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As someone who is reading the original chinese novel alongside the donghua adaptation, I can say that the adaptation decisions are actually an improvement. Yes a lot of cultivation details are condensed and it may feel like the pacing is slightly fast, but you have to this is a 2k+ chapter novel being summarized in 76 episodes. Not to criticize the novel but I would say that it would verge on tedious if the donghua did in fact keep every single detail for the visual format. The donghua also adds a lot more emotional value to certain key scenes and fleshed out some of ... the more critical side characters. Otherwise, most of the important plot points have been adapted, although some plot points slightly rearranged for better flow in the donghua (but it does not impact the overall plot and usually makes for more impactful visual experience).

Positives:
-Visuals: The modelling of the ML and FL certainly got a large portion of the budget but important side characters do also have good looking & unique models...lots of eye candy here especially the ML (trust the process, he gets a lot of different looks) ;) Overall visuals are beautiful, animation is actually much better and smoother than a lot of other donghua.
-Background music: Quite fitting for the battle scenes, there is an insert song 神临 in episode 36 that is particularly epic and satisfying.
-Voice acting: Nothing to complain about with the voice acting, it is what you expect. ML is voiced by 史泽鲲 (Jin Zixuan in MDZS, Kong Xuan in Tianbao)
-Plot: (This is not a criticism of the donghua itself, since it follows the novel, but will be more useful for people are watching this without prior knowledge.) As someone who does not enjoy stories that revolve around sappy romance subplots and annoying FLs, this is very very satisfying so far. The ML has good character development, he has backbone and knows what he wants.

Negatives:
-There are some concepts that are not really explained in of cultivation (particularly what 极境 is and the significance, sorry I'm not sure what the english translation uses since I'm watching/reading in the original chinese).