How did Wong Chung Yeung first come into contact with the 9 Yum Jen Ging?
From the time that Wong Seung invented the 9 Yum Jen Ging during the waning years of the Northern Sung Dynasty to the time that the manual re-emerged in Central Divinity Wong Chung Yeung's hands before the First Mt. Hua Sword Tournament, many decades had passed. How exactly did the 9 Yum Jen Ging first come into Wong Chung Yeung's possession?
Maybe Wong Seung personally gave the 9 Yum Jen Ging to Wong Chung Yeung?
One of the lingering mysteries of the Jin Yong universe is how Central Divinity Wong Chung Yeung first came into possession of the 9 Yum Jen Ging.
Do you think it's possible that an aged Wong Seung, on his deathbed, personally handed the 9 Yum Jen Ging to a young Wong Chung Yeung, appointing the then-young future Taoist sage as his successor and custodian of the 9 Yum Jen Ging?
Do you think Wong Seung personally handed the 9 Yum Jen Ging to Wong Chung Yeung?
Wong Seung was an official of the late Northern Sung Dynasty. After his notorious assault against the Ming Cult, he spent the next forty years of his life creating the 9 Yum Jen Ging.
Forty years after the twilight of the Northern Sung Dynasty would take us into the approximate timeframe of when Central Divinity Wong Chung Yeung was a young (or at least very early middle-aged) man. Jin Yong never revealed just how the 9 Yum Jen Ging went from its creator Wong Seung to Wong Chung Yeung's possession by the time of the First Mt. Hua Sword Tournament. Do you think its possible that a very old Wong Seung, possibly on his deathbed, handed the 9 Yum Jen Ging over to a young Wong Chung Yeung to be the manual's new custodian? WS would have recognized in WCY a gifted and ethical martial artist who would have been a responsible and dutiful custodian for the manual, and perhaps chose WCY to be his heir.