Third edition changes

Athena

There are hardly any changes at all, like Jin Yong wrote in his epilogue. He just merely changed some dialogues to make it more fluent. Nothing else has changed; the ending is the same.

The most noticable changes I saw were:

• The maid of Shi Potian, Shijian, does not get killed. She only gets her acupoints sealed this time. Shi Potian managed to stop Ding Dang from killing her.
• When Shi Qing tells Shi Potian about what Zhang San and Li Si did, he mentioned a certain Taoist priest melting copper plaques with his internal energy. In the previous edition this Taoist priest was the leader of the Qingcheng School, but now he is/was the leader of the Kongtong School.
• Shi Potian is very much certain that he only loves A'Xiu and not Ding Dang.

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HYS

In Chapter 6, the surname of the former clan-leader to whom Shi Potian is purportedly a nephew-at-arms, is confirmed to be Situ (presumably, the immediate past clan-leader, Situ Heng, mentioned in Chapter 3).

In selected imprints of the 2nd edition, the surname Dongfang had been used instead of Situ.

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In Chapter 7, Bai Wanjian orders three of his brothers-at-arms to remain in Zhenjiang City and gather information about the Clan of Eternal Happiness. These three brothers-at-arms are now confirmed to be surnamed Zhang, Qian and Zhao.

In the 2nd edition, the three were surnamed Zhang, Wang and Zhao. This caused some confusion as to whether there was more than one Wang (王 Wang2, not 汪 Wang1) in that particular group of disciples from the Snow Mountain School, because the known Wang, Wang Wanren, had been seriously wounded and captured by the Clan of Eternal Happiness in Chapter 6.

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In Chapter 9, the old woman Xiaocui instructs Shi Potian to exercise his internal strength through the Hand Shaoyang Channel of the Three Visceral Cavities. In the 2nd edition, the channel was erroneously named as the Hand Shaoyang Channel of the Gall Bladder.

In addition, some of the dialogue between Shi Potian, Xiaocui and Ding Busi has been extended in the 3rd edition. Details are found in the footnotes to the chapter.

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