Central Plains Wulin to Shaolin as the respect, this seems to be the default setting of most martial arts stories, people often say that "the world of martial arts out of Shaolin" can also prove that the Shaolin school in a variety of martial arts stories is difficult to replace the position, Jin Yong's Shaolin school is very powerful, "Tianlong Eight Parts" in the sweeping monk appeared, the other characters in the book will be eclipsed.
However, Jin Lao can also be regarded as a "Duanshui Master", the Buddha Gate has produced a high person, the Daoist Sect is naturally not willing to show weakness, Jin Yong's martial arts also have many Daoist masters, such as one of the three protagonists in the "Eight Parts of the Heavenly Dragon", Xu Zhu, he was originally a Buddhist man, and later entered the Daoist Sect, he not only has extremely deep internal strength, but also has various divine skills of the Qiaoyao Sect.
(Stills of the Sweeping Monk)
Another example is Wang Chongyang in "The Legend of the Archery Hero", as the ancestor of the Quanzhen Sect, he defeated the four people to win the championship after seven days and seven nights of the first Huashan Sword Debate with the four absolute battles in the southeast, southwest, and northwest.
If the sweeping monk is the ceiling of the Buddha's master, then is the first master of the Daoist sect in Jin Yong's pen a virtual bamboo or Wang Chongyang?
First, the level of martial arts of virtual bamboo
Although the three protagonists in the "Eight Parts of the Heavenly Dragon" have adventures, and the three of them have a very smooth path to learn martial arts, the martial arts configuration of the eldest brother Xiao Feng is too single, whether it is the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon, the Dog Stick Method, the Dragon Gong, the Dragon Claw Hand, the Descending Demon Palm or the Taizu Long Fist, all of them are martial arts that focus on attack.
The third brother Duan Yu's Northern Meditation Divine Gong can be attacked and defended, Ling Bo's micro-steps are flowing and agile, and the six-vein excalibur is exquisite, and it seems to be very reasonable, but Duan Yu's personality is always "not fond of learning martial arts", so until the end of the book, he is not a martial arts master, and even the evaluation given in the book is "no martial arts".
Unlike The Virtual Bamboo, his comprehensive strength should be the strongest of the three.
(Stills of Virtual Bamboo and No Cliffs)
First look at the internal force, the second generation of the Leader of the Qiaoyao Sect, Wuyazi, reversed the Northern Meditation Divine Gong and passed on the internal strength of his life to the Virtual Bamboo, and I don't know whether the Wuyazi sucked through the internal strength of others by virtue of the Northern Meditation Divine Skill before he was crippled, if he had done so, the internal strength of the Virtual Bamboo was immeasurable, and later he also sucked away the internal strength of Tianshan Tong Yao and Li Qiushui in the ice cellar, and the depth of this internal force was probably the level of the most complete book.
Looking at the martial arts configuration, his life and death charms can hurt people invisibly, Tianshan Tong Yao just by virtue of this move to make the people of the Thirty-Six Caves and Seventy-two Islands obey and stick, that Tianshan Folding Plum Hand can dissolve the Heavenly Martial Arts, which is a different kind of "Lonely Nine Swords", and then there is a small wugong that can stimulate all the martial arts in the world, and the Tianxia Martial Arts are used by him, in addition, he also has the Yin and Yang Reciprocal Tianshan Six Yang Palms, and even later Xiao Feng also passed on his Gang's Descending Dragon Eighteen Palms and The Dog Fighting Stick Method.
The comprehensive strength and potential of the virtual bamboo are extremely strong, as long as he is willing, he will become the world's first master in the future.
(Xiao Feng stills)
But the strongest person in this world is not a martial arts master, but time, no one can escape the erosion of time, the virtual bamboo will eventually return to dust, has he become the first in the world? There is no way to verify, and as a descendant, Wang Chongyang has truly become the world's first master.
Second, Wang Chongyang's strength
In the original work, Jin Yong used Zhou Botong's perspective to recall the scene when Wang Chongyang suppressed the four extremes in the southeast, south, and northwest of Mount Hua.
The original said: "At that time, at the end of the cold winter, Huashan Mountain was at the top, and heavy snow closed the mountain." The five of them talked about the competition in their hands, and in the midst of the heavy snow, they directly compared for seven days and seven nights, and the four people of the East Evil, the Western Poison, the Southern Emperor, and the Northern Servant finally obeyed the martial arts of my brother Wang Chongyang, which was the first in the world. ”
At that time, the five people gathered in Huashan, not only for the sake of fighting for the fictitious name of the first in the world, but also for the sake of fighting for the martial arts treasure book of the Nine Yin True Classics, Duan Zhixing in order to learn martial arts, even Aifei could ignore it, Ouyang Feng was a martial fool, for the first in the world to do whatever it took, Huang Yaoshi had a strange temper and had always been unconvinced, he naturally had to do his best, but Hong Qigong might just be a hilarity.
No matter how you look at it, the four southeast, southwest, and northwest can definitely obey Wang Chongyang, which shows that Wang Chongyang's strength is far above them.
(Wang Chongyang stills)
And how do the four masters of the southeast, south, and northwest perform in the book? People who have read the original work know that until the end of the "Biography of the Archery Hero", the protagonist Guo Jing cannot say that he surpassed them, and it is conceivable that Wang Chongyang's title of the first in the world is full of gold, but does he really have the capital to talk with the virtual bamboo with a single move?
Third, the quasi-five masters Qiu Qianling solved the puzzle
Although there are only "five absolutes" in the book, qiu Qianling, the leader of the Iron Palm Gang, "Iron Palm Floating on the Water", also has the strength of the five absolute levels, he just missed the Huashan Sword of that year and did not let the "five absolutes" become "six absolutes", he was naturally incomparably clear about the pattern of the martial arts in the world, and he mentioned such a thing in the book.
The original said: "Qiu Qianling said: 'I am too lazy to argue with people. The four people of the Eastern Evil, the Western Poison, the Southern Emperor, and the Northern Emperor were all half a pound and eight twos, and everyone had been practicing hard over the years to compete for the title of the first in the world. The second Huashan discussion on the sword, the liveliness is there to see. Huang Rong said, "Is there a second Huashan sword?" Qiu Qianyu said, "Once every twenty-five years." The old ones are going to die, the young heroes are going to come out. It won't be long before there will be another Huashan Sword, but in these years, what are the rising stars in the martial arts? It is still us who are fighting each other. Alas, there is no successor, it seems that martial arts are declining, and one generation is not as good as a generation. ’”
For example, the protagonists of previous dynasties may have strength beyond the average level of their contemporaries, such as Zhang Wuji and Shi Shaotian, but the last sentence "One generation is not as good as one generation" is a fact that wulin is indeed constantly declining.
In fact, an evaluation left by Jin Yong in "Tianlong Eight Parts" can also explain the problem: "The narrative of this book has many imaginary images and exaggerations, and it is named after the 'Eight Parts of Tianlong', which has many symbolic abstractions and has stepped into the magical realm of magic. ”
"Tianlong Babu" is an era that is approaching magic, obviously the overall level of martial arts is above the era of "The Legend of the Eagle Hero", and on the whole, Wang Chongyang should be inferior to his predecessors.