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Chapter 1014 His Highness Norton's Alchemy Lesson

"Old Tang, do you understand "Advanced Theory of Elements"?"

Under the bronze remnant pillar, a jade goblet poured glass after glass of throat-burning spirits. Before the candlelight, Lu Mingfei, who was wearing a diving suit, sat cross-legged on the blue-black etched black stone board and asked curiously.

"What is that?" The man in white said calmly, pouring himself a glass of wine.

"One of the textbooks in our school's compulsory course 'Language and Spirituality' is very ridiculous. It is more like a bible than an advanced mathematics class. Last year, the Greek professor with a goatee asked us to use Latin in the first class of my freshman year. Recite the thirteen proverbs in the Jade Record, tell us what you say a hundred times every day, and you will see the meaning. When Hermes, the source of wisdom, is touched by your diligence, you will be able to explore the elements of spirituality. Got it—I wondered if this was ridiculous? If you want to pass the final exam, you have to ask God for advice. When I heard him say those words, I knew I was going to fail the final exam.”

The question and answer between the two seems to have become the norm in recent days. After all, they are familiar with each other once and see each other every day. Even a female ghost has to figure out whether they can hook up.

Lu Mingfei has always been rough-headed, and he was scared to death by the scene of "the ghost returning to his soul" in the first two days, and now going back to Baidi City after sleeping is as warm as returning home. The main reason is that the man in white really doesn't treat him at all Maliciousness, regarding this, Lu Mingfei had an inexplicable feeling and confidence that came from nowhere.

That is a difference that can be clearly felt. If it is said that the jade goblet sat on the other side during the bronze project, it was like a tsunami and a sky crashing, then the man in white clothes in front of him now is that one. Jiang Jingshui.It is just like the turbulent waves at Kuimen that night, and the sharp contrast with the "Chaoci Baidi Caiyunjian" at the beginning of "Baidi Xiajiangling".

Looking at the face of the old man, even knowing that he has another identity, and the two or three things they had in the past that are unbearable to look back on, when they are really sitting in front of the jade goblet full of wine, covered in the haze of dreams, he My mood and feelings still return to those countless nights of idleness through the Internet a few years ago.

"All in all, I think the courses of Kassel College are really immortal. If you change to 985 and 211, you will have to kneel. These things have not been laid at all, okay? But I heard that the first few classes of Xia Mi It went well, but she seems to be in the preparatory class, God damn there is also a preparatory class, why didn't I get tortured after I was presided over by a small stove, a helicopter flew me like chasing a duck Puba sent to sign the deed of sale."

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"To be honest, Old Tang, I've been thinking about it for the past few days. Linguistics is really a subject that I can't pass, but what is involved in it is 'earth fire and geomantic omen', what is 'breeding from the wind, maintaining from the ground' and dividing the soil." It’s really difficult to understand. Compared with worshiping Hermes before the make-up exam, I might as well ask the near Buddha directly. Don’t they all say that you are a master of alchemy? Cuiyulu must learn pass?"

Facts have proved that before the horror and threat of failing, you can even lower your face and ask the friends you killed before to help. Lu Mingfei himself felt a little shameless, but before the horror of withholding scholarships, don’t He was used to his face, but he still did such outrageous things.

Of course, it may also be that Lu Mingfei simply drank too much alcohol, and he doesn't know the reason for this dream. The strong wine poured out of the jade goblet is more spicy than a burning knife, but there is a scent of jasmine in the mouth. Fei had to drink a few dishes every time he came in, and every time he succeeded in being half-drunk, he could drink and get drunk in his dreams. The vice-principal who had been in the prohibition period heard this and his eyes were red.

"I haven't learned the jade record you mentioned, and I haven't heard of these things." The man in white said slowly, holding a wine saucer, "but there is a loophole in your question, 'conceived from the wind, nurtured from the ground' cannot be dismantled. Kai Lai understands that this is half a sentence. His first half sentence is "the sun is the father, and the moon is the mother." From this, he knows that this sentence is explaining the mystery of the origin of "light" for the world. Turn. Breeding from the wind means that the characteristics of light are like wind, indeterminate, like waves, like lines; like earth conservation means that the earth veins generate heat, light comes from heat, and there is no heat without light.”

"Wait, you haven't learned how Cuiyulu did it so well to understand these things. Are you analyzing light by saying this?" Lu Mingfei was confused by the calm and indifferent academic words of the man in white for a while. I was dizzy, but I still heard the other party's words clearly, "Light is like wind, its characteristics are indeterminate, like waves like lines, damn it, isn't this the theory of wave-particle duality?"

Lu Mingfei was dumbfounded, so according to what Old Tang said, can the maintenance from the ground in the second half be understood as the direct connection between light and heat, deriving that the essence of light is the composition of microscopic particles and electric charges, which can be compared with Transform heat into each other?
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 talk about analysis and recasting."

The Greek professor with a goatee has also emphasized this sentence many times, but the current situation is that they, a group of mixed races, have been holding this basic alchemy formula for hundreds of years, or even thousands of years. Teeth, difficult and obscure things in your mouth are as simple as the nine-nine multiplication table.

Suddenly, he had a horrifying thought, and asked tentatively: "Old Tang, have you ever been to Egypt, and just 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 trifles."

"Then what do you think of the sentence 'the bottom is like the top, and the top is like the bottom; according to this, the miracle of Taiyi will be fulfilled'? Have you ever said this sentence yourself?"

"One of the fundamentals of alchemy is that up is down, and down is up. Air, matter, and all tangible concepts must be discarded in alchemy in order to explore the miracle of life and death and find the 'light' in the dark , 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 didn't give an answer, probably because he thought the question was boring. Although he didn't hate Lu Mingfei in this dream, he wouldn't respond to the other party's meaningless complaints and complaints.

"You actually left the Jade Record! You... you deserve to die!" Lu Mingfei wailed, and was so angry that he wanted to stand up and point his hands at His Royal Highness Norton in front of him, but his rationality still made him hold back the emotion. impulse.

He really wanted to cry and say, do you know that the nine-to-nine multiplication table you wrote by hand has harmed a large group of scholars in later generations, and even their students who are tortured by spirituality and alchemy every day, you know you want to understand "earth fire" Feng shui' chain reaction-like collapse in chant?Do you know the pain of finding derivatives of alchemy formulas with an abacus?you do not know!You are a goddamn alchemist, clap your hands for whatever you want, and they have to make 44 seals for these hard-working people, and the ones released may still be squibs!
You really should be hanged up to make an example of you, you bastard!

Oh, wait, Old Tang seems to have been pulled out by them, so it's okay.

Lu Mingfei wisely didn't spit out this bad cliché that might turn everyone's face into trouble, so he punished himself with a drink. He was so hot that he flushed all over again.

"I'm going, Cuiyulu was actually written by you. It's a gods and ghosts. It feels like reading a scripture. By the way, what is the cloudy 'Taiyi' written on the slate you left? You said it. I used the "Digimon" stalk to make fun of it in private, and was caught by the professor and fined me to copy the 13 Latin sentences of "Jade Record" a hundred times, but I suspect that he himself didn't know this What exactly is the thing that is offered like an ancestor! Is it really the same as the current mainstream scholars believe, it is the 'spirit'?" Lu Mingfei felt that the aftertaste of the wine was a bit strong, and his tongue was a bit weak when he spoke.

What exactly does Taiyi refer to? The history of this subject’s debate in the academic circles of mixed races probably starts from the time of Alexander the Great when he discovered the Emerald Jade Tablet. 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 Taiyi, even the author who portrayed this stone tablet is also fascinated by Taiyi, and even pursues Taiyi endlessly.

For such a grand answer, everyone has their own understanding. Some people say that the one is the real god, others say that the one is the "power" of God, and some people understand that the one is the "spirit", materialistic, idealistic, and nothingness Thoughts such as doctrine and so on are rampant, but in the end there is still no answer that can be recognized by most people.

"You say 'Tai One' again in Latin, I'm not sure what the answer you want is." The man in white said.Until now they have been talking in Chinese.

Lu Mingfei tilted his head and slipped out of the Jade Record Latin that he had memorized hundreds of times.

The man in white paused for a while after hearing this, his pupils looked at the flickering candlelight in the wine dish in his hand, and said softly, "We are all chasing Taiyi, praying for Taiyi's truth and love, we are eager to understand Taiyi, return to Taiyi, because that is Conceptually, the absolutely transcendent 'god' is the only ultimate in alchemy that can directly refer to the 'big theme'."

"Don't be a riddle, tell me directly, what is Tai Yi?" Lu Mingfei said casually.

"The source. The one is the source." The man in white said, "Everything in the world is born from the one, including the infinite universe. The long history is like a flood of rivers, boundless, but everything has a beginning and an end. We are born struggling and drowning in the river of stars. , unable to see the whole picture, longer than Shi Xing, limited by species and times, unable to roam the stars of truth, unable to explore the macroscopic way, then go deep into the microcosmic principles through alchemy, and know that everything has rise and fall, rise and fall The node of the cycle, or the entire closed loop of rising and falling, is the One, and alchemy is also a knowledge-seeking technique to exhaust the microscopic principles, understand and control the One.”

Regarding the lecture given by His Royal Highness Norton, the King of Bronze and Fire, who is the most authoritative among the four monarchs 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 pipe of the life support cabin and ask for a replacement A futon seat to seek the Tao, but now Lu Mingfei, who is drinking and listening to lectures, has only three words for these ultimate knowledge:

"Can't understand."

"Life and death." The man in white glanced at this guy, as if he knew that he couldn't understand the core insights on alchemy he had expressed, and directly threw away the simplest and simple generalizations, "The concept of origin and end is for human beings." It's too grand, the small concept of life and death is just right."

Lu Mingfei's CPU was overclocked and overheated, and his head buzzed for a while, and then he let out a long cry, "I seem to have heard from the orthodox side that the things in the Nibelungen are all 'dead' in the small world, so Is this thing a product of alchemy? After working on it for a long time, it turned out to be alchemy, and I thought that thing was something cool like the 'field' that comes with dragons."

Regarding Lu Mingfei's complaints, the man in white didn't answer a word, and after answering Lu Mingfei's fairly serious question, he drank his wine in silence.

Lu Mingfei might have really drank too much, and he began to ramble about the big and small things in Kassel College, and also talked about the recent paradoxical and shitty situation.

He said that he hadn't read much in the year since he entered school, and that he had been thrown on him one after another in the life-and-death jobs, and he hadn't made any big mistakes until now. Although he can't be called a veteran of all battles, he said he has worked hard. Good cows and horses that eat grass and squeeze blood are always justified, right?But what about the result?As soon as something happened, the school management committee kidnapped him and put him on display in a zoo where he didn't know where to hide.

Speaking of this, he also asked one more question by the way, "Old Tang, do you know the king of the earth and the mountain?"We seem to have bumped into it. After Lin Nian played with him twice, he cut off his brother's favorite knife. It looks like a ruthless dragon, but can dragon kings like you also play sneaky sneak attacks?It’s also a gods and ghosts who hide their heads and show their faces. After we saw it once, we couldn’t remember what it looked like. What is this, is it shy?Hahaha!
Lu Mingfei was talking nonsense while drinking, His Royal Highness Norton has already died, and now it is not considered collaborating with the enemy, he will not be held accountable if he sleeps and dreams and talks nonsense, right?No matter how long the investigation team is, they can't grow here!

But he didn't notice that the more he said about the king of the land and the 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 pair of fiery red pupils I don't know when to stare straight at myself.

(End of this chapter)