The Three Saints of Wulin are the pinnacle-level figures of martial arts in the story of "The Great Hero with White Eyebrows", among which the martial arts of the Third Master Disciple Yu and this Martial Sage are the most powerful, and the Eighty-One Gate Chief Pudu and the Long-haired Daoist Xue Zhulian are close behind in the ranking of the Heavenly List, but the combat strength of these two brothers and sisters is still a big difference compared with the younger master and disciple Yu He. Although it is mentioned many times in the book that Pudu's martial arts cultivation is also based on the difference between YuHe and a hair, from the actual combat strength, Yu he can resist the joint efforts of these two brothers, which is not to say that Xuezhulian's martial arts are too inferior, but more importantly, it shows that Yu He's actual combat ability is too strong.
Whether in martial arts novels or martial arts commentaries, the combat strength of a martial arts master does not entirely depend on the person's martial arts cultivation, because some martial artists are partial to actual combat, while some martial artists are partial to theory. When a martial arts master reaches his peak, the accuracy of his martial arts in various aspects is different, which leads to a gap in combat strength, and the martial saint Yu He is a person with a high foundation and precision in martial arts.
As the highest martial artist among Pudu's disciples, Xiao Jian Demon Bai Yizi had the advantage in the first competition with Xia Suiliang, the apprentice of the martial saint Yu He. Xia Suiliang's ability to use his body could not win Bai Yizi, and Bai Yizi did not show his superb skills steadily, which showed that the small sword demon Bai Yizi at this time was higher, but later his martial arts were surpassed by Xia Suiliang, which can be concluded from the ranking of the martial arts list. The Little Sword Demon ranked sixth in the Heavenly List, while the Golden Lantern Swordsman Xia Suiliang ranked fourth, was it that Xia Suiliang's talent was too high and the Master Chengcheng was good enough to come later, or was the speed of the Little Sword Demon Bai Yizi's martial arts improvement slower?
Some book friends asked Sanyu such a question, since Bai Yizi could not catch up with Xia Suiliang, if Xu Liang of Shanxi Yan bai Pudu was a teacher, could Xu Liang defeat the Golden Lantern Swordsman Xia Suiliang? This question needs to be answered on two levels. If you look at the age and cultivation in Xu Liang's book, Xu Liang has successively studied martial arts with Wei Zhen in the Clouds, Mei Liangzu with golden eyes, Wang Ape of the Overseas Wild Sorcerer, and Long Yunfeng, the Flying Witch, and even if he learns Emei True Gong from Pudu as a teacher, Xu Liang will win Xia Suiliang a decade or two later, because the gap in the foundation in the short term is difficult to make up.
First, the comparison between Shanxi Yan and Xia Suiliang
If you want to objectively compare the combat strength of Xu Liang and Xia Suiliang, you should put these two people in the same age to make a comprehensive comparison at this level, that is to say, put Bai Yizi's learning experience on Xu Liang, the old Xi'er, so that the gap between the two can be compared. The book often says a sentence, "Xu Liang in this book is the ancestor tip of the dark weapon", this sentence is plainly referring to Xu Liang in this book the first in the world of dark weapons, perhaps some people will feel strange, higher than Xu Liang's martial arts, there are people who are higher, the difficulty of Xu Liang's dark weapons can be higher than the Three Saints of Wulin?
The answer is yes, but when it comes to the Dragon and Tiger Wind and Cloud Society, the martial saint Yu He's little apprentice Luo Xiao is no less than Xu Liang in the dark weapon, how can this be explained? Sanyu's opinion was that Luo Xiao had already surpassed the Martial Saint Yu He in practicing the Dark Weapon to this point. This goes back to the issue of "cultivation" and "combat strength" discussed above, Yu He's "knowledge" of dark weapons is definitely top-notch, but he may not have practiced such hard work as Xu Liang and Luo Xiao, that is, the martial saint Yu He is well versed in the martial arts of various sects, but he may not have practiced them one by one, this is the principle of "there are Zhuangyuan disciples, there is no Zhuangyuan master", because there is also a "practice" problem between "understanding" and "will".
After figuring out this problem, let's look at the level of Xu Liang and Xia Suiliang. On the martial arts qualifications Bai Yizi is not worse than Xu Liang and Xia Suiliang, Bai Yizi will be overtaken by Xia Suiliang to a certain extent is his personality reason. Bai Yizi and his apprentice nephew Bai Yunrui have a very similar personality, and both belong to the temperament of the art master who is bold and has no one in sight. Bai Yizi was accepted as an apprentice by Purdue when he was a child, when Shi Baoshan brought Xia Suiliang, who was over twenty years old, to worship Pudu as a teacher, Purdue politely refused on the grounds that he had just accepted Bai Yizi as an apprentice, it was obvious that Purdue had lied, Bai Yizi himself was not much younger than Xia Suiliang, at this time Bai Yizi had been following Purdue for at least ten years, And a letter from Pudu sent Xia Suiliang's recommended martial saint Yu He, and Xia Suiliang began to follow Yu He to learn art at this time.
When Xia Suiliang followed Yu He to learn art slightly, he followed his master Yu He to Emei Mountain to visit Master Bo Pudu, at this time Xia Suiliang and Bai Yizi had a fight, because Bai Yizi had studied art for at least ten years than Xia Suiliang, so Bai Yizi had the advantage. Xia Suiliang had planted his face before he was born, so he had followed Yu Hexue for decades, which became the famous golden lantern sword in the jianghu, and Bai Yizi was relatively "slack" in improving martial arts after this war, he always thought that Xia Suiliang was inferior to himself, even if the martial arts masters in the heavenly list recognized that Xia Suiliang was higher than his little sword demon, but when the group of heroes would be golden lanterns, Bai Yizi was still dissatisfied, and when he came to the Bixia Palace competition, Bai Yizi felt that his foundation was not as good as Xia Suiliang.
The book explains that Bai Yizi does not lose Xia Suiliang in martial arts moves, but is slightly worse in the foundation of martial arts, and it is obvious that Bai Yizi does not have Xu Liang's persistence of "two or five more kung fu never stops". If Xu Liang follows Pudu to learn art for decades, he will undoubtedly become a top master of martial arts, this is because Xu Liang has the personality of "winning without arrogance and defeat without being discouraged", plus Xu Liang has a strong strength in his bones, if he learns more than Xia Suiliang for ten years, it is estimated that Xia Suiliang is playing a rolling chase and it is difficult to compare with Xu Liang. To take a simple example, Xu Liang is a very self-aware person, why did he work the dark weapon when he studied art with Mei Liangzu? In addition to his interest, he is more aware that the dark weapon is a must-kill skill that can "defeat the strong with the weak".
Second, the comparison between hidden weapons and weapons
When Xu Liang and Xia Suiliang were at a level of master dueling, it could be said that the dark weapon was useless, and when it came to the realm of the martial arts heavenly list master, even if he was not good at playing the dark weapon, the master of this rank also knew the number of dark weapons, so it was naturally familiar with the road in dodging the dark weapon. In the book, it is explained that the old sword immortal's Hundred Steps Divine Fist Shadowless Palm cannot deal with such a master as the Golden Lantern Swordsman Xia Suiliang, in addition to not being able to move, the main thing is that it cannot be beaten at all, and the shadowless palm can be played between the hands, which is much more convenient than going to the hundred treasure bags in the waist to go to the dark weapon and then fight out, since the shadowless palm cannot be beaten, these "bits and pieces" on Xu Liang's body are basically unable to fight, which is the main reason why no one at this level of the Heavenly List Master basically no longer uses the dark weapon.
Xia Suiliang's most powerful weapon is Baoyu, this kind of weapon of the outer five elements can restrain many weapons, plus the double dragon flying lock blessing makes this weapon sword and sword difficult to hurt, it can be said that Xia Suiliang will choose this very "flattering" weapon mainly because of Bai Yizi, because Xia Suiliang after becoming famous cannot withstand a defeat. If Xu Liang followed Pudu to learn the art, his weapon would most likely be a sword, because Emei Martial Arts itself was the crown of the world with sword techniques.
Like Bai Yizi, Xu Liang was also a well-known prodigy in the eight townships since he was a child, so if Xu Liang followed Pudu to learn Emei martial arts, Xu Liang should at least be no less than Bai Yizi. Let's talk about one of the reasons why Bai Yizi was not as good as Xia Suiliang later, this is that Bai Yizi practiced the martial arts of rejuvenation, using a martial arts setting in the "Nine Yin True Classics" in Jin Yong's martial arts, "the way of heaven, the loss is more than enough to make up for the deficiency", the martial arts of rejuvenation and rejuvenation belong to your way of heaven, this is not only beneficial and no harm, the consequences are likely to be "losing the foundation of martial arts to maintain a young appearance", or like the Tianshan Tong Yao in the "Eight Parts of the Heavenly Dragon", the child needs to be slowly restored at a certain period, In other words, the power cannot always be at its peak.
If Xu Liang is an old apprentice who was closed by Pudu, Xu Liang naturally would not have practiced this martial art that is detrimental to the foundation of rejuvenation, because Xu Liang has been "poked and poked" since he was a child because of a pair of white eyebrows, so it is easy to survive until the white hair, white beard, and white eyebrows are in harmony with each other, and then practice a rejuvenation and rejuvenation to return to the original state, it is estimated that Lao Xi'er will not be so bored.
Of course, Xu Liang's own facial features were not handsome, and he did not need to work hard to train from "old ugly ghost" to "young ugly ghost", because it was too boring. Therefore, with Xu Liang's willingness to work hard at night and can put down his body to continuously learn new abilities from others, Xu Liang of the same age should surpass Xia Suiliang, after all, in the case of a gap between famous teachers, the efforts and continuous learning of the day after tomorrow are the most important.
Third, the difference between wuxia novels and martial arts commentaries
Xu Liang was less than thirty years old at the end of the commentary, and according to his age, even if the eighty-one masters of the general door, Pudu or the long-haired Daoist Xuezhulian, accepted him as apprentices, if Xu Liang studied art for another ten years, he would still not be able to beat the level of the Golden Lantern Swordsman Xia Suiliang. The book explains that Xia Suiliang, the Golden Lantern Great Sword, is at least eighty or ninety years old, and after he failed to get a bargain when he tried his bull sword against Bai Yizi, Xia Suiliang followed the martial sage Yu He for decades of hard work, and his martial arts cultivation was definitely not the level that Xu Liang could reach before he was forty years old.
If it is replaced by The Laughing Heavenly King Bai Chun, there may still be a chance to win, but this is still limited to the test weapon, only when Bai Chun is in his prime. Bai Chun belongs to the innate divine power, and in the words of "The Sword in the Snow", Bai Chun is a person born in the Vajra Realm. This innate advantage can temporarily make up for the gap in skill, coupled with the fact that Bai Chunli is fiercely sticky, although Xia Suiliang's treasure can restrain many kinds of weapons, it does not dare to collide with the bright silver plate dragon stick with the thickness of the duck egg, so the advantage in Xia Suiliang's weapons is gone.
Unfortunately, although Xu Liang was not a talent with innate divine power since he was a child, Xu Qing, the pangolin, was not Hao Tiandouluo, and Xu Liang did not have a hereditary Hao Heavenly Hammer Martial Soul, so Xu Liang could not become an invincible hammer stick general. Wuxia commentaries and wuxia novels have a big difference in the setting of martial arts masters, and the protagonists in wuxia novels can defeat the old devils who have been running for many years after cultivating into divine skills, but this setting is very rare in martial arts commentaries.
The flying jade tiger Jiang Bofang in "Three Heroes Sword" is able to defeat the Shaolin god monk Bi Xiu with his innate divine power, otherwise with Jiang Bofang's skill, he is definitely not Bi Xiu's opponent. Bi Xiu's brother is the Shaolin abbot blood refining King Kong Bihe monk, he has decades of Shaolin internal gong foundation, and Jiang Bofang is also in his twenties, this skill naturally can not be compared with Bi Xiu, but unfortunately Jiang Bofang's blood qi Fang Gang seems to have endless strength, so Bi Xiu can only win in moves, but his psychology of striving for quick victory was discovered by Jiang Bofang, and Jiang Bofang used a trick to win in defeat.
In addition to Jiang Bofang in "Three Heroes Sword" and Bai Chun in "The Great Hero with White Eyebrows", there is also a young master of the book who has the strength to crush the old leader of the martial forest, this person is the diamond harrier Jiang Jianchen in "Five Phoenix Chaoyang Sword", but this review book is adapted from the martial arts novel, so the three fish will not be repeated here.
If Xu Liang wanted to reach the martial arts level of the Golden Lantern Swordsman Xia Suiliang, it would be at least possible after the age of forty. In Zhang Shaozuo's commentary "The Biography of Zhong Ling", the actual combat ability of the white-browed sword Xu Liang ranks in the top three, and even the first Buddha Moyun of the South China Sea, the head of the martial forest, does not have a hundred percent certainty of winning Xu Liang, at this time Xu Liang is already forty or fifty years old, and from this book, it can also be seen that the sequel has a general positioning of the white-brow hero Xu Liang's martial arts.