Jiuyin Zhenjing - Guo Jing

Guo Jing

Years later Mei Chaofeng encounters Guo Jing and the "Seven Freaks of Jiangnan" again at Guiyun Manor near Lake Tai and they engage in battle. Zhu Cong pickpockets Mei when she dusts her clothes after the fight and obtains the human skin copy of the manual and leaves it in Guo's possession.

When Guo goes to Peach Blossom Island to seek Huang Rong's hand-in-marriage, he meets Zhou Botong there and they become sworn brothers. Zhou still has with him a copy of the original first volume of the manual and he shares it with Guo. The first volume and the human skin copy of the second volume are then recompiled and imprinted in their memories. The manuals are destroyed later in the wake of a bitter argument.

Guo incorporates parts of the manual's skills into his own repertoire of martial arts and becomes stronger. The power of his Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms is enhanced after the Nine Yin Manual's skills worked wonders by increasing his inner energy. His future spouse Huang Rong also benefits from the book. They later pass their knowledge of the manual to Yideng and their teacher Hong Qigong to help them recover from their internal injuries.

Many decades later, after realising that Xiangyang (and the Song Dynasty) will eventually fall to Mongol invaders, Guo writes a copy of the Nine Yin Manual from memory and hides it inside the blade of the Heaven Reliant Sword (the latest edition of the third novel The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber states that the scroll is hidden on Peach Blossom Island). He gives this sword to his younger daughter Guo Xiang, who will become the founder of the Emei Sect in the third novel.