Chinese Paladin 3 is a 2009 Chinese television series adapted from the video game of the same title, and, because of an added time travel concept allowing the protagonist from Chinese Paladin (2005) to appear in the setting decades before the events of the first. It was first aired on Taizhou Broadcasting Station in June 2009. Chinese Paladin 2 was not filmed because the producers felt that the third game had a much stronger story than the second.

The Legend of Sword and Fairy 3, also known as Sword and Fairy 3 (仙劍三) or Chinese Paladin 3, is a shenmo/xianxia-themed fantasy adventure role-playing computer game developed by Taiwanese game company Softstar Entertainment. It is the third installment in The Legend of Sword and Fairy video game series and the first to be developed by Softstar's Shanghai subsidiary, and serves as a prequel to the original The Legend of Sword and Fairy, set around 50 years before the plot of the first game.