Time Travel: The Best Doctor in Ancient Times

Chapter 789: Chapter 620: The Crazy and Silly Old Woman

The Witch Gu Temple, still bearing bloodstains, presented a scene of utter decay.

Gu Changsheng found it hard to imagine the temple’s former splendor based on its current state!

In any case, the temple was now in decline!

And in this declining temple was a woman who seemed utterly mad, her head patchy and bald, her face a swollen mass of red and green, like a pig’s head—though calling it a pig’s head was almost an insult to pigs!

”Mommy, it was that Old Devout Woman, she’s the one who put bugs on me, always cursing me and even hit Old Handsome Grandpa!” As soon as little meat bun saw Xiangka Tianji, he immediately flared up, his little hands clinging to his own mother, anxiously accusing her!

At these words, Gu Changsheng couldn’t help but twitch his mouth.

It had to be said, he felt his son definitely had a tendency to accuse others first, especially given that Xiangka Tianji looked far more miserable than his little meat bun by hundreds of times!

Looking at her state, it was simply inhuman!

”Scoundrel! Fiend! I’ll kill you! I’ll kill you!” Her black witch robe was tattered and torn. Xiangka Tianji, stripped of her former dignity, was sprawled on the ground, oblivious to the newcomers, propping herself on her elbows while dragging her body and continuously cursing, ”Fenghuang Ruoshui! Saintess! Haha... she’s just a slut! A slut who steals other men! Master... Master...”

Gu Changsheng squinted his eyes, listening to Xiangka Tianji’s muttering, but the more he listened, the more it just didn’t seem right!

What’s going on?

Fenghuang Ruoshui? If he remembered correctly, that was his own mother’s name in this world!

So, in the mouth of this half-dead old woman, his mother had become a homewrecker?

Gu Changsheng couldn’t help but turn his head to look at his proud father, having said before that his middle-aged father was still a fine man, and who knew how many young girls he had charmed in his youth!

”Dad, could it be that this Xiangka Tianji is one of the romances you had behind Mom’s back?” Gu Changsheng looked at his father, hesitated a moment, then still asked out loud.

Curiosity killed the cat, indeed!

Gossip and such were the most beloved!

Gu Changsheng was always good at discovering scoops with his dark eyes, so when his keen sense of smell detected the scent of gossip, he immediately became excited!

This excitement made him a bit carried away!

Therefore, as soon as he finished speaking, Gu Taitian gave him a cold stare!

This warning glance was chilling, and Gu Changsheng immediately shivered, quickly putting on a flattering smile, ”Hehe... I was just joking! Dad, you’re so handsome and discerning, you wouldn’t possibly go for her! Misunderstanding! Misunderstanding!”

Gu Taitian’s expression softened slightly upon hearing this, but clearly, he still disapproved of his daughter’s frivolity!

”But still, something’s off!” Suddenly, Gu Changsheng herself overturned her previous statement, a finger scratching her small chin as she gossiped, ”Looking at what Xiangka Tianji said, even if you’re not her romantic debtor, you definitely had an affair with her!”

No smoke without fire!

Gu Changsheng firmly believed there was definitely something going on! Maybe even more than just one thing!

Otherwise, his father wouldn’t have been caged by Xiangka Tianji for over twenty years!

Thinking of how his father had been tormented both inside and out, Gu Changsheng deeply believed this was surely the torture of love!

Unrequited love, unable to let go, so she just caged up her father, tormented him to death and back, back and forth...

Tsk, tsk...

Gu Changsheng’s eyes suddenly gleamed!

Blatant infidelity! She loved this kind of drama!

”Stop talking nonsense and be serious!” With his grandson present, Gu Taitian couldn’t tolerate his daughter’s untimeliness any longer, his expression slightly stern as he spoke decisively, ”She’s indeed the fated catastrophe of this body’s life. I was merely complying with destiny, not daring to interfere!”

Hearing this, Gu Changsheng’s eyes suddenly widened!

She knew her father was well-versed in the Qimen Mysticism. So, knowing that Xiangka Tianji was a destined disaster, yet still deeply trapped in this situation... What should she say about this?

Wasn’t it just too tragic?

”I entered the Southern Border as the lord of Bashu, firstly to meet your mother, and secondly to comply with destiny. I and she had a mentor-disciple relationship, and although I knew she would bring chaos to the Southern Border, to recreate your physical body, your mother and I both had to comply with destiny. That said, she is also a person of misfortune; everything in the world is predetermined. If I didn’t know the fate, maybe it would be fine, but knowing what will happen and still choosing to remain a detached observer as she falls deeper...” Gu Taitian spoke while he sighed.

Hearing this, Gu Changsheng’s expression immediately darkened.

She didn’t have the ability of her father and Little Monk Bu Jie to observe and predict the celestial phenomena, nor did she know what it felt like for those who did!

But, she knew, knowing the outcome yet still having to watch unfavorable events unfold was a feeling of utter helplessness!

Presumably, her father also felt a debt towards Xiangka Tianji...

”But, so what? Fate is determined by the heavens, but ultimately, it is in one’s own hands. Since she chose to usurp the throne and slaughtered the Phoenix Clan to near extinction, she deserved to pay the price for her actions!” Gu Changsheng’s face flashed with determination, his voice resolute.

What comes around, goes around!

Gu Changsheng believed in this saying without a doubt!

Thinking about the Phoenix Clan’s overthrow, thinking about the Hongyan Clan dying loyally to their last man, how could she possibly forgive Xiangka Tianji?

The Huaheng Clan, the Miaosu Clan, she spared none of them, because they were families that looked up to the Xiangka Clan among the Six Halls. And as the instigator behind it all, Xiangka Tianji, how could she possibly spare her?

To settle the matters of the Southern Border once and for all and to eliminate future troubles, the Xiangka Clan must perish!

With this thought, Gu Changsheng could not help but have a fierce look in his eyes as he gazed at the foolish, crazed Xiangka Tianji.

Gu Taitian’s gaze shifted unpredictably as he looked at his daughter and finally sighed deeply, ”Let it be, everything is fated by destiny. Now that your mind is made up, there’s no chance for turning back. Let it be! Let it be!”

He had long calculated that the Xiangka Clan was destined to rule the Southern Border for just over twenty years. Now, their time had ended, and all was left to fate!

He was just a mortal, neither able to control nor interfere!

Even though it was his daughter who was carrying out this destiny with her hand, he could say no more!

This is the helplessness of knowing everything yet being only able to watch dispassionately...

”Master! Master! Did you come to fetch Jiji? Jiji missed you so much!” The crazed Xiangka Tianji finally noticed the disturbance, struggled to stand up, and staggered toward them.

Seeing this, Gu Changsheng’s gaze instantly became sharp.

Gu Taitian lowered his eyes, concealing the pity at the bottom of his heart.

It happened in a flash. Just as Xiangka Tianji’s hands, dry like dead branches, were about to grasp Gu Taitian, a hand suddenly stopped her!

Gu Changsheng grabbed Xiangka Tianji’s wrist with one hand and spoke coldly, ”My old dad is not someone a dry twig like you can touch!”

Damn, a toad lusting after a swan’s flesh. All this ’Jiji, Jiji,’ it almost made her skin crawl!

”Master! Master...” Xiangka Tianji, oblivious to the cold words of the man before her, stared straight at the man with her aged eyes, her voice hoarse yet filled with tender emotion, softly calling...

”Changsheng...” Gu Taitian, heart filled with pity at her calling, finally hesitantly spoke her name.

”Haha...” With his index finger on Xiangka Tianji’s pulse point, Gu Changsheng suddenly let out a cold laugh, his gaze sharp as he looked at the foolish, crazed old woman before him, and said coldly, ”Xiangka Tianji, having ruled the Southern Border for over twenty years, such feigning of insanity is unbecoming of a former ruler!”

Upon hearing this, Xiangka Tianji’s bloated old face stiffened slightly.

But Gu Changsheng turned to his father, frowning as he spoke, ”Father, do you really think she has gone mad? Maybe her poor acting can deceive others, but not my fingers!”

”I dare say, if we talk about medical skills, few in the world can rival me. Her pulse is stable, and though she has injuries, they are superficial and have not harmed any vital parts. How can a woman who had the heart to murder her master and rebel be so weak-willed that a little setback would drive her insane? Father, do you believe it?”

Gu Taitian heard this and his eyebrows slightly furrowed.

Seeing this, Gu Changsheng swiftly flung Xiangka Tianji onto the ground and extended a hand toward the woman sprawling on the ground!

Inner Strength circulated in his palm, tangible as if it were real!

”Let me show you, Father, what it means to have a thief’s heart!” Gu Changsheng said as he channeled his Inner Strength throughout Xiangka Tianji’s body!

”Swoosh!”

”Swoosh!”

”Swoosh!”

”...”

Following several sounds of fabric tearing, several extremely sharp daggers suddenly appeared in Gu Changsheng’s palm!

The daggers were black, emitting a sinister glow, evidently coated with lethal poison!

All this was witnessed by the few present, and they were utterly certain that these daggers had been pulled out from Xiangka Tianji’s body!

Seeing this, the little meat bun’s face instantly changed, unlike Little Monk Bu Jie who remained unperturbed. The little meat bun darted in front of his Old Handsome Grandpa, his small arms outstretched, protective like a mother hen over her chick!

As their eyes met, there was no longer any trace of foolishness in Xiangka Tianji’s eyes!

Gu Changsheng flipped the dagger in his hand, shaking his head and mockingly said, ”Tsk tsk... all of these are lethal poisons that kill upon contact! Father, she’s decided to take you down with her. Despite this, can you still bear pity for her?”

Gu Taitian heard these words and lowered his eyes, remaining silent.

Gu Changsheng then turned his gaze, staring intensely at the old woman on the ground...