Hi, this is Hei Deng Xia Huo, the author of "Asking the Sword".
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How should I put it... In fact, in today's environment where most new books seek to be fast and refreshing, the pace of "Ask the Sword" is extremely slow.
It's almost 100,000 words long before it comes out of Novice Village, and the 160,000-word protagonist's plug-in has not yet been launched - some books in the same period have already broken through the dungeons and rushed to the multiverse.
So much so that in the comment section, people kept asking, "Where is the title of the book? Where is the protagonist's sword?"
Other readers replied: "You have asked questions, this is "Asking the Sword"."
It can be said to be ridiculously slow...
The reason is, firstly, that I can't appreciate it myself, and secondly, because I really can't speed up the pace - every time I add a setting, I have to think about whether this setting is reasonable and whether it can realize logic in the world framework. Self-consistent.
Call it rationalism, design fetish, or obsessive-compulsive disorder. For this book, I consulted a lot of information.
The people's clothing, food, housing and transportation in the Tang Dynasty, folk festivals, official system, three-guard system, laws, disease and medical history, luxury goods, vassal towns, culture of the Western Regions, the layout of various cities and districts in Chang'an...
For some details, in Chapter 57, Li Ang told Chai Cuiqiao about Bai Juyi's "Farewell to the Ancient Grassland", which begins with "The grass grows on the plains of Xianyang, and the grass dries up every year."
Rather than "Li Liyuan grows on grass, and grows old and flourishes every year."
This is because the article "Youxian Advocacy" compiled by Zhang Gu, a scholar of the Tang Dynasty, records that Bai Juyi gave Gu Kuang a scroll, but Gu Kuang was dismissive at first and teased Bai Juyi with "Everything in Chang'an is expensive, and it is difficult to live in a big city."
When Gu Kuang read "The grass grows in Xianyang Plains, and it dries up every year. The wildfires are not exhausted, but the spring breeze blows and grows again", he turned to Bai Juyi and said, "It is very difficult to live in the world."
In the poetry anthologies of the Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, Xianyang is also written in this way. Lili may have been revised by the Qing Dynasty poet Sun Zhujian - although the word "Lili" was revised quite well and has more charm.
However, in the setting, Li Ang received ordinary education from the Yu Kingdom since he was a child before awakening his memories of another world, so he spoke of Xianyang instead of Lili.
Another example is the map of Chang'anfang City. Yongjiafang, where the Prince's Palace is located, and Anxingfang, where the Duke of Yan's Palace is located, are both located in the northeast of Chang'an. The further north you go, the closer you are to the imperial city, the more dignitaries there are - not only because of the proximity to the imperial city, but also because the ancients were afraid of humility, and the rich wanted to live higher.
Sometimes, for a setting or even a sentence, I will check the information for half an hour to avoid logical errors.
It’s all about creating a complete, real, and believable world and telling a moving story.
In short, there will be more, and Golden Finger will also have it - the sword in the protagonist's skull is on the way quickly.
Well, above.
It will be released on November 1, 2021. Five chapters will be updated first.
For first orders over 3,000, additional updates will be added for each order over 1,000.
The monthly ticket will be increased by one update every 1,000, with no upper limit. It will be completed in November, and we will do what we say.
Finally, I sacrificed a wave of books from my friends in the group, in no particular order.
"We Live in Nanjing" - Tianrui Shuofu
"From the cauldron of the devil's religion to the eternal co-owner" - white dipped in sugar
"I Can Check Character Attributes"——Quanzhen Leader
"League of Legends of a Certain American Comic" - Mi Yike
"Live Broadcast Wilderness Adventure" - Crustacean Ant
"I was supposed to slay the dragon, but I accidentally started cultivating immortality" - Luo Xue makes tea
"I am really the captain of the Flying Henanese" - Nanshan Traveler
"Golden Finger will not come until I become emperor" - Tianya Yuezhaojin
"This is how black technology should be used" - big cat face
"Starting from Xiuxian University" - Jiangbei Wutong Tree
"Starting from the Dragon Clan" - Kan Meng
