Chapter 64: Why Use a Blade to Kill?

Li Sicheng had always been a man of his word. If he said he would bring the Cheng family to ruin within a week, he would never let it drag on to the eighth day.

In truth, Li Sicheng hadn’t intended to deal a fatal blow to Cheng Haoyu at first. After all, he had only just succeeded in reshaping his destiny and needed to accumulate more merit to stabilize his newly forged fate. Destroying a family would severely damage his karmic virtue.

If Cheng Haoyu had chosen to yield, apologize, and make amends, the matter would have ended there. As long as he behaved himself, Li Sicheng would not have troubled him further.

But the problem was, Cheng Haoyu was used to being arrogant and overbearing. How could he possibly humble himself? The only thing on his mind was “revenge.”

As for Li Sicheng, having painstakingly obtained a new fate, he would not tolerate any threat to its existence. Even if it meant sacrificing some of his merit, he would snuff out danger in the cradle.

In the end, Cheng Haoyu was courting his own doom. Not only did he bring disaster upon himself, but he also dragged his father and the whole family down with him.

"I’ll break this Five Directions Prosperity Formation right now and plunge the Cheng family’s fortune into ruin!"

After a brief observation, Li Sicheng quickly identified the five “qi nodes” of the formation. Using the cover of night, he swiftly made his way toward the first.

The Five Directions refer to east, south, west, north, and center. The Five Directions Prosperity Formation gathers wealth from all five directions, creating a place where fortune flows unceasingly. Living in such a place, bathed day and night in the essence of wealth, it would be hard not to become rich!

Therefore, to bring about the Cheng family’s downfall, he first had to break this formation. Otherwise, no matter what blow they suffered, they would always be able to recover and reverse their decline.

From his observation, Li Sicheng saw that this formation was naturally formed, not arranged by a master. Though a naturally occurring site for wealth is a thousand times more effective than any manmade one, it is also much easier to break.

He first located the qi node of the east, which happened to be in a flower bed outside the villa.

"This is it!"

Li Sicheng lightly tapped the soil with his hand, sensing the feedback from the earth. Then he reached into his coat and took out a small packet folded from yellow paper. Quickly opening it, he extracted an old, rusted iron nail.

This was no ordinary nail from a hardware shop, but one used in ancient times to seal coffins before burial.

In those days, cremation was uncommon. Bodies were interred whole, and to prevent supernatural incidents like corpse transformation, the coffin lid was nailed shut with iron nails. This way, even if something unnatural happened, the corpse would be trapped and unable to harm the living.

Whether such things as corpse transformations truly existed is beside the point. The real significance is that these coffin nails, over the course of centuries, absorbed thick deathly energy, becoming exceptionally yin and fiercely baleful—perfect for breaking auspicious feng shui formations.

Li Sicheng picked up the nail and, without hesitation, drove it into the eastern qi node.

The moment the nail pierced the soil, a strange phenomenon erupted!

The once tranquil flower bed suddenly boiled over as if brought to a rapid boil. Countless insects living within went mad, fleeing in panic. Especially those hidden beneath the earth—worms, beetles, and the like—scrambled desperately to the surface, churning the soil until it seemed to writhe and pulse, enough to make one’s scalp crawl.

Though insects are not intelligent, they are acutely sensitive to changes in the world’s energies. This is their innate ability, the reason they have survived for millions of years surrounded by predators.

Humans, too, once had this ability, but as greed and obsession clouded their primordial senses, the talent faded. Today, only those who have undergone esoteric cultivation can regain it.

Now, as the baleful nail entered the node, the feng shui was instantly ruined, turning the spot into a deadly place. The terrified insects, sensing the upheaval, dared not linger and fled at once.

After destroying the eastern node, Li Sicheng moved quickly to the remaining directions. He drove nails into the nodes at the south, west, north, and center, breaking their feng shui in turn.

With each node ruined, swarms of insects erupted from the earth and fled. But as it was night and the darkness deep, even if someone happened by, they would not notice the insect tide washing over the ground.

With the five nails in place, the feng shui of the estate plummeted in an instant.

But Li Sicheng did not stop there. Breaking the formation merely meant the Cheng family would no longer enjoy smooth fortune in the days to come. To bring them to ruin within a week, more drastic measures were needed.

He narrowed his eyes, sizing up the villa, then took out another yellow-paper packet from his coat. From it, he produced nine weathered copper coins.

These coins, like the five nails, had been recovered from an ancient tomb.

After carefully determining the directions through special methods, Li Sicheng buried the nine coins at nine different spots around the Cheng family villa.

The coins were small and hidden in the earth—ordinary people would never find them. Even someone well-versed in mystical feng shui could not easily detect their presence.

As the nine coins entered the ground, a chill rose and enveloped the villa.

"I’ve broken your Five Directions Prosperity Formation and in its place left you a Web of Misfortune. Cheng Haoyu, I hope that after enduring this calamity, you’ll learn your lesson and stop provoking the wrong people. There are many in this world whom wealth alone can’t protect you from."

With those words, Li Sicheng turned and left.

Though he had ruined Cheng Haoyu’s family’s feng shui, he had still left them a sliver of hope. Had he set a Trap of Certain Death, the Cheng family would have perished in a string of “accidents,” much like a real-life “Final Destination.”

Heaven cherishes life, and so did Li Sicheng.

Whether the Cheng family could grasp that thread of survival depended on their fate.

Meanwhile, inside the villa, Cheng Haoyu was venting his frustration on a computer game when he suddenly shivered, feeling a chill run through him.

He frowned and shouted, “What’s going on? Why did it suddenly get so cold? Who the hell turned off the underfloor heating?”

A servant quickly replied, “No, young master, the heating is still on. We don’t know why it suddenly became so cold.”

“Then what are you standing around for? Find out the reason! Damn it, how am I supposed to play games when it’s this cold?” Cheng Haoyu cursed, taking out all his anger at Li Sicheng on the servants.

The staff dared not answer back and busied themselves at once.

But they were bewildered too. “Strange, the heating system is working perfectly—how could it get cold so quickly and all of a sudden? Even if there was a cold snap, the temperature wouldn’t drop like this, this fast!”

None of them could imagine that the chill in the villa had nothing to do with the weather at all...

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