What's the difference between the TV series "Wu Dong Gan Kun" and the novel? Did Zhang Li succeed in directing fantasy drama for the first time?

The first time I heard that "Wu Dong Gan Kun" was going to be adapted into a TV series, I still felt incredible, because this wild silkworm potato network had two fatal defects:

The characterization is too thin and the main line of the story is too simple.

This kind of defect may not be felt in online novels serialized every day, but once it is put into TV series, it is bound to be full of loopholes. Positive figures and negative figures are not only multifaceted, but also full of a strong homogenization.

Thinking of this, I can't help worrying about the TV series adapted from "Wu Dong Gan Kun"

But after watching several episodes of TV series, this worry gradually disappeared, because the TV series did not change the novel much. Compared with novels, TV series simplifies the story line, completely abandons the artifact of "changing pictures" used in online novels, and many characters appear much earlier.

Such as fire python, Roaring Tiger Rock, Qingzhu Ling, Ying Huanhuan, etc. All novels appear slowly at the end of the story. However, the setting of the two heroines in the TV series made them appear in the main line from the beginning, and their relationship with the protagonist Lin Dong was much more tangled. This treatment is much more advanced than novels. I believe this arrangement will also make the protagonist feel more empathetic when choosing between the two.

However, the biggest change to the novel characters in TV series should be the villain Lin Lang Tian in the story. Although this character has appeared many times in the novel, in the eyes of readers, it is actually the same as other villains, at most, the number of appearances is a little more.

However, in TV series, the character Lin Lang Tian began to have flesh and blood, and what the characters did also had explanation and logic. Only by changing from a talented teenager to a villain can such a character gain a foothold in TV dramas, which is also the most magical place of TV dramas.

I have to admire the director Zhang Li's mastery of TV series. How can we say that he has not successfully adapted such a famous version of Breaking the Sky into an oriental fantasy masterpiece?