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Sword Radiance Ten Thousand Fathoms (3 Volumes)

Rating 3.2
Word count
365K words
Chapters
66

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Summary

This set consists of three volumes: Swordlight Ten Thousand Zhang (Volume One), Swordlight Ten Thousand Zhang (Volume Two), and Swordlight Ten Thousand Zhang (Volume Three).

Deep night! As dawn approached, that stretch of time seemed especially dim. The "Hundred Swords Against a Hundred Demons" upheaval set Jinling City—its residents, inns, taverns, and streets—seething like a cauldron of boiling oil! Shu Jinglin resolved to seek out the righteous and chivalrous of the jianghu, to gather a hundred swordsmen famed for their skill and form the "Hundred Swords Society," to uphold justice in the martial world and to stand against the "Hundred Demons Gang"—so that the "Sword Sage, Ancestor of the Blade" who died beneath the pool might rest in peace in the Forest of Swords, and so that he might fulfill the old man's dying wish. A succession of perilous events unfolds around the confrontation between the Hundred Swords Society and the Hundred Demons Gang, interwoven with the tangled love and hatred between Shu Jinglin and Ye Qiwen, daughter of Ye Hentian, leader of the Hundred Demons Gang...

Editor's review

Across its three volumes, Ten Thousand Rays of Sword Light opens on the seething night in Jinling City when "a hundred swords meet a hundred demons," swiftly bringing to the fore Shu Jinglin's resolve to rally a hundred swordsmen against the Hundred Demons Gang. The story's central tension lies not in combat alone but in the standoff between the Hundred Swords Society and the Hundred Demons Gang—and in the tangled love and hatred between Shu Jinglin and Ye Qiwen, daughter of Ye Hentian, leader of the Hundred Demons Gang. Righteous and evil allegiances pull against private feeling, lending every clash the weight of human emotion. Mo Yunsheng continues the old-school wuxia manner: with the bequest of the "Sword Sage and Blade Progenitor" as his thread, he weaves together jianghu honor, the gathering of factions, and romantic entanglement. Events follow one upon another, suiting readers who enjoy factional confrontation running alongside a love story. The three volumes form a set best read together; those who prefer a single-line tale of swift vengeance, or who dislike wuxia heavy on romantic entanglement, should weigh it accordingly.

Who it's for

A good fit for

  • Wuxia readers who enjoy orthodox-vs-evil faction confrontation and large ensemble casts
  • Readers interested in the love-hate entanglements and conflicts of stance among jianghu men and women
  • Readers who favor old-school wuxia and enjoy continuous event-driven plotting
  • Those who need a complete multi-volume saga for concentrated holiday reading

Not a good fit for

  • Readers who want only single-thread, straightforward vendettas and dislike romantic entanglement
  • Readers impatient with multi-faction, multi-character parallel narration
  • Readers who expect a complete arc within a single volume

Reading tips

  1. Start from the "Hundred Swords against a Hundred Demons" night in Volume 1, and first fix in mind the core figures of the Hundred Swords Society and the Hundred Demons Gang.
  2. Pay attention to every clash between Shu Jinglin and Ye Qiwen; the emotional line is key to understanding later shifts in stance.
  3. Read the three volumes consecutively; the suspense of faction confrontation carries across volumes, and setting it aside midway easily breaks the thread.
  4. Sort out the clues related to the Sword Sage, Blade Ancestor's aspiration as you read, to help understand Shu Jinglin's motives for action.

Contents

  1. 版权信息
  2. 剑光万丈(第一册)
  3. 第一章 一失足成千古恨
  4. 第二章 傷心淚盡話當年
  5. 第三章 濁世翩翩佳公子
  6. 第四章 借酒消愁愁更愁
  7. 第五章 情了怨了恨未了
  8. 第六章 仇捨怨捨恨難棄
  9. 第七章 萬劍之尊撼華山
  10. 第八章 真相大白起風雲
  11. 第九章 倩女柔情感鐵漢
  12. 第十章 金箭傳言約拂曉
  13. 第十一章 華車奇人入魔窟
  14. 第十二章 深入魔窟覓死潭
  15. 第十三章 腥風血雨殘摧華山門
  16. 第十四章 潭底屍前情結鴛鴦盟
  17. 第十五章 華車英傑坦誠多情女
  18. 第十六章 勞燕分飛
  19. 第十七章 郎心如鐵
  20. 第十八章 孺慕之心
  21. 剑光万丈(第二册)
  22. 第十九章 最是傷情江南地
  23. 第二十章 神龍一現華山劍
  24. 第二十一章 三魔幷傳驚虎膽
  25. 第二十二章 美人如玉劍如虹
  26. 第二十三章 白魔女面惡心詐
  27. 第二十四章 萬劍之尊遇奇襲
  28. 第二十五章 魔聆三事魂飛天
  29. 第二十六章 最難消受美人恩
  30. 第二十七章 魔簫殘迫華山門
  31. 第二十八章 百劍洪流困百魔
  32. 第二十九章 薄情寡義負心人
  33. 第三十章 媚狐身世堪同情
  34. 第三十一章 一波三折苦心忍
  35. 第三十二章 雙怪仗義救聖心
  36. 第三十三章 八方豪傑會金陵
  37. 第三十四章 戰雲密佈滿月樓
  38. 第三十五章 劍光閃爍寒心魄
  39. 剑光万丈(第三册)
  40. 第三十六章 南醜北魔俱失踪
  41. 第三十七章 劍聖情史堪歌泣
  42. 第三十八章 自古紅顏多薄命
  43. 第三十九章 良辰美景風雲變
  44. 第四十章 雙怪豪情值一提
  45. 第四十一章 借屍還魂魔逞兇
  46. 第四十二章 北魔沒死再現身
  47. 第四十三章 紅顏鐵骨倩女淚
  48. 第四十四章 私密被悉施毒招
  49. 第四十五章 北魔重現撼武林
  50. 第四十六章 倩女多情為君變
  51. 第四十七章 金陵城外添寃魂
  52. 第四十八章 野心勃勃吞武當
  53. 第四十九章 重見天日會群魔
  54. 第五十章 仇深似海英雄淚
  55. 第五十一章 忍劍怒笛傳武林
  56. 第五十二章 魔長道消梟雄夢
  57. 第五十三章 陰謀暗計呈兇焰
  58. 第五十四章 陽錯陰差空餘恨
  59. 第五十五章 百劍會上起風雲
  60. 第五十六章 波譎雲詭飛刀客
  61. 第五十七章 華山左劍命乖亡
  62. 第五十八章 荒野天涯喜重逢
  63. 第五十九章 八方風雨會金陵
  64. 第六十章 山窮水盡疑無路
  65. 第六十一章 柳暗花明又一村
  66. 第六十二章 劍光萬丈壯山河

FAQ

What is the ratio between the romance line and the wuxia main plot?
The two are interwoven. The love-hate entanglement between Shu Jinglin and Ye Qiwen runs through the confrontation between the Hundred Swords Society and the Hundred Demons Gang, and emotional shifts often drive or influence the direction of factional conflict. The wuxia main line centers on gathering a hundred swords and opposing a hundred demons, while the romance line adds tension to the characters' choices of stance; it is not independent of the main plot.
Are the setups of the "Hundred Swords Society" and the "Hundred Demons Gang" complex?
The setup is framed by the opposition of two major factions: the Hundred Swords Society is formed by Shu Jinglin gathering orthodox swordsmen, while the Hundred Demons Gang is led by Ye Hentian. There are many characters, but the core conflict is concentrated on the two factions and major figures such as Shu Jinglin and Ye Qiwen; readers can follow the story by grasping the main characters and need not memorize every minor one.
Is this series close in style to The Ballad of the Ancient Cypress?
Both are multi-volume wuxia sagas by the same author, Moyunsheng, both employing the old-school approach of interwoven multiple characters and factions, with orthodox-vs-evil opposition and personal grudges as their common ground. The difference is that Swordlight Ten Thousand Zhang takes the factional rallying of the Hundred Swords Society against the Hundred Demons Gang as its main line and highlights the emotional entanglement of Shu Jinglin and Ye Qiwen, whereas The Ballad of the Ancient Cypress focuses on Lei Yun's dilemma over his alliance-leader identity. Readers who like one usually accept the narrative approach of the other.

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摩云生 Author

Mo Yunsheng is a Chinese author known for wuxia (martial arts) fiction. Public information about him is limited, and no clear records of his life, nationality, or dates of birth and death are available. The library currently holds eleven of his works, with the representative titles Gubai Xing (The Song of the Ancient Cypress) and Jianguang Wanzhang (Sword Light Ten Thousand Zhang), each presented complete in three volumes, suggesting a preference for longer, structurally complete narratives. Judging from common classifications, Mo Yunsheng's writing centers on wuxia themes, and his titles draw imagery from classical poetry and the aura of swords and weapons, reflecting an aesthetic rooted in traditional martial arts fiction. The serial, multi-volume publication of his works indicates continuous storylines in which characters and plots develop across volumes, suiting readers who enjoy long wuxia narratives. Lacking the author's own statements or external reviews, the specific features of his style are difficult to discuss in detail; based on the available titles, however, he has built a modest body of work in the wuxia genre, and his naming and volume structure show an awareness of the traditional serialized long-form novel.

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