In 1972, when Jin Yong finished The Deer and the Cauldron, he stopped writing. In 1979, when the ban against his works in Taiwan was lifted, the rights were first bought by Taipei's Yuanching Publishing Co. and then transferred to Yuanliu, whose editions are those most widely circulated now.
一九七二年金庸完成《鹿鼎記》後就此封筆，一九七九年他的作品在台解禁，首先授權給臺北遠景出版社出版，以後又由遠流出版社接手，就是目前流傳最廣的版本。