An excellent Japanese swordsman in white garment came to China to challenge masters of martial arts. He expected to be defeated but it never happened until he met Zihyi Hou, many Chinese martial arts masters had already been killed by then. A violent contest between these two masters started and Zihyi Hou was brutally injured before he finally won. Instead of being killed, the Japanese was permitted to go home peacefully. The Japanese declared that he would come back in seven years to challenge the Chinese masters again. However the injured Zihyi Hou died before long and the Chinese martial arts circle was in chaos, because no one had the confidence to defeat the Japanese antagonist.

      The hero of this story Fang Baoyu came on the scene. He was believed to be the only one could defeat the Japanese swordsman because he inherited wugong from Zihyi Hou and he had learned a lot of different wugong from many masters when he was travelling around the country. However Fang Baoyu as a young man did not think that he could win. His girl friend, Zihyi Hou's daughter encouraged him and he finally comprehended that "no martial arts form can defeated any other martial arts form wujhao sheng youjhao," so he won.

      A famous Taiwanese wusia novel reviewer, Ye Hongsheng, recommended this book by saying,

      Gu Long learned philosophies of wugong, such as 'The Way of the Sword jiandao was the access to understand the meaning of life', 'preparations for the final contest' and 'the decisive one cut' from the Japanese novel Miyamoto Musashih by Yoshikawa Eiji, and 'having no sword beats having a sword' from Shendiao Sialyu by Jin Yong. He then invented his 'no martial arts form can defeated any other martial arts form' in this book. His invention made this novel outstanding. It was even three years earlier than 'Wushang Sinfa,' which Fong Cingyang taught Linghu Chong in Jin Yong's novel Siaoao Jianghu". After this novel, forms of wugong became less important in Gu Long's works, and the atmosphere taking place when fights start, and characters' states of mind, became much more significant.

      The Japanese swordsman was the spiritual leader of this book, not only because he stirred up the whole issue. In this book, Gu Long criticized him, saying,

      "He was a devil in the martial arts circle but he was also a god. He was born for the Way of the Sword and he died because of it. Was he righteous? Was he ruthless? Who can judge, who dare to judge!" This man devoted himself to martial arts and he was also possessed by them. Concerning his skill, he was a respectable person. But he was not the ideal type of Chinese sia, the knight-errant, who helped the poor and saved his community. So this Japanese samurai was not the hero of this book. Rather, two Chinese sia, Zihyi Ho and Fang Bauyu, were the heroes of this novel.

      Although this story emphasizes " no martial arts form can defeated any other martial arts form" there are still many Chinese wugong mentioned, such as Fumo Jianfa and Jyueming Sanjhao. Zihyi Ho used the former to defeat the Japanese samurai, and Fang Baoyu learned the latter from a martial arts master. And when Fang Baoyu comprehended the secret way of wugong "Strong is weak, and weak is strong. Insufficient is sufficient, and sufficient is insufficient. There are similarities between them," it reminds readers of Lao Zih's teachings.