Why did a refined gathering of calligraphers and painters in Shu cause Zhang Cuishan and his wife to vanish without a trace?
Twenty years passed. Zhang Wuji had mastered his martial arts and stepped out of Wudang, determined to uncover the many mysteries surrounding his parents’ disappearance.
This book features twenty-four original forces of the martial world, alongside numerous sects and associations from the original novel. The warlords Zhu Yuanzhang, Chen Youliang, Zhang Shicheng, and Fang Guozhen will also be swept into the turmoil, bringing readers an unprecedentedly vast martial world in the universe of The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber.
Compared to the revised edition of the original novel, this book makes the following changes to the setting:
① Zhao Min is not a Mongolian princess, but the eldest daughter of Green Willow Manor.
② Yang Dingtian uses his name from the serialized edition, Yang Potian. Zhou Zhiruo’s father is Zhou Ziwang, also from the serialized edition. After Zhou Ziwang’s death, Yang Potian and his wife adopt Zhou Zhiruo.
③ The Beggars’ Sect leader is Yelu Yuanyu, as in the early serialized edition.
Finally, Zhang Wuji is so formidable from his first appearance because Jin Yong originally intended him to be ten times smarter than Zhang Cuishan and Yin Susu.
Peerless talent (ten times that of Zhang Cuishan and Yin Susu) + peerless martial arts manuals (Wudang, Yin Tianzheng, Xie Xun) + a peerless master (Zhang Sanfeng) + peerless sparring partners (the True Martial Six Formation) = peerless Zhang Wuji
【Xie Xun laughed loudly and said, “Fifth Brother, Sister Susu, this child is five times smarter than me and ten times smarter than the two of you. Just imagine what he’ll be like when he grows up!”】 (Serialized edition)
