In Jin Yong's martial arts system, there is a very peculiar setting, the protagonist's martial arts are not necessarily "invincible", and in the same period, there must be a higher realm of "old rivers and lakes".
In the "Legend of the Archery Hero", there is the Yellow Jacket who created the Nine Yin True Scriptures, the lonely and defeated "no sword is better than the sword" in "The Divine Eagle Hero", and the "Retreat to the Second Line" in "Laughing at the River and Lake" ...
In "Yitian Slaughtering Dragon Chronicle", "Male No. 1" Zhang Wuji has the highest appearance rate, and he has learned many "high-level skills" such as Jiuyang Shengong, Qiankun Great Shift, Taijiquan, Sword, Sacred Fire Ling Shengong, etc., but if he is a hero in terms of martial arts, he is still far inferior to Zhang Sanfeng, who "lived for a long time".
Master Jueyuan
Zhang Sanfeng, who was born in Shaolin, had the privilege of accepting the guidance of Master Jueyuan when he was a teenager, and learned 4-50% of the Nine Yang True Scriptures, under the condition that the internal force determined victory or defeat, although there was no blessing from the outer door kung fu, but also laid a solid foundation.
After being expelled for "stealing martial arts without authorization", Zhang Sanfeng embarked on a difficult "road of entrepreneurship", and after decades of "self-enlightenment", he understood the supreme principle of Rou Kegang in martial arts, invented with the self-enlightened fist theory, the Taoist way of Chong Xuan Yuantong, and the internal gong contained in the Jiuyang Zhenjing, creating a martial art that reflects future generations and shines through the ages.
The Wudang Sect has not been established for a long time, so why can it become a "deputy squad leader of Wulin" comparable to Shaolin? Is it not because of Zhang Sanfeng, a constantly innovative "labor model"? In his long-term practice, Zhang Sanfeng has developed a complete and systematic set of practical skills in order to maintain a strong position in the jianghu.
Zhang Sanfeng
Zhang Sanfeng, who enjoys the title of "Grandmaster", rarely maintains a soberness, and his peers say that he has reached the realm of "invincibility", while Zhang Sanfeng himself thinks that he is inferior to Guo Jing at that time, is he humble or self-aware?
Zhang Sanfeng in his childhood, had the opportunity to see Guo Jing's side, the process was very short, Guo Jing did not directly shoot, how to judge the martial arts of two masters of different eras, you have to compare through specific combat examples, on-the-spot play.
First of all, the internal forces! Guo Jing had practiced the Quanzhen Inner Gong, the Taohuadao Neigong (taught by Huang Rong), and was also a master of the cultivation of the Nine Yin True Scriptures, and he had the deepest and most comprehensive mastery of the Mental Techniques in the upper volume, the martial arts moves in the second volume, and the Sanskrit translation of the General Outline that connected the upper and lower volumes.
Guo Jing
From the perspective of internal strength, Zhang Sanfeng lost at the starting line! 10-year-old Guo Jing has begun to learn martial arts, Zhang Sanfeng is sweeping the floor, 18-year-old Guo Jing has learned the Nine Yin True Scriptures (limited degree, lack of deep skill), Zhang Sanfeng in the same period has just left Shaolin and is in a wandering period, 20-year-old Guo Jing participated in the Huashan sword, the ability to fight The East Evil, Beiqi, Zhang Sanfeng is still wandering...
In the juvenile PK, Guo Jing won a complete victory, and in the middle age, Guo Jing was already involved in the cause of guarding Xiangyang, Zhang Sanfeng began to "enlighten the Tao", and Guo Jing, who was about 70 years old, died in battle, and Zhang Sanfeng began to receive apprenticeship!
PK during middle age to old age, Zhang Sanfeng was defeated! Judging from the on-the-spot play of middle-aged Guo Jing, if it were not for the purpose of guarding Xiangyang, it would not be difficult to live to Zhang Sanfeng's age, and what realm would Guo Jing achieve after a hundred years of age?
Huang Yaoshi
In the era of archery and divine eagles, the elites in the martial forest were born one after another, including the old predecessors such as Zhou Botong, The Eastern Evil, and the Southern Monk, as well as the Mesozoic Tiger Eye of the Golden Wheel King, and the rising star like Yang Guo, who was eager to try, and Guo Jing could maintain the lead, relying on his own real ability to "hit the hard"!
Guo Jing's Eighteen Palms of descending dragons were already extraordinary when they first learned, plus these ten years of hard work, they had reached the realm of pure fire, and when they were first introduced, they seemed to be understated, but when they encountered resistance, they could add thirteen strands of stamina in a row, one strong like one, overlapping and overlapping, straight and indestructible, not strong and unbreakable...
The Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon passed down from generation to generation by the Gang were played by Guo Jing with a "new trick", 13 staminas, the power can be superimposed, this set of "big moves" alone, few people on the rivers and lakes can withstand it, not to mention that Guo Jing used the Nine Yin True Scriptures and the Tiangang Beidou Array to carry out the second wave of "upgrading" of the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon ——
The great hero Guo Jing
Guo Jing had been practicing the Nine Yin True Scriptures diligently for nearly twenty years, and at the beginning the true power had not yet been revealed, and after dozens of moves, the strength of the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon suddenly became stronger and weaker, and suddenly swallowed and vomited, and from the supreme rigidity, it actually gave birth to the most flexible magic, which was already a divine skill that Hong Qigong could not comprehend at that time... At the same time, he mixed with the Quanzhen Sect Tiangang Beidou Array formation in his palm technique, fighting to the point, and his body shape was interspersed, and a person seemed to be transformed into seven people...
The combination of descending dragon eighteen palms + nine yin true scriptures + left and right mutual fighting technique + Tiangang Beidou array achieved a complete victory in the true sense of a single person against the group fight, once this attack mode was activated, even if Zhang Sanfeng came in person, it might not be able to support it!
In guo Jing's active era, his martial arts colleagues had seen his martial arts, while Zhang Sanfeng, after his "fame shook the rivers and lakes", for his martial arts, it was more just the "propaganda" of his disciples!
Zhang Sanfeng re-passed on his disciple, Song Yuanqiao
Zhang Sanfeng has been famous for seventy years, and the people who touched him in those years have died cleanly, and there is no one in the world. How his martial arts were really accomplished, there were only all kinds of magical legends circulating in the martial forest, and no one had seen it with their own eyes except the seven disciples he had passed on...
Only when you live to be old can you learn to be old, Zhang Sanfeng has personally proved a reality: promotion to master is by surviving.
The jianghu of the Yitian era was far less competitive than Guo Jing's era, and Zhang Sanfeng in his youth and middle age did not have the record of getting his hands on, and avoided many opponents who had the strength to challenge him, such as the Shaolin monk Kumi, such as the Ming Sect Leader Yang Dingtian...
Zhao Min
When Zhao Min led a large number of masters to "kick the pavilion", Zhang Sanfeng was secretly calculated to lose his combat ability, Zhang Wuji in the process of healing his injuries, Zhang Sanfeng could not help but think of the former Guo Daxia -
Only a few people, such as Master Jueyuan and The Great Hero Guo Jing, have such cultivation behaviors, and as for the high-ranking people in the world, in addition to themselves, they really can't think of a second person who can attain this realm! My hundred years of cultivation may be comparable to Guo Daxia......
The point is, Zhang Sanfeng said that his hundred years of cultivation may be comparable to Guo Jing, which is an affirmation of Guo Jing, and also a recognition of his own cultivation at this stage (after the age of 110), which is not self-humility, but really incomparable!
Zhang Wujie
Not only did Zhang Sanfeng himself hold this view, he also instilled this insight into his disciple Zhang Wujie without reservation, and when he was stranded on a desert island, Zhang Wuji and Zhou Zhiruo's dialogue was summarized in 18 words:
It is said that Guo Jing, the father of Guo Xiangxia, the founding ancestor of the Gui Sect, was very blunt in his qualifications, but his martial arts cultivation was shocking the ancient and modern, and Master Tai said that he himself or he had not yet been able to achieve Guo Daxia's skills...
He himself may not have been able to reach Guo Daxia's skill... Just 18 words, it proves that Zhang Sanfeng is not as modest as Guo Jing, otherwise he would not have had to talk to Zhang Wuji about the past, and Mr. Jin Yong probably wanted to borrow Zhang Wujie's mouth to prove that Guo Jing's martial arts were higher than Zhang Sanfeng!