Time Travel: The Best Doctor in Ancient Times

Chapter 1338: Chapter 996: Deep Within the Verdant Shade, the City Lord’s Mansion! (Part 2)

Shi Wujue entered through the south gate, holding Gu Changsheng in his arms. Along the way, he left only a fleeting shadow, yet it still prompted innumerable citizens of Linyuan City to kneel and bow their heads in reverence!

Linyuan City, a haven for the most malevolent and depraved individuals in the world, serving as their final refuge and last shelter. The residents here are mostly people without a chance to change their ways or identities, yet in this city, they find a glimmer of hope for life, and simultaneously, they lose the possibility of further wickedness. The City Lord of Linyuan, Shi Wujue, is the one who gave them this hope for life and continues to sustain it!

A life-saving grace, a kindness akin to rebirth, within Linyuan City, the City’s Lord is venerated as a deity by the miscreants who have fled here from all corners of the world to settle down!

”Did Lord City return to the city?”

”When did Lord City leave the city?”

”Lord City is holding a woman in his arms, where did he find this beauty from?”

”Who knows? Our Lord City is wondrously talented, and he has a fancy for this type. I, blessed by the lord, have escaped my foes’ pursuit and settled here. Now I’m thinking of where to find a beauty for the lord too, to express my gratitude!”

”Ghostly Vision Old Liu, don’t make trouble. If you leave the city, your enemies will certainly find you, and they’d take you apart piece by piece with ease, let alone finding a beauty for Lord City! You’d better quiet down. Our Lord City lacks nothing in terms of beauties, there are countless women in the city eager to throw themselves at him!”

”Tch! Our Lord, as divine as he is, would never fancy those abominable women. Their advances are futile! Even if I know that going out would certainly lead to death, I still want to show my gratitude. Though I’ve committed countless murders, Ghostly Vision still knows to repay kindness!”

”...”

Ghostly Vision patted his sturdy chest with a confident look, instantly causing a burst of laughter and scolding. For a moment, the entire Linyuan City was abuzz with news about Lord Shi Wujue bringing back a beauty, spreading along the main road connecting north to south!

Even villains get bored, and even villains gossip!

Especially when the gossip involves the Lord of Linyuan City, the deity in their hearts, such gossip, laced with certain unpredictability, suddenly spread like wings throughout the streets and alleys of Linyuan City!

Even in Linyuan’s massive gambling houses, they started betting on the life of Gu Changsheng, held by Shi Wujue!

Wagering on how many days she could live beside the City Lord!

This seemingly absurd gamble attracted throngs of Linyuan City’s citizens, but everyone wagered she wouldn’t live past seven days!

The Lord of Linyuan City, extraordinarily talented, unmatched in the world, sinister and peerless, arrogantly dominant, had countless beauties by his side, yet none had lived past seven days!

Seven days!

As everyone knows, it’s the longest limit of our City Lord’s capriciousness!

After seven days, the flaming peach grove behind the City Lord’s mansion would gain new flower fertilizer...

And the people of Linyuan City seem already accustomed to this, not finding it strange at all!

Fortunately, the women who could catch the eye of the Linyuan City Lord were extremely rare, months or even years would pass without seeing one, yet similarly, every time the City Lord fancied a woman, it became well-known and uproarious throughout the city. But unsurprisingly, within seven days, the woman who aspired to become the Mother of Linyuan City would inevitably be buried beneath the peach trees, just like the fallen petals merging with the city mud...

Yet even knowing this, there are still many women who eagerly pursue the Lord of Linyuan City!

The world says, the most heartless men are often the most affectionate, everyone wants to be the woman to whom Shi Wujue is affectionate!

Truly, the position of Mother of Linyuan City is too tempting!

Even looking throughout the world, it’s a presence that can stand shoulder to shoulder with the Empress of the Four Kingdoms!

Like reigning over the world itself! Not only that, but without the constraints of etiquette, one can still dominate the world and also enjoy freedom, what a tempting existence! Eminently noble, receiving utmost admiration from the world!

No woman can resist such temptation, winning the man’s heart, gaining a city, a country, transforming from a mere pheasant to a phoenix overnight...

For this, they’re willing to gamble with their lives!

While the gambling houses opened stakes and rumors grew, the back courtyard of the City Lord’s mansion was not tranquil...

Due to Zhou Mu and Shi Wujue’s relations, Borjigin Nian and the Dark Night Army gained entry into the City Lord’s mansion, but only on the outer tall buildings of this fortress; the interior of the City Lord’s mansion remained a forbidden land where they have never set foot...

At this moment, Shi Wujue, holding the tightly shut-eyed Gu Changsheng, swiftly made his way through the back courtyard of the City Lord’s mansion...

Unlike other places where the vegetation had withered, Linyuan City, like an Imaginary Land, was lush everywhere, especially so within the City Lord’s mansion!

The outer tall buildings of the City Lord’s mansion were indeed towering, overlooking the whole city, but the back courtyard of the City Lord’s mansion was entirely obscured by the interconnecting crowns of lofty trees, making it impermeable like a hidden forest city concealed within the greenery...

At this time, Shi Wujue, as if entering an uninhabited realm, shuttled through the magnificent palaces under the cover of the towering trees, finally stopping in front of a jet-black palace hidden within the City Lord’s mansion, confronting the elder guarding the palace!

”Open the palace door!” Shi Wujue’s sinister face was entirely grave, his expression exceedingly solemn, ordering coldly.

The elder, who was napping by the palace door, had hair and beard completely white. His black attire wrapped around skin deeply lined like old tree bark. Upon hearing Shi Wujue’s words, the elder’s eyelids twitched, yet remained closed, only shaking his head in refusal...