The legend of the condor heroes series#

Story-wise, this was one of the most faithful to the saga in the novels. However, this review was written with the hope that this version will receive more positive attention, as it was certainly deserving of it, being an earnestly and beautifully produced and directed show which did the fantastic saga justice. Voltar a ver 8.0 This version, out of the numerous adaptations of the same Jin Yong saga, the “Legend of the Condor Heroes”, was the least popular amongst those made in the last 30 years. Yang Kang, on the other hand, grows up as a prince in the Jin Empire. Guo Jing, Guo Xiao Tian's son, grows up in Mongolia under the protection of Genghis Khan.

The legend of the condor heroes series#

The rest of the series depicts the trials and tribulations that the two sons underwent. On the 18th birthday of the two children, they will all gather and have the two duel each other. Upon finding the children of Yang and Guo, each side will teach the child they find their martial arts. In exchange for helping Qiu Chuji find the two women, they make a friendly wager. Hot on the trail of Duan Tiande, Qiu Chuji 'befriends' The 7 Weirdos of Jiangnan. Upon discovering his friends' demise, Qiu Chuji vows to find their children and teach them martial arts so that they can avenge the wrong done to their families. Both women believe that their husbands perished trying to save them. Wanyan Honglie takes Bao Xirou to the Jin capital while Guo Li Ping is taken by a greedy Jin soldier, Duan Tiande, to the Mongolian outskirts. When the Jin soldiers return, the two families are torn asunder. Yang's kind hearted wife, Bao Xirou, rescues a wounded man who turns out to be the Jin prince Wanyan Honglie. Qiu Chuji dispatches soldiers coming to arrest him with ease and leaves when he sees a signal of his Sect appear in the night sky. One night they befriend a Taoist priest named Qiu Chuji of Quan Zhen Sect who's wanted by Jin soldiers. They promise each other that when their children are born, they would become either sworn brothers or sworn sisters (if both are the same gender) or be married if they were of different genders. Two dedicated Song Dynasty young men, Yang Tie Xin and Guo Xiao Tian find out that their wives are pregnant. Based on the novel 'Legend of Condor Hero' by Jin Yong, the story is set in the middle of Song Dynasty and at the beginning of the Nuzhen Invasion of China.