I’m not sure if it’s still customary to write these announcements when a book goes premium, but I’ll just stick to my old habits.

Tomorrow at 12 PM, *Innate Immortal Seed* will officially go premium. The latest Chapters will be released then, and I’d like to ask all you fellow Daoists for your subscriptions.

Let me tell you how this book came to be.

After the New Year, work was pretty light. One evening, I was using my old computer to revise a report, and when I was done, I impulsively opened a folder named "Qidian."

Inside a subfolder called "New Book Beginnings," I found three story openings I’d written nearly a decade ago. I read through them a few times, and a thought suddenly struck me: ’Maybe I can still find the time to finish one of them.’

About a month went by, and I just couldn’t shake the idea.

So, fine. I logged into the author dashboard for the first time in ages, and since I hate revising openings, I uploaded it directly without changing a single word.

That’s why the beginning is so cliché. It didn’t ride the coattails of recent trends like those cautious-protagonist or wife-collecting stories. The paragraphs in the first few Chapters are too long, and there are plenty of typos... Ah, the ravages of time.

From the very start, my intention was simply to finish a novel I truly wanted to write, regardless of its performance. It’s my way of making up for past failings.

I’ve always felt guilty and avoidant toward my long-time readers, so I didn’t even post an announcement on my old book’s page. Even now, *Qing City*, a novel I finished over a decade ago, still has several times more followers than this new book.

Thanks to all of you, both new readers and old, we’ve stumbled our way to this premium launch.

Right now, we have just over 10,000 followers. I’ve been away for too long, and I’m a little rusty.

However, counting my other pen names, all five of my books that have gone premium have had a follower-to-subscriber ratio of 10:1 or better, with some even reaching 5:1.

I hope this book won’t be the exception. Let’s do our best to make the subscription numbers look good.

Writing this, I find I’m actually a little nervous. It feels strangely similar to how I felt when my first book went premium more than a decade ago.

Now, about the update schedule. After the premium launch, I guarantee a minimum of two Chapters a day, totaling 6,000 characters.

I’ll aim for at least 10,000 characters tomorrow. As someone who gets lazy the moment I have a backlog of Chapters, I’ll have to write them fresh for you all.

Let’s set the baseline for first-24-hour subscriptions at 1,000. For every 100 subscriptions we get above that in the first 24 hours, I will release one bonus Chapter. I hope you’ll all keep me motivated!

As for monthly tickets, I’ll release a bonus Chapter for every 500 we receive.

As for other bonus Chapter goals, I’ll think about them more tonight and let you know if I come up with anything.

Finally, I hope more of you, my fellow Daoists, will join me and see this path of cultivation through to the end, a journey that will span millions of words.

And at the very, very end... please subscribe.

With a bow, I take my leave.