A friend asked, Shi Huolong practiced "Descending Dragon Eighteen Palms" into the fire, why is Guo Jing okay?
Shi Huolong is the leader of the gang in Mr. Jin Yong's novel "The Book of the Dragon Slaughtered in the Heavens".
He does not make an official appearance in the novel, strictly speaking. However, there are many mentions of his deeds in the novel.
According to the description in the novel, when Shi Huolong was young, due to the internal strength of the "Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon" was not good, he was repulsed, resulting in paralysis of the upper body, and had to put down the affairs of the gang and return to the hidden mountain forest with his wife to recuperate. This injury was more than twenty years old, and just when it was almost good, he was killed by Chen Youyu, an undercover gangster, and his master Cheng Kun.
Guo Jing is familiar to everyone, let's not introduce it without nonsense.
The "Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon" is one of the two great masters passed down through the generations of the Cai Gang, during the Northern Song Dynasty, the original twenty-eight palms, after being improved by Qiao Feng and Xuan Zhu, were reduced to eighteen palms. During the Southern Song Dynasty, this palm technique was passed to the hands of Hong Qigong and then to Guo Jing. In the hands of two generations of top masters, the fame of this palm technique in the jianghu has reached its peak, and it has shocked an era.
At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, YelüQi, the twenty-first generation leader of the Cai Gang, learned the "Eighteen Palms of descending dragons" from his father-in-law Guo Jing, and this was the last person to learn this martial art. The gang leader after Yelü Qi, because of his poor qualifications, only learned fourteen palms, while Shi Huolong only learned twelve palms.
Regarding the reason for Shi Huolong's injury in practicing gong, it is described in the novel as follows: Shi Huolong learned a total of twelve palms, and more than twenty years ago, due to his internal strength when practicing this palm technique, he suffered from paralysis of the upper body, and his arms could not be rotated.
The key word described in this paragraph is: "internal strength is not good".
The "internal strength" here means that the internal strength was not deep enough when Shi Huolong was practicing? Just like Xie Xun and Kun Tong's five-year-old "Seven Wounded Fists", because the internal strength was not deep enough, they were repulsed.
The author personally believes that the "poor internal strength" mentioned here does not mean that the internal strength of Shi Huolong at that time was not deep enough, because the martial art of "Descending Dragon Eighteen Palms" is different from the "Seven Wounded Fists".
The reason why the "Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon" is powerful and highly respected is because it is perfect. Not only is it powerful, but the truth is profound, and the threshold for cultivation is still very low.
Generally speaking, the higher the top level of martial arts, the higher the threshold for cultivation, and the higher the difficulty of cultivation, such as the "Yi Jian Jing" of the Shaolin Sect and the "Six-Pulse Excalibur" of Dali Duanshi.
However, there are always some martial arts that are perfect, not only powerful, but also low thresholds for cultivation. "Descending Dragon Eighteen Palms" is such an almost perfect martial art, the threshold for cultivation is not high, most people can practice, but what level they can practice depends on personal creation.
In the "Legend of the Archery Hero" and "The Divine Eagle Hero", Li Sheng, the eight disciples of the Cai Gang, and the Wu brothers have all practiced the "Eighteen Palms of descending dragons", but their attainments cannot be compared with Hong Qigong, Guo Jing and others. It can be seen from this that this martial art is still quite "close to the people".
Therefore, Shi Huolong was definitely not repulsed because the internal force was not deep enough.
So why was he regurgitated?
To understand the answer to this question, it is impossible for us to look at the novel "The Book of the Dragon Slayer in the Heavens", and we have to refer to the "Legend of the Eagle Shooter" to draw conclusions.
In the "Legend of the Eagle Shooter", Hong Qigong once explained in detail to Guo Jing the truth of "Descending the Eighteen Palms of the Dragon". The most core move of this palm technique is the first move, "Kang Long has remorse", and the most critical of this move is a "regret" word.
The principle of "descending the eighteen palms of the dragon" is rooted in the I Ching. And the "I Ching" pays attention to "whether TaiJi comes, no Taiji Tailai".
The meaning of "the dragon has regrets" is that it has not yet reached the peak, it is necessary to reserve a retreat, because things must be reversed, and not reserving a retreat in advance is a dead end. The "hyper" here represents the apex, and the "regret" is to reserve a way out.
This principle is explained, that is, when you shoot, you can't beat out all your strength, you must leave spare strength. The reason why we have to leave room for strength is to leave a way out for ourselves, to deal with what may happen later. This is the essence of this set of palm techniques.
The reason why Shi Huolong was repulsed, resulting in paralysis of the upper body, especially the serious damage to his arms, was because he did not understand the essence of the "Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon", did not know how to leave spare strength when practicing hard, and the force of being beaten out was reversed.
In fact, this situation has been encountered by Hong Qigong and Guo Jing.
Hong Qigong once said that when he was young, because he did not understand the essence of the "Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon", he thought that the stronger the palm, the better, and he desperately exerted his strength, and was slapped several times by the teacher.
When Guo Jing was practicing the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon, he also encountered the same situation as Shi Huolong.
When he was cutting trees on Mingxia Island, because the continuous use of the "Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon" was too expensive, when he slapped the twenty-second tree, the internal force could not keep up, that is, the internal force was not good, the remaining strength was insufficient, the palm strength did not penetrate the palm, and the rebound came up, resulting in soreness in the arms and weakness of the whole body.
Fortunately, at that time, he had already comprehended the essence of the "Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon", stopped his hand in time, and concentrated on breathing, otherwise he would definitely suffer internal injuries.
By comparing the experiences of Hong Qigong and Guo Jing, it is not difficult to see that Shi Huolong's "Descending Dragon Eighteen Palms" was injured, resulting in paralysis of the upper body, which was because of the lack of residual strength left during the practice, which was eaten by the palm force.
The description in the novel is that his internal strength was not good when he was practicing this palm technique, perhaps he was in a hurry, thinking that people would win the heavens, and they could change it with effort, or they may not have understood the essence of the "Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon" at all, resulting in an accident in the practice.
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