Time Travel: The Best Doctor in Ancient Times

Chapter 500: Chapter 358: A Matter of Life and Death

Yue Xilou finished his sentence, didn’t even glance at the several people behind him, and directly placed Gu Changsheng onto the cushion on the platform, while he himself sat down cross-legged behind her...

Watching that resolute back completely shield Gu Changsheng from sight, Borjigin Nian’s tears suddenly fell like pearls slipping off a string, cascading down in streams...

Yue Xilou was not just talking! He really wasn’t just talking!

By shielding Gu Changsheng, the short crossbow in Borjigin Nian’s hands could only hit him, and not Gu Changsheng!

In that instant, Borjigin Nian suddenly had a revelation, could it be that this man of incomparable beauty, like her senior brother, also loved Gu Changsheng?

Death, so easy to say!

But when it comes to doing it, it’s harder than ascending to heaven!

Let alone making such a direct choice between life and death!

People are selfish and fear death, but he, he actually...

In that instant, Borjigin Nian hesitated, feeling that the courage she once had in chasing handsome men suddenly vanished like bubbles and smoke...

She didn’t have the confidence to shake a woman who a man would protect with his life!

And that woman was also her friend!

The short crossbow in Borjigin Nian’s hands trembled slowly, as if she could no longer hold it steady...

On the high platform, the wildly raging inner strength around Yue Xilou began to retract, and the silhouettes of the two gradually merged into one. The halo formed by concentrated inner strength enveloped the two figures as if it were substantial flames, crackling as if it could sweep away everything...

Borjigin Nian’s hands trembled as she sat on the steps, her eyes unwavering as she stared at the two people on the platform.

Si Xi, Kun Nu, and Ning Er were the same!

The four of them held their breath and stared upward, their faces filled with worry!

It’s going to be okay! There’s still a chance that both of them will survive!

Nine deaths and one life, although the chances of survival are slim, there is still a chance, isn’t there?

It will be okay!

Borjigin Nian’s lips were bitten so hard that a trace of blood emerged, as she prayed fervently in her heart.

The three at the door did the same...

Time seemed to stop at that moment, leaving only the several huge Luminous Pearls embedded in the roof of the Quite Room softly glowing, casting a light on their fluctuating faces...

Gu Changsheng, who was knocked out with a knife-hand strike, felt as if she had plunged into a huge furnace. The fierce heat gradually swept over her from her back, causing excruciating pain all over her body...

It was as if she was trapped in a nightmare full of endless agony, unable to break free, unable to escape!

Even moving was impossible!

At this moment, the drowsy Gu Changsheng seemed to see a death god engulfed in rolling flames, waving the reaper’s scythe at her, ready to burn up her vitality and take away her life...

Pain, the unbearable pain of life, made Gu Changsheng wish she could roar at the heavens!

But even this, she couldn’t do!

At this moment, the always proud, stubborn Gu Changsheng, who never backed down even in the face of enemy gunfire, suddenly felt a shrinking sense of retreat in her heart...

Large beads of sweat gradually seeped from her forehead, dripping down instantly...

Gu Changsheng’s body also trembled violently under the torture of this endless pain...

Time did not shift with human will, the light around Yue Xilou and Gu Changsheng grew more intense...

Yue Xilou’s face, of breathtaking beauty, gradually furrowed his brows until his entire face was painfully crumpled into a knot...

”No!” Si Xi exclaimed in urgency, his face flashing with panic, as he yelled toward Borjigin Nian below the platform, ”Princess Nian! Act now!”

He had seen such a situation in his youth!

When the inner strength ran rampant within his Family Head, it was his master and several uncles who joined forces and spared no expense of their own inner strength to stabilize him!

The danger of power transmission was always a life-and-death gamble!

For hundreds of years, no one had been spared!

Even the one who transmitted power to his Family Head had not escaped!

Upon hearing this, Borjigin Nian shook her head in despair, the short crossbow in her hands feeling as heavy as a thousand pounds...

”Don’t! Don’t do this!”

She was not afraid of killing, but she didn’t want to kill Yue Xilou, she really didn’t!

At this moment, Gu Changsheng’s back was turned to them, her beautiful face full of pain. Her clothing was soaked with sweat, she, drenched with sweat, seemed to be caught between fire and ice, at times scorching hot like fire, at times as if placed in an ice cave...

Am I going to die?

Is this it—death?

”Changsheng girl...”

An old man dressed in vintage green military attire waved at her with a kind face...

Grandpa...

Gu Changsheng silently called out...

If she could see her grandfather’s smile and hear his voice before death, she would have no regrets...

”Changsheng girl... Grandpa’s only got you for a granddaughter, just you for a kin, just you who could bring me trouble and mischief, my naughty girl...”

Grandpa’s voice echoed in Gu Changsheng’s ears, causing her heart to ache!

Yes, grandpa only had her for a kin!

If she died, grandpa would be heartbroken...

She! Must not die!

To keep Grandfather from grieving, she must not die either!

A desperate craving for survival erupted around Gu Changsheng in an instant...

Even if she had to endure endless suffering to prevent Grandfather’s heartache, she could bear it!

No matter how much pain she felt, making her wish not to live, she could endure it! She could! She is Gu Changsheng!

”Princess Nian, take action! If you don’t act now, it’ll be too late!” Si Xi stomped his feet anxiously but didn’t dare to get close, only able to desperately shout at the person inside.

”I can’t do it! I really can’t bring myself to do it!” Borjigin Nian shook her head in a daze, her hand holding the short crossbow trembling.

”Princess Nian, stand up, pick up the short crossbow! If you don’t act now, not just Yue Xilou but also my wife will die!” Si Xi beheld the scene with eyes nearly splitting, yet he was powerless to do anything!

He truly wished he could step forward and help Borjigin Nian act!

But he couldn’t! He didn’t dare to step forward!

Disturbing the two on the stage would mean losing everything in an instant!

”I just can’t do it! I really can’t do it!” Borjigin Nian cried incessantly, her face contorted with pain as she lifted her hands to cover her ears, trying to block out Si Xi’s voice.

The three people at the doorway were anxious like ants on a hot pan, turning in circles but not daring to rashly move forward!

And yet Borjigin Nian hesitated to act!

Time seemed to whisk away their breath and life, bringing a boundless fear as it howled past them...

Suddenly, the tall silhouette on the high stage trembled violently. Yue Xilou suddenly opened his tightly closed eyes, stared with bloodshot eyes at his hands pressed against Gu Changsheng’s back, and let out a hoarse scream with all his might, ”Act now!”

This scream, laden with runaway inner strength, shocked everyone else in the room!

Borjigin Nian looked up in disbelief, tears forming in the eyes of Si Xi, Kun Nu, and Ning Er!

There was no turning back now...

Facing a slim chance of survival, they really weren’t so lucky to stumble upon that sliver of hope...

During the power transmission, it was absolutely forbidden to stop. Enduring agonizing pain that seemed to tear apart his heart, Yue Xilou tenaciously fed his inner strength into Gu Changsheng...

He had already prepared to die, only hoping that this proud girl would have inner strength to protect herself from being bullied and to live a smoother life...

Borjigin Nian shook her head blankly, arms trembling as she lifted the short crossbow and muttered shakily, ”I’m sorry... I’m so sorry!...”

At this point, there was no room for hesitation; if she acted, only one would die.

If she didn’t react, both would perish!

There was no third possibility left!

”Princess Nian, don’t hesitate! Act now!” Si Xi spoke with a face full of grief.

Between Yue Xilou and his wife, he had no other choice!

His wife must not have any accidents!

Absolutely no accidents!

Sacrificing Yue Xilou might cause his lord to feel guilty and heartbroken, but he would still be alive...

But if Lady Changsheng had an accident, then his lord would truly have nothing left!

Gu Changsheng, with her back to everyone, bit her lips so tightly that blood slowly trickled from her teeth, the inner strength raging in her body causing all her pores to open, and faint threads of blood slowly seeped from her skin...

It was a pain that seemed worse than being flayed alive, an intolerable agony!

Even Gu Changsheng, with her strong willpower resisting, hovered on the verge of collapse...

The blood seeping from her skin became denser and denser, almost turning her into a blood-drenched figure...

A trace of blood slowly passed over the forehead ornament on her brow, where no one else could see. The once brightly red ornament suddenly emitted a circle of red light, greedily absorbing the blood from the surrounding skin...

Inside the ornament, which seemed like jade but wasn’t, like stone but wasn’t, something that resembled a small living being began to move slowly...

The light emitted from the forehead ornament grew more and more intense, more and more vigorous...

People below the high stage watched the flickering red light with horror, frightened out of their wits!

Gu Changsheng suddenly felt a chilly sensation spreading from her brow, the pain she felt previously like being engulfed in flames eased as if a bucket of cold water was poured over her head, instantly extinguishing the burning sensation on her body...

With the pain momentarily subsided, Gu Changsheng’s foggy brain regained a trace of clarity!

Hallucinations! Seeing Grandfather was just a hallucination!

She had clearly been knocked unconscious by that opportunistic jerk, Flower Peacock!

”Princess Nian, if you don’t act now, my wife will have to die alongside Yue Xilou! Please release the arrow!” Si Xi, not knowing what the red light was, recognized they had no time for further consideration now!

Act? Release the arrow? Gu Changsheng’s heart tightened!

Si Xi would never shoot an arrow at her, so whom was she supposed to shoot?

The feeling in her limbs slowly returned to Gu Changsheng’s still dazed brain, the heat sensation remaining on her back was unmistakable, clearing her mind completely!

Instinctively, she realized there was someone behind her!

And this person was none other than Flower Peacock, Yue Xilou!

Could it be that Yue Xilou knocked her unconscious just to play with fire and burn both of them to death? Was this what angered Xiao Si Xi, making him want Borjigin Nian to shoot Yue Xilou with an arrow?

What the hell! How could Yue Xilou even consider such a thing?

”Click!” The sound of the crossbow trigger mechanism echoed distinctly through the Quiet Room...