I don't know the real title of this book. Although it was published with the name of Gu Long, but I cannot find this in the list of Gu Long works. In English the title can be translated to -more or less- "True School".
The lead character was a young scholar, who learnt martial arts secretly, named In Tiong Giok. His teacher left suddenly after leaving a message to In Tiong Giok to deliver a letter. On his way, our hero saw that a sect named Pok Thian Pang was looking for a Sanskrit translator, and since he could speak the language, he applied for the job, and got it. It turned out he was to translate a martial arts manual and that he would be killed after completing the job.
In short, our hero ran away from the sect, taking the book with him. He was chased by people who wanted the manual. To solve the problem, In Tiong Giok went to a printing house and printed the manual 550 copies and gave them away. --> I found this very funny... Often I wonder why in wuxia stories people fight for a manual, why not borrow and copy it...? A kungfu manual usually only consists of not so many pages anyway. Stupid Kwee Ceng even could memorize the whole Kiu Im Cin Keng 九陰真經.
Then they began to fight for a pair of swords, which were hidden in a lake. [This reminded me a bit of King Arthur's sword.] Our hero won, of course.
On his journey, In Tiong Giok would find his true identity, became the head of a school, and destroyed the evil Pok Thian Pang. The "True School" in the title was not mentioned much. It was actually a group of 3 people, 1 Buddhist monk, 1 Buddhist nun and 1 Lama: who fought for the pair of swords many years ago.
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