Mestinem
I understand your point. But I believe Chaos Theory makes more sense in this. It is simply IMPOSSIBLE that a change as big as the presence of a powerful cultivator (Yu Tang) will not cause other characters to appear, since there are hundreds of billions of people in this universe. I'm not saying it's going to deviate from the novel to the point of being another story, but I'm also not going to guarantee that you'll read exactly the same characters as the original story. I hope you understand.
ErozothDraeor:I read mostly "canon" fanfic, ie the original world, the author makes some change, changes happen from there, which is what this story was so far. New characters that didn't exists before..... it means anything can be different now, since its an AU. Hopefully just some random character and not a big impact on the story, if its starts going into a new arc for a new story... I will read an actual new story, I am reading this for the FANfic. Not just because the characters happen to have the same names as another novel I like.