When you think about Gwok Jing's level of martial arts at the end of LOCH, it seems that he occupied a unique level of martial arts skill that no one else in the entire CONDOR HEROES TRILOGY ever occupied. He was not yet as good as the Greats...barely able to last 300 moves against any one of them if they used only 70% of their abilities, but he was heads and shoulders above everybody else in the story. The Cheun Jen Sect Disciples, Mui Chiu Fung, Yeun Nan Hung Lit's mercenary thugs, the Beggar's Union Elders, 1 Deng's disciples, etc., were all far below him, but he was still significantly below the Greats. Did anyone else in LOCH/ROCH/HSDS ever occupy this particular level of martial arts?
Possible candidates: Yeung Gor about a month after getting the Heavy Iron Sword, Wong Yung at the end of ROCH, Gung Sheun Tze, Little Dragon Girl at the end of ROCH, Kwun Lun Sect Elder Ho Juk Do