"Old Tang, do you understand "The Theory of Higher Elements"?"
Under the remaining bronze pillars, the jade goblet poured glass after glass of throat-burning spirits. Lu Mingfei, wearing a diving suit in front of the candlelight, sat cross-legged on the blue-black etched black stone and asked curiously.
"What is that?" The man in white said calmly and poured himself a glass of wine.
"One of the textbooks for the compulsory course in our school, Linguistics, is very ridiculous. It is more like a bible than a higher mathematics course. Last year, in the first class of my freshman year at the school, the Greek professor with a goatee asked us to use Latin. Recite the thirteen maxims in the Jade Record and tell us that the meaning will be apparent to us a hundred times a day. When Hermes, the source of wisdom, is moved by your diligence, you will be able to decipher the elements of spiritualism. That's it - I was thinking, isn't this nonsense? If you want to pass the final, you have to pray to God for guidance. When I heard him say those words, I knew that I failed in this subject at the end of the semester..."
The back-and-forth questions and answers between the two seem to have become the norm in recent days. After all, they know each other once and twice, and they see each other every day, even if they are female ghosts, they have to figure out whether they can hook up with each other.
Lu Mingfei has always been a nervous person. In the first two days, he was frightened half to death by the drama of "The Ghost Returns". Now when he goes to bed and returns to Baidi City, he feels as friendly as returning home... The main reason is that the man in white really doesn't have any feelings for him. Malice, regarding this, Lu Mingfei had an inexplicable feeling and confidence that came from nowhere.
That is a difference that can be clearly felt. If the Jade Goblet faced each other during the Bronze Project, there was a terrible sense of oppression like a tsunami and the sky was collapsing. Then the man in white clothes in front of him now, who looked like an ancient man, was that person. Jiang Jingshui. Just like the turbulent waves in Kuimen that night, there is a sharp contrast with the "White Emperor Bai Di's colorful clouds" at the beginning of "The White Emperor Goes to Jiangling".
Looking at his old friend's face, even if he knew that he had another layer of identity, as well as two or three unbearable past events they had before, when he actually sat in front of the jade goblet full of wine, covered in the haze of dreams, he My mood and feelings still go back to those countless nights where I spent time relaxing through the Internet a few years ago.
"All in all, I think the courses at Kassel College are really amazing. Even the 985 and 211 top students would have to kneel down. They haven't even laid the foundation for these things, right? But I heard that Xia Mi's first few classes It went well, but she seemed to be in a preparatory class. Oh my God, there was a preparatory class. Why didn't I get sent to a small tutor to do tutoring and then come back for torture? It was like chasing a duck and they plopped me down in a helicopter. I sent him off to sign the deed of betrayal."
"..."
"To be honest, Old Tang, I've been thinking about it for the past few days. I really can't pass the subject of Yan Lingxue, but what's involved in it is 'earth fire and feng shui', what's 'bred by the wind, nourished by the earth,' and 'divide the earth into Fire, distilling essence from roughness, is really difficult to understand. Rather than praying to distant gods like Hermes before making up the exam, I might as well directly pray to the nearest Buddha. Don't they all say that you are a master of alchemy? You must have learned it in Cuiyulu Bar?"
Facts have proven that before the horror and threat of failing a class, you can even lower your face and ask for help from a friend you have dumped before. Lu Mingfei himself also feels that he is a bit shameless, but before the horror of withholding his scholarship, don’t Even though he was used to it, he could still do such outrageous things.
Of course, it may be that Lu Mingfei simply drank too much, and he didn’t know what the dream was about. The strong wine poured out of the jade goblet was more harsh on the throat than burning a knife, but there was a scent of jasmine in his mouth. Lu Ming Every time I come in, I have to drink a few dishes with courage, and every time I get drunk successfully... I can also drink until I'm drunk in my dreams. The vice-principal who was in the prohibition period became jealous after hearing this. Eye.
"I haven't studied the Jade Record you mentioned, I haven't heard of these things." The man in white said slowly, holding a wine plate, "But there is a loophole in your question, 'Greed by the wind, nourished by the earth, it cannot be dismantled. Kai Lai understood that this was half a sentence. The first half of his sentence was "The sun is the father and the moon is the mother." From this, he understood that this sentence was to analyze the mystery of the origin of light for the world. It is born from the sun and rotated by the moon. "Being nurtured by the wind means that the characteristics of light are like wind, unstable, like waves, and lines; being nourished by the earth means that the earth veins generate heat, and light originates from heat. There is no heat or light."
"Wait a minute, you haven't studied Cuiyulu. How do you know so much about these things...Are you talking about analyzing light?" Lu Mingfei was confused by the calm and indifferent academic words of the man in white. Confused, but still listening
I understood what the other party said, "Light is like wind, with uncertain characteristics, like waves and lines... Damn it, isn't this the theory of wave-particle duality?"
Lu Mingfei was dumbfounded. According to Old Tang's statement, the second half of the ground maintenance can be understood as the direct connection between light and heat, deducing that the essence of light is a structure composed of microscopic particles and charges, which can be compared with Heat mutual conversion?
The man in white picked up the jade goblet and poured wine into the plate and said calmly, "This is the basic of alchemy. If you don't understand the composition of all things, how can you analyze and recast it."
Lu Mingfei said this sincerely. The goateeed Greek professor also emphasized it many times, but the current situation is that they, a group of hybrids, have been holding this basic introductory formula of alchemy for hundreds of years, or even a thousand years. Why are the difficult and obscure things in your mouth as simple as the multiplication table?
Suddenly, a horrifying thought occurred to him, and he asked tentatively: "Old Tang, did you ever go to Egypt and happened to write 13 sentences on an emerald tablet?"
The man in white was silent for a long time, and then said, "I don't remember. I won't remember so many meaningless trivial things."
"Then what do you think of this sentence: 'What's below is like above, and what's above is like below; and in this way the miracle of the One is accomplished?' Have you ever said this yourself?"
"One of the basics of alchemy is that up is down, and down is up. Air, matter, and all tangible concepts must be abandoned in alchemy, so that we can explore the miracles of life and death and find the light in the darkness. , the original lost one." The man in white said lightly.
Lu Mingfei didn't understand, but his eyes widened, "Ah, yes, yes, did you say 13 more sentences like this!"
The man in white did not give an answer, probably because he thought the question was boring. Although he did not hate Lu Mingfei in this dream, he would not respond to the other party's meaningless complaints and complaints.
"You actually left the Cuiyu Record! You...you deserve to die!" Lu Mingfei wailed, and he was so angry that he wanted to stand up and point at His Highness Norton in front of him, but his reason still allowed him to hold back his anger. impulse.
He wanted to cry and say, do you know that the multiplication table you wrote casually has harmed a large group of scholars in later generations, and even these students who are tortured by spiritualism and alchemy every day? Do you know that you want to understand "Earth Fire" Feng Shui, a chain-reaction-like collapse in chanting? Do you know the pain of using an abacus to calculate the derivation of alchemical formulas? you do not know! *** is the alchemy of gods. You can clap your hands to get whatever you want. These hard-working people still have to make 88 seals, and what they release may still be squibs!
You should really be hanged up with your muscles pulled out and your bones pulled out, as a warning to others!
...Oh, wait, Old Tang seems to have been pulled out by cramps and bones, so that's okay.
Lu Mingfei wisely did not complain about this bad thing that might cause everyone to fall out and make trouble, so he punished himself with a drink...and his face turned red from the heat.
"Let me go, the Cuiyulu was actually written by you. It's full of ghosts and ghosts. It feels like reading a scripture... By the way, what is the word 'Taiyi in the mist' written on the slate you left? You said. I secretly joked about this stuff with references to "Digimon". My professor caught me and made me copy the 13 Latin sentences from "Jadeite Chronicles" a hundred times, but I doubt he even knew that he was doing this. What on earth is this thing that is offered to ancestors? Is it really the same as what mainstream scholars think now, it is 'spirit'?" Lu Mingfei felt that the wine's stamina was a bit too strong, and his tongue was a little awkward when he spoke.
What exactly does Taiyi refer to? The history of this debate within the mixed-race academic community probably begins with the discovery of the jade tablets in the time of Alexander the Great. From the translation of 13 proverbs, it is not difficult to see that the core of everything is the word Taiyi. , all the mysteries of alchemy are born for the sake of Taiyi. Even the author who wrote this tablet is fascinated by Taiyi, and even pursues Taiyi relentlessly.
For such a grand answer, everyone has their own understanding. Some people say that Taiyi is the substantive god, others say that Taiyi is the power of God, and some even understand that Taiyi is spirit, materialism, idealism, and nothingness. Doctrine and other remarks are rampant, but in the end there is no answer that can be recognized by the majority of people.
"Say it again in Latin."
One, I'm not sure exactly what answer you want. " said the man in white. Until now they have been conversing in Chinese.
Lu Mingfei tilted his head and smoothly slipped out of the Latin text he had memorized hundreds of times.
After hearing this, the man in white paused for a while, his eyes looked at the flickering candlelight in the wine dish in his hand, and said softly, "Taiyi... We are all chasing Taiyi, praying for Taiyi's truth and love, and we are eager to understand Taiyi and return to Taiyi, because that is It is an absolutely transcendent 'god' in concept, and it is the only ultimate in alchemy that can directly point to the 'big theme'."
"Stop the Riddler, just tell me who Taiyi is." Lu Mingfei said smoothly.
"Source. Taiyi is the source." The man in white said, "All things in the world are born from Taiyi, including the infinite universe. The long history is like a torrent flowing, endless, but things have a beginning and an end. We are born struggling and drowning in the river of stars. , unable to get a glimpse of the whole picture, longer than stone stars, limited by species and times, unable to travel among the stars of truth, unable to explore the macroscopic truth, then we can go deep into the microscopic principles through alchemy, and know that all things will eventually rise and fall, rise and fall. The cycle node, or the entire closed loop of rise and fall, is the One. Alchemy is also a knowledge-seeking art that exhausts the microcosmic principles to understand and control the One."
Regarding the lectures given by His Royal Highness Norton, the King of Bronze and Fire, who is the most authoritative among the four monarchs on alchemy and is known as the originator of alchemy, it is estimated that the professors and real old fossils outside are willing to unplug the oxygen tube of the life-saving cabin and ask for a replacement. Lu Mingfei is in a position to seek enlightenment on a futon, but now Lu Mingfei, who is drinking and listening to lectures, has only three words to comment on these ultimate knowledge:
"Can't understand."
"Life and death." The man in white glanced at this guy. It seemed that he knew that he would not be able to understand the core insights of alchemy that he had expressed so long ago, so he directly threw away the simplest and most simple introduction. It originated from the fact that the concept of end is too big for human beings. Too grand, and the small concepts of life and death are just right. "
Lu Mingfei's head was buzzing for a while because his CPU was overclocked and overheated, and then he let out a loud voice, "I seem to have heard from the orthodox side that everything in the Nibelungen is 'dead.' Is this thing the product of alchemy? After working on it for a long time, it turned out to be alchemy. I thought that thing was some kind of cool thing that comes with dragons."
In response to Lu Mingfei's complaints, the man in white didn't answer a word. After answering Lu Mingfei's fairly serious questions, he drank his wine in silence.
Lu Mingfei may have really drunk too much, so he started talking about the big and small things in Kassel College again, and also talked about the recent weird and bullshit situation.
He said that he had not read much in the past year since he entered school, and that he had been thrown into many difficult jobs one after another. He has not made any big mistakes in his work so far. Although he cannot be said to be a veteran of many battles, he can be said to be a credit to his hard work. A good cow and horse that eats grass and squeezes blood is always justified, right? But the result? As soon as something happened, the school board kidnapped him and put him on display in a zoo who didn't know where he was hiding.
At this point, he also asked one more question in passing: Old Tang, do you know the King of Earth and Mountain? We seemed to have bumped into it. Lin Nian had a fight with him and broke his senior brother's favorite sword while playing with it. It looked like a ruthless dragon, but would a dragon king like you also use sneak attacks to sneak up on you? It is so mysterious that we can't even remember what it looks like after seeing it once. What does this mean? Are we afraid of being shy? Hahaha!
Lu Mingfei was drinking and talking nonsense. His Highness Norton had already died, so talking about this was no longer considered treason. If he talked nonsense while sleeping, he wouldn't be held accountable, right? No matter how long the investigation team's hands are, they won't be able to reach here!
But he didn't notice that the more he said about the King of Earth and Mountain, the more the eyes and posture of the man in white in front of him changed, until finally when he accidentally looked up again, he found the other man's fiery red eyes. I don’t know when I was staring straight at myself.
