For the next few days, Ma Qian sold some of his copied maps to earn some side money. Xiang Jiao was also able to make some money by sitting in the center of the city with a bowl hoping for by-passers to donate some money to him. Of course, he stored his bling bling away before doing this. They knew they screwed up with their uncontrollable shopping habits. Making extra money on the side would help the group to go on with their next journey, whichever road that might take them to.
The world was vast and traveling from one continent to another would take a lifetime if the person did not use any flying ships, transportation altars, or cloud streams. The first two required a hefty sum of zoids, which only left the group with the last choice. They needed to move to the capital Kingdom of Shui, which was about a day away from United Temples City.
As they left the city riding the huge turtle, they were also hunting for other smaller wild beasts to use to travel the cloud stream. When they found easy preys, they would use it as bait to prey on bigger targets. Fortune was on their side that day when they were able to capture 5 white falcons while crossing the wild desert. The falcons were considered pretty huge at 6 meters long and 8 meters wide of their wings were spread out. They were known to be fast and very mobile in air combat. Most of the falcons had grey-colored eye spots accompanied with other grey spots found in different areas of their body. Their legs were similar to a tigers legs that would enable them to take long strides on the ground.
Capturing these falcons caused the group a heavy price. What they thought were easy prey didn’t turn out to be easy at all! All of them were bandaged heavily. Ma Qian had half of his hair shaved after escaping the claws of the falcons. Ye Tian had his face brutally beaten. Xiang Jiao had it worse, he broke many parts of his body after falling from such great heights trying to capture one of the falcons that were flying. Fortunately, they found a small oasis where they decided to postpone their journey until they recovered. Ma Qian was designated to hunt some wild animals for food. While he was hunting for food, he heard a singing voice. He decided to take a look as the voice was very very feminine and captivating. As he was passing by, there was a pond behind one of the bushes. He could see the back of a naked figure with soft shiny skin, silky smooth black hair, firm butt cheeks, with a flawless curvy back. Ma Qian gulped and decided this would be a good opportunity for Ye Tian to see his first naked woman. He hurriedly went back.
“Hey, virgin boy! Come, you’re gonna love this….naked woman…..beautiful naked woman!” Ma Qian said directing his words to Ye Tian, but both Ye Tian and Xiang Jiao looked at him when he said “Virgin boy.” Ma Qian felt their stares, then rephrased his words, “Okay, virgin boys.” Ma Qian had to drag Ye Tian, while Xiang Jiao voluntarily went.
They arrived at the scene. The alluring singing voice caused them to weaken while they continued watching the back of the figure. Suddenly, someone made a sound, which caused the nude figure to turn around and screamed.
“Ahhhhhh.”
“Arrrrgggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.”
However, what the group saw also made them screamed, then turned around to flee like a bunch of herds. The nude figure almost ran, but since he saw the others running, he decided to stay. The bottom part was censored.
“You piece of shit, we’re not like you! We don’t care if you’re like that but don’t drag us into this hobby of yours. You couldn’t even tell the difference between a man and a woman. You’re a damn fudging virgin too!” Xiang Jiao furiously yelled at Ma Qian.
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“Look, I didn’t know. Besides, you didn’t know either until he turned around. His back was like a woman’s back!” Ma Qian guiltily replied.
Ye Tian didn’t even say anything. He covered his eyes with his hands while running away. He was almost in tears. The first naked figure he saw was a man! Ever since he met Ma Qian and Xiang Jiao, life has been pretty awful. He opened his eyes and stared at Ma Qian viciously with killing intent. Ma Qian felt Ye Tian’s glare and Xiang Jiao’s. He knew he was in deep shit this time. He wanted to sleep, but throughout the night, Ma Qian could only feel the death stares of Ye Tian and Xiang Jiao. Somehow Ma Qian could finally relax after seeing the other two falling asleep. A few moments later, he also fell asleep.
Everything was quiet except Ye Tian suddenly opened his eyes. He stared at Ma Qian, then took out a sandy powder. He walked towards Ma Qian, then poured the powder all over his body. Ma Qian was so tired, he couldn’t feel anything. Ye Tian went back to sleep feeling a bit relieved. A few moments later, Xiang Jiao woke up……he then stood up and walked towards Ma Qian. A bead flew in front of him. He whispered a spell where the the bead opened up dropping a drop of liquid on Ma Qian’s forehead. A spell craft emerged on Ma Qian’s forehead, but Ma Qian couldn’t feel anything. Xiang Jiao smiled, then went back to sleep just like Ye Tian did. All three can be seen smiling as they were sleeping comfortably while trying to forget this horrible night caused by Ma Qian.
By the next day, everyone’s wounds were all healed up. They prepared to continue to travel to the capital with their turtle. Ma Qian felt a bit itchy on his chest, but later on the itchiness spread out to all over his body. He was scratching everywhere leaving red scratch marks all over his chest and back.
“Hey, how come you guys aren’t itchy and I am?” Ma Qian confusedly asked.
“Maybe you haven’t taken a shower…..” Ye Tian replied while studying his scrolls.
Throughout the journey, only endless itchiness almost caused Ma Qian to go insane. Rolling over here and there, and even using his knife to scratch some areas. Thin cuts with dots of bloods were coming out slowly. Luckily, they arrived at the capital and rented a room at the nearest inn. Ma Qian quickly went to the hot springs and cleaned up his wounds. By then, all that itchy powder Ye Tian poured on him have been washed off. He felt relieved, but he still didn’t know why he was the only one that was itchy throughout the whole journey.
“Hey, are you coming with us? We’re gonna take a look around before we leave for the cloud stream,” Ye Tian asked while looking at Ma Qian half naked. After the nightmarish incident from the day before, he didn’t think it could get any worse than that.
“Yeah, let me get dressed up first,” Ma Qian replied.
They explored the capital to gain some new information. They also went to the guild center to check for other new missions. But somehow along the way, Ma Qian attracted many men flirting with him while his forehead had a little glow mark that was similar to what Xiang Jiao used on him the day before. Some touched him softly, some even smacked his butt that caused him to beat some of the guys furiously.
“What the hell is going on? First I felt really itchy, then all these guys are flirting with me……” Ma Qian murmured. He realized that throughout the whole time, he was in front of the gang. It was usually Ye Tian in front. Even more surprising was that they were always on the far side of the road with a devilish smile whenever there were guys flirting with him! He didn’t know exactly what kind of curse he had, but he knew that Ye Tian and Xiang Jiao were definitely the perpetrators!
He pushed some of the guys that were close to him and ran away while saying, “You bastards, what did you guys do to me?”
Nevertheless, he was still chased by some dudes that were big, small, rough, or gentle in stature. Ye Tian and Xiang Jiao felt a sense of happiness in their heart, but they still followed closely behind.