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As the grandmaster who founded the Demonic Sect, Wei WuXian roamed the world in his wanton ways, hat...
I did not read the novel and didn't see the drama nor the anime.
I ought to say that the manhua's pretty badly written, most of the time. There is no introduction to the universe and I was completely lost and didn't know what was happening for, like, the first 100 chapters.
They did such a bad job at introducing the world of this manhua, how the powers work, how the sects work, nor what exacly the sects are. Plus the story itself was told in such a strage way with constant leapings through time with the flashbacks that not only was I lost as to whether the story took place in the present or the past (Wei Wuxian's old adult body and new body had a similar design, so it really wasn't easy to understand), but I also couldn't memorize what was happening even though I binged the whole story. Like when they were telling what happenend during Jin Ling's birthday party or whatever that was and then they suddently came back to the present without any transitions and I had to go back and read the chapters before the flashbacks cause I didn't remember a thing of what was happening. Also, weirdly enough Lan Zhan looked better in earlier chapters than in the last ones lol.
Now things that annoyed me that are probably also present in the novel: The Nie (little brother's) psycholology could have been explored more. He was so cowardly during the whole story and his brother didn't treat him in the best way, so what made him go as far as resurrecting Wei Wuxian just to hypothetically avenge his older brother?
Also talking about WWX, I didn't forgive him. He never had bad intentions but Lan Zhan, especially, warned him numerous times about how his technique was harmful and how there could come a time when he wouldn't be able to control it anymore. He didn't listen. He CHOSE to keep using it knowing the consequences and never really apologized. I feel like the authors wants the reader to believe that WWX did nothing wrong and that everyone else is wrong for accusing him and being mad at him, as if they were gaslighting him, when he clearly was in the wrong. By the way it wasn't really explained neither how HE himself lost control over his own body.
I also didn't understand what happened after WWX entered the temple for the final battle. I mean, wtf was that. Was big bro Lan there to attack the Jin scumbag, why didn’t he bring and troops? Same for Jiang Cheng, why was the freaking sect leader going to the "battlefield" alone?
Anyways. I still enjoyed the story. It had a lot of potential, with intersting plot points. It's like, I liked the individual little stories but having them all combined into one big mess was too much for me.