Time Travel: The Best Doctor in Ancient Times

The scene abruptly shifted from Gu Changsheng confronting the Three Palaces to Manman confronting the descendants of the Gu Ancestor!

People were kneeling all over the place, except for Gu Changsheng and the other four, who were the only ones daring to stand!

Gu Changsheng looked at Manman, who had unleashed the full might of her divine insects, with bewildered suspicion. She blinked her phoenix eyes once, then again, and pulled her little bundle of joy closer to her father, ”Dad, count for me, have I ever done anything to bully a god?”

Had she ever bullied Manman?

Had she?

Not really, right?

”Changsheng...” At these words, Gu Taitian’s eyes immediately filled with helplessness.

”Holy crap, this isn’t a joke! The crime of blaspheming against a god, if Manman Bug decides to settle scores after autumn, wouldn’t I be struck by thunder and turned into ashes in minutes? Dad, help me think, I’ve actually been quite nice to Manman, haven’t I?” Gu Changsheng begged, tugging at her own father’s sleeve anxiously.

Any way of dying would be more dignified than being struck by lightning, wouldn’t it?

Gu Changsheng firmly believed she absolutely did not want to end up struck by lightning in the future!

”Right! You’ve been very good to it!” Gu Taitian said helplessly, raising his hand and patting his daughter’s back in a comforting manner, ”It’s just that you occasionally mock it, occasionally slap it, occasionally...”

”Stop! Enough!” Hearing this, Gu Changsheng’s face immediately darkened, and she quickly raised her hand to interject, her face turning pale, ”I think Manman is a broad-minded deity who wouldn’t take such trifling matters to heart...”

”Boom!”

Before Gu Changsheng finished speaking, there was another thunderbolt from above!

The sight made Gu Changsheng tremble all over!

She turned her head.

Seeing that the lightning had struck again right in front of the Gu Ancestor’s family, Gu Changsheng’s heart settled back down.

Raising her small hand, she patted her chest with a frightened face.

”I have always been one to settle scores and take revenge for every slight!” Manman Bug had no pity as it stared at the descendants of the Gu Ancestor in front it, its wrathful thunder unassuaged, turning a deaf ear to their pleas for mercy.

But hearing this behind it, Gu Changsheng’s face instantly turned all shades of colors!

”Why do I feel like Manman’s words are aimed at me?” Dammit, she didn’t like this kind of oblique reprimand, did she? Wasn’t she known for bullying the weak and fearing the strong? Return her family’s silly and adorable Dandan Bug! Give it back!

Under Manman’s insect might, Gu Changsheng was deeply hurt!

She had a profound and personally realized understanding of what it means that small gods are hard to rear!

Gu Taitian was speechless toward his own daughter.

Even Little Monk Bu Jie couldn’t help but cast a sidelong glance at her, but his look quickly shifted to one of pity for the world!

”Mommy, don’t be afraid, I am here! If Manman gets angry, I’ll protect you, okay?” The little bundle of joy hugged his mother’s thigh, offering her the greatest comfort.

Upon hearing this, Gu Changsheng immediately felt so moved!

”Indeed, sons are easier to raise!” Could she just throw Manman away? Even if it meant giving away Dandan Bug at the same time, she would accept it!

”You shut your mouth!”

Behind her, the incessant chatter of that unscrupulous woman and the people around her made Manman feel its divinity was being ignored, almost making it impossible to maintain its lofty godly demeanor!

Unable to bear it any longer, it finally turned back and roared!

”Uh...” Hearing this, Gu Changsheng immediately quieted down, covering her mouth with one hand and shakily gesturing to Manman with the other, ”That, um, you’re busy, just pretend I don’t exist!”

God!

She couldn’t provoke him!

Mainly, because that lightning was the real deal!

She was scared!

Hallelujah!

She wanted to be a peaceful onlooker, a good human being!

Seeing that Gu Changsheng had calmed down, Manman felt somewhat appeased. Ignoring the Gu women who couldn’t get up from their knees, it turned its head back to look at the Gu Ancestor’s family kneeling and shivering in front of Three Palaces Hall. Its divine voice was soft and somewhat melancholic, ”I was born a god, protecting the Southern Border for tens of thousands of years. My departure was due to the contaminated beliefs of the Southern Border citizens, a failing in my divine duty! But now it seems, you not only follow contaminated beliefs, you are insatiably greedy! Descendants of the Gu Ancestor, there was an ancient pact between me and your ancestors, as well as those of the Phoenix Clan, to jointly safeguard the Southern Border. The Phoenix Clan to reign as emperors, while you were granted military power to aid them. To my disbelief, my departure fostered your lust for power and greed! Xiangka’s conspiracy, the extermination of the Phoenix Clan, must have involved your meddling! My failings will be held accountable by heaven and earth, but your betrayal of the divine covenant and offense against the gods also warrant Heavenly Punishment. Thus, I now take back the Gu Breath that was bestowed upon you. Whether you live or die, resign yourselves to your fate!”

”No! No, please! Divine soul, appease your anger! Please, divine soul!” Gu Ancestor Cang Lan, hearing this, immediately let out a wailing cry and fainted.

Raising a small insect claw, Manman pointed towards the unconscious Gu Ancestor Cang Lan.

A strand of the Color of Holy Gold slowly emerged from Gu Ancestor Cang Lan and her clan’s followers, and in front of Manman’s Holy Golden Phantom, it gradually coalesced into a Liu Jin Crystal Ball.

Around the Crystal Ball, fires of Holy Gold color curled around it.

Gu Changsheng looked at the Crystal Ball, bewildered and suspicious, her Phoenix Eyes wide open.

She felt an incredibly powerful aura of Gu insects from that ball!

Chaotic and comprehensive, it encompassed everything!

”This was forged from the spirit of the Insect God in my heyday, and all the Gu insects of the Southern Border were derived from this...” Looking at the crystal ball in front of her, Manman couldn’t help feeling nostalgic. However, in the next moment, her insect-like face was filled with difficulty, as if the crystal ball in her hands was a hot potato she couldn’t wait to get rid of...

Without the rights to the continued breath of Gu, the Gu Ancestor’s clan had been in complete disarray!

They were all ashen-faced, silent and dejected!

Thunder continuously circled overhead as Manman Bug, under Gu Changsheng’s skeptical gaze, dragged the crystal ball back.

”You! What are you trying to do?” Gu Changsheng, watching Manman contort her bug face, instinctively took a step back.

Dammit, she had a terrible feeling about this!

”I’ve lost my divine body and cannot take back the spirit...” Manman stated her predicament with infinite regret.

Gu Changsheng’s foreboding feeling was confirmed, and she immediately took a step back, protectively encircling her own small flesh and blood, glaring with wide eyes, ”If you can’t take it back then just throw it away! Don’t come near me! Manman, don’t you come any closer! Don’t think that because you’re a divine old lady, I’ll be afraid of you! I warn you, I absolutely will not be raising Gu for you every day! Go find someone else to bother with that, damn it!”

As Gu Changsheng retreated, Manman Bug’s holy golden phantom inched closer.

Fuck, Gu Changsheng’s heart sank; she was going to die!

You think this is some kind of fun gadget, huh? This is the freaking source of the continuation of Gu’s breath! What does continuation mean? Simply put, it means raising bugs! Raising a vast variety of Gu insects!

Just feeding the Soul-Devouring Python, Gu Changsheng had to give it daily baths; if she had to raise a whole mountain of diverse Gu insects, she would definitely go insane!

No way!

She’d rather die than do it!

Even if she didn’t die, she still wouldn’t do it!

She was a perfectly normal human being, not someone who spent her days mingling with bugs! She’d lose her mind!

”Manman! Don’t come over here! Don’t come any closer! If you do, I swear I’m going to cry!” Retreating step by step, Gu Changsheng was lost for words, ”Look at all the Gu women kneeling down there, each one more capable than the next from the Southern Border. Just casually pick one you like and gift it to her, but do not pick me! Your Gu don’t even have fur, and I really don’t have a thing for furless bugs!”

No sooner had Gu Changsheng finished speaking, than the thousand or so kneeling Gu women immediately forgot their fear, their eyes lighting up!

Godfather!

That was the right to control the continuation of the power of Gu in the Southern Border! To have it would be an immense honor and glory!

But alas, the descendant of the Phoenix Clan was as detestable as a serpent or scorpion!

And she was just about to pass up such a glorious opportunity!

For a moment, the hearts of the thousand Gu women ignited with a tiny flame of hope, all gazes fervent, waiting for the favor of the deities to fall upon their heads!

”But didn’t you say that there are downsides to the separation of powers?” Manman Bug said, her bug face creased with worry as she reluctantly spoke.

”Man, no! I definitely didn’t say anything like that!” Upon hearing this, Gu Changsheng immediately and unhesitatingly denied everything with a smirk, saying sheepishly, ”Separation of powers is great! It promotes balance in the Southern Border, much better than absolute authority! Manman, with my temperament, I’d definitely wreak havoc if I held all the power. You really need to rethink this, seriously!”

”Boom!”

”Boom!”

”Boom!”

”...”

As soon as Gu Changsheng’s words fell, Three Palaces Peak shook violently.

Upon another look, great! The entire front of the Three Palaces Hall had been flattened!

The white jade steps and everything, all gone without a trace, and those few dozens of Gu women from the Gu Ancestor’s clan, had all turned to ashes!

As the shaking of the ground beneath her finally subsided, Gu Changsheng was just about to steady herself when she saw the Gu Ancestor’s clan reduced to charred remains, and her mouth involuntarily twitched!

The clouds in the sky roiled, and then, just as quickly, the sun came out!

Yet, in front of the Three Palaces Grand Hall, a group of people were missing!

Fantastic, they were really turned into ash; even the cremation was spared!

Gu Changsheng was astounded, Gu Taitian’s eyes slightly closed with a touch of vicissitudes, and Little Monk Bu Jie chanted a Buddhist scripture.

The thousand Gu women kneeling on the ground were trembling incessantly. The expectations of gaining the favor of the deities disappeared in a moment, turning into an illusion, vanishing!

Power and prestige are indeed tempting, but a bit of unlucky timing, and you might just end up struck by lightning to dust!

When weighing pros and cons, everyone felt that their lives were actually the most important thing!

No matter how much power and respect one might have, one has to be alive to enjoy it!

Gu Changsheng’s thoughts were surprisingly aligned with those of the thousand Gu women!

Being around deities is as risky as living with tigers, and serving the deities can be perilous. One stroke of bad luck, and you’re cannon fodder for their vented anger!

Look at the fate of the Gu Ancestor’s clan; if not for their overreaching ambitions causing Manman’s divine soul to be restrained, they might not have ended up as pitiable as being struck by lightning!

Therefore, this further strengthened Gu Changsheng’s resolution to refuse Manman’s favor. What might seem like luck to others appeared to be a curse in her eyes; not to mention the underlying danger.