[b][1][6][7] In 1905, in Qingzhou, there is instruction from Lao Mu through spirit writing wrote that Lu Zhongyi was appointed to be the next patriarch and the "celestial mandate" was given to him in that year.

[12] He established an altar there and used the “three talents” (三才) for spirit writing ritual to spread the teachings on the lower class of the people, resulting in the great development in the countryside.

[13] Within a few years, Lu had attracted several hundred followers, based around a small core of twenty-five disciples, some of whom went to the neighboring provinces of Henan, Hebei, and Shanxi to spread the teachings.

[14] Lu has 8 main disciples namely Hao Baoshan (郝寶山), Chu Jingfu (褚敬福), Liang Zhaogong (梁兆功), Zhao Huaizhong (趙懷中), Chen Liyue (陳禮月), Zheng Zhenchang (鄭振昌), Nie Xijun (聶錫鈞) and Zhang Tianran (張天然).

[15] On March 3rd of the following year, Patriarch Lu's borrowed the body of a person named Yang Chun-Ling to chant the “True Sutra of Maitreya Buddha Saving from Suffering” (彌勒救苦真經).