According to Lao Dao, the Maoshan faction is not like in Chen Ziyang's impression that Lin Zhengying starred in the movie, only writing talismans, catching ghosts, and watching feng shui. In fact, the Taoism of the Maoshan School is broad and profound, all-encompassing. It covers all aspects of astronomy and geography, Zhouyi Bagua, Five Elements Feng Shui, Fu Gong Dan and so on.

Maoshan is subdivided into seven categories: hexagram, array, symbol, earth, star, dan, and spirit, and the number of the seven stars of the Big Dipper. The corresponding people who have attained success in this aspect of cultivation are called hexagram masters, array masters, talisman masters, earth masters, star masters, Dan masters, and spirit masters, which are the seven masters of Maoshan.

The hexagram master needs to be proficient in the changes and calculations of each hexagram of the 8864 hexagrams of Zhou Yi, and needs to know the mutual restraint, refutation, and complementarity between all the hexagrams, and the clutch of the eight palaces of the I Ching. The hexagram master can push the national fortune on the top, measure the life on the bottom, act in the world, and approve the eight characters in the small. Hexagrams are all-encompassing, and everything can be calculated.

Formation masters need to be proficient in various Maoshan formations, including the ten formations that go into battle: Jingang Array, Bagua Liangyi Array, Seven Star Bagua Array, Nine Palace Bagua Array, Five Elements Bagua Array, Liuhe Array, Big Dipper Seven Star Array, Qimen Bagua Array, Four Elephant Array, Seven Evil Soul Locking Array, etc.

As well as countless lower formations like the Soul Locking Array, the Chisel Dragon Array, the Iron Gate Array, the Yang Fury Array, the Ghost Gate Array, the Skeleton Array, the Eight Yang Array, the Qunyang Array, the Lock Ghost Array, the Pure Sleep Array, the Iron Bamboo Array, the Suxin Array, the Jingzhong Array, and so on.

The talisman master must not only be proficient in the drawing methods, raw materials, and timing of drawing talismans, but also have high mana. There are thousands of types of talismans in Maoshan, and those who have become great masters can draw the golden talismans in the five-color talismans, and they can also use any materials and rune paper to make talismans empty-handed for their own use.

The so-called feng shui is the use of qi, the water is the first, the Tibetan wind is second, there is no wind, the air gathers, and the water melts. Feng Shui is actually a combination of various factors including geology, hydrology, ecology, microclimate, environmental landscape, etc., and the geographer wants to integrate all aspects into one, and needs to be proficient in the five elements of Feng Shui: Longxue sand water direction.

Not only to be able to find dragons, but also to be able to point points. As the so-called three-year dragon search, ten years of points, one of the standards of the earth master is to watch the dragon to know the dragon's eyes, and to find qi according to the water.

The star master is the stargazer, through the night stargazing, as well as the deduction of the direction of the stars, you can know the fortune of the country, and you can explore the dragon's lair.

The Dan master is the person who makes alchemy, and the Dan master under the Maoshan Sect must not only be proficient in the attributes of various alchemy materials, and use the materials to make alchemy, but also be proficient in medical skills.

The spirit master is the most well-known Taoist priest who hunts ghosts, not only to be good at using various magic weapons to ward off evil spirits and exorcise ghosts, but also to be proficient in the causes of ghosts, monsters, corpses, demons, and souls, and the method of surrendering and cracking.

Lao Dao said a lot of things, and Chen Ziyang's mind seemed to have a world of Taoism, which really ignited his interest in Taoism.

"Master, I've always heard people say that Zhang Tianshi, what is this Heavenly Master?" Chen Ziyang asked while beating Lao Dao's shoulder.

"Zhang Tianshi is not from my Maoshan faction, but he also belongs to Taoism. The seven divisions of Maoshan complement each other, and there is no absolute boundary between them. For example, between the spirit master and the talisman master, the spirit master needs to use a talisman when catching ghosts, so a good spirit master is half a talisman, but the effect of the talisman is not as good as that of a special talisman painter. Among the seven divisions of Maoshan, anyone who has reached the great completion in three of them can be called a heavenly master. ”

"Aren't we all able to learn spells from Maoshan, why don't we have a mage?"

"The seven masters of Maoshan have their own spells, such as the five thunder spells of the attack class, the thunder of the sky, the Xuanbing spell, the fire cloud spell, etc., the spirit master and the talisman can be used, and those who don't know how to use it can also be used with the help of the talisman with the spell, like the Dan master has more pain-relieving and swelling methods, throat bone method, pain-relieving Huatuo immortal method, etc., all belong to the category of spells. Therefore, among the seven divisions of Maoshan, there is no division of mages. ”

"Master, what kind of teacher is your old man?"

"Hmph." Lao Dao touched his big red nose and said proudly: "As a teacher, I am the master of the earth, the hexagram master and the spirit master Xiaocheng." ”

"Cut, but that's it, I thought I was the apprentice of the Heavenly Master."

I thought I would hear the apprentice's beautiful words, but when I heard Chen Ziyang's words, I almost flashed. "You little rabbit cub, you know a fart, which of the seven divisions of Maoshan is not broad and profound, without thirty or forty years of hard work and superhuman qualifications.

Moreover, over the years, there have been many wars, and many of Maoshan's precious classics have disappeared in the long river of history. Like this Maoshan Seven Divisions, as far as I know, there are very few of them who have become successful, and it can even be said that they are all extinct. ”

Chen Ziyang saw the sadness of what Lao Dao said, and hurriedly remedied: "Master, you are old and wise and powerful, when you teach me, I will carry forward the Maoshan technique, let's start with that empty-handed burning talisman first." ”

Who knew that Lao Dao didn't hear his words at all, and continued: "There is no one who has achieved great success among the hexagram masters, and according to legend, Zhou Yi's more than 1,000 hexagrams have been passed down for thousands of years, and there are only 64 hexagrams left until now, but there are almost no people who can fully grasp these 64 hexagrams; ”

"The same is true for the formation master, in addition to the loss of the formation method, coupled with the lack of formation materials, the existing usable formation is only two or three out of ten; The rune master is still strong, although the drawing method of the rune is relatively complete, but the mana of the rune master is generally not high, like the five ghost carrying talismans that no one can draw now, even if it is drawn, it is useless; ”

"Not to mention the star master, the number of star masters is small, and there are still people who can look at the stars, and there is not even a complete classic, but I heard that there is half a sixteen-character yin and yang feng shui secret art about the ancient books of stargazing points that have been handed down, but it is unknown where it is."

Lao Dao sighed and continued: "The spirit master is the most extensive of the seven divisions of Maoshan Mountain, and almost all the other six divisions know that the knowledge spirit master has to know some, but it is not as good as the generation, you see a few days ago, a blood spirit of more than 20 years made a mess of more than a dozen of us, if it was placed in the past, there was no blood spirit with five hundred years of mana, please don't move my Maoshan heirs." ”

It is rumored that Qianlong did not kill the Danshi at that time in order to keep it secret, but drove the two Danshi who had been alchemy to Yongzheng out of the Old Summer Palace overnight, and even the Lu family, who recommended the Danshi at the beginning, accepted Zhulian. Since the Qianlong period, the Qing Dynasty has emphasized Buddhism and neglected Taoism, and established Tibetan Buddhism as the state religion. ”