I will start with I have no idea what the source material is, but the show was bad and sometimes borderline terrible.

The story is about Lin Ding who by the end of the show I affectionately call Ding Dong. Ding Dong is the successor of Fu Zu and has to save the world from demons. Nothing too original. Along the way he loses a "brother" gains a fairy girl, a wild girl, a marten who looks like a weasel, and fire tiger and some other people.

For character development. Ding Dong has no power at the beginning but has a good heart and wants to protect people which he generally fails at. His character is better in season 2 and shows some development but he really doesn't change and basically remains a ding dong. The brother is selfish and an egomaniac so of course he becomes the bug bad demon. He looked good, but that is about all I can say. Fairy girl i don't even care to remember her name starts of as a strong chatacter but in the end is just whiney and annoying. Marten/weseal and fire tiger are beast in human forms. They are fun to watch but not in the show enough. Old man Yuan is basically useless and a pervert. Wild girl or Ice Maiden is the only person that seems to develop as a character. She starts off as annoying, then you like her and then she is the only adult in the show making tough decisions to save the world. Of course she is the one that doesn't "survive". Is it bad to say my favorite character was the prince of the human realm and he was only in the show for like 5 episodes?

Music is fine, special effects were decent.

Would I watch the show again, a strong most likely never. Was it the worst show I've ever seen, not really. Would I recommend it no. It really did not get interesting until season 2 so 40 episodes of telling the tv that everyone is stupid. Then again they are all still stupid in season 2 but at least it's only 20 episodes so at least the suffering is quicker.