Jiuyang Beacon Record

The story takes place in the decades from the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty to the middle of the Yuan Dynasty. After the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty, a harsh hierarchical system was implemented (four classes of people, nine Confucians and ten beggars), and the "Iron Ban" and "Martial Ban" were promulgated. It was a capital offense for Han people to practice martial arts and gather in gatherings. Tantric monks from the Western Regions and Shaolin traitors (descendants of Huogong Tutuo and founder of Xuanming Shenzhang) relied on the powerful officials of the court and launched a brutal "annihilation style" sweep of the martial arts in the Central Plains, plunging the world into darkness unprecedented in a century. The novel uses the diversion and loss of the "Nine Yang Manual" as the introduction to the world, and takes the heroes of the Central Plains to unite to fight against the Yuan Dynasty as the historical axis, with two lines intertwined.