Wind Across the World

This new-style wuxia novel seeks to overturn the existing format of "mystery fiction." Its ambitious scope and content revolve around its central characters, the enigmatic military champions Gong Tianxia and Tang Ningfeng, whose martial arts skills and backgrounds are shrouded in mystery. The novel also explores the power struggles among the Demon Cult, the Mongolian warrior kings, and the Eastern Sea Overlord Gang, while offering profound insights into Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, medicine and food therapy, military strategy and martial arts, esoteric arts, astronomy, and more.

Ning Feng Tian Xia not only carries on Qi Ru's lively, free-flowing narrative style, but also reveals a nuanced view of human nature: "They are all human," and "bad people are not bad in every way." It refuses to simplify right and wrong or make good and evil absolute. The designs of martial arts and weapons are equally original, including the "Great Freedom, Formless Liberation Zen Art," a technique that transcends the need for moves; the "Pure Mind Brahma Sound," which can read and cleanse an opponent's thoughts; and the "Dragonhead Single Blade," the fan-blade weapon wielded by the female constable commander Long Zheng, which splits into nine parts. Each offers readers a fresh experience.

Ning Feng Tian Xia is planned as an eighty-one-volume series. Qi Ru aims to portray every kind of person under heaven and share his reflections on cultivation through Zen and martial arts, opening up a bold new vision for wuxia fiction.