The Thirty-Six Transformations of Heavenly Gang Skill

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Seventy-Two Earthly Sha Skill

The Thirty-Six Transformations of Heavenly Gang Skill

Spinning Creation: This ability manifests something out of nothing or transforms the essence of things, capable of creating everything and overturning the original cosmic laws to redefine new ones. Note: "Used by Nüwa for creation."

Inverting Yin and Yang: This can disrupt the order of heaven and earth, causing the sun and the moon to lose their regularity, akin to reversing right and wrong, and blending black and white. It's called the divine prison heavenly calamity, reversing the universe. Note: "Yin and Yang are the opposing aspects of things, representing the great Tao of Yin and Yang."

Moving Stars and Changing Constellations: This ability can obscure and alter heavenly secrets, meaning when heaven unleashes its killing intent, stars and constellations are moved. The heavenly secret, akin to the will of heaven, enlightened by the sage's subtle influence, is a grand art of life and death. Note: "This is supreme magical power."

Reversing Time: This allows insight into all heavens, illuminating the Dharma world, knowing all past causes and effects without obstruction. Note: "Knowledge of history."

Summoning Wind and Rain: Can call upon strong winds and heavy rains, as well as disperse clouds and stop the rain. It can also bring about snowstorms or frost, practicing the method of moving clouds and bringing rain. Note: "Manipulation of weather changes."

Shaking Mountains and Earth: Causes earthquakes, shaking the earth and mountains, intimidating the landscape. Note: "This is a technique of immense strength, with vast power."

Riding Clouds and Mist: Can travel from the Northern Sea to Cangwu in a single morning. Cangwu refers to the speech of Lingling in the Northern Sea. Note: "The ability to fly."

Splitting Rivers to Create Land: Can divide rivers or seas to turn them into land. Note: "The method of parting waters."

Dashing with Golden Light: Transforming into a beam of golden light that can travel thousands of miles in a day, a technique of escape. Note: "Passed down by the Primordial Heavenly Venerable."

Stirring Seas and Rivers: Can control rivers, lakes, and seas, raising mighty waves. Note: "Immense power."

Turning Ground into Steel: Transform an area's ground into steel, overcoming earth escape and ground-moving techniques. Note: "A profound magical power."

Great Escape of the Five Elements: Not only records the immortal methods of the five elements but also includes the art of escaping through them. Note: "Contains the marvelous Dao of the generation and overcoming of the five elements."

Mysterious Gates of the Six Jia: Six Jia refers to the art of escaping, capable of commanding ghosts and spirits, praying for protection and driving away ghosts. The mysterious gate involves both numerical theory and magical arts. Note: "Includes medicine, divination, astrology, and various magical techniques."

Predicting the Future: Can foresee future events, proficient in divining the will of heaven, knowing in advance, understanding the fate of all beings. Note: "Ability to comprehend all causes and effects."

Whipping Mountains and Moving Stones: The technique of stirring mountains and moving huge rocks. Note: "Control over changes in the landscape, capable of splitting mountains and shifting them for one's use."

Resurrecting the Dead: Bringing the dead back to life, allowing spirits to return to their bodies for rebirth, showcasing the mystery of life and death. Note: "Reviving the deceased, a supreme mystical method."

Flying Tracelessly: Hidden within heaven and earth, wandering within the four seas, unknowable, untraceable, invisible, existing in the world yet unseen by it. Note: "This involves spatial jumping."

Nine Breaths of Harmony: Breathing in and out nine times, transforming the Qi of heaven and earth into magical power, used for meditative breathing and restoring one's own magical power. Note: "A method of Qi cultivation, ancient technique of harnessing Qi."

Drawing Out Primordial Yang: Stealing the enemy's primordial Yang, extracting the Yang Qi from within the body. Note: "Primordial Yang refers to the vital breath of life."

Subduing Dragons and Taming Tigers: Defeating large fierce beasts and birds of prey with immense strength. Note: "A supreme magical power."

Mending Heaven and Bathing the Sun: Possesses the ability to mend the heavens and the power to bathe the sun. Note: "This is the mighty power to create and transform heaven and earth."

Pushing Mountains and Filling Seas: Capable of pushing down mountains and filling seas, a supernatural power of moving mountains and filling seas. Note: "Immense power."

Turning Stone into Gold: Transforming stones or various objects into gold. Note: "This can change the essence of things."

Standing Upright Without a Shadow: Entering a state of void, hence without shadow or form, making all attacks ineffective. Note: "A technique of invisibility."

Transforming and Changing at Will: Whether male or female, old or young, divine birds or strange beasts, can freely transform anything in heaven and earth. Note: "Can be said to fully grasp the wonders of transformation in the universe."

Shrinking and Growing at Will: The path of changing size, can be as grand as the heavens and as hidden as concealed forms. Note: "This is a supreme method."

Instant Blossoming of Flowers: Thousands of golden flowers bloom above the head, beads of yingluo continuously shining, a method of protective celebration clouds. Note: "A defensive supernatural power once used by the Primordial Heavenly Venerable."

Wandering Spirit and Controlling Qi: Refining the spirit to leave the body, roaming the vastness; also includes the method of controlling Qi. Note: "Involves soul travel and flight."

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Seeing Through Walls: Can see through and understand everything, sitting and viewing all directions, above and below heaven and earth, without any obstruction, inside and outside the Six Harmonies, whether ghosts, humans, the hidden or the obvious, nothing is not clearly understood. Note: "The divine sight."

Reversing Wind and Retracting Fire: Making the wind that has blown over roll back and the burning flames reduce and return. Note: "Can reverse the development of things, a supreme mighty power."

Mastering the Five Thunders: The Five Thunders are known as the Five Qis, corresponding to the five organs. The Qi of the five organs gathers together to reach the Great Dao, mastering the wonderful use of the Five Thunders. It can "drive thunder and command lightning, pray for rain and sunny weather, treat calamities, subdue demons, dispel locusts, cleanse diseases, and refine and guide lost souls." Note: "Thunder, the command of heaven."

Submerging in the Abyss and Shrinking Land: Able to move freely in deep waters and traverse unobstructed. Can shrink the land's veins, making thousands of miles appear right before one's eyes. Note: "The divine ability to enter the sea and the secret method of shrinking land."

Flying Sand and Rolling Stones: Sand flies and stones roll, with violent winds. Note: "This is a spell once used by Wen Zhong."

Carrying Mountains and Crossing Seas: Carrying Mount Tai across the North Sea, able to bear the weight of Mount Tai. Note: "Capable of bearing the weight of giant mountains."

Scattering Beans to Create Soldiers: Can transform beans into soldiers. Note: "These are celestial soldiers or yellow turban warriors, soldiers of the Dao."

Seven-Arrow Nail: A cursing technique, resembling bow and arrows, pinned on effigies, used in conjunction with the Seven Arrows Book, can take lives from afar without resistance from the victim, even Great Immortals can't escape this calamity. Note: "This is considered to be mysterious and unpredictable."

Seventy-Two Earthly Sha Skill: Communicating with the spirit world, commanding gods, carrying mountains, forbidding water, borrowing wind, creating fog, praying for clear weather, praying for rain, sitting in fire, entering water, covering the sun, commanding the wind, boiling stones, spitting flames, swallowing swords, containing the sky, spiritual travel, walking on water, staff dissolving, dividing the body, invisibility, reattaching the head, immobilizing, slaying demons, inviting immortals, chasing souls, capturing souls, summoning clouds, fetching the moon, transporting, marrying dreams, dismemberment, sending staff, stopping flow, averting disasters, resolving misfortunes, transmuting, corpse dissolving, moving scenery, attracting, tracing clouds, gathering beasts, directing birds, air prohibition, great strength, penetrating stones, generating light, barrier clothing, guiding, consuming food, opening avoidance, leaping rocks, sprouting heads, climbing, drinking water, lying on snow, sun exposure, manipulating orbs, inscribing water, medicine, knowing the season, recognizing land, avoiding grains, nightmare prayers.

Communicating with the Spirit World: Can understand and see through the matters of the netherworld, able to move freely in hell and communicate with gods and ghosts.

Commanding Gods: Can summon and command mountain gods and earth deities, as well as employ ghost messengers or yellow turban warriors.

Carrying Mountains: Capable of bearing the weight of mountains, also a technique for moving mountains; Sun Wukong's survival under the Five Fingers Mountain is due to this method.

Forbidding Water: As the name suggests, refers to rivers that cannot be traversed or are poisonous, able to move unobstructed in such waters.

Borrowing Wind: Capable of commanding and freely manipulating the wind.

Creating Fog: Can create fog anywhere or anytime.

Praying for Clear Weather: Can turn rainy weather sunny, stopping the rain.

Praying for Rain: The technique of causing rain, making it rain in a specific area.

Sitting in Fire: This is a fire avoidance technique, entering fire without burning.

Entering Water: A water avoidance technique, moving unobstructed in seawater.

Covering the Sun: Able to obscure the sun, changing the weather.

Commanding the Wind: Can ride the wind, a technique of flying.

Boiling Stones: Capable of concocting elixirs, an alchemy technique.

Spitting Flames: Can exhale fierce flames, burning demons and evil.

Swallowing Swords: Swallowing swords into the stomach without harm. This involves the path of consumption, able to digest everything.

Containing the Sky: Referring to a world within a pot, having its own universe, able to open up spaces or fairylands, and contain all things.

Spiritual Travel: The spirit transcends the body, the soul leaves the body.

Walking on Water: Can walk on the surface of water, as if on flat land.

Staff Dissolving: Employ certain objects for aerial transport, combining with corpse dissolving, enabling objects to substitute form, transforming into a real person in an instant.

Dividing the Body: Can create multiple copies of oneself, or divide other things, at advanced levels even billions.

Invisibility: Able to make oneself or others, even all objects, invisible and conceal their presence.

Reattaching the Head: The technique of not dying even if beheaded, able to fully recover, and grow a new head.

Immobilizing: Fixating a person's body and soul, as well as divine birds, mythical beasts, or any object, rendering them unable to move.

Slaying Demons: This is a secret technique for subduing demons, containing various immortal methods, capable of destroying incorporeal demons.

Inviting Immortals: Within the "art" category, seeking divination through spirit writing, for divining fortunes and misfortunes, referring to the technique of summoning spirits.

Chasing Souls: Seizing a person's soul, the technique of death.

Capturing Souls: The method of capturing souls, to collect.

Summoning Clouds: This involves controlling auspicious clouds, able to ride clouds and mist.

Fetching the Moon: This technique involves fetching the moon's reflection, a method of profound light.

Transporting: Employing five ghosts to transport wealth, also known as the Five Ghosts Transporting.

Marrying Dreams: Able to torment the opponent with nightmares, destroying their spirit, or even weaving dreams and freely entering them.

Dismemberment: Can separate body parts without harm and instantly recover without any scars.

Sending Staff: Can transfer damage received during an attack to another object, thus transferring injury.

Stopping Flow: Can cause rivers to cease flowing, a water-dividing technique, allowing entry into the Dragon Palace and Water Mansion through this method.

Averting Disasters: Also known as averting, performing magical rituals to remove impending disasters: includes driving away locusts, removing diseases, epidemics, etc.

Resolving Misfortune: Refers to relieving dangers and difficulties, also known as "easing distress." It involves chanting scriptures for blessings, dispelling calamities, and invoking true sanctity.

Alchemical Transmutation: Refining elixirs into gold and silver, equivalent to turning stone into gold.

Swordsmanship: This involves using Qi to control the sword, achieving unity between the swordsman and the sword, capable of maneuvering sword light across thousands of miles instantly, also known as the Sky-Escaping Sword Technique.

Divinatory Projection: Based on the principles of the I Ching and the eight trigrams, where names and objects serve as symbols, and symbols are established for meanings and principles, used for divination and interpreting hexagrams.

Subterranean Travel: Moving freely within the earth, a technique of earth traversal.

Astrology: Observing celestial phenomena at night to understand fate.

Formation Arrangement: Various barriers, formations, and prohibitions.

Assuming Forms: Transforming external appearance, whether male, female, large, small, divine birds, or mythical beasts, capable of thousands of transformations.

Transmutation by Breath: The technique of transforming objects by exhaling.

Transmutation by Pointing: Using a finger to make something transform.

Corporeal Dissolution: Leaving the physical body for immortality, or using an object as a substitute to ascend to heaven, achieving immortality with only the primordial spirit.

Altering Landscapes: Using magic to change the surrounding environment.

Summoning: This technique can remotely summon objects.

Returning: Able to make objects return or go back to their original place.

Gathering Beasts: Can summon various wild beasts or birds of prey.

Commanding Birds: Using magic to make birds or animals heed one's call.

Qi Prohibition: A charm based on Qi characteristics, using Qi to stop bleeding, also able to join bones and ligaments, and with Qi prohibition against sharp weapons, one can be cut without injury, stabbed without penetration.

Great Strength: Infinite divine power, this is the technique of colossal strength.

Penetrating Stones: Able to pass through metal and stone unimpeded, truly unobstructed.

Generating Light: Emitting protective divine light all around, banishing evil without invasion.

Barrier Garment: Blocking and concealing, making flames, dust, rainwater not touch the clothes, capable of transforming garments.

Guiding and Channeling: Meaning "to guide Qi for harmony and to lead the body to be supple," a foundational practice for strengthening the form and consolidating essence.

Consuming Elixirs: Also known as "consuming potions," referring to ingesting medicinal substances for longevity, even consuming poison without harm.

Wall Opening: Where fingers touch, mountains open, and walls split.

Leaping Rocks: The art of light body and elevation, skilled in body movement.

Premonition: Sensing something about to happen in advance.

Acceleration: Speeding up things or expanding their influence on the original basis, like making a fire burn fiercer and more intense.

Drinking Water: Able to drink water from rivers and lakes, regardless of the quantity.

Lying in Snow: This technique is not afraid of cold.

Intensifying the Sun: Can increase the heat emitted by the sun.

Manipulating Pills: This is the great way of golden elixirs, the alchemical decree of earth immortals.

Talismanic Water: This involves talismanic magic, including the way of talismanic healing and various secret arts for exorcising demons and subduing devils.

Medicine: Entering the path through medicine, including medical and pharmaceutical knowledge, as well as various immortal medical techniques.

Knowing the Time: Understanding the laws of the operation of the heavenly way, predicting the heavenly secrets with a calculation, a technique of foreknowledge.

Recognizing Land: Refers to the study of geomancy, also known as Feng Shui in ancient times.

Fasting: Not eating or drinking, subsisting on air and dew, abstaining from grains and worldly food, divine beings live on Qi.

Nightmare Prayer: Using magic to confuse people with illusions, commonly known as illusionary magic, those affected are as if in a nightmarish realm.