The brilliance of Jin Yong's martial arts story is not only in the duel of martial arts masters, but also in the fact that Jin Yong has intuitively displayed the inheritance of martial arts with several generations, which is especially obvious in the "Shooting Eagle Trilogy".
In the "Biography of the Archery Hero", Guo Jing successively received the seven monsters of Jiangnan, Hong Qigong and other people to pass on the merits, and eventually became a generation of "Northern Heroes", and later Guo Jing led Yang Guo, the child of his righteous brother Yang Kang, on the right path, Yang Guo was praised by the people in the martial forest as "The Great Hero of the Divine Eagle", and at the end of the book "The Hero of the Divine Eagle", Yang Guo pointed out a few tricks of Zhang Junbao, Zhang Junbao Mao Setonkai, after learning martial arts for many years, and finally opened the sect and became a generation of masters.
(Guo Jing stills)
In the eyes of most people, the first master of martial arts in the entire trilogy is Zhang Sanfeng, and some people even praise him as the first master of the whole book, but it is not far away, compared with Yang Guo, who pointed out his three moves in the past, is he beyond the Divine Eagle Hero?
1. Zhang Sanfeng, who has been practicing martial arts for a hundred years
In the era of "Yitian Slaughtering Dragon", Zhang Sanfeng was the absolute first person in wulin, and his supreme status of martial arts was unshakable, Zhang Zhenren's birthday banquet, all the gate factions in the martial forest would send representatives to celebrate the birthday, which showed how big his face was.
In terms of strength, when he took Zhang Wuji, who had won the palm of the Xuan Hao God, to Shaolin to ask the Shaolin monks to teach Shaolin Nine Yang Gong, that emptiness mistakenly thought that he was coming to teach Shaolin martial arts.
The original said: "For a while, the three monks did not interface. Finally emptiness said, 'Good old way, you have to test us, and my emptiness is not afraid of you.' Thousands of monks in the Shaolin Temple flock to the temple, and you may not be able to pick the Shaolin Temple. Although he said "not afraid" in his mouth, in his heart he was actually afraid and especially afraid, and he first made up the idea of thousands of people rushing up. ”
(Zhang Sanfeng stills)
Emptiness is one of the four great monks of Shaolin, although it is not as good as Sandu, it is enough to represent the top combat strength of the Shaolin Sect, his view should be very objective, Zhang Sanfeng has the strength to single out the entire Shaolin, which is quite exaggerated.
Although Zhang Sanfeng later had the "stain" of being successfully attacked by Gang Xiang, he killed Gang Xiang with a backhand move, which also proved that his sword was not old.
How many people in the world can be like Zhang Sanfeng who are over a hundred years old and still stand at the top of the martial forest? Even if he was blessed with many divine skills later, Zhang Wuji, who had extraordinary experience, did not dare to say that he surpassed Zhang Sanfeng.
Two or five of the best Yang Guo
The picture was handed over to Yang Guo, and it seemed that from the perspective of the status of the martial forest, Yang Guo was already inferior to Zhang Sanfeng, who was the supreme leader of the martial forest and the only one in the martial forest, although he was in a semi-reclusive state in the later stage, Zhang Wuji would also listen to his master's advice on important decisions.
Yang Guo was different, he was only one of the five absolutes in the world at the end of the book "Divine Eagle Hero", and the five absolutes decided by the three rounds of Huashan were not the first Huashan sword.
(Stills of Yang Guo and Guo Xiang)
Although Wang Chongyang, the "Zhongshentong" wang Chongyang, was also on a par with the four absolutes in the southeast, south, and northwest, collectively known as the "five absolutes", but the world knows that he was in the seven-day-long battle to defeat four people to win the championship, from the perspective of hard power, he was actually stronger than the other four, and he was the first in the world in the absolute sense.
And Yang Guo has never been able to reach the position of "the first in the world", Huang Yaoshi, a lamp master is old, but the old boy is old and young, not necessarily weaker than him, that Guo Jing's martial arts have experienced the accumulation of two works, as the protagonist of the previous work, naturally not inferior to Yang Guo, so Yang Guo has not even reached the peak of an era.
However, the level of martial arts masters in different eras is different, and it is difficult to compare the level of martial arts of the two from the perspective of martial status, but from another point of view, it can objectively reflect the strength of the two.
3. Zhang Sanfeng's performance when passing on the gong
Before understanding Zhang Sanfeng's performance when passing on the gong, let's take a look at Yang Guo's performance when he passed on the gong to Zhang Sanfeng in Huashan.
The original said: "Yang Guoxin said: 'If I teach the trick in person again, then Yin Kexi will look in his eyes and be on guard.' This is useless. So he whispered in his ear, 'This time I'll teach you three tricks in a row.' The first move is to adjust left and right, when I make the left hand, I should actually make the right hand, when I come out of the right sleeve, you must use your left fist when you hit him. Zhang Junbao nodded in agreement. Yang Guo taught him a trick of 'pushing the heart and putting the belly'. Zhang Junbao followed him with a fist and pushed his palm, but in his heart he remembered to adjust left and right. ”
(Stills of Yin Kexi)
Although Yang Guoxue's martial arts are also very exquisite, he will also be jealous of others stealing them, in short, his martial arts are not difficult to learn, or the realm is not high, and what is it when you see Zhang Sanfeng passing on the gong Zhang Wujie?
Even others thought that Zhang Sanfeng wanted to lead Zhang Wuji to pass on the gong elsewhere, but Zhang Sanfeng seemed particularly domineering.
The original said: "Zhang Sanfeng said: 'Don't go to the side of the place, I teach here, no scruples to learn here, that is, fried and sold, fresh and hot.'" In less than half an hour, a set of Tai Chi sword techniques can be taught. As soon as he said this, except for Zhang Wujie, everyone was horrified, and almost did not believe their ears, and they all thought: Even if the Taiji Sword Technique of the Wudang Sect is mysterious and magical, but here it is openly taught, the enemy can see clearly, what secrets can be spoken of? ”
What does this mean? That Tai Chi was the culmination of Zhang Sanfeng's hundred years of martial arts practice, it can be said that the cultivation barrier is extremely high, even if it is taught in front of others, ordinary people can't understand it at all, at least the crowd present at that time can't understand its doorway at all, only Zhang Wuji, the protagonist of a divine skill, can understand Master Tai's martial arts.
From this point of view, Zhang Sanfeng's realm is far above Yang Guo's, which is also understandable, after all, Yang Guo is only a fictional character, and Zhang Sanfeng is a real generation of masters in history, and it is also reasonable for Jin Yong to hold him in the position of martial arts mythology.