The Flying Divine Stride (simplified: 飞天神行, traditional: 飛天神行, pinyin: Fēitiān Shénxíng, jyutping: fei1 tin1 san4 hang4) was the hereditary qinggong of the Hu family, descendants of the Flying Fox (飞天狐狸), bodyguard to the Storming King Li Zicheng. In Flying Fox of the Snowy Mountain, Miao Ruolan tells how the Flying Fox’s son used it at a banquet held to await his coming, where the three sworn brothers of his father recognised it at once.
Overview
The art moved its user so fast that onlookers could not follow him. The Flying Fox’s son could leap forward, strike a man and return to his place in an instant, so that he seemed never to have moved at all (ch. 3).
History
After the Flying Fox died at the hands of his three sworn brothers, his son came to Kunming, defeated all three, took Li Zicheng’s Treasured Dao and promised to call on them on the anniversary of his father’s death. On the fifteenth day of the third month, the brother disguised as a physician held a banquet for more than a hundred famous fighters of the jianghu to await him. At the first watch the son was suddenly standing before the table, and no one had seen how he came in (ch. 3).
When a senior of the Kunlun School called him a traitor’s son, the son struck him six times across the face, and the man spat blood and dozens of teeth. None of the guests saw him cross the hall or return to his place. The three sworn brothers, who had eaten and slept beside his father for decades, recognised the move as the Hu family’s hereditary qinggong, the Flying Divine Stride, and judged that the son seemed to have surpassed his father (ch. 3).
After the three brothers had spoken with him in private, they took their own lives before the guests. The son bowed to their bodies, picked up the daos they had used and leapt onto the roof, and when the guests gave chase he was already gone (ch. 3).
Notable practitioners
The Flying Fox
The Hu bodyguard of Li Zicheng, whose hereditary art it was (ch. 3).
The Flying Fox’s son
He used it at the banquet in the physician’s house, where it seemed to surpass his father’s (ch. 3).
See also
- Flying Fox of the Snowy Mountain martial arts
- Hu family, whose hereditary qinggong it was
- Hu Family Bladeworks, the Hu family’s dao art
- Qinggong