According to legend, when chaos was not divided, the god Pangu was born, and he opened up Hongmeng and created heaven and earth with the help of magic weapons. Subsequently, Nuwa Niangniang came out and became another immortal.
Nuwa Niangniang can change seventy-two times a day, and she uses clay to shape all kinds of creatures, including humans, along the river. Therefore, many myths regard her as the mother of the earth, believing that she conceived all things and created human beings, so she is also known as the creator god.
In ancient times, Nuwa Niangniang performed the feat of refining stones to make up for the sky, won the reverence of the three worlds of heaven, earth and man, and finally became a meritorious saint. She was once good at the seventy-two changes of supernatural powers, which was originally her unique secret technique, and was later taught to the four immortals: Erlang God, Sun Wukong, Taishang Laojun and Yuan Hong, corresponding to one person, one saint, one ancestor and one demon respectively.
Erlang Shenyuan was an ordinary person who lived at the mouth of the Guanjiang River, and he was the nephew of the Jade Emperor named Yang Jian. Later, he worshipped Yuding Zhenren as a teacher and learned the legendary seventy-two changes, and the god list called it ** Tiangong.
Erlang God performed seventy-two changes on the journey of King Wu's war, and he was invincible on the battlefield, and the ** people of the Tongtian Sect Master he taught were envious of his transformation technique. After defeating the King of Xu, Erlang God sanctified in the flesh and practiced in the mortal world to become an innate saint, and his cultivation was destined to surpass the twelve golden immortals of the Yuan Shi Tianzun, because none of the twelve golden immortals became an innate saint.
Sun Wukong is revered as the Monkey King, and is on an equal footing with the Jade Emperor. As we all know, Sun Wukong was born in a fairy stone, and there are endless theories about his life experience. However, many readers believe that Sun Wukong's mother is the famous Nuwa Niangniang, and the fairy stone that gave birth to Sun Wukong is Nuwa Niangniang's mending stone.
After Sun Wukong was born, he went to visit the Bodhi Patriarch and learned the method of 72 changes. Subsequently, he used this skill to wreak havoc in the Three Realms and seized the Dinghai Divine Needle of the Dragon Palace in the East China Sea. When he was in the heavenly court, Sun Wukong ate Taishang Laojun's nine-turn elixir and the queen mother's peach respectively, and then practiced in Taishang Laojun's gossip furnace, and finally mastered the stunt of somersault clouds.
On the journey of King Wu's expedition, there was an immortal with great powers, and he was Yuan Hong, one of the seven monsters of Meishan. According to the book, Yuan Hong is a congenital saint, because his true body is a congenital spirit monkey. However, according to the plot in the book, it is speculated that Yuan Hong is likely to be Nuwa Niangniang's **, because he is neither a disciple of the Tongtian Sect Master, nor the ** of Yuan Shi Tianzun, but he is proficient in the seventy-two transformations, so many readers think that Yuan Hong is Nuwa Niangniang's protégé, after all, the seventy-two transformations are from the hands of Nuwa Niangniang.
In order to defeat Yuan Hong, Nuwa Niangniang finally attacked, and she used a magic weapon to successfully subdue Yuan Hong. After Yuan Hong was absorbed by Nuwa Niangniang's demon refining pot, one of the primordial god marks escaped and flew towards the Fengshen platform. From this incident, it can be inferred that Yuan Hong is also a famous figure on the list of gods.
There is an ancestor-level innate saint in the Eight Views Palace, that is, Taishang Laojun. It is said that this immortal is skilled in the Seventy-Two Transformation Technique, but many people believe that this skill was taught to him by Nuwa Niangniang.
In the first episode of the Fengshen List, a well-known immortal was mentioned, he was Nuwa Niangniang's brother Fu Xi, who was cultivating in the Huoyun Cave at that time. It is rumored that Fu Xi has an extraordinary magic weapon called Taijitu. It is said that later in the Huoyun Cave, Fu Xi gave this magic weapon to Taishang Laojun.
Nuwa Niangniang taught Taishang Laojun seventy-two changes, which shows that Taishang Laojun's cultivation is extraordinary. According to records, he was a congenital saint who beheaded three corpses and became holy, and in the process of King Wu's war, he defeated many innate saints with the Taiji diagram.
Taishang Laojun is quite wise, he not only mastered the seventy-two changes of Nuwa Niangniang, but also created eighty-one changes on this basis, which is more powerful than Nuwa Niangniang's ability. Guangchengzi mentioned in the myth is said to be a doppelganger of Taishang Laojun. Legend has it that Taishang Laojun's eighty-one changes allowed him to have eighty-one true identities to experience in the world, and eventually these eighty-one true bodies will return to their original body, making them a Chaos Saint, with a status comparable to that of Hongjun Ancestor.