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After seeing just how lonely he has been and for how long, the ending just warms my heart. I was left with a huge smile on my face after I finished the last episode.

So the reason Natural Law didn't reveal Xing Zhi's mission when he was born was because his mission was to destroy the Extranatural Heaven? I wonder if the other Ancient Gods could guess it. It seems very sad somehow. His birth foretold their death.

So the novel gives the same information as the drama. I was actually wondering if he's even Liuming's son in the first place. It seems like Liuming was planning on using his body to resurrect himself once he's out of the Abyss, which made me wonder if he created Mofang somehow. That he wasn't born naturally and doesn't even have a mother to begin with. I guess we'll never know.

Oh, the novel is short? I wasn't aware of that. 🤣 I was actually planning on reading the novel to get some of my questions answered.

Another question for the novel readers. In the beginning of the drama we're told that the Divine Realm are humans who cultivated into immortality and the Immortal Realm are beasts that cultivated into immortality. In th drama we're only ever shown that Shen Li is a phoenix, but we're never shown which beasts the rest of the Immortal Realm characters are. Even in terms of manifestation of sporitual power, only Shen Li's has clear phoenix references. Is this different in the novel? Does the novel explain what the true form of the important characters in the Immortal Realm is?

I'm aware Liuming is not a Chimei, but seeing as Mofang seemed to have been born in the Abyss and there were only Chimei and Liuming in there, it seems likely that his mother is a Chimei, making him half Chimei.

Based on what's shown in the drama, Mofang was born in the Abyss. Then Fu Sheng escaped the Abyss with baby Mofang. So who is his mother? As far as we know, only Chimei and Liuming were locked up in the Abyss. Does that mean that Mofang is also half Chimei like Shen Li?

I have a question about Mofang. Seeing as it's probably not going to be answered in the drama, maybe someone who read the novel can answer.

That's adorable

It's a distasteful joke. To be expected from a country obsessed with white skin.

This is definitely one of the episodes that just ripped my heart right out. At the same time my appreciation for BL and LYX's acting definitely rose higher. Whatever else can be said about their acting, the two definitely give it their all.

That detail also always caught my eye

The plot reminds me of Story of Kunning Palace.

The similarity is definitely there 🤣

Seeing that side of him in the memories of his fellow Gods was absolutely heartwarming. It really shows that he's the youngest among them and can get away with being mischievous. We obviously get to see a bit of that side of him in his interactions with Shen Li before we ever get to see those memories, but it has a different meaning to see him act like that with his 'friends'. It also clearly shows that he treats her differently. That there's a connection that he doesn't feel with others.

Them being genderless actually would have made much more sense.

I see the patriarchy argument, because it's not only the Ancient Gods. Shen Li is only female warrior in her realm. Their ruler is female, but all the officials serving her, except for Shen Li are male. The argument that men are stronger than women doesn't really apply in this setting, because it's not physical strength but spiritual power that determines strength so why are there only 2 strong females in the realm? The divine realm is not much different. All the important positions seem to be taken up by men. In terms of gender imbalance, this is the worst example among all the Xianxia dramas I've watched so far.

I know it's explained in the drama, that Ancient Gods are born with a certain task/mission which is revealed at the time of their birth. That's what was mentioned in one of the memories that SL received from one of the memorial tablets. Afterwards, XZ also explained that Ancient Gods like all living things eventually are meant to perish. If they did their duties properly and perished naturally, everything they did in their lifetime remains because their divine power remains part of the universe. If however, they made mistakes and are stripped of their divinity, then everything they did before that is undone, because their divine power vanishes and they are punished.

None of this explains however why they are all male, because first of all, they are not locked up in their own realm, so they did encounter women all the time (case in point, Qing Ye who fell in love and was punished for using his powers for personal reasons). Secondly, there's nothing holding them back from falling in love with a fellow male Ancient God and making things complicated. Thirdly, them being all male didn't change the fact that 70% of the perished Ancient Gods were punished for whatever mistakes they made and only 30% of them died at the natural end of their lives.

The saddest part about XZ is that because he's the last one, he doesn't have the luxury to make a mistake and just be punished, knowing that there's someone else to protect the world when all his magic/deeds are undone. This is something that the other Ancient Gods did have and could rely on, which probably made it possible for them to just go for it.

Natural Law seems to be rather cruel. It clearly gives these Ancient Gods emotions, but at the same time they are expected to be/behave as if they are emotionless.It's understandable that a supremely powerful being using that power for personal reasons could lead to catastrophe, but it still doesn't seem to be the most efficient design.

🤣🤣🤣 So Natural Law is Mother Nature and she only has sons? Or do you mean Natural Law is male and so everything produced by it is also male?

Will the provide a reason for why all the Ancient Gods are male?

That's a very good description. In this drama we get two leads that have very specific duties and image. They are both seen as very powerful beings that protect others, so others assume that they don't need protection themselves overlooking the fact that that might not be entirely true. Yes, they are powerful and strong, but both show a vulnerability that coincidentally only they can see in each other. So they can't help but care.