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* AssassinOutclassin:
** Die Feng, Zi Lan, and Tian Shu and Ye Hua, all easily defeat groups of Ghost Realm demon puppet assassins. These puppets were noted to have killed several high immortals in the previous days.
** The mortal Emperor identity of Dong Hua takes on two packs of ninjas in the space of a few minutes, whilst protecting Feng Jiu, and kills them all without sustaining a single injury. [[TakingTheBullet Feng Jiu did get injured protecting him once though]].
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* DragonsAreDivine: Of course, given the setting comes from Myth/Chinese Mythology. The Celestial clan, i.e the rulers of the Nine Heavens are stated to be also called the Dragon Clan. We only see Ye Hua in dragon form however.

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* DragonsAreDivine: Of course, given the setting comes from Myth/Chinese Mythology.Myth/ChineseMythology. The Celestial clan, i.e the rulers of the Nine Heavens are stated to be also called the Dragon Clan. We only see Ye Hua in dragon form however.

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* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler: Xuan Nu]] dies in Li Jing's arms.

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* DiedInYourArmsTonight: DiedInYourArmsTonight:
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[[spoiler: Xuan Nu]] dies in Li Jing's arms.arms.
** [[spoiler: Ye Hua]] dies in [[spoiler: Bai Qian's arms. [[OnlyMostlyDead He gets better]].]]
* DragonsAreDivine: Of course, given the setting comes from Myth/Chinese Mythology. The Celestial clan, i.e the rulers of the Nine Heavens are stated to be also called the Dragon Clan. We only see Ye Hua in dragon form however.



* WritersCannotDoMath: Or rather, they didn't trouble to keep track of how they adapted the story and the timeline suffered as a result. The main culprit of this issue is when Ye Hua's birth occurred. The depiction in the show is that he was born a few weeks after the Battle of Ruo River, making him 70,000(+) years old when the main story kicks in. In the book however, he was 50,000 years old (as his spirit took 20,000 years to help Mo Yuan begin to piece his soul together). This age survives in dialogue, such as when Le Xu says that Su Jin is 20,000 years older than Ye Hua, even though days prior she was said to be only 500 years old; or when Bai Qian says she is 90,000 years older than him, even though she's actually 140,000 and later says that Ye Hua is his show age (i.e. 70,000).

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* WritersCannotDoMath: Or rather, they didn't trouble to keep track of how they adapted the story and the timeline suffered as a result. The main big culprit of this issue is when Ye Hua's birth occurred. The depiction in the show is that he was born a few weeks after the Battle of Ruo Ruoshui River, making him 70,000(+) years old when the main story kicks in. In the book however, he was 50,000 years old (as his spirit took 20,000 years to help Mo Yuan begin to piece his soul together). This age survives in dialogue, such as when Le Xu says that Su Jin is 20,000 years older than Ye Hua, even though days prior she was said to be only 500 years old; or when Bai Qian says she is 90,000 years older than him, even though she's actually 140,000 and later says that Ye Hua is his show age (i.e. 70,000).


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* YearInsideHourOutside: A day in the heavenly realms equals a year in the mortal realm. Or at least, that's what they say. The pacing can confuse this issue, as can the fact that that the AdaptationExpansion has messed with the original story and the creators [[WritersCannotDoMath didn't pay attention when they directly adapted the book and when they added their own ideas.]]

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* AgeGapRomance: Not obvious given the fact that the characters are immortals, but age gaps are pointed out in two instances:

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* ABirthdayNotABreak: Bai Qian is kidnapped and almost drowned on her birthday.
* AgeGapRomance: Not obvious given the fact that the characters are immortals, but age gaps are pointed out in two three instances:



** Bai Zhi is 15,000 years older than his wife, the Fox Empress.



* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning:
** Ye Hua officially being made Crown Prince. He gets given the seal before the representatives of the leaders of the Nine Heavens, all the while birds sing and the skies shine gold in celebratory divine approval.
** [[spoiler: Bai Feng Jiu is recognised as Qing Qiu's Queen of the East, succeeding Bai Qian. Everyone, including her own father, bow to her, right after Dong Hua sends her an extremely valuable gift, which she accepts with a wisdom and grace one wouldn't think possible of the sweet, giggly, spoiled girl she was prior.]]



* ABirthdayNotABreak: Bai Qian is kidnapped and almost drowned on her birthday.
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** Dong Hua conquered heaven and earth to become Emperor. Yep, the laid-back, PrettyBoy {{Troll}} with the [[MysticalWhiteHair beautiful white hair].

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** Dong Hua conquered heaven and earth to become Emperor. Yep, the laid-back, PrettyBoy {{Troll}} with the [[MysticalWhiteHair beautiful white hair].hair]].
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* OffScreenMomentOfAwesome:
** Dong Hua conquered heaven and earth to become Emperor. Yep, the laid-back, PrettyBoy {{Troll}} with the [[MysticalWhiteHair beautiful white hair].
** Fox Emperor, Bai Zhi, took on the four divine beasts, possessing half the power of the [[CreatorGod Heavenly Father]] ''and won'' (injured, but seemingly easily healed). Yes, those beasts that [[spoiler: kill all Li Jing's soldiers, overpower a disciple of Mo Yuan and Li Jing himself, and stab Ye Hua and tear of his arm]]. Bai Zhi overpowered them all, ''alone''.
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: [[spoiler: When Su Jin is on trial for framing Yuan Zhen for attempted rape, framing Bai Qian for attempted murder, and attempting to use a magic puppet to seduce Ye Hua, she begins saying that everyone present - including her technical husband Ye Hua - are lying about her. Dong Hua points out that slandering her husband is the ''worst'' crime out of the lot.]]
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* InhumanlyBeautifulRace: Nine-tailed foxes (i.e. the Bai clan) are said to be uncommonly beautiful and naturally seductive in appearance, even for immortals. The Fox Empress, Bai Zhen, Bai Qian and Bai Feng Jiu are all mentioned by other characters to fit this image of their race.
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** Dong Hua is significantly older than Feng Jiu - he was conquering and ruling the heavens when her father was a kid. [[OlderThanTheyLook He doesn't look it mind you.]] According to the books, he's about 370,000 years her senior, though she's actually about a month older than Ye Hua in this series' timeline.

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** Dong Hua is significantly older than Feng Jiu - he was conquering and ruling the heavens when her father was a kid. [[OlderThanTheyLook He doesn't look it mind you.]] According to the books, he's about 370,000 years her senior, and she's 30,000, though in this series' timeline she's actually about a month older ''older'' than Ye Hua in this series' timeline.Hua.

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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Par for the course for this series.


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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Par for the course for this series.
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* AgeGapRomance: Not obvious given the fact that the characters are immortals, but age gaps are pointed out in two instances:
** Bai Qian is 70,000 years older than Ye Hua (in the show's timeline anyway, though the dialogue [[WritersCannotDoMath makes this confusing]]).
** Dong Hua is significantly older than Feng Jiu - he was conquering and ruling the heavens when her father was a kid. [[OlderThanTheyLook He doesn't look it mind you.]] According to the books, he's about 370,000 years her senior, though she's actually about a month older than Ye Hua in this series' timeline.
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* SeductionProofMarriage: Ye Hua is only interested in Su Su/Bai Qian, the wife he chose for himself (effectively). When Miao Qing tries to use a dance to get him to notice her, it fails as he's far too interested in wife he's rediscovered.

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* SeductionProofMarriage: Ye Hua is only interested in Su Su/Bai Qian, the wife he chose for himself (effectively). When Miao Qing tries to use a dance to get him to notice her, it fails as he's far too interested in the wife he's rediscovered.
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* IgnoreTheFanservice: Princess of the Eastern Sea, Miao Qing, tries to get Ye Hua to notice her by dancing for him during the banquet at her brother's palace. Ye Hua seems ignorant of her as he's too focused on the fact he's found [[OneTrueLove Bai Qian, who is Su Su]]. Even when she points Miao Qing out, Ye Hua keeps ignoring her.


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* SeductionProofMarriage: Ye Hua is only interested in Su Su/Bai Qian, the wife he chose for himself (effectively). When Miao Qing tries to use a dance to get him to notice her, it fails as he's far too interested in wife he's rediscovered.

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* MistakenForCheating: Bai Qian mistakenly thinks Ye Hua has lost interest in her and fallen in love with Su Jin instead. Ye Hua's behaviour only makes things worse.

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* MissedHimByThatMuch:
** Ye Hua goes to Qing Qiu to speak to Bai Feng Jiu about finding Si Yin, who he believes has a way to bring back the dead, as he wants to revive Su Su. All the while Bai Qian (who was Su Su) is inside the Fox Den and very nearly went outside to see him herself.
** Shortly after the above, the Jade Purity Fan disappears from his hands so Ye Hua thinks it returned to Si Yin and goes to Kunlun Mountain to check if the disciple is there. Meanwhile, Bai Qian/Si Yin ''is'' there but she teleports away ''mere seconds'' before Ye Hua walks into the main hall to catch sight of her.
** Senior Disciple Die Feng and Sixteenth Zi Lan, who have spent 70,000 years looking for Si Yin, walk into the main hall of the Eastern Sea King's palace just as Bai Qian/Si Yin hurries out the back.
* MistakenForCheating: Bai Su Su/Bai Qian mistakenly thinks Ye Hua has lost interest in her and fallen in love with Su Jin instead. Ye Hua's behaviour only makes things worse.
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* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Bai Feng Jiu keeps telling Dong Hua that her aunt has never left Qing Qiu since she was born, and doesn't have any connection to Kunlun. Despite her attempts at innocence, when she says she would never lie to her savior, Dong Hua just looks amused at her terrible attempt to convince him.
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* TheOldGods: The Heavenly Emperor laments that there are [[DeathOfTheOldGods few old gods left]], and the ones that are around, tend to stay out of worldly affairs. The only deceased old god who is repeatedly mentioned is [[CreatorGod Heavenly Father]]; the living old gods include: Dong Hua, Zhe Yan, Mo Yuan and Bai Zhi. Of them, only Mo Yuan actively gets involved due to being the God of War. Dong Hua is retired but gives advice and manipulates from the sidelines, whilst Zhe Yan and Bai Zhi prefer being laid back, with the former only involving himself when he has an emotional reason to do so.
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* CelestialBureaucracy: The Nine Heavens is one, which is unsurprising given the mythology it's based on. There are numerous laws and regulations, as well as rules of etiquette. And ignorance of these is not an excuse when you're caught breaking them.

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* CelestialBureaucracy: The Nine Heavens is one, which is unsurprising given the mythology it's based on. There are numerous laws and regulations, as well as rules of etiquette. And ignorance of these is not an excuse when you're caught breaking them. There's also DivineRanks, from low immortals (or fairies, depending on translation) to high gods, and even amongst the high gods, there's differences of respect based on age and lineage.
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* MedievalStasis: Both the immortal and mortal realms are stuck in the setting of early Imperial China. However, it's more glaring in the mortal realm, which moves on a faster time scale (roughly 1 day in heaven equals 1 year in the mortal realm). The exact same tea house in the Far East is seen when Bai Qian visits as Si Yin, and 70,000 heavenly years later (which is ''millions'' of mortal years) Su Su goes to there occasionally. 300 heavenly years later, Bai Qian again goes there. At no point does the tea house or town change despite the incredibly long passage of time.
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* SeparatedAtBirth: A unique version. Mo Yuan survived birth, however his younger twin brother did not. Thus their father, the [[CreatorGod Heavenly Father]], turned the miscarried twin's essence into a golden lotus so it would have a chance in the future. Hundreds of thousands of years later, that golden lotus induced a MysticalPregnancy in Le Xu so she could give birth to Ye Hua, who looks uncannily like Mo Yuan. Given the millennia between their births and the fact only Mo Yuan (and possibly Dong Hua) knew the truth, it's hardly a wonder nobody knew or could figure out they actually are twins.
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* HiddenInPlainSight: Despite spending ''70,300 years'' looking for Si Yin and Mo Yuan's body, none of the disciples, who claim they've looked ''everywhere'' (including in the mortal realm), apparently ever bothered to check Qing Qiu. This is despite the fact they knew Si Yin was a fox from Ten Mile Peach Forest, which is ''in'' Qing Qiu. If they had, they would have seen Bai Qian, [[SecretIdentity who is a dead-ringer for Si Yin]], walking around.
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* ArrangedMarriage: Often of the AltarDiplomacy kind.
** Sang Ji and Bai Qian are betrothed to form an alliance between the Celestials and the Fox Tribe. It doesn't go ahead, which leads to...
** To make up for Sang Ji's actions, the Heavenly Emperor has Ye Hua betrothed to Bai Qian instead. [[PerfectlyArrangedMarriage It works out]]... eventually.
** Xuan Nu is betrothed to a black-bear spirit. She finds this horrifying and runs away from home.
** The Heavenly Emperor himself was arranged to marry his cousin (of some description). He resisted at first, but after being forced to get to know her, accepted it.
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* TreacheryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: By stealing Mo Yuan's tactical plans and giving them to Qing Cang, Xuan Nu caused around ''200,000'' soldiers on both sides to die, in addition to Mo Yuan sacrificing himself to stop the Bell of the East Emperor. Due to this, not only is she a PersonaNonGrata within the Celestial Tribe, but to Kunlun, and her home in Qing Qiu - she's banned from the Nine Heavens save to stay in a hall, most disciples of Mo Yuan would like to kill her on site (as would Bai Zhen), and her mother disowned her. The betrayal was so heinous that the forces of heaven itself cursed her with the inability to bear healthy children due to the lives lost as a result of her actions.
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* TakeAThirdOption: The Celestial army, once it's revealed that Xuan Nu stole the battle plans. They can either surrender and submit to Qing Cang's rule, or go down fighting as is and take as many of the Ghost Realm soldiers with them. Mo Yuan manages to come up with the third option: getting half his army to sacrifice itself in a feint, so the others can outmaneuver the enemy and capture the leadership. Despite reluctance, they take the third choice and win, but at a massive cost.

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* AllLoveIsUnrequited:
** Yao Guang loves Mo Yuan, who doesn't love her.

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* AllLoveIsUnrequited:
AllLoveIsUnrequited: Par for the course for this series.
** Yao Guang loves Mo Yuan, who doesn't love her.her [[spoiler: because he likes Si Yin/Bai Qian (in the series anyway)]].



** Su Jin loves Ye Hua, who thinks of her as family.

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** Su Jin loves Ye Hua, who (initially) thinks of her as family.family.
** Miao Qing and Lu Xiu also like Ye Hua, who only loves Su Su/Bai Qian.
** Bi Fang loves Bai Qian, who is [[ObliviousToLove unaware she loves Ye Hua]].
** Bai Feng Jiu loves Dong Hua, but [[spoiler: whilst he does reciprocate, he forces himself not to for the sake of the realm]].

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* RubberForeheadAliens: Non-science fiction example; some of the Ghost Tribe have horns growing from their faces.

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* RapunzelHair: Most of the characters, even the men. TruthInTelevison as the ancient Chinese period from which this series bases its setting had a societal rule, derived from Creator/{{Confucius}}, whereby cutting the hair was considered disrespectful as it was a gift from your parents (and the gods in some beliefs). Thus you have Bai Qian, whose hair falls almost to her knees, and Ye Hua, whose hair is almost just as long.
* RubberForeheadAliens: Non-science fiction example; some of the Ghost Tribe have horns growing from their faces and pointed or frilled ears. The Mermaid clan are similar, but they also have blue skin and fins growing from their faces.



** Shao Xing is a snake spirit, but she isn't at all sinister.

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** Shao Xing Xin is a snake spirit, but she isn't at all sinister.
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* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: Ye Hua and Bai Qian. Eventually. After ''a lot'' of confusion and suffering.
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* KarmicButtMonkey: The Daoist Priest who twice accosts Su Su (Bai Qian). First, he tries to take her Jade Purity Fan by claiming it's his and she stole it - Yan Zhi shows up to prove him wrong and uses the fan to hit him with lightning. Days later, he tries to punish Su Su for this by revealing the black snake in her basket - the snake (Ye Hua) turns into a huge dragon and blasts him with water, humiliating him again. Ye Hua then sics Si Ming on him to alter his fate to make him a drunk laughing stock for the rest of his life.

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* WarriorPrince: Li Yuan is a villainous example. Li Jing is a [[AntiHero somewhat more heroic]] one.

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* WarriorPrince: Li Yuan is a villainous example. Li Jing is a [[AntiHero somewhat more heroic]] one. Ye Hua is a truly good example.
* WritersCannotDoMath: Or rather, they didn't trouble to keep track of how they adapted the story and the timeline suffered as a result. The main culprit of this issue is when Ye Hua's birth occurred. The depiction in the show is that he was born a few weeks after the Battle of Ruo River, making him 70,000(+) years old when the main story kicks in. In the book however, he was 50,000 years old (as his spirit took 20,000 years to help Mo Yuan begin to piece his soul together). This age survives in dialogue, such as when Le Xu says that Su Jin is 20,000 years older than Ye Hua, even though days prior she was said to be only 500 years old; or when Bai Qian says she is 90,000 years older than him, even though she's actually 140,000 and later says that Ye Hua is his show age (i.e. 70,000).
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* PassiveAggressiveKombat: Su Jin seems to be built for this, though she eventually meets her match in Bai Qian who puts her in her place.
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* FantasticRacism: Immortals tend to have a sliding paternalistic view of mortals. There are some who don't seem to discriminate against mortals (such as Die Feng), some who feel somewhat superior on occasion (Princess Lu Xiu of the Chang Sea), some who look down on them (Consort Le Xu and a lot of the servants), and some who will abuse/kill them as they see fit (such as the Heavenly Emperor himself). Paradoxically, the Heavenly Emperor will send someone out to protect mortals from immortal problems, but if a mortal breaks rules they don't even know about, he won't see ignorance as an excuse and order them killed on the spot.

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