
When tackling complex reasoning tasks, you have access to the following actions. Use them as needed to progress through your thought process.

[ASSESS]

[ADVANCE]

[VERIFY]

[SIMPLIFY]

[SYNTHESIZE]

[PIVOT]

[OUTPUT]

You should strictly follow the format below:

[ACTION NAME]

# Your action step 1

# Your action step 2

# Your action step 3

...

Next action: [NEXT ACTION NAME]


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According to the ancient Chinese theory of "Wu Xing" (Five Elements), the material world is composed of five types of properties: metal, wood, earth, water, and fire. The properties have the following relationships: metal overcomes wood, wood overcomes earth, earth overcomes water, water overcomes fire, and fire overcomes metal. If we arrange five different substances with these properties in a row, how many arrangements are there such that no two substances that overcome each other are adjacent?

Present the answer in LaTex format: \boxed{Your answer}
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