Part 1 was interesting. It feels new and depart from the typical Chinese drama. However, as usual Part 2 starts to show degradation in the story and characters... From episode 21 in Part 2 onwards, it starts to be disconnected, from Part 1. Very common for multi part drama, as writers start to ran out of ideas in Part 2. Anyway, the sword play was nice but Part 1 is more interesting than Part 2. In fact it could be contained into 40 episode instead of a total of 56 episode and broken into 2 parts to evade the 40 episodes limit.