Cultivation drama with no romance, just pure Xianxia cultivation
It's nice to watch a Xianxia drama without any tacky romance involved. Yang Yan portrayed Han Li’s personality so well, he is low-key, pragmatic, and opportunistic; he survives and rises through sheer caution, persistence, and resourcefulness. I love that they made sure Han Li stayed away from getting emotionally attached to these clingy women. The story is about his process of climbing the cultivation ladder toward immortality so it's good that his mindset never deviated throughout the whole story. Also, I don't understand why Gina Jin was the Female lead when she was barely in the drama, she should have been just a Supporting role, she is not that good of an actress anyway. And to be honest if she was to be Han Li's love in this drama, I would say that it is a mistake because they have absolutely no chemistry at all in the very little scenes they had together and she was always looking to kill him, like WTF?!! Loved the other supporting actors that fought by Han Li's side. The fight scenes were good although some did become looking repetitive especially when using the same fighting techniques and artifacts. All in all, this drama is a good watch, it wasn't boring to me at all. The ending didn't surprise me at all because this is supposed to be adapted from the novel "A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality' which has a total of 2451 chapters; so the question now is will there be a season 2 and when??
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