Time Travel: The Best Doctor in Ancient Times

Chapter 992: Chapter 2939: [The Child Turns One Month Old, Updates Resume!]

”Elixir? Haha...” City Lord Mo Yang, upon hearing Liu Jin’s words, immediately shook his head in disappointment and said, ”What do you think reviving elixirs are? It’s the heavens that want my son dead! The heavens are determined to ruin my Mo Yang’s lineage...”

Mo Yang’s words were filled with utter despair. What else could he do? If his son could still be saved, why would he have driven everyone from the Medicine Shop away?

This was his only son!

If there was even a shred of hope, he would never give up!

”Perhaps the heavens truly want to end the lineage of Mo Yang, but if a man will not save himself, how can he expect mercy from the heavens?” Gu Changsheng heard Mo Yang’s words and couldn’t help but let out a cold sneer.

What do the heavens want...

The thing Gu Changsheng detested hearing the most was what the heavens wanted!

If everything truly had a heavenly will, then Gu Changsheng asked herself, how could her existence be explained?

So, believing in the heavens is not as good as believing in oneself, isn’t it?

”What did you say? Who are you?” Mo Yang immediately turned his head, looking at Gu Changsheng upon hearing her words...

Beautiful!

So very beautiful!

This was the first impression Mo Yang and everyone present had upon noticing Gu Changsheng!

Although Gu Changsheng deliberately covered half her face with a scarf, the half that was exposed was already so beautiful that it couldn’t be ignored!

However, Mo Yang was now focused on the life and death of his own son. He had no mind for other thoughts and merely gazed at Gu Changsheng with a slightly amazed but scrutinizing look, his old eyes full of vigilance and appraisal!

She was not from Riverwater City!

Riverwater City had no such beauty...

”Who is this? We don’t have a woman like her in Riverwater City...”

”Could she be a new slave Liu Jin bought?”

”Does Liu Jin have money to buy slaves?”

”Who knows...”

”...”

”...”

Immediately, whispers about Gu Changsheng’s identity spread around, some even started calculating how much it would take to buy Gu Changsheng from Liu Jin...

Of course, at such a tense time in the City Lord’s Mansion, even gossiping, people did not dare to speak too loudly...

”Who I am is not important; what matters is that you want your son to live, and we can fulfill your wish, right?” Gu Changsheng heard City Lord Mo Yang’s words, subtly smiled, noncommittally.

She needed an opportunity to break her current passive situation, and the City Lord of Riverwater City had delivered such an opportunity right to her. If she didn’t seize it, even Gu Changsheng would feel she’s letting herself down, so...

Opportunities are always given to those who are prepared, and obviously, Gu Changsheng was the one who was prepared...

”Stop babbling here, who do you think you are? Saying you can save someone when even the entire Medicine Shop’s staff could do nothing, and you’re not a Pharmacist, what can you save?” As soon as they heard Gu Changsheng’s words, someone from the crowd watching the spectacle immediately spoke up.

This person was one of those who hadn’t been driven out of the Medicine Shop!

The Pharmacists in the Medicine Shop had all been driven away, but there were still those attendants and other workers left to watch the drama unfold and go back to please the Pharmacists!

No way around it, in this world, the status of a Pharmacist was truly high, and being noticed by a Pharmacist was something that made people feel a cut above others, so naturally, many hurried to please the Pharmacists!

”Exactly, she’s simply unaware of the immensity of heaven and earth, thinking she’s an Immortal, actually uttering such arrogant words!”

”Yeah! She thinks she’s more powerful than the Pharmacists in the Medicine Shop!”

”Completely senseless, if you ask me, she’s in cahoots with Liu Jin to stir up trouble!”

”Exactly, exactly, City Lord, don’t listen to their nonsense, better go apologize to the Pharmacist lords quickly and invite them back!”

”Exactly, exactly...”

”...”

”...”

The crowd chimed in one after another, the meaning in their words was clear...

As the City Lord of Riverwater City, Mo Yang inviting all the Pharmacists from the Medicine Shop was within his rights, but driving them all away was slapping the face of the Medicine Shop and the Pharmacists at the same time...

The proud Pharmacists naturally would not come back, but if Mo Yang went to apologize and gave them enough face to invite them back, the Pharmacists, considering the relationship between the Mo Family and the Pharmacist Association, would come back...

”Shut up!”

Upon hearing those people’s voices, Mo Yang’s face instantly turned as dark as ink...

To ask those useless pharmacists to return again?

Impossible!

Mo Yang became the City Lord of this Riverwater City, naturally not needing to mention his origin, as he hails from the Mo Family of the City in the Sky at the pinnacle of the Middle Realm’s Pyramid. He took up the City Lord position in this lowest-level city merely because, regardless of the type of city, the City Lord must be someone from the City in the Sky, a customary rule. Thus, every ten years, descendants from the major families of the City in the Sky are dispatched to various cities to be City Lords!

A term lasts ten years, and once the term ends, they naturally have to return to the City in the Sky!

The City in the Sky...

That is the very pinnacle of the Middle Realm’s Pyramid!

Mo Yang, a descendant of the legitimate lineage of the Mo Family in the City in the Sky, only came to serve as City Lord in the lowest-level city out of momentary anger, but instead of seeing those he quarreled with regret, he himself was overwhelmed with regret...

This life only gave him one son, and a late one at that, never expecting to lose him in this lowest-level city. Had he known earlier, Mo Yang certainly would not have brought his son down to the Lower Realm...

In that case, his son’s life would not be at the mercy of a few low-grade pharmacists, and he wouldn’t be threatened by those pharmacists!

Those few pharmacists...

Perhaps they have been waiting too long for such an opportunity, so eagerly demanding their price!

”Mo Yang! What are you still waiting for? We only have this one son! Do you really want to watch him die in front of us with open eyes? Do you really want to see the legitimate lineage of the Mo Family come to an end? They only wanted...” Lady Mo staggered up from her son, covered in blood and unconscious, and lunged towards Mo Yang, grabbing his sleeve. She paused before continuing, ”Since they’ve already opened their mouths, regardless of their ugly appetite, we give them what they want... this way our son can still live, and we will still have hope to live on...”

If the child is gone...

What then is the meaning of all their persistence over the years?

With the legitimate lineage of the Mo Family severed, their persistence and efforts become irrelevant, don’t they?

”Madam...” Mo Yang heard this and closed his eyes in pain, speaking with difficulty, ”You should know what they want... and know what that means...”

The Chart of Heaven!

They want the Chart of Heaven!

The Chart of Heaven that the Mo Family, one of the three major noble families in the City in the Sky, controls!

The reason why the Mo Family can rank among the top three families in the City in the Sky is because of their divine mandate!

The three noble families of the City in the Sky, the Ouyang Family, the Nangong Family, the Mo Family...

The Ouyang Family controls the cultivation manuals, and the cultivation methods of various cities in the Middle Realm are largely rooted in the Ouyang Family lineage...

The Nangong Family controls the heaven and earth treasures, and most of these treasures throughout the Middle Realm belong to the Nangong Family...

While the Mo Family controls the Chart of Heaven, in various cities in the Middle Realm, while the lords may be from any of the three families, the construction of defense mechanisms, the defense forces at the barriers, are all under Mo Family’s management...

And on that Chart of Heaven, it depicts the mechanisms of cities in the Middle Realm, boundaries, garrisons, defense, population distribution, distribution of heaven and earth treasures, cultivation levels of practitioners, and so on...

Thus, everyone understands now...

In this Middle Realm, the most skilled in cultivation are the Ouyang Family, the wealthiest are the Nangong Family, but in terms of the Bai Xiaosheng of the Middle Realm, apart from the Mo Family, there is no other contender!

Yet, who could have imagined that the sole legitimate heir of the Mo Family, such a formidable clan among the three noble families in the Middle Realm, would end up in the lowest of Riverwater City, serving as a mere city lord?

More so, who could have imagined that this Mo Yang could be pushed to such a dilemma by a few lower-grade pharmacists?

The Chart of Heaven is the Mo Family’s treasure, the bargaining chip that allows the Mo Family to stand in the Middle Realm and the City in the Sky. If the legitimate lineage of the Mo Family were to lose the Chart of Heaven, letting it fall into the hands of the collateral branches would be no different than letting it go to the Ouyang Family and Nangong Family, would it?

The collateral branches of the Mo Family, with the support from the Ouyang Family and Nangong Family, dare to act so recklessly, even forcing the only male descendant of the legitimate lineage to leave the City in the Sky, don’t they?

”Mo Yang... my lord, look at our son, that is our son... If you can’t bow your head to ask those pharmacists back, then I will! I’ll go, can I?” Lady Mo looked at her lord in this state, her heart filled with bitter sorrow...

But as a mother, Lady Mo had no other choice!

”...” Gu Changsheng, standing nearby, couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow at this...

Listening to Mo Yang and his wife’s conversation...

Does this mean they are guilty of possessing a prized possession?

”Madam... don’t you understand what they mean? Even if we give them... they may not be able to save Qiyu’s life...” Mo Yang looked at his son Mo Qiyu with a face full of grief and despair...

Lady Mo, hearing this, showed an even more mournful expression, her body faltering uncontrollably. Then, she turned and pointed at Liu Jin and Gu Changsheng, loudly saying, ”Then there’s them! They! They just said they could save our son! Let them try!”

”Madam!” Mo Yang heard this and looked helpless...

Liu Jin is but a common slave trader, and the woman beside him, though quite attractive, appearing in this lowest-level city, what notable person could she be?

His son Mo Qiyu was trampled on the chest by a horse, his entire chest collapsed, and now he breathes mostly out rather than in, who can save this?