Time Travel: The Best Doctor in Ancient Times

”No!”

Gu Changsheng watched helplessly as the shackles formed by Chaotic Power encased Ancient Wilderness, constantly pulling back, seeing their clasped hands inch by inch separate, her eyes widen with despair, a heart-wrenching scream escaping her throat.

”My daughter, live well!”

Behind, the Chaos Vortex spread like the maw of a giant beast, ready to devour everything. The blood tears in Ancient Wilderness’s eyes continued to flow, staring unblinkingly with eyes just like Gu Changsheng’s, saying, ”Live! You must live...”

”No! Don’t go! Don’t go! Don’t leave me, don’t die... don’t...” Gu Changsheng looked at their gradually separating hands, shaking her head in bewilderment, wanting to move forward, but it was already impossible.

Suddenly, her heart tightened with a painful squeeze!

Watching the figure about to be swallowed by the Chaos Vortex, looking into eyes fixated on her, listening to words urging her to live, Gu Changsheng had never felt so utterly powerless!

She couldn’t do it!

Ultimately, she couldn’t do it!

Even if she risked her life and grasped her hand, she could only watch helplessly as she disappeared before her eyes...

”Don’t go... don’t go...” Looking at the gradually separating hands, Gu Changsheng desperately reached forward again, trying once more...

But, the image of Ancient Wilderness being swallowed and retreating far exceeded the speed of her reaching hand...

”Live! You must live! My daughter, you must live!”

The voice of Ancient Wilderness still echoed in front of her, the look full of worry and hope still remaining in Gu Changsheng’s vision, yet her figure had already vanished into the Chaos Vortex...

Gu Changsheng extended her hand in bewilderment...

The touch of Ancient Wilderness’s slightly cool warmth still lingered on her fingertips...

But in front of her, her trace had already disappeared...

”No... no...”

Gu Changsheng stood there woodenly, eyes blankly murmuring...

Gone!

Still gone!

Gone from her mind!

She hadn’t even had the chance to call her mother!

She hadn’t even had the chance to hug her!

And she just, leaving her, was gone...

Or perhaps she didn’t want to leave her, but she did, leaving her just like that!

The scene before her shifted rapidly, and the Chaos Vortex containing the Three Thousand Great Worlds suddenly vanished, replaced by the Illusionary Realm of the Ancient Wilderness Times...

Upon seeing that illusion, Gu Changsheng suddenly widened her eyes in shock...

In that illusion, the towering waves remained frozen in time, and on a small boat, the red-robed goddess still stood with her back to her...

”Mother!”

Instinctively, the words she couldn’t speak when Ancient Wilderness was before her, she finally shouted out!

Gu Changsheng frantically collided against the wall of Ancient Wilderness’s memories, nearly delirious, ”Mother! Mother, stop! Stop, come out, come out, don’t die! Don’t die! Don’t...”

In the memory of Ancient Wilderness, the meeting between Gu Changsheng and Ancient Wilderness seemed like it never happened. Yet, when Gu Changsheng shouted those words, she clearly saw the red figure on the small boat tremble almost imperceptibly...

It was her!

It was her!

It was her mother!

She remembered appearing here, remembered meeting herself, but then she returned, back to the vanished Ancient Wilderness Times!

”Mother! Come back! Come back! Don’t die! Don’t!”

Gu Changsheng repeatedly slapped the memory wall in front, screaming madly.

But inside the wall, the memory belonging to Ancient Wilderness Times continued uninterrupted...

Gu Changsheng watched with open eyes, seeing the red-robed goddess not turning, watching her beauty turn to bones, watching Ta You begging painfully, yet she decisively chose to protect All Heavens...

Everything seemed unchanged!

Everything appeared as it did when Gu Changsheng had seen it in the Sixth Layer of the Star Innate Tower!

But Gu Changsheng knew, her mother, Divine Venerable Ancient Wilderness, had seen her before making this decision, seen her!

Though endless years and vast distances lay between them, Gu Changsheng saw clearly, saw the dark red stains dyed by blood on her red attire...

She was Divine Venerable Ancient Wilderness!

How could she be injured so easily?

That was blood shed to see oneself!

”I finally understand why you refuse to turn back! You clearly know I’m watching all this in the future, are you just afraid to face me? Afraid to die in front of me?” Gu Changsheng beat against the barrier of memories, crying out desperately.

But no matter how much Gu Changsheng shouted, how much he called, everything in the recollection of the Ancient Wilderness Times continued as it was, unchanged...

Gu Changsheng clearly heard the Ancient Wilderness, which had already turned into a skeleton, say to her that there were no regrets in this life...

Clearly listening to her use flesh as a guide, dispersing her divine bones, vanishing completely...

The memory scene that had been continuously replaying in Gu Changsheng’s mind did not replay again this time. After reshowing once, it slowly turned to nothingness in front of Gu Changsheng’s eyes...

Only at this moment did Gu Changsheng truly feel fear!

She was truly afraid!

Frantically getting up from the ground, Gu Changsheng stared blankly at the empty surroundings with tears streaming down her face, ”Don’t leave! Don’t leave! Come back! Come back!”

Let her see it once more, no, let her keep watching like this!

She would rather endure the unbearable heartache, would rather collapse repeatedly in this unbearable memory, but let her keep watching, let her see what her mother ultimately did in the end...

”Don’t... don’t... let me see her once more, let me see her again...”

Gu Changsheng ran madly, but the surroundings were void.

The memory scenes of the Ancient Wilderness Times disappeared, were gone...

As if they had never appeared...

”Come out! Come out! You come out! Just entangle me, I’d rather be trapped in here! Don’t leave! Don’t leave!”

Gu Changsheng didn’t know how long she had been running until she no longer had the strength to run, collapsing to the ground, crying out in anguish.

Was it her illusion?

Was all of this just her illusion?

She had seen the reminiscing of the Ancient Wilderness Times, she had seen her mother sheltering all heavens amidst the devastation of the war of the gods...

Was all this real?

Gu Changsheng numbly lifted her hand, saw the scars on her hand...

Bloodstains mingled with a lingering hint of faint golden color...

Power of Chaos Rules!

Her hand, her soul-condensed hand, was truly injured!

All of this was real, she truly had seen her mother, Divine Venerable Ancient Wilderness...

But still, she left!

Returned to those memories, did everything she could!

”What do you mean by ’no regrets in this life’? Since you knew you would choose to die for all heavens, knew all of this, then why give birth to me? What do you mean by begging for a thousand years just to see me once, see me and then leave me? Divine Venerable Ancient Wilderness, you are the cruellest Divine Residence I’ve ever seen, the most heartless mother! Rather than this, I would rather never have seen you in this life, because then, in my heart, my mother would still be the one who fought through the temporal crevices for a thousand years for me, the one who loved me more than life...”

At this point, tears fell relentlessly from Gu Changsheng’s eyes, and on her bright little face, her lips still bore traces of blood. With a self-mocking laugh, she said, ”How could I forget, you are a Divine Venerable! For you, resurrecting someone is easy, altering fate against heaven for someone is at your fingertips. Then why did I travel to this time? Why?”

”You said you did not fail the Ancestral God, the Divine Venerable’s duty, did not fail all heavens, but you alone owe me. Knowing that you would owe me, why could you still die so resolutely? Tell me! Tell me! Ah...”

Fingertips seemed to still retain the warmth belonging to the Ancient Wilderness, Gu Changsheng tightly pressed her hand against her chest, crying bitterly...

She actually isn’t that strong!

In her effort to forget her childhood, countless times she hid in a corner, hugging her knees to cry alone over seeing other children loved by their parents...

She also wanted someone, someone who was her mother, to give her a hug, a smile...

Despite having grown up, learned to feign strength, she finally met her mother, but her mother left her farewell blood tears and an endless desolation...

”Will you... come back...”

Gu Changsheng held her chest with both hands, curled up on the ground...

When Ta You tried to dissuade Ancient Wilderness, he said she was a Divine Venerable, eternally enduring, but if she died, there would be no past, no future, no previous life, no reincarnation, truly vanished...

Then, could she come back?

Would she come back?

”Ancestral God Pangu Qingtian, Chaos Heaven rules, listen clearly to me. I curse you in the name of your daughter. If anything happens to my daughter, I shall accompany the heavens you created and all living beings in their graves! If anything happens to my daughter, everything you care for will turn to chaos and accompany me in regret!”

”...”

”My daughter, live well! Live!”

”...”

”Live! You must live! Live well! My daughter!”

In her mind, in the midst of unconsciousness, the once-unclear words became increasingly clear. The words that Ancient Wilderness had spoken echoed repeatedly by Gu Changsheng’s ears, ultimately lingering on the last sentence she heard when her mother disappeared into the Chaos Vortex...