The red lady had already advanced on Fang Zhenyuan, looking like she was about to make her move at any time, but Fang Zhenyuan remained cool and composed, causing her to speak without thinking. While he readied himself mentally, he said coldly, “I am not yet finished speaking……” The red lady smirked and said, “You may begin.”Īlthough the Three Fiends of the Southern Skies were known in the jianghu for being ruthless and vicious, if one were to compare experience in the jianghu, they were not at the same level as Iron Palm Golden Ring.įang Zhenyuan was not yet angry on account of the red lady. The red lady forced a laugh and said, “Since you say it like that, Deputy Chief Fang, it seems you are not confident in your ability to protect your cargo.”įang Zhenyuan said, “Miss, this is no time for such big talk we still do not know by whose hand the deer will be slain.”1 With a faint smile he said, “You mustn’t harm the clients.” The red lady said, “You escorts also have your own etiquette, so I’ll humbly follow your advice.”įang Zhenyuan thought for a moment, enough time for Yang Sicheng to get ready. But you Three Fiends of the Southern Skies also command some respect within the jianghu, so I hope you will abide by its etiquette when we fight.” ![]() And since we have dared to move against you, I can tell you that we have already calculated the pros and cons, the merits and demerits, and in secret we have already weighed the value of Mighty Tiger Escort Agency……”įang Zhenyuan waved his hand and said, “All right! Since you three are determined to take our goods, I won’t shamelessly make any entreaties. A lot of people have known of you for a long time, and many of the Greenwood have been destroyed by your golden rings, not less than thirty or forty people. ![]() Your fame within the six northern provinces alone is enough. The red lady said, “We’ve already inquired about that, so you need not mention your head chief. ![]() The fragile, celestial maiden-like goddaughter of the governor vied with the central figure in the dispute, and countless miraculous fights and trials of strength unfolded one after another… Excerpt: Chapter 2: Bloody Battle To protect the treasures of the Shepherd Diagram, a group of righteous and unrighteous experts alike launched a fight to the death, while the local authorities, under the auspicies of the governor, broke convention and became embroiled in the disputes of the martial fraternity. Investigations by the governor of four provinces turned up the lair of a secret society. Everyone feared the Coiling Dragon Armed Escort Banner appearing among the jianghu. It was said that the Shepherd Diagram not only contained profound martial art techniques, but also hinted at the location of an enormous treasure, thus leading to the emergence of many fiends who had lain dormant for decades, and Shaolin, Wudang, and the Beggar Sect also were drawn into the struggle. It’s about half of the chapter, which I translated and published on a wuxia forum I used to run back in 2012.Īrmed Escort Banner《鏢旗》by Wolong Sheng 臥龍生. The excerpt below is from chapter two of Armed Escort Banner. Later in this series I will come back to Wolong Sheng and talk more about what is one of my favorite wuxia novels. Armed Escort Banner is supposedly one he wrote himself, though there has been one scholar at least who has raised doubts. As a result, there are hundreds of novels bearing his name, but he only wrote about thirty or so himself. Unfortunately he was always in it for the money only, and he lent his name out to other writers to capitalize on his popularity. In this way, Wolong Sheng showed his characters to be more realistic, exposing hypocrisy of the self-righteous, as well as so called “honor among thieves”. He also deconstructed the genre even as he was helping to define it, by having the sects normally associated as good guys show a more sinister side, while his “bad guys” often acted in the right more than one would expect. But he was good at coming up with exciting plots, and the women in his novels, though usually not the protagonist, tended to be more capable than the rather passive male MC. At his best, Wolong Sheng was unsurpassed, but his quality is very uneven, and his works suffer the same failings as other wuxia novels serialized in newspapers at the time: too much filler, fight scenes that go on and on but end up nowhere, and his stories tend to start out great but end poorly (tiger head, snake tail as the saying goes). He was a pioneer in the genre of wuxia, being the first to formulate the “Nine Schools of the Martial Fraternity”, establishing the basic organization of the martial world that would become one of the most used tropes in wuxia. ![]() Wolong Sheng was, during the golden age of wuxia (1960s), the premier author in Taiwan.
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