Shen Yin (The Last Immortal) - Novel Content and its connection with Ancient Love Poetry

Some characters' name in Ancient Love Poetry are changed in The Last Immortal. The below list will be updated along the progress of the drama. 

It seems that there are only 2 true gods in The Last Immortal who are Yuan Qi's parents. In the novel, Shen Yin, there are 5 true gods: Bai Jue, Shang Gu, Tian Qi, Zhi Yang and Xuan Yi (ghost god who lives in Jiuyu).

Tian Qi is demon God who takes care of demon realm. He (together with people in Qing Chi palace such as Feng Ran) took care of Yuan Qi since he was born. Hou Chi died shortly after the delivery. And Shang Gu would wake up in Hou Chi's body after 100 years in coma (or sleeping). Ziyue mountain is the place where Jing Yuan (Tian Qi after reincarnating) lived and cultivated (in both ALP and Shen Yin novel). In TLI, Ziyue mountain was said as place whereYuan Qi's father cultivated. 

In ALP, in the end, Bai Jue tried to repair his relationship with Yuan Qi and Yuan Qi acknowledged him as his father (before eps 48, Shang Gu told Yuan Qi that his father was Qing Mu althought they both knew Qing Mu and Bai Jue were one person). However, in the novel Shang Gu, Bai Yue never acted as father in front of Yuan Qi althought in his heart his son was the proudest thing in his life. He thought it was rather "never have" than "gaining but losing later" feeling. Hou Chi named the son Qi (弃)  which means "abandon" since his parents (Hou Chi and Qing Mu) "died". It was Tian Qi interprated Qi as 起 which mean begin/establish, similar to his name. 

After Bai Jue's death, Shang Gu knew about the truth of his sacrifice, she was very grief and kneeled for 500 years in front of the ancestral god Stone for begging the rebirth of Bai Yue. In the novel, Shang Gu said she could not face Yuan Qi because of his appearance similarity to Bai Jue. During this time, Zhi Yang took care of Yuan Qi in the god realm. Yuan Qi was very active and he didn't know how to control his supreme  power. Yuan Qi had pure chaos power like Shang Gu's spiritual power (mixture of immortal and demon power). This kind of power is vital for life. Zhi Yang and Tian Qi decided to send Yuan Qi to Dong Hua's cultivation school under the name Gu Jin. Tian Qi changed his appearance and sealed his chaos power. Because of his special origin and context, he was loved and spoiled by his care givers such as Tian Qi, Feng Ran, Dong Hua and his senior "brothers" in Dong Hua's school. However, the parting from his parents was still carved in his mind and hurt him. 

Ming Qi	Xuan Yi

For those who are interested in what type of ending.

Shen Yin includes 2 epilogues where the main leads had happy ending.

SPOILERS Epilogue summary - Shen Yin - MyDramaList 

Honestly I believe The series producers did a fine job nd necessary requirements to create xuan yi as the first antagonist.. As he was basically the failure version of Shang gu.. He went towards the dark path which is devil.. Unlike Shang gu who chose to sacrifice herself for the three realms... The first 15 episodes also established a more firm relationship dynamics btw ICE CUBE ND SHANG GU

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I agree with this. In the novel, Shang Gu was more mature than the drama Shang Gu. But it is very hard to convinced readers that Bai Jue admired and loved her for 130k years without saying anything to her. Ah, actually he told that to all the female gods who wanted to date with him and all of them kept that secret for him. He did not know Shang Gu's feeling for him before her sacrifice for the tribulation chaos. Drama Bai Jue is more human and somehow happier than the novel Bai Jue

Yup honestly those first 14 episodes are where they look full of happiness before all the sorrow nd pain... He told all female gods about his love towards Shang gu in novel, this totally contradicts with his character from ALP because  of how his character is shown he would never tell that to anyone... Instead will just ignore those admirers 

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However, in the novel, he was first mentioned in Shen Yin and he was created as God of ghost. He was more or less the same age with Zhi Yang. He somehow felt the ancestral God was discriminated. And later he asked Shang Gu the equality across all races in exchange of saving Yuan Qi. So he was not such bad villain. In addition, in God Bai Shou (Chasing moon), he came back to God realm and he seemed to go well with Zhi Yang

That's some interesting insight on his character.. In alp I believe he was a well constructed antagonist too before wu huan

I don't know If I can add this here but for those looking to read all the novels by XingLing author of Ancient Love Poetry , Shen Yin and Chasing the Moon. here are the Links.

For anyone one wanting to read the novel from which this drama was adapted its written by Xing Ling - Who wrote the trilogy that is Ancient Love Poetry ( Zhou DongYu , Xu Kai drama) , Shen Yin (Hidden god)The Last Immortal drama - ( Zhao Lusi Wang Anyu ) and Chasing the Moon drama (Bai Lu , Ao Rui Peng)

Shen Yin (Hidden God ) novel Link (Currently all chapters are free to read there and its isn't locked behind VIP paywalls)

https://www.jjwxc.net/onebook.php?novelid=1762978

Rest of the novels by XingLing is here
https://www.jjwxc.net/oneauthor.php?authorid=191312

Note :- Drama adaptations always has some differences from novel that is normal and novels will always have more details than drama its impossible to include everything that is their in the novel to dramas as they don't have that much time or episodes.

Some information about Qing Lin in The Last Immortal with regard to relationship with Yuan Qi.

Her corresponding character in the novels (Shen Yin and Shang Gu) as well as in ALP is Qing Li. 

In the novel Shang Gu, she was sentenced by Shang Gu (Yuan Qi's mother) to be exciled in Jiuyu (Ghost realm) until the soul of all soldiers who were killed by her use of abyss flowers could return. This is almost impossible. Meaning, she was exciled in the ghost realm forever. Thus, she had deep hatred to Shang Gu and wanted to revenge by harming Yuan Qi in Shen Yin novel. 

However,in ALP, Qing Li died in episode 42 when Jing Yang attacked demon race using abyss flowers.