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by
Jin Yong
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July 28 - July 31, 2022
Surrounded by mountains, dancing in halls, The shores of West Lake echo in song.
Southern fragrances entice and intoxicate As drunkenly our noblemen mistake Lin’an for Kaifeng!”
And so the drunken storyteller takes his leave.
Taoist Eight Trigram disk.
wulin.
Justice Duan.
“What an unusual young man.”
sycee
“Ill-gotten gains, let them go, For the Jade Emperor is about to blow!”
wulin.
“Honest work makes the man,” Qiu Chuji said.
qinggong
“Since ancient times mid-autumn’s moon, Radiant, as icy winds clean the night; Heavy hangs the Milky Way As water dragons vault the seas.”
the Masters of the Immortal Cloud Sect, a branch of the Shaolin school dominant in the areas of the jianghu straddling southern Zhejiang and Fujian.
shifu
“The King’s Sutra,”
wulin.
jianghu.
If we’re not going to fight, then what? the Seven Freaks wondered. Another drinking contest?
wulin
Sima Qian’s Records of the Grand Historian.
the Lin’an dialect of Chinese.
Tayichi’ud.
“Taken to bullying children now? Have you no shame?”
Jebe may well be a talented archer, but was he a match for the great Bogurchi?
cangue.
But how would the boy avenge his father’s death if he remained a shepherd his whole life? No, it would be better to let him train with the Great Khan’s men.
anda,
Temujin’s Generals were incensed.
First you humiliate Jebe, now you degrade us? Are we mere wolves to be prodded and played with? Is it our duty to fight leopards?
“Share your blessings and your hardships too will be shared,” Woodcutter Nan replied.
But what about this witch? Where is hers?
neigong
devilnuts?”
qinggong
Or else they study, write poetry, and play chess.
lightness qinggong kung fu.
“I will do my best for the Khan!” Guo Jing replied.
The blade was tainted with the faintest shadow of blood.
Who knew how many had died from a thrust of this weapon? It was short, but thick and heavy.
Branch Beats the White Chimpanzee
How does he know about that? Guo Jing wondered.
“Clear heart, emotions departed, In empty body qi can spread. A dead mind, yet the spirit lives, For Yin thrives but the Yang is shed.”
neigong
Golden Goose kung fu,
dragon horse.
neigong kung fu,”
Nine Yin Skeleton Claw.
Are they plotting against Temujin? Guo Jing asked himself. How is this possible?
Ma ‘Treasure’ Yu of the Quanzhen Sect
