Time Travel: The Best Doctor in Ancient Times

Chapter 689: Chapter 528: Old Handsome Guy in the Secret Room

The sounds of gears turning filled the air, echoing loudly within the dim underground chamber.

Little Meat Bun, biting his finger, stared intently with great curiosity.

The door to the chamber opened. Xiangka Tianji, clad in a black witch robe, stood hesitantly at the door with an indecisive expression, uncertain whether to step in.

Little Meat Bun, waiting nearby, was almost dying of impatience. Being underground where it was eerily cold and spine-chilling, what was the old devout woman doing dozing off here!

”Speak not of ghosts and gods! Speak not of ghosts and gods! Yaoyao is not scared, not scared!” Little Meat Bun clasped his hands and murmured to comfort himself in a low voice.

Oh, why hasn’t the old devout woman entered yet? He was almost scared too much!

Finally, after Little Meat Bun prayed countless times, Xiangka Tianji seemed to make up her mind and walked into the chamber.

Seeing this, Little Meat Bun immediately got excited and hurriedly sneaked in the moment the chamber door was shutting, finding a concealed spot to hide.

Inside the chamber, a person in tattered clothes sat with his back to the door. His wrists and feet were bound by chains as thick as a wrist, the ends of which were deeply embedded in the stone wall, unbreakable.

”Master!” Xiangka Tianji called out softly, like a whisper between lovers.

Hidden in a dark spot, Little Meat Bun shivered, his goosebumps falling off.

”Master, it’s been over twenty years. Won’t you even glance at me? Have you really nothing to say to me?” Xiangka Tianji looked at the man sitting with his back to her, a hint of resentment flashing in her eyes, her face twisted in anguish, ”Who do you think you are? Master! You are no longer the celebrated savior of the Southwest from those days! Over twenty years! People have long forgotten your name and your great achievements!”

”Wuchang Taitian! The Southern Border has already seen a change of regime, and I am now the reigning sovereign of the Southern Border, high above all. Yet still, you refuse to look at me? Because of her, everything is because of that woman! All because of her!”

”Master, you asked me to spare her life, and I agreed, imprisoning but not killing her. Yet you exhausted all your power to help her escape! Master, in what ways was she better than me? Just because she is the Phoenix Clan’s saintess of the Southern Border, the once exalted next Phoenix Emperor? Both disciples of yours, yet why do you only ever have eyes for her and none for me?”

Even though a prisoner, Wuchang Taitian’s spine remained erect, and no matter what Xiangka Tianji said, he didn’t even turn his head or glance at her!

After yelling for a while with no response from him, Xiangka Tianji slumped to the ground, defeated, and burst into loud laughter, ”Why? Why must it be like this? Wuchang Taitian, from a revered master adored by thousands to a prisoner at my feet, why do you accept it with serenity? What are you waiting for?”

Wiping the tears from her face, Xiangka Tianji got up from the ground and, pointing at the figure, spoke fiercely, ”You’re still waiting for her to come back, aren’t you? I’ll tell you, you can forget it! She’ll never come back in this lifetime! She’s dead! She died in the Central Plains! Her bones lie in a foreign land, never to meet you again!”

”Wuchang Taitian, it’s all because of you! It’s all because of you!” facing the man she had admired all her life, Xiangka Tianji screamed hoarsely, ”Because of you! Because you fell in love with that woman! Because only she is in your eyes! That’s why I must destroy her, destroy everything she held dear!”

”Wuchang Taitian, the Phoenix Clan of the Southern Border perished because of you, the regime changed because of you! I usurped the throne because of you! The Phoenix Saintess died in a foreign land because of you! All of this, all because of you, Wuchang Taitian! Hahaha... all because of you! Because of you!”

Xiangka Tianji’s frantic words bewildered Little Meat Bun who was dumbfounded, his little head unable to process it, his big eyes blinking slowly, full of confusion.

What is all this about!

Could it be that the prisoner above is a bad person?

Xiangka Tianji screamed for a while, and seeing no response from the person, knelt down on the ground and began crying loudly.

That scene, rather tragic.

”Ah... Tianji, the obsession in your heart... is too deep...” a sigh, laden with vicissitudes, echoed from his direction.

At these words, Xiangka Tianji, shocked and elated, looked up, ”Tianji... Tianji... Master, it’s been over twenty years since you last called me that... Sure enough, only knowing she’s dead do you pay attention to me! You only pay attention to me!”

”Ah...” another long sigh came, the man slightly bowed his head, his voice revealing a hint of age, ”Foolish child, the Astrology witchcraft I taught you, although I’m exhausted, I can still foretell. You’ve imprisoned your master in this sunless underground for over twenty years, isn’t it all for today?”

”Tianji, when I foresaw the divine secret and helped her escape at any cost, I already knew she would never come back...” The chains rattled loudly, and the man facing away from Xiangka Tianji slowly stood up, turned around, and revealed a face that, despite being weathered, still showed traces of exceptional grace.

Xiangka Tianji gazed longingly at that face, momentarily losing herself.

”Jiji, I have willingly been imprisoned here for more than twenty years. What I have been waiting for has never been her...” Wuchang Taitian looked down at the kneeling woman with a face full of pity, shaking his head as his gaze drifted towards the empty void, filled with vicissitudes.

”Wow... Old Handsome Guy!” Hidden in the shadows, the little dough ball saw the man and couldn’t help but mutter softly, then he bit his finger and frowned in confusion, ”Why does this person look so much like me...”

As he spoke, the little dough ball raised his chubby little paws and touched his face.

”Master...” Xiangka Tianji, looking at the man before her, let tears fall from her wrinkled old face.

This man had remained stunningly handsome for decades, while she had long lost the beauty of her past.

Thinking of this, Xiangka Tianji knelt down, burying her head deep in the ground, unwilling to lift it again no matter what.

”Jiji, fate cannot be defied; turning back is the shore. Your Xiangka Clan had a life pattern to rule the Southern Border for twenty-two years. Now that Xiangka Clan’s destiny has ended, if you persist alone, you will lead your clan onto a path of no return...” Wuchang Taitian’s gaze remained on the void as he spoke softly.

”A path of no return? A path of no return? Haha... Master, from the moment I sought to usurp the throne, I had no way back!” Xiangka Tianji upon hearing this, shook her head as she climbed up from the ground, her old face sorrowful as she looked at the stunningly handsome man, ”Only the bloodline combining the Witch and Gu Tribes can awaken the Divine Soul of the King of Witch Gu. Wuchang Taitian, you have long prepared a path of no return for me, haven’t you?”

Wuchang Taitian heard this, his eyes slightly drooping, without an answer.

”Haha... The most compassionate Savior in the world, you can pity the world, but you never pitied me!” Tianji lamentably cried, pointing at Wuchang Taitian as she spoke resolutely, ”Wuchang Taitian, even if the heavens want to destroy my Xiangka Clan, I will not surrender until the very last moment! Wuchang Taitian, even if I cannot have your love, I will bind you to me for all our lives! To accompany me in death!”

With those words, Xiangka Tianji dared not look at that man again and turned decisively to leave.

The mechanism resumed its motion, and in the blink of an eye, Xiangka Tianji’s figure disappeared behind the secret chamber’s door.

”Pfft!”

The man who had stood firm as a pine suddenly spurted out a mouthful of fresh blood, clutching his chest as he staggered to his knees.

The sound of chains clinking resonated as the man wore a face full of despair!

”Hey! Hey! Are you alright?” The little dough ball pondered for a long time before he finally stepped out from the dark, leaning next to the man as he timidly asked.

”She’s dead... She’s really dead... Ruoshui...” Another gush of fresh blood flowed, and two tears fell from Wuchang Taitian’s eyes as this once stunningly handsome man seemed to age dozens of years in an instant, full of life’s hardships...

”Uh... So, are you sick?” The little dough ball felt that a person who coughs up blood like this probably wouldn’t hurt him, so he cautiously moved closer, stammering as he spoke, and excitedly mentioned while clutching the small bundle over his chest, ”Ah! Don’t be scared, I have medicine! My mother gave me lots of medicine for self-defense! They can cure diseases! You should eat this quickly!”

From a bracelet, he poured out a medicinal pill and passed it over.

Wuchang Taitian slightly smiled and shook his head, ”No need, medicine can cure diseases but can’t cure fate. I promised someone, once I meet the person I’m meant to wait for, I will go and join her, so it’s for the best...”

”Ah? That’s not right! My mother said, if it’s an illness, it needs to be treated! The patient must behave well!” The little dough ball, upon hearing this, instantly felt displeased. Whatever this man was saying, though he didn’t fully understand, it was clear that this was not a cooperative patient.

Wuchang Taitian looking at the child before him, his hands bound by chains slowly lifted to touch the boy’s face, ”What does your mother look like?”

”My mother, ah, my mother is the most beautiful mother in the world, with big eyes like this, eyebrows like this, a nose like this, and a mouth like this...” As soon as he mentioned his mother, the little dough ball immediately became enthusiastic, gesticulating wildly, but as he continued, his expression gradually darkened, pouting with a face full of misery, ”Wuwu... I miss my mother...”

”She will come! Here, this is where she should return to, the souls of the Phoenix Clan are waiting for her, and I am waiting for her too...” Wuchang Taitian fondly caressed the little dough ball’s cheek as if seeing someone else through him, ”Little kiddo, what is your name?”