what's the greatest upset in a wuxia battle?

[Ghaleon]

So what's the greatest upset in a wuxia battle? I'm talking about a battle where the victor was hugely underrated against the opposition either theoretically on paper or by reputation.

A parallel would be Roger Federer losing against a guy ranked outside the top 100 in tennis.

[Ken Cheng]

"Invulnerable" Chan Yeun Fung getting stabbed to death by six-year old, completely martial arts untrained Gwok Jing in Mongolia.

[CC]

Great Mr Mo getting punked by Yue Lingshan.

[ChronoReverse]

Great Mr Mo getting punked by Yue Lingshan.

Eh? I thought Mr. Mo was outclassing Yue Lingshan until the end (which was basically a sneak attack). I gotta reread that now

[Ren Wo Xing]

Jiumozhi versus Xu Zhu. He had just wtfpwned one of Shaolin's finest monks and demonstrated tremendous superiority, then an essentially nameless low-generation monk shrugs off his toughest blows and gives him a hellacious fight.

[ChanceEncounter]

Greatest upset in terms of ability, or in terms of popular perception?

In terms of perception, I bet everyone was like, "wtf?" when some janitor from Shaolin punked a bunch of elite pugilists.

[pannonian]

Greatest upset in terms of ability, or in terms of popular perception?

In terms of perception, I bet everyone was like, "wtf?" when some janitor from Shaolin punked a bunch of elite pugilists.

In terms of ability, in a straightforward fight with no trickery, I'd go for Guo Jing holding off Ouyang Feng and Qiu Qianren simultaneously.

[Guo Xiang ( :]

"Invulnerable" Chan Yeun Fung getting stabbed to death by six-year old, completely martial arts untrained Gwok Jing in Mongolia.

Could that be conidered a "wuxia battle?"

Copper Corpse captured Guo Jing and Guo Jing just frantically grabbed his dagger thrust is into him. So is it really a battle?

[CC]

Jiumozhi versus Xu Zhu. He had just wtfpwned one of Shaolin's finest monks and demonstrated tremendous superiority, then an essentially nameless low-generation monk shrugs off his toughest blows and gives him a hellacious fight.

Not a shocker for the reader though. Since it was long revealed that XZ had gathered the unprecedented internal power and learnt skills from TSTL and the secret cave.

[wuyuejin]

Wei Xiaobao stabbed the Chief of the Divine Dragon cult, who is 1000x more powerful than him, to death.

[Guo Fu ):]

SWORD GOD zhuo bu fan vs xu zhu.

[flamer]

SWORD GOD zhuo bu fan vs xu zhu.

Yea but as CC suggested, not a shocker for the readers.

[Guo Xiang ( :]

Kind of off topic but who on earth is the Sword God. Everyone keeps talking about him but I have no idea who he is.

[PJ]

Another candidate: Kunlun 3 Saints He Zudao, who was 100+ times better than young Zhang Junbao in terms of martial arts, not being able to defeat his opponent in 10 moves.

[ChanceEncounter]

Another candidate: Kunlun 3 Saints He Zudao, who was 100+ times better than young Zhang Junbao in terms of martial arts, not being able to defeat his opponent in 10 moves.

That's a good one.

I really want to know what kind of advice YG gave him if it was able to let him stand up to He Zudao.

[flamer]

Kind of off topic but who on earth is the Sword God. Everyone keeps talking about him but I have no idea who he is.

PJ will tell you all about him. But for starters:

He is a minor character who appeared in DGSD. He got smashed by Xuzhu and was never heard of again. He is apparently much better than what the novel portrayed him to be.

[pannonian]

That's a good one.

I really want to know what kind of advice YG gave him if it was able to let him stand up to He Zudao.

YG only taught ZJB a few stances with which to fight Xiaoxiang Zi, but perhaps more significantly, also taught him how a fighter should think. Most of the martial arts he displayed against HZD were a set of minor fist techniques demonstrated by GX's arhat statuettes, but the ability to apply them in battle might have been influenced or inspired by YG.