The Shaolin Sect has always been the first of the Jin Yong martial arts, and its founding father, Dharma Zushi, is more mysterious and has always been mentioned, but has never appeared directly. What about Dharma Guru's martial arts?
In the mouth of the first master sweeping monk of the Eight Parts of the Heavenly Dragon, we learned that the seventy-two stunts of the Shaolin Temple were handed down by The Dharma Ancestors. In Jin Yong's revised version, Dharma Grandmaster only passed on some methods to strengthen the body of the monks, not martial arts, so is Dharma Grandmaster really the opponent of the sweeping monk?
The question of whether Dharma Guru was an opponent of the sweeping monks can be analyzed from two aspects.
The first aspect: the records of the Shaolin masters of the Past Generations of Dharma And the performance of the Sweeping Monks.
The Shaolin Sect has always had the saying that there are seventy-two stunts, and in the Jin Yong martial arts, these seventy-two stunts are real.
Xuan Cheng was recognized as the first master of the Shaolin Sect for two hundred years, and he would have twenty-three skills in seventy-two stunts, but he eventually fell into the fire and became paralyzed. This showed that it was almost impossible for Shaolin disciples to cultivate to the top of the twenty stunts.
Therefore, according to common sense, the sweeping monk is likely to be the only person in the Shaolin Sect who can cultivate to seventy-two skills since the opening of the Door Sect, except for the Dharma Ancestor.
The next question is whether Dharma Guru left behind the seventy-two stunts directly?
There are two ways to say this:
The first theory, according to the sweeping monks, is that Dharma Guru himself passed down seventy-two stunts;
The second theory, the saying in the Book of the Dragon Slayer in the Heavens, is that the Seventy-two Skills of Shaolin are constantly increasing, and the martial arts of Shaolin are also constantly deepening.
If according to the first argument, then Dharma Guru is most likely higher than the Sweeping Monk, because Dharma Guru only left seventy-two stunts, not only seventy-two stunts.
Most of the contents of Dharma's martial arts may not leave words, that is, Dharma's martial arts are far beyond imagination.
There is a saying that Dharma learned as many as three hundred and sixty stunts in Tianzhu. Is this possible?
Judging from the situation of the Wudang Sect, it is not small. Zhang Zhenren Zhang Sanfeng, as the founding ancestor of the Wudang Sect, far surpassed the Wudang Seven Heroes in martial arts, and in the following hundreds of years, although the Wudang Sect was frequently skilled, none of them could look up to their martial arts.
Therefore, from this point of view, Dharma Guru's martial arts are far superior to those of the sweeping monks.
If it is the second theory, Dharma Zushi is after all a Tianzhu person, and may not be familiar with the Central Plains culture, especially the martial arts culture. For example, the Nine Yang True Sutra and the Yi Jian Sutra were actually done by later Generations of Shaolin masters, not created by Dharma.
The continuous evolution of martial arts is also in line with common sense, which means that Shaolin martial arts are constantly evolving. In this way, it seems that the martial arts of Dharma Guru may not be high, or even not martial arts.
Shaolin martial arts have gradually developed from strengthening the body, so it is likely that the sweeping monks are also to add glory to the ancestors, so it is said that the seventy-two stunts were created by the Dharma masters. Then, the martial arts of Dharma Grandmaster are not as good as those of the sweeping monks.
The second aspect: compare the martial arts of Tianzhu and Zhongyuan.
For Tianzhu, Jin Yong Martial Arts is only occasionally mentioned, but you can also peek at the whole leopard.
In "Divine Eagle Heroes", there is a Tianzhu monk who is a good friend of the Master of One Lamp, but does not know martial arts. More representative is the Mongolian master team of Tianzhu master Nemo.
Nemo Star Martial Arts should be above Yelüqi and others, and it can also be regarded as a super first-class master in the Central Plains. However, if Nemo Was the first master of Tianzhu, why was his martial arts far from that of the Golden Wheel King, let alone compared with Guo Jing. In the end, Nemo Star was killed by Yang Guo's casual move, which was enough to show that the gap between Nemo Star Martial Arts and the top master, the five absolute levels was extremely large.
Although there are differences in martial arts in different eras, if dharma masters' martial arts are far superior to those of sweeping monks, then almost one finger can wipe out the divine eagle masters.
And Dharma Ancestor was not necessarily the first master of Tianzhu in that era, and when it came to it, Tianzhu martial arts should far surpass that of the Central Plains. But in fact, this is not the case, if it is the gap between the martial arts of Nemo Star and zhongyuan, which can be magnified to the contrast between Tianzhu and Zhongyuan Wulin, then Dharma Zushi cannot be the opponent of the sweeping monk.