Beautiful Peony

White Peony most popular legend comes from novel Journey to the East.[1] It said one day the immortal Lu Dongbin took a walk in Luoyang, spotted White Peony, and was heavily attracted by her beauty. Lu Dongbin then transforming himself into handsome scholar and slept with her many times. However, in accordance with Taoist alchemy, he never ejaculated in order to preserve his Yang essence. Unfortunately Lu’s immortal colleague Iron-Crutch Li and He Xiangu taught Mudan how to make him ejaculate by tickling his groin. Finally, White Peony successfully made Lu Dongbin ejaculate and absorbed his Yang essence. Later she cultivated herself and become immortal as well.[2] Feijianji, another novel from Ming Dynasty [3] had slightly different version of this legend. According Feijianji, Bai Mudan was a common girl (not a prostitute) who was seduced by Lu Dongbin. Later she became very weak since Lu practiced "cai yin bu yang" [4] on her. Meaning he absorbed her yin (female) essence, without losing his own yang (male) essence. When her mother consulted with Budhist Monk Huanglong (Yellow Dragon), he teach her on how to make Lu Dongbin ejaculate and thus restoring her yin essence. This event enraged Lu Dongbin, he tried to decapitate Huanglong using his flying sword but failed. In the end Lu admitted his mistakes and acknowledged Huang Long as his teacher. In another story White Peony was ordered by minister Su Dongpo (Su Shi), to tempt his friend monk Fo Yin. Actually Su Shi hated Buddhist practitioners because he thought of unmarried monks as not sufficiently devoted to their ancestors.[