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Wang Chong Yang should at least by lvl 80 Speculation wise, if not 81-82.
-WCY beat the greats after 7 days and nights.
-10 years later, ZBT truly believes WCY would subdue them in half a day.
Zhou Botong added, “In terms of energy exertion, your master Hong Qigong’s
martial arts are on the external side of the spectrum. Even though I know
Quanzhen Sect’s martial arts, I am not his match. But I am afraid that once you
reach certain level of external type martial arts you cannot go much higher. Not
so with the internal type of martial arts, the type that my martial brother
practiced. The time when my martial brother won the title ‘Number One in the
Martial Arts World’ he was not just lucky. If he was still alive today and with the
additional ten years of training, if he again fought Eastern Heretic, Western
Poison and the others, I believe he would probably only need half a day, not
seven whole days and nights, to subdue them.”
ZBT being martial arts obsessive and being logical in his explanation-- it is very unlikely that it was hyperbole. With that, you can infer that WCY would be CEARLY higher level than the greats, and according to this chart, 5 pts higher.
-ZBT says he works extremely hard to improve, while WCY is a prodigious martial artist and improves in martial arts easily.
“The Quanzhen Sect Master Wang, how did he become both a Taoist saint and a
martial arts master?” Guo Jing asked.
“His natural talent was that incredible. He was able to master martial arts quite
easily, while I had to practice hard and diligently.” Zhou Botong answered.
“Where were
ZBT hasn't even learned WCY's more fearsome martial arts yet.
-Jin Yong has stated in the novel multiple times that WCY is exceptionally talented and masters martial arts easily, while showing how much work YG, GJ, and even ZBT works to improve.
Therefore we can presume WCY would at LEAST be a few points higher than ZBT if he were alive and still practicing. And considering how WCY would presumably cleanly beat the greats even more quickly now, he should at least be level 80.