I've been playing Xin Xian Jian Qi Xia Zhuan and I'm really enjoying it. The story is great, and Xiāo Yáo is very amusing XD The soundtracks are very beautiful too.
I'm actually trying to get all three of the endings. ^^
If you guys don't mind, I'm going to use this thread to talk about events in the game as I play along. <3 No spoilers please!!

Well, when I went to the market in Shèng Yú Village to buy fresh shrimps, I met this dude. He didn't really look special in any way, but I decided to talk to him anyway. I've got this habit of talking to every single person I can find. If I don't do that, I end up feeling terrible ^^' I have severe OCD... >_>

So this was the dialogue. I translated the best I can.
Senior Yīng: I have a story, do you want to hear it? [Yes/No]
(I chose yes.)
Senior Yīng: Do you believe that I was the agent who was well-known in Southern Yangtze ten some years ago, known as the Iron Armed Divine Eagle Huáng Fǔ Yīng? [Yes/No]
(Once again, I chose yes.)
Senior Yīng: Haha~ good boy! There's finally someone who believes in the words I say!
Senior Yīng: Young boy~ I'm not bragging here…twelve years ago, I captured the Eastern River Tiger—Yóu Tiān Bà, Western Kinky Rat—Sī Mǎ Wú Yōu, and the Northern Divine Thief—Qián Wú Tōng of the Four Great Evils with my own hands.
(Okay, allow me to explain. The Four Great Evils were four evildoers who did a lot of undesirable things and were therefore hunted down by many government officials.
The evildoer in the east was Yóu Tiān Bà, known as the Eastern River Tiger. I'm not sure what laws he'd broken.
The evildoer in the West was Sī Mǎ Wú Yōu, known as the Western Kinky Rat. I'm assuming that sexual assaults are what he was well-known for, hence the "kinky" in his nickname.
The evildoer in the North was Qián Wú Tōng, known as the Northern Divine Thief. Limitless amount of stealing was obviously why he wa hunted down.
The evildoer in the South was Lǐ Sān Sī, known as the Southern Robbing Xiá. Xiá roughly means "righteous hero". Lǐ Sān Sī was also well-known for stealing. Huáng Fǔ Yīng captured three of the four.)
Senior Yīng: The title of Iron Armed Divine Eagle was granted personally by the emperor at the time! Sigh… But…when I was pursuing the Southern Robbing Xiá, Lǐ Sān Sī, I committed the biggest mistake in my entire life…and it caused me to withdraw from Jiāng Hú since then…
(Jiāng Hú is the world how martial artists view it. It is a concept where martial artists live by their own rules and codes of honour.)
Lǐ Xiāo Yáo: Oh! What was it that was so serious?
Senior Yīng: It was shameful… Not only was I defeated several times by the hands of the Southern Robbing Xiá married couple, I also owed them an act of kindness that I can never be able to repay.
Senior Yīng: In order to practise Intense Eagle's Talon, for a long-term basis I used juice made from heartbreaking plants to soak all ten of my fingers, resulting in intense poison going deep into my organs, yet I did not realize it.
(Intense Eagle's Talon is a skill. The heartbreaking plant is a poisonous plant. It is actually a very important plant in the Return of the Condor Heroes.)
Senior Yīng: Just when my life was in a critical moment, Lǐ Sān Sī and his wife didn't take our past grudges into account and they went a long distance to the Miao Region. They stole a Venomous Dragon Gallbladder from the Miao people's place and cured my poison. Although I retrieved my life, but my martial arts were lost…
Senior Yīng: When I thought of requiting them, I heard that the Robbing Xiá married couple had already deceased, and that their young son also went missing…
Senior Yīng: It was said that the Robbing Xiá married couple were cursed because they robbed a sacred object of the Miao people, and so that's why they suddenly died…
Senior Yīng: Yee… Young lad, the more I look at you, the more you seem to…have somewhat of a resemblance to the Southern Robbing Xiá!
Senior Yīng: Oh…how is that possible! Don't mind me, I'm probably seeing incorrectly due to my dim-sightedness from old age.
Although this dialogue is not important to the plot, I decided to mention it anyway because it explains a lot about why Xiāo Yáo grew up without parents. It wasn't because they were being selfish and left him behind; it was that they couldn't be with him because they were supposedly killed by a curse. Huáng Fǔ Yīng's story explains why Xiāo Yáo's parents never went back for him. It's actually really sad…to grow up without loving parents……