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Immortals in China mythology

In The Journey to the West, the Tathagata once said, "There are five immortals in a week: heaven, earth, man and ghost."

Five immortals

Heaven refers to the immortals. The immortals here are not ordinary immortals in the online novels of fixing the truth, but the immortals who first developed in the HarmonyOS system, realized the heavenly heart and the Tao, and are the most powerful group of people, headed by Sanqing.

The earth refers to the fairy, that is, the immortal who practices on earth. Note that immortals practice on earth. They are also immortals, and the only difference between them is that they practice in different places, and there is not much difference in strength, with Zi Yuan, the ancestral town of Xian Di, as the head.

God refers to immortals. Note that the immortals here are not the highest gods in the west, but the heavenly soldiers and generals, twenty-eight stars, thirty-six plough and seventy-two devils. Their status is only relative to mortals, because most of them lost in the battle of sealing gods, and their souls were kept in the list of sealing gods, filling the facade for the jade emperor.

People refer to immortals, not mortals, and are equivalent to those who fix the truth in online novels.

Ghosts refer to ghosts, not ordinary ghosts, but cow's head and horse's face, Yamaraja Ten Halls, judges and so on.