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Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre, Volume 2

core novel 1962 The Condor Trilogy

Record

Original title倚天屠龍記
First published1962
Original language ZH
Work typenovel
Canon statuscore
Reader rating4.59 (196 ratings, collected 2026-09-22)
Page count416
First-edition ISBN9789627461173
Internal chronology2

Synopsis

Poisoned as a child by the Xuanming Divine Palm, the orphaned Zhang Wuji grows up wandering the martial world in search of a cure, saved from death at a low point by the young Zhou Zhiruo. His fortunes turn when he stumbles onto the Nine Yang Divine Manual, hidden with a white ape, and begins mastering the extraordinary martial arts that will define the rest of his life.

Where it sits

  • Universe: The Condor Trilogy
  • Series: Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre core; position 2 of 4 in the series' recorded order
  • Author: Jin Yong

Notes

  • ISBN recorded is volume 2 of the Ming Ho (明河社, Hong Kong) four-volume traditional-Chinese edition (21st printing, 2023), the author's own publisher; replaces the Yuan Liu (Taipei) volume-2 number recorded on 2026-10-12, so that the four volumes share one edition.
  • From the series record (Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre): Core Canon: the original Chinese prose novel (serialized in the Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao, 6 July 1961 to 2 September 1963), as split into its standard four-volume paperback edition (Ming Ho Press / 明河社, matching the reader-rating platform's own four-volume listing). No official English translation of this third Condor Trilogy novel has been published as of this pass (only a fan/unofficial online translation exists, not used as a source); the ongoing English translation of the trilogy has so far only covered the first novel, The Legend of the Condor Heroes. This is the prose novel only, distinct from Ma Wing Shing's manhua adaptation of the same story, which is permanently out of scope for this canon and was not consulted for any fact here.

Neighbouring works

Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.

Sources

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