Time Travel: The Survival of Li Zhi

“Hoo…Hoo…Hoo…”

Li Zhi lay on the ground, gasping for breath. Big beads of sweat flowed down Li Zhi's cheeks and dripped onto the ground.

Looking up, Fang Cheng was still lying on the ground motionless. Next to Fang Cheng, a black sword was stuck in the ground, against Fang Cheng's ear.

However, Li Zhi regained his senses at the last moment and tilted the black sword in his hand a little, otherwise the sword would have pierced Fang Cheng's head instead of the ground nearby.

Li Zhi still feels a little scared when he recalls the feeling of being controlled by murderous intent just now.

But he didn't have time to think about it now. Just as he was about to stand up, he suddenly felt a tingling sensation in his right abdomen.

Li Zhi looked down at the wound on his right abdomen. After applying herbal medicine, the bleeding stopped, but the wound was still covered with more and more insect-like holes. Li Zhi felt a mixture of pain and itchiness, which made him feel very uncomfortable.

"Damn, this couldn't be some kind of bacterial infection!" Li Zhi complained, baring his teeth.

Originally, he thought that applying some herbs to stop the bleeding would be fine, but who knew that this black sword would be so strange that the injured part would have this kind of situation. This reminded Li Zhi of the time when he used this sword to kill ghosts before, and those ghosts also had similar problems as being bitten by insects.

This made Li Zhi's face turn pale. He knew that if he didn't take action, he would probably end up like those ghosts and be eaten clean.

Li Zhi quickly took off the package on his body, poured out all the herbs inside, and then tried one by one to see which one could suppress this situation.

But after trying several kinds of herbs he brought with him, the problem of insect bites on the wound still could not be solved.

The pain and itchiness were unbearable, and a cruel look appeared in Li Zhi's eyes again.

"I don't believe it will work if I cut the meat!"

Grabbing Fang Cheng's steel knife, Li Zhi gritted his teeth and cut off the meat piece by piece from the places where there were gaps of varying sizes, like they were gnawed by worms.

Even though the pain made Li Zhi break out in a cold sweat, this direct pain was more bearable for Li Zhi than the previous feeling of pain and itchiness.

After Li Zhi tremblingly cut off the last piece of meat with a notch, his hand couldn't help but tremble, and the steel knife fell to the ground, but he was too exhausted to hold the steel knife steadily.

The original pain and itching sensation finally disappeared, and there were no more insect-gnawed gaps on the wound. Li Zhi hurriedly applied the hemostatic herbs he had prepared in advance to the wound, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.

Pulling out the black sword that was stuck next to Fang Cheng, Li Zhi walked tremblingly to the Hundred-Change Flower and plucked the flower.

"Luckily he didn't run away, otherwise if I were to look for him again later, I'm afraid something strange would happen again."

Li Zhi slowly picked the flower and put it in his arms.

Then he staggered to Fang Cheng's side. Li Zhi did not try to wake Fang Cheng up because he no longer had the energy to do so.

Leaning against the tree trunk, Li Zhi slowly sat down and closed his eyes.

After a while, a cough was heard.

"Cough cough!"

Li Zhi opened his eyes and looked.

It was Fang Cheng who woke up. He struggled to get up, looked around in confusion, and finally looked at Li Zhi. He asked, "Are we still alive?"

Li Zhi also smiled when he heard it and replied: "Luckily, we are all still alive."

Fang Cheng stood up, leaning on his steel knife, and asked, "What about the black bear?"

Li Zhi shook his head and said, "Dead? Ran away? Who knows?"

Fang Cheng looked at Li Zhi. At this moment, Li Zhi's face was pale and half of his body was stained with blood. It was not difficult to imagine what Li Zhi had experienced during his coma.

After a long silence, Fang Cheng whispered, "Thank you!"

Li Zhi waved his hand without saying anything more, and just said: "I have picked the Hundred Changes Flower. Do you still have strength? Give me a hand. It is getting dark. If we don't go back, I am afraid that something else will appear and it will be troublesome."

Fang Cheng naturally knew that Li Zhi was not exaggerating. At this moment, the conditions of the two had reached freezing point. Let alone the black bear before, they would not be able to deal with even ordinary wild beasts.

So Fang Cheng limped forward, leaning on his knife, helped Li Zhi up, and the two of them staggered down the mountain.

After they got down the mountain, fortunately the two horses that they had tied at the foot of the mountain when they came here were still there.

Without further ado, the two men untied the ropes, each lay on the horse, patted the horse's butt, and let the horse walk on its own.

An old horse knows the way. Both horses can recognize the way home.

Although the horse knew the way home, it was not a human being after all. It would nibble on the grass it saw on the road, and drink a few sips of water when it saw a puddle, without caring whether the person on it was anxious to get home or not.

However, Fang Cheng and Li Zhi were already exhausted both physically and mentally, and they had no energy to scold the horses, so they could only let the two horses wander around slowly.

Finally, before dark, the two horses returned to He's house.

The old servant of the He Mansion looked out and saw two people who were seriously injured. He couldn't help but mutter, "Why is it that no one who went out with this kid came back safe and sound?"

He secretly labeled Li Zhi a disaster star, and then quickly notified the servants in the mansion to carry both of them in.

Fang Chengben was the guard of the He Mansion and had his own room. The servants carried him to his room.

Li Zhi was carried to the courtyard. Since the servants of the He family were not allowed to enter the courtyard at will, they only carried Li Zhi to the gate of the courtyard, put him down and left.

The guards nearby came up and asked, "How did you get injured again, and so seriously?"

Li Zhi smiled bitterly and struggled to stand up. He said, "It's a long story. I'll tell you when I have some free time. Help me in first. I'll report to the Immortal Master first."

The older guard who had brought Li Zhi in before didn't say anything more after hearing this. He reached out his hand to support Li Zhi, and then took him in.

After helping Li Zhi into the courtyard and arriving at the door of Master Liu's room, the guard left without staying for long.

After Li Zhi thanked him, he knocked on Master Liu's door and said, "Master, I have brought the Hundred Changes Flower."

With a creak, the door opened automatically.

Li Zhi walked straight in.

Immortal Master Liu raised his eyelids slightly, and seeing Li Zhi's appearance, he seemed a little surprised and said, "What happened? How did you get hurt so badly? With Fang Cheng's martial arts, he shouldn't have been like this unless he encountered some difficult monsters."

Li Zhi first took out the Hundred-Change Flower from his arms and handed it to Master Liu, then slowly told him what had happened. However, during his narration, he focused on Fang Cheng's fight with the black bear and the black bear's transformation into a demon, while he simply briefly skipped over the fight between him and the black bear.

"Oh? It was indeed unexpected that we encountered a demonized black bear. Fortunately, you all came back alive. You were seriously injured this time. Go back and recuperate first. I also need to heal for a while. Let's put the matter of alchemy aside for now." Master Liu said sympathetically.

After Li Zhi responded, he was about to leave when he stopped as if he thought of something.

Seeing this, Master Liu asked, "What's wrong? Is there anything else?"

"Yes, when I was fighting with the black bear monster, the black bear monster was suddenly covered by black demonic energy, and then some black shadow demonic energy flew out of it. Is this some kind of magic?" Li Zhi said.

After hearing this, Master Liu pondered and said, "This is indeed a magic spell, called the Demonic Wind Evil. But it is just some low-level magic spell. If you are hit by the Demonic Wind Evil, you just need to remove the demonic energy."

"Thank you, Master, for clearing up my doubts. I'll go back first." After saying this, Li Zhi left Master Liu's room.

After Li Zhi left, Master Liu's expression changed, and a strange look appeared on his gloomy face.

"A little demon who has just transformed into a demon actually knows the Demon Wind Evil. Interesting, really interesting."

"And you... didn't run away when you had such a chance... Interesting..."

“It’s getting more and more interesting! Hehehe…hehehehe…”