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01So Even Immortality Has Ranks: What Exactly Are Tianxia, Xianxia, and Jianxia?
02Does Greater Spirituality Mean a Weaker Body? The Spirit Has Gone Ahead, but Life Has Yet to Catch Up
03Why Do Daoist Priests Write Official Documents to the Celestial Court?
04Why Do Gods Dwell in the Body? Another Map of the Human Body in the “Scripture of the Yellow Court”
05Why Does a Daoist Talisman Look Like Neither Writing nor a Picture?
06Why Is a Daoist Talisman Often Burned?
07Deities and Immortals Have Names, So Why Can’t We Call Them Casually?
08Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands: Geography or Another World?
09Why Do Daoist Priests Perform Rituals with a Mirror?
10Why Do Daoist Priests Walk on the Stars?
11“Act at Once, in Accordance with the Statutes!”—Who Is Being Ordered?
12How Can a Wooden Sword Cut What Cannot Be Seen?
13Why Do Immortals Need Registration Records Too?
14Why Does a Daoist Priest's Scripture Recitation Sound Like Singing?
15Who Is the Empty Chair at a Ritual Altar Reserved For?
16Why Would a Daoist Nurture an “Infant” Inside the Body?
17Why Is a Talisman's Most Important Part Called Its “Gallbladder”?
18Do Immortals Have to Undergo Assessments Too?
19Was Lan Caihe Male or Female? Why Did Earlier Writers Never Make It Clear?
20Why Is Zhongli Quan Also Called “Han Zhongli”?
21Why Can We Recognize the Eight Immortals When Not One Appears in the Picture?
22Why Can Zhang Guolao Fold His Donkey into a Box?
23Why Keep a Body with a Limp After Becoming Immortal?
24How Did Eight People from Different Eras Become the Eight Immortals?
25Why Does the Great Emperor Zhenwu Wear His Hair Loose and Go Barefoot?
26When Did Laozi Become the Most High Lord Lao?
27Why Did Wang Chongyang Call His Retreat the “Tomb of the Living Dead”?
28How Did the Queen Mother of the West Go from Tiger Teeth and a Leopard Tail to Head of the Female Immortals?
29Why Can Some Daoist Priests Marry While Others Cannot?
30Why Does Wearing a Ritual Robe Seem Like Wearing the Whole Celestial World?
31Why Did Wu Zetian Ask for Her Transgressions to Be Removed on a Golden Tablet?
32After Pursuing His Enemy for Twelve Years, Why Did Wang Lingguan Become His Disciple?
33Why Was Tao Hongjing Called the “Prime Minister in the Mountains” After Retiring?
34Why Does the Thunder God Have a Bird's Beak and Carry a Hammer?
35Why Was Zhang Lu Not Afraid People Would Take Too Much Roadside Rice and Meat?
36Qiu Chuji Traveled for Two Years—Then Told Genghis Khan There Was “No Drug for Immortality”?
37Why Did the Thought of a Back Scratch from Magu Lead to a Whipping?
38Ge Hong Sought Immortality, but Complained About Costly Medicines When Compiling Remedies
39Fei Changfang Lost a Talisman—and His Life
40Wang Zhi Watched a Go Game, Then Returned Home to Find No One He Knew
41The Emperor Asked Chen Tuan About Making Gold; He Urged Him to Govern the Realm
42Zuo Ci Fished the Bass Cao Cao Wanted from a Bronze Basin
43Duxian Was One Step Away—Then Du Zichun Cried Out
44The “Heavenly Text” in the Ox’s Belly Gave Shaoweng Away
45Guo Pu Said He Would Die That Very Day
46How Did Huang Chuping’s Sheep Become a Mountain of White Stones?

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How Can a Wooden Sword Cut What Cannot Be Seen?

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