met free Chapter 2: I died, alas, I came back to life.
Chapter 2: I died, alas, I came back to life.
Li Ping, being someone who's been around the block, knows such famous people.
After all, portraits of Tian Boguang were posted outside Fuzhou city, and the government offered a reward of one hundred taels of silver.
Tian Boguang didn't even glance at Li Ping, only leering at the girl before coldly snorting, "Since you know my name, why don't you get lost?"
Li Ping stepped in front of the girl, drawing his knife with one hand and clutching a handful of lime at his waist with the other. He said, "Be careful, young lady, this man is the notorious lecher Tian Boguang!"
He was extremely excited. Since the girl had descended from the sky, she was definitely not an ordinary person. She was most likely a cultivator, and dealing with Tian Boguang would be a piece of cake for her.
You should perform well and seize the opportunity to learn cultivation from the girl...
A notorious lecher?
The girl had heard her father talk about lecherous thieves, saying that they specialized in ruining women's chastity and were extremely wicked. He said that if you encountered such a person in the martial arts world, you should just kill him.
Although the girl didn't quite understand the specifics of "bad woman's innocence," she knew it meant doing something very wrong to a woman...
The girl immediately went on alert!
Tian Boguang looked at Li Ping, who was trying to play the hero and save the beauty, and sneered. Suddenly, a streak of silver light exploded in front of him.
Even before the blade arrived, a chill permeated the body!
Li Ping's hair stood on end. He knew Tian Boguang's knife was fast, but he didn't expect it to be this fast!
It was so fast that he didn't even see it clearly before the blade was already in front of him!
There wasn't even time for him to throw out the lime!
Li Ping instinctively raised his sword to block, the metal clashed, and a tremendous force sent the sword flying from his hand.
Then he felt a chill on his neck, almost lost all his strength, and his vision went black.
"Damn, am I going to die already?!"
Only then did Li Ping realize that he had been stabbed!
With his other hand, he stubbornly threw out the lime and then fell to the ground.
Even if I die, I won't let you get away with this...
This was Li Ping's last thought!
But how rich was Tian Boguang's experience in the martial arts world?
With a blast of his mouth, he sent the lime swirling back. Just as he was about to strike a pose and show off in front of the pretty girl, he suddenly felt a gentle breeze.
He sheathed his blade and slashed at the breeze, but at the end of the breeze was the beautiful face of a young girl.
Tian Boguang hesitated to strike, his sword strike weakened by a third, and then his heart skipped a beat.
The girl nimbly flashed past the blade, approaching him. Her five fingers, as graceful as orchids, parted, and her little finger brushed towards the Shenmen acupoint on his wrist.
There are countless techniques for striking acupoints in the martial arts world, but this is the first time he has ever seen a technique that uses the little finger.
The young girl's technique was exquisite, definitely a direct descendant of a master!
Tian Boguang dared not be careless. He stepped back, flicked his long sword, and aimed at the girl's waist, intending to tear off her clothes and reveal her alluring beauty.
Unexpectedly, the girl's figure clung to him like a maggot, keeping up with his movements. Her fingertips brushed past his wrist, and although she didn't hit him, the force of her touch still made his hand feel slightly numb.
Tian Boguang was shocked and retreated several steps. The two men moved swiftly, their movements like phantoms. After exchanging a few more blows, he finally found an opportunity to turn the tide.
Tian Boguang was relieved. Although the girl's moves were exquisite, her skill was far inferior to his, and he could defeat her.
The girl was also very surprised, because the lecherous thief's swordsmanship, skill, and agility far exceeded her expectations, and she might not be able to defeat him!
Just as she was about to devise a plan, she suddenly stared in astonishment at what was behind Tian Boguang.
Tian Boguang scoffed. "You think you can fool me with such childish tricks?"
Suddenly, a gust of wind came from behind me.
Tian Boguang's lightness skill was superb. In an instant, he dodged and looked to the side, only to see Li Ping covered in blood, slashing at his back with a blade. The speed of the blade seemed to be no less than his own!
Tian Boguang was terrified and felt a chill run through his body. How could this be?
I've already cut open his neck, I've even cut down to his bone, how could he possibly come back to life?
Is this a human or a ghost?
In this situation, Tian Boguang was still able to retreat three feet further, dodging Li Ping's knife.
Just then, Li Ping raised his other hand and threw out another handful of lime.
The rapid change of tactics left Tian Boguang breathless and speechless, forcing him to close his eyes and curse inwardly, "Despicable scoundrel..."
At the same time, he used his skill of listening to the wind and discerning location, and with a flurry of sword flashes, he protected himself so that he was completely impenetrable!
But the girl flashed to Tian Boguang's side, her hand passing through the flash of the blade, and a finger struck Tian Boguang's shoulder.
Tian Boguang's right hand went numb, and the flash of the knife immediately dissipated.
Another flash of light appeared, and Tian Boguang's head fell to the ground.
Li Ping, leaning on his blood-dripping longsword, gasped for breath, trying to calm his chaotic thoughts.
The girl stared at Li Ping in horror. Seeing Li Ping come back to life, her shock was no less than that of Tian Boguang.
Finally, as if possessed, she asked, "A deity?"
Li Ping shook his head.
The girl asked again: "Monster?"
Li Ping shook his head again.
The girl looked at Tian Boguang's corpse and said, "He wouldn't end up like you, would he?"
Li Ping shook his head again.
The girl let out a sigh of relief: "I'm sorry! It wasn't that I didn't want to help you, I just didn't expect his knife to be so fast, and I didn't expect you couldn't even block one strike..."
Li Ping's face fell. I know I'm bad at this, okay?
The girl asked again, "So... you saw it too? You saw the river, the fist, the longsword, and the red lotus?"
Li Ping was taken aback.
I go!
I thought I was the only one who saw it, that it was my exclusive cheat code!
As a result, everyone saw it?
Li Ping nodded.
The girl asked again, "Do you know what river that is?"
Li Ping said, "That's the River of Time. You flew here from the River of Time, didn't you know?"
Just as he was about to be killed, Li Ping suddenly had a lot of information in his mind.
This made him realize that he had seen the river of time, and even more so, that the river of time had been destroyed.
He gained the ability to manipulate time, and the information he received told him that this was his exclusive ability, which is why he was certain that Tian Boguang would not survive.
This ability manifests as a panel that he can understand.
Name: Li Ping
"Ability: Time Reversal"
"Uses: 4/5 (Can be used actively; ability automatically triggered upon death; maximum rewind time: 30 minutes; use recovery time: 24 hours)"
"Ability: Time Manipulation"
"Multiple: 0.5 times"
"Usage time: 15 minutes (can accelerate or slow down its own time flow; cooldown time: 15 minutes)"
When Li Ping died, a time rewind was triggered, and his physical condition returned to what it was before he was injured.
He accelerated his time again, making his sword speed half again as fast as usual, catching Tian Boguang completely off guard...
The girl's mouth dropped open. Although she had never heard of the concept of the river of time before, she could roughly guess what it meant.
Her face was deathly pale as she asked, "What do you mean by saying I flew out from the river of time?"
Li Ping said, "If I'm not mistaken, you're not from this era. It's the Zhengde era of the Ming Dynasty. What era are you from?"
He had assumed the girl was a cultivator when he saw her descend from the sky.
Now it seems that it was completely wrong, terribly wrong!
According to the information Li Ping received, those meteors and this girl both flew over from other tributaries of time, or from the upper reaches of the river of time.
The closer a tributary is to this timeline, or the closer a person is to this point in time, the faster they arrive at this point in time.
Yes, the shooting star in the sky and this girl were just the first people to arrive at this point in time.
The girl was taken aback: "The Ming Dynasty? What dynasty is that?"
Li Ping said, "The Xia, Shang, and Western Zhou dynasties, the Eastern Zhou divided into two periods: the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, followed by the unified Qin and Han dynasties. Then came the Three Kingdoms of Wei, Shu, and Wu, the Jin dynasties, the Northern and Southern dynasties, the Sui, Tang, and Five Dynasties, the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties... cough cough, now it's the Ming dynasty!"
The girl was struck dumb, staggering backward: "The Sui, Tang, Five Dynasties, Song, Yuan, Ming..."
"The Song Dynasty fell, then came the Yuan Dynasty, then the Ming Dynasty?!"
"I've arrived in a time two dynasties later, which means at least four or five hundred years have passed..."
"Father, I...I...I'll never see you again?"
Although she had argued with her father before, the thought of never seeing him again filled the girl with sorrow, and she shed tears.
At this moment, Li Ping coughed lightly: "Not necessarily. I just saw many shooting stars like yours. Perhaps your father also came on a shooting star like you."
The girl was overjoyed and grabbed Li Ping's sleeve: "Are you serious?"
Li Ping said, "Of course, you can find out if it's true or false by asking just anyone."
"By the way, my name is Li Ping. May I ask your honorable name, young lady?"
The girl said, "My surname is Huang, and my given name is Rong..."