Time Travel: The Best Doctor in Ancient Times

Chapter 760: Chapter 595: Can’t Stand Others Being Happy

Only when the Monarch of the Phoenix Clan had quelled her thunderous wrath did the soldiers and citizens of Cangmi City have a glimmer of hope for survival!

For a moment, in front of Cangmi City, only the sounds of Cangmi Hanji and her companions kowtowing and pleading remained, along with the suppressed tears and cries of hundreds of thousands of kneeling soldiers and citizens behind them...

A rabbit dies and a fox grieves; after all, these were the nobility who had governed Cangmi City for over twenty years!

No matter the unforgivable sins they had committed, no matter how much they had thrown their weight around in Cangmi City, at this moment, they were risking their lives, pleading for a chance of survival for the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and citizens of Cangmi City...

A sorrowful atmosphere lingered over the entire Cangmi City...

The only sounds were those of Cangmi Hanji and others begging for death, intermingled with the unceasing sounds of kowtowing.

Gu Changsheng’s fingers, clutching the Blood Scripture, slowly tightened, and her drooping Phoenix Eyes finally slowly opened, casting a disdainful glance at the throng of kneeling people before her...

Cangmi City, its City Lord offering the city as atonement through death, was something Gu Changsheng had not expected!

She had thought that even if the remaining cities were to raise a Surrender Flag, it would merely be under the threat of her slaughter, desperately begging for a way to survive...

Her fingers tightened bit by bit as Gu Changsheng’s heart, growing cold with the killings, gradually warmed up again.

Since stepping into the Southern Borderlands, all she had seen was death—past and present, always death!

The eradication of her maternal Phoenix Clan, the twenty-plus years of unwavering guardianship by the Xia Yan Clan on the battlefield, the near annihilation of the Hongyan Clan in their allegiance...

She had slaughtered city after city, killed countless people from the Southern Borderlands, as the people before her had said, those who conspired with the Xiangka Clan and rebelled deserved to die!

But now, these once treasonous Gu women were using their lives to plead for her forgiveness.

And the forgiveness they sought was not for themselves but for the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and citizens behind them...

Suddenly, Gu Changsheng felt that the people of the Southern Borderlands did indeed have hearts...

Whether it was because people speak kindly when facing death or because they were truly sincere, at that moment, Gu Changsheng abandoned all resolve from the journey here!

When leaving Canglan City, which had turned into a city of death, Gu Changsheng had thought that she could accept their surrender, but she would not spare the former nobility, the former collaborators with the rebels.

But now, the group before her, pleading for death, had moved her!

She knew better than anyone that if she had been a second late in acting just now, these Gu women in white robes would have died by their own swords!

They were truly seeking to atone through death to protect this city!

”Ah...” A barely audible sigh rose above the heads of Cangmi Hanji and her companions, silencing their pleas instantly!

Gu Changsheng’s delicate, fair fingers slowly folded the Blood Scripture in her hands, and with a casual and slightly mischievous tone, she spoke, ”I’m a person who has always disliked seeing others getting exactly what they want. You all are so intent on dying that I actually find it boring now...”

With just that sentence, Cangmi Hanji and the others were stunned into silence!

Monarch of the Phoenix Clan, what did that mean?

For a moment, they suddenly felt their brains were inadequate, completely incapable of comprehending the radiant woman’s meaning before them!

”Tsk tsk...” Gu Changsheng shook her head as she looked at the dozen or so dazed, middle-aged Gu women before her, her face full of disdain as she turned to Zhou Mu, ”Evildoer, it’s hard for me to imagine how, with such a foolish bunch as these traitors, Xiangka Tianji actually managed to rebel successfully...”

Poor heaven, her maternal clan must have been so foolish...

”Hehe...” Upon hearing this, Zhou Mu lightly chuckled, doting on the small woman beside him as he shook his head helplessly.

This chuckle, though not loud, immediately dissolved the gloomy mood lingering over Cangmi City.

Betwixt her brows, a drop of the Color of Holy Gold—this was a totem of the awakening of the Witch Gu Divine Soul, according to the legends of the Southern Borderlands!

The hundreds of thousands of soldiers and citizens of Cangmi City slowly raised their heads in the midst of this faint laughter, timidly looking towards the standing figure in red!

Brilliant in red, a paragon of grace!

This was the Phoenix Clan’s new Monarch!

And beside her, that lightly smiling man in purple-gold, was he the Imperial Prince that the Monarch of the Phoenix had brought from the Central Plains?

So beautiful!

This man and woman, truly beautiful!

Blessed with divine beauty, each aspect was a favor from the Heavenly God, perfected to the extreme!

Seeing the form of the two, the soldiers and citizens of Cangmi City momentarily forgot their sorrow, slightly dazzled...

Indeed, they were the lineage closest to the gods; just standing there made them forget their fear of death!

This was indeed the Imperial Family of the Southern Borderlands!

In that instant, a unanimous sentiment echoed in everyone’s hearts!

Gu Changsheng blinked her Phoenix Eyes at the obviously distracted pairs of eyes before her, and the corners of her mouth twitched instantly!

What is going on here?

What happened to the shared sorrow of a fox grieving for a dead rabbit, or the universal grief of the city?

How did the mood switch so quickly? What’s with these adoring glances?

She didn’t seem to have called for the troops to return yet, correct?

The ten or so middle-aged traitorous women before her, with their intense gazes, were you really seeking death?

”Don’t look at my evildoer!” The next instant, Gu Changsheng’s mind snapped back, and she immediately raised her hand to cover her evildoer’s mouth and eyes!

Damn, who asked you to steal the show!

Look at those rippling laughters, drawing so many gazes!

With his mouth covered, Zhou Mu stopped laughing!

As soon as Gu Changsheng’s voice fell, the tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in front of him bowed their heads, daring not to look anymore!

With that, Gu Changsheng was satisfied!

But he still looked at the large crowd in front of him with residual anger, his face filled with indignation.

Damn, actually, there was no need for such a grandiose siege, right? Just place her family’s evildoer in front of the city gate, let him laugh a few times, maybe the female generals defending the city would be so enchanted that they’d open the gates...

The Handsome Man Strategy, in this matriarchal Southern Borderlands, was indeed quite effective!

But clearly, Gu Changsheng had no intention of using the Handsome Man Strategy!

”Thinking of atoning for your sins with death? Where in the world is there such a cheap thing! Hmph!” Gu Changsheng snorted coldly.

The bodies of Cangmi Hanji and others suddenly trembled.

Gu Changsheng lowered his gaze, his eyes like torches as he looked at Cangmi Hanji and others kneeling on the ground, not daring to raise their heads. His lips slightly curled, he spoke in a light and breezy tone, ”If you all keep begging for life desperately, I, with one swing of my great sword, will chop and chop, and you might have a quick death. But now, I’ve changed my mind! I want you to continue living disgracefully!”

As his words fell, the bodies of Cangmi Hanji and others were already trembling uncontrollably!

Death was not scary; what was frightening was being unable to live as desired or to die when sought!

Clearly, this was the fate that awaited them!

Ordinarily, they could bite their tongues and commit suicide, but now, even if they were scared to death, they dared not seek death!

Their trembling bodies, humbly curled up kneeling on the ground, behind them were tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians. Even if life was worse than death, they dared not seek death themselves!

For the survival of these tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians, they dared not and could not!

Their greedy betrayal had pushed these tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians to the brink of irreparable disaster. Now, with the wrath of Phoenix’s Monarch unabated, even if they lived a life worse than death, barely surviving in agony, they still could not seek death themselves!

Now, they couldn’t even seek death for relief!

”We are deeply sinful and are willing to accept all punishments, only asking the Phoenix’s Monarch to spare Cangmi City!”

”We are deeply sinful...”

”...”

The same words rose again, carrying an immense firmness.

Gu Changsheng glanced at them, his lips slightly curled, and in the blink of an eye, the Red Sleeve fluttered, his Inner Strength surged, whipping up the Phoenix Imperial Flag behind him!

The howling Inner Strength lifted the Phoenix Imperial Flag, rushing towards the tower of Cangmi City!

Gu Changsheng, with narrowed Phoenix Eyes, flashed a hint of frustration, his lifted hand hesitating!

Damn, the submission of Cangmi City was so absolute. The entire tower was pitch dark, with only the Surrender Flag hanging high and not even a single banner left. Who could tell her where to plant the flag?

”Bang!”

Never mind! Just find a spot and plant it!

A loud sound emerged, Gu Changsheng clapped her hands to withdraw her Inner Strength, slightly embarrassed as she looked at her planted flag!

Uh... seems a bit off...

This, really wasn’t her fault!

Below Cangmi City, as this sound rang, everyone kneeling raised their heads to look back!

Under the moonlight, the golden-based Phoenix Imperial Flag fluttered in the air, the Imperial Flag unfurled, generating a fierce wind!

”From now on, this Cangmi City belongs to me, Fenghuang Changsheng! You all, bearing the burden of your crimes, if you can’t even take good care of a city for me, then you truly deserve to die!” A cold, proud voice rang above the heads of the kneeling people of Cangmi City.

Gu Changsheng clapped her hands, under the gaze of a group of mummy-like stiff turners, leading the evildoer, she turned back towards her Hongluan Sedan!

Cangmi Hanji and others were rooted to the spot.

Gu Changsheng’s Hongluan Sedan had already set off, heading straight for the next city, striding away!

As the curtain of the sedan fell, Cangmi Hanji and others hadn’t reacted. As the sedan started its journey, they still hadn’t reacted...

Until, the line of more than two hundred people disappeared into the night, the tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians kneeling in front of Cangmi City still hadn’t reacted...

They just knelt there stiffly, their gazes dazed, watching that line of figures vanish...

”Damn, really rude! I kindly spared them, and they didn’t even say thank you, not a single word of farewell!”

Far from Cangmi City, in this group’s line, an hysterical annoyed roar echoed.

Without a doubt, the roaring was none other than Gu Changsheng!

Anyone could hear the reluctance and annoyance in that voice!

Within the convoy, atop the Persian thick carpet in the carriage where Si Xi was, a small figure, his little head still gleaming brightly golden, but unbeknownst to anyone, those tragically sympathetic eyes had already opened...

His face full of compassion, those dazzling eyes like the stars of the night sky, encompassing the universe, sympathizing with all beings...