Wen Wu is the first, Wu wu is the second. The same is the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon, and it may be different in the hands of different people. For example, Qiao Feng's Descending Dragon Eighteen Palms were able to defeat Ding Laowei beyond three zhang, while Shi Huolong's Descending Dragon Eighteen Palms crippled himself. As the best of the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon among Jin Yong's martial arts, there are probably Qiao Feng, Xuan Zhu, Hong Qigong and Guo Jing, a total of four. Among them, who has the most powerful Dragon Eighteen Palms? Here's a little bit of analysis.
One
Descending Dragon Eighteen Palms is perhaps the most well-known martial art in Jin Yong's martial arts novels. Jin Yong once said that the inspiration for this martial art comes from the wisdom crystallization of our ancestors, "Zhou Yi". When he said this, Jin Yong was also full of pride.
That is to say, Jin Yong's martial arts novels have a deep cultural heritage, rooted in the land of China, and their vitality is extremely strong. Therefore, its martial arts jianghu is definitely not a superficial fight and kill. Descending the Eighteen Palms of the Dragon is not simple, and the cultural accumulation behind it is even more unfathomable. This article does not dare to say to dig its depth, after all, there is no such ability, or left to experts to do. We can only talk superficially about who has the most powerful Dragon Eighteen Palms here.
First of all, it is still necessary to have a general understanding of the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon from the perspective of the novel. According to the time of creation, this martial art first appeared in the "Legend of the Archery Hero". Its positioning is one of the ultimate learnings of the Cai Gang, and it is the foundation of the Cai Gang's ability to dominate the martial forest. Its representative figures are Hong Qigong and Guo Jing, the descendant of Hong Qigong.
As for Li Sheng, the eight-bag disciple of the Beggar Gang who could only swing the tail of the Divine Dragon, there was no need to discuss it. He simply could not represent the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon. So, Hong Qigong and Guo Jing, who of these two masters has a higher attainment in descending dragons and ten palms? Leave it for detailed discussion later.
Later, there was the "Eight Parts of the Heavenly Dragon", in which there appeared a god-level master Qiao Feng, who stood tall in the sky, and his descending dragon eighteen palms also played a piece of heaven, and it was invincible with the help of the sound. Under Qiao Feng's rule, the Gang was reorganized and prosperous. On the one hand, this is because Qiao Feng's management level is very high, on the other hand, his descending dragon eighteen slaps are really painful. The jianghu is afraid of the boss's powerful gang.
Qiao Feng's martial art was taught by his mentor Wang Jiantong, but the book clearly stated that Qiao Feng was a natural martial arts wizard, and the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon had already come out of the blue in his hands. It is necessary to explain here that in the new revision, Jin Yong changed the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon in the Qiao Feng Period to the Twenty-Eight Palms of the Descending Dragon. Qiao Feng already knew that many of these moves were suspected of being snake-footed, but because they were taught by his mentor, he was not embarrassed to prune them. Finally, exchanging martial arts with the second brother Xuan Zhuzi, Qiao Feng finally agreed, and the two began to transform it drastically, to Wu Cunjing, and finally became the later Descending Dragon Eighteen Palms.
Among the Eight Heavenly Dragons, Qiao Feng's Eighteen Palms of descending dragons were quite brilliant, and even the sweeping divine monks had been broken by him and vomited blood. The strength of the late stage of the Void Bamboo was very explosive, and after the further training in the Spirit Vulture Palace, his achievements in martial arts were also quite impressive, and he learned all the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon in just one night. The Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon of The Void Bamboo and Qiao Feng, who is more powerful? This seems to be really difficult to say. It is also left for the analysis below.
Two
According to the time of the author's creation, the archery eagle is in front and the Tianlong is in the back. According to the background of the novel's era, it is just the opposite. Tianlong is the middle and late Northern Song Dynasty, while archery is the end of the Southern Song Dynasty. In Jin Yong's martial arts novels, for the development of martial arts, netizens have summarized a law, that is, the micro-theory of martial arts. There is some truth to this.
In the eight parts of the Heavenly Dragon, the great gods were already flying in the sky, but the mysterious high monk Ku Rong Master of the Tianlong Temple still said that it was the end of the martial arts at that time. Qiao Feng was a polymath, and when he heard that the Six-Pulse Excalibur could fire a laser cannon, he still couldn't believe it, until he saw Duan Yu's performance, and he said with a sigh that he couldn't withstand the attack of this laser cannon. Qiao Feng's insight into the Six-Pulse Excalibur also corroborated Ku Rong's statement that it was the end of martial arts that limited the imagination of Qiao Feng.
Not only in the Eight Heavenly Dragons, if you look at the entire vertical point of view, from the Yue Nu Ah Qing's ability to defeat Wanfu, to Wei Xiaobao's ability to only rely on foreign guns to save his life, it can be clearly seen that this law of martial arts decline really exists. However, if you rely solely on this law to judge the advantages and disadvantages of the eighteen palms of the descending dragon of the masters, it is still not objective enough. Because the overall law can only look at the macro, and we are analyzing specific people, then we have to analyze specific problems.
Above, we have basically listed four talented players, namely Qiao Feng, Xu Zhu, Hong Qigong and Guo Jing. As for those who appear later, such as Yelüqi and Shi Huolong, they can't even learn the basic eighteen palms, and even if they let them participate in the selection, they don't have that face. As for the accelerated version of Song Qingshu's Dragon Eighteen Palms, this is purely an external interpretation of the TV series. In the original work, Zhou Zhiruo and Song Qingshu were practicing the Nine Yin White Bone Claw, which was not the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon at all.
Therefore, we mainly analyze Qiao Feng, Xu Zhu, Hong Qigong and Guo Jing. The strongest player in the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon must be in this circle. Let's first look at Qiao Feng and Virtual Bamboo. The martial arts knowledge of these two people is very high, and in the upgrading and transformation of the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon, it is also slightly the same as what the hero sees. However, the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon were also high and low in their hands. My opinion is that the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon are stronger in the hands of the Void Bamboo. There are two reasons for this.
First, the martial arts theoretical reserves of the Void Bamboo were stronger than those of Qiao Feng, and they were able to push the Descending Dragon Eighteen Palms to new heights.
Although Qiao Feng has more combat experience, his level of education is not high, and he is rough in literature and ink, and is not suitable for research. And his thinking is still somewhat solidified, some conformist. One of the essences of the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon is change, not afraid of being flexible, and afraid of not knowing how to change. Qiao Feng said that he was afraid of being sorry for his mentor, knowing that there was room for improvement in the Descending Dragon Ten Palms, but he did not dare to improve it cleanly.
And the virtual bamboo has almost no baggage, and once his brain is enlightened, it is extremely clever. As soon as he touched the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon, he immediately pointed out its defects and improvement methods, and he was not afraid that Qiao Feng's face would not look good. This shows that Xuan Zhu is a martial artist who is intoxicated with martial arts and has the courage to improve. And his theoretical level is very strong. From this point of view, the Void Bamboo was obviously willing and capable of taking the Descending Dragon Eighteen Palms to a new height.
Second, the level of internal strength of the virtual bamboo is better than that of Qiao Feng, and the water rises to a higher level, and its descending dragon eighteen palms will naturally be stronger.
The power of the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon is not a coincidence, and it must have a solid foundation of internal force. Qiao Feng's internal strength cultivation was of course very remarkable, and it was really cultivated by himself. However, no matter how talented a person is, he has his limits. Recharge players will always be superior.
The virtual bamboo is a little different, he is like a recharge player. He obtained the inheritance of more than seventy years of internal strength from Mr. Wuyazi, and the conversion rate was still extremely high, and later it was even more strange encounters, and he sucked up Tianshan Tong Yao and Li Qiushui. Since then, the three elders have become the ladder of false bamboo. It can be said that the virtual bamboo is really standing on the shoulders of giants. Its internal force level is only high and not low compared to Qiao Feng. This also determined that his Descending Dragon Eighteen Palms would be even more powerful.
Jin Yong's wuxia series of novels is an organic whole, especially after the new revision, which is even more prominent. Of course, it is also the intention of Mr. Jin Yong. Later, we will analyze Hong Qigong and Guo Jing, and it is from this point that we start from this point.
Three
From the virtual bamboo to the Hong Qigong, this also has a certain inheritance. When Qiao Feng was dying, he confessed that after the second brother Xuanzhu, he must pass the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon back to the Cai Gang. The virtual bamboo also lived up to its trust. Later, a young wizard appeared in the gang, and Xuan Zhu passed on the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon to the teenager. This is naturally an upgraded version of the Descending Dragon Eighteen Palms.
Xuan Zhu had many years of martial arts cultivation, thick accumulation and thin hair, and when he instructed the teenager, he would inevitably add some Escape Sect absolute learning. That is to say, the Descending Dragon Eighteen Palms that were retransmitted back to the Beggar Gang are not only an upgraded version, but also a deluxe version. This also determined that the Descending Dragon Eighteen Palms of the Later Gang had a higher starting point.
What happened to the wizard boy, the book does not introduce too much, skimmed over. He was only a transitional person, and eventually this mastery passed to Hong Qigong's hands. At the beginning, Hong Qigong was also in his early thirties, and he had not yet fully practiced martial arts, so he rushed to Huashan to discuss the sword and compete for the first place in the world. Although he lost to Wang Chongyang, he also tied for second place. The results are not bad.
Later, Hong Qigong concentrated on studying the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon, and finally reached the point where the fire was pure and green. However, Hong Qigong's internal strength was inferior to that of the Void Bamboo, and he didn't seem to have the confidence to take the Descending Dragon Eighteen Palms to a higher level. Therefore, he spent a considerable part of his energy on upgrading the dog stick method.
Hong Qigong is very smart, but he has his own irreparable defect, that is, his willpower will collapse in an instant in front of the food. Therefore, he would tend to transform the exquisite dog fighting stick method, win with ingenuity, and no longer exert so much effort on the palm of the Descending Dragon Eighteen.
Despite this, Hong Qigong's descending dragon palm strength was fierce and fierce, and he had always been praised in the jianghu. What Hong Qigong thought he couldn't do was not completely abandoned. He later discovered Guo Jing, a good seedling for learning the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon, and perhaps this son could bring the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon to a new height.
Facts have proved that Hong Qigong's vision is really good. Guo Jing not only consolidated the foundation of the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon, but he also learned the whole Nine Yin True Scripture by chance, as well as Zhou Botong's genius to create the two-hand fighting technique. The two-handed fight gave Guo Jing a big breakthrough in his moves; the Nine Yin True Scriptures made him leap forward in internal skills. Inside and outside, both to the limit.
With these two ultimate learning aids, the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon were in Guo Jing's hands, and he just didn't want to soar into the sky. Guo Jing was blue out of blue on the Ten Palms of the Descending Dragon, which was also beyond doubt. So who is better at descending the Eighteen Palms of the Dragon with his predecessors? I think it should be Guo Jing who is more powerful. There are two reasons for this.
First, Guo Jing's foolish man had a foolish fortune, and he took a different path and used external forces to bring a second sublimation to the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon.
Guo Jing is far inferior to The Void Bamboo in innovation, but he has absorbed the Nine Yin True Scriptures and the Two-Hand Fighting Technique, which can be understood as using plug-ins in innovation. It's very different. The Nine Yin True Classics are the crystallization of the wisdom of the scholar Huang Bao's life, especially the part of his internal cultivation, which is completely born from the Taoist mysteries and has the temperament of cultivating immortals. Guo Jing's Xuanmen Authentic Internal Strength should be an upgraded version of the Internal Strength of the Qiaoyao Sect, and it will naturally be stronger.
Two-handed combat is a genius creation. After Zhou Botong had an epiphany, he could play with Huang Yaoshi, who had been unable to do it on the spot. Guo Jing used it on the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon, which was not a simple double effect, and it was not an exaggeration to say that it was a geometric product. One hand is full of regrets, and the other hand is flying dragon in the sky, this is simply a god move! This point is completely incomparable, and if he knows about Izumi, he can only sigh that the afterlife is terrible.
Second, Guo Jing's realm of human accidents is higher, and his martial arts are also more unfettered.
Martial arts in Jin Yong Wuxia is also a philosophy. The upper limit of a person's martial arts realm is matched with the upper limit of his human realm. A rat boy can't practice the world no matter what, because his realm is not enough.
Guo Jing is Jin Yong's pen, the great hero of the country and the people, and his realm is so high that no one can stand out. As for Qiao Feng's concept of fraternity and love for the world, that is the category of Buddhism. Compared with the philosophy of joining the WTO for the sake of the country and the people, it is slightly inferior. Although the realm of virtual bamboo is not a hot kangtou for wives and children, it is also inferior to Guo Jing.
In short, after many years of retreat cultivation on Peach Blossom Island, Guo Jing finally reached the point where there was no one before or after the achievement of the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon. Guo Jing's success is not replicable. After the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon, a great slippery slope occurred, and it declined all the way. This also has a certain historical realism. Just like the manufacturing process of blue and white porcelain, after reaching a peak, because of the chaotic world, the skills have been lost, and it is still unable to restore its former glory.
From Qiao Feng to Xuan Zhu, to Hong Qigong, to Guo Jing. The Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon are becoming more and more perfect in the passing of the torch, and they are rising step by step. After Guo Jing, because Meng Yuan attacked Xiangyang and severely damaged Wulin, the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon began to decline off a cliff, and it seemed that there was no possibility of rising after that.
Passing on the torch is very important and tortuous, and if you are not careful, the kite may break the line. How can we do a good job of inheritance? Zhang Sanfeng, who appeared in the later period, was very clever, and the taijiquan he created could be spread to the streets and alleys because he paid more attention to popularization and promotion. Not only martial arts, but also cultural inheritance, only popularization and promotion can have strong vitality, through twists and turns and endless wisps, even if it sinks to the bottom, there will inevitably be a bottom rebound.
Of course, there are some things that don't come after the big waves. But the wheel of history is still moving forward. Although there were no Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon, wasn't Wei Xiaobao's foreign gun more powerful and better to use? This is, of course, progress, and not small.
【Jin Yong Wuxia No. 001】
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