Time Travel: The Best Doctor in Ancient Times

Chapter 782: Chapter 614: Divine Breath, Divine Extinguished!

The dizzy feeling of soul separation struck, causing Gu Changsheng’s figure to falter, nearly plunging into the abyss beside him!

”Changsheng!” Gu Taitian cried out in alarm and only let out a sigh of relief when he saw her stabilize her figure.

All this happened in the blink of an eye!

A boundless rage, along with a smidge of holy golden color, quietly seeped out from Gu Changsheng’s brow.

”Curse these humans! Curse these humans! It is you! It is you who forcibly confined my divine soul! You thrust me back into this other world! The Sha River is vast, and at last, I have seen you again!” The holy golden phantom of the Dandan Bug, bearing an overwhelming presence not its own, filled with boundless rage as it hovered in midair, like a dream yet fantastical, glaring sharply at Gu Taitian before it. ”Arrogant human, for your own selfish ends, you desecrated the deities and bound my soul, defying the Heavenly Dao by changing fate, today, I must tear you to pieces, or my raging fury will not be quelled!”

The voice of the Dandan Bug was fierce, sending chills through Gu Changsheng who was baffled and frightened.

”Deity, please calm your anger! Gu Taitian deserves death, having disturbed the deity’s tomb, saving a beloved daughter on the pretense of defiling deities, and confining your divine soul!” Seeing the glint of holy gold, Gu Taitian’s tall figure suddenly knelt on the ground. ”My spouse and I, selfishly for our daughter, defiled deities, inviting divine retribution. Now that Ruoshui is no more, I too will suffer this calamity against the Heavenly Dao. But I beg the deity, considering Gu Taitian never wreaked major havoc upon the worldly Dao, to save my daughter. Taitian is willing to nurture the Four Great Imperial Gu with blood from my heart for penance, so upon their gathering, to seek divine blood and surely aid the deity’s fragmented spirit to regain its divine body, protecting the Miaojiang’s deity, please save my daughter! Please save my daughter!”

As Gu Taitian spoke, he continuously kowtowed.

”Presumptuous! She was born against the Heavenly Dao, how could she receive my protection!” The Dandan Bug retorted in anger upon hearing this. ”Curse you humans, who bound my divine soul and brought me to this other world, and for her, recreated a body using my divine soul as a guide, resurrecting her from death to continue life in this other world, such defiance of the Heavenly Dao, and you still dare claim you have not disrupted the worldly Dao? Do you not know, because of her resurrection, the Female Star of the Occupation Room appeared in the sky, and because of her military ventures to the Southern Border, the balance of the Four Kingdoms was destroyed, already causing great chaos under heaven?”

”I am but a strand of divine breath remaining from the Ancient Wilderness, though I’ve lost my divinity, and my divine body is gone, my divine soul has not been extinguished. How could I assist the tyrants, to be complicit with such people defying the Heavenly Dao! Even if I cannot regain my divine body, even if this world’s last trace of divine breath is extinguished, I swear I will not be coerced by you!”

The presence of a power transcending the worldly, belonging to the deity, swept across this area of the ravine.

Wrapped in holy gold, the bright red phantom of the Dandan Bug, its towering rage substantiated, made breathing difficult and was unbearable to look at directly!

”Deity, please hear Gu Taitian out!” Gu Taitian, upon hearing this, immediately raised his head, speaking anxiously, ”Although Taitian has committed actions defying the Heavenly Dao, it was merely for his daughter to escape a premature demise! Everything that has happened in this world, it is fate!”

”The chaos in the Southern Border over twenty years ago was fate, twenty years later, the emergence of the Female Star of the Occupation Room is fate, if not my daughter, then someone else, someone also fated to be born! It just happened that my daughter was that person who was born as decreed by fate!”

In the sky, clouds gathered, seeming to brew an even greater threat.

Gazing at the holy golden phantom before him with piercing eyes, Gu Taitian argued earnestly, ”The order of the world, united long it must divide and divided long it must unite, this is the Heavenly Dao, not within the power of one person to resist! I am well-versed in the Qimen Mysterious Learning, I observe heaven and earth with omnipotence, having confined your divine soul to aid my daughter’s rebirth in this other world, how could I not predict the events of this world?”

”Supreme deity above, I, Gu Taitian, swear on the life of my daughter, though my spouse and I have defied the Heavenly Dao and violated the deities, we have never altered the slightest bit of this world! My wife Ruoshui, following the life path of Fenghuang Ruoshui, bore a daughter, and with her soul scattered, I walked the life path of Wuchang Taitian till today, never straying; though my daughter was born defying the Heavenly Dao, her fate, from the moment her soul entered this other world, has been ordained by Heaven!”

”Be it the Southern Border or the Central Plains, everything, everything runs along its destined course, Taitian, with all his might, unless driven by deep love for his daughter, would never commit acts of defying the Heavenly Dao or violate the deities, since the sin has been established and the daughter’s rebirth is hopeful, why would Taitian further disturb the worldly Dao and add to his sins!” Gu Taitian prostrated on the ground. ”Supreme deity, every word Taitian speaks is true, to atone for the sins of violating the deities, I shall nurture the four Gu for you, hoping you can one day regain your divine body, Taitian is willing to lift the confinement on your divine soul, only asking you to take away my daughter, to keep her away from the place where calamity against the Heavenly Dao befalls! Thus, even if Taitian disintegrates, I am willing!”

Silence!

After his speech, Gu Taitian remained prostrate on the ground.

Gu Changsheng was shocked, clearly unable to digest everything happening before her, unable to comprehend the words he spoke.

She had always known, from her previous life, that her father was a capable man, but how he managed to confine a divine soul and aid her resurrection, how he achieved that?

That was a true deity!

Compared to the innocuous, bumbling Dandan Bug, the soul now controlling it was a true deity!

This powerful divine breath, demanding reverence, was not something ordinary humans could possess!

Yet, even so, this deity was forcefully confined within her by her father!

This...

That’s why her blood could awaken the Dandan Bug!

It turned out it wasn’t an awakening, but rather, the divine soul of the Dandan Bug was originally inside her!

She just didn’t know it!

Blaspheming deities, imprisoning divine souls, reshaping the flesh, leading her soul from another world to be reborn against the heavens, defying fate, bringing her back from the dead!

What astounding feats did her parents perform just for her to be able to live?

”Dandan...” With her lips slightly parted, Gu Changsheng murmured absentmindedly, at this moment, she didn’t know what to say.

The calamity against the heavens was imminent, dark clouds overhead, the next moment could be one of complete disintegration.

”Do not blaspheme my name, my name is Manman! Not some ’Dandan’!” Upon hearing this, the Dandan Bug immediately turned its head and coldly shouted.

Manman?

Upon hearing this, Gu Changsheng twitched her lips, ”That doesn’t sound much better than ’Dandan’! Why be so serious about it...”

”You!” Upon hearing this, the Dandan Bug was instantly choked up, and the holy golden phantom trembled wildly.

”Alright! Alright! Manman, great Manman, don’t be angry. And don’t listen to Gu Taitian’s nonsense. Everything my parents did was because of me. If defying the heavens is the only resolution to soul disintegration, then I am willing to suffer this calamity together with them!” Gu Changsheng said, trying to calm her troubled spirit.

”Changsheng!” Hearing this, Gu Taitian on the ground was suddenly startled.

”Manman, you need not listen to him. I will not leave, and you need not feel forced to take me away under his threat! The Azure Dragon Gu and the Vermilion Bird Gu are with Yuan Bao; go find them. Once you gather the Four Great Imperial Gu, you will have a chance to regain your divine body, no need to give up because of me.”

”Nonsense!” The holy golden Manman, upon hearing this, immediately shouted coldly, ”Do you think I don’t want to? Ask your father what he has done to my divine soul? Your parents imprisoned my divine soul, taking it through gaps in time at the Sha River; then, before you were even born, they forcibly integrated my divine soul into your essence blood! More than twenty years have passed, and now, my divine soul lives and breathes with you. You deserve to face this calamity against the heavens as a being born in defiance of the heavens, so why fear it?”

”But I! I am but the last wisp of divine breath from the ancient wilderness; your death, the dispersal of my divine soul, that would be the true extinguishing of divinity!” Manman hovered in mid-air, stretching out a tiny bug claw, pointing back and forth feverishly at both of them, ”Your entire family performed such defying deeds, why involve me? Since the ancient times, I’ve been tricking Miaojiang without slacking, never inviting such undeserved calamity. The faith here implicated filth, I left in anger, I was never to return, but he forcefully brought me back, making me suffer this celestial thunder with you! I am honored as a deity, albeit just a wisp of divine breath, still a deity. Born as a deity, yet to turn to dust under the thunder that defies heaven, what of my divine name then?”

Manman spoke with fierce intensity inside.

Gu Changsheng, feeling extremely awkward, said, ”Uh... in that case, it seems we have implicated you, but, well, you are a god, there must be some way out, right? If you can’t escape, it’s fine, you were never very likable anyway. Can you let the soul of my Dandan Bug escape?”

”Utter nonsense!” Manman, upon hearing this, let out another cold shout, ”Its divine soul is one with mine, merely nurtured inside you unawakened, acting out of character thus far. If I can hardly escape this calamity, why should it be able to?”

”Uh...” Upon hearing this, Gu Changsheng was speechless for a moment.

”Roar!”

Above their heads, the sound of thunderbolts crashing continued relentlessly, yet still not striking down.

Feeling helpless, Gu Changsheng bent down and helped the kneeling Gu Taitian to stand up, took out medicine from her body, and sprinkled it on his chest, ”Gu Taitian, you need not beg him. The calamity against the heavens is imminent; it all started because of us. We are willing to die, and that’s that, but implicating him is beyond our control!”

”Changsheng...”

”I am not going to leave you,” Gu Changsheng said, looking at him, slowly shaking her head, her lips slightly parted, ”Father, I am not going to leave you!”

”Boom!”

The brewing heavenly thunder was ready, the holy golden phantom in the air, upon hearing this, trembled slightly, pointing at the father and daughter, roaring exhaustedly, ”You two despicable humans! You actually made me, a deity, join you in your burial!”

”Is being a god so great?”

From beyond the ravine, a small, faint voice arose.