I Materialized the Cultivation Game

Chapter 74: Chapter 68: Actually Using Feng Shui to Scam People! What Daoist Doesn’t Raise Cattle?

Wang Bing saw the words ”Feng Shui Room” and knew Patriarch Chen was up to something abstract again.

His girlfriend noticed his odd expression and asked, puzzled, ”Honey, what’s wrong?”

Wang Bing explained, ”Chen Family sent a message saying there’s a Feng Shui Room, and tourists who booked rooms can choose to switch!”

”Feng Shui Room? What’s this gimmick?” His girlfriend was also very surprised but suddenly looked at him with a special gaze, ”Honey, do you think it might be some kind of special themed room?”

Wang Bing was speechless, ”Didn’t you see the words Feng Shui? Why would you think of that?”

His girlfriend smirked, ”Maybe it is, feng and shui might be quite thrilling!”

Wang Bing sighed, ”Baby, can we not be so dirty-minded? We’re out to enjoy ourselves, not that kind of stuff.”

”Then what’s the point of going out if not for that? Isn’t it just to change the environment? Relax, feel better?” His girlfriend suddenly clung to his arm and said sweetly, ”I brought you medicine, heard it works great, you’ll definitely enjoy it.”

”...” Wang Bing really wanted to ask who exactly would enjoy it?

Honestly, only after they got together did he realize his girlfriend has strong desires.

That night he drank a bit too much, and then...

He even suspected he was the one being ’taken advantage of’.

If Patriarch Chen’s Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea really had that effect, that’d be great, but unfortunately, it’s just a prank video.

How does a young person deal with back pain?

”Honey, check out what’s going on with this Feng Shui Room.” His girlfriend curiously prompted again.

Wang Bing nodded and clicked in to see the data.

Air-conditioned Room: 16/23 (Today), 200 yuan/night.

Feng Shui Room: 7/100 (Today), 500 yuan/night.

These are the statuses of the Chen Family’s two types of rooms today. Previously, there was no distinction between air-conditioned rooms and Feng Shui rooms.

He clicked on the Feng Shui Room and saw the Feng Shui details: ”Chen Family is a Taoist heritage family, proficient in Taoist texts, rooms modified through Feng Shui arrangements for warmth in winter and coolness in summer.”

”???” Wang Bing couldn’t help but comment on this detail: ”Forget about Patriarch Chen being abstract, but making this kind of gimmick to fool people? Feng Shui transformation, really? And this room is 300 yuan pricier, yet seven people believe it?”

His girlfriend asked, ”Honey, could this Feng Shui Room have some actual special effect? Look, it’s marked as having no air conditioning, lodge without AC, isn’t that unusual?”

Wang Bing immediately shook his head, ”Baby, watching Patriarch Chen’s abstract videos is just for fun, don’t get fooled by it. I think these 100 rooms are made because Patriarch Chen’s video went viral, more tourists came, and room shortage forced temporary creation. Without AC installed yet, they simply used a gimmick.”

”Key point is, Chen Family members are smart, this temporary room is 300 yuan more expensive, cleverly using the anchoring effect, and seven people fell for it.”

His girlfriend found his reasoning sound and generously praised, ”Honey, you’re so smart!”

”Let’s go!” Wang Bing smiled proudly.

Such minor tricks!

He’s had higher education.

...

Outside the Chen Family gate.

Chen Han had taken out the Mouse Spirit Fruit, and since he got this thing, he had to use it up, although it had a limitation that none other than animals with Spiritual Wisdom Roots could use it.

So, he wasn’t sure which animals could use it and which couldn’t, and could only rely on Mouse Spirit Fruit attracting animals with Spiritual Wisdom Roots.

If an animal was attracted, then it had Spiritual Wisdom Roots.

He was wandering outside the gate, because wasn’t there the Dog Demon?

He wanted to see if those Dog Demons might be animals with Spiritual Wisdom Roots, as dogs have always been considered smart, loyal animals, one of the spiritual animals in human eyes.

Coincidentally, there were a few dogs not far away, and they looked like pet dogs, tamed by stray dogs outside the village.

Most stray dogs in the village were rural common dogs, but the dogs outside the village seemed more like pet dogs, somehow ended up here.

However, holding the Mouse Spirit Fruit, these dogs had no reaction at all, turning away as if they’d seen a plague god and ran.

”Stupid dogs!” Chen Han shook his head, seemed like these dogs also didn’t have Spiritual Wisdom Roots.

Then, holding the Mouse Spirit Fruit, he headed to the Spirit Beast Hall to check out those Profound Frost Lion-headed Geese, after all Lion-headed Geese were quite intelligent.

But when he got there, he took out the Mouse Spirit Fruit, put it in front of the Lion-headed Geese, none showed any response.

Seems like they also didn’t have Spiritual Wisdom Roots.

Chen Han frowned slightly, and directly took out his phone to open AI query: ”Which animals possess Spiritual Wisdom Roots.”

Have to admit, there really are a lot of AIs now, as a whole list of information came up shortly, even when it mentioned Wisdom Roots, it also listed regular animals along with Buddhist Sect, Taoist Sect some details and animal anecdotes.

Seeing this, he directly skipped over regular animals, ignored Buddhist Sect, and directly looked at Taoist Sect.

After all, the Chen Family is a Taoist Sect lineage family, the whole Chen Family’s ancient buildings everywhere are marked with Taoist Eight Trigrams and there’s a hall dedicated to the Demon-Vanquishing Celestial Venerable, if they were to cultivate Spiritual Beasts, it would definitely be to cultivate those related to Taoist Sect.

But when he looked at the Taoist Sect’s Spiritual Beast information, the first one was a Qilin.

Where would he find that?

The second one was a tiger.

Because that legendary Celestial Master Zhang’s mount was a Black Tiger.

This one would be hard to find too.

The third one made his eyes light up, it was a cow.

Cows have a very high status in Taoist Sect, even Zhengyi has the concept of ’Kun Niu’ as a spiritual idea, because cows represent gentleness, restraint, and deep virtue, matching the teachings.

There is also a saying about cows and Daoists, because Daoists’ hair is bundled in the shape of the number 8, resembling the cow’s nose, and the Heaven-Reaching Crown tilts upward, resembling a cow’s nose.

There are even many Taoist Sect legends about cows, like the story where a cow and a silly dog misplace wheat seeds causing trouble, where cows can only eat grass and dogs can only eat dung.

Also, the story of the cow following Venerable Lord, spitting bezoar stone to cure pestilence, and so on.

Most importantly, in the Taoist Sect, there is the saying about old cows having spirituality.

What are we waiting for?

Chen Han then called Little Uncle, once connected, he asked: ”Little Uncle, I remember there’s cow rearing in the clan right?”

Little Uncle’s voice came: ”Xiaohan, that’s right, Uncle 5 there is helping with the rearing, it was bought by your father back then, they’ve been rearing them for 7 years, last year a calf was born.”

”Alright, got it.” Chen Han nodded and headed towards Uncle 5’s courtyard.

Uncle 5 learned carving skills from a young age, was quite famous within the Chen Family, after all, people would look for him for any wood carving or bamboo carving needs, he has mastered great craftsmanship.

But as times evolved, machine carving replaced handcrafts, no one in the clan learns Uncle 5’s carving skills anymore.

Because carving requires bamboo and wood, Uncle 5’s courtyard is near the mountain, where letting the cows graze and go up the mountain is convenient, and the cowshed is built right next to his courtyard for care.

When Chen Han arrived at Uncle 5’s courtyard, he saw Uncle 5 working on carving bamboo tubes, which are used to store Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea.

Actually, using laser machines for carving would be faster, but laser carving is too templated, far from having the human-crafted feel or artistic angles...

”Patriarch has arrived.” Uncle 5 smiled and greeted when he saw Chen Han, not forgetting to urge others: ”Aren’t you going to greet?”

His generation is the remaining old-fashioned, they officially apprenticed to learn skills, bowing to the master when learning carving, so he values these old traditions, the Patriarch is high-status here.

Plus, Chen Han as Patriarch promoted Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea, allowing his carving skills to be utilized, creating jobs for the clan, even though he’s two generations above, he still respects Chen Han highly as Patriarch.

The others also greeted Chen Han one after another.

”Uncle 5, you guys are busy, I’m going to check out the cows.” Chen Han greeted and then headed to the cowshed.

Honestly, cows used to be labor animals, but joining the Chen Family was luck, as the Chen Family doesn’t have much farmland, they are busy only during farming times, the key is that the Chen Family belongs to Zhengyi, they can’t kill cows, selling them is even less possible, at least their peaceful retirement is guaranteed.

Chen Han arrived at the cowshed, where he saw two old cows and a little calf, much smaller in size compared to the two parents, all three cows were resting there.

He opened the door and entered the cowshed, the three cows did not react, these plow cows, unless provoked, are very gentle, willing to befriend humans.

Thus, folks in rural areas trust kids with herding cows.

After entering, Chen Han took out a Mouse Spirit Fruit, almost instantly, the two old cows suddenly stood up, clearly attracted by the Mouse Spirit Fruit in his hand, only the calf had no reaction, still lying there.

It was at that moment Chen Han was shocked by the actions of the two old cows, mouth agape.

He saw their front hooves actually bending to kneel down, heads bowed.

Cows offering homage to Tao?

Chen Han hadn’t expected the Taoist Sect’s archives to tell true stories?

Isn’t the scientific explanation that the cows being sold and slaughtered crying to their owner is because the cows are weak and tear up from onions?

Isn’t there a professor interpreting cow bowing to humans not being real animal behavior, but human creativity based on culture, emotions, or stories, everything can be scientifically explained?

Professor, please explain!