The Taoist in Jin Yong's World

Young in age, yet a rising star in the business world, ambitious and driven, he suddenly fell, meeting an untimely death. However, a stroke of luck led him to cultivate the Tao, his spirit remained, and thus, the world of Jin Yong gained a supreme existence. The protagonist's spirit, undying, possessed the body of a young Taoist in a Taoist temple within Jin Yong's world. Alone on a desolate mountain, he toiled in his cultivation, eventually restoring himself as he was in his previous life. In The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber, and The Smiling, Proud Wanderer, his shadow always flickers; he is both an observer of this world and, in a way, the world itself.