Originally Posted by
Ken Cheng
In the Jin Yong universe, the skill of sealing acupressure points seems to be universal in wulin. It seems that every Jin Yong wulin character, even the weakest and least experienced ones, has this skill in his or her repertoire. Obviously, certain experts such as the 1 Yeung Finger practitioners can do it better than other people, but it seems that anybody who can call himself/herself a member of wulin has acupressure sealing/unsealing skills.
Over in Gu Long's universe, we see an exception to this convention: Ah Fei was a first-class fighter, but was unable to seal or unseal acupressure points simply because he had never been formally trained in such a skill.
So how common or uncommon was the skill of acupressure sealing in wulin?