The protagonists in martial arts stories are all proud sons of heaven, at least in their stories as protagonists, at the end of the story, they can always become the most powerful existence in the book, and Jin Yong's various works are in the same martial arts system, in which the roles can indeed be compared, so the debate about "which protagonist is stronger" has never stopped, of which the voice is relatively high is the stone breaking the sky and the virtual bamboo.
(Stone Breaking Sky Stills)
The martial arts attainments of the virtual bamboo and the stone breaking sky are naturally extremely high, and the two are indeed the most powerful beings in the martial forest at the end of the story, and in the eyes of most people, the stone breaking sky is beyond the scope of the martial arts, directly approaching the realm of cultivating immortals, so the stone breaking sky is stronger, this proof is of course incorrect, Jin Yong always wrote a martial arts story, but the conclusion that "stone breaking the sky is stronger than the virtual bamboo" may be correct, and it is well-founded.
First, the martial arts realm of virtual bamboo and stone breaking the sky
Shi Shaotian and The martial arts of the Void Bamboo are not all the same way, that The Void Bamboo learned the martial arts of the Qiaoyao Sect, he first got the wuyazi nearly seventy years of skill, and then he sucked away the internal strength of the two when Tianshan Tong Yao and Li Qiushui were fighting, and there was a deep internal force blessing, he learned any martial arts by hand, so the Qiaoyao Sect Divine Skills were all practiced by him.
When the older generation of masters all withdrew, Xiao Feng died, Duan Yu left home again, and Xuan Zhu was naturally the world's first master.
(Duan Yu stills)
And Shi Shaotian learned the Shaolin Introductory Internal Gong Yan Yan Gong, the starting point is far inferior to the virtual bamboo, and later learned the Luohan Voldemort Gong is the masterpiece of the Buddhist martial arts, at this time his martial arts are already good, and then after going to the Chickasaw Island, he practiced the Taixuan Sutra Divine Gong, at that time he was unstoppable.
Shi Shaotian had already become the first in the world at the time when the main story took place, and even the two island masters of Longmu were consumed alive by him.
The two of them took very different paths, and why they were still regarded as the "strongest protagonist candidates" was because they had reached the same martial arts realm.
(Xiao Feng stills)
You first look at how the fiftieth time of the "Eight Parts of the Heavenly Dragon" describes the martial arts realm of the virtual bamboo, the original said: "At this time, the virtual bamboo has not only obtained the true inheritance of the Tianshan Tongyao, but also practiced the secret of the martial arts on the stone wall of the Spirit Vulture Palace, and the high level of martial arts has really reached the point of doing whatever it wants and going unfavorably." ”
And what about stone breaking the sky? It is also the same, mentioned in the last time of "Chivalrous Travel": "He waved it casually, it was not in order, but he felt that whether it was 'Zhu Hai or 'taking off the sword and knees', he could do whatever he wanted, neither had to think about it, nor did he have to memorize the moves, and the thousands of moves on the stone wall naturally passed from the heart to the brothers and sisters." ”
The martial arts realm of the two is indistinguishable, and they are both "free to do whatever they want".
Second, the martial arts realm of the Tianlong era
Judging from the overall strength positioning of the martial forest, can it be divided into high and low? If one is at the peak of martial arts to win the title of "the first in the world", and the other is to obtain the title of "the first in the world" at the end of the martial arts, the gold content is naturally different.
The "Eight Parts of the Heavenly Dragon" is obviously the flourishing age of martial arts, not to mention that the master mentioned that "but in this last days, the martial arts are in decline, no one can cultivate such a strong and thick internal force, we have to divide the six-vein sword qi among the six people", obviously he said that the premise of the Tianlong era is the end of the martial arts is that "no one can cultivate the six-veined excalibur", and the emergence of Duan Yu broke this statement.
(Fictional Bamboo Stills)
At the end of the tenth time of the original work, Jin Yong also clearly mentioned: "The narrative of this book has many imaginary images and exaggerations, and the cover is named 'Tianlong Babu', which has many symbolic abstractions, and has stepped into the magical realm of magic." ”
At this time, the level of martial arts has reached the magical realm, can you see that Jin Yong used such a description in "Chivalrous"? So it seems that the strength of the virtual bamboo should be higher?
Don't rush to make up your mind.
Third, the iron palm gang leader's statement
In the "Legend of the Archery Hero", Qiu Qianshi, who pretended to be Qiu Qianling, mentioned a saying.
The original said: "Qiu Qianling said: 'I am too lazy to argue with people. The four people of the Eastern Evil, the Western Poison, the Southern Emperor, and the Northern Emperor were all half a pound and eight twos, and everyone had been practicing hard over the years to compete for the title of the first in the world. The second Huashan discussion on the sword, the liveliness is there to see. Huang Rong said, "Is there a second Huashan sword?" Qiu Qianyu said, "Once every twenty-five years." The old ones are going to die, the young heroes are going to come out. It won't be long before there will be another Huashan Sword, but in these years, what are the rising stars in the martial arts? It is still us who are fighting each other. Alas, there is no successor, it seems that martial arts are declining, and one generation is not as good as a generation. ’”
In fact, most people support this "martial arts degradation theory", so why is it that one generation is not as good as another? Most of it lies in the loss of various divine skills.
Why were the people of the Chivalrous Island force able to run amok in the book "Chivalrous"? Quite simply, most of the tai xuan jing they studied were martial arts in the Tang Dynasty, and according to that poem, the creator of the Tai Xuan Jing was most likely Li Bai, the "sword immortal", and he was not a purely weak scholar in history, but a martial artist, and Jin Yong's setting was reasonable.
It is precisely because of this that Shi Baotian's cultivation is the martial arts of the Tang Dynasty masters, which is naturally stronger than the virtual bamboo cultivating the martial arts of the Xiaoyao Sect created by Xiao Yaozi in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, and from the details of the book, it is also well documented to say that Shi Shaotian is stronger.