Exploring Immortality Cultivation

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"I have often heard that it is not humans who earnestly seek knowledge, but rather knowledge that earnestly seeks humans. Yet I know this to be false. For it is not knowledge that seeks humans, but it that hunts them down. The pursuit by those deeply impassive as hawks and hounds chasing rabbits."

——Xuĕ Jūn (Hsan the Greater), 2nd century A.D.

The author of this book was the ancient Chinese philosopher Xuĕ Jūn (Hsan the Greater). It was said to be written around the 2nd century A.D., and supposedly it was originally called "Earth's Seven Secret Teachings," but the original text had long since perished without trace, leaving only this faithfully detailed Chinese manuscript known to people. The oldest version of the book is divided into seven scrolls, each equivalent to a chapter with different content and themes; each scroll contains one or more spells.

Scroll One: About the Yellow Emperor's accomplishments, his astonishing inventions and medicine

Spell: Immortal Sand Soul Revival Talisman (also known as "Dead Revival Technique")

Scroll Two: Ritualistic cannibalism and ghoul beliefs

Spell: Contact with Ghouls

"These creatures cannot be called complete humans, yet in many ways, they resemble them. They stand bipedal, leaning forward, looking much like a pack of dogs; that rubbery skin of theirs induces revulsion."

——H.P. Lovecraft, Pickman's Model

Ghouls are a kind of humanoid creature with skin that resembles stretchy rubber. They have hooves for feet, dog-like faces, and sharp claws. They speak in a rapid, crying voice. They are often found feasting in graves, typically covered in fungi that grows in such places. The ghouls described by Lovecraft are terrible creatures that live in a network of underground tunnels under various cities; they make pacts with witches and sometimes attack humans. After a very long time, humans might turn into ghouls.

Scroll Three: Heavenly Ghosts

Spell: Demon Sealing Talisman (also known as "Summoning/Controlling Baaj")

"What flapped rhythmically was a group of domesticated and trained creatures of mixed lineage, winged creatures so utterly alien to birds, moles, vultures, ants, or the rotting corpses of humans, that I could not recall, nor ever shall be able to recall."

——H.P. Lovecraft, The Festival

This star-faring race usually serves the "indescribable Hastar"; their bodies are composed of ordinary matter and conventional weapons, like pistols, cause them normal harm. The Baaj can fly through space, each capable of carrying one person; the rider must use appropriate spells or ** in order to resist the vacuum and cold of space. Baaj have no base on Earth, they generally only appear when summoned to perform tasks or when employed as mounts. [1]

In combat, the Baaj use both hook claws to attack (attacking twice per round), or they may conduct a bite attack on their enemy. After the "Bite" hits, it will begin to suck blood from its victim. Starting from the bite (including the same round of the initial bite), the Baaj will drain 1d6 points of Strength Value from the victim each round until the victim dies. Given the Baaj's nature, they will not let go unless the victim dies or is drained of blood.

The lucky victims who do not die and receive careful nursing and blood transfusion can recover their Strength Value at a rate of 1d3 points per day.

Scroll Four: Earth Ghosts and their relationship with earthquakes

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Spell: Earth Gang Summoning Talisman (meaning "Contact with the Earth Boring Demon Worm")

"A mass of writhing tentacles attached to that soft grayish-black sack-like body… Apart from those tentacles stretching out and groping around, it had no discernible distinguishing features. No, there was one—yes, at the forefront of this thing was a swelling… That was a container prepared for its brain, or nerve center, or whatever else might command this terrifying, nauseating creature."

—Brian Ramsey, "Earth Boring Demon"

Introduction

This creature is like a giant squid that lives in the soil.

Its worm-like elongated body is always covered in mucus, and some kind of chanting-like sound always seems to accompany these creatures.

These strong and powerful diggers can survive for a thousand years and will carefully protect their offspring; the Earth Boring Demon Worm has many unusual abilities, unlike any other species on this planet. Among them, the most important individual is the immense Shude Mel (one of the Old Ones).

Any Earth Boring Demon Worm in its growth stage can communicate through telepathy, allowing them to contact any member of their species, perceive thoughts, no matter where the other is. But only the adult Earth Boring Demon Worms can use telepathy to control creatures of other species.

Volume Five: Deep Divers and Their Human Devotees Along the Coastline of the South China Sea; Time and Space; the Tendaros Hounds and Liaodan

Spell: Contact Tendaros Hound

"'They are thin and starved!' he screamed... 'All the evils of the universe are concentrated in their emaciated, hungry bodies. But do they even have bodies?—I only glimpsed them for a moment; I cannot be sure.'"

—F. Belknap Long, "Tendaros Hounds"

The Tendaros Hound inhabited the Earth of the Ancient times, a period when life on Earth had not yet evolved, not even single-celled organisms existed. They lived in the "angles" of time, different from the "curves" (please understand "angles" and "curves" literally. Human existence is in "curves," theirs is in "angles"—simply put, they exist in different dimensions) that other ancestral creatures (including ordinary creatures like humans) follow. This concept is difficult to grasp and is specific to the Tendaros Hound. They hunt prey among ordinary creatures like humans, crossing time and space in pursuit of their sacrifices. They are undying.

We do not know the true form of this creature, and no one who has encountered it has survived to tell. Tendaros Hound actually differs significantly from the appearance of a "hound," but stories have always referred to them as "hounds." Due to their relation to "angles" and dimensions, they can only materialize in places with "angles" (less than 120 degrees). For a typical house, most wall corners are 90 degrees; when the Tendaros Hound appears, smoke will first emerge in the corners of the room, followed by the hound's head emerging from the smoke, then the entire body.

Volume Six: The Cold Plain of Central Asia and the Unknown Kadas

Spell: Illusion Realm Spirit Ascension Talisman (meaning "Gate of Kadas")

"Hey! Ah-Shatanege! Let's go! Send the mundane gods back to the Secret Realm of Kadas they often frequent, and pray that you don't meet one of my other thousand forms. Farewell, Randolph Carter, be careful; for I am Nyarlathotep, I am the walking Chaos."

Volume Seven: Nyarlathotep and Its Numerous Forms; The Emergence of Lalaiye and the Return of Cthulhu; Asatros as the Beginning and the End; the Divine Spirit and Creature's Ideal Forms—Arranging the Hierarchical Order of Various Divine and Creaturely Existences According to a Bureaucratic System

Spell: Contact Nyarlathotep