52 The Large Desert

It was noon.

Jia Ming had finally stopped crying. She buried her head on her not so soft bed as she tried to wipe the tears away.

Li Bai tapped her lightly on her shoulders. Jia Ming turned her head to look at him.

Her eyes were swollen red, but that, for some reason, made her more attractive in Li Bai's eyes.

Of course, as the gentleman Li Bai was, he shamelessly said, "You're beautiful."

As soon as these words reached Jia Ming's ears, she blushed fiercely. Her swollen red eyes were covered by the redness of her face.

Li Bai laughed heartily, "Hahaha!" He then took out a clean cloth that he took from his sister's room, and handed it over to Jia Ming.

"Here, you should wipe your snot off."

Hearing the child's words, Jia Ming blushed further and hurriedly snatched the cloth from him, wiping her nose.

"Hmmm...?"

As soon as the cloth touched Jia Ming's face, she felt comfort surround her from all sides.

This cloth... it's too soft!

She quickly sat up on her bed, much to Li Bai's surprise. She groped her clothes, and felt that they were too rough when compared to the cloth that was handed to her.

"Um, Li Bai, uh..."

Jia Ming stumbled with her words as she called out to the child who had his back turned on her.

"Hmm, what is it?" Li Bai said as he turned around to face the beautiful young girl again.

"C- can you give me this cloth?" Jia Ming covered her face with her two hands as she said this.

"En, sure." Li Bai had one eyebrow raised, why did she want this cloth? No matter, I have plenty of these, I shall give this to her.

.....

Through a large desert, a cloud of dust was forming behind speeding figures.

Two of them were leading the rest, needless to say, these were the leaders of the group.

As they were running, they had a conversation.

"Brother, will the princess really go through this path?" A young man skeptically asked his brother.

"Of course, my sources have never been wrong before." The brother confidently replied.

The group were rapidly approaching a building made of sandstone.

The sandstone building was in ruins, as with the other buildings around it.

The young man saw the ruins and said in awe, "Wow, I've never seen these ruins before..."

The brother calmed the young man down as he explained, "We're not here for sightseeing."

"Right." The young man nodded as he abruptly stopped running. All of the others followed his example.

Right in front of them was the building.

The brother of the young man was the leader of the group and so he gathered them all in one place.

"Now! We are here. Our employer said that we must do this as quickly as possible. The Zhao royal family surely has some tricks up their sleeves."

Meanwhile, the young man stood beside his brother as he listened attentively to his words.

What? We need to kill the princess quickly? But she's so beautiful, ah, what a waste.

The young man's face turned from excitement to disappointment.

The brother continued to speak, while he snuck the occasional glance beside him. He saw the disappointed face of his brother.

Seemingly sensing the young man's thoughts, the brother added a little comment in the end of his speech. "...and catch her alive if you can!"

Hearing his brother's final words, the young man's eyes lit up.

Really? Really? Will we really be able to rape her?

.....

Because of the abnormally high cultivation level of both Zhao Mei, Wu Tai, and their companions, they quickly headed towards the location where they suspected the Sacred Cotton would be: the Northern Sacred Mountains.

The Northern Sacred Mountains could, of course, be found in the north of the Marked Continent. It was the barrier separating the Human Domain and the Demon Domain.

Backwater City was already close to the Northern Sacred Mountains, just a few hundred thousand li away, a small distance for cultivators of the Godly Mark realm.

The area in between was a large desert covered with sand.

"Uncle Tai, let's stop here first." Zhao Mei spoke with great difficulty as she tried to catch her breath.

Wu Tai's eyebrow twitched when he heard how this little girl called him. Uncle this, uncle that, call me brother instead, ah!

However, she was still the princess of the empire that he is serving. He didn't have the authority to reprimand her.

And so, he stopped beside Zhao Mei. With a clap of his hands, a loud sound was produced, making everyone else come to a halt.

"Ah, captain, isn't this a bit too excessive?" One particular knight said as his two hands covered both his ears.

"Excessive my ass! Shut up and give me 100000 push-ups!" Wu Tai angrily yelled at the knight as he pointed his finger at him, his spit splashing everywhere.

Wu Tai was really angry at how Zhao Mei was referring to him. However, he had no choice but to tolerate it. With an outlet for his anger right in front of him, why would he need to hold back?

"Ah, sir yes sir!" The knight almost cried when he heard the captain's words. He felt indignant. What did he do to deserve this kind of treatment, huh?

He fell on the ground and started doing pushups. These were really not hard for a Heavenly Mark cultivator like him, but it was tedious as heck!

His arms moved very quickly, doing about 10 pushups per second. At this rate, I'll finish in about three hours... what kind of unlucky day is this?

Looking at the knight hastily doing pushups, Wu Tai felt a bit of his stress go away.

The other knights stared at the knight who was going to do pushups for three hours straight in pity. They also felt that they were lucky.

However, it seemed that Wu Tai sensed this, and glared at the knights who were staring.

"What are you lot looking at?! Give me a hundred thousand pushups, no breaks!" Wu Tai angrily declared.

He caught the remaining knights by surprise and so they really did not believe what they just heard.

"Did captain say a hundred thousand pushups?"

"Ah, yeah, I think he did..."

Wu Tai, looking at the two talking knights, suddenly got angrier. His face convulsed as he screamed, "All of you, a million pushups!"

"Ah! Sir yes sir!" A synchronized response could be heard.

All of the knights fell on the ground and started doing pushups. The group was going to do a million pushups... which means that they had to keep at it for at least a day! This was torturous, even for Heavenly Mark cultivators like them.

Hearing the captain's words, the knight who did the pushups first suddenly sneered. Ah, how the tables have turned, my dear brothers and sisters.

One knight in particular was also doing pushups, but he was the only one who glared at Wu Tai with great anger.

"Soon enough, you will be eliminated," He muttered to himself. He also looked at the resting princess and his face of anger turned into that of lust. "and you will be mine!"