Lu Dongbin

Also known as Lu Tung Pin, Lu Dongbin is the patriarch and most important of the Chinese Eight Immortals known for his fighting abilities. He carries a magic two-edged sword, known as the Devil-slaying sabre (chan yao kua) or demon-slaying sword and a fly whisk he uses to fly to the heavens or walk on clouds. He is dressed as a scholar, and honored for his scholarly attributes. He is believed to have been an actual person living from 755 – 805 AD, and is the patron saint of barbers and also worshipped by scholars who credit him with writing the kong kuo ge, a table or code of merits and demerits that serves as a guide for morality and is thus called the god of the Ink makers, Lu zu.