I highly anticipated this drama for 1) Liu Yu Ning after his Hao Du character in The Long Ballad and 2) I love Wuxia. It started off with the same vibe I get with adventure animes that are heavy on friendship and camaraderie. Little Rock has that anime lead personality: strong, carefree, and gets down and dirty when he needs to. Su Meng and Di Fei Jing were very intriguing. Bai Chou Fei was going to walk the dark path, I just knew it. He was going to be Sasuke to Wang Xiao Shi's Naruto. Wen Rou was a hit-or-miss for me. Sometimes she was annoying, other times refreshing. Lei Chun felt like a forcedly put-together complex character. Her relationships to the other characters already made her out to be a complex character but her progression seemed contrived. The action sequences also had some hit and miss moments. The cut scenes worked nicely after longer elaborate fight sequences but sometimes it just appeared lazy. The longer I watched the drama the more frequent I skipped. I held on for the aesthetic and the fight scenes but I didn't enjoy its final trajectory. I found it overly dramatic without being cathartic.