Just after reading the new editions of Ode to Gallantry, Young Flying Fox, Flying Fox of Snowy Mountain and A Deadly Secret I will again jot down a few changes that I came across.
In the Ode to Gallantry:
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, as far as I can see there are NO changes too in the Sword of the Yue Maiden.
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.
The Young Flying Fox:
* Personal note: I think that the third edition of the Young Flying Fox is just marvellous. There are no plot changes or anything, but somehow the little changes Jin Yong brought on made the novel.... perfect.
- Feng Tiannan is killed by Hu Fei during the world's martial arts gathering. Feng Tiannan was trying to sneak away during the confusion, Yuan Ziyi quickly told Hu Fei to kill him before he could escape.
- There is a short battle between Tang Pei and Hu Fei during the world martial arts gathering.
- Yuan Ziyi is not so detestable anymore.
- Tian Guinong gets extra humiliated during the martial arts gathering.
And again some dialogues are altered to make the book more fluent.
The Flying Fox of Snowy Mountain:
Again no big changes, just some changes in the dialogues etc.
- One change is that Hu Fei thinks about Yuan Ziyi and Cheng Lingsu at a certain passage.
Also there are no changes in the other short stories, as far as I can see them.
A Deadly Secret:
- The biggest change is that now we are certain that this novel takes place in the Qing dynasty. Wu Liuqi of the Duke of Mount Deer is mentioned. I am not going to reveal in what context that would spoil the biggest change and I am lazy now to translate that part now.
- Again some dialogues are changed to make the story more fluent.