Jin Yong wrapped up his wuxia writing career with the final installment of DUKE OF MT. DEER in 1972. Though he was not yet an old man at the time, with several decades of good health and life still ahead of him, he had told all the wuxia stories he had wanted to tell, and though he'd revise his older works periodically during the next forty years, he'd never write an entirely new wuxia story.
Gu Long, who died in 1985, was very prolific until his health began failing him in the early 1980s. Right up until nearly the time of his death, new Gu Long wuxia novels were still being published (though many of these were assisted or completed by his friends). Had Gu Long remained healthy and lived until the 2010s as Jin Yong did, do you think he would have continued writing new wuxia novels, or would he, like Jin Yong, have retired from wuxia writing gongwu years ago?