Sanwu shenshui

When you compound it, you should first prepare the Flowery Pond (hua-chi), the Red Salt (chiyan), the Hard Snow genxue), ° the Mysterious and White (xuanbai), the Flying Talisman (feifu), and the Divine Water of the Three-and-Five (sanwu shenshui). Only then can the fire be lit. The elixir of the first cycle confers immortality after it is ingested for three years that of the second, after two years that of the third, after one year that of the fourth, after half a year that of the fifth, after one hundred days that of the sixth, after forty days that of the seventh, after thirty days that of the eighth, after ten days and that of the ninth, after three days. 

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