Time Travel: The Best Doctor in Ancient Times

Chapter 737: Chapter 572: Thousand-Person Ambush at Red Rock Mountain

”I...” Gu Changsheng was tongue-tied as she gazed at the evildoer before her. The setting sun seemed to have coated his face in a layer of gold, making him even more resplendent and breathtaking. This choked the words she wanted to say right in her throat — she couldn’t spit them out or swallow them back down, it was incredibly frustrating!

”My beloved Changsheng?” Zhou Mu looked at the little woman before him, his heroic brows slightly raised as he spoke with a smile.

Watching the very calm Zhou Mu, Gu Changsheng was virtually speechless with frustration!

”I’ve had enough playing with you!” Gu Changsheng, grinding her teeth, swung her paw towards the handsome face before her!

Wuu... it’s not fair to bully a woman like this!

Is there no justice in the world!

Gu Changsheng was utterly exasperated on her side, while Zhou Mu suddenly made a move, seizing the paw she had swung at him. His expression, as if he was from the Divine Residence, darkened in an instant, ”Changsheng!”

In a low call, the next instant, Gu Changsheng also realized something was amiss and her expression changed abruptly.

Their fingers interlocked, the two figures transformed into shooting stars. A trail of red and purple swiftly streaked down the slope!

With Gu Changsheng and Zhou Mu’s Inner Strength, the rustling sounds around them may escape the ears of ordinary people, but escaping the notice of these two was exceedingly difficult!

Below the slope, Yuan Bao and Si Xi were busy at a temporarily set-up stove. Han Qiu, Xiao Cui, and the sisters of Jin, Yu, Liang, and Yuan were resting not far from there, completely oblivious to the approaching danger, nonchalantly carrying on!

”Eh? What’s with the master and mistress, why have they decided to fly down?” Yuan Bao, holding a ladle, blinked and cheerfully said.

In the next instant, a silver needle flew rapidly in his direction.

”Whoa! Mistress, why? Yuan Bao hasn’t offended you, has he?”

Under the twilight, the silver needle shone with a silver-white brilliance, its chilly edge headed straight for Yuan Bao, who was stunned and scrambled aside in alarm!

Seeing this, the rest of the group stood up, their faces also changing dramatically!

”Mind your feet!” Gu Changsheng didn’t have time to explain, the silver needles in her hand never stopping as she rapidly flung them towards where the others were standing!

”Hiss!”

Just as Yuan Bao leaped aside, a silver needle landed where he had been standing a moment before.

On the needle’s tip, a red-tailed scorpion was coiled up, struggling!

”What! What! What is this?” Yuan Bao’s face turned pale the moment he got a clear view of what was on the needle’s tip.

”Scorpions!” Si Xi yelled as she pulled Yuan Bao to the side, joining Han Qiu and the others, iron whip in hand, a look of vigilance on her face.

The women, too, were gripping their swords tightly, all ready for battle!

Around them, where the silver needles passed, countless scorpions were pinned to the ground. Their blood-red tails were eerily disturbing, causing one to shudder!

The Soul-Devouring Python, with a mountain chicken in its mouth, hurried back. Seeing the ground covered with little scorpions, its crimson Snake Eyes full of confusion, it swayed its snakehead and still slithered towards Yuan Bao with the chicken in its mouth.

The Vermilion Bird Gu, which had been dutifully acting as firewood beneath the pot, was also bewildered. The cook had left without a word, and now an enticing aroma of Gu insects was all around!

The Fire Chicken was surrounded by flames, radiant with red glow, causing the water in the pot to tumble!

The Fire Chicken tilted its head, the flame-shaped comb atop its head wobbling. In such a situation, should it continue to boil the water, or should it go out to forage?

The meaty aroma of the Gu insects was indeed very tempting!

After only a moment of thought, the Fire Chicken succumbed to its appetite. Flapping its wings, it crawled out from under the pot. Dipping its head down, it pecked at the scorpions pinned by the silver needles on the ground!

”Fire Chicken, don’t eat that!” Yuan Bao, having regrouped with the others from a distance, exclaimed in shock.

Even if he wasn’t too perceptive, he wasn’t a complete fool, was he? In the Southern Border, when so many strange scorpions appeared out of nowhere, his not-so-sharp mind could tell that these were Gu insects!

”The Gu insects of the Southern Border are poisonous, Fire Chicken come here! Don’t eat it randomly!” Yuan Bao stamped his foot, gesturing for the Fire Chicken to come over.

However, not being the Feeder of the Vermilion Bird Gu, the Fire Chicken didn’t give a hoot about Yuan Bao, pecked with its beak decisively, and swallowed the scorpions on the ground without hesitation, and eventually, even spit out a silver needle...

This way of eating, like spitting out fish bones, suddenly made Yuan Bao’s impending warning stuck in his throat.

While the Fire Chicken was foraging on the ground, Gu Changsheng and Zhou Mu had also flown up to the group.

Phoenix Eyes slightly narrowed as she surveyed the surroundings, Gu Changsheng’s lips curled up into a cold arc as he spoke in a deep voice, ”Southern Border Gu Women are always so aloof and proud; to do such a despicable thing as a sneak attack from behind, and yet you still don’t dare show yourself?”

As the echo of Gu Changsheng’s words faded, the surroundings were met with utter silence, save for the sound of the Fire Chicken crunching scorpions on the ground.

Yuan Bao couldn’t wait any longer, stepping forward he tugged at his wife’s clothes and anxiously spoke out, ”Wife, isn’t the most pressing issue that Fire Chicken right now? Quickly make it stop its gluttony, those are Gu insects, it could die from eating them!”

Even though the Fire Chicken looked bizarre, with its naked backside and its body aflame like a bald monkey, it was still alive, wasn’t it? If it were to die from eating, Yuan Bao felt, that would really be a pity!

Hearing this, Gu Changsheng twitched his lips and couldn’t help but give Yuan Bao a blank look, ”Die from eating? Just how twisted is your train of thought?”

Yuan Bao touched his nose awkwardly upon hearing this, with a deflated expression he muttered, ”I’m just trying to be helpful, aren’t I? After all, that Fire Chicken is one of your Gu insects!”

Gu Changsheng sighed inwardly upon hearing this, feeling that Yuan Bao, this simpleton, was truly beyond help!

Glancing at the Fire Chicken, who was happily chomping on scorpions, Gu Changsheng couldn’t be bothered with Yuan Bao and pointed down at the Fire Chicken’s feet, ”Fire Chicken, pick up my silver needles after you’re done!”

Damn it, her silver needles were specially made; just to lose them like this seemed such a waste.

”Gobble gobble!” The Fire Chicken nodded with a scorpion in its beak, the ninny crunched down the scorpion and turned to start picking up the needles.

The Soul-Devouring Python guarding behind Liu Nv heard this, its snake head wiggled with a wild chicken in its mouth, it too wanted to help its master, but looking at its massive body it seemed somewhat challenging to pick up those meter-length silver needles...

”Wife, we’re surrounded!” Han Qiu came forward with his sword and spoke gravely.

”So many people! They’re surrounding us from all directions. Wife, unless we can tear open a gap in their encirclement, we won’t be able to escape!” Xiao Cui reported with tightly furrowed brows and a grave voice, as she was naturally timid and adept at fleeing.

”Flee? I, Gu Changsheng, have never been one to flee from battle!” Gu Changsheng said, pride evident on his face as he spoke resolutely.

The encircling deadly situation had been set; they were but ten people, and breaking through such a tight encirclement was no easy task!

Gu Changsheng could feel the powerful presences lurking around them; none was weaker than the Futu Demoness they had faced before. Clearly, they were all people who had enhanced their Inner Strength by serving with their bodies as Gu Servants!

In such a siege of masters, she and Zhou Mu might be able to escape unscathed, but Yuan Bao and the others would not be so fortunate!

The surroundings were quiet; the Fire Chicken, with a mouthful of silver needles, scratched Gu Changsheng’s skirt hem. The flames on its body almost set Yuan Bao’s trouser leg alight.

Frightened, Yuan Bao jumped aside and swallowed nervously as he watched his wife bend down to take back the silver needles from the Fire Chicken’s mouth and then patted the top of the Fire Chicken’s head!

As Gu Changsheng moved, the flames atop the Fire Chicken’s head flickered.

”Wife, didn’t it burn you?” Yuan Bao asked, swallowing nervously, shocked by the Fire Chicken’s flames, which were genuine and felt scorchingly close to anyone nearby.

”It is now my Gu!” Gu Changsheng straightened up, gave Yuan Bao a blank look, and spoke solemnly.

Yuan Bao’s lips quivered slightly, watching the Fire Chicken hopping around gleefully after being petted by its master, he was speechless, ”To think it ate so many Gu insects and yet it didn’t die, this is truly an indomitable chicken!”

”It was born to feed on Ten Thousand Gu.” Gu Changsheng’s expression was somber as she reminded Yuan Bao of the problem he had long ignored, ”What you should be concerned about now, is whether you all will survive!”

She and Zhou Mu were certainly capable of fighting their way out, but Yuan Bao and the others, lacking their profound Inner Strength, even if they followed close by, it may not be easy to break through the encirclement.

”Wife, what do you mean?” Yuan Bao asked nervously after swallowing yet again.

”We’ve been surrounded,” Gu Changsheng said nonchalantly, raising her hand to point at the trees, ”These surroundings, no less than a thousand people have formed an assassination array, and we, we are right in the center of it!”

”A thousand people?” Yuan Bao laughed it off, relieved as he patted his chest, ”Just a thousand? With you by our side, even ten thousand would be no challenge, not a problem!”

Gu Changsheng gave Yuan Bao, who wore an ingratiating look, a sideways glare and slapped him on his hand, ”A thousand people! A thousand people on a par with the Futu Demoness! No! And more than half of them have Inner Strength that surpasses hers!”

Touching his head, Yuan Bao suddenly turned pale, ”A thousand people, stronger than the Futu Demoness? Wuuu...”

Yuan Bao had a profound understanding of how formidable the Futu Demoness was; back then, all the formidable individuals by his wife’s side had been injured by her!

Thinking of the wounded Secret Guard Lord, Yuan Bao realized his Kung Fu was insignificant!

This was the end for him, Yuan Bao!

Gu Changsheng ignored Yuan Bao beside her and exchanged a look with Zhou Mu. Gradually, she released her Inner Strength, sensing the fluctuations of Inner Strength around them, eventually focusing her gaze some two hundred meters away, where the trees were dense.

There, the most powerful people were located!

Adorned in red, a sly smile on her lips, Gu Changsheng stood unflustered by Zhou Mu’s side, looking in the direction of those masters. She casually blew on her fingernails and spoke leisurely, ”Xiangka Tianji really knows how to honor me – this time, she’s finally put on a bit of a show! Feeling so valued isn’t half bad; Changsheng is quite pleased!”