The world of martial arts out of Shaolin, so in various martial arts stories, the Shaolin sect is always placed in the position of "martial arts supreme", no matter how powerful other sects are, but there are some large-scale activities in the rivers and lakes, always held in Shaolin, such as the Shaomushan Battle in the "Eight Parts of the Heavenly Dragon", and the lion slaughter conference in "The Book of the Dragon Slaughtering in the Heavens", that is because the martial arts of the Shaolin sect are indeed profound and profound, and the masters of the past generations are endless.
(Stills of Virtual Bamboo and No Cliffs)
However, there are also many Daoist masters in Jin Yong's pen, such as the virtual bamboo in "Tianlong Eight Parts", as the head of the Qiaoyao Sect, he combines the internal strength of the three old masters of the Qiaoyao Sect, and there are all kinds of Daoist masters in the Qiaoyao Sect, and it is difficult to meet the opponents in the world, but is he the strongest of the Daoist masters in Jin Yong's pen? Did Huang Bao, who later created the Nine Yin True Scriptures, have the strength to fight with him?
First, the legendary experience of virtual bamboo
Virtual bamboo and righteous brother Duan Yu is often collectively known as "Tianlong Er hang", the experience of the two is indeed quite legendary, but on the level of martial arts, Duan Yu is far less than the virtual bamboo, until the end of the story, Duan Yu, who is also the internal strength of more than twenty masters, is still the hairy boy with poor martial arts, because the person given to him by Jin Yong is not to love to learn martial arts, Duan Yu himself also admits this, the newly revised version of Xiao Feng is also thinking of virtual bamboo when looking for someone to inherit the martial arts of the Gang of Servants instead of himself, and the reason why he does not pass on Duan Yu is also that "the third brother does not love to learn martial arts."
Therefore, after the end of "Tianlong Eight Parts", the greater potential is obviously a virtual bamboo, and it can even be said that he is the first in the world at that time.
(Tianshan TongYao stills)
The strength of the Void Bamboo was traceable, he had successively sucked away the internal strength of the three high-ranking people of the Qiaoyao Sect, which of the three people had not been practicing martial arts for decades? Just one Tianshan Boy Yao controlled the thirty-six holes and seventy-two islands, and the strength of the three elders was between Bo Zhong, and it was conceivable how strong the virtual bamboo that combined the internal strength of the three elders was.
Moreover, the virtual bamboo is not just an internal force, his Tianshan Folding Plum Hand can dissolve the various martial arts in the world, which is equivalent to saying that it is another kind of "lonely nine swords"-like move, and that small wuxiang gong can also stimulate the martial arts of the world, and it also covers a part of the function of Qiankun's great transfer, coupled with the imperceptible dark weapon life and death charm, the virtual bamboo is indeed difficult to meet the opponent.
(Ding Chunqiu stills)
If you want to say that the virtual bamboo has any weaknesses, it is nothing more than not being very skilled in his own martial arts, when facing Ding Chunqiu, he was once equal to Ding Chunqiu, or his subordinates reminded him to subdue Ding Chunqiu with a life and death charm, but he can make up for his clumsiness, and in the later stage, the virtual bamboo only needs to continue to learn martial arts, and naturally he will master his own martial arts freely.
Therefore, after the withdrawal of the older generation, the virtual bamboo of the martial arts should be the only one in the world.
Second, the yellow clothes that set the strengths of hundreds of families
Xuan Zhu can be said to be one of the strongest Daoist masters in Jin Yong Quanshu, but later, huang Bao, who created the Nine Yin True Scriptures, also used Daoist martial arts, what about his strength?
You also look at Huang Bao's martial arts experience, the original said: "We had an emperor before the Great Song Dynasty, called Huizong. Emperor Huizong believed in Taoism, and during the years of zhenghe, he searched for the books of The Taoists in the world, engraved and printed them, a total of 5,481 volumes, called the "Wanshou Daozang". The person appointed by the emperor to engrave the book was called Huang Bao... He was afraid that this avenue was hidden with a wrong word, and the emperor would inevitably kill his head after he found out, so he carefully proofread the previous volume one by one. Unexpectedly, after reading like this for a few years, he actually mastered the Taoism of the Channel, and thus realized the profound truth in martial arts. He had no teacher to teach himself, practiced internal and external skills, and became a master of martial arts. ”
(Huang Bao stills)
He was originally a civilian official, only because the emperor asked him to revise the books, but as a result, he became a martial arts master without a teacher, and it can be said that Huang Bao's talent is unparalleled, but this is not his upper limit.
Later, the emperor sent him to conquer the Ming Sect, he killed several emissaries of the Ming Sect in one go, and his whole family was also killed by those martial artists, and later in order to avenge, he immersed himself in martial arts for many years, combined with what he had learned, plus the martial arts of the Qiu family, and revised a copy of the Nine Yin True Scriptures, and that True Scripture in the later martial arts even the five-level masters wanted to see the end, which showed how exquisite the hidden martial arts were.
Huang Bao's martial arts can be said to be the strength of a hundred families, and he himself is a walking "martial arts encyclopedia" general existence, which seems to be very incomprehensible.
Third, the views of the martial arts descendants
Huang Bao and Xuan Zhu naturally did not fight head-on, but it was not without a way to compare the strong and weak relationship between them, for example, the evaluation of the senior people of the martial arts could be used as a basis.
Later, Qiu Qianzhang, who pretended to be Qiu Qianling, put forward a point of view, because the original work was written from the perspective of "Qiu Qianling", so it was called Qiu Qianling.
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. ’”
From this remark, it is not difficult to see that at least the Five Absolutes have ruled the wulin for many years, and few new people have appeared in the martial forest, and the rise of Guo Jing naturally has nothing to do with the situation described in this passage, is Guo Jing beyond the five absolutes? That is not the scope of this article, at least before the rise of Guo Jing, the martial arts masters were inferior to a generation, and even if Huang Bao was strong, he was naturally not as good as the top master in the "Eight Parts of the Heavenly Dragon".
In fact, according to jin Yong's annotations left in the original work, this conclusion can also be drawn, he once mentioned at the end of the tenth time of the newly revised edition of "Tianlong Eight Parts": "The narrative of this book has many imaginary images and exaggerations, and it is covered with the name of 'Tianlong Eight Parts', which has many symbolic abstractions, and has stepped into the magical realm of magic." ”
Huang Bao was not as good as a master of the Tianlong Era who was born at a level of martial arts close to the level of magic, and that was also a matter of course.