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I don't think that "bad" is proper word. Complained is more suitable. And I can explain you why many ALP fan complained or have issues with TLI:
1. if someone is ALP fan, they enjoyed ALP and had set the bar high for its sequel. TLI failed that expectation in several aspects. This differs from viewers who haven't watched ALP and don't have a reference to compare.
2. Many of ALP viewers read novels relating the originalstories including the original story Shen Yin which is adapted to TLI. As a novel reader, it is quite difficult for me to watch TLI since there are a lot of modification on the story structure and content on screen. Unfortunately, the modification made the plot weaker, and less logical. For example, Feng Yuan is powerful and she was the one who raised Yuan Qi when he was small. How comes that Mrs Hong who is a kind of ambassador from God Realm dared to interfere Yuan Qi's life and made decision on behalf of him. There was no Mrs Hong in the book. I read both novels, Shen Yin in my opinion is easier to read and enjoy. The content is interesting enough to make a good drama. The trend that TLI chose is to focus on Feng Yin/A Yin and about 75% episodes is FL centric. The novel content is much more balance , little more on Yuan Qi role and character.
ALP is a good drama, but it also has it own flaw. Some people could not stand the unconventional xianxia appearance of both ML and FL in the beginning of the drama, then if the story was not good enough for them, it is easy to drop. ALP required patient watching because the first 16 eps were just to set the foundation for the later roller and coaster story. It shows how Shang Gu became mature, up to expectation of Chief God despite her youth; and why Bai Jue loved her, and choose that way to save her and also protect the three realms. Comparing with it original story Shang Gu, there were also a lot of modification on the drama version which luckily impoved the storyline. I hope you can engage with its story and characters.

Yes Ming Qi is Xuan Yi in APL. Actually, APL adapted Xuan Yi from Shen Yin to it. They also changed him from ghost true god to true ghost of chaos power (preceesor of Shangu). In Shen Yin, Xuan Yi was just younger than Zhi Yang and he was born as ghost from the beginning. He took care of ghost, dead creatures. Thus, only him could resurrect Yuan Qi. Zhi Yang persuaded him to step out of ghost realm

True gods like Yuan Qi's parents were supposed to live as long as the Earth and Heaven. So would he. And Yuan Qi had chaos power which is mixed of demonic and immortal power. Thus he is even more distant from immortal.
The last immortal might referred to Gu Jin. The whole members of Daze Sect were returned, resurrected except Gu Jin.
In the novel, the moment when the truth was revealed, Feng Yin rushed to Daze Mountain where Yuan Qi's maze over it had been unsealed (since he had dispersed). She saw the life returning to all the creatures, the images of her sect-mates (in sleeping mode). In side the hall, she saw her senior sectmates sitting. Gu Jin image was there, the only one that there was no signal of life. and when she touched him, he disappeared in to sparkling dust.
P/S: just watched eps 39. the title “The last immortal “ refers to A Yin who is the last disciple of Dong Hua

you are very generous giving the story 9/10. :)) I would give no more than 7/10

I just watched until eps 37. Hua Shuo in the novel at the end realized her father was so evil and he helped Qing Lin kill Lan Feng. He even asked her to sacrifice herself for him, and she only realized that many of peacock soldiers had turned into ghost. Feng Yin was about to burn herself, special technique to upgrade her power to god to kill all the evils but then she would die and disappear which had used by Jing Jian in ALP. At that moment, Hua Shuo changed her mind, recalling Lan Feng's love for her. She used herself to sacrifice to the demon flag which would suck all the evils inside including her father. her soul also was sucked in. She just asked Feng Yuan for pardon of peacock clan and protection for peacock members who were innocent. She told Feng Yin that she was jealous with her the whole life but one thing that she was proud that there was a man who regarded her the first choice, treasured her. (Feng Yin still had hatred on Yuan Qi by that time)

1. XL has 9 lives doesn't mean his each life is less value than XY or anyone life. If he had only life, he would either live or die with her because their lives were connected. If he was strong enough then he could kept XY to survise without using the spell to exchange one of his life for her. If not, both of them died in chapter22.
2. I don't mean Xiao Liu needed his help in Chuanzi's wedding but why did he hide. Because he was afraid of that she would recognised him. He often chose the convenient way.
3. Why could not he carry both of them out? He had power. He came to the site when the fire did not started yet. And Jing had special vision. He could get out of the maze more easily than others. Don't tell me that she was not so heavy that he could not carry her.
He had time to get out without injury. CX's guards came later and they could spent half hour there searching for both of them.
"Jing was born with the spiritual eye that could see through any enchantments and mazes, plus with the help of little fox, he tracked her to another canyon. He saw a maze formed using water, wood, and fire, it was a kill maze. The ground covered in snow was to his advantage and he grabbed the snow in hand and created a fog to envelope him and he disappeared from sight.

Jing entered the maze and heard a man’s sorrowful wailing and followed the sound. He didn’t see the man but before him was a snowy ground that was dyed red with blood. A bloodied person was hanging in mid air, the body so cut up it was impossible to tell if it was a man or a woman, but her face was pristine as if carved from a crystal jade and her eyes were still opened wide."
No matter how much power he transferred to her, her pulse never started again.
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Jing let out a gutwrenching scream as his tears soaked her robe.

Xiao Yao! If you’re not in this world, how do you expect me to continue living? I was wrong! I was really wrong! I should have never left you! No matter what reason, I should have never left your side!

The final stage of the maze started and every single cherry blossom turned into a flickering flame and a burning inferno lit up to destroy everything so that even if the Grand Emperor and the Yellow Emperor wanted to destroy all there would be no proof left.
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Xiao Yao, I only want to be your Ye Shi Qi. I said I would listen to you for life so you can’t leave me! If you leave then I’ll go with you. No matter where you run to, I’ll always chase after you!
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If he really thought that she had died he could still carry her out to protect her body (for funeral). Then he could committed suicide as he wished
The only he did for her during Merlin assasination is to protect her from burning. The desolate, endless power that came to her heart when it almost stopped beating came from XL to. How could he send the power via distance is similar like a master bug control bug to kill people from thousand mile away. Tong Hua used the same adj words to describle that spiritual power that XY sensed and the one when the doctor checked her and sensed it. CX's guard supply her with spiritual qi (read the chinese text).

Since you are talking about the novel, then I take the novel content for dabate.

boy/girl friend is friend too. I give you here the original text: 没过一会儿，小六感受到自己的心脏在急促地跳动，可非常诡异的是他还能感受到另一颗心脏在跳动，两颗心脏就好似久别重逢的朋友，一唱一和地跳动着。
"After a while, Xiao Liu felt his heart beating rapidly, but what was very strange was that he could also feel another heart beating. The two hearts were like friends reunited after a long separation, beating in harmony."
do normal friends get "harmony"? friendship between a man and a woman in harmony. Tong Hua used the word "朋友" [pang you]. Refer the dictionary:
https://www.hanbook.com/chinese-dictionary/words/peng2-you0-friend-boy-girl-friend
The book was written under XY's view. and she is prone to tell lies or bullshit. She told CX, XL was not her friend but she told FFB, that he looked like her friend. Did she give Jing any gift? She gave Jing a sachel of medicine herb because she hated the smell on him when his identity was discovered. No more.
She made poison with all of her thought and mood as gift for XL for decades. Chapter 31 confirmed poison as gift. And read chapter 28, what is the meaning of gift for XY.
And long after XL rejected her, she made another sachel for Jing (then CX as well) while practicing needle work.
And read chapter 37 to see what kind of bug and what is the condition to plant the bug successfully.

Where was YSQ when Xiao Liu needed him to deal with Xuan and A Nian? If I remember correctly he disappeared. During Chuanzi's wedding, he also hid when A Nian showed up. In most of XY's critical moments of death and life, where was Jing? He surrendered and want to die with her while Cang Xuan & Xiang Liu tried their best to rescue her. He was either "sleeping" or disappeared in the other 2 assasinations. Anyway, this is based on the novel. We don't know how the drama would turn out

eps 33/34

The drama plot was very weak and illogical. In the novel Feng Yuan (Feng Ran) had used most of her power (she was god, not demi god) to seal Zi Yue after the war between Immortal and Demon (where A Yin was killed). Qing Lin still survise and the devils in ghost realms almost broke out the seal. That is the reason why she and Yuan Qi stayed away from public since both of them lost most of their power and they didn't want the immortal villain awared of that. At the last battle: Feng Ran and Feng Yin, Hong Yi fought agaist Hua Mu and Hua Shuo in the heavenly palace during the selection competition for the Emperor/Emperess position. Yuan Qi with 10 thousand immortal soldiers came to Zi Yue to face with the ghost devils if they broke out the seal. Yuan Qi and Lin Mu killed Qing Lin. But the seal was so weak. Yuan Qi had to use his soul and the power of his sword to seal the ghost realm.

I would say first 12 eps are close to the novel. eps13-19 are "new" fiction. eps 20 - end are very loosely adapted from the novel. If you watched ALP, you will know that Yuan Qi was resemble to his father's characteristics. Thus, he didn't marry Feng Yin when he was 'technically" dead as in the drama. A Yin did not suffer as much as in the drama. YQ suffered more burden in the novel. However, since FY only knew everything when YQ completely disappeared, FY was more heartbroken. I still prefered the novel since it is more concise and logical

ALP adapted Xuan Yi from Shen Yin but they changed his character and story to creat the first 15eps to tell Shangu’s maturity process. There is not Xuan Yi in the novel Shang Gu in which Shang Gu was senior Chief God in the God realm. However in ALP, Shang Gu was junior god with very little skill and experience

Xuan Yi

Because Shang Gu was not dead completely. Bai Jue sealed the chaos tribulation at the very last minute to save Shang Gu's last pieces of soul

Since they wanted to target young viewer, making the drama cute. I wonder why didn't they include the last epilogue of the novel. 5 minutes extra, Yuan Qi woke up FY to ask her about their daughter, expressing his preference to his wife over his daugter who is very mischievous. :)). Then they rush out to search for their daughter (she is believed to chase an young immortal boy at that time). it would make the drama different from typical xianxia drama. For his parents,all that Shang Gu wanted is hearing Bai Jue said "Shang Gu, I am Bai Jue". Nothing is more powerful and meaningful than that

In my opion, the novel is way better. The drama degraded God's role and their dignity a lot

Chaos power is the strongest and it works on any people (both demon and immortal). Chaos power is mixture of demonic and immortal power. A Yin had very low power base (actually lowest level of immortal). so, it is very illogical if the flute didn't work on her

not so much in the novel. Similar (or less) to how was shown in the drama. these 4 went out several times. When A Yin and Gu Jin paired with each other then YS and HY had to hang out together. YS came to demon realm visiting HY often during 1000 years. HY just started to realize his feeling for YS near the end of the novel. Then in the other novel, Xing Ling just mentioned HY and YS moved to the god realm together (meaning they had married) after Yuan Qi's death about 500 years

file your questions to script writer. They wanted to make A Yin more misery, then highlight her later character. In general, they wanted to make a female lead centric drama which is different from the original story. And they wanted to extend the story to fill screen time of 40 eps. Thus they had to create more and more troubles to the lead characters. Yuan Qi was not that useless and clueless. Fang Yuan was not as absent (She was God, not de-mi god like in the drama). And Hong Chou was a big failure since the gods all value equality and she showed her bias, discrimination from the beginning.

His parents embraced each other at least :)).