Zhou Botong, an old naughty boy, is one of the most pleasing characters in the archery eagle and the god eagle. Mr. Jin Yong poured a lot of ink into him, it can be said that in addition to the male protagonists Guo Jing and Yang Guo, Zhou Botong is the most favored master of Jin Yong.
Zhou Botong is the most obvious improvement in martial arts in the archery trilogy, he fought against Ouyang Feng and Huang Yaoshi in the early days of archery, all of which ended in fiasco, and at the end of the third Huashan Sword at the end of the Divine Eagle, Zhou Botong achieved a leap in martial arts, and Huang Yaoshi and Master Yilan were three points inferior to him.
According to Mr. Jin Yong's scale, this inferior three points is actually a lot worse. After all, under the full efforts of the One Lamp Master, he was able to win Qiu Qianling's one and a half moves, and Qiu Qianling was far from the five levels. It can be seen from this that Zhou Botong's martial arts are high.
At the end of the divine sculpture, Yang Guo found Zhou Botong, and Zhou Botong had to compete with him, and as a result, in the case that Zhou Botong did not use left and right fighting techniques, Yang Guo was not his opponent at all in terms of moves, and could only barely cope with it by relying on the eclipse of the soul. Although in terms of internal strength, Yang Guo may have a stronger explosive power, in fact, Yang Guo did not have the certainty of defeating Zhou Botong at all.
Therefore, in the Third Huashan Treatise on the Sword, everyone recognized Zhou Botong as the first in the world, because no matter from seniority, enthusiasm for the study of martial arts, and comprehensive cultivation of martial arts, no one can be compared with Zhou Botong. At this time, Zhou Botong was nearly a hundred years old. So, after the Three Treatises on The Gods, where did Zhou Botong go? How did he die?
At the end of the sculpture, Zhou Botong chose to live in seclusion with Yinggu and the Master of One Lamp in the Valley of Hundred Flowers until the last moment of his life. In this way, this should be a very happy ending.
However, some people say that Zhou Botong was killed in the Third Battle of Xiangyang. This statement is somewhat unrealistic, because in the Third Xiangyang War, Zhou Botong was already over a hundred years old, and with his personality, he was not suitable for death. Guo Jing and Huang Rong would not bear to let an old man over a hundred years old be martyred in Xiangyang City, because this kind of martyrdom is also meaningless.
Of course, Zhou Botong did not necessarily die in the Hundred Flowers Valley, and there could be other endings.
Because, having been living in one place, it is not quite in line with Zhou Botong's personality, he will inevitably want to go out to play after living for a long time, and with his martial arts, it is not difficult to go anywhere.
Zhou Botong likes to travel through the famous mountains and rivers, and he likes to find people to compete, so he is likely to come to Wudang Mountain and meet Zhang Sanfeng, who was still a teenager at the time, the two of them can play together, and he will also pass on his martial arts to Zhang Sanfeng, so it is easy to explain why Zhang Sanfeng's martial arts after Zhang Sanfeng are so high.
Zhang Sanfeng said that the biggest problem with the Xuan Nether Divine Palm of the Hundred Damaged Daoists was that he could not fight against people with higher internal skills than him. This was probably learned because he saw the contest between Zhou Botong and the Hundred Loss Dao People, after all, Zhang Sanfeng at that time, his martial arts were not high, and he could not carry the Hundred Damage Dao people hard.
In addition, Zhou Botong has a perhaps more realistic, but not so happy ending. After the Third Battle of Xiangyang, Guo Jing and Huang Rong were killed in battle, and Yelüqi, Guo Fu and others were most likely also killed.
At this time, the Mongol army believed that the Central Plains martial arts masters were an obstacle to their stable rule, so it was likely to enlist exotic masters and hunt down the known central plains masters. Among the list of those who were hunted down and killed were definitely Yang Guo, Xiaolongnü, Zhou Botong, YingGu and Master Yilan.
Yang Guo and Xiaolongnü lived in seclusion in the tomb of the living dead in Zhongnan Mountain, which was relatively difficult to find, otherwise, Guo Xiang would not have exhausted half his life and not found them.
However, Guo Xiang knew where Zhou Botong and others lived in seclusion, and since Guo Xiang knew, the Mongol army was bound to know as well. In this way, the Mongolian masters will certainly not let go of Zhou Botong and others.
Zhou Botong, Yi Deng, and Yinggu, although the martial arts are strong, after all, they are old, plus the Mongolian masters will make sufficient preparations in advance, in order to be prepared, these three centenarians are no matter how high their martial arts, they will inevitably be less fierce.
Therefore, if Zhou Botong lived to 13 years after the third Huashan Sword Discussion, it was likely to be an imperfect ending.