MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS: feel free to SKIP THIS ENTIRE THREAD IF YOU ARE SUPER HAPPY WITH HOW THE STORY IS GOING ALREADY!!!!

AGAIN, you can SKIP THIS ENTIRE THREAD IF YOU ARE SUPER HAPPY WITH HOW THE STORY IS GOING ALREADY!!!!

I was asked a question I think is very important by one of my readers, and thought it deserved more attention that just a post on the forum.

Here is the question and my reply, detailing how I view this story and why I decided to write it:

Warning: Major Spoilers ahead if you haven't read up to Chapter 23

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Hmmm, I think I can see what you mean. To me it's still mysticism, but Heller is choosing to view it in a familiar way, if that makes sense. Also I see suddenly having a character sheet as a not-very-logical way of approaching things. If you look closely, you can see what happened there. I may have made it too subtle, but if you go back and look:

There is no game system. There is no spoon (Matrix reference). There is no character sheet! It's all in the MC's head, and how he has chosen to have the Gift given by the Celestial present things. Its all a fabrication, a strange filter he has chosen to view the world of Cultivation through!

Soul-points are DEFINITELY not real.

If the MC was originally from a fantasy world, this story would be exactly like a typical Xiania. But that's more or less the whole point, and why I decided to write the story in the fist place.

What would happen to someone from our world put in a Xiania situation where anything is possible; how would they approach and view things differently than someone who had never lived life on our Earth?

It's also not meant to be obvious when reading the story, but I figured I might loose more readers by NOT explaining it at this point. It's all there in the story, but as I said very hard to catch unless you know what you are looking for.

The whole thing seems pretty mystical to me.

I'd say the story is still mostly Xianxia at it's core, but with a cultivation method that the reader can actually relate too a lot more than the vague explanations most give. That said, any of Hellers abilities do still need to be trained physically in 'true Xianxia fashion'. :)

I'm kind of glad it's a shock, because that follows along with what the MC is experiencing as well But with all new things, soon it becomes the new normal, and life carries on.

I hope this helps you enjoy the story, and I hope I don't end up regretting posting this. :D