Time Travel: The Best Doctor in Ancient Times

Capítulo 1363: Chapter 1020: Power of Moon Calling, Descendants of the Moon God?

The originally pitch-black night sky suddenly regained its brightness in an instant!

Though not as bright as daytime, the setting bright moon still brought a hint of dim light to the darkness before dawn, flickering indistinctly…

At the same time, in a guest room of the tower outside the City Lord’s Mansion, Little Monk Bu Jie, who had been sitting cross-legged on a meditation cushion, suddenly opened his eyes and looked out the window in disbelief…

“Power of Moon Calling?” A trace of shock crossed his benevolent face. Little Monk Bu Jie tossed aside the wooden fish in his hand and swiftly ran to the window, gripping the window lattice with his small hands and gazing at the bright moon revealed in the western night sky, murmuring inexplicably, “Impossible! This is impossible! How can a descendant of the Moon God still exist in the world?”

The Power of Moon Calling… only the descendants of the Moon God possess this ability. Yet, in the long river of distant history, after the calamity of the Ancient Wilderness, there have been no true deities in the world!

Even the Human God Shang Clan accepted the mission to protect the Human Tribe during that time, but a Human God is ultimately human. Even if they carry divine blood, they are still human!

The Insect God Manman, even now, is no more than a wisp of Divine Breath, no longer considered a god!

In the whole world, if calculated, even Divine Breath is nearly nonexistent. So how could a descendant of the Moon God with the Power of Moon Calling exist?

This is impossible!

The fall of The Gods, no deities exist in this era, then what could make the bright moon reappear in the sky?

For a moment, Little Monk Bu Jie, leaning on the window lattice, furrowed his brows tightly, lost in deep thought…

Meanwhile, deep within the City Lord’s Mansion, in the Heaven Deceiving Hall.

Zhou Mu saw Gu Changsheng sleeping and already being taken down for rest by Palace Maid Ling Xi. At this moment, in the vast Heaven Deceiving Hall, only the white jade bed had a blurry sleeping figure lying on it…

But then, suddenly, an exclamation sounded from above Gu Changsheng’s head. In the next instant, a halo of holy golden color burst from Gu Changsheng’s brow, rushing directly toward the window lattice with palace tassels hanging…

“Manman?”

Gu Changsheng was awakened by this exclamation, looking drowsily at the place where the holy golden halo was…

There, the vague silhouette of Manman Bug lay on the open large window, the entire bug body tightly pressed against the glass window pane, its two small antennae standing rigidly, anxiously staring outside…

Gu Changsheng was baffled by Manman’s vigilant appearance. Truthfully, ever since she and Zhou Mu decided to head north, Manman had been unusually silent, endlessly falling into slumber, unwilling to come out or to pay attention to her!

Gu Changsheng could clearly feel Manman’s resistance to going north, but now, she didn’t know why either. When she asked Manman, it never directly answered, only using reasons unknown to stall her…

Shaking her heavy head, Gu Changsheng didn’t want to think about the people and events she saw during the day. Her gaze was drawn to Manman, unable to resist propping herself up, slowly sitting up from the white jade bed, stepping onto the floor and slowly walking toward the large window where Manman was…

“Manman, what are you looking at?” Gu Changsheng asked in confusion.

“The moon! The moon…” Manman Bug, whose body was clinging to the window, mumbled somewhat forlornly upon hearing Gu Changsheng’s question.

Upon hearing this, Gu Changsheng furrowed her brows, leaning against the window lattice to relieve the burden on her body, looking in the direction Manman was staring, she asked perplexed, “Having a moon at night, isn’t that perfectly normal? What’s so strange about it?”

“Girl, did you sleep stupid?” Manman Bug heard this, its bug head twisting towards Gu Changsheng and glanced at her askew, speaking solemnly, “Yes, having a moon at night is normal! But girl, you might not know what happened this night since you were asleep! This night, there were flashes of lightning and thunder, a torrential downpour in Linyuan City, though that’s not the critical point—what’s crucial now is that it’s already dawn!”

Upon hearing this, Gu Changsheng couldn’t help but be taken aback, furrowing her brows even tighter, “Is it already dawn?”

“Yes! It’s dawn! Girl, haven’t you heard of the darkness before dawn? At this Shichen, with the bright moon in the sky, don’t you find it odd?” Manman Bug looked at Gu Changsheng and spoke word by word.

Gu Changsheng, hearing this, was momentarily bewildered.

What is all this nonsense?

This sun and moon rotation, the phases of the moon, it seems like it’s not something she can decide, right?

No!

Not just her, it’s not something anyone can decide, right?

“So… um, is there a problem with that?” Gu Changsheng asked somewhat foolishly.

Truthfully, she was having a hard time keeping up with Manman Bug’s concerns.

In the darkness before dawn, the bright moon hung high in the sky. It’s actually quite strange, but what does it prove?

Gu Changsheng wanted to use something like rotation and revolution, or the moon’s orbit, to explain the current situation, but she felt that talking about this in front of the Manman Bug was just asking for trouble; their understanding wasn’t on the same plane at all!

“There’s a problem! A big problem!” The Manman Bug, upon hearing Gu Changsheng’s question, nodded its bug head with great certainty and said with utmost seriousness, “Although I am merely a wisp of Divine Breath, and my memories of the past are incomplete, anything related to the moon is etched in my Divine Breath!”

“Uh…” Upon hearing this, Gu Changsheng couldn’t help but twitch the corner of her mouth.

“Girl, you should know that the people of the Southern Border Bashu are skilled in witch gu and revere me as a god, but they all worship the moon, right?” Floating above the window frame, the Manman Bug pointed to the bright moon hanging in the western sky and spoke in a deep voice.

Gu Changsheng nodded upon hearing this.

It’s true; the people of the Southern Border Bashu do indeed revere the moon!

Seeing Gu Changsheng nod, the Manman Bug continued, “Do you know why that is?”

Shaking her head, Gu Changsheng decisively shook her head upon hearing this!

How would she know about these superstitions?

Just like today, there’s something like the Moon Worship Sect, it’s really hard to say why…

In short, deep in Gu Changsheng’s heart, there might be elements of reverence for nature!

But with the Manman Bug bringing it up so seriously, Gu Changsheng had to reconsider. After all, one shouldn’t view the ideas of a bug with a cheat mode using the mindset of ordinary people, right?

“That’s because, before I acquired Divinity, I was a bug on the Osmanthus Tree in the Moon God’s back garden!” The Manman Bug looked at Gu Changsheng with absolute certainty.

Upon hearing this, Gu Changsheng’s pale face twitched hard at the corner of her mouth, her phoenix eyes slightly unfocused, instinctively asking, “Was there a Wu Gang cutting the osmanthus tree beside it?”

What kind of nonsense is this?

The Moon God’s back garden, a bug grows on the Osmanthus Tree, and then there’s Wu Gang cutting osmanthus? She could almost visualize a scene of Chang E’s back garden in her mind!

So fantastical that it made her feel dizzy!

But before Gu Changsheng could shake her head to clear her mind, the Manman Bug had already shot her a cold glance…

Seeing this, Gu Changsheng immediately stopped her antics, raised her hand, and gestured towards the Manman Bug, “Please, go on… go on…”

Keep bragging!

See if you can blow the story all the way to Chang E!

Humph!

The Manman Bug glared at Gu Changsheng before continuing seriously, “Since I was born in the Moon God’s back garden, the people of the Southern Border naturally revere the moon. In brief, I and Moon Goddess Posuo, are master and servant…”

“Not Chang E?” Gu Changsheng reflexively added upon hearing this, but under the Manman Bug’s serious gaze, she pursed her lips and could only hold her tongue.

Originally in a foul mood, Gu Changsheng surprisingly felt much lighter after the Manman Bug’s ridiculous supernatural ramble. So, she wasn’t in a hurry anymore and leaned quietly against the window frame, being a silent listener…

She was curious to hear what profound reasoning the Manman Bug could come up with about the moon at dawn!

However, Gu Changsheng remembered the fact that the Manman Bug was once a servant. The next time it pretends to be an important figure, she would have some leverage to counter it!

At that moment, the Manman Bug seemed lost in memory, somewhat absent-mindedly staring out the window, its bug face wrinkling like a bun, “But later… my memories aren’t very clear… I just vaguely remember Moon Goddess Posuo fell in love with a mortal man, willingly became a Fallen God and descended to the human world. Thus, I inherited the duties of overseeing witch gu, leaving the Moon God Palace. And shortly after, there were rumors that the mortal man Moon Goddess admired died in battle, and the Moon Goddess wept and fell into ruin… Following that, the calamity of the gods occurred. I don’t recall exactly what happened back then. I only remember that I lost my Divinity Body, remaining only as this wisp of Divine Breath. From then on, this world knew no more deities… But now…”

At this point, the Manman Bug suddenly looked up at the western sky and murmured solemnly, “But now, who possesses the Power of Moon Calling? Causing the bright moon to reappear in the sky? Is it a descendant of Moon Goddess Posuo?”

“…” Gu Changsheng, hearing this, was still utterly confused. She shook her head violently, unable to resist interrupting the Manman Bug’s contemplation, carefully saying, “Well, Manman Bug, aren’t you overthinking? This moon is the same as it’s always been…”

“But at dawn, the moon should veil behind clouds, not appear in the sky!” The Manman Bug retorted without hesitation. The next moment, it rushed to Gu Changsheng’s side, grabbed her arm anxiously with its tiny bug claw, “Girl, heed my words, return immediately, do not linger here! I had intuitions long ago; there’s a presence in the Northland I do not wish to face! Girl, the calamity of the gods is beyond your imagination; if deities still exist, they are even more beyond your grasp. Listen to my words, let’s go back! Back to the Central Plains, back to the Southern Border. Don’t go further north, okay?”