Descending Dragon Eighteen Palms is the most well-known palm technique in Jin Yong's pen, and has achieved xiao feng, Hong Qigong, and Guo Jing. What is puzzling is that since Guo Jing, it has gradually been lost.
Upgrading and fighting monsters is the process that a hero must go through to grow, in general, talent + diligence are the 2 key factors for practicing a stunt.
Ling Li's fierce descending dragon eighteen palms, the difficulty coefficient is actually not high, the moves are simple, compared to other martial arts are easier to get started, with "easy to learn and difficult to refine" to describe, should be more reasonable.
Guo Jing
Guo Jing, who had just learned the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon, had followed the Seven Monsters of Jiangnan to learn martial arts for 10 years, with "mediocre qualifications" and could only "make up for his clumsiness with diligence", but he learned the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon very quickly, and it only took more than a month to practice 15 of them.
Seemingly unreasonable setting, in fact, Jin Yong used a more detailed description to "justify himself", Guo Jing, who has a solid foundation in internal skills, is suitable for cultivating simple martial arts such as descending dragon eighteen palms——
Guo Jing's qualifications are blunt, but his internal skills already have a foundation, and it is most appropriate to learn such a simple and powerful martial art...
Hong Qigong
Judging from the process by which Hong Qigong instructed Guo Jing and Huang Rong, the circulation range of the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon is very narrow, limited to the inside of the Gang of Servants, and the Dog Stick Method and the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon are the "core technologies" that are not passed on.
These thirty-six ways to beat the dog stick method were created by my grandfather who opened the gang, and have always been the predecessors of the gang masters, and will never be passed on to the second person... For hundreds of years, when I helped the lord at a critical juncture, I personally helped the lord to go out on the horse, and often used this dog stick method to eliminate adultery and kill the enemy, and deter the crowd from evil!
Most of the previous gang leaders have mastered the dual skill pack of the Descending Dragon Eighteen Palms + Dog Stick Method (the degree of practice determines the realm of martial arts), the Descending Dragon Eighteen Palms do not match Huang Rong's "tonality", she did not learn at all, starting from the 19th generation of gang masters, artificially "split" the Descending Dragon Eighteen Palms and the Dog Stick Method.
Lu has feet
When Huang Rong passed the throne to Lu Youzu, the newly promoted gang leader could not even learn the dog stick method, even if Huang Rong tirelessly tutored one-on-one, there was no progress, and the selection of the gang was debatable...
After Lu Youzu was killed, the gang held a "on-site recruitment", and Huang Rong's son-in-law, Yelüqi, succeeded the gang leader with a strong posture.
The four elders of the Gang gathered to discuss. First, if Huo Du did not bother, Yelüqi had been established as the helper, and second, Yang Was too generous to help, and he also recommended Yelüqi, which can be said to be logical. At the moment, the four people enlightened Huang Rong and came to the stage to announce that Li Yelüqi was the leader of the beggar gang...
Yerushalayim
After the baptism of Xiangyang's battle, the talents of the Gang withered, and in the "Book of the Dragon Slaughtering in the Heavens", the eighteen palms of the descending dragon were tragically lost, and if the person responsible was to be held accountable, it seemed that YelüQi should carry the pot!
The Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon passed down by the previous generation of The Gang Leader have not been fully learned in the hands of Yelü Qi, and since then, the Gang has only learned fourteen palms at most...
The first "responsible person" who has been lost is Yelüqi, and the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon have not been fully learned in the hands of Yelüqi! Is it that Yelüqi lacks talent, or does he have no time to cultivate?
As mentioned earlier, the cultivation of the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon is not very difficult, and the stupid boy Guo Jing, who has "mediocre qualifications", can learn it, so why can't Yelüqi learn it completely?
Teenager Guo Jing
It should be emphasized that Yelüqi's martial arts resources are richer than Guo Jing's, and in the same period, Yelüqi's starting point is significantly higher than Guo Jing's!
Guo Jing's enlightenment teacher was the Seven Monsters of Jiangnan, and Yelüqi's master was Zhou Botong, a famous member of the Quanzhen Sect, and when Guo Jing was still learning the "Sword Flower", Yelüqi had already begun to systematically cultivate the Quanzhen Sect martial arts of the "Xuanmen Authentic Sect".
In the Divine Eagle Heroes, Yelüqi has a maturity and stability beyond his peers as soon as he appears, willing to dissolve Yan Ping's "hatred" once he dies, and his performance in the fight with Li Moxuan gives people a feeling of "bright eyes"——
Yelü Qi held the sword tip in his left hand, stepped on his left foot, and stabbed upwards with a "Dingyang Needle", which was the authentic Quanzhen Sword Technique. This move is full of energy, strength, skill, style, strength, all just right, it seems to be unremarkable, but to practice to such a flawless, people with slightly less talent may not be able to accumulate a lifetime of merit...
Lee Mo worries
Li Mo secretly praised: This boy is indeed an extremely pure Quanzhen martial art, although he is not as good as Liu Zhuzi, the King of Qiu, but he is not inferior to Sun Buji. As soon as Yelüqi debuted, he had the actual combat ability of "not losing to Sun Bu'er", and Guo Jing at the same time could not even beat Yin Zhiping...
Ma Yu taught Guo Jing 2 years of kung fu, so he let Guo Jing "reborn", where the original strength could not be used, now the next stretch of hand naturally used the skill: the original struggle to do the trick, suddenly done fast and accurate, Yelü Qi practiced far more systematic, more comprehensive, more complete than Guo Jing, from the starting point, higher than Guo Jing more than a dan!
Obviously, yelü Qi Neigong's foundation was more solid than guo jing in the same period, was it because of insufficient talent that he could not fully practice the Eighteen Palms of the Dragon?
Zhou Botong
Yerushalayim is not talented? inexistent! In the original work of the Divine Sculpture, it is clearly judged that Yelüqi's talent is one level higher than that of ordinary people, and he can practice the martial arts taught to him by Zhou Botong, which is very in line with the 2 major success factors of talent + diligence -
It turned out that Yelüqi had met Zhou Botong twelve years earlier, when he was still young and had a speculative game with Zhou Botong, and the old naughty boy took him as an apprentice. Although there were not many martial arts taught, Yelüqi was intelligent and strong, practiced very diligently, and became an outstanding figure in the younger generation...
From the synthesis of these descriptions, it can be seen that Yelüqi has a foundation in internal skills and a talent for martial arts (intelligence and perseverance), no matter from which point of view, he should not "practice the Eighteen Palms of the Dragon", the only explanation is that in the first edition of the Book of the Dragon Slayer, the plot creation of the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon is a loophole that is difficult to justify!
The works written by Jin Yong are roughly divided into three versions, the first edition is a serial version, and the revised version is the most widely circulated, that is, the so-called triptych version, which was revised again in 2003, that is, the new revision of the century.
The serialized version of "Yitian Slaughtering Dragon" was created in 1961, and the new revision of the century created in 2003 made important changes to the relevant plot of the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon, and also gave Yelüqi a "just way"——
Shi Huolong
By the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, although the successor leader YelüQi was taught by his father-in-law Guo Jing, he had learned everything, but since then, the successive helpers of the Gang have only learned fourteen palms at most due to their relatively lack of roots. 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 turned...
According to the description of the newly revised version of the Book of the Dragon Slayer in The Heavens, Yelüqi and Guo Jing learned the full version of the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon, and unloaded the "black cauldron" that led to the loss of learning, and the reason why the master of the subsequent training was not good was that the foundation was not good.
Yelüqi starting point is higher than Guo Jing, people are also smart, practice diligently, but can not learn to descend the dragon eighteen palms, such a plot really does not make sense, Mr. Jin Yong gave a reasonable explanation after 42 years, the responsibility for the loss of the eighteen palms of the dragon, indeed do not blame Yelüqi!