After an unexpected and devastating loss at the Battle of Atropatene, the Crown Prince of Pars must gain new strength and make new allies to retake his lost kingdom. The 14-year-old Arslan has been sheltered for most of his life, but now must face the challenges of warfare, betrayal, politics and something even more sinister looming on the horizon.
With the help of a few loyal followers, Arslan quickly learns that nothing is ever as it seems on the surface. His own family history, the identity of the masked stranger trying to kill him, and the cause of increasingly strange supernatural events are all mysteries to be solved.
Set in a fictional representation of ancient Persia, this classic story (from Japanese author Dr. Yoshiki Tanaka) combines political intrigue, military tactics, and fantasy.


Arslan Senki

There was once the worst Skeleton Demon King who even gave the gods headaches.
“If you do our work, we will make you a human.”
But he was deceived by the gods and sealed.
“Since the Demon King is gone, let’s eliminate all the demons.”
“Let’s leave the demon extermination, preaching, and everything else to our precious Saint.”
“The Skeleton Demon King will be imprisoned for life and tortured in the maggot.”
That’s what was said for sure.
“Oh my, little dear Saint, have you woken up?”
Did he become a Saint? And even the son of a nobleman in the Holy Empire that feeds the gods? Then if he destroys this country, won’t the gods also be destroyed?
“Oh my, why is little Saint seemed so happy?”
“Little Saint, this is a disgusting toy of the Skeleton Demon King. Would you like to break it once?”
“The great gods recovered everything from the Skeleton Demon King who challenged the gods without restraint.”
…Let’s destroy this country.
Let’s eliminate it while breaking the backbone of the gods.


I’m Going to Destroy this Country

This book is Jiang Yingliu’s memoir, which narrates Liu’er life from Beauty to Empress in the palace. Under the plain sentences lies the difficult life in the palace for more than 50 years. Inside the palace, everyone is pitiful. The author describes the majority of “my” life in the palace after “I” accidentally entered the palace in first-person perspective and shows a different life in the imperial harem. Rather than intrigue and contention, the life here is quite peaceful and happy. Finally, I wish them reincarnate as civilians next life and never enter the palace again as they wished.
Pink hands so fine,
Gold-branded wine,
Spring paints the willows green
palace walls can’t confine.
East wind unfair,
Happy times rare.　　
In my heart sad thoughts throng;　　
We severed for years long.　　
Wrong, wrong, wrong!　　
Spring is as green,　
In vain she’s lean,　　
Her kerchief soaked with tears and red with stains unclean.　　
Peach blossoms fall　　
Near deserted hall.　　
Our oath is still there. Lo!　　
No word to her can go. 　　
No, no, no!


Liu in the Imperial Harem

Ye Xuan transmigrated into a novel world only to discover he is the novel’s villain?
Moreover, the heroine of this world was aware of the future plot and was preparing to kill him?
Danger-!
Luckily, he awakened a system that allowed the heroine to see the plot.
“In order to save you… it didn’t matter if I was possessed by a devil!”
Heroine: He turned into the devil to save me?
“Why, you won’t listen to my explanation? Being wronged by you is like a sword piercing my heart, it’s so cold and painful.”
Heroine: What, he was wronged?
“Your sword hurt me so deeply… This life, I will not fall in love with you again.”
The heroine cried her heart out: No-!!!
“Please don’t r*pe me. This life, I would rather betray the heavens than betray you!!!!


Realizing She Misunderstood The Villain, The Heroine Begs For Forgiveness

The story is about friendship and love, deception and betrayal, ambition and lust for power. In the middle of it all is, Linghu Chong, an orphan who is the senior student of Yue Buqun, leader of Huashan Sect, and the protagonist of the story. The story deals with his journey and development as a swordsman and his witness to the various intrigues which take place in the martial world of the story.


Smiling Proud Wanderer

The boundless universe is full of many wonders.
I Chen Ping only have one sword!
I can move mountains overturn the seas upside down suppress demons slap the face of gods pluck the stars break rivers destroy cities and… open the heavenly abode!
***
The Midland world was full of wonders.
In the center of the world there was a scholar who had once used a sword to slash out a waterfall of the Milky Way. This was the person he was the most proud of.
At the edge of East Sea’s cliffs there was a nameless Daoist who was unwilling to ascend to the peak of a mountain. He only wished for a cool breeze to brush against his face.
In the Western Pure Land there was an old monk who liked to treat people to chicken soup and tell stories.
In the southern border of the Wilderness there was a blind painter who controlled golden-armored puppets that were as tall as mountains to move the hundred thousand mountains creating an embroidered picture.
A impoverished youth who grew up in the north. One day he saw tens of thousands of Sword Kinesis Immortals above him like a swarm of locusts crossing the border.
He wanted to see for himself the scholar that the storyteller had mentioned the surging tides of the East Sea the vast swamps of sand in the west and the majestic mountains of the Southern Wasteland.
Thus one day the youth picked up the wooden sword and began to descend south.

Sword of Coming

Sword Xia of the Shu Mountains《蜀山劍俠傳》by Huanzhu Louzhu 還珠樓主 (lit. Master of Returning Pearl Loft) was published between 1932 and 1948 and is one of the most influential wuxia novels of all time. Many of the elements in this novel became standard tropes of the wuxia genre. It is also the forefather of the modern xianxia cultivation novel. Huanzhu’s cultivation system became the standard, fusing the Daoist quest for transcendence with the Buddhist reincarnation cycle and tribulation system, as well as the Confucian virtue of humaneness 仁 and the chivalrous xia 俠 archetype. At over 4.1 million Chinese characters, it is also one of the longest wuxia novels, though it remains unfinished due to the civil war in China. So the first cultivation novel was also eunuched—rather fitting.
The story follows multiple protagonists as they gradually gather together, fighting heretical sects and spirit elementals on their way to founding the Mount Emei Sect. Most outstanding among these protagonists is Li Yingqiong, who begins the novel as a girl with no martial arts abilities, and through the course of the novel cultivates to become a transcendent (aka immortal).
In this novel, plants, animals, and monsters can all become human and cultivate to transcendence, or lose their primordial spirit (aka nascent soul) and have to start all over, or be obliterated completely after failing their tribulation. Grotto-heavens and magic treasures abound, and we see the beginning of sects as major organizations in wuxia novels with important roles in the plot, such as Emei, Qingcheng, Mount Hua, Wudang, Mount Huang, Snowy Mountain, Kongtong, Kunlun, and Wutai, as well as the emergence of what would later become the archetypal eccentric beggar character. There are miraculous drugs, sword kinesis, and battles between mythical beasts, and heretic cultivators trying to cheat their way to a faster transcendence. In short, pretty much all of the elements one normally sees in the typical xianxia cultivation webnovel.


Sword Xia of the Shu Mountains

The Book and the Sword is a wuxia novel by Jin Yong (Louis Cha). It was first serialised between 8 February 1955 and 5 September 1956 in the Hong Kong newspaper The New Evening Post.
Set in the Qing dynasty during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor (r. 1735–1796), the novel follows the quest of the Red Flower Society, a secret organisation aiming to overthrow the Qing government, and their entanglements with an Islamic tribe in northwestern China. The “book” in the title refers to a Qur’an that was stolen from the tribe while the “sword” refers to a sword given to the protagonist, Chen Jialuo, by his first romantic interest, Huoqingtong. Historical figures such as the Qianlong Emperor, Zhaohui (兆惠), Heshen, Zheng Xie and Fuk’anggan also make appearances or are mentioned by name in the novel. One of the female protagonists, Princess Fragrance, is loosely based on the Qianlong Emperor’s Fragrant Concubine.
This novel was Jin Yong’s debut, and it quickly established him as one of the new masters of the wuxia genre.Alternative English titles of the novel include Book and Sword: Gratitude and Revenge and The Romance of the Book and Sword.


The Book and the Sword

The Oriole Island belonged to the famous and notable Murong family. The current island owner was a young girl Murong Qiang. Because of her father’s death, she was surrounded by lots of ambitious people in the capital. Then she went back to the Oriole Island with her widowed mother and young sister. Murong Qiang’s sister, Murong Wei, a gorgeous beauty was engaged with the nobleman Ren Shiqiong, but she eloped with the famous painter Xu Zihui. So Murong Qiang married Ren Shiqiong instead of her sister.
The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind. But sometimes, it is hard to find out who is the oriole and who is the cicada.
Seven people said the same story, but the whole story was not clear until the end, and the story was always reversed back and forth.
Maybe in the end you were going to ask me, was this the original story?
I don’t know either.


The Chronicle of the Oriole Island

The Legend of the Condor Heroes by Jin Yong was first serialized in newspapers from 1 January 1957 to 19 May 1959.
The book is the first of the Condor Trilogy. The story has undergone two revisions. The second edition was released in December 1975 and and the third edition was published in June 2002.


The Legend of the Condor Heroes

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