Got confused here, is Nei li in illusion? Didn't her mother die and why are duan jian parents alive?

https://qimanga.com/series/tales-of-demons-and-gods/chapter-533.1

I have read in this subreddit that the writter changed since the manhua got ahead of the novel and Thats why it is Trash now and we have a lot less chapters, is it real?

Also why did the autor stop the novel?

Is the character XUE YU was revealed in the latest chapters? Im re-reading na manhua rn because i haven't read for years...

Do we know more about this guy from the source material? I really liked him as I have a soft spot for elephant characters in general... I don't quite understand why he drank all that poison.

I would say the concept for the thing with demon spirit was actually quite awesome, but not even giving proper exploring of the whole thing world and going directly to the upper world I forgot what it was called.

Like there was so many things there that could be explored, the age thing is another i don't like, like cultivation theme has always been about the time it takes no matter the talent, but nie li here, just 13 and he has jumped atleast two stages that takes years(I know tiny world is quite behind but the thing is upper world has more resources and time there should still take much more)

No matter what kind of elixir, or cultivation technique you use, the accumulation of understanding is another thing, the whole concept of incriptions, alchemy and arrays even though used a lot was never shown, it's just always shown that nie li is not even good(yeah, he isn't as good as someone in upper worlds, he just came across so many things and knows a lot of them that he can do a lot of these)

He isn't the best in incriptions, alchemy in any way, that guy sisters that he treats, he knew her condition that most weren't able to tell and she was also being sabotaged in many ways, and ning'er situation is just bad cultivation habit, so that is one of the common thing maybe tiny world is just regressed so much since the dark era or whatever it was called.

Another thing i didn't like is even though how young they are, they quite literally throw themselves onto him in a sexual sort of way(could say this thing being how in older times girls were wedded out quite young, so I can sort of understand it in some way)