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In Jin Yong’s novels, the top masters are basically dead people. Dharma died, Huang Cang died, Dugu Qiu died, Lin Chaoying died, Wang Chongyang died, the former eunuch died… These people have passed down magical martial arts, but no one has ever seen or known what their realm is.
But there are two masters – the sweeping monk in “Dragon Babu” and Zhang Sanfeng in “The Legend of Relying on the Sky and Slaying the Dragon”.
I have analyzed how high the martial arts of sweeping monks are. This person has great powers, boundless Dharma, and no one can break the three-foot qi wall, and was once considered by Shaolin masters to be a bodhisattva incarnation. However, the sweeping monk was written by Jin Yong to save the scene and solve the contradictions in the play, so he only appeared once, came and went without a trace, and the divine dragon saw the head and did not see the end.
Jin Yong has a lot of descriptions of Zhang Sanfeng, this person can be called a martial arts grandmaster, Taishan Beidou, throughout the entire Jin Yong novel, Zhang Sanfeng is a top master.
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Where is Zhang Sanfeng’s martial arts high?
You must know that in Jin Yong’s novel, after the level of martial arts is high to a certain extent, it is not martial arts, but the realm. If the realm is not high, he will only be a second-rate master for a lifetime, and he will not reach the top.
For example, sweeping monks are the realm of saving sentient beings, cutting meat and feeding eagles; Dugu seeks defeat, that is the realm of “no sword wins with a sword”; The undefeated East is the realm of “the incarnation of heaven and man, and the growth of all things”.
Wang Chongyang also said that if you lack the courage to save the world, even if you practice martial arts hard all your life, you will not be able to reach the absolute realm.
What realm is Zhang Sanfeng? That’s called “Taoist nature”, which is almost the highest realm of Taoism. Zhang Sanfeng is a land immortal, a person who cultivates immortals, do you think he is a cow with martial arts?
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Why is Zhang Sanfeng “Taoist Nature”?
Because of the martial arts that Zhang Sanfeng knows, except for the most basic Shaolin Arhat Boxing, which has been incomplete, most of the rest are realized by him from nature. Zhang Sanfeng had only learned the most basic Shaolin Luohan Boxing and less than one-tenth of the Nine Yang True Sutra, but he had comprehended extremely high martial arts principles from nature based on these two martial arts. It’s equivalent to learning elementary school math and inventing calculus yourself!
For example, in “The Legend of Relying on the Sky and Slaying the Dragon”, it is said that he wandered in the Wudang Mountains, looked up at the floating clouds, looked down at the flowing water, and suddenly had an epiphany in martial arts with the supreme principle of overcoming rigidity with softness, and created Wudang martial arts that shocked the ancient and modern times.
Zhang Sanfeng traveled north to Baoming Mountain, saw that there were three peaks Tingxiu, Zhuo Liyunhai, he had a new understanding in martial arts, so he called himself “Sanfeng”.
After Zhang Sanfeng founded the Wudang faction, he saw the second general of the turtle and snake in front of the statue of the emperor Zhenwu one day, and remembered that there would be snake mountain and turtle mountain in the Yangtze River and Hanshui. Zhang Sanfeng felt something, rushed to Hanyang overnight, gazed at the snake and turtle two mountains, and created a set of exquisite martial arts from the gentle momentum of the snake mountain and the stable shape of the turtle mountain villa. This set of martial arts is universal, extremely extensive, one person can not perform, but a set of formations, up to seven people together, is the famous True Martial Seven Interception Formation.
When Zhang Sanfeng was more than 100 years old, his own kung fu of Taijiquan and Taijijian actually opened up a new world that had never been seen before in martial arts, which was completely different from the way of self-learning martial arts, paying attention to static braking and post-attack. Although Taijiquan and Taijijian are not realized from nature, they are also in line with the principles of nature, and are more in line with the cosmic avenue of “weakness is better than strength”!
Lao Tzu, the founder of Taoism, said in the Tao Te Ching: “The law of man and the earth, the law of the earth, the law of the heavens, the way of heaven, and the nature of the Tao.” “The martial arts invented by Zhang Sanfeng are all natural avenues that imitate all things, so they reach the pinnacle and are extremely powerful. Zhang Sanfeng is not only practicing martial arts, but also cultivating the Dao, and the martial arts realm is the crown of Jin Yong’s novel, and no one can match it.
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The great masters in Jin Yong’s book are all self-created martial arts.
Dharma created the “Yi Jian Sutra”, Huang Cang created the “Nine Yin True Sutra”, the fighting monk created the “Nine Yang True Sutra”, and Dugu sought defeat and created Dugu Nine Swords.
However, no one has created so many martial arts as Lao Zhang, and almost all of them have made breakthroughs in martial arts concepts.
For example, the True Martial Seven Interception Formation, the power of the two envoys has greatly increased, the three people are equivalent to four masters, four people are equivalent to eight masters, five people and sixteen masters, six people and thirty-two masters, and to seven people are equivalent to sixty-four first-class masters in the world! With each additional person, the power doubles, exponentially increasing, which is very terrifying.
There is also the Taijiquan sword, let Zhang Wuji learn first and then forget, similar to Dugu Jiujian’s “no trick wins and has a move”. Yang Xiao and Wei Yixiao rated the Taijiquan Sword as a martial art that could be compared with the Jiuyang Divine Skill and the Qiankun Great Shift.
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The characters in Jin Yong’s book have extremely high evaluations of Zhang Sanfeng.
For example, Yin Liting felt that he could defeat Yang Xiao with Zhang Sanfeng’s two or three successes; Yu Lianzhou felt that the more he practiced martial arts, the farther away he was from Zhang Sanfeng’s realm, as if he had regressed every day; Yang Xiao and Wei Yixiao praised Zhang Sanfeng as a pedantic genius; Zhang Wuji learned all the divine skills, but he felt that Zhang Sanfeng was unfathomable.
Zhang Sanfeng once took the young Zhang Wuji to the Shaolin Temple to ask for the Shaolin Jiuyang Gong, but he did not expect to be rejected by the Shaolin monks. The people of Shaolin Temple were not afraid of Zhang Sanfeng, because they believed that if the thousands of monks in the Shaolin Temple swarmed up, Zhang Sanfeng might not be able to destroy the Shaolin Temple. Listen, show your face.
Later, Bai Zizi in “The Traveler” juxtaposed Zhang Sanfeng with Dharma.
Zhang Sanfeng’s understanding of martial arts has been perfected, so under his tutelage, Zhang Wuji has also improved rapidly.
On Wudang Mountain that day, Zhang Wuji was injured under the combined attack of Lu Jie and Hebiwen. But a few months later, when he arrived in Dadu, Zhang Wuji was already able to become the second elder of Xuanxian within dozens of moves. Yang Xiao and Wei Yixiao, who were watching at that time, thought that Zhang Wuji stayed in Wudang for several months, asking Zhang Sanfeng about the subtleties and depths in martial arts, and finally the Jiuyang Divine Skill, Qiankun Great Shift, plus Wudang’s peerless Taijiquan sword, the three gradually fused into one. Therefore, the two of them had a capital “service” character for Zhang Sanfeng in their hearts, secretly praising Zhang Sanfeng for being pedantic and talented, and could be called the four characters “unfathomable”.
To sum up, Zhang Sanfeng is definitely a great master who shakes the ancient world and one of the best masters in Jin Yong’s novels.
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