The Blonde Daoist

Chapter 2: The First Appearance of Tai Chi

September 1, 2009 at 07:30

At Amber Bay Middle School, Jerry Hoffman stuffed the first draft of the German translation of "The Analects of Confucius" into his schoolbag. The bronze compass in the pocket of the school uniform was slightly hot. This was the "Western-style" cultivation tool that Daoist Bai Xuan gave him last year - the dial was engraved with twelve constellations, and the center was embedded with a Tai Chi Yin Yang fish.

"Jerry!" Elsa Schmidt rushed through the revolving door, blond hair tied in a Chinese knot, schoolbag pendant with acupuncture bronze keychain, "Grandpa Bai asked us to go to the monastery ruins after school!"

In the glass cabinet at the end of the corridor, the trophy of the "China-Europe Junior Wushu Championships" won by the two last year was displayed. The base of the trophy was engraved with both the Taiji map and the Iron Cross, a fusion design voted by the residents of the town.

15:45

When they stepped on the broken stained glass to enter the monastery ruins, Priest Bai Xuan was sitting on the collapsed cross practicing his sword. Every time his Green Edge sword was swung, snowflakes condensed into German letters and floated in the air.

"Look good." The old man suddenly inserted his sword into the snow, and the twenty-four solar terms runes burst out from the tip of the sword. "This is the" Twenty-four Poetry Sword Styles "I created by combining Faust and the Sword Sutra."

Elsa's crystal ball automatically floated into the air, projecting Goethe's verse:

"Eternal Woman, Lead Us Ascension."

Where the sword was pointing, the verse was transformed into a Tai Chi cloud hand with sword qi vertical and horizontal. Jerry's birthmark of yin and yang fish on his wrist was hot, and he instinctively used his push hand to guide the sword qi in the sky into a gossip array.

"Very good, you have mastered the combat thinking of'combining things'." "Daoist Priest Bai Xuan threw over two ancient books," "Start practicing the Western Guidance Technique tonight, remember to use alchemy to extract spiritual energy."

20:00

In the Hoffman's underground wine cellar, Jerry lit the purple flame lamp for alchemists. According to the "Secret of Bavarian Alchemy", he mixed Black Forest pine needles, Rhine River water and bamboo slips from the Tao Te Ching, and the German version of the Yellow Court Sutra gradually emerged from the crucible.

"Try using Tesla coils to assist in cultivation." Elsa pressed the electrode rod against her temple, and the blue arcs jumped in the ends of her hair. "Grandpa Bai said it was the" Lightning Luring Technique "of the Industrial Age."

Jerry turned on his father's old radio and tuned it to 93.7MHz - the frequency set by Daoist Bai Xuan secretly. When the third movement of the Brandenburg Concerto sounded, he suddenly saw the reiki of the Rhine materialized in the music notes, turning into a golden dragon-shaped air mass.

"Elsa!" he said excitedly, pointing out the window. "I can see the aura flowing!"

March 15, 2010 11:00

The strange illness of the mayor's daughter Anna Schneider shocked the entire Amber Bay. The girl's skin appeared every day with mantras in different languages, from cuneiform to Mayan symbols, and the doctor diagnosed it as "occult hives".

"Let me try." Aisha took out the silver needles and looked for the corresponding acupuncture points in the German translation of Acupuncture and Moxibustion. She noticed that the chapters of the Book of Ezekiel appeared on the patient's arm, and immediately switched to the alchemical "Elemental Balance Needle".

When the silver needle pierces the "Qi Hai Point", Jerry activates the astrological projection function of the pocket watch, covering the zodiac sign on the patient's skin. As Elsa recites the mantra of the fusion of the Bible and the Serenity Sutra, the mantra is gradually transformed into a Taoist cloud seal, eventually forming a Tai Chi pattern on the surface of the skin.

"Thank God..." Mayor Schneider trembled as he embraced his daughter. "You have performed a miracle!"

December 24, 2011 23:00

On Christmas Eve, when the first snow fell, Jerry and Elsa stood at the top of the bell tower in the ruins of the monastery. In Elsa's crystal ball, the Rhine Muse phantom was talking to the Taoist river uncle; Jerry's compass showed that Jupiter and the Big Dipper were about to meet for the second time in three decades.

"Grandpa Bai said we should go to China." Aisha pointed to the image of the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes in the crystal ball. "He left a new trial there."

Jerry clenched the bronze sword in his hand, and a German inscription suddenly appeared on the blade:

"In the East, we will find the lost Holy Grail."

Shining footprints suddenly appeared on the snow, leading them to the underground of the monastery. The sarcophagus that had been covered in dust for ten years opened automatically, and the cross and gossip mirror on the chest of the blond mummy rose slowly, fusing into a new magic weapon in the air - the Tai Chi cross.

Elsa reached out to touch the magic tool, and the memory fragments of the Dunhuang murals flooded into her mind. "We used to be the lantern-bearers of Quan Zhen Sect and treated the caravan in the Hexi Corridor."

June 21, 2012 13:00

In the departure hall of Munich Airport, Jerry and Elsa were wearing modified daoist robes - the collar was embroidered with traditional Bavarian embroidery, and a silk band engraved with alchemy symbols was tied around the waist. Their backpacks contained the new "Western Daoist Robe" given by Daoist Bai Xuan:

Jerry's robe is lined with the formula "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy"

The interlayer of Elsa's daoist robe hides the medieval herbal map and the "Thousand Golden Recipes"

"Remember, you need to find three things when you go to Dunhuang this time," Daoist Priest Bai Xuan instructed through a video call. "The Sanskrit version of the Tao Te Ching translated by Master Xuanzang, the alchemy formula recorded by Marco Polo, and..."

The old man suddenly coughed violently, and the afterimage of the two monks in the Dunhuang mural flashed in the lower right corner of the picture. Jerry noticed that in the background of the video, the Bible and Zhuangzi were automatically turning pages, and the word "Golden Core" appeared on the same page number of the two books at the same time.

When the plane crosses the Eurasian continent, Jerry and Aisha see strange visions through the porthole:

A rainbow bridge from Norse mythology appears above the Black Sea.

A phantom of the Taoist Sanqing Palace appears in the area of the Caspian Sea.

In the clouds over the Himalayas, the word "Dao" composed of Sanskrit and oracle bone inscriptions looms faintly.

Aisha's crystal ball suddenly levitates and plays a pre-recorded video of Taoist Priest Bai Xuan: "Children, you are about to come into contact with the core of the 'integration of East and West' cultivation. Remember, the true great path lies at the intersection of the Rhine and the Yellow River, in the resonance between Galileo's telescope and the alchemy furnace..." Jerry opens the latest chapter of "Western Guidance Technique" and finds a line of German poetry on the originally blank page:

"When the children of two civilizations meet, the ancient stars will rearrange." When the plane lands at Dunhuang Airport, low bell and drum sounds come from the direction of the Mogao Grottoes. The acupuncture bronze figure birthmark on Aisha's wrist suddenly heats up. She takes out the bronze key given by Taoist Priest Bai Xuan and finds that the tooth shape of the key exactly matches the flying apsaras ribbons in the Dunhuang murals.

"Are you ready?" Jerry grips the Taiji cross. The statues of the Rhine goddess and the Yellow River water god on the hilt start to rotate slowly.

"For the integration of East and West." Aisha points the crystal ball at the Crescent Spring. The water surface reflects their dual figures in Hanfu and Bavarian national costumes.

In the twilight of Dunhuang City, mysterious camel bells come from Mingsha Mountain. Two blond teenagers, with the mission of changing the world, set foot on the land of Eastern cultivation...