Most martial arts stories end with the protagonist as a hero defeating the evil faction, but the cookie-cutter reunion ending will inevitably cause people to have aesthetic fatigue, so Jin Yong's protagonist is not so lucky, and several of them have a less than ideal ending.
For example, in "Snow Mountain Flying Fox", Hu Fei faces Miao Renfeng, who "killed his father and enemy", should his knife be split? Whether it is split or not, it seems that it is difficult to get a satisfactory result.
(Guo Jing stills)
Another example is Guo Jing, who appeared in "The Legend of the Eagle Shooter" and "The Condor Hero", who devoted most of his life to the town of Xiangyang, but in the end, it was mentioned in the "Book of the Dragon Slaughtering in the Heavens" that he died in Xiangyang with his wife and children.
There is also Xiao Feng in "Tianlong Babu", as a Khitan man, but he was raised by the great Song masters, such a contradictory identity made him confused, and finally he chose to kill himself in exchange for Song Liao's peace.
And when it comes to Xiao Feng, we have to mention Duan Yu and Virtual Bamboo, who are also the protagonists, and Duan Yu's ending is to become a monk after forty years as emperor, what about Virtual Bamboo? Why didn't Elder Jin level this bowl of water, and didn't even explain the ending clearly? In fact, there may be an unspeakable story behind this.
First, the whereabouts of the virtual bamboo
After the Song and Liao Wars, The Void Bamboo and the People of the Spirit Vulture Palace said goodbye to Duan Yu and others, and then the book did not mention the whereabouts of the Virtual Bamboo, and the story ended from duan Yu's point of view, but before the end, Jin Yong mentioned one thing in the form of interludes.
The original said: "If the gang wants to push a hero to be the leader of the gang, it may not be able to find the right talent for a while, according to the ancestral rules, the gang leader must be able to get the 'dog stick method' and 'descending dragon twenty-eight palms' two kung fu." Second brother, I think you learned it first, and then passed it on to the successor helper later. To learn these two kung fu, you must be proficient in martial arts and have strong understanding. The third brother does not like to learn martial arts, look around here many friends, only you are the most suitable. ”
(Fictional Bamboo Stills)
This is what Xiao Feng said to Xuan Zhu before he died, he wanted To let Xuan Zhu complete the inheritance of the gong of the Qiao Gang instead of himself, the Virtual Bamboo had the foundation of the martial arts of the Qiao Sect, and he learned the two divine skills in a light stroke, and then lived up to his trust, passing on the gong and a young hero of the Cai Gang.
The original said: "After many years, there was a young hero in the beggar gang, who was stable and capable, and his popularity was very good. Everyone respected Xiao Feng's original intentions and sent this person to the Spirit Vulture Palace, where he was first approved by the Virtual Bamboo Examination, and then passed on his 'Dog Fighting Stick Method' and 'Descending Dragon Eighteen Palms'. ”
This was the last thing Xuan Zhu did in the martial arts after the end of the Eight Parts of the Heavenly Dragon, at least on the surface.
(Xiao Feng stills)
It was not difficult to see from this incident that the Void Bamboo had not retreated, and since this was the case, how could the future generations of Wulin not see the descendants of his Spirit Vulture Palace lineage? There is a possibility that he was killed, but who was the person who killed him? And why did you kill him?
Second, the false bamboo that gradually enters the evil path
When it comes to the character of the virtual bamboo, most people will think of the words "simple" and "kind", which is not false, the virtual bamboo as a former Buddhist person, naturally with compassion, but he is also a person who is very easy to be influenced by others, otherwise he will not gradually break away from the Buddha.
In that ice cellar, Tong Yao caught Menggu, Andu was with the woman for three consecutive days, and on the fourth day, Tong Yao deliberately did not bring the woman with her, and The Void Bamboo could not stop, and took the initiative to ask about Tong Yao, Tong Yao did not answer, he was as anxious as a hot pot ant, it can be seen that The Void Bamboo is a very easy person to shake, "One Heart to the Buddha" but just talking about it, and because of this, he is very likely to become black after becoming the Lord of the Spirit Vulture Palace, you see who are around him?
When Ding Chunqiu was defeated by him, Ding Chunqiu's disciples brazenly turned to the Ling Vulture Palace and praised the virtual bamboo with words praising Ding Chunqiu, the original said: "Although the virtual bamboo is simple, but listening to the praise of the Xingsu Sect disciples, they can't help but flutter up a little. ”
(Ding Chunqiu stills)
In addition, the people of the Thirty-Six Caves and seventy-two islands are by no means good, and it is inevitable that the virtual bamboo will be seduced by them, and it is natural that they will eventually go black.
3. The Battle of Master and Apprentice
As mentioned earlier, the virtual bamboo was completed for Xiao Feng in the new revision, and the heroic teenager of the cai gang was naturally his apprentice, and the cai gang also befriended the Ling Vulture Palace from then on.
The original said: "This young gang leader did not live up to his trust, learned divine skills, and rectified the gang to prosper, and even became prosperous, and the gang has since regarded the Vulture Palace as a benefactor." ”
The Cai Gang regarded the Spirit Vulture Palace as a benefactor, and the Cai Gang passed on to future generations, how did the Spirit Vulture Palace disappear? If the Spirit Vulture Palace is in difficulty, the Gang will not sit idly by, then there is only one possibility left, the Spirit Vulture Palace was destroyed by the Gang of Servants, and this past is somewhat unsuitable to be mentioned, the great benefactor who helped the Gang to complete the inheritance of martial arts, The False Bamboo, later became an evil sect.
(Stills of the Beggar Gang)
Under the deception of the subordinates of the Ling Vulture Palace, the virtual bamboo gradually became an evil faction, and in a certain year, the cai gang sent people to visit the virtual bamboo as in previous years, and it turned out that the virtual bamboo completely changed into a person, he not only indulged in female sex, but also became violent, directly killed the messenger of the cai gang, as the young hero of the gang leader, sensed something strange, so he personally went to the ling vulture palace to find out, and only then did he find that the master had changed.
Although the young hero is the apprentice of the virtual bamboo, as a decent hero, he naturally wants to eliminate the harm for the martial forest, and because he is the apprentice of the virtual bamboo, he cannot sit idly by the blackened master, so a big war is inevitable.
Although the virtual bamboo has the internal strength of the three elders of the runaway, and there are all kinds of divine skills of the idle sect, but over the years he has spent his days in a muddy nightmare, indulging in female sex all day, and his skill has declined a lot, and finally he was seriously injured and killed by the young hero who was carrying the eighteen palms of the descending dragon, although the young man was harmed by the martial forest, but the virtual bamboo was his master after all, this matter is inconvenient to pass out, and because of this, no one knows the whereabouts of the virtual bamboo, and the Spirit Vulture Palace has not been passed on to the future generations.
Jin Yong did not write the story of the virtual bamboo clearly, perhaps because this story is too dark.