1/19/2024 0 Comments Guo jing![]() When he found out they were also martial artists, Hong gave them a bit of training by way of thanks he taught Rong the Careless Fist, a fun and showy style that was useful but ultimately lacking in real power and potential, and he taught the denser Guo Jing a single strike: Haughty Dragon Repents, the first move and foundation of the 18 Dragon-Subduing Palms. The young woman had a considerable talent in the culinary arts, and served the best Beggar's Chicken the Chief of the Beggars had ever had. The young woman cooking the beggar's chicken-a dish where a gutted but unplucked chicken has mud caked onto it into a shell before it's roasted on a fire-was Huang Rong, runaway only daughter of Eastern Heretic Huang Yaoshi. One day on his travels, he overheard a young couple talking about a beggars' chicken they were cooking, and decided to see if he could beg for a little food. ![]() ![]() At one point, he found Liang Ziweng-a greedy man who cultivated martial arts only as part of his overall pursuit of longevity-had gathered up about two dozen maidens as part of an immortality experiment, and gave the lecherous man a punitive beating (despite the normal wulin codes which generally forbade much more skilled wulin from seriously harming lesser-skilled people) and then pulled the hair from Liang's scalp until the man was left bald. He never trained anyone for longer than three days-and that only once, to a twelve-year-old girl on a whim. He sometimes gave worthy people some training-underlings who had distinguished themselves, or people he met on the way. At one point he secretly lived in the rafters of the Imperial Palace for three months, stealing and trying dishes intended for the Emperor himself. He wandered China constantly, doing good deeds and trying new meals. Hong spent most of the next twenty years living life as he saw fit. The Five Greats agreed to hold another Huashen Tournament in twenty years, to settle who would keep the manual and see how their skills stacked up. Wang Chongyang edged out the other four through his superior neigong cultivation, and became known as the Central Divinity and the greatest martial artist alive. There were five masters above the rest, and they were titled after the regions of China where they made their homes: Western Venom Ouyang Feng, Northern Beggar Hong Qigong, Eastern Heretic Huang Yaoshi, and Southern Emperor Duan Zhixing. After seven days, the contenders were clear. The contest consisted of discussions of theory, and the practical: sparring and combat. Ouyang Feng, eager to claim the manual, entered the tournament. It came into possession of Wang Chongyang, founder of the Taoist Quanzhen Sect, and the wise Taoist proposed a means to settle ownership: A tournament at which martial arts masters who desired it could compete for it, with the winner publicly known as the greatest martial arts master and the keeper of the manual. It was the center of bitter contention, and in a few short years roughly a hundred martial arts masters had been killed over ownership of the manual. ![]() The Nine Yin Manual, a profound compilation and unification of martial arts wisdom, was rediscovered after decades of being lost. His rendition of the Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms was counted as being the pinnacle of the form. Hong was noted as being a specialist and master of "hard" martial arts-ones focusing on straightforward and direct attacks to crush defenses and inflict decisive strikes with a single blow. At a relatively young age he rose to rule the Beggars' Sect, an organization of beggars and martial artists, and was taught the Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms and the Dog-Beating Staff, which are the trademarks of the leader of the Beggars' Sect and passed down from chief to successor. Not much is known of Hong Qigong's early life and training, apart that he was the seventh of his parents' children, and his family was once enslaved by the Jin. ![]()
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