When Wang Chong created this martial art, his original inspiration had actually been to imitate the Sunflower Manual. He had tried, but no matter what he did, he could not find an internal cultivation route that would "leave him burning with lust." Instead, he had inadvertently created the Tail Fire Rabbit Heart Method.
As for the moves of the Eighteen Prairie-Fire Strikes, those had been simplicity itself. Of all the martial arts under heaven, fist and palm techniques were the most elaborate. A punch, a palm strike, a claw, a finger thrust, or a kick extended three feet became saber and sword techniques; extended seven feet, they became staff and spade techniques; beyond ten feet, they became spear, lance, and long-lance techniques. No weapon moves ever escaped the bounds of unarmed martial arts.
Besides, he had not been trying to create some invincible spear art. He had only intended it as a martial art for ordinary soldiers and lower-ranking officers to practice, so it did not need to be particularly exquisite.
Su Luoyan forbade Wang Chong from using the Eighteen Prairie-Fire Strikes because she was worried that his life would be cut short. In truth, Wang Chong would never become a "crown prince who died a violent death, a Prince of Yan with an unfinished ending," because he had long since mastered the Army-Breaking Bodhisattva Aspect. With this supreme divine art of the great western Vajrasana Monastery, he would never suffer the drawbacks of a quick-mastery heart method. Even the Xuanhuang Dao revered the Fundamental Cultivation Scripture of the Thirty-Two Marks of Divine Transformation as one of its three great sect-guarding divine arts. How could anything go wrong? Moreover, he possessed orthodox Wudang martial arts. Why would he use a martial art created for ordinary soldiers? But Wang Chong also