Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, retold
天龙八部：金庸原著速读
Jin Yong's great novel in fourteen stories: a prince who will not fight, a hero who learns he was born Khitan, and a monk who wants nothing, from Mount Wuliang to Yanmen Pass.
The Adventure at Sword Lake Palace
剑湖宫奇遇
Duan Yu, a prince of Dali who refuses to learn kung fu, laughs at the wrong moment at Sword Lake Palace, is poisoned with seven days to live, and falls into a cave holding a jade statue and two secret arts.
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The Veiled Girl and the Valley of Ten Thousand Calamities
蒙面姑娘与万劫谷
Duan Yu meets Mu Wanqing, a veiled rider whose rule is that the first man to see her face must marry her or die, then follows her into a valley whose gate reads: any Duan who enters will be killed.
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The Temple of the Heavenly Dragon: The Six Meridians Sword
天龙寺：六脉神剑
The monk Jiumozhi comes to Tianlong Temple demanding the Six Meridians Sword manual. The old monks burn it rather than give it up, but Duan Yu has already memorized every line, so Jiumozhi takes him instead.
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Mantuo Manor: The Statue Comes Alive
曼陀山庄：玉像活了
At Mantuo Manor, a lady who hates the Duan clan means to bury Duan Yu as flower fertilizer. He saves himself by naming her camellias, then meets Wang Yuyan, who looks exactly like the jade statue.
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The Apricot Grove: The Chief Turns Khitan Overnight
杏子林：帮主一夜成了"契丹人"
Qiao Feng, chief of the Beggars' Sect and the most admired hero of the Central Plains, learns in an apricot grove, from a letter thirty years old, that he was born Khitan. He lays down the chief's staff and walks away alone.
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Juxian Manor: A Bowl of Parting Wine
聚贤庄：一碗断义酒
To save a wounded girl, Qiao Feng walks alone into Juxian Manor, where the heroes of the realm have gathered to kill him, drinks a bowl of parting wine with each old friend, and fights them all.
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An Empty Promise of Herding Beyond the Great Wall
塞上牛羊空许约
Xiao Feng and A’zhu promise each other a life herding sheep beyond the Great Wall. Then, on a stone bridge at night, he strikes down the man he believes killed his parents, and finds it was A’zhu.
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Years in Liao: The Great Prince of the Southern Court
辽国岁月：南院大王
In the Liao lands, Xiao Feng swears brotherhood with a hunter who turns out to be Yelü Hongji, emperor of Liao. He helps put down a rebellion and is made Great Prince of the Southern Court.
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The Zhenlong Chess Puzzle: The Little Monk's Strange Luck
珍珑棋局：小和尚的怪运
Xuzhu, the least remarkable monk at Shaolin, shuts his eyes and plays one stone on a chess puzzle no master could solve, and is handed seventy years of a dying master’s inner power that he never wanted.
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The Child-Granny of Mount Heaven: Mistress of Vulture Palace
天山童姥：灵鹫宫的主人
Xuzhu carries a child out of a mob that has her tied in a sack. She is Tianshan Tonglao, ninety-six years old and mistress of Vulture Palace, and on the road she makes the young monk break his vows one by one.
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The Battle of Shaoshi Mountain: Three Sworn Brothers
少室山大战：三兄弟结义
On Mount Shaoshi the three heroes meet at last. Xiao Feng, Duan Yu and Xuzhu fight side by side as sworn brothers, old secrets of birth come out, and a nameless old monk with a broom ends a lifetime of vengeance.
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The Xixia Bride Search: Who Is the Dream Girl?
西夏招亲：梦姑是谁
The princess of Xixia is choosing a husband. Duan Yu is thrown down a dry well, Wang Yuyan leaps in after him, and in a dark room three questions reveal who the monk Xuzhu’s dream girl really was.
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The Murongs of Suzhou: Turning a Man's Own Way Against Him
姑苏慕容：以彼之道还施彼身
Murong Fu kneels to a villain to become heir to the throne of Dali, kills his own loyal retainer, and ends on an earthen grave in a paper crown, while Duan Yu learns who his real father is.
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Yanmen Pass: From Hero to Bodhisattva
雁门关：从英雄到菩萨
Xiao Feng refuses to lead the Liao army south, is broken out of prison by his sworn brothers, and at Yanmen Pass forces the emperor to swear peace. Then he takes his own life with the two halves of a broken arrow.
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