Time Travel: The Best Doctor in Ancient Times

Chapter 819: Chapter 648: Under the Celestial Tome, Southern Chen in Chaos!

On this day, the Southwestern Co-Ruler walked out of the Dayao Mountain in the Southern Border and arrived at Shanmen City.

In front of Shanmen City, the sound of slaughter shook the heavens, countless Southern Chen troops perished at the mouths of Gu insects!

Gu Changsheng stood above the City Gate, looking at the sky filled with the smell of blood spreading across the horizon, with a sorrowful expression.

”Changsheng, don’t be sad.” Gu Taitian’s dark figure appeared behind her and spoke upon hearing her.

”Father, all they ask for is a servant’s death, and I can’t fulfill their wish...” Gu Changsheng lowered her eyes, hiding the helplessness in them.

”Ah!” Gu Taitian extended his hand, soothingly patting her back, looking at the slaughter below the City Gate, with a world-weary look, ”What you’re doing is right. Without bloodshed, the accumulated grievances between the Witch and Gu Tribes will be hard to quell. For over a thousand years, the people of the Southwest have followed the ancestral pact, even if bullied yearly, they never used the Witch Gu Technique against the people of the Central Plains. It takes a long time to freeze deep grievances, and they cannot be filled without bloodshed...”

”But ultimately, it was me who gave them a chance to ease these grievances...” Gu Changsheng leaned against her father’s shoulder, devoid of the majesty of a Southwestern Co-Ruler. At this moment, all she wanted was to find some warmth and comfort beside her family.

The path of a ruler is destined to be lonely and harsh.

She had just become the Southwestern Co-Ruler, and already felt so helpless...

”With your ability, I hope you can save those innocent civilians amidst the wrath of the He Clan.” Gu Taitian sighed, speaking helplessly.

”Yes, I will do my best!” Gu Changsheng nodded, her eyes full of determination.

Southern Chen’s deployment of troops to Bashu just to take the Southern Border is certainly infuriating, but ultimately it’s for the balance of the Four Kingdoms of the Central Plains. Even if the ruler of the Southern Chen is guilty, the common people are innocent!

No matter how angry she was, she retained her humane nature, just like those Southern Chen soldiers who were willing to die pleading for the people of Southern Chen. She did not wish for the people of Southern Chen to be turned to dust under the accumulated grudges of the Witch and Gu Tribes...

In Shanmen City, slaughter continued, and within Bashu’s territory, the subsequent forces of Southern Chen, numbering a million, were led by the once incompetent Prince Sima Liancheng!

Before the massacre in Shanmen City could spread, figures moving as fast as gale winds had already crossed the perilous Heavenly Path of Bashu, heading towards the Imperial City of the Four Kingdoms of the Central Plains...

Several Gale Gu, each carrying a Gu Maiden in Miao’s Clothes, sped across the vast land of the Central Plains.

In the hands of that Gu Maiden, there was a bright yellow scroll...

Among these Celestial Tome Messengers, one of the figures appeared particularly excited. A closer look would reveal that it was indeed Hongfu Su...

The speed of the Gale Gu was like flight, heading directly towards the capital cities of the Four Kingdoms and the battlefields of the warring armies...

...

In the Southern Chen Imperial Capital, the night was as dark as ink.

On the platform of a towering building, an old Taoist nun stood gazing at the endless starry sky, her eyes fixated on a bright star in the north. She raised her hand to point, her whole body trembling, ”Female Star of the Occupation Room! The star points southwest! It’s over! It’s over! Southern Chen is in danger!”

”Heavenly Master, what does this mean?” A young Taoist nun behind the old monk asked confusedly; his knowledge of the Dao was yet incapable of interpreting the cosmos.

The old Taoist nun’s body wavered as she shook her head in fear, ”Since the Female Star of the Occupation Room rushed toward Hook Chen, this old one has observed the celestial phenomena nightly, not daring to be complacent, only hoping to find the place where the Female Star of the Occupation Room rises to dispel it. But, but, how can it be in the southwest? That’s the land of the Witch and Gu Tribes! A Clan of God Favor, only Divine Power can unravel the secret moments! It’s over! It’s all over! Southern Chen is finished!”

”Master?” The young Taoist nun was taken aback by her master’s words; her master was the National Protector Mage of Southern Chen, yet said such words? What could possibly be done, ”Master, we must immediately report what we’ve seen to the Imperial Family...”

”It’s too late! Too late! The Female Star of the Occupation Room rises in the southwest, the disaster to the Central Plains has arrived, the Southern Border will bear the brunt, there’s no escaping it!” The old Taoist nun shook her head, grabbing her disciple while rushing downstairs, ”Quick, quick, quick! Quickly pack and hide in the deep mountains and forests with this old one, it will be too late when the Celestial Tome is issued!”

”Celestial Tome? What Celestial Tome?” The young Taoist nun staggered along, full of doubt and uncertainty.

”You don’t understand! You don’t understand! We must escape quickly! It’s a death tribulation if we’re late! A death tribulation!” The old Taoist nun dared not explain, swiftly packing her belongings.

In the blink of an eye, the National Protector Mage building of Southern Chen was emptied, no one left!

The next day, within the Southern Chen Imperial Palace.

”Crown Prince, you must send people to eliminate Sima Liancheng before he returns to the Court with his army. Now that he has military power in his hands, your position will be precarious upon his return!” Huo Shuixian said sinisterly, sitting in a large chair, her gaze darkly cast on the man beside her.

That man was none other than Sima Changhao, dressed in the regal robes of the Crown Prince.

”You are right, my beloved consort. Once he has killed that bitch Gu Changsheng, I will eliminate him for my pleasure!” Sima Changhao smiled upon hearing this, attempting to draw closer to Huo Shuixian, but she brushed him off disdainfully.

The mention of Gu Changsheng’s name made Huo Shuixian’s enchanting face turn darker than ink, her hands bulging with veins, speaking through gritted teeth, ”Gu Changsheng! The bitch! I will make her die without a full corpse!”

She had lifted the Gu placed by Gu Changsheng on Sima Changhao and now had him in her grasp. With the old Emperor of Southern Chen growing old, state affairs were entirely entrusted to Sima Changhao. Now, her hands held the entire Southern Chen, and she refused to believe she could not take Gu Changsheng’s life!

”Hehe... A person of a despicable lineage, merely inheriting some Gu technique, dares to disrespect the Emperor!” A cold voice rang out in the Crown Prince’s Palace, dripping with contempt.

”Who? Who dares to intrude upon the Imperial Palace!”

In an instant, the entire Southern Chen Crown Prince’s Palace was in turmoil, with countless Imperial Inner Guards rushing in.

Above the palace, a python several meters high stood towering.

”Huff!”

The scent of blood filled the air, as the python breathed heavily towards the guards below.

In an instant, the guards below the palace collapsed in droves, their panicked cries for help echoing to the heavens.

”Who? Who are you?”

Huo Shuixian, who had rushed out of the palace, saw the towering giant python, fear deep in her mesmerizing eyes, and asked in panic.

Her master was from the Southern Border, and no one understood better than she what such a Gu insect meant!

One of the Supreme Treasures of the Southern Border, the Gale Python Gu, she’d heard a bit about it from the Futu Demoness!

Atop the Gale Python Gu stood a Gu Maiden in Miao’s Clothes, disdainfully glancing at Huo Shuixian, speaking with contempt, ”Defiling our Emperor is an unforgivable crime, just wait for our Emperor to march on the Central Plains, then come to execute you!”

Saying this, she ignored the densely packed guards and imperial kin below the hall, shook out a scroll of bright yellow edict with a flick of her hand, and with a clear and cold voice full of endless Gu breath, it resounded instantly above the Southern Chen Imperial Palace, like an endless pressure of Gu insects rushing forward!

”In the 13,670th year of the Witch Gu Calendar, the Bashu and Southern Border have erected a new lord, and the Southwestern Co-Ruler, Emperor Changsheng... With the Celestial Tome of Emperor Changsheng as evidence, I decree to the people of the Witch and Gu Tribes, when the Celestial Tome is delivered to the Ninth Layer, it will be the day the Witch and Gu Tribes’ millions of troops confront the Central Plains!”

The voice rang loud and clear, shaking countless layers of the Southern Chen Palace.

Many in the Southern Chen Imperial Palace, hearing this voice, looked up in bewilderment towards where the voice was coming from.

Some who had heard of the Celestial Tome, upon hearing the voice, immediately collapsed in defeat, exclaiming that it was over, it was over!

”No! Impossible! How could that bitch become the Southwestern Co-Ruler! How could the Celestial Tome reach the Ninth Layer? Impossible! Impossible! I don’t believe it!” Huo Shuixian, among those who had once heard of the Celestial Tome, was now glaring with rage, rejecting this reality like a madwoman.

”Lowly commoner, defiling our Emperor, await our Emperor’s judgment, no one who offends the Witch and Gu Tribes can escape!” The Celestial Tome Messenger coldly glanced at Huo Shuixian, raising his hand for an air-slap across the distance.

”Poof!” Huo Shuixian stumbled back, fell to the ground, and spat out a mouthful of blood.

The crowd was in an uproar, gasping and retreating in fear, amazed that a slap from such a distance could injure someone like this.

A master!

An unparalleled master!

”Hmph! Lowly commoners, the Celestial Tome has arrived, prepare yourselves to feed my Southern Border Witch and Gu!” The Celestial Tome Messenger snorted derisively, leaving behind such a mind-numbing statement, then turned and disappeared atop the hall with the Gale Gu...

The entire Southern Chen Imperial Palace was thrown into chaos!

...

The Hall where the court officials of Great Zhou were gathered!

Prince Liang looked sickly yet was agitatedly staring at Emperor Zhoulin, who was seated on the dragon throne, speaking with forceful words, ”Imperial Father, how long will you condone that rebel Zhou Mu? Two hundred thousand troops from Liaodong and two hundred thousand from Northern Mongolian press the borders, Southern Chen eyes the south covetously. In this battle, Great Zhou is beset on all sides, with no chance of victory! Are you assisting tyranny and seeking the downfall of Great Zhou? And now you have even bestowed the princely title on that vile Gu Changsheng, who has brought this calamity to our nation. How can you face the ancestors of the Zhou Imperial Family?”

”Insolent! Insolent! You unfilial son, you have turned against me! How dare you scold me in court!” On the dragon throne, the elderly Emperor Zhoulin was red-faced with anger, trembling all over.

”Your Majesty, please quickly revoke Gu Changsheng’s princely title, strip Prince Mu of his power, and unite with the other three kingdoms to condemn the Southern Border, otherwise, Great Zhou is in peril, Your Majesty!” a timid and cowardly court official knelt on the ground, pleading in dread.

”Your Majesty, depose the two and wage war on the Southern Border, Your Majesty!”

”...”

”Imperial Father, please heed the advice of the court officials!”

”...”

The entire court’s voices of condemnation pointed directly at Zhou Mu and Gu Changsheng.

Emperor Zhoulin, furious, stood up from the dragon throne, pointing at the group of court officials and princes below, his old face twisted, ”Insolent! Insolent! That is my Imperial Grandson; he is still on the northern front fighting the Northern Mongolian and Liaodong forces! And you dare say such things!”

”The Three Kingdoms have risen together to attack Great Zhou, all because of him and his woman; he should have offered atonement for his crimes!” Prince Liang was unwavering.

”That is my grandson’s wife; her birth date is still enshrined in the Zhou Family Ancestral Hall! She is the wife chosen by my Imperial Grandson, and I will not allow you, a bastard afflicted with venereal disease, to spout nonsense!” Emperor Zhoulin pointed at Prince Liang, roaring violently...