One Sword Seals the Favor

Dedicated to martial-arts fans from the 60s, 70s, and 80s who especially love Jin Yong’s novels. I’ve read The Smiling, Proud Wanderer countless times, but I always felt it left something to be desired. At the beginning, the severely wounded Linghu Chong is wronged everywhere and beaten down everywhere, and by the end, his Dugu Nine Swords still haven’t fully reached mastery...

It’s quite regretful. What kind of level would Linghu Chong be at if his Dugu Nine Swords were fully mastered, combined with the improved Star-Absorbing Skill modified by the Marrow-Cleansing Classic, plus the top-tier martial art Marrow-Cleansing Classic?

As for the Sunflower Manual, aside from creating Dongfang Bubai, it never really showed its true brilliance. Since it dares to call itself a manual, it surely shouldn’t be limited to swordsmanship; it should be no weaker than the Nine Yin Manual, only then would it match the prestige of founding a scripture and creating a canon.

Would the descendants of figures like Dongfang Bubai and Zuo Lengchan be willing to let their fathers be killed? Would they be willing to become cowards who silently bear the blood vengeance of their fathers after once standing as heaven’s chosen?

Even a centipede dies but never topples, so how could they be worse than Lin Pingzhi, whose starting point and resources are far inferior to theirs? In the past ten years, the only novels worth reading have been xuanhuan, cultivation, transmigration, reincarnation, harem, or space-stream works.

It’s hard to see the pure wuxia novels like the old Jin, Gu, and Liang era. So after more than ten years of planning, this book has finally come into being. Still, with jewels already before it, any shortcomings are welcome to be pointed out by fellow readers.