The Boundless Sword

The character yang, when you look at its meaning, depicts a person wearing shackles. It refers to prisoners and criminals.

A hero who uses martial arts to defy the law commits the greatest crime and wears the heaviest shackles. Such a person may well be the chief of criminals.

What is the jianghu? Wherever there are people, there is jianghu.

These "people" include the kind and the wicked, the noble and the petty, street vendors and laborers, wealthy gentry and powerful officials, daring adventurers and reckless thugs, bandits and thieves, martial arts experts, and ordinary folk.

Of course, they should include heroes too.

And yet this jianghu is missing those chief criminals.

People everywhere say: "There is no yang under heaven."

The entire jianghu seems to be full of innocent people.

But in Wei Yuan's eyes, the entire jianghu is guilty.