Time Travel: The Survival of Li Zhi

Looking at the four branches without any color markings lying quietly in the hands of Wang Wu and the other three, Li Zhi could clearly hear them heaving a sigh of relief.

"Haha, we are so lucky, so damn lucky, we don't have to die! We don't have to die!"

Chen Liu held the branch tightly in his hand, dancing and laughing, but as he laughed he started crying again.

Xiao Qi wiped her tears and patted Chen Liu's back to comfort him.

At this time, someone in the crowd who were still watching shouted, "Five life-saving branches have already been drawn. Now the chance of drawing the death branch is even greater. The later you draw, the greater the danger!"

All of a sudden, the remaining people's eyes turned red. They rushed towards Li Zhi like crazy, as if they had been hungry for more than ten days and suddenly saw a delicious roasted suckling pig, and stretched out their hands to rummage around in the cloth bag in Li Zhi's arms.

Li Zhi was so frightened that his legs went weak and he almost fell to the ground, making a huge fool of himself.

Fortunately, these people came and left quickly.

After a while, everyone held a branch in their hands, but no one dared to open their hands to see whether the branch they drew was marked.

Li Zhi frowned and said to Wang Wu, "You guys go check their branches and bring up the ones with marks."

Wang Wu and his companions didn't say anything and went down obediently to run errands for Li Zhi.

Soon, desperate cries were heard from the crowd, and Li Zhi knew that the first unlucky person had appeared.

After a while, Wang Wu and his men dragged out the five people who were lying limp on the ground.

"These five people drew the marked branches." Wang Wu spread out his hands, revealing five branches painted with some paint.

Li Zhi nodded. These were indeed the branches he had marked.

"Huh? Aren't they supposed to have six people? Why are there only five here?" someone suddenly said.

Li Zhi then came to his senses and realized that Wang Wu had indeed only dragged out five people.

Wang Wu and his companions saw Li Zhi looking at them and said quickly, "We checked and found that only these five people's branches are different. The branches of the others are ordinary branches."

Li Zhi looked at the rest of the people again.

Those people raised the branches in their hands, fearing that Li Zhi would misunderstand that they were doing something wrong.

Li Zhi looked around and found that they were indeed holding ordinary branches, not the branches that he had specially marked.

Li Zhidian checked the cloth bag in his hand and found that there was still a branch left in it. So he reached into the bag and took out a branch with a red mark.

"Is there one person missing from the drawing?" someone in the crowd said.

"We all smoked. Look, mine is right here."

"Mine is here too."

"Look at me, look at me."

"Stop arguing." Li Zhi said, and then looked to the other side: "I know who this belongs to."

Everyone followed Li Zhi's gaze and saw a person lying there quietly.

Wang Wu and his companions' faces changed drastically in an instant.

Because that person was Zhang San whose fever had subsided.

"Are you playing a fucking trick?"

Xiao Qi pointed at Li Zhi and cursed, ready to pounce on Li Zhi like an angry leopard.

Wang Wu and his companions quickly grabbed Xiao Qi, but they all stared at Li Zhi, obviously doubting this.

Li Zhi shook his head and said calmly: "There is no need for me to do these things. If I really wanted him to die, I would not have saved him just now."

Li Zhi held the branches and pointed at them, and continued: "I made these branches according to the number of you. There are nineteen people in total, so I made nineteen branches."

"Now the other eighteen people have all drawn their branches, and only Zhang San has not drawn one. So the remaining one... belongs to Zhang San." After Li Zhi finished speaking, he gently threw out the branch with a red mark in his hand.

The branch drew an arc in the air and fell towards Zhang San.

Just when it was about to fall on Zhang San, a hand suddenly stretched out and grabbed the branch.

Li Zhi looked over and saw that person was Chen Liu.

Chen Liu looked at Li Zhi, then at Wang Wu and the others. He said, "He's right. If he really wanted to kill us, he wouldn't have saved Big Brother, and there wouldn't have been so many tricks. I'm afraid the others would have been hoping that he would choose us as the materials for the elixir."

"So...I believe he didn't do this on purpose." Chen Liu said.

Li Zhi nodded and said, "Although I have a grudge against you, if I really want to deal with you, I can just let them tie you up and be done with it. Why would I need to go through so much trouble?"

"But...but what should we do with big brother now? Is big brother really going to die?" Xiao Qi was panicked.

Wang Wu and Li Si were also at a loss.

"Hey, it's okay."

A laugh was heard, and Wang Wu and the others quickly looked over.

It’s Chen Liu!

"Brother will be fine!"

Chen Liu's face was filled with smiles, but tears were flowing from his eyes.

He bit the colored branch he had just cut off in his mouth, then stretched out his only remaining hand and took out an ordinary branch from his own arms.

Gently place the branch on Zhang San, and then take the painted branch in his mouth.

"Now, the person who draws the red-marked branch is me!"

"Sixth brother!" Xiao Qi exclaimed.

"Xiao Liu!" Wang Wu and Li Si were also shocked.

Li Zhi was also a little stunned. He didn't expect that in such a life-and-death situation, there would actually be someone willing to sacrifice for others.

"Big brother is a good man. He has endured a lot of hardships and sufferings to raise us since we were young... If it weren't for big brother's protection, I would have died when I was caught here for the first time."

Chen Liu ignored Wang Wu and the others, and said to himself: "This time, big brother is unlucky... But it's okay, I'm lucky this time, so I'll leave my good luck to big brother. Let me protect him this time!"

Li Si stood up, but before he could say anything.

Chen Liu said, "Fourth brother! Please help me this time. From childhood to adulthood, you have always been the ones who rushed to the front to bear any danger for me. Let me do it this time."

Looking at Chen Liu's determined expression, Li Si opened his mouth but couldn't say anything.

Wang Wu pulled Xiao Qi forward and hugged Chen Liu and Li Si.

None of the brothers spoke, they just sobbed.

Seeing this, Li Zhi did not bother them. He told others to do what they were supposed to do, and he quietly left the alchemy room.

The issue of the elixir materials has been resolved. He is going to find Master Liu to ask about the specific time for refining the elixir and other matters related to refining the elixir.

When Li Zhigang arrived at the door of Master Liu's room, he was about to knock on the door, but the door suddenly opened automatically.

Li Zhi was startled and hadn't reacted yet.

Immortal Master Liu's voice came to my ears.

"come in."

Li Zhi was secretly shocked and almost thought it was a modern automatic sensor door.

Without delay, he stepped inside.

I saw that Master Liu was quite different from usual. The Master Liu I saw before was basically sitting in meditation.

Today he was actually wiping a sword.

The sword was completely black and covered with strange runes.

Those strange runes seemed to have magical powers. Li Zhi just took a look at them and felt as if his mind was sucked into them.

But at that moment, Li Zhi suddenly started and woke up instantly.

This brought Li Zhi back to his senses. He looked surprised, but immediately retracted his gaze, not daring to look at the sword any longer.

With just one glance, Li Zhi knew that this sword was definitely not an ordinary weapon.