Initial release date 6 August 2004 Genre Role-playing video game | Publisher Softstar Entertainment Platform Microsoft Windows | |
Developer(s) Softstar Technology (Shanghai) Co.,Ltd. Release date(s) Taiwan: August 6, 2004
Mainland China: October 28, 2004 Similar Softstar Entertainment games, Other games | ||
Chinese Paladin 3 Gaiden: Wen Qing Pian (simplified Chinese: 仙剑奇侠传三外传·问情篇; traditional Chinese: 仙劍奇俠傳三外傳·問情篇; pinyin: Xianjian Qixia Zhuan 3 Waizhuan: Wen Qing Pian) is the fourth installment in the video game series The Legend of Sword and Fairy. The game is a sequel to Chinese Paladin 3.
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Main characters
Story outline
The protagonist, Nangong Huang, is the adoptive son of a former Mt. Shu disciple. Nangong Huang is a guileful martial artist proficient in arcane knowledge and skilled with swords as well as weaponized eight trigrams. His unofficial sword tutor, Situ Zhong (later known as the Drunken Sword Immortal), regularly teaches him in exchange for liquor from the town at the foot of Mt. Shu. One day, while Nangong Huang is in town, he notices a crowd gathering around a performance artist. Nangong Huang reveals the artist's deception, causing the man to leave in a fit of rage. Nangong Huang then spots a peculiar pink peach-like creature in a cage and sets it free.
Nangong Huang then heads to the local bar to get a pot of wine for his master, but finds that his money has disappeared. Dejected, he notices a bounty on a monster at the town's inn. Arriving at the inn, Nangong Huang encounters Wen Hui, a young woman on the same task. The two argue, prompting Wen Hui to demonstrate her considerable strength, and causing Nangong Huang to have second thoughts. Nangong Huang then lies to her about the directions to the inn, heading to exterminate the monster himself. However, Wen Hui catches up, and the two continue their argument. A mysterious man advises them to work together to repel the monster, which they succeed in doing. Afterwards, Wen Hui receives the reward money and Nangong Huang earns the pot of wine that the monster resided in. They go their separate ways with Nangong Huang returning to his master. Climbing the mountain, Nangong Huang becomes exhausted carrying the wine pot, and sits down under a tree to rest. Wen Hui then crosses his path once again, prompting Nangong Huang to propose a trade with her carrying the pot for receiving passage to Mt. Shu.
When they arrive at Shu Shan, Wen Hui is intrigued by the creature that Nangong Huang set free earlier. Afterwards, the duo sets off on a mission given to them by the leader of Mt. Shu to repair the underground elemental pathways of the region. They encounter and recruit Wang Pengxu, an eccentric but gentle young girl with a penchant for eating. Wen Hui and Wang Pengxu both develop romantic interest in Nangong Huang during their quests. Much later, they meet Lei Yuange, a quite man who often behaves suspiciously, and Xing Xuan, a kind monster leader who is skilled at cooking, yet without the ability to feel physical stimuli including the ability to taste, with a soft spot for Wang Pengxu and her capricious gluttony and a brotherly camaraderie with Nangong Huang. There are three endings in total: