with Beauty of Resilience airing on iQiyi it's safe to assume this won't be released until that's over and although Im enjoying Beauty of Resilience i also can't wait for this
episode 11 had a scene right out the novel the alchemy pill to cover her scent was in the novel only difference is in the novel it made it look like she had a peacock bloodline and her phoenix bloodline was only known to the ml at the time
bad acting by female lead. she is not putting effort into scenes. One scene the gody guy take her in clouds. She…
mortals have their own cultivation and immortal cultivation is not the start although not explicitly said but in the drama but in the novel mortals could cultivate until mortal peak and then breakthrough to become immortal and immortals could cultivate until immortal peak then become god so not all mortals have no cultivation level although to an immortal everything below immortal level are ants and to gods everything below god level ae ants
you're right that it's kinda open ending as FL and ML go into a cocoon state and come back after 500 years but the people who come out aren't explicitly said to be the leads
but drama seems to be going a little different as ml in novel learned early on she was the Phoenix and did everything he could to hide that fact and made it look like Wei Zhi was just 50% Peacock because the Phoenix in the novel was a divine being but many people are scheming bad things toward it to benefit themselves and ml knew some of these schemes so did everything he could to hide her Phoenix blood and prevented her from activating it
because in the novel the Heavenly Emperor is the big bad and has a huge scheme going on and ml finds out and opposes him and to protect the Phoenix Wei Zhi