| Anyone who refused to attend the
feast would be killed the same as his fellows. And to those who accepted the invitation,
no one had ever come back. Gou Zajhong agreed to participate, and after he arrived at the
island he realized that the Master of the island collected reports concerning the martial
arts circle. The ones who were massacred were punished because of their wrong doings and
the ones who came to the island were rewarded with very difficult and precious wugong
recorded in a book. They devoted themselves too much to figuring out the wugong, so they
refused to go home. Gou Zajhong finally solved the secret and the Master of the island
destroyed the wugong book himself. So everyone went back home. The
author employed multiple story lines in this story as he did in other books. Love, hatred,
and revenge esisted for two or three generations. The secret wugong book was another
device which confused many martial arts masters but not Gou Zajhong, who was illiteracy,
simple minded, and straight-forward. Did Jin Yong highly regard Gou Zajhong's character,
or he was simply teasing his fans. |
