Celestial Huli Jing

Any Chinese fox that lives more than five hundred years can begin conscious Taoist cultivation through neidan in remote caves. The process includes prolonged meditation, ritual ingestion of purified cinnabar, consensual sexual practices with human masters and preservation of the magical húwán pearl that forms after the first century. Upon reaching one thousand years with the pearl intact and the nine spiritual bodies cultivated it ascends to the celestial pantheon as xian occasionally serving Xi Wangmu.

It possesses astral flight between the celestial realm and earth, free transformation among human fox and hybrid forms with nine tails, control of mountain mists and messaging among deities. It can grant healing fertility and luck in examinations to virtuous mortals. It is immune to mortal weapons except high-level orthodox Taoist talismans. It depends on caves in sacred mountains such as Wudangshan and its húwán pearl constitutes the main vulnerability if captured.

Androgynous figure aged thirty to forty in white Taoist robe embroidered in gold with nine tails hair in topknot with jade hairpin and húwán pearl visible under the tongue. Amber golden irises with vertical pupil. Symbolizes the Qian trigram the peach of immortality the white crane and the character 仙. Resides in caves of Wudangshan Huashan Qingchengshan and Longhushan descending during Double Ninth or Mid-Autumn festivals.