She escapes during the Battle of Xiangyang with the Heaven Reliant Sword (倚天劍), becomes a powerful martial artist, and roams the jianghu as a youxia.
[1] In Jin Yong's works, the school's members are predominantly women and its leaders are Buddhist or Taoist nuns.
[2] In Gu Long's The Kingdom of the Golden Bird of the Lu Xiaofeng Series, the Emei School is led by Dugu Yihe, who is slain by Ximen Chuixue.
[1] Guo Xiang's martial arts were mostly inherited from her family, including her maternal grandfather Huang Yaoshi.
[1] Emei's martial arts range from powerful inner energy cultivation techniques to the use of weapons and unarmed combat.