

Wind and Cloud come out of retirement and collaborate with their jianghu allies to stop Godless. He captures the Chinese emperor and sends his son, Juexin (Heartless), to impersonate the emperor and then pretend to pass the throne to him. Juewushen (Lord Godless), a formidable Japanese fighter, leads his clan to China with the intention of dominating the jianghu and ruling China. After that, Wind and Cloud decide to retire from the jianghu to lead reclusive lives with their respective lovers. Wind and Cloud eventually return to confront Conqueror and defeat him, thus fulfilling the prophecy. They gradually improve their skills, acquire powerful weapons, befriend other notable jianghu figures, and meet their respective lovers. The rest of the story arc follows the adventures of Wind and Cloud after they escape from Tianxiahui. When Conqueror reaches the pinnacle of his conquests, the prophet reveals that "Wind and Cloud" are also destined to bring about Conqueror's downfall, so Conqueror plots to turn Wind and Cloud against each other. Conqueror was once told by a Buddhist prophet that he would rise to power in the jianghu with the help of "Wind and Cloud". When they were still boys, they were accepted into the martial arts clan Tianxiahui (Under Heaven Society) by its chief, Xiongba (Lord Conqueror), who trained them in martial arts for an ulterior motive. The first story arc is about the origins of Wind and Cloud. As the story progresses, more characters are introduced in new story arcs. The two protagonists – Nie Feng (Wind) and Bu Jingyun (Cloud) – learn martial arts in their early years and grow up to become legendary figures in the jianghu. The story is set in the jianghu (martial artists' community) of China during the Ming dynasty.
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The story has been adapted into media, most notably the Hong Kong films The Storm Riders (1998) and The Storm Warriors (2009), the video game Fung Wan Online, and the Taiwanese television series Wind and Cloud (2002) and Wind and Cloud II (2004).

Before the third part, the manhua was originally titled Fung Wan, until the two protagonists – Wind and Cloud – became secondary characters and the manhua was renamed Tin Ha ( Chinese: 天下 pinyin: Tiān Xià Jyutping: Tin1 Haa5 lit. It is the first manhua released by Ma Wing-shing in 1989 with the help of his assistant Siu Kit under his own company, Jonesky Publishing. 'Wind and Cloud') or Feng Yun is a Hong Kong wuxia manhua series. Fung Wan ( traditional Chinese: 風雲 simplified Chinese: 风云 pinyin: Fēng Yún Jyutping: Fung1 Wan4 lit.
