The protagonists in martial arts stories are the chosen ones, they can always easily learn all kinds of magical skills, and the heights that others have reached after half a lifetime of hard work, they can achieve it in an understatement, so that readers will feel extremely happy after bringing in the characters.
But what if there are multiple protagonists in a work at the same time? Should the author level the bowl of water, or let them decide the winner?
Jin Yong portrayed the two protagonists Guo Jing and Yang Guo at the same time in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", of course, strictly speaking, Guo Jing should be the "protagonist of the previous work", but he always has some protagonist halo, and combined with the original plot setting, Guo Jing and Yang Guo, the two protagonists, really have a reason to have a showdown.
(Guo Jing, Yang Guo stills)
But why did Jin Yong never let this showdown happen? If it is really a fight to the end, which side will have the last laugh?
1. New hatred and old hatred
It is also a bad fate, when Guo Xiaotian and Yang Tiexin were righteous, how could they have thought that there would be so many love-hate entanglements between the descendants of Guo and Yang's families.
In fact, in the generation of Yang Kang and Guo Jing, it was more that the Yang family was sorry for the Guo family, but in Yang Guo's generation, it was the other way around.
In the author's opinion, it is a little unfair that Yang Guo was given a single name by Guo Jing and his wife as soon as he was born, and people haven't done anything, so you will default to the fact that people may go astray, and you can change your mistakes, we all know that people are very easy to accept "hints", especially their own names, which determines that Yang Guo is destined to go astray, and this is indeed the case.
It's just that Yang Guo's detour is actually related to Guo Jing and his wife, he really doesn't know the truth of the year, he believes that Guo Jing and his wife are the murderers of his father, whether it is an accident or what, he is a son, he is not qualified to forgive Guo Jing and Huang Rong for his father, what he can do is to take revenge, there is no problem with this, it is an old hatred.
(Yang Guo stills)
In addition, Guo Fu later cut off one of Yang Guo's arms in anger, even Guo Jing thought that Yang Guo, who had lost an arm, would return to the top, and even survival would be a problem.
Therefore, Yang Guo has a grudge against Guo Jing's family, which is normal, even if he later knows that Guo Jing is a hero who cares about the people of the world, it should be one yard at a time, and there should always be an understanding of new hatreds and old grievances.
In fact, the third Huashan Sword Debate at the end of the book was the best time for the two of them to have a competition, but Jin Yong didn't let the two of them do it, but just decided to choose a new generation of five uniques in the middle of talking and laughing.
Therefore, the author can only analyze the gap between the two in strength from a theoretical point of view.
Second, the top masters
Guo Yang and Yang are both protagonists, so their martial arts configurations are naturally first-class.
That Guo Jing is carrying the eighteen palms of the dragon, fighting left and right, and the "Nine Yin True Scripture", coupled with the light skill of "Ladder to the Sky", this configuration can be called perfect.
Among the five masters of the year, except for the martial arts of Duan Zhixing, the "Southern Emperor" Duan Zhixing's martial arts have never been learned by him, and he has been involved in the other four unique martial arts, such as the toad skill of the Western Poison, the dog-beating stick method of the Northern Beggar, the finger snap magic power of the Eastern Evil, and the basic martial arts of the Quanzhen Sect of the Zhongshentong, the "Chongyang Legacy Inscription" is barely a stunt left by Wang Chongyang.
(Guo Jing stills)
In addition, Yang Guo also obtained the top divine skill of the Ancient Tomb School, the Jade Maiden's Heart Sutra, the hidden world master "Sword Demon" Dugu's Xuantie swordsmanship, and even Jin Yong made him the only protagonist in his pen who created his own unique skills.
Jin Yong said: "It is necessary to know that practicing martial arts is no different from learning, skills, and entrepreneurship, if you follow the door of others, [the highest] can only reach the [middle and upper realm], blindly plagiarism and imitation, it is difficult to achieve great success in the end." ”
Therefore, Yang Guo's ability to create his own martial arts seems to surpass Guo Jing, but it is only "seemingly".
Because later Huang Yaoshi gave a very objective evaluation of Yang Guo's self-created Gloomy Ecstasy Palm, saying: "Brother's palm method, [in terms of strength, only the son-in-law Guo Jing's eighteen palms can be compared]. The old man's Luoying Divine Sword Palm lost a lot. ”
(Yang Guo, Huang Yaoshi stills)
Huang Laoxie is not a braggart person, he has always said something, even if Guo Jing is his son-in-law, he will not be partial, he said that the Gloomy Ecstasy Palm is only comparable to the Eighteen Palms of the Dragon Descending, that is most likely the case.
Therefore, in terms of the most proud killing moves of the two, it is actually difficult to distinguish the winner from the loser, so it seems that the strength of Guo Jing and Yang Guo should be between the two of them?
The two fight to the end, and it will only be a "lose-lose" ending?
In fact, under the premise that the level of martial arts is comparable, there is another condition that will affect the direction of this game, and Jin Yong has already given a hint through Xiao Feng's mouth.
3. Xiao Feng solves doubts
Not to mention that the stories of "Dragon Babu" and "Condor Trilogy" are in different worldviews, and the settings in several works cannot be generalized.
At least Jin Yong has opened up the relationship between these works in the new revised version, for example, in the twelfth chapter of the newly revised version of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", it is mentioned that Xuzhu passed on the deeds of the beggar gang for Xiao Feng, saying that it is: "During the Northern Song Dynasty, Xiao Feng, the leader of the beggar gang, invited the heroes of the world to fight, and very few people could stop him in three moves and two styles. At that time, there were a total of 'twenty-eight palms of the dragon', and then Xiao Feng and his brother Xuzhuzi deleted the complicated and simplified, took the essence and used the macro, and changed it to the eighteen palms of the dragon, and the palm power was thicker. This palm technique was passed to Hong Qigong, and it was displayed when discussing the sword with Wang Chongyang, Huang Yaoshi and others at the top of Huashan, and Wang Chongyang and others were all praised. ”
Obviously, the worldview of these works is unified, and the concept of martial arts in them is also universal.
(Xiao Feng stills)
And when Xiao Feng commented on Murong Bo back then, he mentioned such a sentence: "Xiao Feng drank a bowl of wine and asked: 'Master Murong wasn't too old when he died, right?' Ah Zhu said: "Fifty years old is not old. Xiao Feng said: "Well, he has deep internal strength, and when he was in his fifties, he was at the peak of his martial arts, and he didn't know how to die suddenly?" ’”
The facts also proved that Murong Bo faked his death, and it is not difficult to see from Xiao Feng's conclusion that in Jin Yong's martial arts worldview, a person will reach the peak state of physical function at the age of fifty.
Therefore, under the premise of "also a top master", Guo Jing, who has been practicing martial arts for a longer time and is at his peak, is undoubtedly stronger than Yang Guo.
It's just that in this way, Yang Guo's image will inevitably seem to be cheap, and it makes sense for Jin Yong to buy this duel to happen.