Time Travel: The Best Doctor in Ancient Times

Chapter 790: Chapter 621: When the Map Ends, the Dagger Appears

”When all the cards are on the table, Xiangka Tianji, what other moves do you have? Just keep on pretending to be crazy and stupid; it’s all in vain now!”

The words of Gu Changsheng, chillingly echoed.

”Haha...” Upon hearing this, Xiangka Tianji suddenly sneered, propped herself up on her arms, and stood up strenuously, her gaze sinister as she stared at Gu Changsheng, her face twisted with immense hatred as she spoke, ”Scoundrel! You actually have a face similar to that traitor, it truly makes me furious! Haha...”

As she spoke, Xiangka Tianji let out a dismal laugh, pointing at Gu Taitian with her finger, her eyes nearly bursting, ”I knew it! I just knew it! Only the royal blood of the Witch and Gu Tribes could possibly give rise to the King of Witch Gu! Wuchang Taitian, it was I who loved you first, me, Xiangka Tianji! She, Fenghuang Ruoshui, knew full well about my feelings, so why did she still compete with me? She was already becoming the next empress of the Southern Border, a Saintess with power over the whole realm, so why? Why did she have to steal a man from me too?”

”She deserves to die! She rightly deserves death! And not just her, the entire Phoenix Clan deserves to die! What does her glory matter now? Now she ended up buried in a foreign land, didn’t she? What Xiangka Tianji desires, no one else shall take! Even if it means overturning the whole world, I will not hesitate!”

As Xiangka Tianji spoke, she approached Gu Taitian, her gaze sinister, her face ferocious, ”Wuchang Taitian, you are all that I, Xiangka Tianji, have ever desired in this life. For you, I have overturned the Southern Border, for you, I have earned an eternal name of disloyalty, for you, I have become this unrecognizable creature! Wuchang Taitian, so worldly wise and bearing the weight of the whole world, why can’t you let go of just me? Knowing I would never turn back, you still coldly watched as my Xiangka clan reached this point, how utterly cruel are you?”

”Jiji, all of this was your own choice; before I even came to the Southern Border, you had already made your decision!” Gu Taitian looked up, his eyes filled with helplessness as he sighed watching Xiangka Tianji, ”Why is the Cang Snake of the Four Great Imperial Gu scattered abroad, do you still remember?”

”You!” The words made Xiangka Tianji suddenly stagger.

”Ruoshui was the master, yet you, harboring resentment from a mere childhood reprimand, took advantage of your position in the Phoenix Gong Que to secretly hide away the Cang Snake, throwing it out of the Great Swamp Mountain. Now, decades have passed, do you still remember these old events?” Gu Taitian shook his head at Xiangka Tianji, ”Clearly young, yet utterly destitute of a child’s innocence, knowing well that the loss of one of the Four Great Imperial Gu meant that the Phoenix Clan could barely sustain the Blood of the Gods, yet you did it anyway, didn’t you? Your nature has always been twisted and perverse since childhood, so where is there room for so much blame toward others?”

Hearing this, Gu Changsheng’s Phoenix Eyes narrowed slightly, ”Oh my god,” he thought, ”it turns out that the Soul-Devouring Python falling into her possession was partly thanks to this Xiangka Tianji’s interference!”

”No! No! How could you possibly know! You weren’t even in the Southern Border back then, how could you possibly know!” Xiangka Tianji, upon hearing this, immediately shook her head in disbelief.

”Hehe... how would I not know?” Gu Taitian gave a resigned smile, ”Jiji, your Astrology Witchcraft was personally taught by me, how could I not know? Yes, I know, Ruoshui knows, and you know best of all! All the previous events, and all that followed, who else but me was both a participant yet indifferent onlooker? You, did you really never foresee the decline of the Xiangka clan?”

”Yes! I knew! I had foreseen it! But what of it? My Xiangka clan still dominated the Southern Border for over two decades, while Fenghuang Ruoshui, ultimately, could not escape death either! Wuchang Taitian, even so, I never looked back, the man Xiangka Tianji desires, dead or alive, must belong only to me!” Xiangka Tianji, upon hearing these words, her face became even more hideous and glaring as she screamed hysterically.

Seeing this, Gu Changsheng swiftly took his little son in his arms, covering the child’s small ears.

Damn, these gossips and such, she could listen all she wanted just for laughs, but corrupting their precious son would be too much!

Her son was already grotesquely twisted enough; he couldn’t become more distorted!

Otherwise, she’d really need to find a crooked-neck willow tree to hang herself from its southeastern branch!

”Jiji, to become a demon from a single thought, to court sorrow from obsession, your defeat is now certain, why struggle further?” Gu Taitian sighed softly and spoke in a deep voice, ”Our bond as master and disciple ends here. What fate dictates, I cannot help you with anymore!”

”Become a demon from a single thought, court sorrow from obsession? Hah... when have you ever helped me? If you really wanted to help, why did you associate with that vile woman from the Fenghuang Ruoshui? If you truly wished to help, why didn’t you tell me how to break the blood curse she placed on my Xiangka clan?” Upon hearing this, Xiangka Tianji burst into cold laughter, ”Cursed to never have daughters! Being in the Southern Border, my Xiangka clan suffers from her curse, forever deprived of daughters! The Gu women in my clan keep dying young; even the infants born are stillborn. How can a clan with no Gu women establish itself in the Southern Border? Wuchang Taitian, I exchanged my beauty for the lifespan I have now; do you think you’ve ever helped me?”

”Fate! What a fate! Since fate decrees it so, then I want you, and all of you, to join me in death!”

At this point, Xiangka Tianji seemed to suddenly plunge into madness, rushing toward the railing behind her!

”No good!” Gu Changsheng instinctively shouted, dropping the small bundle and lunging toward Xiangka Tianji.

The starving camel is still larger than a horse; Gu Changsheng felt that Xiangka Tianji certainly had some tricks up her sleeve.

Listening to her words, she seemed to want to take them down with her!

”Haha! As mountains crumble and rocks split, I want to see—once Witch Gu Peak breaks in half, can you grow wings and fly out?” Holding a metal ring in her hand, Xiangka Tianji turned around and burst out laughing.

”What are you planning to do?” Gu Taitian asked, his face changing slightly, immediately speaking in a cold voice.

”What do I plan to do? What else can I do? Master, in life we cannot share a bed, but in death, I want to share a grave with you! Do you think I’ve ruled the Southern Border for over twenty years without doing anything? No! I have done something. I feel that secret chamber could never trap you, so, I turned the entire Witch Gu Peak into a giant prison! With just a gentle pull like this, the hollow Witch Gu Peak will blink into a pile of rubble, and neither you nor I can escape. Using Witch Gu Peak as our tomb wouldn’t disgrace the revered name of the Master of the Witch and Gu Tribes, would it, Master? Haha...”

Xiangka Tianji shook the metal ring in her hand, laughing with determined finality, wholly unconcerned with life or death.

Gu Changsheng, hearing this, immediately looked very troubled.

Damn it, this Xiangka Tianji is courting death; why does she have to drag them into it as her cushion?

The hollow Witch Gu Peak! Carving a mountain peak hollow, how much manpower and resources would that take?

Xiangka Tianji, oh my god, she is a complete lunatic!

”Xiangka Tianji, drop the iron ring in your hand, and I will leave your body intact!” Gu Changsheng watched Xiangka Tianji, instinctively shielded his little bun and Little Monk Bu Jie behind him, and spoke with a cold and firm voice.

Granny Wu Shan also protected Gu Taitian in front of herself, her face filled with rage as she looked at Xiangka Tianji, as if she wanted to kill the woman right there.

”Leave my body intact? Haha...” Upon hearing this, Xiangka Tianji immediately laughed, pointed at Gu Changsheng, and disdainfully said, ”You think we can still have an intact body? I’m telling you, it’s impossible! Fenghuang Changsheng, even if you had great abilities, you couldn’t possibly grow wings and fly out of Witch Gu Peak. No one, no one can keep their body intact, we will all die together!”

As Xiangka Tianji spoke, the iron ring in her hand slightly trembled.

”Damn it! Always some new trick!” Gu Changsheng cursed under his breath and threw the two little ones behind him towards Granny Wu Shan.

Then, his figure flew like an arrow, rushing towards Xiangka Tianji.

”Seeking death!” Xiangka Tianji yelled fiercely, gripping harder.

In an instant, the sound of gears grinding roared from beneath the ground!

Seeing this, Gu Changsheng’s expression changed slightly, and he further increased his speed to the extreme, a red shadow flashed in his hand, dodging Xiangka Tianji and heading straight for the iron ring in her hand!

Just like cutting through butter!

She could now only hope that the Chonghua Dagger was truly as sharp as the rumors claimed, capable of slicing through iron like butter, not just boasting!

”Bang Bang Bang!”

Electric sparks and fire.

The dagger drew a series of sparks on the iron ring.

Gu Changsheng somersaulted, stopping not far in front of Xiangka Tianji.

The roaring noise of the underground gears suddenly stopped.

Xiangka Tianji’s face greatly changed, disbelievingly turning around to look at the iron ring in her hand, and then she exerted force once more, the iron ring shockingly split into two halves...

”How is this possible? How is this possible? This iron ring was forged from South Sea Mysterious Iron!” Looking at the neatly broken half of the iron ring in her hand, Xiangka Tianji was struck as if by lightning, her face drained of color.

”Heard of the Chonghua Dagger?” Gu Changsheng straightened his clothes, rising with a smirk.

”The Chonghua Dagger, huh... So it’s the Chonghua Dagger!” Once belonging to the Southern Border Royal Family, Xiangka Tianji had indeed heard of it because she had heard of it, she immediately understood, and laughed bitterly too.

”Xiangka Tianji, victors are kings, and vanquished have no one to blame!” Gu Changsheng scolded coldly, lifted a hand, and surged towards Xiangka Tianji.

”No!”

Just as the words left her mouth, Xiangka Tianji dove forward, directly towards the other half of the iron ring attached to the pillar.

”I want you all to join me in death!” As the iron ring drew close, about to land in her hand, Xiangka Tianji screamed hysterically.

”You might want to, but you’re too ugly, I refuse!”

From behind, a cold voice sounded.

Xiangka Tianji’s body abruptly stiffened mid-air.

Just inches away, so close it was right before her eyes, yet she could no longer advance even a fraction further!

Xiangka Tianji tried to reach out again in defiance, but found she couldn’t move her entire body!

”No! No! I want you all to die with me!”