Suddenly, Yan Huihong felt a chilling sensation crawling up his spine. If the earlier act of Old Riches throwing a shovel down to him on the mountaintop could still be explained as a kind of "foresightful cleverness," then what he was witnessing now concealed a sinister undercurrent that sent shivers down the soul.
Can a person survive without a heart?
This comes from a story in The Investiture of the Gods, where Daji bewitched King Zhou to command Bi Gan to dig out his heart. Jiang Ziya gave Bi Gan Talisman Water beforehand, instructing him, after removing his heart, to run out of the palace and ask a vendor selling hollow vegetables, "Can a person survive without a heart?" If the answer was "yes," he could live; if the answer was "no," he would die.
