Yes! Another chapter that closely follows Guo Jing’s progress on the steppe. I feel like things are hitting a groove here so let’s get started… (spoilers!)……The Six Freaks are well and truly worried now that they suspect that Guo Jing is secretly training under another master. How else would he know neigong? Who is it …
Condor Heroes
The beginning of the chapter wraps up the aftermath of the Seven Freaks’ fight with Twice Foul Dark Wind. They descend the mountain and find Senggum’s son, Tusakha there with his father’s leopards. The leopards are eating Copper Corpse’s … well, corpse. Iron Corpse, aka Cyclone Mei, is no where to be found. Tusakha is …
This chapter is split into two distinct halves. The first half deals with Guo Jing navigating his boyhood in Khan Temujin’s domain. The latter half involves the Seven Freaks of the South finally catching up to Guo Jing. In the first half, the Jin envoys continue to treat with Khan Temujin, as well as Ong …
Chapter three opens with the Seven Freaks of the South and Qiu Chuji reaping the painful rewards of their rashness in the previous chapter. Nearly everyone is battered and broken, and Scorched Wood has died. Justice Duan’s treachery is revealed to everyone and yet no one can get past the idea of losing to the …
Welcome to the second week of our read-along of the Legend of the Condor Heroes. In this chapter we meet the wuxia equivalent of the superhero team, and get treated to one of the best tropes of kung fu movies, and in fact nearly all adventure stories: the tavern brawl. Following the apparent deaths of …
The Legend of the Condor Heroes is a seminal work of Chinese fiction, written in the 1950s by Louis Cha under the penname of Jin Yong. It has been adapted numerous times, and is credited with spawning the wuxia genre of fiction. If you’ve ever seen a kung fu movie where combatants flew through the …