So I've been low key trying to figure out if I could watch The Untamed basically since it came out because it's so obviously my jam except for the minor detail that it's a television show. (I don't object on principle; it's more that the format just doesn't work for me in practice and the older I get, the less it works.)
So this is the obvious solution to my problem - this is always my solution to the problem; read the book that it's based on.
The book is WILD. I really enjoyed it, but also I kept noticing the ways in which I have all these expectations about style and register that only exist because English literature developed in certain ways  with rules about what kind of language and style fits with what kind of narrative and context and I just don't know what those ARE in Chinese so I'd sometimes find myself getting thrown by extremely casual language from characters I would expect to conform to a certain register of English before realizing that there's absolutely no reason that the rules of language for fantasy written in English would apply to xianxia. And it's precisely the defamiliarization that comes from translating the language without bridging the context that makes it so interesting.
Also the story is hilarious in the way that only comedy in the midst of fighting monsters can be.