The Complete Guide to the Baopuzi

Name: The Complete Guide to the Baopuzi
Author: Shao Guanwu

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by Shao Guanwu (邵观物)

Status: Completed
Length: 327k Words
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He was once the most dazzling young heir in Jiangdong, but he cast aside the fame and fortune within his grasp and retreated deep into the mountains.

Ten years later, he presented a book filled with instructions on refining pills to become immortal, drawing talismans to catch ghosts, and finding hidden paradises...

The imperial court called his words “heretical nonsense,” but later generations revered him as the “founder of the alchemical path.”

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