The Jianghu

The Jianghu is a multiplayer online martial arts world inspired by early martial arts MUD games and TKF-style DMZ games. Its world is shaped by its players rather than AI-controlled characters.

A world of people

Powerful characters control high-end resources, but weaker ones can find ways to make a living through the gaps, including by growing goji berries. The world has no fixed division between wolves and sheep: some are temporarily stronger, while others quietly build their strength and wait for a chance to take over.

Choose your path

You can shape a character into many kinds of martial artist or Jianghu figure. Examples include a righteous hero who fights the powerful and helps the weak, a market beggar, a northern merchant who resells goods through a monopoly, or a schemer who plots from the reed marshes of Ghost Square. Other possible roles include a ghost market giant, human trafficker, thatch king, bounty killer, heavy-gold escort, desert merchant, garbage collector, running knife, loot thief and brick mover.

The game also describes stories of a hero who is assassinated by Lao Liu, and a killer whose family falls apart before he becomes absorbed in dice games.