9 Yum Jen Ging - why *two* volumes?

[CFT]

One being Quanzen patriarch other being Shaolin monk, drinking together poeple's back. Something smelly goes here.

Brings to mind a line from the "Shaolin Temple" film starring Jet Li.

"Wine and meat are intestine breaking wrongs, but I keep the Buddha in my heart".

[timeless]

I don't think so. Shortly after Yau Chui Gei met Yeung Teet Sum and Gwok Siu Teen, the Eternal Springs Taoist drank his fill with his two new buddies.

I think Taoists believe in all things in moderation: drinking is not forbidden, but drinking to piss-rotten drunk (a la Kiu Fung) is discouraged.

i don't recall a single time Xf ever got himself drunk? This guy must have cultivated a super size bladder to hold up all those gallons of incoming fluids. Maybe we could make something about the size of his guts

[Ken Cheng]

I wonder if the later copies consolidated the two parts into a single volume.

[Stance]

What's wrong with just glueing vol 1 back cover to vol 2 front cover?

[CC]

It was originally meant to be 1 thicker volume but halfway thru writing it he ran out of Teepee.....