Zeng Shun Xi’s Heavenly Sword Dragon Slaying Saber 2018 drops first trailer

Okay, okay. This remake looks pretty decent! Abundant of real outdoor scenes with waterfalls, mountains, and trees. The girls are gorgeous to look at and like I said last time, Zhu Xu Dan as Zhou Zhi Ruo is stealing all my attention without breaking a sweat. She has that cold beauty vibes going for her and I’m a sucker for it. Lol. Our hero played by Zeng Shun Xi worries me a little because he only has one expression throughout the trailer. xD To be fair though, Wu Ji the character isn’t very expressive…

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Old and New Stills:

Zeng Shun Xi (Fighter of The Destiny and When We Were Young) as our hero, Zhang Wuji.

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Tang Yan’s little kiddo, Chen Yu Qi snatched up Zhao Min! She was in Princess Wei Young.

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Zhu Xu Dan as Zhou Zhi Ruo. Oh…. She looks really pretty and good here. I think I will fall for the second lead girl again?!!

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Kathy Chow as Abbess Miejue!! In her younger years, she played Zhou Zhi Ruo in one of the older remakes.

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Hei Zi as Wuji’s godfather, Golden Haired Lion King.

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Li Dong Xue has Zhang Wu Ji’s father, Zhang Cui Shan, fifth apprentice in Wu Dang sect at the time.

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Louis Fan as the ultimate schemer Cheng Kun!

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Yang Ming Na as Golden Flower Granny.

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Kabby Xu Ya Ting as Xiao Zhao, Han Qian Ye and Dai Qi Si’s daughter. Her mother sends her as a spy to infiltrate the Ming Cult and find the location of its secret tunnel. She falls in love with our hero too but is destined to take her mother’s place as the Sacred Maiden. Gosh, this actress looks adorable.

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Sun An Ke as Yang Bu Hui, Yang Xiao and Ji Xiao Fu’s daughter. An elegance to her ~

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Maggie Chen Xin Yu as Yin Su Su, the daughter of Yin Tian Zheng, the leader of the Heavenly Eagle Cult. Wu Ji’s mother.

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Wang De Shun as Zhang San Feng, Wu Dang’s Sect Leader.

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Jin Zhao as Zhu Yuan Zhang, minor leader of a rebel cult and later becomes the founding emperor of the Ming dynasty.

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Zong Feng Yan as Disfigured Bright Right Messenger. One of my favorite characters!

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Cao Xi Yue as Yin Li, Wu Ji’s cousin who practices Thousand Spiders Venom Hand and ends up with a disfigured face.

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Sun Yi Fan as Wang Bao Bao, Zhao Min’s Brother.

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Lin Yu Shen as Yang Xiao, Bright Left Messenger.

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Zhang Chao Ren as Song Qing Shu, Song Yuanqiao’s arrogant spoilt son, who crushes very hard on Zhou Zhi Ruo.

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Trailer:

The detailed-synopsis from Wiki for those new to the story: Set in the late Yuan dynasty, the story revolves around a pair of priceless and extremely powerful weapons, the Heaven Reliant Sword (倚天劍) and Dragon Slaying Saber (屠龍刀), which are coveted by many martial artists in the jianghu. Either or both of them are thought to allow their wielder to rule the wulin (martial artists’ community), according to a widely circulated mantra which goes, “Honoured by the wulin, the precious Saber slays the Dragon. It commands the world. Who dares to disobey? If the Heaven Reliant does not appear, who can challenge it?” (武林至尊,寶刀屠龍,號令天下,莫敢不從!倚天不出,誰與爭鋒?) The origins of this mantra are not known at the beginning of the novel.

The protagonist, Zhang Wuji, is of mixed heritage. His father, Zhang Cuishan, is an apprentice of Zhang Sanfeng, the highly revered leader of the Wudang Sect; his mother, Yin Susu, is the daughter of Yin Tianzheng, the chief of the “unorthodox” Heavenly Eagle Cult. He spent his childhood on a reclusive northern island, where he was born, with only his parents and his godfather, Xie Xun, to keep him company. When he is about 10 years old, he returns to the Chinese mainland with his parents. They soon find themselves the target of several martial artists, who try to force them to reveal the whereabouts of Xie Xun and the Dragon Slaying Saber. His parents refuse and commit suicide. At the same time, Zhang Wuji is wounded by the Xuanming Elders, but he survives after seeking medical treatment from Hu Qingniu, an eccentric physician.

After ending up in an isolated valley by chance, Zhang Wuji discovers the long-lost Nine Yang Manual, masters the inner energy skills described in the book, and becomes a formidable martial artist. Later on, he helps to resolve the conflict between the Ming Cult and the six major orthodox sects, which are bent on destroying the cult. He earns the respect of the cult’s members and becomes its leader after mastering the skill ‘Heaven and Earth Great Shift’. He reforms the cult and helps to improve its relations with other sects. He becomes a key figure in leading the rebel forces to overthrow the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty.

Throughout his adventures, Zhang Wuji finds himself entangled in a complex web of love relationships with four maidens. The first, Yin Li, is a horribly disfigured girl who is actually his maternal cousin. The second, Xiaozhao, is a Chinese-Persian servant girl who understands him very well. The third, Zhou Zhiruo, is a childhood friend whom he develops a strong bond with. The fourth, Zhao Min, is a Mongol princess and his former arch-rival. Yin Li is apparently killed in the middle of the novel while Xiaozhao returns to Persia after it is revealed that she is destined to lead the Persian Ming Cult.

Zhou Zhiruo soon falls in love with Zhang Wuji, but has to turn against him as she is bound by an oath she made in front of her teacher Miejue, who hates and distrusts Zhang Wuji and anyone related to the Ming Cult. Miejue devises a vicious scheme for Zhou Zhiruo to seize the two weapons by exploiting Zhang Wuji’s love for Zhou. Zhou Zhiruo also turns vicious after Zhang Wuji reneges his promise to marry her and swears vengeance on him. Zhao Min was initially Zhang Wuji’s rival as they were on opposing sides. However, Zhao Min gradually falls in love with Zhang Wuji after their various encounters, and she even turns against her clan to help him.

At the end of the novel, Zhang Wuji decides to retire from the jianghu after he mistakenly believes that the Ming Cult’s members are plotting to betray him. He decides that Zhao Min is his true love and they leave to lead a reclusive life far away from society. (The second edition of the novel has an ambiguous ending about Zhang Wuji’s relationship with Zhou Zhiruo.) Zhang Wuji gave up an opportunity to become a ruler because the Ming Cult eventually overthrew the Yuan dynasty. Ideally, Zhang would have become the new emperor, but instead, Zhu Yuanzhang takes the throne and establishes the Ming dynasty.

Directed by Jiang Jia Jun (Wong Fei Hong 2017) and written by Wei Xin, Heavenly Sword is planning to have 50 episodes.

  1. 4 thoughts on “Zeng Shun Xi’s Heavenly Sword Dragon Slaying Saber 2018 drops first trailer

    For the first time Chen Kun, Abbess Mijue, and Lion King all have good looks!
    For some reasons, that made it look less serious to me I don’t know what my reasoning is here I just feel that way. Mijue is almost prettier than ZZR to me here. And the Lion King is more attractive and manly than the main guy. I think actress Yukee has at least a few haters too, especially for stealing scenes from the main leads in AOL and being under TY’s studio so anybody who dislike TY basically also dislike Yukee. kinda like the DLRB-YM kind of thing.

    I hope they make the storyline good, the trailer seems to be very obsessive with all the technologies and slow-motioned fightings but not much from the story and romance side of things. I am more interested in the story-telling side, and extremely picky about how good that flows. Like the newest version of Swordsman, I don’t even wanna mention it, the story did not even exist at all in there.

    Found some clips on dailymotion for the YX-XF side story from 1994. The subber cut a bunch of stuff and I was wondering why the story was so choppy, but at least a bit english sub still better than nothing.

    https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6vnnsm

  2. 4 thoughts on “Zeng Shun Xi’s Heavenly Sword Dragon Slaying Saber 2018 drops first trailer

    I can’t wait to watch this! Looks really good, my only problem is the excessive floating in air in slow motion!!

  3. 4 thoughts on “Zeng Shun Xi’s Heavenly Sword Dragon Slaying Saber 2018 drops first trailer

    Quite looking forward to this! This is at least looking pretty nice visually. I don’t really mind all the slow motion flowing fighting stuffs. It can be pretty cool and probably better anyway than one of the previous adaptation I watched.

  4. 4 thoughts on “Zeng Shun Xi’s Heavenly Sword Dragon Slaying Saber 2018 drops first trailer

    I…don’t know how to feel about this tbh xD I’m such a big fan of alec and alyssa’s 2003 version that it still hits me today. I will watch it regardless and maybe hopefully it will surpass my expectations. but really oldies are goldies. (liu yi fei’s tian long ba bu and condor heroes are classics too)

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