Just like the first two parts, this is a ‘fan translation’, a collaborative effort of many, many wuxia fans over many years. TVB popularized it as ‘The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber’. The story ends with the rise of what would be known as the Ming dynasty.Īccording to Wikipedia, it was first published on Ming Pao from 6 July 1961 thru 2 September 1963. As such, in all his life he was torn between these two schools. The protagonist, Zhang Wuji, was the son of an ‘orthodox’ father and ‘heretical’ mother. Legend has it that the wielder of these weapons would rule the Wulin world. Indeed, the literal translation the original title is ‘The Chronicle of Yitian and Tulong’. relying on Heaven) and the Tulong Saber (lit. The story revolves around a pair of treasured weapons, the Yitian Sword (lit. This story is the third and final part of what is widely known as the ‘Condor Trilogy’, set in the late Yuan (Mongol) dynasty. She’s like everything Zhao Min wanted to be, but like, isn’t.Athena, Meh, Faerie Queen, Huang Yushi, SmokeyTheBear, Qiu Shuyi, Efflix, Hugh (aka IcyFox), Huang Rong, Foxs (Also Yin SuSu but her inevitable death and relegation to supporting character makes me sadly less invested, lol. I’m mostly ambivalent towards XiaoZhao, mostly cuz I feel like she wasn’t on screen for very long and got very little development, tbh (50% of the time was her just being ZWJ’s maid…like I LOVE her story later on with the persians, but it doesn’t get much attention tbh). Maybe I’m being over critical, but as an overall production I’m pretty excited. BUT in the trailer esp the scenes where she’s crying to MieJue about not being able to kill him, etc etc, wow I can actually feel the love! In contrast in the trailer Zhao Min….I can’t get the demon princess from Ashes out of my mind cuz like, she has the exact same expression and mouth-shape when she’s screaming for ZWJ as when the demon princess had when her maybe-lover-dude died in Ashes. Like, I never really take ZZR and ZWJ’s first love for real (mostly at least 70% bc ZWJ’s just a wishy-washy man who seems like he loves ZZR…”as a sister” to me, and 30% because it always feels like ZZR just latched onto the guy who’s nice to her cuz every other male is like, even more dick-ish and she’s surrounded by a whole lot of nuns). ![]() Aside from Mongol princess Zhao Min (Chen Yuqi), Zhang Wuji also becomes romantically entangled with the Emei Sect’s Zhou Zhiruo (Zhu Xudan), Persian cult leader / living sacrifice Xiaozhao and his cousin Yin Li / Zhu’er. He becomes the leader of the unorthodox Ming Cult, and later supports the rebellions against the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty. Some years later, Zhang Wuji finds himself in an isolated valley, and masters a set of powerful inner energy skills. Zhang Wuji (Zeng Sunxi)’s parents Zhang Cuishan (Li Dongxue) and Yin Susu commit suicide after refusing to reveal the location of the blade, which is currently in the possession of his godfather Xie Xun (Hei Zi). The story begins with the prophecy that whoever wields the Dragon Slaying Saber and Heavenly Sword will rule the world. The series stars Zeng Shunxi, Chen Yuqi, and Zhu Xudan in a fight between three religions and three countries.īoth of the trailers have actually looked interesting to me, and given that there haven’t been a true-to-the-books version made yet, it’ll be interesting to see director Jeffrey Chiang’s take on it given his success with the 2017 version of the Legend of the Condor Heroes. Heavenly Sword and Dragon Slaying Saber the ninth announced its release date of February 27th with a new trailer and a few posters. The classic wuxia novel is known for propelling the theory that the Ming dynasty was founded by and named after the Manicheist Ming sect.
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