Some lingering details about the final chapters of HSDS.
1. Sung Ching Sheu's demeanor at Shaolin: I felt there was something very awkward about Sung Ching Sheu's demeanor at Shaolin. At the time, he was a fugitive from his father and Mo Dong Sect uncles. Hence, he wore a disguise and assumed the anonymous identity of an Ngor Mei Sect member. Given his precarious status, Sung Ching Sheu should have been *very* careful not to draw attention to himself at Shaolin...disguise or no disguise. So what does he do? He makes a big spectacle of himself by going in front of the crowd and arguing that the Ngor Mei Sect's ruthless competitive methods were acceptable. Sure enough, Ching Sheu's father Sung Yeun Kiu sees through his son's disguise easily (as do Ching Sheu's uncles). As soon as SYK confronts his disguised son, SCS's bravado, so bold just a moment before, crumbles instantly...and he looks like he wants to find a hole and crawl into it. What was Sung Ching Sheu thinking? Didn't he know that his father and his uncles would see through his disguise easily, and if he didn't want to be recognized, he should *not* have been making bold pronouncements in public?
2. The length of the fighters' stay at Shaolin: at least a day, possibly more, passed between the resolution of the Tse Tsun/Sing Kwun conflict and the time that the wulin fighters departed from Shaolin, at which point they were attacked by Mongol troops under Chagan Timur (Chiu Mun's father) and Wong Bo Bo's (Chiu Mun's brother) command. The fighters had gone to Shaolin to resolve the Tse Tsun matter. Why did they hang out at Shaolin for so long after situation was resolved? These are busy people, aren't they? They don't just hang out to socialize. If they'd left immediately after the Tse Tsun incident was resolved, they would probably not have run into the Mongols on the way down the mountain.