I searched in the internet and wanted to find a good name for this title. . . People transalted the book into Demi Gods, Semi Devils. Most people translate ”?” into dragon, actually they are not the same stuff. Here I use a new word ‘loong’ to distinguish it from dragon, so ”????” here I translated it into Heaven Loong Eight.

Heaven Loong Eight is a very famous novel written by Jin Yong. Almost every Chinese knows this novel. And people love to produce TV shows based on this novel too. If you are a NASDAQ fan you will know SOHU.com too. An MMORPG called Heaven Loong Eight, produced by SOHU.com has just stated its close beta test in China.

According to the novel Heaven Loong Eight, there are totally nine factions in this MMORPG too. They are Dali, Emei, Gai, Shaolin, Ming, TianShan, Wudang, Xiaoyao and Xingxiu. Once you get to lvl 10 in the game, you need to join one of the factions to continue your traning. Each faction has its unique martial arts and only the apprentices of this certain faction can learn. For instance, if you are a apprentice of Shaolin, you are able to learn the unique martial arts of Shaolin while you can not learn other 8 unique martial arts. There are differences in martial arts too. Some martial arts emphasis on inner power, while some martial arts emphasis on muscles and bones. For instance, kongfu in Wudang more emphasis on inner power while kongfu from Shaolin and Gai more emphasis on muscles and bones. At first, the leader of each faction are acted by the NPC. With the gam growing, the leader will be replaced by higher level players. Actually you can regard faction as a very big guild. So faction war can be regarded as guild war, but on a very large scale.

There are living skills too. You can train the following skills: cooking, medicine, sewing, fishing, wuxing (this is a kind of blacksmith, but different. This word is created by TQdigital during their game translation, you can check monster and me for more details), and even preserving health.

As to quests system, currently they only opened the quests of Shaolin. You can also get copy quests just like in WOW too.

If SOHU.com want to translate this game, I think it is a nightmare.

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