Time Travel: The Survival of Li Zhi

Chapter 200: Sacrificing one's life to slay the demon

Xu Zhen's thoughts were a little hazy at this shocking moment, as if an invisible force had pulled his memory back to many years ago, when he was still very young, and an event that had happened in the past gradually became clear in his mind...

It was an ordinary yet somewhat special day, with few people on the road.

The young Xu Zhen accidentally saw a disheveled man fainted from hunger on the side of the road. The man's face was as pale as paper, and his clothes were tattered. Although he had a knife on his waist, he looked really pitiful.

Seeing this, the kind-hearted little Xu Zhen couldn't help but feel pity for the man. Without saying anything, he turned around and ran back home. Soon, little Xu Zhen hurriedly took out a few dry cakes from home, ran straight to the starving man, and handed the cakes to him.

After the man wolfed down the dry bread, he seemed to have recovered a little.

Then, he raised his head, and his dirty and scraggly face seemed to have a mysterious light. He looked at Xu Zhen deeply with a strange look in his eyes. Even though Xu Zhen has grown up now, he cannot describe that look when he thinks back to that time.

Then, the man said to the young Xu Zhen: "Kid, I'll tell you a fortune. How about that as your meal money?"

Little Xu Zhen had been to the town with his elders and had seen some fortune tellers in the town. He had always been curious, but a fortune telling cost a lot of money, and his family was not rich, so he would not go there for no reason.

So when he heard the man say he wanted to tell his fortune, he nodded and agreed immediately.

Xu Zhen was still young at that time, and could neither understand the hexagram nor the confusing words that person said. He only remembered that person said that he was born with a great good fate and was born with a sense of righteousness.

Xiao Xu really thought he was just saying that he was lucky, and he immediately felt happy. He wanted to go home quickly and talk to his mother and brother about it.

But he was stopped by that person. He looked at little Xu Zhen with burning eyes and asked, "Kid, do you want to learn the art of slaying demons and monsters?"

"Destroying demons?"

Little Xu's eyes lit up. What child would not have an indescribable passion and yearning for those fantastic stories of slaying demons and eliminating evil?

In their world, anyone who can slay demons and eliminate evil is a great hero, the most amazing hero.

No child can resist the temptation of the four words "slay demons and eliminate evil".

So, when he heard the man's question, Xiao Xuzhen nodded happily without any hesitation and naturally agreed.

Just like that, on the side of the road, the man slowly said: "This knife. Although it is powerful, even a big monster can be killed with one knife... But, this knife has a disadvantage. You need to make your own decision in the future..."

After the man finished speaking, he suddenly leaned forward slightly, one hand firmly on the scabbard at his waist and the other hand on the hilt.

The following scene was something Xu Zhen would never forget for the rest of his life. It seemed as if that scene was deeply imprinted in his mind from that moment on.

When the sword was drawn, the world seemed to be turned upside down in Xiao Xuzhen's eyes. When Xiao Xuzhen came back to his senses after a long time, the man had disappeared, and there was only the long sword in front of him.

From then on, this knife became Xiao Xu's treasure, and he practiced that knife technique every day from that day on.

Just like that, relying on this pure and ardent passion, he practiced this sword technique hard day after day, year after year, and before he knew it, he had persisted for more than ten years.

As he continued to practice this sword technique and grew older, he gradually understood the drawbacks of this sword technique that the man had mentioned.

Because the name of that knife is: Sacrifice your life!

But Xu Zhen felt that the name "She Ming" sounded weird, so he gave his sword technique a fancy name that he saw in a comic book.

As for what that person said that year, asking him to make a choice in the future, Xu Zhen had never understood it before, until today, when Xu Zhen finally understood what that person said that year, asking him to make a choice.

Now, facing this cruel scene, is it time for me to make a choice?

Xu Zhen chuckled and shook his head. He slowly reached out his hand, gently patted Erniu's head, and said in a bleak tone: "Erniu, do you remember what I said before?"

Erniu's unstoppable crying suddenly stopped, as if he was choked by something. He suddenly raised his head and looked at Xu Zhen.

His eyes were full of confusion.

However, Xu Zhen did not say anything. He just sheathed the long sword in his hand. Then, he slowly turned around and faced the monster that was wreaking havoc unscrupulously.

The terrifying and desperate monster made everyone feel cold.

Xu Zhen closed his eyes slightly, took a deep breath, and slowly exhaled. He leaned forward slightly, holding the scabbard steadily with one hand and holding the handle tightly with the other.

He has performed this opening move thousands of times, and he has been doing it for more than ten years!

Even he himself did not realize that his movement of holding the knife, leaning forward, and even the expression on his face were exactly the same as that of the man back then.

The figure of that man back then seemed to overlap with Xu Zhen at this moment.

At that moment, time seemed to stand still. The originally tragic atmosphere filled with blood and despair suddenly stopped. Even the air seemed to have stopped circulating. The whole world was paused at this moment.

Heishan, who was not far away, seemed to have noticed the sudden abnormality and he looked down.

In an instant, a dazzling sword light like a streak of light suddenly lit up!

At this moment, the whole world seemed to lose all color and light, leaving only this dazzling blade light like a blazing sun. It cut through the darkness, cut through the despair, and slashed towards Black Mountain with a devastating momentum.

The astonishing blade light swept across Heishan's huge body.

Then, a "puff" sound was heard, and a column of blood like a fountain gushed out from Heishan's wound. The hot blood fell like raindrops, dyeing the ground below a dazzling red.

And below, Xu Zhen still maintained the posture of drawing the knife without moving, with no sign of life at all!

Erniu stared at the scene in front of him in a daze, and the words Xu Zhen had said seemed to ring in his ears.

"My sword is called the Heaven-Slashing Sword Technique..."

"This knife is not the fake tricks that Zhou Fan taught you..."

"This sword of mine...can kill a big monster!"

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