Fist Edge: Nanyang

Lin Wenjian, eighth-generation heir of the Pojun Sect, runs a Chinese medicine shop in Lankang's Chinatown. His father has been dead for three years, but someone has their eye on the deed to Wanhetang. Across the ports of Nanyang, martial arts schools are being swallowed up one by one by the capitalist tycoon Hasan Iskandar, under the pretexts of "partnership contracts" and "preserving school histories." He is also slowly poisoning the elderly with drug-laced liquor. Lin Wenjian's golden finger is the Pojun Sect's Nine True Fists, meant to protect people, not dominate them, along with the principles of "reason, law, and the people." Zhongyong Hall, Officer Zhan, and Ah Tai, a boxer who switches sides, all share his cause. The thrills come from exposing contract fraud at each port, publicly dismantling fake fighting techniques, and forcing witnesses to turn against their masters as the tycoon suffers setback after setback. Seven volumes and eighty chapters are complete, culminating in a final reckoning in Singapore, where Hasan's twenty-year scheme is exposed in public and the fists and roots of Nanyang's Chinese diaspora are protected. The deadly impasse of the "incomplete Nine Fists" is finally resolved through his father's legacy and his resolve to end conflict.