Time Travel: The Best Doctor in Ancient Times

Chapter 776: Chapter 608: Overwhelming Bewilderment

Under the night sky, a woman in red, her bloodied clothes fluttering fiercely in the wind and her long hair moving without any breeze, had a face twisted with near-collapse!

The wind!

It rose and surged around her!

Her inner strength burst forth from within her body!

It carried with it a chorus of wind and crane cries!

The earth and sky lost their color, and the grass and dead leaves around her were instantly swept up, scattering in all directions!

The Gu women, cowering on the side, could not withstand such rampant assaults of inner strength, and blood gushed violently from their mouths, instantly dying the surrounding land blood-red!

”You knew! You always knew, didn’t you?”

In the center of a storm-like vortex, Gu Changsheng seemed to fall into a demonic trance, his eyes red as he shook the little figure in front of him, seemingly oblivious to everything around him!

The Gu women, far away, could not escape from the shaking unleashed by Gu Changsheng’s rampant inner strength, yet the little Monk Bu Jie, standing at the center of the vortex, was as calm and benevolent as usual, as ever!

It was as if time and space had isolated the two of them!

Outside was the rampant inner strength of Gu Changsheng causing a violent storm.

Inside, were two people facing each other!

Gu Changsheng knelt on the ground, looking up slightly at the standing Monk Bu Jie, his tears unceasing and his expression frantic, ”You knew! You always knew! Zhou Mu sent me to find you, and you traveled thousands of miles to meet me at the temple. You knew! From that moment, you knew everything about Female Star of the Occupation Room colliding with Hook Chen, all because of me! Because I naturally belong to this world!”

Tears blurred Gu Changsheng’s vision so much that the little monk in front of him seemed to become illusory!

Gu Changsheng hastily crawled forward on his knees, his trembling hands firmly gripping the little arms, and stammered, ”You have the ability to observe the heavens and the earth, you have the divine eye for discerning world events. You follow me, you aid me, is it really just because of a promise made to Zhou Mu? Shang Xie, I’m afflicted with witchcraft, and you used your stern admonitions to recall my soul from another world. I used to think it was just my illusion. I never thought deeply about it! I thought you were just the little monk from my home, whose heart was outside the mundane world, yet living within it! But you clearly knew everything! You knew that I am this world’s greatest variable, you knew about what happened today and even what will happen in the future. So, Shang Xie, can you tell me why... why am I here?”

As he said this, Gu Changsheng’s voice involuntarily became fearful and cautious, his tearful eyes indistinct and his grip on Monk Bu Jie’s hand trembling. Gu Changsheng mustered all his courage and looked hopefully at the little figure in front of him, hesitated, and then spoke again, ”Shang Xie, can you tell me why am I here? He... why... why is he here as well?”

If seeing the portrait was only a suspicion for Gu Changsheng, then at this moment, the compassionate and worldly-wise gaze of Monk Bu Jie undoubtedly confirmed to her that all her conjectures were true!

That ’he’ was indeed her biological father from her past life!

Her ungrateful father, who reared but did not birth her!

And she, perhaps her being here was because of him...

Defying the Heavens!

Defying the Heavens!

In the end, who is the one destined to face the calamity?

”Amitabha! Benefactor Changsheng...” Trapped in his arms, Monk Bu Jie chanted a Buddhist verse, his face expressing helpless compassion as he spoke.

”No! No! I don’t want to hear it! I don’t want to hear it!”

Gu Changsheng suddenly let go of his hands, stepped back hurriedly, covered his ears, and shook his head, interrupting Monk Bu Jie’s unfinished words!

”I don’t want to hear it! I don’t want to hear it! It’s all fake! It’s all fake! I’m already dead! A long time ago, I died! I died at the age of twenty-nine, in my car! None of this is real! It’s not! It’s not!”

Blood-red robes spread out around her, and Gu Changsheng covered her ears, fell over backwards, and kept muttering!

Past and present lives, like scenes from another life, replayed in slow motion in her mind!

Suddenly, she seemed to see her family’s old man, chasing after her with a belt!

”Gu Changsheng! Gu Changsheng, you dead girl, come back here! Let this old man see if I won’t whip you to death! You’ve learned nothing good, only inheriting your father’s worthlessness, and even learned to fight? It would be one thing if you fought, but you even lost! My old face has been completely thrown away by you!”

She had lost a fight with someone and her old man was chasing her with a belt...

”Changsheng, do you know why I named you Changsheng? In the Gu Family, there has been only one son for eight generations. For over thirty years, your father finally bore me a child, but unfortunately, this child wasn’t born with a ’handle’! Not having a ’handle’ isn’t too much of an issue, but you are also a... sigh! I have no hopes for you anymore, just that you live a long life, and that’s all I ask for!”

That was her family’s old man rambling drunkenly while holding her.

It was only today that she realized she wasn’t just not a boy, but also destined to be short-lived!

At the prime age of twenty-nine, she had a successful career and illustrious military achievements as a major general in her role as a military doctor, but... but inexplicably, she lost her life!

She finally understood why her grandfather had indulged her so much, even to the point where it angered both deities and mortals!

Did he know she was destined to be short-lived?

Was that why he spoiled her and indulged her so excessively?

Then, why did she come here? Why, after she died, did she get another chance to start over?

Why?

Why did she meet someone here who resembled her father from her previous life so closely?

Why?

”Amitabha! Benefactor Changsheng, everything is destiny!”

The voice of Little Monk Bu Jie rang above Changsheng’s head!

With just that phrase, Changsheng suddenly rose, her sleeves flapping wildly in the air, overwhelming confusion and anger swept through her entire body, ”Destiny? Whose destiny? Mine? Shang Xie, you clearly know I have already died! I died in another time and space! Now standing before you is but a lost soul from another world! Whose destiny is this? And who prayed for this destiny on my behalf?”

Her red garment fluttering, Changsheng howled at the sky, tearing streaming down her face, ”Yuan Bao was resurrected, Dandan’s divine soul once mentioned, when Yuan Bao resurrects, that would be the day when heaven defies calamity descends. Then, Shang Xie, tell me, my resurrection, this heaven-defying calamity, when will it descend? And on whom will it fall?”

”Ah...” Upon hearing this, Little Monk Bu Jie sighed deeply, pitying the woman before him, and softly spoke, ”The day you reunite with your father is the day when the heaven-defying calamity will fall!”

Upon hearing this, Changsheng staggered back a step, shaking her head in panic, ”No! No! It’s not like that! Shang Xie, you are deceiving me! I don’t want to go to Great Swamp Mountain anymore! I don’t want to! I don’t want to see him! Don’t! As long as I don’t reunite with him, this heaven-defying calamity won’t descend, right? Right?”

”You can’t escape it! Benefactor Changsheng, you can’t escape it! It is such a destiny, and beyond human control!” Little Monk Bu Jie slowly shook his head with a certainty in his voice.

”Destiny again! You say it’s destiny that the Female Star of the Occupation Room clashes with Hook Chen. You say I was born according to destiny! If I came into this world following destiny, then why does a heaven-defying calamity exist? Shang Xie, don’t you think that the destiny you speak of is inherently contradictory?” Changsheng shook her head slowly as she retreated, ”No! No! I don’t want to go to Great Swamp Mountain! I don’t want to reunite! In my past life and current life, I have no fortunes with my parents; I didn’t before, and I don’t now! I don’t have it and can’t afford it!”

The staggering Changsheng suddenly stepped forward, grabbed the Little Monk Bu Jie from the ground, and urgently spoke, ”Shang Xie! Let’s go back! Let’s return to Heluo City! Since little Dandan managed to escape, he can survive no matter what! Let’s go back now! Leave the outer mountains of Great Swamp Mountain, leave the Southern Border! I want to go back! Back to where I belong...”

Her voice paused, her steps halted, and Changsheng suddenly bowed her head and let out a bitter laugh, ”Heh... go back... go back to where I belong? Where, in the end, is the place where I belong? Where can I return to?”

”This entire world does not belong to me. Where else can I go? Where else can there be a place for me?”

Looking at Changsheng, whose expression had become dispirited and unstable, Little Monk Bu Jie’s face unusually changed color, and he anxiously grabbed her sleeve. The mulberry wood hammer in his hand struck down decisively as he sternly said, ”Benefactor Changsheng!”

Perhaps from the pain of her arm being struck or maybe from the loudness of Little Monk Bu Jie’s voice, Changsheng listened, her vacant eyes gradually regaining a trace of lucidity.

”Benefactor Changsheng, you indeed were born according to destiny! On the day when the Female Star of the Occupation Room transcends the sky, you belong to this world! This world also belongs to you! Benefactor Changsheng, you have not died! You are alive! With flesh and blood, with soul and spirit, truly alive! Truly existing!” Little Monk Bu Jie raised his little head, his young face set sternly, and he sternly spoke, ”A destiny attained against the heavens is still a destiny! I hope, Benefactor Changsheng, you will cherish it greatly, follow your destiny and act accordingly, do not avoid it!”

A destiny attained against the heavens is still a destiny!

Just this phrase made Changsheng stand rooted to the spot!

Indeed, she... truly has a destiny obtained against the heavens!

In the dim moonlight, with mottled tree shadows, Changsheng just stood there, keeping her head bowed watching the little monk’s movements, unmoving!

Behind her, the sounds of joyful running approached closer and closer, the rustling of dry leaves underfoot in the woods broke the silence, ringing crystal clear into her ears!

”A destiny obtained against the heavens is still a destiny... heh... do not avoid it! Do not avoid it! Shang Xie, tell me, can I escape it?” Bitterly smiling as she murmured softly, Changsheng felt the familiar presence approaching closer from behind, distraughtly she let go of her hands...