Xu Yi gave up controlling the Earth Spirit Quality, letting the hard-won quality scatter. He sprang to his feet, rushed to the desk, snatched up the enormous sheet of paper several feet wide, and stared at the color-coded charts arranged in rows and columns.
Xu Yi's expression was ferocious. His body trembled slightly as he muttered, "One hundred and eight medicinal properties, twenty-one with black as the primary color, another twenty-one with white, and still another twenty-one with purple. Twenty-one, twenty-one—they're all twenty-one..."
"This can't be a coincidence. It's a pattern, an unprecedented pattern. Hahaha, I'm going to strike it rich..."
Xu Yi couldn't help shouting aloud. His noise roused Qiu Wa, who sat up and shot him a sidelong glance. Her little body slipped down from the hanging basket and disappeared, clearly off to find somewhere quieter.
The Earth Spirit Quality had appeared as pure black, immediately making Xu Yi realize that the other four Spirit Qualities must correspond to four other pure colors.
Once he understood the hues of the different Spirit Qualities, he could easily compare them with the primary colors in the spectra of the one hundred and eight medicinal properties and tell which Spirit Quality was playing the leading role in each one. The colors made it plain at a glance.
He counted carefully. The five Elements Spirit Qualities—metal, wood, water, fire, and earth—each took the leading role in twenty-one medicinal properties.
The spectra of the remaining three medicinal properties were strange. One was bright, one transparent, and the last dim; none showed any distinct color.
Based on the Spirit Power attributes he already knew, Xu Yi deduced that of the three unknown attributes, two were probably celestial Spirit Qualities: Wind Spirit Quality and Lightning Spirit Quality. The last was impossible to pin down. He