IRON BLOODED HEART (Book 1 of Legend Of The Condor Heroes)

Highest Ranking #218 in Historical Fiction 6/22/2017
[ Iron Blooded Heart is the first book of three books in the story of Legend Of The Condor Heroes. The story itself is the first part of the Condor Trilogy. Historical background : The Song Dynasty was weak and collaborated with the Manchurian northern Jin Dynasty to fight off invaders. However once the invaders were defeated the Manchurians turned to occupy Southern Song in 1135 AD. The Manchurians established the Jin / Nuzhen / Jurchen Dynasty in northern China. In 1206 Genghis Khan united Mongolia and began conquering surrounding land to form one of the largest empires in history. Eventually Genghis Khan captured the Northern Jin Dynasty ]

Guo Xiaotian and Yang Tiexin had to deal with bunches of Jin and Song soldiers. Guo lost his life, and Yang Tiexin got injured and was thought dead. Their wives give birth to their sons; Guo Jing and Yang Kang. As his mom was taken as the wife of Jin Emperor - Wanyan Hong Lie - , Yang Kang grew up in luxury, and became a cunning and ambitious Jin prince. His first teacher was Qiu Chuji, one of 7 Changchun taoists. The kind hearted but dumb and slow learning Guo Jing, raised by the Mongolians, taught to be a great archer, became sworn brothers with the son of Genghis Khan, and got engaged out of his will with the daughter of Genghis Khan (called Temujin at first). His first teachers were The Seven Freaks. Qiu Chuji and Seven Freaks had a misunderstanding and decided to take it to another level by wanting Yang Kang and Guo Jing to have a duel.

Yang Kang refused to acknowledge that he's from Han people of Song. He wanted to be the crownprince of Jin dynasty. This caused so much grieve on his parents that it made them kill themselves.

Guo Jing met his love, Huang Rong, but his teachers opposed the relationship due to the bad reputation of Huang Rong's father.

TO BE CONTINUED TO : EASTERN HERETIC, WESTERN POISON (Book 2 Of Legend Of The Condor Heroes)