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Character Overview

The Swords Demystified

Novel Excerpts:

1.Doubly Ambushed

2 Shocking Discoveries

3 Divine Eulalia

4. Yungang Grottoes

5. (TBA)

Links:

Official Site

Due to other commitments, Wu Jing is no longer attached to this TV series but this page is retained for informational purposes.

Seven Swords of Mt Tian is a Liang Yusheng adaptation initially conceived by Cheung Sing Yim. When Tsui Hark formally joined the production on 29 November 2002, it turned into a heck of an ambitious project consisting of not only a TV series that is being expanded from 30 to 60 episodes, and now to 74,  and a movie hexalogy known as The Seven Swords, but also a massively multiplayer online game (MMORPG) and a 40-volume comics to be jointly developed by Korea (Joyon Entertainment) and Japan. Total investments for the entire project are 1 billion yuan. Alongside the production is a documentary, Unprecedented, depicting the making of this visionary project. Tsui Hark, who works tirelessly and exigently oversees every aspect of the production from script-writing, costume design through casting to martial arts choreography, is poised to push the envelopes, redefine and bring back the wuxia genre, which is now at the end of its tether, with Seven Swords of Mt Tian by putting emphasis on story, character development, philosophies, values of life, humanity and realistic martial arts sequences with eloquently distinctive styles.

Seven Swords of Mt Tian traces the chivalrous tales of the two generations of Seven Swordmasters whose martial arts skills or apprenticeships are in one way or another connected to three retired martial arts doyens - Reverend Ming Hui, former Wudang Sect leader Zhuo Yi Rang, and Bride with White Hair - who now live in seclusion at the Heavenly Mountains.

Expanding on the scope of the original material, Tsui Hark provides backgrounds for each of the swordmasters with events preceding the novel, and based on his interpretation of wuxia, designed seven precious swords - actually fourteen in all, including the second generation - for the production: Gallivanting Dragon, Green Dehydration, Never Enquiring, Sun and Moon, Star-Rivalry , Heavenly Cascade, God Relinquishing, which will be assigned to Chu Zhao Nan, Yang Yun Cong, Fu Qing Zhu, Mu Lang, Xin Long Zi, Wu Yuan Ying and Han Zhi Bang. The seven priceless swords were forged by Dhyana Master Hui Ming at Mt Heaven, based upon seven different realms. The Seven Swordmasters, each with their own personalities, roam the pugilistic world carrying these seven swords, doing a series of earthshaking deeds. Mao Wan Lian, Yi Lan Zhu, Gui Zhong Ming etc would appear in the second segment of TV series while their first generation become the key characters in the first part.

"The most intriguing weapon in Chinese wuxia culture is sword. How a sword is wielded is the union of the cultivation of (wo)man and sword, it's a kind of discipline, and swordplay is also a personification of a person's personality," says Tsui Hark.

May the wuxia revolution begin...

Plot Synopsis:

AD 1664, the Manchurians defeated the Ming Empire and successfully captured Central Plains. To exert its influence and ensure trouble-free reign, the Manchu government went all out to arrest the pugilists. To save Central Plains, a recluse at Mt Tian, Dhyana Master Reverend Hui Ming (Master Shadow Glow), ordered Seven Swordmasters to descend Mt Tian.

However, after leaving Mt Tian, circumstances dictated that the Seven Swordmasters were to go their separate ways. So, they arranged to meet each other by Qiantang River one year later.

During a battle, Yang Yun Cong was seriously wounded. He was saved by an enemy general's daughter Nalan Ming Hui. The two fell in love and gave birth to a daughter. However, Nalan Ming Hui was compelled by her father to marry Prince Duo Duo. Yang Yun Cong asked Nalan Ming Hui to leave with him, but, as the safety of her family was at stake, she declined. Yang Yun Cong snatched away their daughter and went to Qiantang River in response to prior appointment with six other Mt Tian disciples. However, only Mu Lang showed up.

Before his death, Yang Yun Cong entrusted Mu Lang with the care of her daughter, and told him bring her to Mt Tian to study martial arts...

Eighteen years later, Ling Mo Feng (Mu Lang) successfully inherited all the skills of Reverend Ming Hui. Yi Lan Zhu, the baby girl of yesteryear, had also mastered Mt Tian Swordplay. She vowed to avenge the death of her father. The remaining Swordmasters became the leaders of Heaven and Earth Society. On learning that Emperor Kangxi would be going to Mt Wutai to pay his homage, they meticulously plotted to assassinate him.