Time Travel: The Best Doctor in Ancient Times

Chapter 721: Chapter 558: What Happened to Fairness?

Everyone, upon hearing his words, was stunned.

The more nonchalantly Gu Changsheng talked, the more uneasy Huaheng Mantian felt inside.

Not for any other reason, but because she had never heard of the Snake Garment Powder, yet she was well aware of the Soul-Devouring Python!

In the Southern Border, Gu insects are also ranked, and a giant creature like the Soul-Devouring Python that absorbs the essence of nature to grow, feeding on the spirits and souls of living beings, is the nightmare of all the Southern Border’s people!

Humans always harbor fear towards the unknown. In that instant, Huaheng Mantian was afraid!

Her mind in disarray, Huaheng Mantian tried to say something, but felt a total loss of strength in her body, as if bereft of her senses, and she began to shake slightly!

The soldiers behind her were not faring much better than she was!

Gu Changsheng watched their reactions with amusement, a silent chuckle in his heart.

The sight of these tens of thousands of soldiers shaking simultaneously—what a spectacle it was! Just two words: Magnificent!

How truly magnificent!

”Tsk tsk... I did say, ’use their way, to return to them their deeds.’ When someone affected by Snake Garment Powder is mentally unstable, they end up out of their senses and completely helpless,” Gu Changsheng remarked, leaning on Zhou Mu’s shoulder, speaking with composure.

Hearing this, Huaheng Mantian’s face suddenly turned deathly pale.

However, Gu Changsheng couldn’t be bothered to glance at her again. Instead, he looked admiringly at his own Soul-Devouring Python, which was moodily drawing circles nearby, and called out to it, ”Alright, come back home. Last night’s indulgence in drinking Snake Garment Powder liquor wasn’t in vain!”

As he spoke, Gu Changsheng extended his fair wrist.

Upon hearing this, the Soul-Devouring Python’s blood-red eyes suddenly gleamed with excitement, and the next moment, its enormous body surged violently towards its Feeder.

In its path, it knocked into a few of Huaheng Mantian’s men.

Just when everyone thought that Gu Changsheng would be crushed by the enormous Soul-Devouring Python, the python... disappeared!

The massive body shrank in the blink of an eye.

On Gu Changsheng’s wrist, a Snake Bone Chain appeared...

All of this happened in the space of a breath. Before everyone could see clearly, the Soul-Devouring Python, large as a small mountain, had vanished from their sight, leaving everyone with stunned and uncertain expressions...

With everything settled, Gu Changsheng turned his head to look at Xia Ruyan, who had been dumbstruck the whole time and hadn’t spoken a full sentence since she arrived, raised an eyebrow, and said, ”I’ve repaid the Dark Night Army for intercepting the Huaheng-Xiangka Allied Forces. Now, one of you is affected by Disintegration Powder, and the other’s entire army is shaking. Quite evenly matched, and fair, isn’t it?”

”...” Upon hearing this, Xia Ruyan was temporarily at a loss, uncertain of what she meant or what to say.

Gu Changsheng raised an eyebrow again, ”So, Xia Ruyan, you all keep fighting. I’ll be continuing my journey southward.”

Right?

After all, she used to be quite the model student when she was young; she never liked group fights!

The strong bullying the weak was something she could never stand. So, an even match was fair, wasn’t it?

While saying this, Gu Changsheng truly walked away.

Xia Ruyan stared wide-eyed at the red-dressed woman being held by an arrogant man’s embrace, her brow deeply furrowed.

Just as she had decided to fight a desperate battle, Gu Changsheng appeared like a divine weapon from heaven and with a series of jokes and wisecracks surprisingly resolved the crisis...

”Are you a descendant of the Phoenix Clan of the Southern Border?” While it was a question, Xia Ruyan was extremely certain.

Because she could never mistake the mark of the Phoenix Clan.

Gu Changsheng looked back, raised an eyebrow, and responded non-committally, ”Believe me, even now, I’m not completely clear on who I even am. This Phoenix stuff, the Southern Border stuff, actually has nothing to do with me! The Xiangka Clan took away my son, so I want to rescue my son and wipe out the Xiangka Clan. It’s that simple.”

Xia Ruyan was taken aback.

That simple? Simple?

The Xiangka Clan had ruled the Southern Border for more than twenty years. To want to annihilate them was extremely difficult!

How come, when spoken from the mouth of this woman before her, it sounded as natural as predicting that today would be overcast and tomorrow sunny?

Yet, no matter how she thought about it, as soon as she was certain of her identity, Xia Ruyan decisively knelt on one knee, her spirited young face taking on a serious expression, and she lowered her head and said, ”Xia Ruyan of the Heta Xia Clan, greets our lord, the Phoenix.”

”...” Seeing this, Gu Changsheng was immediately taken aback.

All the way on her journey, she heard most often that the Huaheng Clan was the most loyal servant to the Phoenix in the Southern Border, yet Huaheng Mantian had been relentless in her insults, without showing a hint of kindness!

She, on the other hand, was hearing words of fealty and respect from Xia Ruyan for the first time.

The feeling was... indescribably complex!

Damn it, she had inexplicably become someone else’s master?

She couldn’t even be her own master right now; otherwise, she wouldn’t have been forced to traverse mountains and rivers to the Southern Border, would she?

Thus, Gu Changsheng was in a less than splendid mood!

After exchanging a glance with the evildoer, Gu Changsheng hmphed and turned her nose up before looking back at Xia Ruyan, curling her lip, ”I don’t have such headstrong and reckless buffoons under me, being outwitted by a mere Xia Ruyan, reducing a hundred thousand strong army to utter helplessness!”

Behind Xia Ruyan, a hundred thousand soldiers all bowed their heads in shame.

”Enough, a drop of water shall be returned with a gushing spring, but don’t even think about the spring, as I am not the fountainhead. The tiny bit of kindness I owed you has been repaid, and the rest shall be considered as interest!” Gu Changsheng said, raising his hand to point behind Huaheng Mantian, ”The Soul-Devouring Python last night sprinkled the antidote for the Disintegration Powder into your water source. If you want to detoxify, just go have a drink!”

Having said this, Gu Changsheng sighed, and his gaze towards Huaheng Mantian involuntarily carried a trace of sympathy.

Damn it, what happened to fairness?

In Gu Changsheng’s view, there was no fairness at all!

For a woman like Huaheng Mantian who doesn’t know the immensity of heaven and earth and is seeking her own death, it’s just her own fault!

He glanced at the pale-faced Huaheng Mantian and lowered his gaze. ”Xia Ruyan, if you can spare none of them, including Huaheng Mantian and the two clans’ Allied Forces behind her, then head to Red Sun City! Go find my Dark Night Army in Red Sun City. Even if it means pulling a cook, teaching you how to be somewhat clever might be beneficial,” Gu Changsheng suggested.

Gu Changsheng felt that she was quite the sharp-tongued one.

However, evidently, Xia Ruyan, despite her head bowed in shame, wore a face full of eagerness to learn, ”Yes! Xia Ruyan thanks my lord!”

”Alright! Fight your battles, if you don’t get on with it, that girl Huaheng Mantian is going to run away!” Gu Changsheng waved his hand and yawned as he leaned on Zhou Mu’s shoulder.

A party of about ten people walked out beyond the two armies.

”Lord Phoenix, once we cross Red Rock Mountain, we will enter the territory of the Xiangka Clan in the Southern Border. You must not venture alone into such peril!” Seeing Gu Changsheng about to leave, Xia Ruyan hastily spoke up.

Upon hearing this, Yuan Bao and the others had their expressions darken immediately, including Zhou Mu’s.

”What kind of talk is that? Are you implying that my master isn’t a person? Are we not people? Don’t go insulting others like that!” Yuan Bao, puffing up his rotund waist, mumbled discontentedly.

These words implicated all of them.

His beloved was right; this Xia Ruyan really was lacking in brains!

Yuan Bao finally saw someone who was even more lacking than himself!

”Sigh... Do you think I want to go? But ’Without entering the tiger’s den, how can one retrieve the tiger’s cubs?’ Do you understand? My damn son is still in their hands!” Gu Changsheng sighed deeply.

There couldn’t be a more fitting phrase for her situation!

Her son, ah! Her lively and kicking little meat bun!

How she missed him!

”Lord Phoenix!”

Xia Ruyan wanted to say more, but Gu Changsheng waved her off, ”Quickly chase them, or else Huaheng Mantian will join forces with the Xiangka Army behind the mountain!”

This opportunity to strike the enemy hard when they’re down, if Xia Ruyan dared to miss it, Gu Changsheng felt that she would definitely not want such a subordinate!

Indeed, although Xia Ruyan might not be adept at such sly and dirty tactics, she was quite skilled at leading troops into battle. She immediately took a sip of water handed to her by her subordinate, waved her arm grandly, and commanded the Northern Great Camp to begin the encirclement and suppression of Huaheng Mantian and her forces.

Having already walked a far distance, Gu Changsheng and her party stood on the hillside, looking down at the battle below that raged violently.

”My lady, when did you poison Huaheng Mantian’s people?” Yuan Bao was a curious baby.

”Last night,” Gu Changsheng replied briefly.

”Last night when? How come I didn’t know?” Yuan Bao blinked innocently.

Hearing this, Gu Changsheng immediately rolled her eyes; she had long stopped holding any expectations for Yuan Bao’s intelligence.

”Didn’t I stuff the Soul-Devouring Python with a belly full of alcohol last night? That was when I sprinkled the Snake Garment Powder,” Gu Changsheng knew that if she didn’t clarify, Yuan Bao would continue to look at her with those perplexed eyes until she gave in.

”...Uh! I thought, my lady, you wanted to make rice wine snake soup...” Yuan Bao was frank and immediately shared his thoughts from the previous day.

”Rice wine snake soup? Actually, I would prefer to eat rice wine Yuan Bao, rice wine Si Xi meatballs...” Gu Changsheng rolled her eyes again. Observing below as the battle became one-sided, Gu Changsheng finally nodded in satisfaction.

Yuan Bao and Si Xi heard this and quickly bounced back a few steps, hiding at a distance they deemed safe.

Enjoying the quiet, Gu Changsheng didn’t bother to quarrel with them.

”Do you really plan to take in that Xia Ruyan?” Zhou Mu asked softly.

In the battlefield below, a woman clad in armor charged fearlessly ahead, leaving a trail of bloodshed wherever she went, her vigor resembling one who could uproot mountains.

Indeed, she was an undoubtedly talented general!

But, she was not a sage strategist.

”Traversing sands and rivers, yet never changing her original aspiration, the Heta Xia Clan has done well!” Gu Changsheng stopped watching the carnage on the battlefield and began walking up the hill.

Compared to the Xiangka and Huaheng Clans, Xia Ruyan’s loyalty was truly precious!

As soon as Gu Changsheng moved, Zhou Mu naturally followed closely behind.

And Yuan Bao and Si Xi, quickly forgetting the looming threat of being turned into the wine-infused delicacy, hurriedly followed, chattering away with each other.

Behind them, Huaheng Mantian met her end without ever finding the woman who had outwitted her, dying with her eyes wide open in indignation...