Let’s talk about the creation process of this book.
From the initial design to the current finished product, this book has actually gone through several versions.
The first version is the clone flow, which is similar to one person controlling several bodies, just like opening multiple QQ accounts at the same time, controlling one side and controlling the other.
As a result, book friends in the group said, "Don't write it, the clone stream is a tauren".
The reason is that the Spanish fighters believe that the clone cannot represent the real body, and if the clone falls in love with a girl, the real body is being bullied.
The fighters here are divided into two groups. Among them, the Protestant fighters believe that if the clone is conscious, it is considered good, but if it is not conscious, it is not considered as if it is completely controlled by the protagonist.
Pureblood fighters believe that the clone and the main body are not the same entity, so as long as they are clones, they are considered awesome.
(There are also extremists here, who think that all protagonists who have soul-transported are considered awesome, because the physical body is transported through the original owner)
I don’t really like cows, so I changed it to “time management”.
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The second version, the original design of time management, was to use the time manager from the Harry Potter series.
At the beginning, I designed a heroine named "Jie Lange" with a Taoist name "Minghe". Like the protagonist, she also traveled through a different world. Her name before the time travel was just the "name" + "Taoist name" read backwards.
.She also brought the time manager.
Then the protagonist had just traveled through time and there was an immortal master who was seriously injured so he could not survive the tribulation and ascend. He needed the Sky-Mending Stone to repair the injury, so he plotted with the protagonist and asked him to find the Sky-Mending Stone fragments, and in return he would pass on his Taoism to the protagonist.
As a result, the editor said, "This is not good. Many gentle readers don't like the feeling of being plotted against others."
I don't really like teacher-student romances, because if I write about it, I will be reported, and if I don't write about it, readers will be scolded. I don't understand the difficulties of the creator at all, so I changed the master to a kind version. The protagonist takes the initiative to fight for the master.
Go find the Sky Mending Stone.
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The third version, long single line design.
The original design was for one volume of one vest. The protagonist would first play Qiu Changtian and join the Kunlun sect, write at least 100,000 words, and then turn around to open a new vest and play Ling Yunpo and join the Shushan sect.
The main reason is that if the camera is switched frequently, some readers may not be able to adapt.
As a result, the editor said, "This way your golden finger will not be reflected."
The golden finger of the protagonist is "time management", multi-line operations, interspersed with each other, and several characters supporting each other. This is the core point of this article.
For example, if Ling Yunpo wants to cross the ranks and kill someone but cannot kill him, he would ask Qiu Changtian to ask Master Ziwei for some advice. If Qiu Changtian wants to show off in front of his junior sister, he would borrow the advanced sword-control skills learned from Ling Yunpo.
If you don't switch the camera, you can't operate multiple lines, and this fun point is gone.
I don’t like to sacrifice one thing for the other, having fun is fundamental after all. So I changed it to one character and wrote three or four chapters before switching scenes. At the same time, I postponed the appearance time of other vests to make everyone familiar with [Autumn Days] as much as possible.
[Ling Yunpo] [Luo Yan] These three names (in order to lower the understanding threshold, even the real name of the protagonist is not written for the time being)
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The fourth version, Xianxia flavor.
The first plot is that the protagonist, Qiu Changtian, relies on the peerless talent of enlightened Taoist heart to complete the road to heaven in Kunlun step by step, shocking the entire Kunlun sect. The elders are scrambling to accept disciples, but in the end, the headmaster Ziwei overrules everyone.
Received as personal biography...
As a result, the editor said, "This routine is too vulgar, and where is the heroine? I want to see her in the first chapter."
Indeed, Xu Yinglian was originally planned to appear in Chapter 8 (and his name was "Xu Qinglian" at the time), but this would be a bit slow.
I have been struggling with this aspect for a long time. Should I describe the Kunlun Taiqing Sect first to enhance the fairy tale flavor?
Or should Xu Yinglian appear as soon as possible and unfold it in the style of a light novel?
After debating for almost a week, I finally chose the latter.
I don't like slow reading. The fairy tale flavor can be developed slowly later. If I can't finish one volume, I will write two volumes. If I can't find the heroine at the beginning, readers will abandon the book.
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The fifth version, Kunlun Mirror.
In the beginning, there was no Kunlun Mirror. The protagonist relied on a time manager to run back and forth and polyjuice potion to disguise his appearance.
As a result, this will make the protagonist look too arrogant. In order to obtain the fragments of the Sky Mending Stone, it would be so bad to deceive the brothers and sisters.
I don't like to disdain the protagonist, so I changed it to Kunlun Mirror to Mend the Sky. The protagonist has a noble purpose and has to mix into various sects.
The persona he plays is just a characteristic of a mirror, the protagonist's personality is actually very good, and it would be hard to deceive anyone.
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The sixth version, mask flow.
At the beginning, there was no Kunlun Mirror's backstab. The protagonist played various characters. After getting all the fragments, he stood in the sky, had hairspray hands, blocked Senior Sister An's sword with one finger, etc.
As a result, a book friend in the group said, "It feels like a spiritual tauren. What girls like is your disguise, not you."
I don't like messing around, so I banned these book friends. Then I arranged for the Kunlun Mirror to be stabbed in the back, and secretly revealed the true side of the protagonist to everyone without the protagonist knowing.
For example, Xu Yinglian, for Qiu Changtian's invincibility, actually admired him to the point of jealousy, pain, and even hatred of himself.
In addition, this book is not about sadomasochism, so it is absolutely impossible to create feelings.
But Kunlun Mirror quietly revealed the protagonist's true side to her, changing her impression of Qiu Changtian bit by bit, and this changed Xu Yinglian's perception of him.
Another example is that An Zhisu is just a simple sister who loves her younger brother towards the unyielding young man Ling Yunpo; Miss Shi does not like Luo Yan who pretends to be stupid, etc...
If the protagonist always maintains a mask persona, there is no way to win them to look at him differently.
But with Kunlun Mirror's back stab, it's different.
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To sum up, this book went through deletions and revisions before its release, with a total of six major versions.
There are countless small versions and back and forth changes between major versions.
I would like to thank the editor Ruoye for helping me read and revise the text many times.
I would also like to thank the book friends in the group. I hope that in the future I will post less harsh pictures and discuss the plot more.
The version I finally adjusted and you see is far from perfect, but it is close to my own limit.
The remaining disadvantage is that it cannot be optimized.
For example, some readers said, "The frequent switching of protagonists makes it difficult to immerse yourself in." In fact, the third version tried a long single line, but the result was that the biggest cheats and the excitement of time management were not reflected.
Another example is that some readers said, "Kunlun Mirror requires the protagonist's help and backstabbing is disgusting." In fact, version 5 found that without backstabbing, the problem of "a girl falling in love with a mask" cannot be solved.