"Heaven has four seasons and five elements, bringing forth growth, flourishing, transformation, harvesting, and storage; creating cold, heat, dryness, dampness, and wind. Man has five organs that transform into five qi, giving rise to joy, anger, sorrow, worry, and fear."
Wu Zhengsi pulled open his training uniform, exposing his chest. He measured his skin with two fingers before finally pinching a spot beneath his diaphragm, slightly to the left.
Watching sludge seep from his pores, he drew a deep breath, held it, and explained at length:
"I cannot identify this talisman even with more than seventy years of experience, but I can be certain that it uses the human body's five organs as its foundation and the five elements as its method of murder.
This villa lost its water and electricity three days ago. I lit those candles intending to resolve the ruined Feng Shui, but they were used against me instead.
Furthermore, the force that raises clear qi from my spleen has been weakened to barely twenty or thirty percent. I will die before long.
Therefore, I believe this is Fire Generates Earth—fire being the extinguished candle flames, triggering the failure of the spleen, causing turbid qi to sink and clear qi to rise, suppressing us all!"
As the turbid qi sank, Ji Li and Mei Sheng were in slightly better condition, but Xue Tingtao had already dropped to his knees. He could barely move and was practically waiting for death.
Mei Sheng was temporarily unharmed because she wore Silk Gloves. As for why Ji Li remained unaffected...
That question still needed to be observed.
Wu Zhengsi truly deserved his reputation as a Feng Shui master. With Ji Li's prompt, he saw through the mystery in the shortest possible time.
He believed the killer used the five elements as