Leaving aside the "sword demon" alone and defeated, fighting wine monks, Yellow Clothes and other characters that only exist in legends, the strongest master in the "double eagle" is the "Divine Eagle Five", that is, Huang Yaoshi, The Master of One Lamp, Guo Jing, Yang Guo, and Zhou Botong, and when the final chapter of the "Archery Trilogy" "Yitian Slaughtering Dragon" came out, the Divine Eagle Five Absolutes appeared to be less strong, and instead of Zhang Sanfeng and Zhang Wuji, the two masters.
(Zhang Sanfeng stills)
Zhang Sanfeng is a martial arts myth, over a hundred years old is still one of the most powerful masters in martial arts, he is highly respected, respected by the world, when he is a hundred years old, he can also create a yin and yang mutually beneficial Taiji divine skill, it can be said that his martial arts talent is unmatched, but Zhang Wuji is regarded as a master of the same level as Zhang Sanfeng, his battle record is not so glamorous, and even Jin Yong himself also said that he is the strongest protagonist in his pen, is this not more certain that his strength is stronger than the "Five Divine Eagles"? After all, Yang Guo and Guo Jing are also protagonists, are they really inferior to Zhang Wujie?
First, Zhang Wuji's martial arts configuration
Just looking at Zhang Wuji's martial arts configuration, not to mention that he is the "strongest protagonist in Jin Yong's whole book", but at least he can be regarded as the "first protagonist of the trilogy", Guo Jing and Yang Guo's martial arts configuration is certainly very gorgeous, but it is still half a chip behind Zhang Wujie.
The most profound martial art among the "Double Eagles" is the martial arts in the Nine Yin True Scriptures, which can be seen from the attitude of the five masters to that scripture.
The original said: "Zhou Bo Passage: 'At that time, at the end of the cold winter, Huashan Mountain was at the top, and heavy snow closed the mountain. The five of them talked about the competition in their hands, and in the midst of the heavy snow, they directly compared for seven days and seven nights, and the four people of the East Evil, the Western Poison, the Southern Emperor, and the Northern Servant finally obeyed the martial arts of my brother Wang Chongyang, which was the first in the world. Do you know why the five people discussed the sword in Mount Hua? Guo Jing said, "This brother has never heard of it." 'Zhou Bo Channel:'That's for a scripture...' Guo Jing said, "The Nine Yin True Scriptures." ’”
(Guo Jing stills)
The Nine Yin True Scriptures were indeed created by the director of the Hundred Martial Arts Institutes of the Huang Bao Collection, and there is no doubt about its subtlety, but Zhang Wujie's "Nine Yang True Classics" are more exquisite martial arts created by the Doujiu monks on the basis of the Nine Yin True Classics, and zhang Junbao and Guo Xiang's respective studies are enough to open up the sect, and it is conceivable how strong Zhang Wujie, who has studied the entire "Nine Yang True Classics", is.
What is even more exaggerated is that Zhang Wuji not only has the Nine Yang Divine Skills, he also cultivates the three major Divine Skills of Qiankun Great Shift, Taiji, and Sacred Fire Order at the same time, which one is not the top Divine Skill? Judging from the martial arts configuration alone, Zhang Wuji was already far superior to Guo Jing and Yang Guo.
However, his actual combat record can only be described as a mess.
Second, bad records
In general, Zhang Wuji has a brilliant performance in several key battles, such as "the six major factions besieged the top of the light", he single-handedly fought against the six gate sects, accepted the wheel war of the six gate sects, so that the other party could only return in vain, and for example, the lion slaughter conference He challenged the Shaolin Sandu, and the three old monks also knew that if he continued to fight, sooner or later he would break the Vajra Voldemort circle.
But in the details, Zhang Wujie had suffered a lot of losses, and when fighting against the Emei Sect, Zhou Zhiruo stabbed Zhang Wujie with a sword, not because Zhang Wujie couldn't beat her, but because of his indecisive nature.
(Stills of the Second Elder of the Dark Underworld)
For example, later in the Wudang Sect, he was slapped twice by the Second Elder of Xuan Di, and when dealing with the three envoys of Persia, he also once had the upper hand, and then faced Sandu and lost three times.
It is equivalent to saying that Jin Yong gave Zhang Wuji an unparalleled martial arts configuration, but he failed to exert this body divine skill to the extreme, so why is it said that he is stronger than the five masters of his predecessors? In fact, it is very simple, we pay a little more attention to details to find out where the gap between him and the five absolutes is.
Third, the power of a thousand pounds
Just as the so-called "one force drops ten will", no matter how high the martial arts, they are afraid of people with great strength, even in the story of martial arts, "strength" is enough to influence the relationship between the winner and loser of a duel.
(Zhou Botong stills)
As the head of the five absolutes of the older generation, Zhou Botong was naturally qualified to represent the combat strength of the five absolute levels, and what was the upper limit of his strength? At least when he faced the power of a thousand pounds, he was already powerless, which could be seen when he confronted the Golden Wheel King.
The original said: "After the Guoshi had trained himself into the ten-layer 'Dragon Elephant Ruogong', today Fang Chu met a master, just tried it, and saw Zhou Botong punching, so he punched back with fist to fist, followed by a fist to fight back." The two fists had not yet touched each other, and they had already made a crackling sound of slight crackling. Zhou Botong was taken aback, knowing that the other party's fist strength was different, he did not dare to hard connect, his elbow was slightly heavy, and he had already used the kung fu in the upper air Fist. Guoshi punched out, the force was nearly a thousand pounds, although it could not be said that there was really the strength of the dragon elephant, but it was by no means able to resist the flesh and blood body, but when it was connected with Zhou Botong's fist, he only felt empty and empty, and there was no place to focus, and he was secretly surprised in his heart, and his left palm followed. ”
If Zhou Botong had to eat this thousand pounds of strength, he was afraid that he would die on the spot, but Zhang Wuji was not afraid at all in the face of the enemy who had the strength of a thousand pounds.
The original said: "Zhang Wujie, who possesses the Nine Yang Divine Skills and is proficient in the art of Qiankun Great Transference, suddenly used the "sticky" method in Taijiquan, although he has learned less than two hours, it is like a lifelong study... Give him such a squeeze, the strength of a thousand pounds in his own fist seems to have hit the ocean, without a trace, without a trace, without a sound, but his body was carried by his own fist to move two steps. He was shocked, full of anger, fast fists attacked, arm shadow shaking, as if there were dozens of arms, dozens of fists at the same time. ”
With the strength of a thousand pounds, Zhang Wuji was unharmed, and this gap was obvious enough, but this was still the premise that Zhang Wuji did not give his full strength to deal with anyone, and how high Zhang Wuji's upper limit was, it was really difficult to estimate.
Therefore, although Zhang Wujie's record is not good, most people think that he is stronger than the five absolutes and indeed has evidence.