The Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon can be said to be the most famous palm technique in Mr. Jin Yong's pen, and in the "Eight Parts of the Heavenly Dragon", Mr. Jin Yong made an evaluation that the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon is the first palm method in the world through the mouth of the Shaolin sweeping monk.
Since it is the world's first palm technique, it is conceivable that such a palm technique is definitely not something that anyone can practice casually. In Mr. Jin Yong's novel, the people who have trained the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon are not ordinary people, like Guo Jing, who is the hero that Mr. Jin Yong focused on shaping in his early novels, "the great hero, for the country and the people" is the portrayal of Guo Jing's life, and it is also Mr. Jin Yong's definition of the hero. Like Xiao Feng, that is also the most powerful heroic character created by Mr. Jin Yong in his later novels. Even if Hong Qigong did not write him as the protagonist, it was also a benchmark figure for benevolent chivalry in other people, and the most unfortunate one was Shi Huolong, the gang leader in "The Book of the Dragon Slaughtering in the Heavens", who was very sad, but also a haojie.
Huang Rong also indirectly commented on the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon, saying that most of the martial arts in the world are deceitful, as long as they can deceive others, they are good martial arts, and only Guo Jing's Descending Dragon Eighteen Palms are hard-hitting and paying attention to their own hard strength. This not only evaluates the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon, but also praises Guo Jing's personality. In Mr. Jin Yong's pen, the people who are famous for the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon are all bright and upright men, and none of them are plotting and trickery!
If it is not to say that Mr. Jin Yong's novel has great influence, the martial arts of the novel characters are not randomly configured, but the martial arts are consistent with the character. Therefore, like Cheng Kun's kind of conspiracy and trickery, what matches him is the phantom yin finger, although Cheng Kun also practiced Shaolin Nine Yang Gong, but When Cheng Kun fought Xie Xun in Shaolin, he still regretted that he had used the phantom yin finger at the top of the light to be broken by Zhang Wujie.
And the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon, which has the reputation of the world's first palm method, can certainly not be practiced by anyone at will. Therefore, Shi Huolong actually practiced this set of palm techniques wrongly, practiced himself to be crippled, and then sought a place to heal his wounds for many years, and as a result, the power of the Gang of Servants fell by the wayside, and the miasma of the world's largest gang of black smoke was miasma, compared to when Hong Qigong, Huang Rong, and others were in charge of the Gang of Servants, it can be said that they fell into a thousand falls, and actually fell into the idea of fighting with the Haisha Sect of these gangsters to fight the Ming Sect that was crippled by the six major factions. If this matter were to be placed in Hong Qigong's time, don't say to do it, it would be a death sentence if you had such a thought!
According to what is written in the novel, no one has practiced the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon since Guo Jing. Why is that? Xia Kejun felt that this palm technique was still too difficult to practice, and it was easy to be injured without the master's teaching. After Guo Jing and before Shi Huolong, those who practiced the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon did not practice completely, not because they did not want to practice or lost the palm technique, but because these people did not dare to practice in depth without the teachings of famous teachers, for fear that if they continued to practice, they would not only be useless but also suffer from it. No, Shi Huolong was a person who pondered on his own, and as a result, he crippled himself.
According to what is written in the novel, Chivalrous Jun believes that in order to practice the Eighteen Palms of the Dragon, the first condition should be to have a certain foundation of internal skills, preferably like the Xuanmen Authentic One of the Quanzhen Sect's Internal Skills. Like Guo Jing, who had previously followed the Seven Monsters of Jiangnan and trained a strong body, and then there was a Taoist master like Ma Yu who taught him the authentic internal skills of Xuanmen, and it was precisely Guo Jing who liked to be quiet and did not like to move, and was a person with the talent for practicing internal skills. Also, in the King's Mansion of Zhao in the Jin Dynasty, Guo Jing happened to drink the blood of Liang Ziweng who had been raising a treasure snake with medicine for many years, which was also beneficial to his internal strength! Therefore, when Guo Jing met Hong Qigong, the internal gong actually had a fixed fire, but he didn't know how to exert his internal strength advantages through martial arts.
Therefore, after Guo Jing and Hong Qigong only learned one trick of the dragon and repented, they could play multiple rounds with Liang Ziweng. When Guo Jing learned fifteen palms, he could actually fight with Mei Chaofeng more, which was already stronger than several of his masters.
Secondly, it was also the most crucial thing that Chivalrous Jun believed, whether Guo Jing practiced these fifteen palms or the three palms behind him, Hong Qigong had been teaching him from the side.
Good martial arts, people who practice it must be diligent, but those who teach it must also have methods, so that they can complement each other, otherwise the people who teach it will not teach, and the people who practice blindly will only do half the work in the end. If you are unlucky, you will suffer from it. In the view of Chivalrous Jun, Guo Jing followed Hong Qigong for the next month and received the teachings of Hong Qigong, which was the key to Guo Jing's ability to learn to descend the Eighteen Palms of the Dragon. If Hong Qigong only taught Guo Jing's moves, without the teaching of that month, it is estimated that Guo Jing's results might also be the same as Shi Huolong's, and he would have crippled himself. Therefore, Xia Kejun said that Guo Jing could cultivate the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon, with two prerequisites, of which Hong Qigong's guidance was the most critical.
Why did the kings think so?