Disha 72 ways

Disha 72 ways 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 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:
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| 1. || 通幽 || To communicate with the deceased
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| 2. || 驅神 || To summon/direct deities
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| 3. ||擔山 || To lift mountains
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| 4. || 禁水 || To bar/stop water
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| 5. || 借風 || To summon the wind
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| 6. || 佈霧 || To spread mist
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| 7. || 祈晴 || To clear the clouds
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| 8. || 禱雨 || To request for rain
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| 9. || 坐火 || To sit on fire
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| 10. || 入水 || To dive underwater
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| 11. || 掩日 || To call for an eclipse
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| 12. || 御風 || To ride the wind
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| 13. || 煮石 || To boil stone
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| 14. || 吐焰 || To swallow flame
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| 15. || 吞刀 || To swallow a blade
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| 18. || 履水 || To walk on water
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| 20. || 分身 || To split the body
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| 21. || 隱形 || To become transparent
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| 22. || 續頭 || To re-connect the head
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| 24. || 斬妖 || To slay a demon
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| 25. || 請仙 || To summon an
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| 26. || 追魂 || To chase the spirit
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| 27. || 攝魂 || To capture a human’s spirit
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| 28. || 招雲 || To summon the clouds
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| 29. || 取月 || To obtain the moon
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| 31. || 嫁夢 || To cast a dream
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| 32. || 支離 || To amputate
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| 35. ||禳災 || To create a famine
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| 36. || 解厄 || To release suffering
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| 38. || 劍術 || Mastery of the sword
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| 40. || 土行 || To travel within the earth
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| 43. || 假形 || To assume different countenance
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| 50. || 聚獸 || To summon animals
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| 51. ||�br /> 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