Doupo Cangqiong 4th Season

I said before that season 3 was the best so far but now it's definately season 4! The story is so much more well developed and the plot is a lot more focused. I was glued to the screen for the whole thing. The art and music are beautiful as before.

Xiao Yan has gone through a big character change and season 4, while alluding to the 3 year agreement a lot, is mostly about Xiao Yan making up for his mistake at the end of season 3. There is a lot more focus on the alchemy side of things too and one of the ... most epic moments was the final confrontation at the alchemy conference.

I watched most of it on co-stream however I watched the final 2 episodes (23 and 24) on dailymotion. The last 4 episodes 21-24 is all preparing us for the 3 year agreement and you get some background information about why Nalan Yanran really wanted to break of the engagement which shines a new light on her character. Episode 24 ends on Xiao Yan walking into the arena ready to fight Nalan Yanran.

Season 4 was incredible it was a lot longer than the other seasons so they had a lot more time to develop other character arcs and go into more depth with the main story arcs. Looking forward to season 5!

Battle Through the heavens Season 4

Yan Xiao, Xiao Yan a mysterious persona to hide his identity from Yalan Yan Ran in Season 4 to save her grandfather, the man who insisted on their marriage in Season 1. In this season, we focus mainly on the Xiao Yan's redemption after using an ultimate lotus move consuming the last of his Master's soul power putting him in a deep sleep. He redeems himself and finally understands the words of his Master at the Alchemist Conference when an unexpected guest threatens the safety of him an puts the Jiangi Empire's reputation at risk.

Story: 6/10
Compared to Season ... 1, Battle Through the heavens has come a long way and improved in many aspects including its story. The story seems to have more suspense and meaningful plot development than before which was a surprise. The arcs are lengthy in season 4 which drags the Alchemist Conference build up and execution to the end of Season 4. Unfortunately, the result is delaying the 3 year agreement between Yan Ran and Xiao Yan which reflects my lower rating despite the narrative being more defined.

Art & Sound: 7/10
Whoever redesigned the characters and scenes in Season 2 to 4 needs a raise. Battle Through the heavens Season 2 to 4 has more satisfying character design revamping Xiao Yan and other characters so they aren't like bootleg Disney characters. The detail and animation is much better and realistic even more than before.

Sound design in this season specifically has improved, now background music is used correctly to invoke fear and suspense. This is more prevalent in the Alchemist Conference arc where Han Li does something something evil or when he corners Xiao Yan after the preliminary round.

Character: 7/10
Having Xiao Yan disguise himself as Yan Xiao and diving head first into the Yalan family to cure the grandfather added more depth into the character development. We see both sides of the story through the grandfather and can finally see through the perspective of this Yalan Yan Ran. Surprisingly, Yalan Yan Ran is a righteous person but her hypocritical and narcissistic personality glooms the story. When Xiao Yan disguises himself, he reflects her personality back at her (Yalan Yan Ran) and seeing her upset is very satisfying since she thinks she's not wrong in denying Xiao Yan.

Overall: 7/10
I was going to give his an 8/10 but I agree with the few people in saying that the season was dragged out to set the stage for the 3 year agreement. The 3 year agreement could have set a better premise in Season 4 within 3 episodes but instead we get a somewhat unnecessary buildup in the last 2 episode of the season.

SO first I must say it starts off as a typical seasion and its good fully enjoy it then sadly it got stuck and then at the end they started retconing plot to try to change things to how they want next seasion to work out but that isn't how that past 4 seasions has had that plot so retconing it is just a fail its the core plot point changed even alittle can change the whole story but they dared touch it in and it ruined the seasion to be honest everything was leading up to a climatic event but then nope retcon plot ... point for now and we will do that event some time later despite it being talked about for 4 seasions already and it was susposed to be like afew days away pretty much from what they was talking in script so if you want to enjoy this seasion idealy i would stop at 20 enjoy it


btw parrot from episode 3 is best parrot ever existed hands down dare you to change even Iago from Aladdin isnt as good as that parrot and it is hardly in the show for long totaly a crime