Time Travel: The Best Doctor in Ancient Times

The scene in the Sixth Layer of the Star Innate Tower is crystal clear to Ta You at the top of the Star Innate Tower!

Those mottled images, like reflections, appear before Ta You. He does not need to look to know what is happening!

”Holy Master, why did you say those things to Gu Changsheng?” The Holy Envoy Child asked, puzzled.

He had never seen his master talk so much before!

To be more precise, since Gu Changsheng entered the Star Innate Tower, the words spoken by his master surpassed those the Holy Envoy Child had heard in all his years by his side!

”Because I don’t want anyone to be as pitiful as me...”

In the bone-chilling water, Ta You’s small figure has remained unchanged for over a decade, yet his voice is mature beyond his stature!

”The Holy Master is pitiful, but how can Gu Changsheng be pitiful? Holy Master, you’ve said this before, but I can’t wrap my head around it!” The Holy Envoy Child scratched his head, his small face full of confusion.

His master always speaks in such profound and mysterious ways, seemingly simple yet somehow incomprehensible to him!

Could it be because he is too stupid?

”I’ve also said, who is more pitiful than whom! Tongtong, those seemingly glorious possessions may turn into illusions in an instant; those happiness one thinks they can attain might only be the moon in the water, or flowers in the mirror! The truth is cruel at times—my whole life has been lived for a mission, for waiting for her. But when I am about to fulfill my wish, I feel compassion toward her. This is truly the most ironic thing under heaven!” Ta You maintained his moon-gazing posture, his voice drifting with boundless solitude, ”I am a person without heart and desires, I thought I would always be like this until I saw her. But her identity, haha...”

”But Holy Master, since we are waiting for her, why do you advise her to give up? If she gives up, wouldn’t our efforts be in vain?” The Holy Envoy Child genuinely couldn’t understand his master’s reasoning.

”Because meeting her means sending her to face truths she absolutely doesn’t want to face!” Ta You paused for a moment and then continued self-deprecatingly, ”Actually, I was foolish. I advised her to give up her obsession and everything, mistakenly overlooked her identity. That obsession is not something she can forsake at will, it is something engraved deep in her soul, directing her unknowingly... Alas.”

”Identity! Identity! Again, identity! Holy Master, who exactly is Gu Changsheng? Are you referring to her identity as the Southern Emperor?” The Holy Envoy Child scratched his head, ”But even if she’s the Southern Emperor, she’s far from being enough for you, Holy Master. Could it be that she has another identity?”

”It’s her identity as the Southern Emperor, the reason she became the Southern Emperor; but it isn’t entirely so. Tongtong, I can only tell you, she is this world’s other me, just birthed far earlier than I was...” Ta You’s voice came once again, followed by silence.

The Holy Envoy Child was shocked and widened his eyes in disbelief upon hearing this.

She is this world’s other me!

What does this mean?

His master, who knows all things past and present, omniscient and omnipotent, what about Gu Changsheng?

His master is the only one favored by the gods in the Post-Ancient Era, what about Gu Changsheng?

Gu Changsheng’s birth predated his master by far; what does this imply?

Outsiders might not know, but as Ta You’s closest attendant, the Holy Envoy Child knows more than outsiders. His master was born in the Northern Mongolian Land, after thousands of years’ nurturing—a divine-favored person, the continuation of the Deity’s spirit, the vestige of the Deity’s will, the inheritor of the Deity’s power...

If not, there wouldn’t be Blood Rabbit, a species from the Ancient Wilderness, appearing in this Star Innate Tower, nor would there be controllable nostalgic memories from the Ancient Wilderness!

Yet his master claims Gu Changsheng’s birth preceded his by far, what does this imply?

”Who exactly is she? Master, you said your life’s mission is to wait for her, so what happens after you wait for her?” Suddenly, anxiety crept onto the Holy Envoy Child’s face, causing him to take a few steps closer at the poolside, enduring the bone-chilling air while advancing toward Ta You, asking in an anxious voice.

Though not very smart nor knowledgeable about the outside world...

He knows that where there is a mission, there is an ending...

If his master’s mission is to wait for Gu Changsheng, to see Gu Changsheng, then what happens after? What will follow?

”What will happen to me, then? Tongtong, her heart-engraved obsession won’t allow her to give up. Soon she will come to me, and by then, you’ll know what will happen to me...”

Upon hearing the Holy Envoy Child’s question, Ta You pondered briefly and decided to respond.

The Holy Envoy Child’s small brows furrowed quickly after hearing this, unwittingly sensing a bad premonition in his heart, yet without knowing why he felt this way.

In the bone-chilling Cold Pond, Ta You seemed to know what was in Holy Envoy Child’s mind, his hand tightened beneath his robe, ultimately saying nothing...

His Tongtong, raised by him and infused with the aura of the Star Innate Tower, even if not one with spirit communication, his foresight far exceeds the ordinary!

Some things, he can be prepared mentally in advance, which might not be a bad thing!

He, Ta You, born with no heart, without seven emotions and six desires, yet as someone who accompanied him through his desolate life for so long, even at the end, he didn’t wish for him to be hurt...

He built the Star Innate Tower, set up tower trials, in fifteen years, he killed countless people, his hands stained with blood, he was worshiped by the world as a god, he was heartless, desireless and unmet, he lived only to fulfill the mission of being alive!

But now, he’s somewhat hesitating after meeting Gu Changsheng...

”Do you regret? Regret everything you have done, regret creating me?”

Under the bewildered gaze of the Holy Envoy Child, Ta You, kneeling in the Cold Pond, nearly dazedly murmured...

”Holy Master, who are you talking to?” Holy Envoy Child frantically looked around, atop the Astrolabe Platform on the top layer of the Star Innate Tower, besides the two of them, there was no one else, utterly empty.

”I’m not talking to anyone, I’m asking the heavens...”

”The heavens?” Holy Envoy Child tilted his head, his gaze moving upwards hesitantly.

Atop the Astrolabe Platform, that piece of sky differs from elsewhere, there is no rising or setting of the sun, only the changeless magnificent moon and stars of eternity!

The Bright Moon washes, stars like clouds, the starry sky vast and boundless as if a world of its own!

Holy Envoy Child blinked his big eyes, the starry sky unchanged, just like the past!

Yet, just as Holy Envoy Child felt he was probably being fobbed off by his master, the Bright Moon flickered, the stars next to it shifted in the sky!

The stars that moved slowly connected to form strokes, sketching out a line of ancient and aged calligraphy!

Not the script of this era, but, Holy Envoy Child had read the collection of books at the top of the Star Innate Tower, he recognized the ancient calligraphy sketched by the stars somewhat!

”No regrets in this life?” Holy Envoy Child muttered that line of ancient calligraphy drawn by the stars aloud, then his pupils instantly widened in shock, exclaiming, ”Godfather! Holy Master, the heavens can really speak! They can really speak!”

Yet, kneeling in the Cold Pond, Ta You seemed oblivious to Holy Envoy Child’s exclamations, still maintaining his moon-gazing posture, the fingers beneath the robe tightened again, faintly visible veins pulsed, his small and pale face curved into a self-mocking smile, dazedly murmuring, ”No regrets in this life? Haha... what a good ’no regrets in this life’, what a good ’no regrets in this life’... my Divine Residence!”

”Holy Master?” Holy Envoy Child, hearing this laugh from his master, felt like his hairs were about to explode, his little face full of shock, dared not look at his master, completely perplexed by what he meant.

”I hope you can seek benevolence and obtain it, as I too may have no regrets in this life...” Ta You murmured once more, then fell silent, speaking no more.

Under the robe, the small hand with bulging veins slowly relaxed, Ta You’s face, white and bloodless, restored its immobility as though nothing, had ever occurred, and seemingly... resigned to fate...

”Holy Master? Holy Master?” Holy Envoy Child watched his master, then glanced once again at the overhead sky, not knowing if it was his mistaken perception, the sky was still the sky, as if the line of ancient calligraphy made of stars had never appeared!

Holy Envoy Child watched his unchanged master, looked again at the sky, couldn’t help but shake his head, confusedly muttered, ”Is it my illusion? How could the heavens talk? I must have been mistaken, right?”

Shaking his head once more, dismissing the unrealistic thoughts, Holy Envoy Child retreated somewhat from the Cold Pond, resuming his alert posture!

The Cold Pond was too bone-chilling, Holy Envoy Child truly couldn’t bear the cold, genuinely unsure how his master managed to sit here in the Cold Pond for fifteen years without wavering!

Just imagining it, Holy Envoy Child felt the cold seeped deep into his bones!

...

Meanwhile, in the Sixth Layer of the Star Innate Tower, the tumultuous waves caused by a mountain collapse surged towards Gu Changsheng and the others, overwhelming waves carried endless murderous intent, from afar, constantly approaching them!

As the monstrous waves drew near, as the boundless murderous intent moved forth, the pupils of Gu Changsheng and the others tightened continuously...