Zuo Mo/Techniques

## Sword Cultivation

* Li Water Sword Scripture: Li, in the eight trigrams, it belongs to fire, creating the saying Li Fire. Anything in the world is sorted into yin and yang. Yang as fire, yin as water. Li Water, this sword scripture, it still goes along the road of water, making water as it's core. However this sword scripture manipulate water like fire. Basically, it was using the methods for manipulating fire to control water. There were, in total, seven moves in Li Water Sword Scripture. Each move would always have a few dozens of transformations. And each transformation needed to be controlled by ling energy. Even more, the entire process had to be completed in a thought. Based on the complexity of ling energy manipulation, these sword moves weren’t complex, but they needed to be finished in a very short amount of time so the difficulty actually increased. When making the move, the attention needed to be focused. That was even truer during battle. The other usually wouldn’t give you the chance to think. You needed to instinctively finish the complete move. Li Water Sword Scripture wasn’t a sword scripture that used sword moves to win. It only had seven sword moves and they were relatively simple. In the seven moves, the first six moves, they were all classical water element sword moves, they walked the path of water. But only up till the very last move. That one took a huge curve. Manipulate water like fire. 1. Imprinting Method: The Li Water Sword Scripture's imprinting method for the sword was to nurture one drop of water essence in the flying sword. It could respond to the Li Water Sword Scripture not just aiding in the manipulation, the strength also increased. 2. Flowing Water: The crux of this move was for the sword to act as though it was falling like water from a high altitude, the water essence was smooth without a hint of presence. The sword was like water, illusory and shapeless. Like water flowing down a mountain, extremely natural and smooth. The crux of Flowing Water was to change with the water flow, like water flowing from high up down. 3. Seven Whirlpools: The sword was soft yet sticky forming the seven whirlpools trapping the enemy in the middle like a cage made out of whirlpools. Each whirlpool was made up of countless tiny sword energies. These hair-thin, weak looking sword energies were full of a silent danger. 4. Layered Wave: Countless sword energies formed a dense curtain of swords like a wave. Gleaming with the shine of water, it swayed like the waves. This move was continuous, becoming stronger as it continued. The layers of sword energy were like waves, layers of little waves merging together. The curtain made of swords, which had been like a drizzle of rain, suddenly became fierce and turbulent. This giant wave wasn’t water, but composed of layers of countless sword energies. Once one was swallowed, then they should wait to be cut up into pieces. 5. Water Fall: It was a technique that form a curtain of waterfall composed of countless sword energies. 6. Pacho Rain: The Pacho Rain referred to the rain hitting the banana plant. Other than this, there was another meaning. It was rumored, in the ancient era, there was an eighth-grade talisman called the Pacho Fan. A gentle wave of this fan would create endless flames. Many heroes had been killed with this little Pacho Fan. It had then became one of the most famous five attributed talismans. The Pacho of Pacho Rain had the meaning of fire. The rain was a rain of fire, the fire was a snowy-white cold fire. 7. Li Water Burning Heavens: This move was one that wounded both sides. It required putting all the ling energy into the flying sword, stimulating that drop of water essence in the flying sword, the sword presence would reverse against the current and attack the enemy. This move had many difficult places. Like putting in all the ling energy at one moment into the flying sword. This was a test of a person’s control of ling energy. And stimulating that water essence drop in the flying sword. The Crux of this move was for the sword to act like a water going againts the current, manipulate water like fire. All the essence of Li Water Sword Scripture was in this final move.
* Mist Raindrop Sword Scripture

## Spirit Cultivation

* Ten Principle Scripture: It was a widely circulated second-grade scripture. Its attribute was steadiness and mild. Basically, there was no worry of accidentally going wrong and becoming insane.
* Embryonic Breathing Spirit Cultivation: It's a star spirit cultivation methods. The words of Embryonic Breathing Spiritual Cultivation were cryptic and hard to understand. The syntax it used was the opposite of what widely known. Embryonic breath was the core of Embryonic Breath Spiritual Cultivation and it was the most basic cultivation method. Supposedly, it originated in the breathing of humans when they were embryos. They didn’t need to use mouth and nose to breath, but required to use the entire body as opening, take the air as thin strands and suck it in bit by bit before spreading it throughout the body. Hundreds of these tiny streams of air would circulate through the body, merge and then exhaled through the nose and mouth. Once Embryonic Breathing Spiritual Cultivation is started, it can’t be stopped. If one can’t get to the first embryonic breath stage in three months, there would be a problems, The blood flow revers and torture the user to death. Even though the primary purpose of Embryonic Breathing Spiritual Cultivation was to cultivate the spirit, but the increase in ling energy was also pretty good and much better than Ten Principle Scripture.
* The first chapter was called Chapter of Spiritual Concentration, it talked about how to meditate and condense the spirit, stabilizing the consciousness. It can repair the spirit and fix the sea of consciousness.
* After achieving one breath stage, your perception of the surroundings changed dramatically. It was hard to explicitly describe and extremely unique. The other change was the sea of consciousness will transformed, it will turned into a sea of fire and a star will appear after completing one breath. After achieving the first breath stage, each time Embryonic Breathing Spirit Cultivation is being practiced the star will become brighter. The number of star will increase by progressing on Embryonic Breathing Spirit breath stage.
* Afterter one breath was two breath. If one could achieve two breath, not only would the entire body’s points be able to breathe but at that time, his presence could be restrained. Many people that had higher cultivations wouldn’t be able to detect it. After one breath was two breath. If one could achieve two breath, not only would the entire body’s points be able to breathe but at that time, his presence could be restrained. Many people that had higher cultivations wouldn’t be able to detect it.

## Body Cultivation

* Vajra Profound Sutra: This was a Dhyana xiu scripture. The scriptures of Dhyana xiu were mostly simple and their demands on personal talent were the lowest. However, what they demanded of determination and personality was much higher. This scripture was the same. There wasn’t many complex parts but what it needed was constancy. If this would be constantly cultivated, the body would be like gold metal, and if one could comprehend, the final level would be forming the Vajrapani’s indestructible body. Vajra Profound Sutra mentioned that the body would not be easily wounded. No matter what the circumstances, the most important was to stay alive. If it would be somewhat mastered demon would be unable to approach near him, and nothing evil would be able to infiltrate. The language of Vajra Profound Sutra was straightforward and simple to practice. After completing one round of the Vajra Profound Sutra, a faint gold color appeared on the skin. Aside from strengthening the body Vajra Profound Sutra also had a slight healing effect when practiced. Vajra Profound Sutra is practiced using the spirit energy that was in the world to nurture the body. 1. When practiced on first level the skin will glowed with dark gold shine, when pinched the skin was like a metallic leather, softness within the hardness. 2. When reaching the second level a golden pattern will appear on the chest. When channeling spirit energy sword could not wound the skin. 3. When reaching the third level of Vajra Profound Sutra, the flesh under the skin will started to have dots of gold. This was the “Golden Flesh Clothing”. After reaching “Golden Clothing of Flesh”, the defense strength rose. The entire body would be like a piece of gold, very hard to cut with a normal flying sword. 4. When reaching the fourth level the gold light on the skin will be even brighter. The light rippled in layers like waves. Starting from the roots, hair started to turn gold. The dark golden skin now seemed more solid. Before, it had seemed like there had been a layer of dark gold plated onto the skin, but now, it was like the skin was made out of dark gold. The forth level is called Red Lotus Flowing Gold. 5. The fifth level is called forming abhinna. After your body cultivation is in Mountain Physique it is one step away from an abhinna, even though it is only one mountain. The mountain physique is divided into three strata, one mountain is the first stratum. You have to cultivated mountain physique, absorbed earth energy to help the reconstruction of the body. After reaching two mountain stage the abhinna will naturally form, when reaching three mountain stage the abhinna will reach perfection. Abhinna is the term used by dhyana xiu. When cultivation of the body reaches a certain level, the self becomes enlightened, and the abhinna forms from the self. The abhinna is born of the self, and so everyone’s abhinna is naturally different. The meaning of body cultivation is to forge the body as though it is a talisman. When it reaches a certain stage, some abilities would naturally form. Each person’s blood and flesh is different, so the abilities are varied. An abhinna cannot be taught, the abhinna that each person forms is different. You have to slowly experiment, and make your own conclusions. Many abhinna cannot be used when they first form.
* Sky Wave Fist Scripture: This fist scripture was not complex. It was the exact opposite and could be considered simple, but simple did not mean it was easy. It demanded highly of the body of the person who cultivated it, and the path was one of one person defeating ten. There was not much technique. Behind the fist scripture, there were special chapters which described how to exercise the body and bones. Most beginners needed to start from there. The moves of Sky Wave Fist Scripture were very simple, but had their unique qualities. In one instantly, Sky Wave Fist Scripture was able to use all the ling power in the body and after revolutions in the arms, expel it with punches. This demanded extremely highly of the user’s body. Otherwise, after the ling power made several revolutions, it was enough to tear the channels and body apart. The crux of this fist scripture was not the amount of ling power, but the number of times it moved forward and in reverse! The more revolutions there was, the longer the preparation time was, the stronger the fist energy. When revolving ling energy the arm will release a bright green sheen. The killing move of Sky Wave Fist Scripture is called Sky Glass Wave, after reaching twelve revolution the bright green sheen that had risen before dimmed instead while the arm expanded. The skin that was exposed to the air became black green, and seemed to have waves rippling underneath, it was like a bow pulled to the limit. The arms were heavy as though they were made up of lead, and felt extremely burdened. When punched out there will be no wind, no howling. Two green fists that appeared to be carved out of crisp green glass drew out two green light streaks.
* Hundred Dhyana Sutra Records

## Shen Power Cultivation

### Shen Methodologies

* Sun Shen Methodology
* Greenvine Shen Methodology
* Mist Shen Methodology

### Shen Techniques

* Greenvine Technique
* Crow Eye Technique
* Sky Mark Spell
* Sun Shen Thorn
* Sun Shen Axe

## Yao Arts

* Great Thousand Leaf Hands: The spirit as a vine and the leaves as hands, it can easily make many transformations. Your one hand can do many things. When you have one thousand hands, how can anyone defend against you? Brute strength is useless. Like vine creating a net, one leaf per section, the leaf like a hand, five finger-like segments able to do tens of thousands of changes. The Great Thousand Leaf Hands emphasize invisibility and cooperation with spirit formations. The Great Thousand Leaf Hands is split into seven chapters. 1. first chapter: the first half describe how to control power and questions regarding the consciousness along with it's solution. The last conclusion it had was the consciousness was like a ball of mist, lacking a pathways which caused it to become difficult to control and how to resolve this problem. The second half of the first chapter explained how to form the great thousand leaf hands. The first step was to gather up the spirit that was scattered. Next was to forge the gathered consciousness into “seeds”. This step was crucial. If one could not form “seeds”, they could not practice Great Thousand Leaf Hands. After that is the process of growing the “seed” using the chant from the Great Thousand Leaf Hands. Once the "seed" broke your spiritual power had all turned into this little tender sprout. The leaf of the tender sprout was extremely small. It appeared like the palm of a person, with all five fingers. The five fingers on the leaf hands could move, lengthen and change shape according to your will.
* Little Thousand Leaf Hands:What Little Thousand Leaf Hands manipulated was the ling energy of the world. It had many requirements for the environment and was not easy to cast. But once it could be successfully cast, it would be immensely powerful. The Little Thousand Leaf Hands has thirty-six moves: 1. Void Pass: It does not halt time, it just maintains the laws that everything originally has, but at the same moment, it refuses all new laws, so you feel as though time has stopped. The two concepts are completely different. It only refuses change. The stronger your spirit is, the greater your control over your consciousness will be, and the larger the area you can control. However, if it is a strong change in the laws, you may not be able to stop it and the technique would break. 2. Leaf Birth: Its only effect was to regulate chaotic flows of ling power. 3. Yang Fiendish Hard Lightning: create a lightning to attack the enemy. The lightning of Yang Fiendish Hard Lightning was as thick as an arm, twisting and giving off a faint red light.
* Divine Summoning Art
* Archaic Wasteland Sacrificial Art
* Tactile Knowledge Grip Art
* Mind Speech Art

## Other Spells/Scriptures

* Five Element Spells: The spells included five types of five element spells, Little Art of Cloud and Rain, Art of Earth Energy, Art of Aged Gold, Art of Flora, Art of Crimson Flame. They were all spells relating to farming. It looked as though the five kinds of arts were not related but in reality, they supported each other. The five kinds of arts had their own emphasis. Little Art of Cloud and Rain emphasized the manipulation of ling energy, Art of Flora emphasized the finger movements, Art of Aged Gold emphasized the used consciousness, Art of Earth Energy emphasized communication and interaction, Art of Crimson Flame’s crux was the calmness of mind and endurance. 1. The Little Art of Cloud and Rain: Its main use was creating rain for the ling fields. After reaching the third level, its effectiveness increased dramatically and could drastically increase the amount produced by the ling grains and ling vegetables. 2. Art of Aged Gold: Most of the spells related to gold were related to killing. Ling grains had many natural enemies that were extremely troublesome, such as many kinds of aphids. The Art of Aged Gold could let the power of gold permeate inside the ling grains and kill the pests inside the ling grains. All the spells in Art of Aged Gold were made using the aged gold energy. Aged Gold Energy was like numerous grains of tiny sand. It shone like the stars, like specks of tiny gold sand, extremely pretty in the dark. They will surround the aphids and continuously left tiny wounds on the aphids. After the third level, the aged gold energy also transformed. The once dark gold sands became even finer and shinier, the gold sword that was formed even more exquisite. 3. Art of Flora: It extracted the essence of plants to nourish the growth of the ling grains. The basic quality of Art of Flora was robbery. Robbing the essence of other plants to nourish itself. Other than extracting the vitality and essence of the plan, it wouldn’t even let go of the seeds and root that were in the soil. After extracting the vitality and essence of plant, it will form a plant essence bead that can be used to nourish ling plant. Based on the difficulty of the art, Art of Flora was the most difficult among the five kinds of arts. Not just that the finger motions were extremely complicated, the movements of the ling energy had to be much more accurate than the other four arts. 4. Art of Crimson Flame: It was used to activate seeds, to speed up germination. Other than that, it concentrated the essence of the sun and was most suitable for yang- type ling plants. 5. Art of Earth Energy: It could concentrate the energy of the earth and was especially suitable for the growth of some yin-type ling plants.
	+ Little Art of Cloud and Rain: Its main use was creating rain for the ling fields. It emphasized the manipulation of ling energy.
	+ Art of Earth Energy: It could concentrate the energy of the earth and was especially suitable for the growth of some yin-type ling plants. It emphasized communication and interaction.
	+ Art of Aged Gold: It could let the power of gold permeate inside the ling grains and kill the pests inside the ling grains. It emphasized the use of consciousness.
	+ Art of Flora: It extracted the essence of plants to nourish the growth of the ling grains. It emphasized the finger movements.
	+ Art of Crimson Flame: It was used to activate seeds, to speed up germination. Other than that, it concentrated the essence of the sun and was most suitable for yang- type ling plants. It emphasized the calmness of mind and endurance.
* Heavy Earth Spell
* Art of Concentrating Yin: Gather yin energy in the surroundings, condensed yin bead through concentrating the yin energy. Yin bead can be used in dan-making or forging. The effect is especially beneficial for yin attribute talismans.
* Yin Fire Bead Chapter: To make yin fire beads, there were three requirements. The first was yin beads, the second was fire, and the third was spiritual power. The more pure and dense the yin bead was, the higher grade the fire was, the stronger the consciousness was, the greater the power of the yin fire bead produced. The entire chapter was completely about these three points. The density and formation of yin beads were related to the level of cultivation. The manipulation of spiritual power had a crucial effect during the creation of the yin fired bead. But in the entire chapter, most of the contents were descriptions of all kinds of fire seeds and flames. In this chapter, the descriptions of fire seeds and flames were extremely detailed. It seemed to have ranked all of the fire seeds and flames that could be used to make yin fire beads. The spells to gather fire seeds and taming them were also detailed in Yin Fire Bead Chapter. In the Yin Fire Bead Chapter, there were all kinds of strange and weird ways to use the yin fire bead. 1. Finger Throw: This spell was not complicated. It was constructed out of five finger motions. However, the ling power manipulations related to it was slightly complex.
* Bowstring Finger Spell
* Five Element Communication

## Popular Formations

* Four-Turn Fire Formation
* Skyring Moon Chime Formation
* Macro Golden Crow Formation
* Ling Processing Formation
* Meridional Azure Aether Formation
* Flowing Fire Cloud Thunder Formation

## Forging Techniques

* Fire Paper Technique
* Weapon Layering Craftmanship
* Six Yang Cauldron Method
* Shen Forging Method