I watched the first season without knowing anything about the plot let alone the actors involved in it. The first season is brilliant with lots of humour, adventure, magic, cutting edge technology for those times, herbal medicine and poison spirits and so forth. For those who are not acquainted with Chinese historical dramas, there are basically two types called wuxia and xianxia. Wuxia is about martial art heroes while xianxia is about immortal heroes namely fantasy historical dramas. The xianxia genre is based primarily on Taoism and sometimes Buddhism as well. Generally speaking, there are three realms: the demon realm, the mortal realm and the immortal realm (Heaven). Every realm have different categories but don't be fooled by origins because not all demons are bad and not all immortals are good. Humans in the mortal realm can decide to become immortals by joining a sect and practising cultivating immortality. In Noble Aspirations (The Legend of Chusen) two boy children are given to a sect of immortals after every single person in their village mysteriously get brutally slaughtered. The entire first season is about a group of youngster who have to go down the mountain for the first time to gain experience in the mortal realm. It's a wonderful adventure with magic everywhere, mystery, unlike alliances, romance and martial arts. I strongly recommend the first season if you are into fantasy adventure shows. However , the second season is completely disappointing !
