TIL that a lot of the common tropes of cultivation novels, like nascent souls and the process of transcending and becoming an immortal, tribulations, etc. were popularized by Huanzhu Louzhu in Sword Immortals of the Shu Mountains (Legend of Zu) (1932)
#wuxia #xianxia #webnovel
#wuxia #xianxia #webnovel
Also he had martial arts called "Eight Dragon Subduing Palms" (Jin Yong must have taken this to make his Eighteen), and the main character has a divine eagle companion (Jin Yong borrowed this for ROCH)
AND the primary protagonist, Li Yingqiong, is a woman! Didn't realize just how influential it was; pretty much every wuxia author who came after it was influenced by it in some way.
Huanzhu Louzhu when asked how he creates those fantastic creatures:
"Just imagine two small insects fighting, then enlarge them 100,000 times, and you've got a very terrifying scene."
"Just imagine two small insects fighting, then enlarge them 100,000 times, and you've got a very terrifying scene."
Got this information from the wuxia history books I checked out: An Historical Narrative of Wuxia Fiction by Lin Yao 
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