Nine-folded talisman - Kyuten no tan

...In Ge Hong's Baopuzi of the Jin dynasty, it is said that the most important thing to achieve immortality is to take a golden elixir. The gold in a golden elixir is valued for its indestructibility whether it is burned in fire or buried in the ground, and the highest quality elixir is the Nine-Turn Elixir, which is valued for its miraculous changes the more it is burned, and it is said that taking this Nine-Turn Elixir will turn you into an immortal in three days. It also describes the nine elixir types: Danhua, Shenfu, Shentan, Huantan, Eating Elixir, Refining Elixir, Soft Elixir, Futan, and Cold Elixir, and that if you take one spoonful of cold elixir for 100 days, you will become an immortal, be served by a young fairy, and be able to fly lightly in the sky without using wings. ...

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "Kuten no Tan" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…晋の葛洪の《抱朴子》では，不老長生を得るには，金丹を服薬することが最も肝要であるとする。金丹の金はその火で焼いても土に埋めても不朽である点が重んじられ，丹の最高のものは九転の丹で，焼けば焼くほど，霊妙に変化する点が重んじられ，この九転の丹を服用すると3日で仙人になれると説く。また丹華，神符，神丹，還丹，餌丹，錬丹，柔丹，伏丹，寒丹の九丹が説かれ，寒丹を1匙ずつ100日服用すれば仙人になり，仙童仙女がそば仕えをし，翼を用いずに軽やかに空を飛行できるとする。…

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