I Materialized the Cultivation Game-Chapter 48 - 42: Don’t Believe in Arrays—How About Feng Shui?
The alarm clock rang, and Chen Han got up as usual, then looked at the data of the sect’s base in his mind: 1. 400,000 wealth (54,200/400,000). 2. Reputation 2000 (823/2000).
Upon waking up, the reputation had increased by more than 300 again.
He took out his phone to check yesterday’s video data, the likes reached 25,000, and they were still growing.
Clearly, the effect brought by the Beast Taming Technique in this video was very good.
In the comments section, Professor Wu’s scientific explanations also received a lot of likes, reaching 10,000 likes, and had already been pinned to the top comment position.
You have to know, his video only has 25,000 likes!
This is mainly because Professor Wu’s explanations made a lot of sense.
Additionally, this kind of scientific explanation would make many people feel that controlling the lion-headed goose with a flute is no big deal. If they spent time on it, they could do it too, but they just didn’t want to do it or didn’t have the time.
Therefore, they were more willing to believe this scientific explanation.
This mindset is commonly seen in any place with a comments section, and it’s reached a twisted level in many instances.
For example, people who can’t even afford a van look down on those who buy a BMW 5 Series, commenting dismissively.
Or people who can’t even find a girlfriend often judge others’ girlfriends, saying they’ve never seen a woman before.
Or those who have never practiced martial arts watch the National Martial Arts Routine Champion’s video and comment that there’s no martial arts foundation at all.
Actually, this isn’t just about feeling humble in reality; it’s about seeking a sense of presence and recognition online without realizing their ignorance and lack of understanding, being overly confident, thinking their opinions are correct.
Anyway, every one of them is a petty clown.
Since he wants to rely on Tiao Yin to increase his reputation, Chen Han also understands this situation. After all, it doesn’t affect his reputation growth.
He freshened up a bit and then left the room.
In the courtyard, he checked a few Cold Orchids that had been marked with notches for not being fully grown.
Those watered with Spirit Plant Dew Water had clearly grown another segment, and compared to those that weren’t watered, they were much taller now.
This gave him a better comparison of the +2 growth speed attribute of the Spirit Plant Dew.
Following this trend, the Cold Orchid, which would originally take a year and a half to complete its growth cycle, could now finish in about 2 to 3 months.
Chen Han then left the courtyard, heading towards the special spiritual acupoint.
Meanwhile, Professor Wu also got up at 5 due to special circumstances today and was surprised to see the like notifications from Tiao Yin’s backend on his phone.
When he usually posts his own science videos, getting 1,000 likes is already a lot, but yesterday he commented on the video of Patriarch Chen doing a scientific explanation, and it unexpectedly garnered 10,000 likes.
This was truly overwhelming.
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In the pavilion.
Chen Han had already sat down cross-legged, placing the Baihua Palace Spiritual Jade beside him, waiting for the spiritual energy flush to arrive.
With the first ray of sunlight, the spiritual energy flush from the special spiritual acupoint arrived punctually.
He operated the "Nine Heavens Profound Scripture Basic Qi Cultivation Method" and immediately began to guide and absorb the abundant spiritual energy.
However, today was obviously different. He clearly sensed that he absorbed more spiritual energy than usual.
Under the state of introspection, the spiritual energy flowing through his meridians was noticeably more than before.
This made him smile with joy, guessing that it was probably due to the several cultivation sessions and the nourishing meals with a +2 strengthening attribute he consumed every day, making his body much better than at the start.
He hurriedly and earnestly operated the "Nine Heavens Profound Scripture Basic Qi Cultivation Method" to refine and absorb the spiritual energy into his body.
Time passed.
When Chen Han stopped cultivating and opened his eyes, he immediately looked at his character panel. Although today’s absorbed spiritual energy was still used for lung treatment, it absorbed more today, so the effect would definitely be better.
March 15 Days 4 Hours
This number delighted him greatly.
He had started to measure in months, whereas before, it was days.
Moreover, calculating the time, today’s cultivation increased his lifespan by a full month.
Indeed, as the lung treatment progressed, the cultivation effect improved with each session.
He picked up the Baihua Palace Spiritual Jade next to him, and the ’Spirit Plant Dew’ magic on it had also restored its usage times.
Just as he was about to stand, he was surprised to look towards the fence around him.
The top was already covered with dense flower plant vines.
Those flower plant vines almost entirely covered the bamboo fence, packed so tightly that the inside couldn’t be seen.
The flowers were blooming more abundantly, completely unlike wild ones, appearing as if originally skinny wild children were now nourished to be plump and healthy by the dissipating spiritual energy.
But what truly surprised him was that there were small sections of bamboo branches and leaves emerging from between the flower plant vines everywhere.
How is this possible?
Who has ever seen bamboo turned into a fence still grow branches and leaves when there are no root systems to absorb nutrients?
Unless they grow new root systems, but if chopped and split into pieces, it’s like being drawn and quartered, completely destroyed.
He instinctively walked to the front of the fence, observed a piece of bamboo fencing, and dug a little into the ground, witnessing a shocking scene.
The bamboo slice, already shattered and quartered, had indeed grown some root systems.
This could be called a revival of dead wood, couldn’t it?
However, in the game’s storyline, this fence wall is part of the Thunder Bamboo Defense Array, rewarding a solid +2 attribute.
Earlier, he tried cutting it with a hatchet, and it was difficult to leave a mark.
Is this even considered ordinary bamboo?
Thinking this, Chen Han decided to return to make herbal cuisine, entering Little Uncle’s kitchen, where Little Uncle had already made porridge: "You always come at the right time, I’ve already prepared the porridge for you."
"Mm!" Chen Han nodded.
After they finished eating porridge together, Chen Lin said, "Xiaohan, I’m going to the vegetable garden later; there’s a batch of loofahs ready today. I need to pick some and send them to the tourist service center. Is there any vegetable you want to eat? I’ll pick some and bring them back."
Upon hearing about the vegetable garden, Chen Han again thought about the ’Spirit Plant Dew Water’ he modified yesterday.
That reservoir can irrigate the entire vegetable garden twice; although it shouldn’t cause any major issues, if cauliflower counts as a flower, then many vegetables could count as well.
So, he reminded, "Little Uncle, if something happens, just stay calm."
"???." Chen Lin paused for a moment upon hearing this, left with questions and headed to the vegetable garden.
Not long after, he arrived at the vegetable garden once more.
Seeing the situation inside, he was dumbfounded again.
Because there were so many flowers.
The celery, chives, onions, loofahs, beans, carrots... all somehow blossomed.
Especially the carrots, which rarely bloom; now they had grown clusters of tiny flowers.
(These refer to the carrot flowers!)
When has Chen Lin ever seen such a scene?
It’s not surprising for these vegetables to bloom, but the seasons are different; even if they bloom, they shouldn’t all bloom at the same time like this, should they?
This scene was a bit peculiar, reminding him of the cauliflower seeds from yesterday. He hurried to the two plots of cauliflower to check, and indeed found that what were small buds yesterday had now grown a section, with leaves.
This is definitely not a growth height that can be achieved in a day and night.
Even if one were slow, encountering such incidents again and again realizes it’s not some ethylene effect nonsense.
Immediately, he thought of his nephew’s strange reminder before leaving:
Stay calm if anything happens?
But in this situation, how can he stay calm?
He realized his nephew definitely knows what’s going on.
He hurriedly left the vegetable garden to find his nephew.
Not understanding this is disturbing.
Returning to his own kitchen, seeing his nephew making herbal cuisine, he hurriedly asked, "Xiaohan, the celery, chives, onions, loofahs, beans, carrots in the vegetable garden, all have bloomed. Quickly, tell Little Uncle, what’s going on? You definitely know."
Chen Han was also surprised to hear that so many vegetables had blossomed, particularly the carrots.
Could these be counted as flower-type plants?
He learned something new.
Seeing Little Uncle’s anxious look, he decided to reveal something.
However, he couldn’t fully reveal everything; some things have to be half-true, so after pondering for a moment about what to say, he said: "Little Uncle, didn’t I mention there’s really an array underground in the family, or to put it another way, a Feng Shui array? You can accept that more easily, right?"
"Feng Shui?" Chen Lin paused.
Because he thought of his grandfather.
His grandfather knew a bit about Feng Shui, and people in the village used to consult his grandfather for selecting grave sites or building houses.
Whether accurate or not, useful or not...
Anyway, his father didn’t learn, and their generation didn’t learn either.
However, the five arts of Taoism — ’mountain, medicine, fate, physiognomy, and divination,’ he knew about these.
Feng Shui belongs to physiognomy, and their Chen Family library indeed has records on Feng Shui.
Thus, the initially unreliable feeling about the array, one of the unreliable legends of the family, now with Feng Shui, he surprisingly felt it could be true.
Otherwise, how to explain what happened in the vegetable garden?
"Are there really arrays underground in the family?" Chen Lin couldn’t help but ask again.
"Didn’t Little Uncle see in the vegetable garden? It’s all recorded in the family’s ancient texts; Little Uncle wouldn’t think like Xiaoyu that the ancestors were just playing with the descendants, would you?"
Chen Han continued weaving his story, still half-true: "Recently, I’ve been studying this array, just happened to glean a bit of insight. Believe me, soon, we’ll definitely be able to activate this Feng Shui array."
Chen Lin was extremely surprised, his mind buzzing.
Xiaohan, weren’t you replying to Professor Wu in your video comments yesterday, saying to believe in science?
Now, you’re saying these?
Thinking again about the vegetables blooming all at once, he realized that it must be Xiaohan’s research on the array causing it, otherwise how to explain?
Was the Chen Family this powerful in the past?
