The leads have no chemistry. The acting is wooden and subpar between them, it's a tired old trope of immortal master and student that becomes cringy boarding on completely repellent.

I came to watch some of my favorite young actors. The director didn't give many of these characters personality yet a few manage to try and put their best foot forward, these would be Wang Zhoucheng who manages to allure in heavy makeup as the Demon King Wang Yue, Asher Ma, who is a headstrong and rambunctious Young Master, Lin Si Yi as the Princess turned Immortal but bound to the jealous nemisis stereotype, Hu Yun Hao as a senior Immortal Master with the one brain cell this Sect contains, but poor Deng Wei, so bright in I Am The Years You Are The Stars is completely wasted.

What would have made a much more compelling story are doomed lovers, the possessed immortal Chu Bu Fu/Wan Jie and Zhang Zhi Xi, a pair of actors and theme I actually wanted to follow.