It can be seen that the refining method of the Pangu lineage was lost as early as when the two religions were in vogue.

However, there is a flaw in the method of refining qi, the immortals who have cultivated through the method of refining qi have all become spirits in the form of primordial gods, which cannot be perceived by the six senses of mortals, so to convey instructions to mortals, it is necessary to use some mortal bodies.

Thus the method of witchcraft and corpse cultivation came into being. The original witches tended to choose those who were related to the gods.

This is not entirely selfish, because these people are usually in good health, and even have some unusual abilities. For example, yin and yang eyes and the like.

Since Emperor Zhuan's life was heavy and Li Jedi Tiantong was connected, the distance between humans and gods has become more and more distant, and the blood relationship has become more and more thin.

In order to maintain a superior status and vested interests, the gods also forbade the marriage of humans and gods. Although there is no obvious Tianjie examination, but the impact on people's hearts is deep and wide, the world is convinced, and the story of the Weaver Girl, the Jade Emperor Sister, and the Three Holy Mothers like to be interpreted in this way, at least it is also a common creed in the fairy world.

Although there are other reasons for the three things, it may also be that Heavenly Court deliberately guided them in this way. The first is to cover up the truth of the infighting in the heavenly court, and the second is to enshrine it as a typical case of immortals who can't marry, saying that the Jade Emperor still leads by example, and the other immortals should abide by it as one, and take it as a warning.

Most of the novels in the world record flower demons, foxes and ghosts, and there are almost no fairy characters who can really indicate their origins.

In this way, the witchcraft of later generations became insignificant, and the witch often had to lie ill for a long time when he cast a spell, that is, because the body was too weak.

Witchcraft was originally an expedient measure and remedy used after the cultivation of the Immortal Dao focused on refining qi. But the reason why the shamans are willing to make this sacrifice is also because the possession of the gods brings great energy and benefits. Asking a person who is not very practicing to ask the gods to reveal all kinds of supernatural powers or prescient techniques is also the reason why witchcraft is endless.

But the ghost path flaunted by witchcraft has been abandoned by Confucianism. Taoist Zhang Tianshi founded Taoism again, and the method of Fu Zheng became popular. Another heavy blow to witchcraft.

The talisman is a technique used by Taoist priests to summon heavenly soldiers and generals to subdue demons and eliminate demons. This set of methods is called the Five Thunder Heavenly Heart Rectification Method, which has been specially recognized by the Heavenly Court, and has been tried and tested. If you don't know the Five Thunder Righteous Law, it belongs to the wild road, and the immortals may not have the time to deal with it.

The witch invited the immortals, so he had to ask some demons to make up for it. Harm others and yourself. In this way, not only did the witch not work, but his reputation also deteriorated.

Moreover, the Taoist priest has some qi refining kung fu, and communicates with the heavenly court, if he succeeds in cultivation, he may be supported by Lao Jun and the heavenly master. When the witch asks the gods, the physical body is completely involuntary, and the mind is in chaos, and the level of cultivation depends on the gods invited, which is really not a clever means.

Witchcraft is just an alternative method for immortals to convey their will to mortals after refining qi.

It is not true to say that the method of refining the body has completely disappeared. The martial arts that are common in the mortal world are a method of refining the body. Even some martial artists with excellent endowments want to break through the heavens and men and enter the Tao with martial arts. Martial arts are divided into internal and external families, and the outer family pays attention to boiling the muscles and bones, and the inner family Xingyi, Bagua, and Tai Chi are actually the Taoist methods of exhaling and refining qi. The further is to refine the gas and transform the gods, and refine the gods to return to the void.

Martial artists generally think that the inner family is more sophisticated, but they do not have the Taoist kung fu of refining qi and transforming the gods, and they do not know that refining qi and refining the body are completely different, and refining qi inevitably requires the cultivation of the soul. Even if you cultivate to the extremely high realm of a martial artist, your longevity will be exhausted. All of them have turned into nothing, and when the time comes, the gods will dissipate, and they won't even be able to get out of the soul aperture, so how can they enter the Tao with martial arts?

And the outer family is the right way to refine the body, but the physical condition of human beings is too poor, 'longevity is one hundred and twenty. Seventy ancient times is rare', which is really insignificant compared to the thousands of years of the Four Spirit Clan.

For example, the heroes of Liangshan are all good at refining the body, good at wine and meat, and not close to women, but more than half of the casualties in a big battle. And that's it.

Taoism is not without research on the method of refining the body, and the reason why the emphasis on refining qi is also due to the fact that the refining of the body is even more subtle. Daoists are well aware of the difference between refining the body and refining qi, so they will not be as confused and naïve as a martial artist. The supreme method of refining the body of Taoism is the golden pill.

This is also the supreme prescription that the emperors of the past dynasties have diligently pursued. It is said that the reason why Sun Xingzhi escaped in the gossip furnace of Taishang Laojun was because he stole a lot of gold pills and refined the body of King Kong.

Of course, Sun Xingzhi's original cultivation was the way of Mahayana Buddhism to truly transmit the Vajra Dharma, and his Vajra body may not have been the golden pill that he had eaten Taishang Laojun.

But at least it can be shown that Jindan is the only way for Taoism to refine the body. Taishang Laojun said this not only to cover up the truth for Buddhism, but also to save face for Taoism, and to make everyone convinced that Jindan must indeed have the effect of creating an incorruptible body of King Kong.

But the reputation of Jindan medicine seems to only exist in legends, except for the success of Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor's ascension, other Qin Shi Huang, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Tang Taizong, Ming Jiajing, only the emperor who ate Jindan and ate death, and there was no half of them immortal.

The cost of refining the golden pill is not cheap, and Liu Xiang of the Han Dynasty got the "Secret Record of the Hongbao in the Pillow" of the King of Huainan, claiming that he could refine the golden pill, and the emperor allowed him to refin, but he failed to go down to the prison and almost died. Hug Puzi Ge Hong also said that there was a Taoist book of his ancestor Ge Tianshi, which could be refined into a golden pill, but because he was too poor, he never had the opportunity to try his hand, and in his later years, he did not seem to succeed in refining the pill in Luofu Mountain.

Moreover, the failure of the golden pill to refine is not the main problem, the problem is that even if it is refined into a mortal's stomach, it cannot be digested. Although the emperor is the Ninety-Five Supreme, after all, he does not have three heads and six arms, and when Jin Dan enters the abdomen, he will still die.

The witches of later generations did not have any special cultivation in the two realms of qi refining and body refining, and there were a lot of swaggers and deceptions, so there is no need to talk about it.

It is worth mentioning that the corpse cultivation method of the Wuxian Sect is very unique. Wuxian sent the goddess of Wushan as the founder of the mountain. This goddess is the mountain ghost sacrificed in Qu Ping's "Nine Songs", and Song Yu has also repeatedly praised it in "Gao Tang Fu" and "Goddess Fu".

The goddess is Di Yao's Ji Nu, the younger sister of Empress E and Nu Ying. In the War of Heaven and Man, due to the killing of the twelve evil dragons, he angered the Heavenly Emperor Jun, and was sunburned to death by the ten golden crow princes.

In the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", it is said that after her death, her body turned into Ganoderma lucidum. This is a clever method of refining the body.

Yao Ji was able to kill the twelve evil dragons, showing that her magical powers were extraordinary, although she was folded in the hands of the ten golden crow princes, and the ten golden crows could not directly refine her corpse, and let her soul turn into things, in fact, this siege had ended in failure.

The essence of the soul is the characteristic of the Pangu bloodline refining method. For example, Pangu turned into the sun, moon, mountains and rivers, Kuafu turned into Deng Lin, Qimu fossils, Changhong blood turned into bi, and Yao Ji turned into Ganoderma lucidum also belong to this category. (To be continued.) )