Time Travel: The Survival of Li Zhi

The capital city, the palace of the northern frontier.

This mansion was personally bestowed upon Li Zhi by the current emperor.

At this moment, the entire palace was shrouded in a rich red festive atmosphere. The reason was simple: today was the day Li Zhi was going to marry Princess Baocheng.

The palace was decorated with lanterns and red silk hanging high, and was filled with festivity and joy everywhere.

After a series of lengthy and tedious etiquette and procedures, Li Zhi finally returned to his room.

Ever since the Emperor had granted him marriage, he had never even seen Princess Baocheng's face.

Li Zhi did not have the slightest curiosity about Princess Baocheng, the woman who was about to become his wife, whether it was her appearance or her personality.

Li Zhi sighed slightly in his heart. He knew that this marriage was not what he had been looking for in his heart.

He walked slowly to the bedside and his eyes fell on Princess Baocheng. She was wearing a bright red veil and sitting quietly on the bed. Li Zhi reached out and picked up the wedding scale beside him and gently lifted the bride's red veil.

As the red veil was lifted, Princess Baocheng's face appeared before Li Zhi's eyes.

Looking at Princess Baocheng in front of him, Li Zhi was slightly stunned. He seemed to have seen her somewhere before.

Princess Baocheng was also surprised when she saw Li Zhi. After looking at Li Zhi for a while, she realized that Li Zhi didn't remember who she was. Instead, she smiled playfully and said in a pinched voice: "My dear brother who saw injustice and drew his sword to help, do you still remember what I said at the beginning, "We will meet again if we are destined..."

Li Zhi paused after hearing this, and finally remembered.

It turned out that Princess Baocheng was the person who had caused him a lot of trouble when he first entered the capital, but times have changed, and now Li Zhi has become her husband.

Princess Baocheng looked at Li Zhi's eyes that showed no emotion at all. There was a hint of disappointment in her eyes, and there seemed to be other meanings hidden in the disappointment.

According to the procedure, after the groom lifts the red veil of the bride, the next step is to drink the wedding wine.

Li Zhi picked up the two glasses of wine that had been prepared long ago, handed one to Princess Baocheng, and then picked up the other one himself.

"The wedding wine is a symbol of our connection. From now on, you and I will be one..." Li Zhi's cold voice sounded.

Princess Baocheng looked up at him with a strange smile, and she responded: "We will support each other through thick and thin, and share life and death..."

Li Zhi's heart suddenly trembled, and an emotion that had not appeared for a long time suddenly burst out in his heart.

Li Zhi knew that the last time this familiar emotion appeared was when the civil and military officials in the court teamed up to set up a trap against him. Now that it appeared again, was it hinting at something...

Li Zhi looked at Princess Baocheng in front of him. Princess Baocheng's face, which was originally as beautiful as a flower and as pretty as a fairy, now revealed a heartbreaking look of sadness for some reason.

When Princess Baocheng saw Li Zhi looking at her, she smiled tenderly, put the wine glass to her lips, and drank it all in one gulp.

Li Zhi looked at Princess Baocheng deeply, then picked up the wine glass and drank it all.

The spicy wine flowed down Li Zhi's throat into his stomach, and his stomach instantly felt like a ball of fire burning.

Li Zhi frowned.

And the corners of Princess Baocheng's mouth in front of him could no longer suppress the inky black blood flowing out.

Li Zhi reached out and gently wiped the black blood from Princess Baocheng's mouth, seemingly unaware that the same dark blood was also flowing out of his mouth at this moment.

"I'm...I'm...sorry." Princess Baocheng was sweating profusely and said with a pale face.

Li Zhi shook his head, helped her to sit on the edge of the bed, then turned to look at the shadows in the room.

"You're still unwilling to show up?" As soon as Li Zhi opened his mouth, the dark blood gushed out like a flood bursting through a dam, but Li Zhi seemed unaware.

In the shadows, a figure slowly walked out from behind the door curtain.

This man has a majestic look, he is the Emperor of the Southern Kingdom!

Looking at the emperor of the South before him, Li Zhi slowly sat down on the edge of the bed, and said in a puzzled tone: "I have thought of many possibilities, but I always feel that it shouldn't be you..."

The Emperor of the Southern Kingdom had a gloomy face and said nothing.

Li Zhi continued, "You were afraid that I would become too powerful, so you made me the King of Saibei, intending to send me to Saibei to guard that bitter cold land for you. But why did you come here specifically to poison me...even at the cost of your own daughter's life?"

As Li Zhi spoke, he turned around and glanced at Princess Baocheng. At this time, Princess Baocheng was lying flat on the bed, her eyes wide open. Her eyes had lost focus, tears were flowing from the corners of her eyes, and there was no black blood flowing out of her mouth, but she was no longer breathing.

The emperor also followed Li Zhi's gaze and looked at Princess Baocheng. His body trembled slightly, and he said, "Do you know? Baocheng is my favorite child, but I personally sent her to death..."

The emperor's gaze returned to Li Zhi, and he continued, "But she died for a good cause! Her death eliminated a great threat to our Southern Kingdom! Because you are too dangerous!"

The emperor pointed at Li Zhi, his face ferocious, and at this moment he did not have any of his former majesty.

He said sternly: "You are too ambitious! No matter what I reward you, whether it is a title of nobility or even a title of king, you are not even tempted! What do you want? Tell me! You want my throne and my southern kingdom, right?"

Listening to the emperor's harsh questioning, Li Zhi did not respond. His abdomen was in great pain, as if he was being cut by a thousand knives. The pain was so severe that he could not straighten his back. He slowly lay flat on the bed.

What does he want?

Many people have asked this question, and even he himself often asks himself what he really wants.

But what does he really want...

he does not know.

Li Zhi turned his head and looked at Princess Baocheng, who was lying on the same bed with him but had no signs of life. He murmured, "What on earth do I want..."

At this moment, the emotion that Li Zhi had forcibly suppressed seemed to have been suppressed to the extreme and suddenly burst out.

An indescribable feeling spread throughout Li Zhi's body, and Li Zhi's body actually began to tremble slightly.

But his eyes shone with an unprecedented brilliance, and an expression that had never appeared before appeared on Li Zhi's face.

Li Zhi actually stood up slowly.

The pain in his abdomen seemed to have stopped. Not only that, everything around him seemed to have been paused. Nothing moved. Not only did the emperor in front of him, who was pointing at him and cursing, stop moving, but even the flickering candlelight stopped.

"I know...what I want..." Li Zhi said.

As Li Zhi finished speaking, everything around him, including Princess Baocheng's body and the motionless emperor, shattered at this moment and then dissipated like smoke and sand.

After everything disappeared, the area around Li Zhi turned into a dark void.

Li Zhi seemed unaware. He raised his foot and took a step into nothingness.

A ripple spread out from under Li Zhi's feet.

Li Zhi stopped after taking this step because a figure appeared in front of him.

A man dressed as a teacher appeared in front of Li Zhi. This was the teacher who taught Li Zhi when he was a child. He said, "Li Zhi, you are studious and hardworking. Would you like to become a teacher like me and educate the people?"

Li Zhi just waved his hand lightly, and the teacher's figure disappeared.

Li Zhi raised his leg and took another step forward.

A figure appeared in front of him again. This time it was Li Fu. He said with a doting and kind face: "Zhi'er, why don't you join me in doing business? You are so smart. You will definitely help my Li family to move to a higher level in the future. It will be no problem for us to become rich enough to rival a country."

Li Zhi shook his head and waved his hand again, and Li Fu's figure instantly twisted and disappeared.

Li Zhi took another step forward, and a figure appeared in front of him again.

Huang Cheng, dressed in gorgeous clothes, said to Li Zhi: "Li Zhi, learn the arts of literature and martial arts well, and serve the emperor. Do you want to be an official?"

Li Zhi ignored it, waved his hand to disperse it, and took another step forward.

A figure appeared again in the void in front of him.

It was the stunningly beautiful Princess Baoqing, who said with a smile as beautiful as a flower: "Brother, when you see injustice on the road, you should draw your sword and help. You are a hero."

Li Zhi remained unmoved and just waved his hand forward, and Princess Baoqing's figure disappeared into nothingness.

As Li Zhi walked forward again, a dragon throne appeared in front of him, and then the Emperor of the Southern Kingdom also appeared. He sat on the dragon throne and angrily asked Li Zhi: "Li Zhi! Have I ever treated you unfairly? You drove out the Tartars and I gave you people. I also never lacked you for food and grass. But why are you not satisfied with being crowned a marquis and a king? Are you eyeing my throne? Do you want to change the sky of the Southern Kingdom?"

Li Zhi chuckled when he heard this. He took another step forward and said, "So what if I am above millions of people, or the emperor, or royal power and wealth? These are not what I seek."

The void vibrated, and voices rang out from the void.

"What on earth do you want!"

"What on earth do you want!"

"What on earth do you want!"

...

Figures appeared in the void, including Li Fu, Princess Baoqing, Zhang Da, and Chen Xi...

There are also Batu, Saigao, Huang Cheng and others...

Even some people who had only met Li Zhi a few times appeared one by one.

More and more people gathered, blocking Li Zhi's way.

Their mouths opened and closed, but the sound came from all directions out of nothingness.

"What on earth do you want!"

"What on earth do you want!"

"What on earth do you want!"

...

The scene in front of him was strange, but Li Zhi was not afraid at all. He whispered: "What exactly do I want..."

Then, he stretched out his hand and grabbed in the air, as if he had grabbed an invisible sword.

Then, he waved his hand and slashed at the figure blocking his way!

In an instant, a dazzling white light burst out from Li Zhi's hand, like a ray of sunlight at dawn, hot and bright.

The pitch-black void seemed to be torn apart. After being swept by the white light, the figures that blocked Li Zhi's way shattered and dissipated one by one like fallen leaves swept by a strong wind, as if they had never existed.

In the void, Li Zhi's voice sounded again.

"All I want is to survive..."