Originally posted by xxthunder:
look what happens to xiao yao zi and his two shi mei in 8 immortals.they are so powerful that they have a long life and one of them even can fang lao huan tong!the most powerful technique is hua gong da fai where all sorts of internal strength can be absorbed and becomes yours forever!actually the most powerful gongful expert in all of jin yong's novel characters should be xu zhu from xiao yao pa as he has absorb xiao yao zi and his two shi mei,s internal strength and that is about 210 years of ordinary peoples' internal(that is only if xiao yao pa's internal strength is only on par with ordinary wulin gao shou,but should be hiher actually!)
if you are really a avid readers of jin yong's novel,you will discover that even xing shu lao kuai and duan yu's wu gong(like ling po wei bu and hua gong da fa) are from xiao yao pa
But, from what i know. the most powerful character in Tian Long Ba Bu, is the Janitor Monk in Shaolin Temple. Therefore, the most powerful technique should be from shaolin. However, real power behind the Liu Mai Shen Jian is still unknown.. Qiao Feng did mentioned that he might not be a match to Duan Yu if he were to use the Liu Mai Shen Jian.