Time Travel: The Survival of Li Zhi

Chapter 24 Leaving the House Again, Zhang Dongze

Time flies, days pass one by one, and in the blink of an eye, a month has passed.

During this month, Master Liu had postponed the alchemy several times, claiming that he was unable to make the elixir due to his injuries not being healed yet.

This allowed those who were originally chosen as elixir materials to live a little longer.

At this moment, they seemed to have forgotten about this matter and were living a fulfilling life under the light of Li Zhi.

Because of Fang Cheng, Li Zhi's relationship with the guards outside the yard has been getting closer and closer, so after Li Zhi gave them a few simple instructions, these guards no longer made things difficult for the people in the Dancai room.

These guards were already masters with excellent skills. With their help and guidance, Li Zhi finally mastered the nameless sword manual given to him by Fang Cheng. Although there is still some gap compared with these first-class masters, it is a world of difference compared to Li Zhi a month ago.

And with Li Zhi's unremitting practice, he can now barely control the five ghosts through the Five Ghosts Moving Technique.

You have to know that Li Zhi suffered a lot when he first learned the Five Ghosts Moving Technique. There was even one time when the ghosts retaliated. If it weren't for Master Liu who came to the rescue at the critical moment, Li Zhi would have been finished.

However, Li Zhi also found that his comprehension seemed to have improved a lot after the time travel. Although he practiced day and night desperately and did not dare to slack off at all, he was able to master the swordsmanship and learn the Five Ghosts Moving Technique within a month, which even surprised himself.

One day, Li Zhi was practicing swordsmanship as usual when he heard the call from Master Liu.

Arriving at Master Liu's room and looking at Master Liu's increasingly paler face, Li Zhi's suspicion that Master Liu was faking injury began to waver.

"Master." Li Zhi bowed.

Immortal Master Liu smiled on his gloomy and pale face and said, "You have been training hard day and night for the past month. I have seen it all and I am deeply gratified."

Li Zhi quickly said: "My disciple is dull, I just hope that hard work can make up for my shortcomings and live up to the teacher's kindness."

"You don't have to be too modest. Even when I was learning the Five Ghosts Moving Technique, I wasn't as fast as you. It's just that it's easy to get started with the Five Ghosts Moving Technique but difficult to master it. To use this technique to its full potential, you need to study it yourself. Remember, techniques are dead but people are alive!" Immortal Master Liu advised.

"Yes! Disciple will remember it!" Li Zhi responded. In fact, during this period of practice, he also had a vague feeling that the potential of the Five Ghosts Moving Technique should be more than this. Master Liu's words really woke him up.

"Okay, I called you here today because there is something I need you to do." said Master Liu.

Li Zhi recalled what Master Liu said a month ago, and knew that the reason why he taught him the Five Ghosts Moving Technique was for this matter. So he asked, "But do you need to use the Five Ghosts Moving Technique?"

"That's right. Now your Five Ghosts Moving Technique has barely achieved a small level of success. You should be able to do it." Immortal Master Liu said with a wry smile, and continued, "Also, Lord He is urging us to do it. After this is done, we can start refining the elixir."

Li Zhi naturally knew that there was no free lunch in the world. Not only did Master Liu teach him the Five Ghosts Moving Technique with a purpose, but even the reason why Lord He provided Master Liu with delicious food and drink was only because he had something to ask of him.

After accepting the task assigned by Master Liu, Li Zhi returned to the alchemy room to prepare things. Compared with a month ago, not only had Li Zhi's skills improved a lot, but his knowledge also increased a lot.

So this time he prepared a lot of herbs and put them in packages. Then Li Zhi picked up the black sword and walked out of the courtyard.

Just like last time, there was still a guard following him this time, but while last time Li Zhi was still looking for an opportunity to escape, he didn't have that idea this time.

The person who went out with Li Zhi this time was not Fang Cheng, but the older guard who had brought Li Zhi into the courtyard before.

The guard's name was Zhang Dongze. He was originally the head of an escort agency. However, during one of his escort missions, his enemies secretly came to his house and massacred dozens of people in the agency. When Zhang Dongze and his men returned to the agency, the murderer had already escaped.

Even the government found it difficult to track down the criminals. The other few surviving escorts were disheartened and chose to retire from the world. However, Zhang Dongze did not choose to hide his identity and retire from the world like them. He chose revenge!

He lurked in secret and spent five years investigating, and finally found the murderers at that time, and these people also faced Zhang Dongze's brutal revenge.

Zhang Dongze's revenge was extremely cruel and bloody, which immediately alarmed the court. The court sent a commissioner to capture him. At that time, it was Lord He who was in charge of the case. After Lord He learned about what had happened, he thought of Zhang Dongze's loyalty and righteousness, and felt sorry for his martial arts skills, so he arranged for a death row prisoner to take Zhang Dongze's place and behead him. Zhang Dongze then transformed himself into a guard of the He Mansion and followed Lord He all the time.

It was just that Lord He thought that Zhang Dongze was a man of loyalty and righteousness. In order to avenge those who died, he was willing to stay alone for five years to find the murderer and then take revenge. But in fact, Zhang Dongze was not seeking revenge for those who died in the escort agency. The reason why Zhang Dongze took so much trouble to find those people and take revenge one by one was simply because those people wrote the word "waste" on the wall of his room after killing people.

Of course, only Zhang Dongze himself knew about this. Outsiders all thought that Zhang Dongze was a generous and prudent person, but no one had ever really seen into his heart.

Of course Li Zhi didn't know these things either. He just felt that this Brother Zhang was not as simple as he seemed. He vaguely felt that Zhang Dongze seemed to be hiding something.

Seeing Li Zhi coming, Zhang Dongze said generously: "Brother Li, are you ready?"

"Sorry to have kept you waiting, Brother Zhang. Everything is ready. Let's set off now!" Li Zhi replied with a smile. After spending some time together, Li Zhi and Zhang Dongze have become quite familiar with each other.

After the two men left the house, the old servant who was guarding the He Mansion said to another servant next to him: "The injured star has gone out again. I'm afraid that Guard Zhang will not be spared this time."

"Oh? Guard Zhang has been with the master for so long and he is mature and prudent in his actions. It shouldn't be the case." The servant was a little unconvinced.

The old servant rolled his eyes and said, "Hey, if you don't believe me, let's make a bet. If Zhang Dongze comes back uninjured, I'll give you a hundred bucks. If he comes back injured, you'll lose a hundred bucks to me!"

The servant answered without thinking: "Let's gamble, I don't believe this guy is so evil."

While the two were gambling, Li Zhi and Zhang Dongze had already ridden their horses out of Pingtian Village.

"Brother Li, did the Immortal Master tell us the destination of this trip?" Zhang Dongze asked.

Li Zhi nodded, took out a parchment scroll from his arms and handed it to Zhang Dongze.

Zhang Dongze took it and looked at the map. There was a crooked red line drawn on the map, which was obviously the route they needed to take. At the end of the red line was another village, which was surrounded by a red circle.

Zhang Dongze returned the parchment to Li Zhi and said, "The village is far away and passes through Gaoling City. Let's hurry up and get to Gaoling City before dark. Then we can rest in Gaoling City for one night and go to the village tomorrow."

Li Zhi was unfamiliar with the place, so he naturally followed Zhang Dongze's arrangements.

So the two of them squeezed their hips and drove their horses to speed up their journey.

There was no speech along the way, and after hurrying for a while, they finally arrived at Gaoling City before dark.

"Hey, I finally made it. I was worried that I would be rejected." Zhang Dongze said with a smile.

Although there is no curfew in Gaoling City, the city gates are still closed at night and no one can enter or leave without a warrant.

Li Zhi smiled bitterly and said, "My thighs are all blistered from all the rushing."

Zhang Dongze laughed and said, "It's okay, just grind it a few more times and it will be fine."

"Oh? Why?" Li Zhi asked.

"Hehe, if you've got calluses on your body, you won't be afraid of wear anymore. Let's go, get off the horse and go into the city!" After Zhang Dongze said this, he turned over and got off the horse.

Before coming, Zhang Dongze had told Li Zhi about the rules of Gaoling City.

Noble officials can enter the city in sedan chairs, but no one is allowed to ride a horse into the city!