"Xuanhuan can have anything: clans, treasures, bypassing superiors, tournaments, this stuff is mostly all xuanhuan. Eastern mythology aspects plus new merged subject matter from other fantasy types. (Xuanhuan has much faster cultivation than xianxia, and in the early days a moment of enlightenment/understanding was not needed.) ...Feudal society, imperial authority, plus martial arts/warrior groups and organizations; generally has powerful clans and powerful academies, etc."
From what I read it is the same but divided differently
It is just the episodes with different duration because in TV there is ADs, censorship and what not so the DVD version is the smoothest version, each episode lasting a predetermined amount of time without much variation
...Feudal society, imperial authority, plus martial arts/warrior groups and organizations; generally has powerful clans and powerful academies, etc."