The last move in "Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms" is called the dragon's tail swing. The Eighteen Palms for Subduing the Dragon is one of the most extreme martial arts in Jin Yong's martial arts novels. It has a total of eighteen moves. The name of the moves is taken from "The Book of Changes".

The Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms were called the best in the world by the sweeping monk. The movements are simple and unremarkable, but the power of the moves is endless. The moves are simple but profound. The essence lies in the movement of force and strength. You win with strength. Every palm shot has overwhelming power.

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The newly revised version of the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms was originally twenty-eight palms. When it was passed down from the leader of the founding gang to Xiao Feng, the last ten moves were too cumbersome and not powerful. Far inferior to the first eighteen palms, Xiao Feng simplified the complex and reduced the twenty-eight palms by ten palms, becoming the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, which was passed down by his sworn brother Lingjiu Gong Xu Zhuzi. Deletions and repetitions make it more concise, and its power is not weaker than the original twenty-eight palms, but actually surpasses them.

Unlike the dog beating stick technique which is only taught to the gang leader, the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms can be taught to others, so Hong Qigong also taught his disciple Guo Jing and the accomplished Li Sheng a move called "Dragon Swinging Tail" , Guo Jing also taught it to brothers Wu Dunru and Wu Xiuwen. When Guo Jing's son-in-law Yeluqi took over as the leader of the Beggar Clan, Guo Jing also taught him the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms.

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