Disha 72 ways

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Disha 72 ways (地煞七十二術) were the seventy-two ways to manipulate the Earth and the surroundings, extraordinary skills decreed by heaven onto chosen mortal documented in a Taoist guidance book called Tiantang Yiuchi. These gifts were once practised by authorized agents or Taoist daoshi (priest) who would come to aid those in need or in oppression and in general to help spread the teachings of Taoism. Feats similar to Disha 36 was called Tiangang 36 methods which had also been fictionalized in the Fengshen Yanyi.

The Disha 72 skills are listed as follow:

Nr.	characters	meaning
1.	通幽	To communicate with the deceased
2.	驅神	To summon/direct deities
3.	擔山	To lift mountains
4.	禁水	To bar/stop water
5.	借風	To summon the wind
6.	佈霧	To spread mist
7.	祈晴	To clear the clouds
8.	禱雨	To request for rain
9.	坐火	To sit on fire
10.	入水	To dive underwater
11.	掩日	To call for an eclipse
12.	御風	To ride the wind
13.	煮石	To boil stone
14.	吐焰	To swallow flame
15.	吞刀	To swallow a blade
16.
17.
18.	履水	To walk on water
19.
20.	分身	To split the body
21.	隱形	To become transparent
22.	續頭	To re-connect the head
23.
24.	斬妖	To slay a demon
25.	請仙	To summon an Immortal
26.	追魂	To chase the spirit
27.	攝魂	To capture a human’s spirit
28.	招雲	To summon the clouds
29.	取月	To obtain the moon
30.
31.	嫁夢	To cast a dream
32.	支離	To amputate
33.
34.
35.	禳災	To create a famine
36.	解厄	To release suffering
37.
38.	劍術	Mastery of the sword
39.
40.	土行	To travel within the earth
41.
42.
43.	假形	To assume different countenance

50.	聚獸	To summon animals
51.	調禽	To direct/control animals
53.	大力	Super strength
54.	透石	To penetrate stone
55.	生光	To create lightning
57.	導引	To mesmerize
64.	臥雪	To sleep on ice
67.	符水	To prepare Fu, as in Fulu
68.	醫藥	To prescribe medicine
69.	知時	To tell the time
70.	識地	To tell the geography

Unclear skills #16- 壺天; #17- 神行; #19- 杖解; #23- 定身; #30- 搬運; #33- 寄杖; #34- 斷流; #37- 黃; #39- 射覆; #41- 星術; #42- 布陳; #44- 噴化; #45- 指化; #46- 屍解 ; #47- 移景; #48- 招來; #49; #52; #56- 障服; #58- 服食; #59- 開避; #60- 躍喦; #61- 萌頭; #62- 登抄; #63- 喝水; #65- 暴日; #66- 弄丸; #71- 辟穀 and #72- 魘禱

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In chapter six of Tiantang Yiuchi Lingbao Tianchun explained to the adherent on the Tiangang 36 methods as well as the Disha 72 skills from which the above list was extracted.