When the monkey proved to be too efficient at killing bears and spoiling the fun for Xie Xun, the latter got the monkey to play with young Zhang Wuji instead of bringing the monkey hunting. The monkey went hunting for bears with Xie Xun in the first edition. Zhang Cuishan and Yin Susu abandoned the idea of using the volcano to light their tinder and relied on striking a piece of volcanic rock with their sword to create fire. When they brought the fire back to their cave, the monkey leap into the flames and rolled about in it.
The monkey carried the tinder to the crater and returned with fire.
However, the unbearable heat prevented them from getting close enough to light their tinder. In the first edition, Zhang Cuishan suggested using the active volcano on the Ice Fire Island as a source of fire. Volcano fireĪs its name suggests, the jade-faced fire monkey was immune to fire. Zhang Cuishan and Yin Susu encountered only two bears in the cave, and were well capable of killing them. The second edition had less drama without the monkey. The cave became their home and the monkey their companion. They discovered that the brains were actually appetising. The monkey offered bear brains to the couple, who forced themselves to eat the brains to avoid offending the monkey since it was their saviour and they had witness its viciousness. It fed on bear brains and could rip apart the skulls of the bears to eat the brains. The jade-faced fire monkey rescued the couple by attacking the bears. After killing the bear, they were chased by thirteen bears and were forced to escape by climbing onto a tree. In the first edition, Zhang Cuishan and Yin Susu were attacked by a bear in a cave on the Ice Fire island. This had several impacts on the story as the monkey played a key role in several scenes.
The monkey has been removed from the story in the second edition. He later made another round of changes that was published in 2005 as the third edition.ĭo not hesitate to contact us if you know of any changes that we missed.
Jin Yong made revisions to refine the original version serialised in the Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao. The second edition of The Heavenly Sword and Dragon Sabre was published in 1979.
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