According to the Taiping Dao Book's theory of three flowers and five qi, to ascend to immortality, one must cultivate at least the five elements of qi within their body, with the five qi converging at the primordial state, then transform the yin spirit and refine the person flower above the head, only then can one become a True Man of Immortal Path and be ranked among the Human Immortals.
However, according to the Yunxiaozijingmingqianxuanjing, there is no need for five qi to converge at the primordial state or for three flowers to gather at the top, just directly condensing three paths of five element qi would suffice.
The conflicting content of the two books brought a strong sense of absurdity to the readers.
