For a person who learns martial arts, his martial arts level will grow with the time of learning martial arts, but after reaching a peak period, it will gradually begin to decline, and in the world of martial arts, those martial arts masters can mostly ignore the impact of aging on themselves, at least in the Jin Yong martial arts system, there are many "older and more demon" existence, such as Zhang Sanfeng, the ancestor of the Wudang Sect.
Although the protagonist in "Yitian Slaughtering Dragon" is not Zhang Sanfeng, and even to a large extent, he is making concessions for the younger Generation Zhang Wujie, there is no doubt that Zhang Sanfeng is recognized by the martial arts masters in the book as the supreme existence of martial arts.

However, the higher Zhang Sanfeng was praised, the more confusing his record of being successfully attacked by Gang Xiang, he obviously had a hundred years of skill and rich combat experience, why would he be attacked by this second-rate master of Gang Xiang?
First, the case of the top master being secretly attacked
The reason why "Zhang Sanfeng was attacked by Gang Xiang" will be repeatedly mentioned by readers is because Jin Yong has another case of a top master being attacked, that person is the Shaolin sweeping monk in "Tianlong Babu", but the performance of the sweeping monk when he was sneaked up was really amazing to the world.
At that time, the sweeping monk was explaining to the crowd the misunderstanding that people who practice martial arts should avoid, don't want to enter the martial arts obstacle, which is the sudden shot of Hatsuma Zhi on the side, without knowing it, how do you see the performance of the sweeping monk?
(Stills of the Sweeping Monk)
The original said: "It turns out that the more Hatsuma Zhi listens, the more he is dissatisfied, and he thinks: 'You said that the seventy-two stunts of the Shaolin Sect cannot be learned all over again, haven't I already learned a lot?' How come there is no broken vein and become a wasted person? With his hands folded in his sleeves, he secretly unleashed the 'Finger of No Phase', and the gods and ghosts bounced at the old monk unconsciously and unconsciously. Unexpectedly, three feet in front of the old monk's body, he seemed to encounter a layer of soft but hard barrier, and after a few snorts, the finger force dispersed without a trace, but it did not rebound back. ”
Obviously, the sweeping monk did not hurt Hatsuma Zhi without heart, so he did not bounce that finger back, it can be said that he perfectly defended Hatsuma Zhi's attack, and implied that Hatsuma Zhi "you are still far behind", and because of this, the strength of the sweeping monk seems unfathomable.
2. Zhang Sanfeng was injured
As a top master of the same era, Zhang Sanfeng's performance was far inferior to that of the sweeping monk.
In fact, Zhang Sanfeng actually has not only a hundred years of skill, the rich combat experience brought about by the large and small battles he has experienced in a hundred years is also part of his strength, and because of this, he should be able to deal with various unexpected situations with ease, but Gang Xiang's shot still makes him unexpected.
The original said: "Zhang Sanfeng saw that the void was lying on the ground for a long time, crying very sadly, so he reached out to help each other and said: 'Brother Kongxiang, Shaolin Wudang is originally a family, and this vendetta must be repaid... ' He just said this 'can' word, and with a cold thud, the empty phase slapped his lower abdomen together. Although Zhang Sanfeng's martial arts skills had reached the highest realm of doing whatever he wanted and not being satisfied with, how could he have expected that this Shaolin monk, who was carrying a blood vendetta and had come from afar to report the news, would suddenly attack himself? In an instant, he was so sad that he was confused and thought of himself as an enemy in a daze, but then he knew that something was wrong. ”
(Just Photo Stills)
Zhang Sanfeng was forced to eat Gang Xiang's slap, but the reason for his success in being attacked was also well explained.
How is the situation faced by the sweeping monk different from Zhang Sanfeng's? Quite simply, just by looking at Zhang Sanfeng's reaction, he knew that he had just become a Shaolin monk, a master of the Youpai sect, and naturally he was defenseless, and when the sweeping monk appeared, na Jiu Mozhi, Xiao Yuanshan, Murong Bo and others were all like fierce gods, and he was afraid that he had already made a good plan to deal with it, and the invisible "three-foot air wall" was afraid that it had already been deployed.
Therefore, the situation faced by the two is indeed different, which is the reason why Zhang Sanfeng was analyzed from the perspective of the difference between "preparation" and "temporary reaction".
(Emptiness Stills)
But from another point of view, since Zhang Sanfeng has a hundred years of skill, even if he eats the trick of just the face, it seems that he should not be so seriously injured, how can this be explained? In fact, the showdown between bearishness and Zhang Wujie is clear.
Third, the battle of emptiness is unscrupulous
In the Battle of the Six Gate Sect besieging Guangming Peak, the young hero Zhang Wuji came out of nowhere and blocked the attack of the Six Gate Sect for the Ming Sect, in which a detail in the duel between the Void Master and Zhang Wuji could explain the reason why Zhang Sanfeng was recruited.
Although Emptiness is a Shaolin monk, he is also ruthless in facing the "evil sect" of the Ming Sect, and even makes a "sneak attack" to hurt the enemy, and the answer is hidden in that shot.
(Zhang Wujie stills)
The original said: "Zhang Wujie said: 'To be a martial artist..." Emptiness took advantage of the fact that he was speaking and his true anger was impure, and he attacked with two moves. Zhang Wuji floated away, and the words in his mouth continued: '... Also, if I win the master, then what? There was no half pause in the tone of these words, and if you closed your eyes and listened, it would be no different from sitting calmly and talking, and I absolutely did not believe that he had dodged the five rapid attacks of emptiness in a row between these three sentences. ”
This is the key to the problem, when a person who learns martial arts speaks, the true qi will be impure, which Jin Yong also emphasized in the "Eight Parts of the Heavenly Dragon", when the virtual bamboo was speaking when using light gong, it broke the gong, and when Zhang Sanfeng was secretly attacked, one was defenseless, and the other was that he was speaking, so the true qi was impure, which was the Tao of Gangxiang.