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Might be that island again. In the manhua it's a bird girl instead

Heilong wants to resurrect Beilong. No one else knows this secret except Shen Yan who figured it on his own.

When you say aquatic you might be referring to the island reference in the first scene of episode 1. That island is where people go train for the forging powers. It also has a terrible evil power there too that will be important in the second half of the novel.

Because there is a treaty between the gods and the demons already explained by the show. If even a single demon is caught outside it would give the gods the reason to wipe all the demons out.

Yes, this show does not have pointless romance plots

Wu Gen beats Hei Long during the first half of the series. Hei Long was then presumably killed by Shen Yan's back stab. So we might see up to that point. I think it would be good to end there for this show.

In the source material it's Ah Lan who gets taken over briefly by the head priest. In this show it looks like the head priest is going to get his hands on Bai Cai instead.

Nitian is already infected with the stone disease. He is burning his life to the max to fight Heilong in that battle. Under his mask it will show his stone disease scars. The show will likely end at the first half of the story. Nitian dies fighting Heilong, and transfers his soul to Wu Gen, who decided to why not fuse every dark one's soul into him in order to beat Heilong.

Sad ending because the drama people want to make the fans angry. Source material is good ending but the main villain Shen Yan, the head priest escapes and reincarnates again to plot his revenge. Bai Cai dies one time because the ancient gods came back to slaughter all the women and children. Wu Gen went to the underworld and made a deal to sell his soul to bring her back. This was a minor scene but of course these drama people want to make it a big deal.

This show has a no romance flowery music like all of those other dramas. All of the background music are filled with tension and dread.

The original is manhua "wu geng ji". The author draws manhuas

hahaha I know. Need to get more drama people to watch donghua so they will know how we feel.

The real gods are the dragon clan who also had two dragons on their backs like heilong and beilong. Heilong killed them all, sealed and reincarnated the ones you see here. When they reawaken they will see the human looking gods as inferior beings and proceed to crush them all.

Yeah I guess youku is always more reliable. Iqiyi tries hard. Tencent is the worst with changing original source material even when they own the IP .

The donghua also altered a lot from the original material

Wait till they find out that they are also humans and when the real gods show up, they will get oppressed.

In the manhua the stones are needed to resurrected Bai long. It takes almost an infinite amount to do it, which is why Heilong is willing make all humans suffer for thousands of years to mine it. In this show we dont know yet.

yes he does

Tencent released a trailer of this years back then it disappeared

In the source material he just outright lied to Chen Xing that Zha zha was eaten and got the 2 to fight while he made his escape .