The Taoism Grandmaster focuses on the themes of friendship, found family, and fate. I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys them because this drama has some of the best developed characters I've seen.

Heroes: The main leads of this story are all beyond reproach. Zhang Ling is smart and funny, Tie Lang is simple but not stupid, Feifei is strong and kind, while Liuli is dedicated and passionate. All of them work wonderfully as the main characters, and you can't get enough of them. Their friendship is what drives the story. The side characters are no slouches, either. This story has many of them, and each one gets a developed personality and an actual storyline. There were so many good ones that instead of writing them one by one, it would be easier to just copy-paste the entire list of characters. Everyone was that good.

Villains: Since the good guys get so much effort put into them, the villains ended up suffering for it. The main enemy is... random. Her scenes are often confusing, and by the end, you just learn to accept that she can do whatever the plot wants her to do while her actions and motivations are pretty random. However, the story has a few secondary villains that are pretty cool. They don't last long, but that's a minor problem.

Story: If you can turn off your brain and listen to the logic presented in the drama, then you're gonna enjoy it. The story is cohesive and well-developed within its own universe. All episodes are good and necessary. There were a few times I thought something was a little pointless, but later, it showed up that it was actually very important. It was all necessary to make the story work.

Overall, I enjoyed this drama a lot. It focused on friendship in all its forms, and while the story was often light-hearted, it did not shy away from showing the results of distrust or putting others too far before yourself.