Eighteen Palms for Subduing the Dragon is a martial art created by Jin Yong's novels. Later, Xiao Feng used his own experience and the essence of Tianshan Liuyang Palm from the Xiaoyao sect of his brother Xu Zhu to simplify the complex and jointly created this book. The most powerful palm technique in the world.

In Jin Yong's novels, Xiao Feng, Hong Qigong and Guo Jing are all famous for their Eighteen Palms for Subduing the Dragon. Xiao Feng shocked the martial arts world with his Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, and his skills in the Shaolin Temple battle surpassed all other heroes. Hong Qigong won the title of "Northern Beggar" with his Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms. Guo Jing resisted the Mongolian army with the power of Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms and defended Xiangyang for decades. Later, it was hidden in the Yitian Sword by Guo Jing. The Yitian Sword passed through the hands of others several times, and was later cut with swords by Zhou Zhiruo, and was finally obtained by Zhang Wuji.

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Inherited Origin

The Beggar Clan’s magical skill of subduing the dragon with eighteen palms was originally twenty-eight palms in the Northern Song Dynasty. At that time, Xiao Feng, the leader of the gang, had unparalleled martial arts skills. , but was expelled from the gang because of his status as a Khitan, he cut the complexity and simplified it, reducing the twenty-eight palms by ten palms, becoming the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, which was passed down from generation to generation by his sworn brother Lingjiu Gongxu Zhuzi.

At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, although the successor leader Yeluqi was taught by his father-in-law Guo Jing, all the subsequent leaders of the Beggar Clan could only learn fourteen palms at most due to their shallow foundation.

Xiao Feng can also be said to have made outstanding contributions in the inheritance and development of Beggar Clan martial arts. He simplified the Twenty-eight Dragon Subduing Palms into the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms with thicker palms and stronger power; Starting from the founder of the Beggar Clan, the Twenty-Eight Dragon Subduing Palms were shortened and revised by Xiao Feng into the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, which were passed down from generation to generation by his sworn brother Xu Zhuzi.

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