The Inheritance of Chivalry

The story begins in 1111. Huang Shang, a civil servant, was ordered to engrave books and realized the peerless inner power from Taoist classics without any teacher. However, he was involved in the struggle between Mingjiao and the court, and met the sword demon Dugu Qiubai and the Mingjiao saint Fang Baihua. As the flames of the Fangla Uprising spread across the south of the Yangtze River, Huang Shang's family was brutally wiped out in political conspiracies and Jianghu vendettas. The extreme pain forced him from a gentle scholar to a vengeful ghost. He lived in seclusion in the mountains for fifteen years, and wrote the "Nine Yin Manual" to decipher the world's martial arts. This martial arts book became the "McGuffin" throughout the book. When Huang Shang went out to seek revenge, he found that all his enemies had died in the great changes of the times. He embarked on a journey of wandering in a huge sense of nothingness, and his mind gradually returned to peace. At this time, the scepter of the world has quietly changed hands: Hong Qigong, who experienced the humiliation of Jingkang, took up the banner of the Beggar Gang, Yue Fei left an eternal tragedy in Fengbo Pavilion, and a new generation of masters such as Wang Chongyang, Huang Yaoshi, Duan Zhixing, and Ouyang Feng began to emerge. This work uses POV multiple perspectives and a chronicle structure, using Huang Shang's personal tragedy as a hidden thread to connect the changes in the martial arts world from the late Northern Song Dynasty to the early Southern Song Dynasty for decades. The whole book seamlessly welds historical facts with martial arts imagination (such as the Jingkang Incident, Yue Fei's Northern Expedition, and the origins of the Huashan Sword Theory), and explores the three core themes of "power and revenge", "chivalry and family and country", and "inheritance and destiny". It completes the brief history of the world in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" into an independent and soul-stirring epic of the "First Five Era", giving every martial arts secret book and every legendary figure a tragic and reasonable origin.