Sword Stained with Royal Blood is a wuxia novel by Jin Yong (Louis Cha). It was first serialised in the Hong Kong Commercial Daily between 1 January 1956 and 31 December 1956. The book has three editions. Some characters from the novel play minor roles in The Deer and the Cauldron, another novel also by Jin Yong, and the plots of both novels exhibit certain connections.
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