of seven martial artists from Jiaxing. The Freaks find a six-year-old Guo Jing after a long search that brought them to Mongolia. They teach him all the skills they know to prepare him for an upcoming competition with Yang Kang. The Freaks did not teach him any inner energy cultivation techniques at all. The skills taught to Guo Jing by the Freaks include: Demon Subduing Staff Skill () Bare Handed Disarming Skill () Bone and Joint Dislocation Hand () Golden Dragon Whip Skill () Southern Mountain Saber Skill () Mountain Splitting Palm Skill () Huyan Spear Skill () Yue Maiden Swordplay () Quanzhen School Ma Yu, Qiu Chuji and Wang Chuyi of the Quanzhen School teach Guo Jing some basics of their school's inner energy cultivation techniques. Guo Jing is able to understand the basis of Quanzhen's Big Dipper Formation () after reading the Nine Yin Manual and observing the formation being deployed in actual combat. Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms Guo Jing meets Hong Qigong by chance while out on adventure with Huang Rong. Huang Rong, worrying that her father will look down on Guo Jing due to his unimpressive mastery of martial arts, uses this chance to incite Hong Qigong to teach Guo Jing his most powerful skill. Tempted by Huang Rong's culinary skill, Hong Qigong agrees to teach Guo Jing the Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms () to repay Huang Rong's favours of preparing fine cuisine for him every day during the brief period of time he spent with them. Zhou Botong Guo Jing meets Zhou Botong on Peach Blossom Island and becomes sworn brothers with him. Zhou Botong teaches him the Seventy-two Styles Vacant Fist (). Zhou Botong also teaches him the Technique of Ambidexterity (), which allows him to use two different sets of martial arts simultaneously. 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. Nine Yin Manual Zhou Botong has with him a copy of the Nine Yin Manual, the most coveted martial arts manual of that era because of the incredible inner energy cultivation techniques and extraordinary skills it records. He has been forbidden by Wang Chongyang to learn the skills described in the book so he lets Guo Jing learn. Military strategy Guo Jing learnt military strategy and tactics from the Book of Wumu,