Sanjiang Remarks

I received the site message. The book would be featured on Sanjiang next week, and it would be put on premium after Sanjiang.

I currently had around a hundred chapters in reserve. When the time came, I would unleash a massive update spree and lay out the rules for bonus chapters.

This book’s results had completely exceeded my expectations. It actually made it onto Sanjiang—something I had never even dared to dream of before.

At first, this book did not even pass internal submission. Later, an editor took a liking to another manuscript of mine, one about word games. It had originally been accepted, and we agreed that I would publish it after National Day.

Then I revised it again and again while building up a backlog. By the seventh draft, after writing two to three hundred thousand words, the editor abandoned it too.

At the time, I had no other manuscripts available, so I published this book instead. I thought I would use it to fill the gap between submissions and earn a little guaranteed income. Once another internally submitted book got accepted, I would finish this one.

But this book’s results kept getting better and better, and then…

Thank you to all my dear readers for liking this book and pushing it to where it is today.

When I first started writing this book, I had wanted to write a Magnetic Lunatic story with a dark tone.

Back then, the protagonist was a native of the Martial God World, a standard Magnetic Lunatic. He had no system. After arriving in this world, he knew nothing of the plot and could not tell heroes from villains. Then all kinds of people violated his rules, conflicts erupted immediately, and after he beat the small ones, the old ones came. In the end, he blew up Earth, used Time Reversal, clashed again, blew it up again, reversed time again, clashed again, and blew it up once more.

The whole point was simple, brutal, brainless destruction!

But when I submitted it internally, the editor said, "This thing has no sense of immersion. A native, and a lunatic at that—the Qidian rankings were full of mentally ill protagonists when you submitted it—and he does not even have a system. Who would want to read this?"

"You need to change the protagonist’s character setup!"

"Most readers prefer protagonists with a simple sense of justice and normal values. Do not pick a fight with subscriptions!"

Between personal preference and making a living, I dropped to my knees without hesitation.

So the new protagonist became someone who had transmigrated twice and knew the plot. Because of the values he developed in his first world, he was not crazy enough to be a standard Magnetic Lunatic.

The lunatics in this novel would be closer to characters from Sea Tiger’s era. They still retained some humanity, were somewhat sentimental, and would not be as insane as those in the later four series!

The reason the lunatics in the later Martial God stories were so insane was mainly because they were invincible across the world and lacked anyone to restrain them. If someone dared to go insane and was immediately punished, naturally there would be ninety percent fewer people going insane.

Besides, anyone could go insane—except the protagonist! If he did, it would be 404.

What could I do? I had to make a living. Nothing shameful about that!

For those hoping to see a psychopathic protagonist who was a homicidal maniac, forget it. Turn left and find another book.

Someone whose mind was filled with kill, kill, kill, and who feared no one was an idiot, not a lunatic!

If Sea Tiger had dared act like that, Oga would have beaten him to death long ago! If you had the guts, make Sea Tiger face Oga without running away!

Then I ran into another problem. With the stories of two worlds merged together, one inevitably had to take priority. Which would be primary, and which would be secondary?

In the end, I chose Marvel as the primary setting and Martial God as the secondary one.

On one hand, there were fewer readers of Hong Kong comics than readers of American comics.

On the other hand, the editor said, "You write this stuff so excessively. Have you considered censorship? The end result of being a lunatic is getting censored. If your results are bad, that is one thing, but if they are good, jealous people will definitely report the gore and vulgarity. They will have you dead to rights."

Faced with reality, I got on my knees again.

Still, although the story would continue along the Marvel route, I would make a tiny little magical revision without affecting the characters’ personalities.

For example, the lecherous War God Tony Stark, and Thor Peter Parker.

But I would find ways to preserve the original characters’ defining traits. Their characterizations could not fall apart if possible.

For example, Tony would sooner or later return to being that Iron Man who "stood beside gods as a mortal." Even if Peter Parker, the "failed man," became a lunatic, he would still be a kind lunatic. Then a kind War God Peter painfully killing his master for the sake of the world would be perfectly reasonable, right?

Of course, I would still write a few standard Magnetic Lunatics, such as Magneto. But to avoid getting banned, I would not take things too far. Moderation was best.

Also, the Sea Tiger series carried a strong sense of fatalism, and Marvel had similar elements, such as Ragnarok. So writing about that appropriately seemed pretty good too; it could raise the book’s cool factor a little.

Besides, things like Dream Creator, Ah Fei, and Blue Dream could all be merged into Marvel. That was also the value of the system’s existence.

Just imagine it: having Hydra or War God Ultron mess around with Blue Dream would be pretty exciting.

Marvel films and TV shows were Disney fairy tales, but Marvel comics were not. They had plenty of pornographic and violent content!

I just did not know whether readers who liked the Sea Tiger series could hold on until that day. Maybe they would think it was not crazy enough and drop the book halfway through.

Meanwhile, Marvel readers might not know what Blue Dream was, so figuring out how to merge everything together was quite a headache.

I hoped this book could make those who had never read the Sea Tiger series come to like Sea Tiger, and make those who did not like Marvel come to like Marvel.

If anyone found their reading hindered because they had not read Sea Tiger or Marvel, they could leave a chapter comment. I would revise that part!

This book did not even have an outline at the beginning. I wrote wherever my ideas took me, so later on, I sometimes realized that earlier content had problems and went back to revise it. For example, the protagonist’s "Star Shattering" at Twenty-Five Heavens was removed. Did anyone notice?

But of course, there was an outline now. It had already been planned through the fourth volume, and there would definitely be outlines for what came after as well. It would not be abandoned or end badly.

After all, this was currently my best-performing work.

Finally, thank you to every dear reader who had followed and supported this book all the way, forcibly pushing what was meant to be a transitional work to the level of Sanjiang.

I was immensely grateful!