It All Begins with Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils

Let alone Murong Fu, even Yun Zhonghe in *The Sword Stained with Royal Blood* was a weakling. Jin Yong's martial arts novels have always been progressively weaker. From the very beginning, Yue Nu Jian A Qing could easily defeat a thousand soldiers single-handedly, but by *The Flying Fox of Snowy Mountain*, she could only take down a few dozen.

What's so great about the Northern Darkness Divine Art? Every transmigrator has to learn the Lingbo Steps and the Northern Darkness Divine Art, is that interesting? It's better to find the Divine Foot Scripture, practice the White Rainbow Palm Force and the Canhe Finger, that's enough. You don't need to know too many martial arts, just master a few. Some people spend their whole lives practicing one ultimate skill!

To put it simply, the author did his homework; he actually read the original work and its revised edition. This alone puts her ahead of those writers who merely parrot others and have only a superficial understanding; this is truly commendable. This is not to boast about how amazing it is to have read the original work, because that's not something to brag about at all.

Seeing the subjugation of Ye Erniang made me lose all desire to continue watching. Regardless of the setting, the old version was the most despicable. Even with the new version you mentioned, she's not much better than Yun Zhonghe.

I can tolerate your retainers being time-traveled, but taking in the Four Evils is truly disgusting. Duan Yanqing, though the Crown Prince was deposed, still wouldn't kill indiscriminately out of respect for his status, so I can understand taking him in. Ye Erniang had her reasons, right? Then those children and families she abducted deserved it?

The martial arts in Jin Yong's books get worse and worse as they go on. Imagine someone traveling from the Northern Song Dynasty to The Sword Stained with Royal Blood—I'm impressed. Look at how Linghu Chong defeated 15 top-tier masters with just a few moves. Try having Linghu Chong use the Dugu Nine Swords to break through Qiao Feng's defenses; he'd be dead before he even got close.

What I hate most are crossover stories; the plots are a complete mess. Actually, I read crossover stories hoping to fill in the gaps in other works, like the death of Qiao Feng in *Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils*, the death of A'Zhu, Zhou Zhiruo and Zhang Wuxia in *The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber*, the deaths of Xiaolongnu and Guo Jing in *The Return of the Condor Heroes*, and Biyao in *Zhu Xian*, among other regrets.

I initially started following the series because I thought the author was going to delve deeper into the world of Tian Long Ba Bu, with other worlds serving as mere supplements. However, now the main plot has become indistinguishable from the main plot, it's too chaotic, there's no clear main storyline, it just blindly skims around everywhere, and it even uses the glowing jade pendant to travel…

The Four Evils are beyond redemption! Subduing them was a huge mistake.

The writing is excellent, and the character portrayals are also very good, but the problem lies in the fact that it's written too rigidly. People are too familiar with the works of Jin Yong and Gu Long; they like that martial arts world because they love the unparalleled martial arts, fine wine, and beautiful women depicted by Jin, Gu, and Huang.