Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Created by Dugu Qiubai, the Nine Swords of Dugu (獨孤九劍; Dúgū jiǔ jiàn) are nine independent sword stances created to overpower all sorts of weapons, including swords, sabers, spears, clubs, staffs, whips and arrows, as well as barehanded attacks. This swordplay has nine stances, each of which is designed to counter a particular style ...
Yang Guo inherits Dugu Qiubai's Heavy Iron Sword (玄鐵重劍; xuántiě zhòngjiàn) and learns Dugu's swordplay techniques from the Condor. Dugu Qiubai's swordplay skills are advantageous to the handicapped Yang Guo as they focus on great strength rather than fancy moves, thereby Guo Fu inadvertently helped him fulfill its practices ...
He meets Linghu Chong by chance and teaches him the Nine Swords of Dugu as he is very impressed with Linghu Chong's good character and intelligence. His name is derived from a poem in the Classic of Poetry. [1] Feng Buping (封不平; Fēng Bùpíng) is the leader-in-exile of the Sword faction. Zuo Lengchan instigates him to return to Mount Hua ...
The sequel, The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber, reveals that 14 years after the events of The Return of the Condor Heroes, he died along with Guo Jing and Huang Rong during the Battle of Xiangyang. Wu Dunru (武敦儒; Wǔ Dūnrú) and Wu Xiuwen (武修文; Wǔ Xiūwén) are Wu Santong's sons. After their mother died, their father became insane ...
The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber (倚天屠龍記), published in 1961. An English translation into 12 books published by MacLehose Press began in February 2018. [1] Volume 1 has been published, containing the first four books, and the remaining eight are pending translation and publication. [2]
The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber, also translated as The Sword and the Knife, [1] is a wuxia novel by Jin Yong (Louis Cha) and the third part of the Condor Trilogy, preceded by The Legend of the Condor Heroes and The Return of the Condor Heroes. It was first serialised from 6 July 1961 to 2 September 1963 in the Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao. [2]
In The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber, set in the Yuan dynasty, the Mount Hua Sect is briefly mentioned to be one of the six leading orthodox sects in the jianghu. [2] Its leader is Xianyu Tong. [2] In The Smiling, Proud Wanderer, the sect's leader Yue Buqun is the sect's 13th-generation leader. [3]
The Sun Moon Holy Cult (日月神教; Rì Yuè Shén Jiào) is based on Black Woods Cliff (黑木崖; hēi mù yá; in present-day Xibaipo, Hebei).Its origin is unclear, Martial artists in the jianghu often refer to the Sun Moon Holy Cult as the "Demonic Cult" (魔教; Mó Jiào), as they previously did to the Ming Cult.