He also appears as a supporting character in the sequel, The Return of the Condor Heroes, and is mentioned by name in The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber.

Guo Jing and Yang Kang were both named by Qiu Chuji, who urges them to remember the Jingkang Incident and be loyal towards their native land, the Song Empire.

Two years after their marriage, Guo Xiaotian was killed by a group of soldiers led by Duan Tiande during a raid ordered by Wanyan Honglie.

The Khan sees Guo Jing as a loyal subject, places great faith and trust in him, and betroths his daughter, Huazheng, to him.

The knowledge he gained from the books turned him into a formidable martial artist and skilled tactician as he gradually matures in his beliefs and ideals.

The adult Guo Jing is now a prominent figure in the wulin (martial artists' community) and a highly revered hero in Han Chinese society.

He faces the arduous task of raising the orphaned son of his late sworn brother, Yang Kang, and guiding him on the path of goodness.

It is revealed in The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber that Xiangyang eventually falls to Kublai Khan's army, and that Guo Jing and his family died in the battle.

Guo Jing has thick eyebrows, large eyes, a sturdy and strong stature, and a complexion somewhere between dark and fair.

His most outstanding trait is his constant strife for moral rectitude, as seen when he faces a dilemma after Genghis Khan attempts to force him to lead the Mongol army to attack his native land.

[1] In The Return of the Condor Heroes, the adult Guo Jing dedicates his life to defending the Song Empire from foreign invaders.

[5] Unexpectedly, the slow learning Guo manages to master this technique in a short period of time, whereas his more intelligent wife is unable to grasp it at all.

He reads it thoroughly and employs some of the strategies during the Siege of Samarkand (1220), proving that he is not thick-witted as some believed, but actually smart if not having remarkable intellect like his partner Huang Rong because of his comprehension of the complexity of the art of war.

As he gets older, the experience he gained from the Mongol campaigns and knowledge from the book turns him into a skilled military tactician, well-verse in critical thinking.

The heroic deeds of Guo Jing and Huang Rong became jianghu legends and were occasionally mentioned in The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber.

Notable actors who have portrayed Guo Jing in films and television series include Cho Tat-wah (1958), Alexander Fu (1977–1981), Jason Pai (1976-1995), Philip Kwok (1982), Felix Wong (1983), Bryan Leung (1983), Julian Cheung (1994), Li Yapeng (2003), Wang Luoyong (2006), Hu Ge (2008), Zheng Guolin (2014), Yang Xuwen (2017), and Eddy Geng (2021).

Guo Jong is a main character in the 2000 role-playing video game Shachou Eiyuuden: The Eagle Shooting Heroes, released by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation.