Reset Life with Infinite Talents - Chapter 205

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Infinite Talent Reset Life Episode 205

53. The Principles of Wind, Water, and Earth

Twilight sunlight filtering in.

At the rustling sound, Johann and Emily under the pure white blanket simultaneously open their eyes.

They look at each other shyly.

“…Pfft!”

“Hehe!”

The two who had the whole world last night embrace each other.

Ring ring! Bzzzz!

The phone’s ringtone interrupted the two who were about to get heated again.

* * *

“Let’s make them independent.”

Clang!

The parents gathered together over Johann and Emily’s overnight stay.

Larry blinks as he sets down his coffee cup at Edward’s resolute words.

“Uh….”

Johann and Emily, who had been shocked, tactfully kneel down.

Johann and Emily had been shocked that Edward wasn’t at work when they came home after sharing a little more love since they were going to get scolded anyway.

Rather than scolding the two, Edward and Sandra grabbed their wrists and came to Larry and Johann’s house, where surprisingly, Larry and Ada weren’t at work either.

And then Edward suddenly brought up this topic.

“Are you serious?”

He asks if this was discussed with Sandra too.

Edward snorts as he looks at Johann and Emily being genuinely remorseful and well-behaved for the first time in their lives.

“They’re both adults, and as of yesterday they’ve climbed the final step, so what’s the point of keeping them around? That Johann must have been mentally prepared to pull off something like staying out after prom night.”

Sandra, Larry, and Ada look at Johann’s bowed head.

“True. That kid wouldn’t have done such a thing without any plan.”

He was prepared to take responsibility for one person.

If not, he would have returned last night.

Because they know Johann so well, their resistance diminishes.

They look at each other.

“Let’s do that. If Edward is okay with it, we agree too.”

Johann and Emily quickly raise their heads, but the parents ignore them.

“What about the house?”

“Emily and I will choose the house and furniture. Ada will help too, right?”

“Of course, Sandra. A small place would be good for now, right?”

“Johann has a lot of stuff though, will it be okay?”

“…It would be better to just buy a mansion in Beverly Hills or Santa Monica.”

“Not too close, not too far? Hoho. That sounds good.”

“Um….”

Everyone’s gaze turns to Johann.

Cold sweat naturally seeps out, and he swallows dry saliva.

‘What about our opinion?’

Larry, Ada. Is it okay for me to become independent?

Mom, Dad. Is it okay for me to become independent? I’m not ready yet though?

Those words rose to their throats and churned, but the two endured with superhuman patience.

“Can’t we find the house ourselves?”

Looking at how things were going, independence couldn’t be stopped. Then they had to find a good place to live.

There’s something that people from the East, including ‘King Jeongjong Yi Bang-gwa’, all say.

The house site. They had to find the best site.

“Since it’s the house we’ll be living in.”

Emily and himself.

Johann held the surprised Emily’s hand, and the parents thought for a moment, then looked at each other and nodded.

This wasn’t a situation of becoming independent with parental help like ordinary people.

Both Johann and Emily were children with solid financial resources. It would be better for them to watch from behind and help when needed.

“Good. Let’s do that.”

Thus, their independence was decided.

“I’ll teach them household chores well before they move into the mansion.”

“Please do, Sandra. I don’t know much about that area.”

“Hoho. Originally, that’s something mothers teach, Ada.”

“Then I’ll understand it that way, Larry.”

“You’ve had a hard time because of my foolish child, Edward.”

“Well, my daughter is the same…. Then.”

‘Well, see you later?’

‘See, see you tomorrow?’

Johann, who was forcibly separated from Emily, looks at Larry.

Larry only watches the Sherman family moving away.

“Johann, want to follow me for a moment?”

“Yeah.”

Larry takes Johann to the warehouse behind the mansion.

He walks into the warehouse that smells of musty dust and takes out a barbecue grill.

He also brings a box of charcoal, kindling and a lighter to start the fire.

And he holds out the tongs.

“Hold this.”

“Larry?”

Larry, who had never given up the barbecue tongs, saying they belonged to the head of the family.

Only then does Johann realize why Larry is suddenly acting this way.

‘He’s trying to teach me.’

As a man, as a woman’s man, he’s trying to teach him what he needs to do as a father.

Johann grits his teeth and looks at Larry, and Larry finally looks directly at Johann.

“Watch carefully. This is what you’ll have to do from now on.”

“…Yeah.”

“First, tear open the charcoal….”

Johann concentrated so as not to miss Larry’s words.

That evening’s dinner was barbecue grilled by Johann.

It was a party that included Emily, Edward, and Sandra who had returned.

* * *

The next day, at dawn when the sun rises dimly.

Johann quickly climbs Stone Canyon, the mountain above Bel Air.

Johann heads to the highest point along the hiking trail.

“Whoa!”

He grins at the cool, dry spring wind that cools his pounding heart and the sweat beading up.

He spreads both arms as if to embrace the vast concrete forest, LA, spread out widely.

“I’m glad I came up here after all.”

Johann laughs in disbelief after confirming even the mountain ridges.

“The terrain is insane.”

To the north lies the Santa Monica Mountains, to the east the San Gabriel Mountains surround the city, while the west and south face the Pacific Ocean in perfect feng shui formation with mountains behind and water in front.

A giant dragon embraces the entire city, with Griffith Observatory corresponding to the dragon’s head.

‘And that magnificent energy flows down into the city.’

The energy descending from the mountains flows toward the ocean, and while this energy should cross the entire city and exit into the Pacific Ocean, artificial waterways like the LA River form the city’s water veins, while parks and hills, symbolic buildings like Griffith Park, City Hall, and Staples Center capture that energy, circulating and stabilizing it.

‘What kind of terrain is this?’

Daoism Master Doseon, a monk from the late Silla period who greatly influenced the feng shui theories that became popular from the Goryeo dynasty, also laughs in disbelief.

A land where just living there leads to success.

Though the energy is strong and one could be greatly harmed if swept away carelessly, it’s land where anyone who matches well with it will achieve greatness.

“American Dream.”

Those words naturally come to mind.

‘Come to think of it…’

For a moment, the name the old Indians used to call it comes to mind.

The mountain of the firebird that stands tall and blocks.

The land where a giant firebird that blocks the cold and harsh things from the north resides.

‘LA was called the land where everything grows.’

Animals, plants, and people.

Long ago, the Indians who read the stars and nature to divine fortune and misfortune knew.

The greatness of this land.

Johann ignores the tingling and thrilled Daoism Master Doseon and looks toward Bel Air, Beverly Hills, and Santa Monica.

“…No wonder the rich gathered here.”

LA’s most affluent neighborhoods are clustered right where the energy flows.

That’s what’s amazing.

How did Westerners who knew nothing about feng shui manage to find such good places with uncanny precision to build houses and lay roads so energy could flow smoothly?

‘They must have felt it instinctively too.’

Good land and bad land.

It was truly fascinating.

“The best place among them is… there.”

Johann’s eyes gleamed as he looked at one spot.

The place where the dragon’s orb lies, the location where the greatest energy among those flowing to the sea begins.

It could truly be called a site fit for a royal palace.

“Huff! Huff!”

Johann turned around at the sound coming from behind him.

“I’ve seen everything. Let’s go down.”

“Ah.”

Rick, who had barely made it up, was disappointed.

* * *

“Hello!”

“Huh?”

Johann is startled, and Emily tilts her head.

“Don’t you remember? Seven years ago.”

“…Wow?! Long time no see!”

It was the employee from California’s largest real estate company who had guided them when they were looking for The One Who Became a Star’s safe house and Instory’s first office building.

“Hehe! You’re still as sharp as ever!”

Truly Sandra Sherman’s daughter.

The 50s Employee who nodded to Sandra standing behind looks at Johann.

‘That little boy has grown up like this…!’

The cute boy who used to examine buildings meticulously as if imitating a professional had become a Billboard star who shook the world.

Emily had also become one of LA’s top ten fashion models.

He really thinks birds of a feather flock together.

‘These two will be the key points today too.’

The fact that Sandra is staying back like last time is proof of that.

They were benefactors who made him and his company unrivaled in California thanks to letting him broker Instory’s first office building. He could never treat them carelessly.

“I heard you’re looking at mansions.”

“Yes. We’re trying to find a house to live in independently.”

“Oh, congratulations! Which area do you prefer?”

Johann answered immediately as if there was nothing to think about.

“Beverly Hills.”

It was the place where the greatest energy among those flowing to the sea begins, where a massive and warm river starts.

“Wow…”

“You don’t seem to like it, so let’s move to another house.”

“I’m sorry.”

She’s been making him work hard for two days already.

“Haha, not at all, Miss Sherman. This is my job.”

And brokering such luxury homes brings huge incentives. This much effort was nothing.

“Hehe. Thank you for saying that.”

Watching Emily smile brightly, Johann speaks up.

“Don’t you like any place?”

“…I’m not sure.”

Maybe because it’s a house for two people to live in together. Even houses that look very pretty have parts here and there that bother her.

“Some yards are too big, some have too many rooms.”

The water pressure, electricity, lighting, soundproofing that Johann mentioned long ago are all fine as befits Beverly Hills, but she doesn’t know why there are parts that don’t appeal to her.

“Those things can be fixed with construction, right?”

“…Huh?”

“Hohoho!”

“Oh, Mom!”

Johann comforts Emily whose face is turning red.

“From now on, just look at the building’s size, structure, and feeling.”

“Feeling?”

“Someone told me that some houses, the moment you enter them, you feel ‘ah, this is my home.’ Right, Sandra?”

“That’s right. For a house where people will live, that’s the most important thing.”

Water pressure, electricity, lighting, soundproofing can all be solved with money.

The problem is how familiar the house feels.

“There are houses sometimes. Ones where you think, ah, I can’t live here.”

If you ignore that feeling and buy anyway, incidents and accidents always happen.

“It’s the house spirit rejecting you.”

“I’m not a kid anymore, you know?”

“To this mom, you’re still a little child.”

“Geez…”

“I felt it seven years ago too, but Johann knows well.”

That’s why she’s tempted.

“Haha. Thank you.”

“How about Johann picks this time?”

Johann looks at Emily.

“Yeah! That’s fine!”

Among all the mansions they’ve seen so far, there hasn’t been a single house that gave her the feeling “this is the one” like Johann and Sandra just mentioned.

“You’re lucky again! Who knows?”

Maybe you’ll find treasures like a CIA agent’s secret safe house and Norton I’s gold coins.

Johann bursts into laughter at Emily’s sparkling eyes, as if she hopes to find such things.

‘She can’t help it.’

Having lived in such a house, Emily wouldn’t be impressed by ordinary homes.

‘Edward really found a great house. Same with Larry.’

Johann looked at the real estate agent.

“Then let’s start from the house at the very top and work our way down.”

“The very top, you mean?”

“Over there.”

The mansion at the end of the road overlooking Beverly Hills.

‘That place…?’

“If it’s not vacant, then we can’t help it.”

“It is vacant, but…”

The employee’s expression stiffened slightly as he said this.

* * *

“Oh?”

“Hmm?”

Emily and Sandra are amazed by the wall that’s easily 60 feet (about 18 meters) high, towering like a castle wall, while Johann’s expression hardens.

He understands why the real estate agent was reluctant.

“Ahem. Let’s go inside.”

Clank, creeeeak!

Emily and Sandra, who entered without hesitation since it was a registered listing, are surprised again.

‘Oh my?’

The moment they crossed the gate, a cool energy that soothed their skin warmed by the gentle spring sunlight.

The deeper they walked inside, the more clearly they could feel that energy.

Emily looks at Johann with a surprised face.

“I think I know.”

She thinks she understands what Johann and Sandra meant.

This is the place.

Perhaps because of the coolness, she feels an overwhelming urge to lie down.

“I’m getting greedy for this place too? Emily, compared to your parents’ house…”

“No! This is ours!”

It seems the previous owner put the house on the market not long ago, as the furniture and interior are clean enough that they could just move in.

Johann smiles faintly at Emily’s sparkling eyes, urging him to sign the contract quickly.

“Really? Don’t you want to see other houses?”

“I’ve already seen plenty!”

“Alright. Then let’s look around a bit more. You might change your mind after exploring.”

“Okay! Mom, let’s go!”

As Emily and Sandra quickly move away as if enchanted by something, Johann looks at the real estate agent.

“By any chance, didn’t the person who first built this house recklessly expand their business and self-destruct?”

Everyone who bought this mansion after that person would have gone bankrupt and sold the house.

“Gasp?!”

‘H-how does he know that?’

“As I thought…”

This is the worst kind of cursed land.

No, the person who first built this house turned this place into cursed land.

“When this mansion was first built here, things must have gone extremely well.”

This is right in front of where the energy of the dragon orb begins, a river of massive and warm energy.

‘Excess is worse than deficiency, but the swimming pool and landscaped trees behind the mansion would have properly cooled and circulated that energy.’

“They probably raised the wall on the gate side around that time.”

They blocked the door through which the energy should have flowed out.

“They must have become anxious because things were going too well.”

“Gasp!”

Since the energy came in but couldn’t flow out, things really went well at first. Even reckless business expansion would have succeeded.

“Becoming even more anxious, that person would have raised the wall in the backyard, the part facing the mountain.”

That became the problem.

This was a house where the temperature was barely controlled by energy flowing out through the gate that opened morning and evening.

But the good energy that should have entered couldn’t come into the house and flowed around following the walls, and even the energy that barely made it over the walls was cooled by the swimming pool and landscaping.

‘Perfect conditions for generating negative energy.’

The problem was that the high walls surrounding all sides trapped that negative energy.

‘With negative energy overflowing in a place where people live, problems were inevitable.’

Trying to protect the expanded businesses somehow, they couldn’t come home often, and the less the gate opened, the more negative energy accumulated.

This phenomenon repeated, and eventually this artificial cursed land was created.

“Then they would have gone bankrupt.”

Everyone who bought this house afterward would have gone bankrupt too.

But there’s always demand because LA citizens basically have hot bodies.

Living on such energy-rich land, it would be stranger if their bodies weren’t hot.

Since this place naturally cools such hot bodies, anyone who entered would want to buy it.

‘Just like Emily and Sandra earlier.’

A Venus flytrap-level trap was completed.

The employee’s eyes tremble.

“…You were targeting this house from the beginning.”

“Haha. Did I get caught?”

“How about reconsidering?”

As Johann said, everyone who entered went bankrupt and left.

Johann wouldn’t say such things if he were an ordinary person, but he’s a Billboard star and possibly Sandra Sherman’s future son-in-law.

There was no need to make a potential big client into an enemy.

“If it’s because of the price…”

This place, already rumored enough, costs almost half the price of mansions of similar scale.

“You think I’d worry about money? I just like it. Emily and Sandra like it too.”

‘Why would I give such a place to someone else?’

Just fix the walls and great fortune will pour in.

“Instead…”

“I’ll try to match the price as much as possible. I’ll also prepare the best remodeling company.”

“Good. Please do.”

Tap tap tap!

“Johann!”

“Did you look around everything? Shall we go with this place?”

“Yes! This place, definitely this place! It seems like we could just move in!”

A four-story house including the basement.

The land is spacious with a very large swimming pool, basketball and tennis courts, and even a golf practice range.

All of it was in good enough condition to use anytime with just cleaning.

“Actually, no.”

“Huh?”

“We need to tear it all down and rebuild.”

“…Why!”

Emily, who wanted to live there with Johann right away, protested, but Johann gently soothes her.

“I heard from this person that the previous owner failed in business and left. Are you going to use something that kind of person used? Something secondhand?”

“Ugh….”

That does feel a bit unsettling.

“And it’s going to be our house. We need to modify it to suit us.”

“…Then there’s no choice.”

‘Sigh. Emily will never be able to beat Johann.’

It seems I’ll have to teach her how to handle men.

Sandra let out a deep sigh.

* * *

From childhood, he felt as if he could see the wind with his eyes.

Lukewarm wind, warm wind, hot wind.

Cool wind, cold wind, damp wind.

Good wind, bad wind.

With just one step difference, the temperature of the wind would change, making it quite an interesting plaything for him.

It was different from ordinary wind.

He realized this for certain when the village’s powerful family expanded their house.

When damp wind suddenly rushed into the Massive Estate where warm wind had been swirling just moments before, he was startled and told his father, but Father turned pale and said he was possessed by ghosts, abandoning him at a distant Monastery.

“Why were you abandoned at this Monastery?”

When the monk asked and he told his story, the monk was amazed and said:

“You are The Child who can see energy!”

The energy that swirls around all things in heaven and earth, bringing life and death.

Realizing his Talent, he felt the energies gathering and scattering from all directions, and soon gained the insight that there was a certain law to this.

Then he fatefully met Hye-cheol, who became his lifelong teacher and had studied abroad in Tang Dynasty, learning about feng shui and establishing the theoretical framework.

Thus he went out into the world and generously shared his insights, later prophesying the birth of King Taejo of Goryeo Wang Geon and creating the yin-yang feng shui theory that became the foundation of Korean Peninsula geomancy, earning him the titles ‘Teacher of Kings, National Master Do-seon’ and ‘Daoism Master Doseon’ from all people.

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