Time Travel: The Best Doctor in Ancient Times

Chapter 1352: Chapter 1010: If She Is Harmed, You All Will Be Buried With Her!

Zhou Mu left the Heaven Deceiving Hall in anger, only to regret it instantly!

He slammed his fist into the big tree by the roadside, letting the leaves fall all over him. Zhou Mu leaned against the trunk, full of sorrow.

Gu Changsheng was still sick. Thinking of her pale face and the disappointed, desolate expression she just had, Zhou Mu felt a piercing pain in his heart!

Gu Taitian and Little Monk Bu Jie happened to pass by at this moment. Seeing him like this, both furrowed their brows but didn’t approach.

It wasn’t until Zhou Mu hammered the trunk a few more times and then left, full of desolation. Gu Taitian sighed a long sigh with a face of helplessness, ”Alas...”

”For whom is Benefactor Gu sighing?” Little Monk Bu Jie, standing behind Gu Taitian, asked slowly, holding a string of beads in his hands.

Hearing this, Gu Taitian was stunned and couldn’t help but look up at the canopy that blocked the sun. He shook his head, ”For whom am I sighing? For my troubled daughter, for the hardships of their love, and for that... Shi Wujue...”

Having said that, Gu Taitian turned his head and looked at the shaded path on the other side, where a few guards were swiftly dragging two dead bodies away from the mansion...

For the better part of the day, they had encountered such situations several times...

Beauty gone, fragrant and jade perished...

Little Monk Bu Jie also followed Gu Taitian’s gaze over to the path. A hint of compassion appeared on his kind and benevolent face as he intoned a Buddhist chant, ”Amitabha, Buddha saves all beings, but the world remains unequal...”

”Life and death, yin and yang. The Evil Gathering Formation obscures the heavenly mysteries, but if one wishes to keep Linyuan City intact, the Evil Gathering Formation must lie adjacent to the Life Formation! These people are all sacrificed to gather life force for the Life Formation, aren’t they?” Watching the dragged-away woman, Gu Taitian spoke with a furrowed brow on his weathered, old face.

”Benefactor Gu is adept at mysticism and sees clearly. However, what concerns this humble monk now is not those matters, but rather why the Shi Family, the Linyuan City’s Lord, needs to obscure the heavenly mysteries!” Little Monk Bu Jie shook his head and spoke slowly.

”The Heavenly Tribulation doesn’t descend, the Heavenly is Flawed, but the shackles of the heavenly cycle remain. Linyuan City’s Lord, Shi Wujue, saved my daughter, but now he... he avoids visitors, and who knows how he is?” Gu Taitian sighed upon hearing this.

In recent days, he had sought Shi Wujue several times, wanting to thank him face to face for saving Gu Changsheng and to inquire about the promise made that day, to see what it entailed...

However, to his disappointment, Shi Wujue kept his doors closed to all guests, and even the servants in the mansion did not know the whereabouts of their always mysterious City Lord. Gu Taitian was not only unable to inquire but hadn’t even seen him!

Furthermore, given that Gu Taitian had always been quite knowledgeable about mysticism and the Heavenly Dao, he couldn’t help but worry about his daughter, whose life force was originally depleted. What kind of price Shi Wujue paid to save her is still unknown to Gu Taitian, but from his prediction, it certainly wouldn’t be small...

Little Monk Bu Jie turned and looked at Gu Taitian with meaningful eyes and spoke slowly, ”Why should Benefactor Gu worry? Although the Heavenly is Flawed, destiny remains. I have already foretold that Benefactor Gu will encounter someone during this journey who will become a lifelong attachment for her, haven’t I?”

”You mean? Is it him?” Upon hearing this, Gu Taitian furrowed his brow immediately and spoke in a deep voice, ”If so, what about that boy Zhou Mu? I only have one daughter!”

Upon hearing this, Little Monk Bu Jie shook his head, ”Benefactor Changsheng is not destined to live an ordinary life. Her future can only be glimpsed through her Life-bound Star by this humble monk, but it cannot be truly seen through. Everything, in the end, has its destined course within the vast mysteries of the world!”

Having said this, Little Monk Bu Jie turned around and left. Gu Taitian knew that asking more would yield no result, so he could only look in the direction Zhou Mu had departed and let out a long sigh.

That day, outside the City Lord’s Mansion, in the Ten Miles Peach Grove, the peach blossoms bloomed ever brilliantly, and the fragrance filled the air, adding a vibrant touch to this city embraced by the mountains.

But what they didn’t know was how many beauties had perished because of this, how many had become skeletons buried under the peach trees, no longer full of life...

At this moment, Shi Wujue still leaned languidly under that peach tree. However, the once lush and blossom-filled tree had now shed its leaves, its blossoms fallen, devoid of life, wilted into a dead tree...

White hair cascaded over the black robe, a glaring, stark white...

”Puh!”

Once again, fresh blood spewed from Shi Wujue’s mouth, making his body, which leaned against the dry trunk, stumble forward...

”Hall Master!” The Person in Black, who had been guarding there, anxiously stepped forward.

”Don’t... don’t come over!” A hoarse, low warning came from the disheveled figure, with long white hair veiling Shi Wujue’s forlorn face. He waved his hand anxiously at his subordinate, not wanting them to see his current sorry state.

”Hall Master!” The Person in Black called softly again with a face full of concern.

Was it useless?

Having sacrificed the lives of so many beauties, even with the peach grove almost entirely dyed red, it still couldn’t fill the Hall Master’s lost life force?

Gu Changsheng! Gu Changsheng! It’s all because of her! Because of that baseless rumor!

The hand of the Person in Black, hidden under the sleeve, involuntarily tightened.

Our incomparable Hall Master, our world-renowned Emperor, has fallen to such a state!

Watching Shi Wujue with his head full of white hair, seeing him struggling to support himself on the ground, the Person in Black tentatively stepped forward with a face full of pain and asked naively, ”Hall Master, for her, is it worth it?”

Upon hearing this, Shi Wujue’s struggling figure stiffened under the withered peach tree. He managed to turn around, revealing a face as pale as snow, devoid of any color, hidden beneath his white hair. To the Person in Black, he slightly curled his lips into a faint smile, ”Worth it? Worth it? What is worth? What is not worth it?”

”Hall Master!” Hearing Shi Wujue’s words, the Person in Black’s voice grew even more sorrowful.

”Our Shi Family has protected the Ancient Country He Clan to this day, but the heavens do not even allow our family to continue its lineage. Only one person per generation, generation after generation, for countless millennia, we’ve protected you. Is it worth it? She is the only hope. My Shi Family has searched for countless millennia, and she is the only hope!”

At this point, Shi Wujue let out a bitter smile with deep sadness, ”This shackle makes my Shi Family unable to break free, guarding endlessly without any end. But I don’t even have the freedom to die! I can’t die! My Shi Family’s bloodline is severed, and you all will be buried with me. I can’t even afford to die... I don’t want my descendants to carry this shackle for eternity! The rumor may not be trustworthy, but it is my last and only hope. I just didn’t expect that my long-cherished hope, that long-awaited anticipation, would turn out to be such a woman...”

”Hall Master!” Upon hearing these words, the Person in Black immediately knelt to the ground, face pressed against the surface, not daring to rise.

”Leave, I won’t die, I can’t die, it’s not time yet...” Shi Wujue took a long breath, looking up at the sky above where the peach blossoms danced, speaking slowly, ”These heavens owe us an explanation, an explanation for our ancestors. Without finding out, I, Shi Wujue, will die with my eyes open! Isn’t it just defying heaven to extend life? The woman I, Shi Wujue, want to protect, even if it means deceiving the heavens, who dares claim my life?”

”Your Highness, she...” Upon hearing this, the eyes of the Person in Black, crouched on the ground, suddenly revealed a trace of sinister intent.

Gu Changsheng! Gu Changsheng! It’s Gu Changsheng again!

That woman who destroyed his Hall Master, he cannot tolerate her!

Just at that moment, the angered Shi Wujue did not miss the timely return of his gaze. Although his face was pale, with blood seeping from the corner of his mouth, his slanted eyebrows still showed unyielding defiance, and his scarlet eyes faintly emitted killing intent, ”Put away your wrongful intent! If anything happens to her, I want these heavens to collapse with her! At that time, don’t blame me for forgetting my mission to protect you! If anything happens to her, I... will immediately end my life, and you all will be buried with her!”

”Hall Master!” Hearing this, the Person in Black dare not raise his head from the ground.

Is this his Hall Master?

Is this the Hall Master who has protected the Ancient Country He Clan for generations?

Immediately ending his life?

If the Hall Master dies, the Ancient Country will truly plunge into eternal night; is this... a threat?

Using his life, using the lives of the Ancient Country He Clan, to threaten them?

”Remember my words, I know your loyalty in protecting me, but if because of protecting me, she is harmed even a bit, then all of you, be buried with me and her!”

”Hall Master, you...”

”Withdraw...” Having spoken so much, the fallen Shi Wujue already wore a face of exhaustion. Waving his hand at the person behind him, pale lips with strands of blood slowly dripped.

”Yes!” The Person in Black responded, with a face full of worry and reluctance, slowly rising and retreating...

However, just beyond Shi Wujue’s line of sight, the Person in Black punched the tree trunk and shouted to the hidden guards around, ”What are you standing around for? Flower Fertilizer! Flower Fertilizer! Kill all the concubines and performers in the City Lord’s Mansion! If anything happens to the Hall Master, we... we...”

At this point, the Person in Black looked up, a faint look of despair on his face hidden beneath the black veil, ”If anything happens to the Hall Master, that would truly mean that the heavens want to destroy my Ancient Country He Clan...”

”Yes!”

”Yes!”

”...”

As the Person in Black’s words fell, dozens of low responses echoed immediately from all around, and in a blink, countless figures disappeared into the depths of the Peach Grove...

At this time, having barely calmed the desolation and sadness in his heart, Zhou Mu stepped once more into the inner courtyard. As a master, how keen is his sense of aura? The scent of blood, even amidst the fragrance of flowers and lush grass in the inner courtyard, couldn’t be concealed!

This made Zhou Mu furrow his brows, especially when he encountered several women being dragged away one after another, his eyes knitted tighter and tighter...