Status Updates From The Broken Seals: Part One ...

Ch.22 - Continuing story of Song Jiang.

Ch.21 Awkward evening with Song Jiang and his wife. Apparently Song is a major character from now on.

Ch.20

Ch.19 Wang Lun is beheaded, but in circumstances rather different to episode 6 of the 1973 TV series.

Ch.18

Ch.17

Ch.16 Heist

Ch.15

Ch.14

Ch.13

Ch.12 Lin Chong's story ends and focus switches to Yang Zhi.

Ch.11 - Lin Chong makes it to Mount Liang, but unlike in ep3 of the TV series he is not made welcome.

Ch.10 - The plot to kill Lin Chong. The granaries go up in flames. I think the TV series conflated this with the story of Shi Jin's house burning down from the earlier chapter. In either case, Lin Chong is believed dead and so effectively free.

Ch.9 Lin Chong is saved by Lu Zhishen. Turns out Cangzhou is actually a prison, so the TV series didn't change that.

Ch.8 - Exile to Cangzhou, which appears to be a far outpost in this original version, rather than a prison in the TV series.

Ch.7 Lin Chong finally turns up, which is the point where the TV series starts.

Ch.6 It's all burned down and everybody dies! Brief return of Shi Jin.

Ch.5 The Tiger Killer reappears. These heroes are definitely not as heroic as in the TV series

Ch.4 Zhishen the drunken monk

Ch.3 Story switches from Shi Jin to Lu Da. No parallels with the TV series, other than the Tiger Killer appears.

Ch.2 The action skips forward a generation. The early life of Gao Qui (Kao Chu in the TV series) and how he became the emperor's favourite. Then the story of Wang Jin, which leads to Shi Jin, the first of the heroes.

Introduction, Prologue and Ch.1 - All of this truncated to 3 minutes of the 1970s TV series. Marshall Hong (not Gao Qiu) unleashes the demons at the monastery.