For anyone who wants to see more about how all this came to be, you know there's the Youku playlist of Director's Specials and BTS. For myself, what most surprised me was how beautiful Chen Du Ling (MN/YBC) and Geng YeTing (YQY)'s respective voices are. I wish she had dubbed herself.
Also, Bai Lu delivered her lines much more emotionally than it comes through in some scenes, I also wish she'd had time to re-dub herself :(
I have a question guys I’m sorry if is a stupid question, I’m trying to figure something, ok and I don’t…
There are two timelines. LSS exists in both of them. In the first one, Devil God came and destroyed the sects and she went back in time for 500 years to stop him from rising. Which she did.
From the time she went back and didn't let TTJ (DG's vessel) die, ALL history changed. TTJ became the emperor, then she managed to get the Evil Bone from him and have a lightning tribulation and "die". She didn't actually die. Centuries in the future, her adoptive dad (Sect Leader Qu) was put in charge of hatching a phoenix egg from which the 2nd timeline's LSS grew up. In the sect, together with the re-made XL. They got engaged or at least talked about it, but then LSS in this second timeline failed a tribulation, went to recuperate at the bottom of a magic pool and vanished for ten years. In her place the 1st timeline's LSS came back. This LSS remembers the destruction of the sects and TTJ but does NOT remember any engagement with GYJW. They still grew up together (in the original timeline, before being sent back to the past), just not precisely the same. GYJW is not XL reincarnated and has no memories but his life in the sect. He doesn't remember YBC either.
Barren Abyss meeting is not an actual meeting. While she was going into it she was helped by him and he called…
I mean... SL Qu HATCHED her from a phoenix's egg. And Di Mian had a talk with him before asking him to take care of the egg/baby. SL Qu definitely knew.
And 2nd TL LSS went to the Barren Abyss 500 years back, before SL Qu got there and was saved by Di Mian. Di Mian knew who she was, or he wouldn't have helped her either, and again, that happened before Qu came and went.
I loved epis 31 and 32. Finally TJJ has the chance to live a normal life at least for a while, and even if he…
One has curly bangs and is secretly evil, one is always cold and seems to be planning something, the third always smiles and likes to play tricks (I've no idea how much wine do they make in that sect, but HE might know, personally, LOL).
They're very easy to tell apart :)
There is a scene of the dismissal but I don't remember the guards, only the handmaidens. There might've been guards too. 1st timeline, she didn't meet him. 2nd one, she met him 500 years ago when she went to look for Ji Ze and also found Fu Ya. Actually, she didn't see him, just heard his voice. guiding her. She is half-goddess and phoenix through her mother (Chu Heng, the Goddess of Space) and gets her divine essence / body from her. There are no gods now, but she's cultivating into immortality and she CAN become a goddess. The tribulations were intended to help her along. The lightning tribulation is a must for progress in cultivation for immortals - even dragons have to go through them, not just immortals wanting to become gods. She wasn't making a 10-year tribulation, she FAILED a lightning tribulation 10 years back (the 2nd timeline's LSS, the one who went to recuperate IF she could at the bottom of the pool). She hadn't come up for ten years, so when the 1st timeline LSS came back in her place, she was probably already dispersed and nobody had yet found out.
The blood thing is TTJ trying to use the same spell as PYZ when remaking XL - he needs the Array, the spell, tears from a lover, blood from an enemy (he could use his own for both, I think he intended to) and some part of her body (he had her divine essence). Also divine blood would work better to make sure of success and activate the Array, according to PYZ's ghost's teachings.
Sect Leader Qu (foster dad) named her Yuling Goddess - the Lady of Elegance, if the TL is right.
I think I am losing my mind and totally missed something despite watching all the episodes at least twice. A very…
Err. The thing MY managed to hide was the Bone Refining Seal, not the Evil Bone. The Ancient Devil God made a pact with the YiYue tribe to get a child from them as a vessel, and the Bone was in the child's heart.
As for the eyes... he might've LOOKED like ADG, but he wasn't (no red / olive eyes), and she seems to recognize him by his eyes (there's that scene in 33 when TTJ tries to be sneaky and get some details from them and she seems to believe it because of the eyes, until he misses some hint and is discovered.
I confess I'm a bit confused by the last conversation at the end of episode 33...Like somehow it didn't make sense…
He didn't realize it was himself. He thought he might look like the Devil God or something, so he had no idea it was he, himself, who was doing everything, in her memory.
After this dream, he also realizes that's why she was, and still is, afraid of him - not of TTJ, but of him potentially becoming DG.
In essence, they're talking about different things - she's talking that he knows he's supposed to become DG, and he's talking about why she's still afraid of him.
I forgot to say this yesterday, but during the scene where TTJ and SS had their heads together, I noticed the…
It's the perspective, LOL. BL once measured his face using the width of her palm, and was jokingly annoyed it was so small (it's in one of the BTS that went in the ocean of Youtube, couldn't find it now if I tried, LOL).
Just learned Gong Jun was actually the first choice for TTJ role.I really like Gong Jun too but Gong Jun vs Luo…
Yeah, debunked rumour. The production team said they had LYX in mind from the beginning. Now, they might say it since he ended up taking the role, but the director himself gave interviews and said (among other things) that they never considered anyone else and even waited for LYX to heal from his LCR wound before starting shooting, even if it cramped up the schedule.
So no wonder if people from other companies (I doubt GJ started this rumour) or fans are saying it, but it's not true.
Again, it WASN'T the same street that was bustling. The one with the inn was empty that afternoon/evening (the INN was empty, the innkeeper was yawning his maw off). The bustling streets were those they BLOCKED with spelled water, so that the demon didn't get a chance to go elsewhere but would go to that particular part of the city where the inn is.
The next day - it's just before the festival, it's DAYTIME (no night-demon to brain-suck sleeping travellers) and then there were those cultivators around anyway. So the street might be more populated again.
One thing that is important to note. TTJ is without the devil bone. LSS has it. Everything he's able to do now,…
The Devil Bone was a must before, but it's not the only way to bring the DG around. The WEAPONS are recognising the Fetus, he already has the God-Slaying Crossbow inside, the Bone Refining Seal did some work on his heart, and his heart also still has the Soul-Destroying Nails in it. And hey did you notice the ADG can talk to him again, lately? Not even when he's too depressed and all that, but when the ADG feels like it...
How is it that in this timeline LSS mortal father only found her egg some decades back and sent her for reincarnation…
This is not wuxia (wuxia only has martial arts and maybe a contempt of physics, no immortals or anything).
The realms are separate in xianxia - the mortals, the immortals or gods, and the demons are usually in their own place on Earth (the whole planet speaks Chinese LOL) or underneath it, or in some separate plane of existence that is still connected to the actual mortal world. The mortals make it all complete. Everybody's fighting for the mortal plane LOL.
The time SCALES they're using in the gods or demons' realms are mindblowing. They'd be talking about things that happened some 40k thousands years ago like it was yesterday, while humans STILL live at most a century. So, from a god's perspective, we are fireflies. They'd consider themselves living at normal speed, while we are ephemeridae. Same goes for demons.
Which is to say, the time is measured the same, the scale is way, way different.
That also means (usually) gods and demons do not THINK the same way as mortals. They don't have the same concerns, and while xianxia makes use of them (usually through tribulations, or making them empathetic or enemies to mortals), it's not all of them but the Chosen One, LOL, who makes a bridge and understands the humans, and cares for them etc.
The wars in the Bo'Re Life actually did reach that kind of massive, epic, stage. I loved the wars. Finally a xianxia who could make it LOOK grand enough.
... This drama is really pushing all my buttons when it comes to grandeur and epic scenes, LOL.
I thought i missed some scene? how can NBY still alive after 500 years?
After TTJ went to the Nether River, the seals on the evil minions also broke and they started searching for the Evil Fetus (TTJ). Obviously they couldn't find him then, but they knew it was supposed to happen in the YiYue Tribe, so they attacked the tribe. NBY tried to fight them off and was defeated, and Si Ying decided not to kill him but keep him around until she could make use of him.
NBY cultivated a demonic path. He appears in ep 31 and 32 already, LOL, now he's appearing more.
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Also, Bai Lu delivered her lines much more emotionally than it comes through in some scenes, I also wish she'd had time to re-dub herself :(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gzke5Ge3n4&list=PLIPiKkS-FpK9OkJSDlyenOUM1HbWWpXw-
Edit PS hey, if it helps anyone hope for the best... do you see his eyes in that pic? They're not DG red or olive, despite the costume. *wink*
From the time she went back and didn't let TTJ (DG's vessel) die, ALL history changed. TTJ became the emperor, then she managed to get the Evil Bone from him and have a lightning tribulation and "die". She didn't actually die. Centuries in the future, her adoptive dad (Sect Leader Qu) was put in charge of hatching a phoenix egg from which the 2nd timeline's LSS grew up. In the sect, together with the re-made XL. They got engaged or at least talked about it, but then LSS in this second timeline failed a tribulation, went to recuperate at the bottom of a magic pool and vanished for ten years. In her place the 1st timeline's LSS came back. This LSS remembers the destruction of the sects and TTJ but does NOT remember any engagement with GYJW. They still grew up together (in the original timeline, before being sent back to the past), just not precisely the same. GYJW is not XL reincarnated and has no memories but his life in the sect. He doesn't remember YBC either.
I hope it's clear enough...
And 2nd TL LSS went to the Barren Abyss 500 years back, before SL Qu got there and was saved by Di Mian. Di Mian knew who she was, or he wouldn't have helped her either, and again, that happened before Qu came and went.
They're very easy to tell apart :)
There is a scene of the dismissal but I don't remember the guards, only the handmaidens. There might've been guards too.
1st timeline, she didn't meet him. 2nd one, she met him 500 years ago when she went to look for Ji Ze and also found Fu Ya. Actually, she didn't see him, just heard his voice. guiding her.
She is half-goddess and phoenix through her mother (Chu Heng, the Goddess of Space) and gets her divine essence / body from her. There are no gods now, but she's cultivating into immortality and she CAN become a goddess. The tribulations were intended to help her along. The lightning tribulation is a must for progress in cultivation for immortals - even dragons have to go through them, not just immortals wanting to become gods. She wasn't making a 10-year tribulation, she FAILED a lightning tribulation 10 years back (the 2nd timeline's LSS, the one who went to recuperate IF she could at the bottom of the pool). She hadn't come up for ten years, so when the 1st timeline LSS came back in her place, she was probably already dispersed and nobody had yet found out.
The blood thing is TTJ trying to use the same spell as PYZ when remaking XL - he needs the Array, the spell, tears from a lover, blood from an enemy (he could use his own for both, I think he intended to) and some part of her body (he had her divine essence). Also divine blood would work better to make sure of success and activate the Array, according to PYZ's ghost's teachings.
Sect Leader Qu (foster dad) named her Yuling Goddess - the Lady of Elegance, if the TL is right.
As for the eyes... he might've LOOKED like ADG, but he wasn't (no red / olive eyes), and she seems to recognize him by his eyes (there's that scene in 33 when TTJ tries to be sneaky and get some details from them and she seems to believe it because of the eyes, until he misses some hint and is discovered.
I mean, WE use this small trick, why shouldn't she? :D
After this dream, he also realizes that's why she was, and still is, afraid of him - not of TTJ, but of him potentially becoming DG.
In essence, they're talking about different things - she's talking that he knows he's supposed to become DG, and he's talking about why she's still afraid of him.
So no wonder if people from other companies (I doubt GJ started this rumour) or fans are saying it, but it's not true.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D-5iTvFhQ8
The next day - it's just before the festival, it's DAYTIME (no night-demon to brain-suck sleeping travellers) and then there were those cultivators around anyway. So the street might be more populated again.
We're not out of the woods yet.
See, still his fault! :D
I didn't read the novel, the drama DID show what was going on. I am kind of detail oriented though, sorry (well, most of the time) :(
The realms are separate in xianxia - the mortals, the immortals or gods, and the demons are usually in their own place on Earth (the whole planet speaks Chinese LOL) or underneath it, or in some separate plane of existence that is still connected to the actual mortal world. The mortals make it all complete. Everybody's fighting for the mortal plane LOL.
The time SCALES they're using in the gods or demons' realms are mindblowing. They'd be talking about things that happened some 40k thousands years ago like it was yesterday, while humans STILL live at most a century. So, from a god's perspective, we are fireflies. They'd consider themselves living at normal speed, while we are ephemeridae. Same goes for demons.
Which is to say, the time is measured the same, the scale is way, way different.
That also means (usually) gods and demons do not THINK the same way as mortals. They don't have the same concerns, and while xianxia makes use of them (usually through tribulations, or making them empathetic or enemies to mortals), it's not all of them but the Chosen One, LOL, who makes a bridge and understands the humans, and cares for them etc.
The wars in the Bo'Re Life actually did reach that kind of massive, epic, stage. I loved the wars. Finally a xianxia who could make it LOOK grand enough.
... This drama is really pushing all my buttons when it comes to grandeur and epic scenes, LOL.
NBY cultivated a demonic path. He appears in ep 31 and 32 already, LOL, now he's appearing more.