The novel has principled kung fu.

Kung fu in the novel includes: golden bell jar, iron cloth shirt, vertical ladder, iron sand palm, eight diagrams palm, Tai Chi, flying flowers on the grass, Yijinjing, and some well-known kung fu in Jin Yong's martial arts, such as Six Pulse Excalibur, Nine Yin Zhen Jing, and Eighteen Palm of Dragon-falling.

As the "Olympic champion" of the "project" of martial arts novels, Jin Yong's greatness lies in his chivalrous pedigree constructed through romantic narration. Martial arts novels, as literature about dreams, are not good at realism, and their characterization mainly comes from the author's imagination and writing tradition. The procedural factors in the writing tradition are another matter. The author's imagination mainly focuses on fables and symbols, and does not directly come from reality. As a classic, Jin Yong's novels show the symbolism, fable, implication and chewiness that originally belonged to the requirements of China's classical culture through the traditional procedural form, so that we can make a utopian flight with the help of the unique martial arts language and culture.