On December 11, 2023, movie star Zhou Haimei passed away from lupus erythematosus, triggering mourning from a group of old men. Zhou Haimei has played many roles, one of which is widely known as Zhou Zhiruo in 1994's "Heaven and Dragon Slayer" (commonly known as the roaring version). Zhou Zhiruo, as one of the two heroines in "Yitian", finally went astray and seemed to lose to Zhao Min emotionally. But the complexity of her character is far more complex than Zhao Min's, and it has also aroused the sympathy of many readers. However, in this article, Lao Ba mainly talks about Zhou Zhiruo's martial arts.
There must be standards for martial arts evaluation. In "Heaven and Dragon Slayer", the first-class masters of martial arts can be roughly divided into several grades. The highest is the two levels, namely Zhang Sanfeng and Zhang Wuji's grandchildren. The second is the two elders and three crossings, including the two elders of Xuanming, the three crossings of Shaolin Temple, etc. The third is the level of the Dharma king, including the four ** kings, the two envoys of leisure, the Wudang Zhuxia, the Shaolin Sankong, etc.
Generally speaking, there may be high and low between the same grades, but it is difficult to quickly distinguish between victory and defeat. And the cross-level is an absolute advantage. For example, Zhang Sanfeng once captured one of the two elders of Xuanming in seconds, Zhang Wuji against the monk Sandu, at first he could still have the upper hand with one enemy and two enemies, and later he broke the circle of King Kong and the demon by himself. On the other hand, when the two elders of Xuan Ming have been weakened by Zhang Wuji's Jiuyang divine skills, they can still beat Yang Xiao and Wei Yixiao with one palm, and they can still gain the upper hand when they join forces to deal with Yang Xiao and Yin Tianzheng. It can be seen that there is an obvious gap between the two cards and the three crossing levels, and the three crossing levels against the Dharma King level.
All battles are subject to the triptych version.
In most of the chapters of the book, Zhou Zhiruo seems to have low martial arts. Until he succeeded the exterminator Tai as the head of the Emei faction in Wan'an Temple, he was captured by the purple-shirted dragon king at the level of the Dharma king. Despite this, Zhou Zhiruo's talent in martial arts should still be there, and the level is already outstanding in the Emei faction. When Zhang Wuji just fell off the cliff, he first beat Ding Minjun. Ding Minjun went to move the rescuers, and if Zhou Zhiruo came out again, Zhang Wuji's judgment was:
Zhang Wuji was quite surprised, and secretly wanted to listen to her whistle and look at her body, it was expected that she must be much older than Ding Minjun, but she seemed to be a few years younger than herself.At that time, Zhou Zhiruo was only seventeen or eighteen years old, and she had only been in the Emei faction for a few years, but her strength had far surpassed that of her teacher and sister Ding Minjun, who had been in the Emei faction for decades. It's no wonder that the exterminator is just "often calling herself this little junior sister, saying that she has a high level of understanding and rapid progress, and that this sect will carry forward in the future, and most of it will fall on her." Of course, maybe the exterminator is too bad at teaching apprentices (and Ke Zhenwei back then), and it is unknown that the *** of the Emei faction is too rubbish.
Later, Zhou Zhiruo obtained the Heavenly Sword and the Dragon Slayer Knife, took out the martial arts cheats in it, and learned the quick version of the Nine Yin True Scripture compiled by Huang Rong, which advanced by leaps and bounds, and quickly entered the circle of first-class masters. Especially in the lion slaughter conference, she defeated the two heroes of Wudang first, and even let Zhang Wuji return home with a feather and shocked the world. However, the record and strength are not necessarily equal. Zhang Wuji lost to her purely because he was benevolent, and fell for a trick in order to save Zhou Zhiruo and Yu Lianzhou's deathfight.
In addition, Zhang Wuji has an inner monologue behind him, thinking that if Zhou Zhiruo only relies on the quick method in the Nine Yin True Scripture, the real martial arts are even inferior to the martial arts heroes:
……In order to rush to achieve success, she did not have time to lay a good foundation for internal strength, so that all her Xi was a poisonous kung fu that could be achieved quickly, and she could not reach the peak of superior martial arts after all. Although she defeated Second Uncle Yu and Sixth Uncle Yin, in fact, she only relied on extremely strange tricks to take advantage of the surprise, just like when I was defeated by the three envoys of the head sect. Zhiruo's real martial arts, after all, are far from Yu Yin, and if she fights again in the future, she will have to die at the hands of Wudang Heroes to ......Looking at it this way, according to Zhang Wuji's evaluation, Zhou Zhiruo's martial arts are simply below the Wudang Heroes, at most he is at the level of the Dharma King, and it can even be considered that there is only a weak Dharma King or a quasi-Dharma King.
However, this is only a subjective judgment made by Zhang Wuji, not Jin Yong's narration. Based on Zhang Wuji's feelings for the Wudang faction, coupled with the shock of learning that Zhou Zhiruo had obtained the sword secret, he had the motivation to improve the status of Wudang's martial arts and underestimate Zhou Zhiruo's martial arts level. Therefore, it cannot be arbitrarily said that Zhou Zhiruo must be inferior to Yu Lianzhou. The narrator also mentions that "when it comes to internal cultivation, it is far inferior to Yu Lianzhou and Yin Liting." "Zhou Zhiruo, who is less than twenty years old, has no doubt that her internal strength cultivation is not as good as that of the older generation of Shuangxia, but martial arts is not only internal strength.
According to conventionally, the level of martial arts is best judged by actual combat, but there are many examples of "low martial arts and strong actual combat" in Jin Yong's works. For example, Xiao Feng in "Dragon Babu", the narrator clearly said that he had defeated many opponents whose skills were deeper than his own and his moves were more ingenious than his own, and he was the first person to fight hard. Guo Jing in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", although the narrator repeatedly said that he was on par with the Golden Wheel Dharma King, but in fact, Guo Jing carried Yang Guo behind his back, and he was alone against the Golden Wheel Dharma King, Yin Kexi, Xiao Xiangzi, and Ni Moxing, and he could still clash back and forth among the thousands of troops and horses in the Mongolian campThe little dragon girl even relied on her clever tricks to force the Golden Wheel Dharma King into a desperate situation.
In "Heaven and Dragon Slayer", there are also examples of the three envoys of Fengyun who once made Zhang Wuji scramble with their strange moves. From this point of view, it is understandable that Zhou Zhiruo is weak and has a strong record. It's just that the three envoys of Fengyun were then beaten to pieces by Zhang Wuji, who saw through their tricks, and Zhou Zhiruo was quickly abolished by Zhang Wuji with the Jiuyang Divine Skill, which was easy to practice. Whether she will lose to Yu Lianzhou in the future is also "dead and unopposed". Therefore, we can only analyze the actual combat level of her performance from her short-lived highlight moment.
The first battle of Zhou Zhiruo depicted in the plot was to kill the Du couple and attack Zhang Wuji in the thatched house.
The martial arts of the Du couple are far from being first-class, and if Zhou Zhiru kills them after a vicious battle, it can only show that she is a master and it is difficult to locate accurately. After that, he attacked Zhang Wuji, but was thwarted by Zhang Wuji. If it weren't for Sect Leader Zhang who realized that she was a woman and showed mercy, one of Zhou Zhiruo's hands would have been useless. In this battle, Zhou Zhiruo's gap with Zhang Wuji is too big. However, in addition to Zhang Sanfeng in the book, the difference between Zhang Wuji and Zhang Wuji is also huge, and it also cannot explain the problem.
The second battle was the lion slaughter conference, where Zhou Zhiruo fought against Wudang Shuangxia. This paragraph is very exciting, with ups and downs in the middle, twists and turns. And Zhou Zhiruo also relied on this battle to become a god in the eyes of the majority of martial arts people.
First of all, Yu Lianzhou seriously injured Song Qingshu and was about to take his life, Zhou Zhiruo stood out:
……Suddenly, the green shadow flickered in the ground, and a long whip struck head-on. Yu Lianzhou hurriedly jumped to dodge, and the long whip's fast and incoherent moves were the revenge of Zhou Zhiruo, the head of the Emei faction.Here, Yu Lianzhou was about to kill Song Qingshu, and if Zhou Zhi was a surprise attack, it was not a fair one-on-one confrontation, and he was indeed killed and not convinced. However, her surprise attack was not to defeat the enemy in one move, but to encircle Yu Lianzhou between three moves, which was actually more overwhelming than a one-hit attack. In this round, Zhou Zhiruo had the upper hand. Wudang Shuangxia himself felt that there was more than one luck.Yu Lianzhou took three steps back. Zhou Zhiruo's whip method is fantastic, and he has been encircled in three moves, suddenly shook the whip, took it back, grabbed the whip with his left hand, and said coldly: "Take your life at this time, forgive you for disagreeing." Draw the blade!”
Yu Lianzhou tried her best, but she couldn't get out of her whip ring, and she was so shocked in her heart. He loved his junior brother and thought: "I have a fight with her, even if I die under her whip, the sixth brother can at least see the clues of her whipping method." He escaped death, and he had a little more hope. ”…Yin Liting also saw that the situation was extremely dangerous, and with the martial arts of the two brothers, it seemed extremely slim to escape the blow ......of her long whipYu Lianzhou ......Pondering: "....If he dies first, I will see the essence of this woman's whipping, and I may be able to die with her. ”With Yu Lianzhou's martial arts at this time, even if he faced one of the two elders of Xuan Ming, he probably wouldn't be so afraid. Zhou Zhiruo's sense of oppression is indeed too strong.
Then, Yin Liting held a sword and fought with Zhou Zhiruo's soft whip. Yin Liting used the Taiji Sword, only defended and did not attack, and there was no flaw. Yu Lianzhou also thought that "if I make another move, this set of Tai Chi swordsmanship will not make it better than the sixth brother", and actually planned to rely on the means of two men taking turns to consume a girl to win for a long time. Zhou Dian of the Ming Sect was also talking nonsense on the side, deliberately interfering. However, in this case, Zhou Zhiruo broke the game again:
Zhou Zhiruo suddenly shook the long whip, winding into large and small circles, and wrapped Yin Liting in it. Taijiquan and Taijijian both pay attention to luck in a circle, Zhou Zhiruo's long whip actually shook into a circle, and the direction of the whip circle was the same as Yin Liting's sword circle, but it was several times faster. The strength of Yin Liting's sword was so strong that she couldn't help it, and she turned a few times in a row, and the blue light flashed, and the long sword took off her hand and raised it. Zhou Zhiruo's long whip rolled upside down, and the whip head was aimed at Yin Li Pavilion Tianling Gai and smashed down.At this point, if Yin Liting is strictly single-handed, his life has already been sent out. Yu Lianzhou hurriedly made a move:
Yu Lianzhou jumped up and grabbed the tip of the soft whip with his right hand. Zhou Zhiruo flew out of a leg under her skirt and hit Yu Lianzhou's waist. Yu Lianzhou has always been unpredictable about the essence of Zhou Zhiruo's weird whip technique, and when she saw her shaking the whip into a circle, snatching the long sword in Yin Liting's hand, her heart was bright: "It turns out that her skills are not enough, and these few whips are in a circle, which is far worse than our Taijiquan kung fu." As soon as he grabbed the tip of the whip, he grabbed her leg around his waist, and his left hand poked out, which was a move "Tiger Claw Absolute Hand", which went straight into Zhou Zhiruo's lower abdomen. Zhou Zhi was irresistible, and a thought flashed in her heart like lightning: "I died in the hands of Second Uncle Yu today." The right hand let go of the whip handle, and the five fingers were inserted on the top of Yu Lianzhou's head, hoping to fight with him and die together. Yu Lianzhou turned his head sideways to avoid it, but the acupoint behind the middle leg on his waist was sealed, his head and neck were stiff, and he couldn't turn it, but his left hand was still lucky.Yu Lianzhou's shot at this time is strictly unfair, which is equivalent to two to one. This is similar to the previous defeat of Song Qingshu and Zhou Zhiruo's revenge. The differences are: first, Song Qingshu was seriously injured at that time and had no threat to Yu Lianzhou, and Yu Lianzhou only needed to deal with the new Zhou Zhiruo. At this time, although Yin Liting took off his long sword, he was not injured, which means that Zhou Zhi was true. One dozen two. Second, Zhou Zhiruo attacked before, directly putting Yu Lianzhou on the line of life and death, but suddenly accepted it. And now Yu Lianzhou's sneak attack, horizontal and vertical, is just fighting to the end, and he has also used a vicious tiger claw. Compared with the two, Zhou Zhiruo actually has much more aura than Yu Lianzhou.
By the way, Zhou Zhiruo called Yu Lianzhou "Second Uncle" in her heart, which was called by Song Qingshu's wife. Because Song Yuanqiao is Yu Lianzhou's senior brother. If she stands as Zhang Wuji's wife, she should be called "Second Uncle". It's also intriguing.
Seeing that Zhou Zhiruo and Yu Lianzhou were going to die together, Zhang Wuji hurriedly came out to save people, but Zhou Zhiruo took advantage of his benevolent heart, first pretending to run out of oil and running dry, and then suddenly strengthened the sneak attack after Zhang Wuji regained his strength, causing Zhang Wuji to be seriously injured and restrained by her. This is, of course, an unfair contest, and it goes without saying.
Zhou Zhiruo's third battle was to join forces with Zhang Wuji against Sandu. In this battle, Zhou Zhiruo can be regarded as the original form. The battle against Sandu has almost become Zhang Wuji's one-man show.
Zhang Wuji and the three Shaolin monks each fought each other with their true skills, half a point can not be tricked, she can no longer intervene, sometimes the soft whip is shaken, stepped forward to attack, and touched the internal strength of the four, and was immediately bounced out. ......Zhang Wuji stared at the enemy whip and dismantled them one by one, secretly anxious in his heart: "Although Zhiruo's martial arts are amazing, after all, the time he has learned is short, and he is still not as powerful as his grandfather and Yang Zuo. I can't do it alone, and it looks like I'm going to lose again today. ”It stands to reason that Zhang Wuji can share some of the pressure on Sandu, even if he adds a Dharma king-level figure, such as Fan Yao or Wei Yixiao. And in this description, Zhou Zhiruo has simply become a soy sauce character. Maybe it's because she learned quick martial arts, and Sandu's skills are far superior to those of Wudang Shuangxia, and she is driven by Buddhism, which makes it difficult to hide from crooked ways, so Zhou Zhiruo, who lacks her own skills, can't play her value at all. But on the other hand, Zhang Wuji's evaluation of Zhou Zhiruo is still "not as powerful as the two of them joining forces with his grandfather and Yang Zuo." "From here, if Zhou Zhiruo is just not as good as two Dharma King level joining forces, he should still be stronger than one Dharma King level.
When Zhang Wuji gradually reversed his disadvantage, Zhou Zhiruo suddenly backstabbed and threatened Xie Xun, but was raided by the woman in the yellow shirt**. It is not unusual to show here that Zhou Zhi is not as good as the woman in the yellow shirt. After all, as a descendant of Yang, the woman in the yellow shirt is already familiar with Zhou Zhiruo's moves, and she is calculated or unintentional.
Zhou Zhiruo's fourth battle was when he tried to escape from Shaolin Temple, and was besieged by the two elders of Xuan Ming:
……Her sword moves are clutched, and under the attack of the two masters, she is actually defending and attacking, occasionally changing the virtual and the real, and the clever moves are suddenly born. After fighting dozens of times, Zhou Zhiruo's sword moves became more and more strange, and seven of the ten moves were extremely aggressive.The second elder of Xuan Ming is a master of the Sandu level, even if he is not as good as the Sandu in heads-up, it is not far behind, far better than the Dharma King level, and in the face of Zhou Zhiruo, it is actually two to one. And Zhou Zhiruo was able to hold on for at least dozens of rounds under such a strong siege, and he could also attack and defend at the same time, which was far superior to the Dharma King level, and was not even below the Sandu level. Of course, in the end, I couldn't stick to it. If Zhang Wuji hadn't rescued him in time, he would have died on the spot.
From this, it can be seen that Zhou Zhiruo, who has learned the quick version of the Nine Yin True Scripture Xi, actually fights between the Dharma King and the Sandu level, but when he encounters different opponents, the power of these quick martial arts is different. For righteous martial arts, Zhou Zhiruo's strange methods are not outstanding enough, so he has never won the two hundred moves of Yin Liting's Taiji Sword, and it is even more like ** under the leather whip of Sandu. On the contrary, in the face of the evil martial arts of the second elder Xuan Ming, her performance was even better, but it was difficult to persist after a long time.
When the Nine Yin Divine Skill was broken by the Nine Yang Divine Skill, Zhou Zhiruo would only be left with the legend of the year.