At the end of the story of "The Condor Heroes", Jin Yong did not create the "Condor Sequel", although "The Legend of Relying on the Sky and Slaying the Dragon" also continued a story of "Guo Xiang breaking into Shaolin" to find Yang Guo, but that was only an introduction, just to pave the way for the subsequent plot, and the main story of "The Legend of Relying on the Sky and Slaying the Dragon" takes place decades after the end of the previous work.
It is precisely because of this that many readers are quite curious about the story of the "post-Condor era", Jin Yong did not write the story of this era, could it be because the martial arts are green and yellow? Of course not, at least the story of one demon head is worth telling in detail, and the author is referring to the master of the second elder of the Xuanxian Hundred Damage Daoist.
Where did that person come from, and why did even Zhang Sanfeng seem to be afraid when he talked about that person? Who is his master? In fact, there are hints in the book.
1. The devil of troubled times
Although the five Condor Absolute have all withdrawn in the "post-Condor era", and rising stars such as Zhang Sanfeng and Guo Xiang have not yet risen, it does not mean that there are no masters in this era.
(Taoist stills)
For example, in the fourth episode of the serialized version of "The Legend of Relying on the Sky and Slaying the Dragon", such a background setting is mentioned: "In the Yuan Dynasty, Middle Earth fell to foreign races, the people groaned under the iron hooves of Mongolia, trapped in the depths of the water, in order to resist the brutality of officials, trying to protect themselves, withering away with literature, martial arts, but more glorious." There are strange people in the rivers and lakes, and there are all over the place, compared with the late Song Dynasty Guo Jing, Huang Rong, Yang Guo, Xiaolongnu's world, martial arts are more refined, and thrilling, singing and crying things are also inexhaustible. ”
It can be said that the martial arts of this era are still prosperous, but under the rule of the Yuan court, it is impossible for the martial arts to change the trend of history and overthrow the Dayuan Dynasty in advance, so this story will inevitably seem a little suffocating.
However, not being able to be an enemy of the imperial court does not mean that it cannot be an enemy of the evil people in the martial arts, such as the Hundred Damage Daoist, then the demon road should be a great evil person who can be condemned by individuals.
(Second Elder Xuanlu, Zhao Min stills)
As the saying goes, "the upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked", that the second elder Xuanlu later became a lackey of the Mongols, most of them also inherited the will of their master, and their strength, those who have read the original work know that except for Zhang Sanfeng and Zhang Wuji, I am afraid that no one can take their Xuanxian divine palm, the second elder is still like this, their master is naturally stronger.
However, even Zhang Sanfeng may not dare to provoke that demon road.
Second, Zhang Junbao, who lives in seclusion deep in the mountains
The only time the name "Hundred Damage Daoist" is mentioned in the book is Zhang Sanfeng's mouth.
At that time, Zhang Wuji was injured by the second elder of Xuanxi, and was tortured by the poison of the Xuanxian divine palm so that he could not survive and die, so Zhang Sanfeng and several of his disciples worked together to heal his luck exercises, but even if several masters kept passing on the exercises, they were never able to get rid of the cold poison in the body of the unscrupulous child.
When everyone was helpless, Zhang Sanfeng could not hide his helplessness, and there was this description in the book: "Zhang Sanfeng frowned and said: 'I only said that thirty years ago, a hundred Daoist people died, and this extremely poisonous Xuanxian Divine Palm has been lost, how do I know that there are still people in the world who can do this skill.'" ’...... Zhang Sanfeng sighed and did not answer, his face was full of tears, and he held Mowgli in his hands, looking at Zhang Cuishan's body. ”
It can make an old man over a hundred years old so sad, which shows how helpless he is at this time, and it also proves that he really has no way to do anything about the Hundred Damage Daoist.
Some people think that the demon road was killed by Zhang Sanfeng because Zhang Sanfeng mentioned the death of the hundred damage Daoist, but in fact, if it is Zhang Sanfeng's hand, how can he say "I only Dao", and it should be said "I killed that demon Dao back then".
(Zhang Sanfeng stills)
And from the background setting, he really has no conditions to kill that demon road, because thirty years ago he may not have come out of the mountain, as mentioned in the serial version, he came out of the mountain at the age of seventy: "Zhang Sanfeng until he was seventy years old, martial arts achievements, Fang accepted disciples, so although he himself is ninety years old, Song Yuanqiao, the oldest of the seven disciples, is also under forty years old, and the youngest Mo Shenggu is only more than ten years old." ”
Therefore, he really did not fight with that demon road, and it may even be because he was afraid of that demon road, he would wait until that demon road died before leaving the mountain to create a sect, of course, that is only one of the possibilities.
However, you must know that Zhang Sanfeng has the Jiuyang Divine Skill, and in the early years, he also received the guidance of the "Condor Hero" Yang Guo in Huashan Mountain, his starting point is higher than most of the masters in the book, where does this demon road come from, how can it be stronger than Zhang Sanfeng? Who did he learn from?
This has to look at the characteristics of that Xuanxian Divine Palm.
Third, Yang Guo's move
How did Zhang Wuji react after he hit the Xuanxian Divine Palm?
The book says: "Stretch out your hand and press on the vest 'Lingtai Cave', a thick internal force, the partition transmission over. With Zhang Sanfeng's internal strength cultivation at this time, as long as he is not a person who immediately kills his life, no matter how much damage he has suffered, once his internal force advances, it will definitely improve, then knowing that his internal strength penetrates into Wuji's body, I see his face turn from white to blue, from blue to purple, and his body trembles even more. Zhang Sanfeng stretched out his hand and touched his forehead, the tentacles were cold, as if touching a piece of cold ice, and in shock, his right hand reached into his vest clothes, but he felt that there was a place on his vest that was like charcoal. ”
(Yang Guo, Ouyang Feng stills)
And after Xiaolongnu was injured by Ouyang Feng, there was also a bridge of luck to heal her injuries: "I was attacked by this bearded weirdo, so I sneaked into the Nine Yin Divine Skill, solved the cave road by myself, and took a breath to rush to the cave road several times." Don't you know that the two acupuncture points not only have no sign of loosening, but are even more sour, and they can't help but be horrified, it turns out that Ouyang Feng's technique has just reversed with the Nine Yin True Sutra, and she used Wang Chongyang's legacy method to break through, and she actually sought to get rid of the anti-consolidation. I tried it a few times, but I felt a faint pain in the dots, and I didn't dare to try again. ”
You see, the poison of the two is also impossible to lift with internal force, the more forced by internal force, it will make the poisoned person more painful, so it seems that the poison of the Xuan Nether God Palm is somewhat similar to Ouyang Feng's toad skill.
And Ouyang Feng has long died, and the only person who can be regarded as his heir in the world is Yang Guo, and this poisonous skill can only be passed on to future generations, and it can only be passed through Yang Guo's vein, but the toad gong has always been not very beautiful, so it was later changed to the Xuanxian God Palm, which is reasonable.
(Yang Guo stills)
But you have to ask, how could Yang Guo accept an evil disciple? You must know that Yang Guo is a person who walks on the edge of good and evil, he has all three teachings and nine streams, not to mention that the Hundred Damage Daoist may not be an evil person back then, just like that Qiu Qiancheng, wasn't he also a young hero back then, saving Shangguan Jiannan, only to get the Shangguan old hero to pass on the merits? It's just that people change, how could Yang Guo have expected that the Hundred Damage Dao people would later become evil?
His original intention of accepting apprentices back then may only be to cultivate "Houlang" to fight against the Mongols, and as for the future life of his apprentices, he naturally cannot fully control it.
If the Hundred Damage Daoist was Yang Guo's apprentice in his later years, then everything would make sense.