Yang Guo, a character in Jin Yong's novel The Condor Heroes, is the son of Yang Kang and Mu Nianci. At the age of fourteen, he became a righteous man to Ouyang Feng, a Western Poisoner who went crazy due to practicing the Nine Yin Manual. Father, I once worshiped the Quanzhen sect. A few years later, he escaped after injuring his fellow disciples and was rescued by Granny Sun who lived in the ancient tomb of Zhongnan Mountain. She became a disciple of Xiao Longnu of the ancient tomb sect and lived with her in the ancient tomb. Gradually, he and Xiao Longnv began to fall in love, but due to the relationship between the two as master and apprentice, and various reasons, many twists and turns occurred.
In the book, Yang Guo is handsome, suave and unruly, and is admired by all women. Guo Fu, Gongsun Lue, Guo Xiang, Lu Wushuang, Cheng Ying, etc. all fall in love with him unknowingly; but Yang Guo falls in love with Xiaolong. Women are always the same. Yang Guo had his right arm cut off by the willful Guo Fu, but he was able to improve his martial arts. Later, Xiao Longnu fell into the valley of despair, and Yang Guo waited for sixteen years. During this period, he traveled around the world with a divine eagle, performing chivalrous acts with his black iron heavy sword and ecstasy palm, and was known as the Condor Hero. In the final Huashan sword debate, he replaced Ouyang Feng and was called "Western Kuang".
In the first version of the novel, Qin Nanqin was Yang Guo's mother.
In Jin Yong's "The Condor Trilogy", Guo Jing values ??courtesy, Yang Guo values ????love, and Zhang Wuji values ????righteousness; but in comparison, Yang Guo's love is limited to Xiao Longnu alone, unlike Guo Jinghe Zhang Wuji generally has a benevolent and righteous mind; but Yang Guo is the most humane protagonist in this trilogy.