Temple of the Eight Immortals (continuation)

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#3: LU TING-PIN     A Taoist scholar and recluse who received the secret of immortality from Chung-Li K'uan.  During his probation, he is described as having to undergo ten temptations, upon the overcoming of which he was given a sword possessing spiritual powers.  With this he rid the country of dragons and other monsters that infested it.  His symbols are the sword and the Taoist fly-brush. #4: TS'AO KUO-CHIU     A military commander who turned hermit.  Once when meditating, the wall of his cave was rent asunder, disclosing a casket of jade containing a scroll upon which were written the secrets of immortality and of the transmutation of metals.  As he followed the instructions given therein the cave became filled with luminous clouds out of which came a stork, upon whose back he was transported to the Happy Land of Immortality.  He is the patron saint of the drama, and his symbols are a pair of castanets and a feather fan.

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