Yang Guo left Yang Kang after seeing how unrepentant and incorrigible he was, but was already pregnant with Yang Guo at the time.
40 Facts About Yang Guo
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Yang Guo's birth is briefly mentioned at the end of the first novel.
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Guo Jing, who was Yang Kang's sworn brother, hoped that Yang Kang's child will not follow in his father's footsteps.
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Guo Jing hopes that Yang Guo would redeem the Yang family's name, which has been tarnished by Yang Kang's villainy.
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Yang Guo became an orphan at the age of 11 after his mother died.
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Yang Guo's mother taught him some of the skills she learnt from his grandfather, Yang Tiexin, and the Beggars' Gang's former chief, Hong Qigong.
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Yang Guo strongly opposes her husband's decision to instruct Yang Guo in martial arts and only teaches him literary arts such as poetry and Confucian classics.
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Yang Guo is unable to stand the ill treatment so he flees from Quanzhen after injuring one of the bullies.
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Yang Guo joins the Ancient Tomb School as Xiaolongnu's apprentice and they live together in the Ancient Tomb for many years.
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Yang Guo meets Guo Jing and Huang Rong later and they immediately oppose his decision to marry Xiaolongnu.
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Yang Guo becomes an outcast of the wulin and is despised by fellow martial artists.
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Yang Guo is briefly separated from Xiaolongnu numerous times throughout the novel, usually over misunderstandings but they are always reunited again later.
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Yang Guo employs the skills he mastered to his advantage and uses them for greater purposes as he gradually matures.
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Yang Guo meets Jinlun Guoshi and agrees to help the Mongols kill Guo Jing.
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Yang Guo eventually gives up his desire to avenge his father after hearing about his father's villainy and misdeeds.
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Yang Guo still maintains filial piety for his father despite his shame, knowing it would be hypocritical for him to hate his father on account of his past temptations for revenge that nearly led him to the path of villainy.
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Yang Guo takes Guo Jing's side and participates in defending the city of Xiangyang from Mongol invaders.
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Yang Guo's descendants are charged to oversee Huang Rong's plans and seeking a worthy successor to inherit Guo Jing's heroic path as China's protector and formidable skills.
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However, due to his young age and his mother's demise, Yang Guo was unable to fully master those skills nor utilise them in combat until he meets Hong at Mount Hua years later.
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Yang Guo is still very strong though but can never go back to his old form.
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Yang Guo used this skill once in his childhood on the Wu brothers when he was bullied by them and he injured Wu Xiuwen.
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Yang Guo uses the skill again when he is bullied in Quanzhen School and knocks out one of the bullies Lu Qingdu.
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Yang Guo meets his godfather for the last time when the latter is fighting with Hong Qigong.
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In Quanzhen, Yang Guo becomes an apprentice of Zhao Zhijing, one of the apprentices of one of the senior members of the "Seven Immortals".
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Yang Guo is determined not to instruct Yang Guo in practical martial arts and merely teaches him the literary and verbal forms to disguise his neglect.
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Yang Guo is able to recite the verses smoothly but has not been taught how to apply them in actual combat.
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Yang Guo only learnt how to apply those verses in martial arts after he joined the Ancient Tomb School.
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Yang Guo uses the verses to help himself and Xiaolongnu master the Swordplay of Jade Maiden.
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Yang Guo was saved by Cheng Ying after he was injured in a fight against Jinlun Guoshi.
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Yang Guo's family name is briefly mentioned to be "Yang" and she hints to Zhang Wuji that she is a descendant of the Condor Hero Couple, by saying: "Behind Mount Zhongnan in the Tomb of the Living Dead, the Condor Hero Couple disappear from the jianghu".
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Yang Guo meets Hong Qigong and Ouyang Feng on Mount Hua.
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Yang Guo has been an observer throughout this time and they decide to use him as an intermediary, performing each technique for the other to see.
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Yang Guo learns the Dog Beating Staff Technique from Hong Qigong.
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Yang Guo uses this skill during a duel against the Mongols, surprising Huang Rong and Guo Jing.
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Yang Guo meets Huang Yaoshi once while he is escaping from Li Mochou together with Lu Wushuang and Cheng Ying.
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Yang Guo is weakened and delirious from losing too much blood, but manages to stagger away and is later saved by the Condor.
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The Condor helps Yang Guo recover from his wound and leads him to the items left behind by Dugu Qiubai.
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Yang Guo overcomes his disability to wield the Heavy Iron Sword with one arm and he had been consuming snake gallbladders every day for over a month.
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Yang Guo confronts Jinlun Guoshi, Da'erba and Huodu on Mount Zhongnan later and defeats them easily with the Heavy Iron Sword.
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Yang Guo had nearly learned all of Dugu Qiubai's swordplay although no one knew if there were more to it.