hi everyone, not a chapter, sorry. anyways, just wanted to say thanks for reading. i very much like this story and want to see where it goes. unfortunately i'm only one person, so the amount of effort i can put into this isn't ideal in comparison to my enthusiasm for this story. and alas, i'll have to pause my work for this one. i currently have another story (old cultivation record) which is nearing its end, and i've just been holding out on the readers for that. feel kind of bad, but i'm a whimsical dude, which is also not ideal. anyways, i'm going to focus on finishing that up, then i imagine it will be right back to this. i really want to see where this one goes.

p.s. i apologize wholeheartedly to all the stagnant stories sitting on my profile with nowhere to go quite yet. i feel as if i will, in a far off place, possibly a few years from now, get to those, but that's just up to fate. one thing's for sure, i'm going to stop submitting whatever new stories pop out of my ass when the feeling strikes. again, if those stories have a soul, looking down at me from their unfinished state, i apologize.