Martial arts stories are all fictional, and it is difficult for rational people to like these false things, but why are Jin Yong's stories particularly attractive? The reason is that he integrates the realistic historical background into the story, and even uses this to link various works together to form a grand world view.
However, because of this, there are also some details in Jin Yong's story that have not been explained clearly, such as who the master of the wind is in "Smiling Proud Jianghu", which cannot be explained clearly in the book.
Where did his Dugu Nine Swords come from?
1. A unified world view
In the eyes of most people, "Smiling Proud Jianghu" is just an independent work, unlike the "Condor Trilogy" that is related to each other.
(Feng Qingyang stills)
In fact, in the newly revised version of the story, not to mention that each of Jin Yong's works is related, at least "Smiling Proud Jianghu" is related to long stories such as "Trilogy" and "Dragon Babu".
For example, when Ren Wuxing introduced the origin of his star-absorbing Dafa to Ling Hu Chong, he clearly mentioned the settings related to "Dragon Babu".
The book only said: "The founder of my divine skill was the 'Xiaoyao School' in the Northern Song Dynasty, and it was later divided into two schools: 'Northern Shengong' and 'Huagong Dafa' (author's note: see "Tianlong Babu"). It was the Dali Duan clan who practiced the Northern Spiritual Skill. That Emperor Duan first felt that he had absorbed the skills that others had practiced all his life for his own use, and it seemed that it was not in line with the right path and he refused to practice. Later, after reading the suicide note of a senior master of the Xiaoyao School, I understood the truth of this miracle. ”
(Let Me Go Stills)
Who this Duan Emperor is, anyone who has read "Tianlong Babu" should know.
In addition, there is also a mention of Zhang Sanfeng's deeds in the book, which shows that the story of "Smiling Proud Jianghu" took place after "Heaven and Dragon Slayer", most likely in the middle of the Ming Dynasty.
In this way, the origin of the Dugu Nine Swords is a little strange.
2. Swordsmanship of unknown origin
Dugu Nine Swords originated from the "Sword Demon" Dugu seeking defeat, and Feng Qingyang is a famous member of the Huashan Sword Sect, how did he inherit this martial art?
You must know that from the bright side, there was only one person who got the true inheritance of Dugu's martial arts back then.
However, those who have read "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" should know that Yang Guo was just led into the sword mound of Dugu by the Condor to seek defeat, and did not get the so-called "Dugu Nine Swords", he just took away the Xuantie heavy sword, followed the advice of the Condor, and went to the beach to practice swordsmanship in the way of fighting the tide, and then had a set of Xuantie swordsmanship, which is said to be swordsmanship, but in fact, most of the time he just relied on the weight of the Xuantie Sword to suppress the enemy.
And Yang Guo even abandoned the sword in the later period, such as in the Battle of Xiangyang, he clearly mentioned this when facing the Golden Wheel Dharma King: "Yang Guo's long sword was broken into several pieces, and the two wheels of the national teacher couldn't hold it by himself, so he flew out of his hand, fell off the high platform, and killed three Mongolian archers." Yang Guo was secretly shocked in his heart: "For sixteen years, I have not used the Xuantie heavy sword, but today I can really trust it. 'Yang Guo wanted to combine with the two swords of the little dragon girl and cooperate with each other, so he couldn't make the Xuantie heavy sword, and used an ordinary long sword, which intersected with the sword wheel of the national teacher, so he folded the sword. ”
(Yang Guozhang stills)
It is not difficult to see from here that the "swordsmanship" that Yang Guo has mastered is not a sword move in the traditional sense, and when the weapon in his hand is not the Xuantie sword, his swordsmanship is not worth mentioning.
In fact, I want to know that Yang Guo's active era was from the end of the Southern Song Dynasty to the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, and he may not even live to the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, where the story of "Heaven and Dragon Slayer" takes place, how could he have the opportunity to meet Feng Qingyang, who was active in the middle of the Ming Dynasty?
In this case, who else can pass on the sword moves of the breeze?
The answer may be very simple, it is the divine eagle that accompanied Dugu and Yang Guo back then, and it is the key role in the martial arts inheritance of the sword and demon.
3. A master who has lived for hundreds of years
Yang Guo once speculated that Dugu was probably a character who was active in the Condor era sixty or seventy years ago, which is the era after the end of the main plot of "Dragon Babu", which was the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the era of Feng Qingyang was active, which was the middle of the Ming Dynasty.
So that Condor can live for hundreds of years?
In fact, in the martial arts world, this is not an uncommon thing, after all, in the battle of Baihua Valley back then, Zhou Botong sighed that this divine eagle was extremely powerful, and Yang Guo said: "This eagle brother doesn't know that he is hundreds of years old, and he is much older than you!"
Is Yang Guo's sentence a joke, or is Jin Yong using Yang Guo's mouth to explain a fact?
(Yang Guo stills)
Because when Yang Guo saw the eagle for the first time, it was mentioned in the book that this guy was an extraordinary beast, and you read the description of the original book: "Under the faint moonlight, there is a big eagle in front of him, the eagle is very huge, standing taller than ordinary people, the appearance is extremely ugly, the feathers of the whole body are sparse and falling, as if it has been plucked out of most of it, the hair is yellow and black, it looks quite dirty, but it is sharp and steely, it looks very hard, and the appearance is five points similar to the double eagle on Peach Blossom Island, and the ugly handsome is far away." This ugly eagle has a sharp hooked beak, bald hair on the top of its head, but it has a large blood-red sarcoma, and there are thousands of birds in the world, and I have never seen such an ancient and majestic bird of prey. ”
In fact, judging from the description here, it is not so much that this is an eagle, but rather a giant vulture, so it may also be related to the Vulture Palace, after all, there are all kinds of exquisite martial arts hidden in the Vulture Palace, and Dugu may have taken away the cheats from there, and then practiced Dugu Nine Swords, and became friends with the eagle, who knows?
It's just certain that Brother Eagle will continue to live in the world after Yang Guo's death, and it is entirely possible for it to meet Feng Qingyang in his youth, and it saw that this young man had a little bit of the shadow of Yang Guo and Dugu Qiuqiu, so he handed him the sword score that he had kept for Dugu for many years, which caused Yang Guobu's Dugu Nine Swords, but Feng Qingyang was able to inherit the situation of Dugu Nine Swords.
(Yang Guo, Condor stills)
As for why Brother Diao didn't pass on Yang Guo's Dugu Nine Swords, there is also a detail in the book, Yang Guo originally wanted to choose the sword, but Brother Diao knocked the sword down and helped him choose the Xuantie heavy sword, why?
Just because Yang Guo is one-armed, the skillful sword skills are not suitable for him, while the Xuantie Sword emphasizes strength, which is more suitable for his less flexible one-armed person.
In this way, everything makes sense, but the setting of "an eagle has lived for hundreds of years" is almost equivalent to cultivating immortals, and it is understandable that Jin Yong does not dare to highlight this fact.