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haha yeh I hadn't heard about it ill recently either but a really good cast in my opinion and original IP is always interesting

Yeh I think its definitely more xianxia then wuxia but does well to blend the two a little bit, not being a full out xianxia, with some wuxia elements. But should be classified as more of a xianxia than wuxia in my opinion.

Personally, I think it will only be one season with an open ending. I would love for multiple seasons, but multiple season cdramas are pretty rare, especially with a big budget and cast like this one. But it has happened before with the best example being joy of life, so there's hope, fingers crossed.

These next two weeks are about to be insane, a classic Youku vs Tencent vs iqiyi battle with Immortal Ascension, Legend of the female general on Aug 6th and Wanted detective on Aug 1. I really hope Immortal ascension holds up, so far I'm really liking it and after today things are heating up even more. With today's battle, and even bigger battles ahead, I hope they keep the same type of camera angles, choreo and color schemes as they did today, because it really made for a dynamic and immersive but watchable and clear fight scene. Will be interesting to see how these three big names compete against each other during this time. We are truly spoilt for choice now as cdrama watchers.

One thing I really like about the fight scene in ep 11 are the camera angles and while it may sound dumb, the different colors. Fight scenes with people flying round and a big monster can often be hard to follow and confusing, hard to know what's happening and who's doing what. But the camera angles used were really dynamic, allowing us to follow the action, while also feeling right in the middle of it. Also the different colors helps us easily determine who's attack is who's. Made it easy to follow and more enjoyable. Really well done honestly.

Thanks you too for sharing. Honestly, I think people went in expecting this crazy romance. I viewed the early part as a coming of age friendship drama and then later part a romance, and for me it made sense. Honestly, I think his HK arc was explained quite well especially after his uncle woke up, like we understood his struggles more then. For Linghe, for me it's more about the quality of the scenes than the quantity. He produces quality scenes even if people expected more, and thats what matters, he was quality in the scenes he was in. I really enjoyed the romance in the last 4-5 episodes, yeh it would have been nice to get a better ending for the old friends and maybe some of the other parents, but overall it was satisfying watching the ML and FL be happy.

Yeh nothing against the actress who plays Ye Yan, but I think Miaoyi would have had such a great dynamic with Jin Mai, still I enjoyed the drama. Ngl I see a lot of people saying Linghe had a lot of scenes cut. Besides episodes like 17 and 18 the college parts, didn't really feel like he was missing. Felt like he had the scenes he was meant to have and he made the most of the scenes he was in.

Just a random thought, and don't get me wrong the actor who played Qin Ye Yun was really good, nothing against her. But maybe it's cause I love fly towards you and recently watched first frost, but I think Zhang Miaoyi would have been so good as the second female lead. Her and Jin Mai would have been so cute together I reckon, I can picture her as Ye Yun and her friendship with Ying tao so much. Again, nothing against the actor who played Ye Yun, she did a great job, but I just think Jin Mai and Zhang Miaoyi would have been a really good pair. Just a random thought I had while watching. Overall ngl I'm enjoying it. I can understand why some people might not like it, but viewing it as a friendship/growing up drama for the first 19 episodes, then romance after, I'm enjoying it.

No problem

Wan spent time in medicine valley way before consort jin's death and her family's death. Never mentioned exactly when but it was before everything happened. No specific timeline is ever mentioned, but essentially growing up she spent time in medicine valley, then consort jin died, prince jin was framed and died, and then wan's parents died (which we see at the very start of the drama). We don't know how much time exactly passed between all this, but probably only a few days, maybe weeks between consort jin's death and prince jin's death. Then probably a few weeks, between prince jin's death and Wan parents death. Honestly timeline doesn't matter too much, just basically, Wan spent time in medicine valley as a kid/growing up way before anything happened. Then consort jin died, a few days or weeks later, prince Jin, then a few weeks later Wan family. We're never told exactly how long between all these, just my opinion.

Jin was not the empress's son. He was the son of another concubine and the emperor but its never revealed who exactly his mother was. Just that he was the oldest prince. You're right about the rest, Consort jin was the emperor (his father's) consort, he was accused of trying to rape and kill her.

Prince Jin was the oldest son of the emperor, so he was the oldest prince. Older brother to the crown prince, prince Cheng and Yan Sui, and cousin to the ML.

So true, true ratings from real audiences always bring the ratings back up when the show deserves it

Yeh they probably will mention it later when he's upgrading, but they should have mentioned it before so it makes sense why he goes into danger.

Ah ok, I see, thanks for the info

Yeh they haven't introduced this in the drama and maybe they won't because it happens after ages, but his world is known as a lower realm. Theres middle realms, upper realms and even more above that. So his world is like the bottom of the bottom. So they don't know how good his spirit roots are when he becomes stronger. They just know at low levels it's really slow.

Yeh exactly the problem with 4 spiritual roots, and this world, is that its requires a lot of spiritual energy, where as the world they are in now doesn't have much. So during the low levels it's difficult to upgrade. But deity transformation and above, it's really helpful, and gives him an advantage over others and ability to grow stronger faster. But the world they're in now wouldn't know this, they just see it as bad because it takes a long time to cultivate during low levels.

I think it's also that they're low level, there's a spoiler I can give for those that want it about the head of the sect. The head of the sect is a jerk and does something really bad later that kind of shows how high level cultivators treat low levels. They pretty much don't care about low level cultivators.

I'm not sure if it will be the same in the drama, but in the novel and donghua he needed a lot, and I mean a lot of foundation pills to level up because his talent/spirit root is so bad. He needed way more than 2, so his only option is to go and get the ingredients even though it's dangerous, otherwise he doesn't know where else he can get them from. But thats just in the novel, not sure if when he levels up in the drama as well, he will take a bunch of pills or if two is enough.

Theres no chance they can fit the entire novel, the novel is 2400+ chapters, so there's like no way that happens. As for the donghua, it's 150ish episodes still on going. It's going at a pretty good pace so far though. I think it will just have an open ending. As for season 2, who knows.