Looking eastward, the first shrine contained a sitting statue, with a height of

78 centimeters. It wore Taoist crown and robe, and was named as The
Statue of The Great Song Dynastys Royal Pioneer and Holy Priest Lu Quan
Liu; it depicted the image of Liu Aos image after he was discharged and
sought to become a Taoist monk. It was called the Royal Pioneer because
the Tong Xuan Temple was constructed right after Liu Ao had dreamt about
the Three Holy Priests; Lu Quan (Deer Spring) Liu because, according to
The History of Tong Xuan Temple, Liu also dreamt about a deer jumping over
a spring, and he since called himself Lu Quan. The second shrine was
located at the upper left in respect to Lius statue, near the top of the cliff. It
contained another sitting statue with a height of 86 centimeters. It wore
yellow Taoist crown and Taoist robe, and was sat on an upturned lotus. An
inscription on the side read The Statue of Yu Qing Yuanshi Tianzun (or
Primeval Lord of Heaven). The third shrine was located at the lower left in
respect to the Yuanshi Tianzun statue, and it had the largest volume and
contained most vividly depicted statues among all the statues in Tong Xuan
Temple. Three standing statues were found in it: they all wore yellow Taoist
crowns and Taoist robes with their feet stepping on the cloud while the
middle statue was holding a ruyi, and they were 145 centimeter tall. An
inscription was written at the upper right corner above the statues: The
Statues of The Three Pure Ones. The fourth shrine was found at the far east
side of the cliff: it had a sitting statue with a height of 90 centimeters,
wearing yellow Taoist crowns and Taoist robes, and with the inscription on the
right which read The Statue of The Great Ming Dynastys Reconstructing
Master Xu. It was a statue of a Taoist named Xu Dao Zhang, who
reconstructed the Tong Xuan Temple under Jia Qings reign during Ming
dynasty. Xu Daozhang called himself yuan yi, and along with his disciples
he promoted a renaissance for Tong Xuan Temples popularity.

The History of Tong Xuan Temple included the following for the time of
production of these statues and their descriptions: The stones were sculpted
in Song dynasty, behind the San Qing Palace. Four statues were produced:
one of them was Yuanshi Tianzun, three of them were The Three Pure Ones,
and these were sculpted by Holy Priest Liu. The statue of Holy Priest Liu was
behind the San Qing Palace and above Lu Quan. The statue of Xu Yuanyi was
sculpted by his disciples on the cliff after he initiated the renaissance for the
Temple. In short, the first, second, and third shrines were sculpted during
the early years of Nan Song dynasty, and the fourth one was sculpted during
Ming dynasty.

Besides, the cliff itself also had inscriptions such as The Inscription of
Constructing Tong Xuan Temple, The Chronicle of Building Tong Xuan Temple,
Poems From Song Emperor, Story of Reconstructing Tong Xuan Temple, and
Inscriptions of Yu Xing Poems. Engravings of steps, stone tables, holy cranes,
running deers, and standing lions also were found on the cliff wall. The holy
cranes might have symbolized the alleged sighting of three flying cranes by
Liu Ao. The running deers and the inscriptions of the words Lu Quan, which
were inscribed at the western end of the cliff, were also described in The
History of Tong Xuan Temple: there was a spring above which a deer was
engraved, but the spring was dried a long time ago; under the reign of Kang
Xi during Qing dynasty Taoist Zhu Guang Ji created another spring next to
the previous one, and named it Lu Quan . Lu Quan was one of the
spectacular attractions in Tong Xuan Temple during Ming dynasty, and it was
also one of the Ten Attractions of Wu Shan during Qing dynasty. As it was
seen today, however, on the pale-looking rocks, numerous mouths of the
spring could still be found, but one could never know exactly since when the
nature and the river of time took the once limpid running water away. The
only remnant that had left by them, however, was the lichen: it was sprinkled
along the pathways on which the water used to pass, and the tourists, by
observing this only part of the spring that the nature chose to keep, could
only imagine how beautiful the spring used to be.