Jin Yong's fans of different eras have completely different feelings when they read Jin Yong's martial arts novels, for the readers who chased the serialization at the beginning, they would never think that "Dragon Babu" is related to the "Condor Trilogy", after all, he wrote the trilogy first, and then wrote "Dragon Babu", but this is not the case for today's readers.
After Jin Yong's works are bound into a book, readers will inevitably have doubts about Jin Yong's stories in the order of the background of the times, that is, why the Vulture Palace is not seen in the "Double Eagle", after all, in the new revised version, the world view between Jin Yong's works has been opened.
So how exactly did the Vulture Palace come to an end?
1. A unified world view
Most people's explanation of "there is no Vulture Palace in the double eagle" is a sentence "The question of the order of the book, Jin Yong did not conceive of "Tianlong Babu" when he wrote the double eagle, but this statement was no longer reasonable when Jin Yong made the second revision in his later years.
For example, in the last chapter of the newly revised version of "Tianlong Babu", it is mentioned that Xuzhu inherited the story of the eighteen palms of the dragon and the dog-beating stick method for the beggars.
(Xuzhu stills)
The original book said: "After many years, a young hero has emerged in the beggar gang, who is stable and capable, and has a very good popularity. Everyone respected Xiao Feng's original intention and sent this person to the Vulture Palace, where he was first assessed and approved by Xuzhu, and then passed on his 'dog beating stick method' and 'Eighteen Palms of Dragon Descending'. This young gang leader lived up to the trust, learned miraculous skills, and put the beggar gang in good order, and the beggar gang has since regarded the Vulture Palace as a benefactor. ”
Of course, this can only be regarded as the unilateral plot association between "Dragon Babu" and "Double Eagle".
However, this description in the newly revised version of "Heaven and Dragon Slayer" can be said to have played a role in echoing the previous work.
(虚竹、萧峰剧照)
You look at the description of the original book: "The beggar gang magic 'Eighteen Palms of the Dragon', in the Northern Song Dynasty, it was originally twenty-eight palms, when the gang leader Xiao Feng's martial arts were world-famous, but because of the identity of the Khitan people were expelled from the gang, he went to the complexity and simplified, and reduced the twenty-eight palms to ten palms, becoming the eighteen palms of the dragon, which was passed down from generation to generation by the righteous brother Linghu Palace Xuzhuzi, which was passed down from generation to generation. By the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, although he succeeded to the throne Yelu Qide's father-in-law Guo Jing, he taught and learned everything. ”
There is no doubt that Xuzhu and his Vulture Palace should have objectively existed in the worldview of the "Double Eagle", even if Xuzhu himself did not live to the era of Condor Shooting, the Vulture Palace under his command should have been passed on by his descendants, but why didn't the Vulture Palace be seen in later generations?
Didn't Xuzhu be killed?
Second, the invincible Vulture Palace Master
In the "Post-Heavenly Dragon Era", can anyone really defeat Xuzhu, who is the Lord of the Vulture Palace?
If you look at the martial arts pattern of the Tianlong era, Xuzhu is indeed not the strongest person in the world, after all, above him, there is also his brother-in-law Xiao Feng, not to mention a Xuzhu, even if Duan Yu is added, they can't fight the eldest brother, this has been confirmed in the Song Liao War at the end of the book, and the two of them can't stop Xiao Feng who came to compete for Yelu Hongji.
And there is a sweeping monk above Xiao Feng, and the strength of the old monk is even more unfathomable, far from being comparable to the void bamboo.
However, the problem is that Xiao Feng has already committed suicide later, and the Shaolin sweeping monk has always been compassionate, how could he kill Xuzhu? Judging from Xuzhu's personality, the sweeping monk has no reason to temper him, or in other words, Xuzhu does not need to be tempered at all.
Of course, judging from the plot of "The Condor Heroes", there was later a swordsman who claimed to be a "sword demon" who was lonely and sought defeat was active in the martial arts, and that person claimed to have been in the rivers and lakes for more than 30 years without a defeat, and all the heroes in the world became his defeated generals.
(Dugu seeking defeat stills)
And the swordsman has always regarded the top masters in the martial arts as prey, and the Xuzhu of that year made a move to capture the Liao Emperor in the Song Liao War, his name is afraid that it has already spread all over the world, Dugu is indeed a reason to challenge the Xuzhu, and even have a chance to win the Xuzhu.
But the question is that if Dugu Qiu defeated and killed Xuzhu, then why did no one in the martial arts in later generations mention the rumor that Xuzhu, the lord of the Vulture Palace, was defeated by a swordsman?
Not to mention that the other sects don't care about the life and death of Xuzhu, they only look at the beggar gang, but they regard the Vulture Palace as a benefactor, how can the young hero of the beggar gang who got the Xuzhu inheritance back then sit back and watch the master being killed?
Obviously, Xuzhu and Dugu's defeat have no intersection, and the demise of the Vulture Palace may have been caused by Xuzhu himself, which has already been foreshadowed in the book.
Third, the helpless move of Xuzhu
Xuzhu has never been a pure Jianghu person, at least in his own opinion, he has always been the ordinary little monk at the beginning, even if he became the master of the Vulture Palace, he has never had a lofty posture, but his subordinates don't think so.
(Mei Lan Zhuju stills)
When he first became the master of the Vulture Palace, he made a joke, he and Duan Yu were like-minded, the two drank a night of wine, and then fell unconscious, but when he got up in the morning, he found that he was not lying on the ground in dishevels, but returned to his dormitory, and at the same time he had changed into clean clothes.
Xuzhu only said that he would bathe in his dreams and change clothes, but he was really a "dream lang", and later learned that it was made by Meilan Zhuju.
It's just that Xuzhu didn't feel happy to become the "master", but more embarrassed, you read the description of the original book: "Ju Jian smiled: 'The master was drunk last night, and our four sisters served the master to take a bath and change clothes, don't the masters know?' Xuzhu was even more surprised, and looked up to see Lan Jian, Ju Jian, beautiful as jade, smiling and smiling, couldn't help but feel a pounding in his heart, stretched out his arms, underwear slipped up from between his arms, revealing faintly reddish skin, obviously the dirt and mud accumulated on his body have been washed and wiped clean, he had a glimmer of hope, and forced a smile: "I'm really drunk and confused, fortunately I can still take a bath." Lan Jian said with a smile: "Last night, the master couldn't move, it was our four sisters who washed it for the master." 'Xuzhu' screamed, almost fainted, and lay down again, shouting: 'Oops, Oops!'"
(Mei Jian, Bamboo Sword stills)
If he changes Duan Yu, I'm afraid that he has already begun to think crookedly about these good sisters, but Xuzhu doesn't dare, he only has endless embarrassment, and he has never been able to adapt to this kind of "master and servant" relationship, which may be the fundamental reason for the demise of the Vulture Palace.
Most of the poor women were dismissed because Xu Zhu couldn't adapt to such a life, and he himself returned to Xixia with Menggu, and never asked about the affairs of the rivers and lakes again, and there was no Vulture Palace in the rivers and lakes.