Wang Chongyang
Duan Zhixing is fictionalised as a character in the wuxia novels "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and "The Return of the Condor Heroes" by Jin Yong. In the novels, Duan Zhixing was the ruler of Dali and one of the Five Greats, the five most powerful martial artists in the "jianghu" (martial artists' community) of his time, alongside Wang Chongyang, Huang Yaoshi, Ouyang Feng and Hong Qigong. His nickname is "Southern Emperor" () and his signature skill is the Yiyang Finger (), which allows him to project streams of energy from his fingers. He also learnt the First Heaven Skill (), an inner energy skill, from Wang Chongyang in exchange for teaching the latter the Yiyang Finger.