Now mention the Tianya Mingyue Knife, many young players may first think of the same name and mobile game developed by Tencent's Northern Lights Studio, but few players have fully seen this original novel created by the well-known martial arts writer Gu Long, so compared to the plot of the game adaptation, what kind of story does the original Tianya Mingyue Dao tell us?
First, the origin of the Heavenly Bright Moon Knife
As the four great masters of Chinese martial arts novels alongside Jin Yong, Liang Yusheng and Wen Rui'an, Gu Long used his many works such as "Absolute Double Pride", "Chu Liuxiang", "Meteor Butterfly Sword", "Legend of Lu Xiaofeng" and "Border City Prodigal Son" to open up a new path for Chinese martial arts novels, he added drama, reasoning and poetry to traditional martial arts novels, creating a genre of martial arts novels with a romantic atmosphere, creating a new peak for martial arts literature.
However, the original work "Tianya Mingyue Knife" that this article is going to talk about is the most painful novel that Gu Long has ever written in his life. In 1979, Gu Long once said in "The Growth and Transformation of a Writer - Why I Rewrite the Iron Banner": "And the one that makes me feel the most painful and frustrated in my life is "Tianya Mingyue Knife". Because at that time I always wanted to "seek innovation", "change", "breakthrough", I did not know whether I wanted to break through others or myself, but I knew that I did break through one thing - my pocket. My own pocket. ”
Cologne himself
However, it was Gu Long's pursuit of innovation and change in traditional martial arts at that time that gave birth to this work that inherits the past and the future.
Second, where the bright moon shines, there are roses at the end of the world
The original story of "Tianya Mingyue Dao" is, to be precise, a sequel to another novel of Gu Long, "The Prodigal Son of Border City". In the original novel, the protagonist is of course not the young hero player in the game, but Fu Hongxue, who is also the protagonist of "The Prodigal Son of the Border City". In "The Bright Moon Knife at the End of the World", Fu Hongxue has changed from a lame revenge teenager in the previous work to a hero who has completed the peak of the martial arts of revenge, at this time, he has retired to the jianghu. However, the trees wanted to be quiet and the forest did not stop, and after a few years, the rivers and lakes rose again.
Fu Hongxue
A mysterious man with great wealth and founding the Green Dragon Society, Gongzi Yu, appeared in the jianghu. He used fame and fortune to lure the world's first sword Yan Nanfei (that is, the rose sword Yan big brother in the game) as his stand-in, and sent him and his subordinate Mingyuexin to assassinate Fu Hongxue, but the ending was naturally Fu Hongxue's victory, but Yan Nanfei failed to assassinate him twice, and Fu Hongxue did not kill him.
Bright Moon Heart
In addition to sending people to assassinate, Gongzi Yu also created a legend about the world's first secret weapon Peacock Plume, and many people in the jianghu died for it after listening to the legend.
Peacock plume
At the same time, Gongzi Yu also sent his subordinate Zhuo Yuzhen to become the mistress of Qiu Shuiqing, the master of the Peacock Plume, and then washed the Peacock Villa in blood. Qiu Shuiqing, who does not know the truth, entrusts Zhuo Yuzhen to Fu Hongxue before her death, but Fu Hongxue realizes the truth about her from Zhuo Yuzhen's actions. With perseverance, he killed one killer sent by Gongzi Yu, and finally came to Gongzi Yu's residence and killed Yan Nanfei, who replaced Gongzi Yu in the duel. He refused to emulate Yan Nanfei as a stand-in for Gongzi Yu, leaving those tempting fortunes and returning to a woman who truly loved him. And Gongzi Yu also realized that it was not possible to continue, so he gave up fame and fortune and retired to the jianghu. At this point, the original story ends.
Gongzi Yu
"Where the moon shines, there are roses at the end of the world."
This is a reader's perception of this novel after watching "Tianya Mingyue Knife".
3. Tianya Mingyue Knife
Gu Long once wrote in the wedge of the novel "Tianya Mingyue Dao":
"The end of the world is not far away?"
"Not far!"
"People are at the end of the world, how can the end of the world be far away?"
"What color is the bright moon?"
"It's blue, as blue as the sea, as deep as it is, as melancholy as it is."
"Where is the bright moon?"
"Right in his heart, his heart is the bright moon."
"What about knives?"
"The knife is in his hand."
"What kind of knife is that?"
"His sword is as vast and lonely as the end of the world, as bright as the moon, and sometimes when a knife is swung, it seems to be empty."
"Empty?"
"Empty, ethereal, illusory, as if it didn't exist, and as if it were everywhere."
"But his knife doesn't look fast."
"Yes!"
"How can an unhappy knife be invincible to the world?"
"Because his knife has surpassed the limit of speed!"
I think this may be the origin of the name of the novel, Gu Long wrote countless times in his life and created many various heroic characters, and Fu Hongxue is undoubtedly the most outlier protagonist in his works. He is lonely, lonely, stoic; He is physically handicapped, born lame, and has epilepsy often with intermittent seizures; He kills without blinking an eye, only for revenge; The woman he loves is not a prostitute. Everything almost subverts all the perceptions of heroes in martial arts novels. However, this character has won the love of martial arts fans. Because from the shaping of this character, it can be seen that Gu Long has made efforts to seek new changes in the middle of the period. It is the appearance of such a character that makes the hero in the traditional sense walk down the hall and become a person with flesh and blood, laughter and tears, anger and mistakes. human nature! Finally, it also began to become a theme worth exploring in martial arts novels.
Fourth, continue to write the legend of tianya in the game
I believe that after reading the above, the players have a certain understanding of the original novel of the Tianya Mingyue Dao, and will also find that whether it is the Tianya Mingyue Dao end game or the mobile game, in addition to some plots and novels, the rest of the plot has exceeded the novel a lot, almost can be said to be developing in the direction of original adaptation. In the game, in addition to Yan Nanfei, Mingyuexin, Fu Hongxue, Gongzi Yu, as well as Shen Guhong, Ye Zhiqiu, Qu Wuyi, Tang Qingfeng and other characters who do not appear in novels, and the game plot, whether it is a terminal game or a mobile game, can be said to have exceeded the original too much. Of course, these excesses are also officially constructed on the basis of the Gulong worldview, and there is no doubt that although the plot of the novel has ended, the jianghu world of the Heavenly Bright Moon Knife is still continued in the game.
Qu wuyi
Tang Qingfeng
"Heavenly White Jade Jing, the twelfth floor of the five cities, immortals help me to the top, tie the hair to teach immortality", this is the opening of the Tianya Mingyue Knife Yan Nanfei said to the player a sentence, but also officially opened the story of the Heavenly Knife Jianghu of the young heroes, and now the story of the Tianya Mingyue Knife Game is still continuing, Young Hero, are you still writing your legend in this jianghu?