The gods in myths and legends can call the wind and rain and fly to the sky, and the reason why they have such powerful skills is that the immortals have cultivated them.
Although they are all immortals, there are also high and inferior, the main basis is their Taoism, the higher the Taoism, the higher the level of the immortals, and the lower the Taoism, the lower the level.
Like in "Journey to the West", the immortals are divided into five immortals: heavenly immortals, earth immortals, human immortals, immortals, and ghost immortals, the heavenly immortals are the highest-level immortals, and the ghost immortals are the lowest-level immortals.
The level of immortals can also be like the "monster fighting upgrade" in the game, from low-level to high-level immortals.
So, will the level of the immortals be reversed?
To put it simply, it is to retreat from high-level immortals to low-level immortals, such as heavenly immortals becoming ghost immortals.
This is possible in myths and legends.
In "The Romance of the Gods", the twelve golden immortals under the throne of Yuan Shi Tianzun were cut by Sanxiao in the Jiuqu Yellow River Array. Yuan Shi Tianzun said, "The three flowers have been cut off, the gate of heaven has been closed, and it has become a vulgar body, that is, an ordinary man." ”
The twelve golden immortals are all very powerful immortals, Taiyi Zhenren, Fuxian Zhenren, Yuding Zhenren, etc., but because they were cut off the top of the three flowers, they suddenly changed from immortals back to mortals.
If you want to regain the Dao line, you can only continue to cultivate for a thousand years.
What exactly is the three-flower gathering?
"Three Flowers Gathering at the Top" is the term of Taoist Inner Dan practice, "Three Flowers" is the most critical three elements of Inner Dan practice, "essence, qi and spirit", "essence" is the basis of life and the most fundamental function; "Qi" is the basic element of human activities, which is divided into innate qi and acquired qi; "God" is the master of human activities, but also a person's will, a person's character, it is related to the survival of life.
"Ding" means the "Mud Pill Palace" in the practice of Neidan, and the Mud Pill Palace is also known as "Huang Ting" and "Heavenly Brain", which is the most important thing in the human body.
"Three Flowers Gathering Peak" means that after cultivating to a certain realm, the essence and spirit merge into one, and they meet in the Mud Pill Palace to produce supreme magical powers.
In mythological stories, "Three Flowers Gathering at the Top" has become an important symbol for mortals to cultivate into golden immortals.
In the novel, mortals cultivating immortals have to go through the stages of quenching the body, refining qi, building a foundation, Jindan, Yuanying, transforming into a god, distracting a god, merging, and crossing the tribulation, and finally Xiaju soars and becomes an immortal.
Each stage is full of hardships, especially the stage of the tribulation, which is also called heavenly punishment, including thunder tribulation.
After surviving the tribulation, he will cultivate into an immortal, otherwise, he will be annihilated, and thousands of years of cultivation will also come to naught.
Do you think that if you ascend to immortality, you have the ability to "gather three flowers"?
Wrong, after ascending, it is only a very low-level immortal among the immortals.
Just like the 100,000 Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Generals who followed the Tota Li Heavenly King to capture Sun Wukong in the lower realm, many Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Generals came out at random, and it was also a level that was difficult for many immortal cultivators to reach.
In mythological stories, only the immortals who have reached the level of golden immortals will "gather three flowers at the top", and there are no low-level immortals such as earth immortals, human immortals, and ghost immortals.
"The immortals, who are tired of living in the world with earth immortals, work hard, connect their joints, draw lead and add mercury and gold to refine the top. The jade liquid is returned to the Dan, refining to form qi and the five qi are Chaoyuan, and the three yangs are gathered at the top. Forget the form, the fetus is self-transformed. Yin and yang are pure, and there is a body outside the body. Dequaint and ascend to immortals, transcendent and holy. Refuse the vulgar to return to the three mountains, it is called a fairy. ”
Only the heavenly immortals and immortals in the fifth-class immortals can reach the realm of "three flowers gathering at the top, and five qi dynasties".
Losing the "three flowers", there is no spirit and spirit, and since then the gods have become laymen, no wonder the gods are afraid of losing it.