When it comes to Xiao Feng, many martial arts fans can tell that he is one of the protagonists of Jin Yong's "Tianlong Babu". Formerly the leader of the Beggar Gang, he had a Central Plains name: Qiao Feng, but because he did not want to see Madame Ma more at the Hundred Flowers Meeting, he eventually offended the villain, resulting in the Khitan bloodline being exposed, and falling into a tragic end of being discredited and everyone shouting and beating.
Xiao Feng, who was besieged and rebellious, did not retaliate with a tit-for-tat, not only did he not blacken into a demon who killed innocents indiscriminately, but he was concerned about the national community, and in exchange for peace between the Liao and Song dynasties, he preferred to sacrifice his life.
Throughout Xiao Feng's life, careful readers will find that he has not tasted defeat, and even some interesting netizens believe that as long as Xiao Feng's stereo is turned on, he has the courage of ten thousand improper.
In fact, the reason why Xiao Feng can become the undefeated god of war in the Eight Parts of the Heavenly Dragon is related to his hidden attributes. Under Jin Yong's setting, Xiao Feng knew only a few martial arts, one was the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon of the Cai Gang, and the other was the common martial art that everyone who practiced martial arts could do: Taizu Long Fist.
Although Xiao Feng did not know much martial arts, and he did not have the adventures of Duan Yu and False Bamboo, he often won and reversed things in wonderful and abnormal fights with his special attributes of being strong and strong and his courage to never say defeat.
Coupled with the fact that Xiao Feng has the strong physique of the Khitan people, whether it is in the Juxian Zhuang battle against the rivers and lakes, or in the Shaolin Temple and Master Xuan huan and other senior monks fighting hard, Xiao Feng can rely on his amazing physique, as long as he is sleepy and tired, he can take a deep breath, and he can immediately be energetic and alive. No wonder when Master Xuannan saw Xiao Feng break into the Shaolin Temple as if he were in a no-man's land, and was able to retreat unscathed in the Shaolin Temple, he couldn't help but look up at the sky and sigh: "This person's martial arts are really good!" Xuan Huan said, "It must be removed as soon as possible, so as not to become an infinite plague." Xuan Nan nodded continuously. Abbot Xuanci looked at the sky where Qiao Feng was going to go, and he was scared out of his mind.
The above wonderful clips are all from Jin Yong's 1980 revision of the "Tianlong Eight Parts", and in 2005, Jin Yong made some changes to Xiao Feng in the newly revised "Tianlong Eight Parts", and he actually created a martial art before his death: descending dragon eighteen palms!
It turned out that under Jin Yong's setting, the ultimate learning of the Cai Gang was not the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon but the Twenty-Eight Palms of the Descending Dragon. At that time, Xiao Feng's master Wang Jiantong made the Twenty-Eight Palms of the Descending Dragon.
In the late stage of Tianlong, Xiao Feng, the undefeated god of war, believed that although the twenty-eight palms of the descending dragon of the Cai Gang were amazingly powerful, they were inevitably numerous moves, and there was a suspicion of painting snakes. Therefore, with the assistance of the martial arts of the Void Bamboo Escape Sect, Xiao Feng integrated his actual combat experience through countless battles of all sizes, and simplified the Twenty-Eight Palms of the Descending Dragon.
Since then, the "Descending Dragon Eighteen Palms" have come out of nowhere, compared with the previous twenty-eight palms, the Descending Dragon Eighteen Palms not only removed the dross, but also greatly increased its power!
After creating the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon, Xiao Feng committed suicide and died at Yanmen Pass. In order not to let this unique martial art be lost, Xiao Feng passed on the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon to The Void Bamboo before his death. In the original text, it is written that after a few years, after the cai gang had produced a young talent, the elders of the gang sent the youth to the miaomiao peak, and the eighteen palms of the dragon were given by the virtual bamboo general.
The reason why Jin Yong changed it so much has his idea, in addition to making up for the plot loopholes, Jin Lao just wants to connect the "Tianlong Babu" and the early "Legend of the Eagle Hero".
Many martial arts fans know that Jin Yong's "Legend of the Archery Hero", "Divine Eagle Hero", and "Yitian Slaughtering Dragon" are collectively known as the "Archery Trilogy" because of the coherence of the plot and the echo of the beginning and end.
In his later years, Jin Yong wanted to make some innovations and make his works more readable, so he tried to let Xiao Feng create his own martial arts to create a broader span of the "Shooting Eagle Quadrilogy". Friends who first saw the "Twenty-Eight Palms of the Descending Dragon" would feel quite strange, but after all, this was Mr. Jin Yong's own idea.
Xiao Feng's self-created Eighteen Palms of descending dragons were then passed down to the archery era and became the main output means of Hong Qigong and Guo Jing. In the follow-up "Divine Eagle Hero", Guo Jing's Descending Dragon Eighteen Palms cooperated with Zhou Botong's left-right fighting technique, and under the blessing of the Nine Yin True Scriptures, he was able to instantly sacrifice 13 strands of staying power, which was indestructible and invincible!
After the Central Plains Wulin fell into the hands of the Mongol Tartars, the jianghu also ushered in the era of wind and rain. Due to historical reasons and the withering of talents, the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon have also become exhausted. The new gang leader Shi Huolong had only learned to descend the Twelve Palms of the Dragon, and his power was extremely limited.
What's even more interesting is that this palm technique created by Xiao Feng himself has also been transmitted to the Demon Sect. Jin Yong wrote that the Ming Sect has always recruited some three-sect and nine-stream disciples, and its behavior is strange and obedient, coupled with the opposition to the imperial court, so the out-of-place Ming Sect is regarded as a "demon religion" by the people in the jianghu.
Xie Xun of the Demon Sect actually learned the three moves of the Eighteen Palms of the Dragon Descending by chance. On the Ice and Fire Island, Xie Xun passed on these three tricks to the young Zhang Wuji.
As soon as Zhang Wuji and his parents walked out of ice and fire island, they were persecuted by the famous and upright, and after witnessing the tragic death of their parents, Zhang Wuji, who was cold and poisonous, finally ushered in the first adventure in his life in the Kunlun Secret Realm, and since then he has sung all the way and become the 34th generation of the Ming Sect Leader.
It was this change of Jin Yong that made the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon of the Beggar Gang and the Demon Sect inextricably linked. It can be seen that Jin Yong's move seems to make up for the plot loophole of the connection between Tianlong and the archery eagle, but in fact, it has added new loopholes to the subsequent Heavenly.
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