
Cultivation of Immortality Begins with the Seventy-Two Techniques of Earth Evil
修仙从地煞七十二术开始
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It's boring, the squire is always squeezing and opening granaries over and over again.
After reading more than twenty chapters, I have a few suggestions for the author. 1. The seventy-two earth evil techniques always feel that they come too easily and have no development. Once you know it, you will be able to do it. Just like going to school, there are always primary schools, junior high schools, high schools, and universities. There should also be a distinction between junior high school and high school in talismans. Even if you don't have enough Tao skills to use it now, you still have to talk about it. 2. The pace is too fast. If you fight a monster, don't say fight for days and nights. There should be back and forth. There are too few battle descriptions. 3. I have read more than 20 chapters of the cultivation system, but nothing is reflected at all, which makes people very confused. Purely a personal suggestion, don't comment if you don't like it.
After reading it for a while, um, I think the author's writing ability is pretty good! But it's a pity that it's getting more and more boring. It's not that the plot is bad, I don't think there's anything bad about it, it's just... A one-man show... Looking at it, the protagonist is just there to fight monsters and level up, fight monsters and level up, beat monsters and level up... This is very boring, and it's better to play a game than this. It's all a sideshow, not even a supporting role. To be honest, if you really can't write the supporting characters well and can't control the heroine, you can at least give him a wingman, a little pet... To make the work less boring... With the author's writing skills, I think the work will be good if you create a few more characters...
Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends Connecting to the secluded place, driving away the gods, carrying mountains, forbidding water, borrowing the wind, spreading fog, praying for sunshine, praying for rain Make a fire, enter the water, cover the sun, control the wind, cook stones, breathe out flames, swallow a knife, pot the sky Magic walk, walk on water, release the wand, become invisible, continue the head, immobilize the body, slay demons Invite immortals, chase souls, capture souls, summon clouds, take the sun, transport Marriage of broken dreams Send staff, cut off the flow, avoid disasters, relieve disasters, yellow and white, swordsmanship, shoot and cover, earth walking Number of stars, formation, false form, spray, finger, dismantle corpse, move scene, bring in transport, gather beasts, adjust birds, air ban, strong force, see through stone, life and death, barrier clothing Guide, take food, open wall, jump over Nie, sprout head, board copy Drinking Water, Lying in the Snow Breaking Sun, Nong Wan, Talisman Water, Medicine, Knowing the Time, Knowing the Place, Bigu, Nightmare Prayer
The golden boy holds a lantern to illuminate the road ahead, and the jade girl follows you to protect you. The five directions of ghosts and gods summoned each other in front of the altar, and six soldiers of armor were enforcing the law. God bless you and show your majesty, the Holy King... You have been too late to update, so you deserve this calamity... I am summoned to summon your soul to the underworld for a journey.
This kind of novel should not be in a cheerful style. Why not just be like Shilipo? Now, the author wants to write about a Taoist priest who has faith in his heart. He opens his back with brothel essential oil and asks a fox to wear black stockings. I didn't feel the author's humor. I only felt the collapse of the character. It's very embarrassing. Sorry, I can't watch Chapter 150 anymore.
I haven't started reading it yet, but I particularly like the Thirty-six Transformations of Tiangang and the Seventy-two Transformations of Earthly Evil in The Immortal Guide of the Past Dynasties. I hope the author can write them with a more fairy-like spirit. . Don't be like the current Xianxia, who are divided into first level, second level and third level, first level, second level and third level. They also need to be elementary, intermediate and advanced. They have no Xianxia spirit at all. .
There are problems with values. If you don't solve the problem, you will only cause trouble. As for the rice god, the grain he produces every year radiates to many places and relies on this food to survive. Even if the town is finally destroyed, the nearby food crisis has been solved before. You solved the rice god, but you did not solve the food problem. Wouldn't more people die? All I saw was a selfish guy who just wanted to kill monsters and gain points. There must be something wrong with the long-term drought. When things go wrong, there must be a monster. Why not get to the root of the problem. Seemingly benevolent but actually selfish
After reading more than 200 chapters, I suddenly felt that I couldn't stand it anymore. Anyone would get tired of reading the routine mode after reading hundreds of chapters. There is no main plot at all, just fight monsters and draw monsters and draw draws. You can just build the mountain gate early and engage in some sect power confrontation. Even with the golden elixir, the level of force is still so low-level. It does not convey the thrill of wielding a sword and killing demons in the world. It didn't come up with anything new, but it just felt boring. Look at people fighting monsters like Journey to the West. .
The products produced by the studio must be junk!
I still recommend everyone to watch "The Seventy-Two Transformations of Disha". The difference between the two is quite obvious.
The Seventy-two Techniques are different from the Seventy-two Transformations in Journey to the West. The Seventy-two Techniques are the spells used by gods and immortals throughout the ages. The Seventy-two Transformations are the methods used to avoid the three disasters in Journey to the West. The Eighty-Nine Transformations are infinite transformations. The Seventy-two Transformations should actually be stronger than the Thirty-six Transformations.
There is no main line, one story after another is the same a thousand times, and it is written over and over again. It makes me fall asleep while reading it, it is too dull.
Zhu Bajie learned the Thirty-six Tiangang, and Sun Wukong learned the Seventy-two Disasters. Let's not talk about which one is more embarrassing, at least they are on the same level, right? The author's seventy-two earth demons have a terrifyingly low minimum limit, and at the same time, they have not been patched. I don't think it's as useful as the martial arts cheats. It was so bad that I couldn't even see it. It feels like the originally good Eight-Nine Mysterious Skill was used by the protagonist into the Zixia Magic Skill.
I have read more than a hundred chapters, and I can't stand it 😥. I feel like there is no main line, just like reading a story, it is like a short story pieced together, and each story is a bit homogeneous, there is no desire to read further, and the context is not connected. The protagonist wanders around like a headless fly, killing randomly, and the supporting characters are not outstanding. I can't remember a single name now. What I write now is like playing a game without main tasks. It is all side tasks. The side tasks are also repetitive tasks such as killing a few wolves and hunting a few bears. I hope the author will pay attention when writing later and set a larger goal for the protagonist, whether it is to save something, resist something, or attack something, so that he will have the desire to read on.
Garbage, a parody of the Seventy-Two Transformations of Disha
1. Tongyou: It means to meet the gods, to be deeply immersed in the gods, to be able to see into the underworld and hell, and to see through the illusion. 2. Exorcism: It can capture and mobilize mountain gods, and it can also command all kinds of spirits, ghosts and yellow turban warriors. 3. Carry the mountain: It can carry the weight of the mountain and it is also the art of moving the mountain. This is how Sun Wukong survived being pressed under the Wuzhi Mountain. 4. Forbidden water: As the name suggests, it refers to an impassable or poisonous river, which can flow unobstructed and come and go freely in the forbidden water. 5. Borrow the wind: Can drive the wind and control it freely. 6. Fog: means that fog can be placed at any place or time. 7. Pray for sunshine: It can make the rainy day clear up and stop the rain. 8. Praying for rain: the art of rain, making it rain in a certain area. 9. Sitting on fire: It is called the Golden Lotus, the seed of fire, which does not burn when it enters the fire. 10. Entering the water: In the sea, it is also called diving into the abyss without drowning. 11. Covering the sun: This is a technique to cover up the secrets of heaven. 12. Controlling the wind: Riding on the wind is the power of flying. 13. Boiled stones: All those who have five kinds of metals and eight stones can refine the medicine by refining the metals and stones and then take them. This is the art of practicing elixir. 14. Flame breathing: It can breathe out flames and burn evil spirits. 15. Swallow the knife: Eat the knife into the stomach without any damage. 16. Hutian: You can open up a space or a cave and receive the mustard seeds. Even the universe is vast in your sleeves, and the heaven and earth exist in your palms. 17. Divine Movement: The spirit transcends the body, and the soul leaves the body. 18. Walking on water: Can walk on water as if walking on flat ground. 19. Rod Explanation: Practicing something to carry people and perform empty walking, combined with corpse exposition can make something take form, and in a short time, it has become a real person. 20. Clone: It can divide into multiple clones, and it can also divide other things. When it is advanced, it can divide into hundreds of millions. 21. Invisibility: This allows oneself, others, or even all objects to hide their body shape and cover their breath. 22. Renewing the head: Even if the head is cut off, it can remain intact and a new head can grow back. 23. Immobilization: Fixing the body, soul, and even mythical animals or all objects so that they cannot move. 24. Demon Slaying: Can be blessed with magic on weapons, can exorcise ghosts and demons, and destroy incorporeal monsters. 25. Inviting Immortals: The Tao in the sect with the word "shu" refers to the art of praying for immortals by supporting the shackles and divination for forgiveness, which refers to the art of summoning spirits. 26. Soul Chasing: The art of seizing a person's soul and causing death. 27. Soul-taking: The method of taking in the soul. The person who takes the picture also collects it. 28. Zhao Yun: It is to control the auspicious clouds and be able to soar into the clouds and ride the mist. 29. Taking the moon: This method is to take the moon and reveal it on the wall, which is the mysterious light technique. 30. Transport: Drive the five ghosts to bring wealth, also known as the five ghosts transport. 31. Marriage dream: It is a dream that can make people dream. It can weave dreams or come and go freely, and even affect reality. 32. Fragmentation: Various parts of the body are separated and intact, and can be restored instantly without any scars. 33. Send staff: Place the damage caused by the attack on other objects to replace it, so that the damage can be transferred. 34. Cut off the flow: It means to cut off the flow of the river. This is a method of dividing water. You can enter the Dragon Palace Water Mansion through this method. 35. Disaster relief: Also known as relief, it refers to the use of magic to relieve disasters: including driving away locusts, dispelling diseases, plague, etc. 36. JieE: refers to rescuing people from danger, also known as "Jie Yu". It refers to reciting sutras to pray for blessings, to eliminate disasters, and to pay homage to the true God. 37. Huang Bai: Enlighten gold or silver through alchemy. 38. Swordsmanship: Understand the mystery of the integration of sword and Qi, which is the method of Yuan Shen to control the sword. The white light will kill people and become invisible. 39. Shefu: The principle of the Eight Trigrams in the Book of Changes, that is, the names and objects are based on the number of images, and the number of images is based on the meaning and principle, which is a divination and hexagram. 40. Earth Movement: If you retreat into the earth, you can travel thousands of miles in a day. 41. Number of stars: You can observe the sky at night and know your destiny. 42. Formation: various boundaries, formations, and restrictions. 43. False form: The body can change, whether it is male or female, big or small, or a mythical bird or beast, it is ever-changing. 44. Spray: It is a spell that changes objects by blowing your breath. 45. Finger transformation: It means pointing with your hand to make something change. 46. Corpse explanation: Abandon the body and go to immortality, or pretend to be an object, leave the world and ascend to heaven, and become an immortal with only the soul. 47. Scene shifting: You can use spells to change the surrounding environment. 48. Summon: This technique can summon an item using remote control. 49. Drive away: Can make items return and return to their original positions. 50. Gathering Beasts: Can summon various beasts or ferocious birds. 51. Tune birds: Use magic to make birds or beasts listen to them. 52. Qi restraint: A spell characterized by luck. It can restrain golden sores with Qi and stop the bleeding. It can also restrain fire, ghosts, and even white blades, so that they can be cut without being hurt or stabbed without being penetrated. 53. Powerful: Infinite divine power, this is the art of raising the sky's huge power. 54. Through stone: It can penetrate gold and stone without any hindrance, it can be said to be unimpeded. 55. Shengguang: It can emit divine light that protects the body. It can be said that it is invulnerable to all laws, all evils are not close, the light is all over the body, and its wonderful uses are endless. 56. Barrier clothing: means to block, it can prevent flames, rain, and dust from touching the body. Clothing can be used to protect the body. 57. Guidance: It is deeply beneficial to people and prolongs their life. It is necessary to regulate Qi, make the blood vessels smooth and eliminate all kinds of diseases. This is the technique of practicing Qi exhalation and inhalation. 58. Ingestion: Collect the essence of Yimu to refine the elixir and swallow it to seek immortality, cure all diseases or detoxify. 59. Kaibi: Where the finger points, the mountain will crack. 60. Jumping Rock: The art of lightening the body and lifting it vertically, good at bodywork. 61. Meng Tou: Sense in advance when something is about to happen. 62. Dengchao: To speed up things or expand their influence on the original basis, such as making a fire burn more vigorously or more violently. 63. Drink water: You can drink water from rivers, no matter how much you drink. 64. Lying in the snow: It is called eating wind and sleeping in water, lying in the moon and sleeping in the frost. 65. Sunburst: Makes the sun more intense and makes summer hot. 66. Nongwan: This is the golden elixir avenue, the elixir of the Earth Immortal. 67. Fu Shui: It is the magic of Fu Shui, which can summon gods and impeach ghosts, subjugate demons and suppress demons, cure diseases and eliminate disasters, and its wonderful uses are endless. 68. Medicine: The ability to live and die human flesh and white bones is a practice method that uses medicine to enter the Tao, including various medical and immortal methods. 69. Knowing the time: Knowing the laws of the movement of heaven, and being able to discern the secrets of heaven by counting with your fingers, is the art of foretelling the unknown. 70. Knowing the ground: refers to the study of Kanyu. In ancient times, geography was also called Feng Shui. 71. Bigu: Not drinking or eating, eating wind and drinking dew, not eating whole grains or human fireworks, the gods are born by eating breath. 72. Nightmare Prayer: You can use spells to confuse people with illusions, referred to as illusions. The person who falls under the spell is like a nightmare.
I copied the Seventy-Two Changes of Disha, mixed the order of the stories, changed the names and places, inserted two fairy tales in the middle, and even the plot to solve the puzzles of the villagers was the same.
1. Tongyou: It means to meet the gods, to be deeply immersed in the gods, to be able to see into the underworld and hell, and to see through the illusion. 2. Exorcism: It can capture and mobilize mountain gods, and it can also command all kinds of spirits, ghosts and yellow turban warriors. 3. Carrying mountains: It can bear the weight of mountains and is also the art of moving mountains. 4. Forbidden water: As the name suggests, it refers to an impassable or poisonous river, which can flow unobstructed and come and go freely in the forbidden water. 5. Borrow the wind: Can drive the wind and control it freely. 6. Fog: means that fog can be placed at any place or time. 7. Pray for sunshine: It can make the rainy day clear up and stop the rain. 8. Praying for rain: the art of rain, making it rain in a certain area. 9. Sitting on fire: It is called the Golden Lotus, the seed of fire, which does not burn when it enters the fire. 10. Entering the water: In the sea, it is also called diving into the abyss without drowning. 11. Covering the sun: This is a technique to cover up the secrets of heaven. 12. Controlling the wind: Riding on the wind is the power of flying. 13. Boiled stones: All those who have five kinds of metals and eight stones can refine the medicine by refining the metals and stones and then take them. This is the art of practicing elixir. 14. Flame breathing: It can breathe out flames and burn evil spirits. 15. Swallow the knife: Eat the knife into the stomach without any damage. 16. Hutian: You can open up a space or a cave and receive the mustard seeds. Even the universe is vast in your sleeves, and the heaven and earth exist in your palms. 17. Divine Movement: The spirit transcends the body, and the soul leaves the body. 18. Walking on water: Can walk on water as if walking on flat ground. 19. Rod Explanation: Practicing something to carry people and perform empty walking, combined with corpse exposition can make something take form, and in a short time, it has become a real person. 20. Clone: It can divide into multiple clones, and it can also divide other things. When it is advanced, it can divide into hundreds of millions. 21. Invisibility: This allows oneself, others, or even all objects to hide their body shape and cover their breath. 22. Renewing the head: Even if the head is cut off, it can remain intact and a new head can grow back. 23. Immobilization: Fixing the body, soul, and even mythical animals or all objects so that they cannot move. 24. Demon Slaying: Can be blessed with magic on weapons, can exorcise ghosts and demons, and destroy incorporeal monsters. 25. Inviting Immortals: The Tao in the sect with the word "shu" refers to the art of praying for immortals by supporting the shackles and divination for forgiveness, which refers to the art of summoning spirits. 26. Soul Chasing: The art of seizing a person's soul and causing death. 27. Soul-taking: The method of taking in the soul. The person who takes the picture also collects it. 28. Zhao Yun: It is to control the auspicious clouds and be able to soar into the clouds and ride the mist. 29. Taking the moon: This method is to take the moon and reveal it on the wall, which is the mysterious light technique. 30. Transport: Drive the five ghosts to bring wealth, also known as the five ghosts transport. 31. Marriage dream: It is a dream that can make people dream. It can weave dreams or come and go freely, and even affect reality. 32. Fragmentation: Various parts of the body are separated and intact, and can be restored instantly without any scars. 33. Send staff: Place the damage caused by the attack on other objects to replace it, so that the damage can be transferred. 34. Cut off the flow: It means to cut off the flow of the river. This is a method of dividing water. You can enter the Dragon Palace Water Mansion through this method. 35. Disaster relief: Also known as relief, it refers to the use of magic to relieve disasters: including driving away locusts, dispelling diseases, plague, etc. 36. JieE: refers to rescuing people from danger, also known as "Jie Yu". It refers to reciting sutras to pray for blessings, to eliminate disasters, and to pay homage to the true God. 37. Huang Bai: Enlighten gold or silver through alchemy. 38. Swordsmanship: Understand the mystery of the integration of sword and Qi, which is the method of Yuan Shen to control the sword. The white light will kill people and become invisible. 39. Shefu: The principle of the Eight Trigrams in the Book of Changes, that is, the names and objects are based on the number of images, and the number of images is based on the meaning and principle, which is a divination and hexagram. 40. Earth Movement: If you retreat into the earth, you can travel thousands of miles in a day. 41. Number of stars: You can observe the sky at night and know your destiny. 42. Formation: various boundaries, formations, and restrictions. 43. False form: The body can change, whether it is male or female, big or small, or a mythical bird or beast, it is ever-changing. 44. Spray: It is a spell that changes objects by blowing your breath. 45. Finger transformation: It means pointing with your hand to make something change. 46. Corpse explanation: Abandon the body and go to immortality, or pretend to be an object, leave the world and ascend to heaven, and become an immortal with only the soul. 47. Scene shifting: You can use spells to change the surrounding environment. 48. Summon: This technique can summon an item using remote control. 49. Drive away: Can make items return and return to their original positions. 50. Gathering Beasts: Can summon various beasts or ferocious birds. 51. Tune birds: Use magic to make birds or beasts listen to them. 52. Qi restraint: A spell characterized by luck. It can restrain golden sores with Qi and stop the bleeding. It can also restrain fire, ghosts, and even white blades, so that they can be cut without being hurt or stabbed without being penetrated. 53. Powerful: Infinite divine power, this is the art of raising the sky's huge power. 54. Through stone: It can penetrate gold and stone without any hindrance, it can be said to be unimpeded. 55. Shengguang: It can emit divine light that protects the body. It can be said that it is invulnerable to all laws, all evils are not close, the light is all over the body, and its wonderful uses are endless. 56. Barrier clothing: means to block, it can prevent flames, rain, and dust from touching the body. Clothing can be used to protect the body. 57. Guidance: It is deeply beneficial to people and prolongs their life. It is necessary to regulate Qi, make the blood vessels smooth and eliminate all kinds of diseases. This is the technique of practicing Qi exhalation and inhalation. 58. Ingestion: Collect the essence of Yimu to refine the elixir and swallow it to seek immortality, cure all diseases or detoxify. 59. Kaibi: Where the finger points, the mountain will crack. 60. Jumping Rock: The art of lightening the body and lifting it vertically, good at bodywork. 61. Meng Tou: Sense in advance when something is about to happen. 62. Dengchao: To speed up things or expand their influence on the original basis, such as making a fire burn more vigorously or more violently. 63. Drink water: You can drink water from rivers, no matter how much you drink. 64. Lying in the snow: It is called eating wind and sleeping in water, lying in the moon and sleeping in the frost. 65. Sunburst: Makes the sun more intense and makes summer hot. 66. Nongwan: This is the golden elixir avenue, the elixir of the Earth Immortal. 67. Fu Shui: It is the magic of Fu Shui, which can summon gods and impeach ghosts, subjugate demons and suppress demons, cure diseases and eliminate disasters, and its wonderful uses are endless. 68. Medicine: The ability to live and die human flesh and white bones is a practice method that uses medicine to enter the Tao, including various medical and immortal methods. 69. Knowing the time: Knowing the laws of the movement of heaven, and being able to discern the secrets of heaven by counting with your fingers, is the art of foretelling the unknown. 70. Knowing the ground: refers to the study of Kanyu. In ancient times, geography was also called Feng Shui. 71. Bigu: Not drinking or eating, eating wind and drinking dew, not eating whole grains or human fireworks, the gods are born by eating breath. 72. Nightmare Prayer: You can use spells to confuse people with illusions, referred to as illusions. The person who falls under the spell is like a nightmare.
I lost interest after seeing the female ghosts, it's not my style of writing 🙂
Yeah, I copied the Seventy-Two Changes of Disha, right? I didn't even bother to change the names of the supporting characters.
First, there is no main line, the main line tasks are unclear, wandering around, and the routine is too old. Second, it has reached the golden elixir stage, and it is written like a martial arts. This is a fairy knight, and it does not even use a sword. It does not write the feeling of riding a sword on the wind and slaying demons in the world.
There is a problem with this title. The Seventy-Two Techniques are a trick spread in the Qing Dynasty, and the Seventy-two Transformations of Disha are what Sun Wukong learned. Since it is a seventy-two technique, the word Disha cannot be added. After adding Disha, the word "shu" cannot be added, but the word "change", and the seventy-two transformations of Disha are clearly stated in the original Journey to the West. Description, saying: The seventy-two changes, which seem to be eight or nine changes, are actually infinite changes, because in Taoist mythology eight is the maximum number of yin, nine is the maximum number of yang, and seventy-two is the maximum number in Taoism. No matter which angle you look at, the seventy-two changes of Disha, as infinite changes, are better than the thirty-six changes of Tiangang, which are finite changes.
I just can't understand that there are so many monsters and monsters, and no one in the court cares about them. Even in the last years of the dynasty, there are people who care about them. Each one has a protagonist to take care of. In just a small foundation building period, you can actually kill the underworld judge. No matter how weak he is, he is still the god of the underworld. Even if he falls into the devil, he can be killed in a small foundation building period.
Is this novel an imitation of the Seventy-Two Transformations of Disha?
I didn't see that he was a cultivator, and the plot was quite boring.
Are there any books about cultivating immortality in modern times, with only one protagonist cultivating immortality, and high quality.
It seems that there is no main plot. After coming out of the temple, he was running around without knowing where he was going. It was said to be a training of hearts in the world of mortals, or could it be said to be running in the shrimp season? Today I met a tiger demon who beheaded me, and tomorrow I met a female ghost who was saved, and then there were wolf demons, mountain bandits, mountain ghosts and wild gods. The killings continued and the draws continued.
Instead of painting a dragon, it looks like a snake. This is a novel with no main line. Unless you are particularly obsessed with settings such as Tiangang and Earthshakes, I still don't recommend reading it. It's really uncomfortable to read.
This is a mentally retarded plot, could you please write it carefully? It won't work to fool people ten years from now with plots and routines from ten years ago.