CHUNG-LI CH‘ÜAN, one of the Eight Immortals

CHUNG-LI CH‘ÜAN

"And so his heart returned to the contemplation of Tao. He earnestly begged for the secret of transcending mortal limitations from the old man, who thereupon imparted to him not only an infallible magic process for attaining longevity, but also the degree of heat required to produce the "Philosopher's Stone", and the Green Dragon¹ method of sword-play.² As Chung-li Ch‘üan was about to depart, having taken leave of the old man, he turned round for a last look at the village, and lo! it had vanished...

Chung-li Ch‘üan wandered about in haphazard fashion till he reached the State of Lu¹, and dwelt for a while in the city of Tsou. Later on he retired to the K‘ung-t‘ung Mountains,² and took up his abode on the Red-gold Peak, where the Four Grey-heads³ had lived. There he found a jade casket containing the arcana of Taoism, and, having attained hsienship, departed this world."

From: THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND FOR 1916 [LONDON, 1916] {Reduced to HTML by Christopher M. Weimer, August 2002} XXI THE EIGHT IMMORTALSBy W. PERCEVAL YETTS

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