Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre, Volume 3
core novel 1962 The Condor Trilogy
Record
| Original title | 倚天屠龍記 |
|---|---|
| First published | 1962 |
| Original language |  ZH |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.58 (159 ratings, collected 2026-09-22) |
| Page count | 452 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9789627461180 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
Having mastered the Nine Yang Divine Manual, Zhang Wuji is drawn into the rivalry between China's major martial sects and the besieged Ming Cult. After unintentionally learning the cult's most powerful art, the Heaven and Earth Great Shift, he saves it from annihilation by the allied Six Great Sects and is reluctantly pressed into becoming its new leader, even as the legendary Dragon Sabre and Heaven Sword continue to drive the wider conflict.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Condor Trilogy
- Series: Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre core; position 3 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Jin Yong
Notes
- ISBN recorded is volume 3 of the Ming Ho (明河社, Hong Kong) four-volume traditional-Chinese edition (21st printing, 2023), the author's own publisher.
- 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.
- Publication order, within the series Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre: position 3 of 4: previous Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre, Volume 2 (1962) · next Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre, Volume 4 (1963)
- Internal chronology, within The Condor Trilogy: position 6 of 8: previous A Snake Lies Waiting (2020) · next A Heart Divided (2021)
Sources
- Wikipedia: The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber
- Wikipedia: Condor Trilogy
- Rating-platform listing: 倚天屠龍記（一）
- Rating-platform listing: 倚天屠龍記（二）
- Rating-platform listing: 倚天屠龍記（三）
- Rating-platform listing: 倚天屠龍記（四）
- Cosmos Books (天地圖書) listing: 倚天屠龍記 [1-4] 原作平裝, Ming Ho Press
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavenly_Sword_and_Dragon_Slaying_Sabre
- Munsang College library catalogue (Ming Ho 2023 edition, 4 vols)
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