| | Ban Mengzhe was a man whose place of origin is unknown. Some say she was a woman. She could fly for the whole day, and also sit in empty space, conversing with people; She could also enter the ground. At first, only her feet would disappear, then up to her waist and stomach; gradually, only her hat remained visible, and after some time, she was completely gone from sight. She could also dig wells by tracing the ground with her finger, which then produced water that could be drawn up. She could also suck up roof tiles from people's houses, and the tiles would then fly into other people's homes. In those homes, there were dozens of mulberry or fruit trees; she gathered all their fruits together in a pile as high as a mountain. After more than ten days, she blew on them, and they returned to their original places as before. She could also take ink in her mouth and spread paper before her, chew the ink, then spray it; upon doing so, full characters with meaning would appear all over the paper. Later she consumed elixirs and pills, lived to be more than four hundred years old, and became young and beautiful again. She later entered Dazhi Mountain and ascended to immortality there.
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