The Legend of the Condor Heroes (2003)

The story is set in the middle of Song Dynasty and at the beginning of the Nuzhen Invasion of China. Two dedicated Song Dynasty young men, Yang Tie Xin and Guo Xiao Tian, find out that their wives are pregnant. They promise each other that when their children are born, they would become either sworn brothers or sworn sisters or be married if they were of different genders. One night they befriend a Taoist priest named Qiu Chu Ji of Quan Zhen Sect who’s wanted by Jin soldiers. Qiu Chu Ji dispatches soldiers coming to arrest him with ease and leaves when he sees a signal of his Sect appear in the night sky.Yang’s kind-hearted wife, Bao Xi Rou, rescues a wounded man who turns out to be the Jin prince Wanyan Hong Lie. When the Jin soldiers return, the two families are torn asunder. Wanyan Hong Lie takes Bao Xi Rou to the Jin capital while Guo Li Ping is taken by a greedy Jin soldier, Duan Tian De, to the Mongolian outskirts. Both women believe that their husbands perished trying to save them.Upon discovering his friends’ demise, Qiu Chu Ji vows to find their children and teach them martial arts so that they can avenge the wrong done to their families.~~ Adapted from book 1 “The Legend of the Condor Heroes” (射鵰英雄傳) in the novel series “Condor Trilogy” (射鵰三部曲) by Jin Yong (金庸).