and he was about to start thinking about making money, so Suzaku was born. I have admitted many times that Suzakuji had a very bad attitude at the beginning of its creation. I thought it was to make money, and there was no need to take it too seriously. It was not until the Taiwan Publishing House closed down and the starting point began to put it on the shelves that the attitude was completely reversed. It started a very chic battle between gods and Buddhas. Writing it was a joy, and taking a day off every week was no more joy.

Suzaku doesn’t make much money, but it’s officially entered this industry, and it’s the first time the name Mao Ni has appeared in front of you, and then you’re going to talk about marriage, which involves the issue of earning more money, so you want to write a big red book with a very correct attitude, and this is how Qing Yu Nian was born.

After writing the book Celebrating More Than Years in 2009, I had some savings in my hand. I counted it, and it was enough for the down payment of the house and the wedding ceremony. The house price in Daqing was very cheap. When I bought it, it was more than 4,000 square meters, and I paid back the loan of more than 300,000. No matter how you look at the themes and practices of Jianke, you know that the audience is limited, so I took the initiative to talk to Baojian about reducing the price...Look, how accurate my judgment on the market is, and how cute it is.

Jianke happily finished writing, feeling that life is amazing, and fell into intense anxiety, wondering what to do with the next book. So I used the most serious attitude to write a book that I think should be the best, and that is Jiang Ye. In fact, I always think that Jiangye is the best in terms of energy, achievement, grades and all aspects, because I was still young at that time.

It's just that in one or two years, the hurricane surged too hard, and in one or three years, the body couldn't hold it anymore. After my dad’s heart bypass operation, I couldn’t send the leader home from the airport. I went to the community hospital and asked me to go directly to a big hospital. Then the doctor in the first hospital checked my blood pressure and ignored me. He just picked up the phone and asked the inpatient department if there were any beds left. No, it is necessary to have a bed... High pressure 220 is also a great experience.

After recuperating like an old man for a period of time, I overcame a lot of tinnitus, fundus hemorrhage and other mild but extremely anxiety-provoking problems. I finished writing Jiang Ye and then went to Tencent Literature. Although both sides are a family now, but at that time... raising eyebrows, there was still some pressure. The pressure is that my grades must be good...

Fortunately, the results of choosing the day are really good.

Then my mother fell ill in 15 years, and my emotions, energy and time were torn apart beyond description. At that time, my WeChat official account could only see the four words No update today, and I didn't explain the reason once, because I was still writing seriously.

Looking back, from The Story of Suzaku to Chaotian Dao, every novel has something I am very proud of. Every novel is my favorite work. I have tried my best to write each novel from the bottom of my heart.

Still the same sentence, if life can be repeated, I will probably still be like this. Why? Because we only live once, my friends! That being the case, of course I must try my best to live without regrets. This is my pursuit, and I have been doing this all these years.

I have said many times that my literary talent and technical ability may not be too strong, but my professional ethics is really good. Of course, what I am talking about here is not daily updating of thousands of characters, never-ending updating-there will always be things in life, and I don’t have time and energy to write-but every story I write is very serious, with a correct attitude, reaching the upper limit of my ability. It’s normal not to like the novels I write, but that doesn’t mean I’m not serious about writing them. Creating this kind of thing is ultimately a self-test.

I did just that.

There will always be rewards for giving.

Since 2003, when I started writing Yingxiu’s ten-year story, I’ve been earnestly writing books for 17 years. The results are really good. My subscription is really strong. To put it bluntly again, no matter who writes the history of web articles in the future, they must mention me and the stories I wrote, otherwise it will be writing nonsense.

This is glory, I didn't say it before, but I will show it off now. Why? Because I want to make you who like me or like these stories more proud and bragging. Although my point of view has not changed for more than ten years, everyone likes the book. You don’t need to like the author. In the same way, it doesn’t matter if you hate me as an author. Don’t rise to the book, but what if I also have some career fans?

Our readers are called Seven Groups.

Although Xiong Linquan, Lao Bai, and Da Vinci have a very strong friendship because they lived and died with Xu Le, but it must be because of Xu Le's awesomeness to some extent.

The postscript is not finished yet, so here is a list of thanks. First of all, I would like to thank the readers who have subscribed to the novel--the ones who scolded me after reading it are not included. Then I would like to thank the previous moderators and the readers who can be remembered in my mind at this time: climbing perch, gossip fish, clouds, laziness, chasing dreams, bobo, snow is burning, Mr. Cai Cai, Xiaobao, Wangzhu in the morning and evening, Guanshan Moye, Jin Wucai, the color of the wind, begonia, snow is burning, tears make coffee, Ah Halo, Haihe, Yang Guo 001, Baptism of Blood and Snow, White Horse Xiao Han Crazy, Pig Cat, F, Begonia is still there, Purple Eyes, Yuanyao likes Jiao Enjun, Fang Hailing, Little Secret Detective, Mo Moer, Fang Lianhai, Wang Jinglue, Hua Xiaoduo, Hanke, Muichang, Yilan, Shanshan, Anan, Dunhuai, Murakami Xiashu, Zhong Lin, Xiaoxue Chenqing... Well, there must be many names I should remember, but at this time the writing is already a little dazed, and they are all there in the wine! As for my editors and important figures in my writing career of more than ten years, I won’t mention them, and I love you too!

A few months ago, I began to predict that the road to the sky will end on August 21st. I am so confident because I work very hard to ensure that the manuscripts are kept. Many friends don't understand why they chose that day, but the reason is actually very simple.

That day was the tenth anniversary of my marriage with the leader.

Some readers should have remembered it, because you sent me wedding gifts, books, all kinds of fun things, and forced me to sing songs on YY.

Over the past decade, a lot of love and money have been gained on the Internet. It's a gross statement, but I don't mind it, because it's true, and the more the merrier.

This kind of life is really proud, and there are too many proud things, so I won’t pick them out here, but there are a few things I really want to share with you, although I don’t know how many times I have shown it off with my friends at the wine table. If you have already talked with everyone in the postscript before, let's take it as the first time today.

The first thing I am most proud of is watching the profanity of the smoker. I guessed the ending halfway through, specifically that sentence.

The second thing I am proud of is staring at Butterfly Blue ending the full-time master, and contributing a little bit of my wisdom.

The third thing I am proud of is that the author, Angel of the Underworld, recommended Jiangnan style to me one year. After reading it, I decided that it would be an unprecedented hit. After arriving in Beijing, I had a drink with Brother Bao Xiaohua and Liu Yi. I showed them, they were puzzled, and I said you wait, it will exceed your imagination... It turns out that I was right.

The third thing has nothing to do with aesthetics, just to prove my judgment, I know what people like, I can always do it if I want.

Then why did you decide not to write long online articles?

Of course it’s not because I’m worried that I can’t keep up with the times, nor is it because of money. It’s not difficult to write another long novel and earn a small goal.

Here we go back to the trilogy mentioned earlier.

When chatting with Mr. Shao Yanjun and reporters before, I once said why the web articles are super long. In addition to commercial needs such as upgrades, daily updates, and long-tail effects, there is another reason that we authors are not writing a story that exists alone, but describing a world and the people in it.

I am not good at constructing the world, and I have always been a boring materialist. The trilogy and Suzaku are actually different time periods in the real world. The night is my favorite Genesis, and Ze Tianji is the lost continent I want to play. After Chaotian Continent is finished, the world I want to write and the world I am capable of writing have been written. If I can come up with a special world, I will write science fiction a long time ago, right?

I have also finished my views on the world, but I am still very interested in the relationship between people and some stories, but that really doesn't need such a long space.

Well, I have to admit that I am indeed old. Although I seldom have this kind of self-consciousness, and my mentality has been stuck in my twenties, I am indeed a little tired.

The most important reason is actually wanting to change.

In the past seventeen years, I have participated in a lot of the history of online literature, and I am also included in this history. As I said before, this is enough, what else can I pursue?

I don't want a static life.

When I dropped out of Sichuan University and finished my part-time job at the vehicle management office, I just didn't want to live a life where I could see my life ten years later at a glance.

My life in the past ten years has been very interesting and happy, because I have turned my hobby into a career, without any constraints, and I don’t need to deal with anyone. I just played by myself for so many years, really handsome.

There's a saying that when a hobby becomes a career, it loses all its charm, but I don't feel that way. Until the moment I wrote the postscript, writing was still my hobby. I didn’t resist because my hobby turned into a career, and I didn’t write any stories I didn’t want to write because of money. I’m very satisfied with myself.

I love to write stories, so I will keep writing.

But now I want to change the specific method.

What will the rest of the day be like? The first is a barbaric body and a civilized spirit. Try to watch more books and movies, and exercise your body. Since I said that I will keep writing until I die, then I still have to try to die later and write for a few more years.

The second is to get the film and television of Jianke. There are also other projects, but Jianke is the first place for me. I will participate in the whole process, work hard, and report to everyone when there is news.

It was said in a book more than ten years ago that I have two ideals in life. One is to write a book, which was completed in Suzaku, and the other is to make a movie.

Although the film and television transformation of the work has been done long ago, what I said is that I want to make a movie. I still don’t know how to do this. I will learn slowly.

The next work is more important. I wanted to write some tough stories. The ruthlessness mentioned here does not mean bloody violence, but more vigor. It is something that should not be written in purely commercial novels. It is not very good-looking but it may be fun.

In the end, I want to see more of the world. I will have more time in the future, so let’s go shopping and live in places I like, such as Hangzhou and Chengdu, for a while.

After I have a good rest for a few months, I will continue to write stories for everyone to read again, but I really don’t know when I started writing and where I wrote it. Of course, my personal habit is to start at the starting point, but I really don’t know how to do the short and medium stories. I will discuss it with my editors and friends. As soon as I have a conclusion, I will report to you here and on the WeChat official account.

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These years, I have basically been sitting in front of a computer desk, always fishing, often playing, and working from time to time. I have no outdoor sports, that is, I like to drive out and hang out.

Whether it is Daqing or Yichang, I have visited many remote places. Anyway, I usually only go out late at night, so I don’t have to worry about safety.

There are many places that I like to go to, such as the east main road between two rows of old trees, such as the road to Sanyou Cave, and a special place.

I have talked too much over the years, I don’t know if I have mentioned it to you here, but as I said before, if I have mentioned it, it will be the first time.

On the way from Daqing to Heiyu Lake, turn left and go down into the fields, with cornfields and water bubbles on both sides. Keep driving forward, and you will see a charred car standing there, just like a scene in a crime movie. I often go to visit with the leader.

Occasionally that road will be flooded, and then we will turn back with regret. We went there again in the winter of the previous year, and the water over the road was frozen into a mirror-like ice surface with many icicles standing on it, which looked extremely sharp and beautiful.

I hesitated for a while, and finally got up the courage to step on the gas pedal. Xiaohong slid all the way forward across the ice, listening to the sound of the tires crushing those ice thorns, it was very exciting.

On the way home, I was honked by a car, and I felt as if I was going to fight for the road. I was angry and uneasy when the car stopped side by side. The window was rolled down. Before I could speak ill, the buddy on the other side said very quickly and gently, don’t get me wrong, I saw your flat tire and reminded you. I am ashamed and thankful...

Have you said this feeling before? What I'm really trying to say is that it doesn't matter if a tire blows out, it always needs to be replaced. In order to be able to see the beauty, it is actually worth taking some risks. I think we should have such an attitude both in work and in life.

thank you all.

goodbye.