Ritian got transmigrated inside the unfortunate land of excessive trees and barren sea of Cabato. Having his journey from being a pitiful scratch to a definite catch, he was with Wenren. A martial hero who foolishly lost his sense of sight; and propriety. Together they conquered big bosses. Piercing the armor of death himself and make a narrow escape hand in hand. They promised to dedicate themselves in protecting the other. There's one crucial thing that Ritian wanted to clear about their relationship though. "Wenren, do you want to sleep with me?" "I'm not gay." Indeed, this is a difficult thing. Ritian needed to cross this non-existent barrier between them. Because even if Wenren doesn't want to, he himself kept on dreaming about it.
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Chapter OneRitian didn't really know what is it like after being announced dead. He recalls being dragged around by a car that weights ten times than his body but when the moment of truth came and everything finally blackened out, the stairways to heaven and the hole to hell didn't make its appearance to play good cop and bad cop on him.Ritian was so ready to complain why he had to be dead at the age of twenty five. Luckily, he was brought back to life. Sort of.
He never had a chance know what does the angels and saints look like up in heaven. Who's more handsome or who's more buff. He'd really wanted to take a peek. He never got the opportunity to do so. Nevertheless, he was given a second chance in life. He would never trade that for anything.
On one calm, late afternoon in the quiet lake wedged beside the northern mountains of Cabato, Ritian found himself drowning. His awkward squawk of distress broke the trance of silence in the area.
He gasped and screamed. The water doesn't taste like lime. Fortunately. That made him sigh a little bit in relief. He hates that flavor. That's the only silver lining he could muster in this dire situation.
Ritian's arms and legs were both numbed. Indicating that he's been struggling for awhile now.
The endless clothes he's in made every bit of movement impossible for Ritian. He took a big gulp of air before lowering his body into the water. He wanted to see what held him back from being alive again.
He didn't like what he saw.
His shrieking voice was muffled by the lake water but the horror he felt in his bones perceived.
He's wearing a white robe.
He failed to see things clearly below but he cannot be mistaken. He's in a thick lump of fabric long enough to be called a blanket.
'Why the chicken feet am I wearing this?'
He panicked. Ritian knew how to swim. His Dad forced him once a 'lesson' that he had never forgotten. After that, once he's thrown in the water, his body will move in instinct. His thin arms should wad at a frightening speed with his feet coordinating with a not so elegant frog jumping routine in a desperate move just to push himself up and be on the dry part of the earth again. It should be like that, regardless of who the audiences are.
Forget poise! I wanted to live!
This robe hinders him from fulfilling a long life. It wanted to kill him. This must be possessed!
Ritian's nose burned and the sting made him wince. The warmth he felt in his eyes increased his weariness. Just a little more and his head will be full of water. 'What's the purpose of breathing again, then, just to experience dying for the second time?'
Forcefully pulling himself out of the robes, he wrestled and rolled against the fabric. It took a very long moment before he successfully discarded the pitiful cloth.
Now he only had a thin piece of undergarment left. It resembled a newborn baby nappies. It frightened him. Luckily, he didn't have much time to lament about it. 'Wait for me to get out of this!'
This series of unfortunate events is gnawing on his patience.
'Oh, stuff it! I survived a car accident, I will live through the shame of—'
A loud splash in front of him halted all of his movements. He struggled to look for what happened. His eyes became blurry and it hurts as well. It took a long while before it gradually cleared. "Holy popsicle…" his hoarse voice filled the air. It sounds weak and terrible. "Oh, my lord."
The unfamiliar surrounding made Ritian quiet for a second. The excessive trees and vegetation surrounding the lake he had been chillin' in was not part of the city where he grew up. Ritian can swear on his grandmother's grave he had never seen an uncooked eggplant before. Whole and wriggling slightly because of the breeze. Still attached to the stems where it hangs for dear life.
'I should call the police.' Ritian swallowed some water. The fishy taste of it registered on his tongue. He closed his eyes, fighting an intense grimace. 'No. I should call Mama. I felt violated! I want to sue someone!'
A large hand held his lower abdomen. Ritian was frightened. He flailed miserably. The hand exuded a light strength, the intent to freeze him in place is distinct. His energy was spent on the robe earlier and being soaked in the water for an unknown length of time, his non-existent muscles couldn't hold on much longer. He tried to remove the stranger's palm on his bare stomach.
The hand was long and wide. A few times bigger than his hand although the fingers were slightly crooked. The callous tickled his skin whenever it slides to move a little.
"Stop! Stop!" A concerned voice rung above Ritian's head. A large expanse of smooth skin welcomed Ritian's view when he tried to look back. It's a chest of a well grown man with a stout, faint chocolate colored nipple.
The body's built and the man's voice itself.
It's a guy he never had a fortune to meet before. Ritian almost wept. God knows he never had any man to man experience even after chasing all of the varsity member of his class. Dying with a profile tagged as a virgin is a waste. He was sympathetic with him that he sent an angel to let him have a good coupling session. 'God is great! God is merciful!'
Ritian laughed comfortably. Having pushed back and forth between life and death, he diagnosed himself thoroughly deranged at this moment. "Yes, yes. Here is a good location. Let's do it here and have no regrets later on!"
Ritian followed the man's graceful chest disposition before finally looking at his face. He was instantly moved. The man was handsome. The type of men who were usually used as a book cover for werewolves Alpha romance flick he reads before going to sleep (or playing with his member).
Ritian believed that he is still blessed after everything.
"Oh, yeah!" Ritian nodded in satisfaction. "Really good."
The man had an unfriendly look on his face. His straight, jet black hair fell graciously on the water. It was long and shiny, reaching just below his ribs. Ritian's eyes widened slightly when he noticed that just like the man, he got the long hair going on. It's just that his was unruly and wet because of the water, while the man's hair doesn't drip.
'Is this God's requirement before going up in heaven?' Ritian pondered, 'I never had this long hair before but if it look 'that' good, like the guy here, then I might want it an extra inch or two.'
He lifted a finger and smiled at the man. Ritian tried to be coquettish. He must look awful by now. Eyes red-rimmed, nose red and swollen, lips bordered between pale pink and blue. 'It's okay. He saw what torture I've been through. He's that handsome, so he must be reasonable!'
Contrary to what he had expected, the man winced. Scrunching his nose before staring at him deeply. "Get up! You're disturbing the fish."
'I what the what?' Ritian blinked. He lifted a palm and put it on the man's chest. "You saved me. Thank you!" His ears might be clogged because of the water and didn't hear it clearly. This is a bit disconcerting!
The guy's lips opened for a moment. He shifted his gaze at the side later on, still keeping silent. It was as though he's considering something before shaking his head. "I didn't save you. I need to move you out. The fish in this lake were scared of you."
The man had a nice voice. Warm and gentle. The deep baritone voice caressed his heavily injured self-esteem. It's neither fast paced nor slow. Yet Ritian doesn't understand him. He couldn't comprehend what he had said.
'Does he wanted to say… he wasn't intending to save me but to appease the fishes?' Ritian tilted his head on the right. He held his cheek on one bony hand. It felt as though he was slapped by someone. "Oh, then… why are you hugging me? Do you like me?"
'My eagerness got ahead of me.' Ritian pushed the guy lightly. He swam to the side and readied to pull himself up. His arms were still weak but there's no way he's staying on the lake with this man. 'He wants to get to know the fish! Not. Me!'
He can basically hear a comment from someone on an online forum berating him with something along the lines of, 'That's why no one wanted to date you, Tee. You tend to jump the gun.'
'Then what's the use of that 'gun' if it's not for humping! Let me get it just once!'
Certainly, they were talking about different guns. Ritian thought seriously, 'Do I really misunderstood everything in life?'
Then it's good that he's dead right now!
He pursed his lips. Casting the guy still staring blankly on the water a suspicious glance, he continued minding his own struggles. 'It might be 'him' giving me wrong clues! Spare this virgin, sir! I'm not well-versed in flirting!'
"Hey, you!"
Ritian involuntarily stiffened. He hesitated for a second. Deciding to ignore the guy, he humped. The cold wind swept his face. He gritted his teeth and continued to fight the cold.
"You're not supposed to walk around naked!"
Splashes of water indicated that the man moved. Ritian became alarmed. He hastened his movements, and almost grin in pride when he finally survived the sloppy way. He called, "I'm not naked! See this sexy white piece of see through something? This is called underwear! An ancient type of undergar—"
Ritian halted. He turned back only to see the male god carelessly taking steps towards him. His golden skin was adorned with tattoos in runes on both arms.
"Ancient what?" the man said, "It's not polite to run around in that state. That's why I kept you in the water. I'd like to ask you where did you put your clothes."
Ritian's mouth slacked. He couldn't hear anything aside the man's alluring voice, and the meaning that it implied.
"Tell me where did you lost your clothes. I'll find it. If a villager happened to caught an eye on both of us here with you naked, you wouldn't like the rumors once its spread. It will be awful, miss."
Ritian's lips twisted. A scandalized look crossed his face before he focused on the most important thing. "I'm clearly a man! Who were you calling a miss? What? You wanna see a proof of my male goods?"
He expected the man to be shocked and weirded out. Ritian stared as the man shook his head and smiled. "I'm Wenren. Let me help you."
Ritian sneaked a look on his waist before squinting. He can't explain why does everything feels like a trap to him.
The man's gentle approach to him thwacked his alarm bells.
This man knows him. There's no unfamiliarity with the way he moved and talked towards him. Like they knew each other, it's just that they don't talk before. Ritian know people like him, and he doesn't trust them.
'Maybe I'm overthinking.' Ritian scolded himself, 'I don't plan running around in this mess.'
He doesn't know the place he is currently in. Ritian don't even remember coming to this place. The only thing he could verify right now is that, he's not dead. And this place is no heaven.
"Hey!" Ritian called him, "What's your name?"
The man swam to his direction. His muscles flexed as he pushed on the ground and hefted himself up with ease. "I'm Wenren. I'm a martial hero."
'It's official.' Ritian thought, 'Looks like I really lost my marbles.'
Ritian woke up early and prepared breakfast for the three of them. Katya remained asleep on his shoulder as he navigated around the kitchen.Evo walked out of the house then washing his face on a tub they had arranged to save up water from the rain. He returned after a while with coconut milk in his hand.Ritian suddenly had an idea in his mind and mashed the sweet potatoes from last night. He brought the coconut milk into a boil before gently putting the sweet potatoes inside the pot.He mixed it 'til it combined perfectly. He waited for the mixture to become a little sticky before serving it like porridge to the two teens.Ritian ate a bowl for himself then set aside another portion in his journey to the commercial street later.With a handmade basket in his hand, he left the house before Gino and Evo.The basket he had had nothing but fabrics inside. Katya knew the direction to the commercial market with her attempt to fish before.After two and a half hour, he reached the place.S
Ritian walked the small village with a little hesitation. Katya asked for a day to hide and hunt her own food because Evo and Gino's house had no spare food to feed a cat. With no way of calling his cat back, he could only walk aimlessly for an hour, quietly observing the people around.The town's aquatic resources aren't close to their home. In fact, people who wanted to fish had to go in the commercial street because their trading center are situated near the docks for easy access and fresh goods.Their primary source of food is planting corn. Corn can be a substitute to rice and is less expensive. Although the texture and the size of each grains doesn't look the same, the corn is just as filling.The corn milling factories produces two. The corn grains which they eat for every meal and corn flour. With the latter has difficulties exporting it to towns because of the pests eating away the flour on the way with the long journey.Their village is indeed close to the commercial street
The chicken was not that a lot. But with Evo's expert ways, the dish is enough to last them for two meals.They went home with grimy faces, scratched skin and a basket full of sweet potatoes, wild vegetables and herbs that can cure colds and low fever then a handful of chili.Evo minced the chicken along with its bone into tiny, unrecognisable pieces. When he was done, he went to the house next door and asked for a little bit of their banana stalk.Ritian watched as Evo specifically chose the soft and whitest part of the stalk, peeling it clean and nice then mincing it the same with the chicken.When he was done, he ordered Ritian to open an old coconut. Ritian tried to hack the compact thing with their rusty machete. Evo frowned like he was facing a math problem ‘Ritian-olus’. He didn't ask why Ritian is useless but the contempt in his eyes doesn't really need a verbal explanation.The process was an arduous job. Ritian knew that cooking in modern times was made easier with the ready
Ritian woke up earlier than both of the youth in the house. He slapped his arms and legs, mildly annoyed with the mosquitoes hanging around him to provide company at four in the morning. If this was the modern age, he would have complained at how early was he cooking breakfast but since it's the ancient time, he woke up early to cook another batch of white porridge.He cooked the rice until it could be swallowed easily. The smooth texture contains just the right amount of salt. This should enlighten Gino on how much to put in next time.At five in the morning, Evo padded in the kitchen, mumbling a soft greeting towards him before cleaning his face in the sink. "You usually wake up this early?"'No. I can't sleep last night.' Maybe it was because of the new surrounding but Ritian find it difficult to get a wink of sleep. 'This is fine. It's good to practice myself into waking up early anyway.'"Let's go to the mountain after breakfast. The school starts at nine. Gino will be there to e
Ritian helped himself to two bowls of white porridge. The food tastes salty and bleak but he didn't complain as he swallowed without a hint of stopping. Gino watched him from the side while Evo had a revering expression on his face as he glance at him for a few times."Did you like it? How does it taste? Very good?" Gino wave the large spoon in front of the fire. His soaked forehead glistening. "You seem to love it. Should I add more?"Ritian wipe his mouth with his sleeves. He smacked his lips together, lamenting internally at how salty did it taste like. "You're... exceptionally talented in cooking.""You mean he cook like he's making salted fish." Evo smiled faintly. "Don't gloss it over. He needs to take harsh words to learn."Gino's grin faltered. His face closed off and Ritian saw the flash of hurt in his eyes. "Oh... I was just asking."He chuckled. "Don't listen to Evo. What does he know about cooking? It's not like he had tasted the dishes sold at a restaurant. He's no judge.
The world has people who protects the world from harm and call themselves Martial Heroes. A person who practice this path is called, a martial artist.And then came people who dedicate themselves to eradicating evil spirits and lead it to reincarnate— ghost cultivators. A ghost cultivator, like the martial heroes, wanted to reach the highest peak of their practices. Which is the divine level. They get enlightened and reach the phase of immortality. Never to perish with unceasing amount of strength.Martial artists use their own body to absorb power, trained themselves and then fight. Ghost cultivators relies on meditation, practicing writing talismans, and then fight.Not everyone can try and begin to train like the two mentioned above. One must have the initial assessment passed and tested to check if their foundation is good enough.Almost everybody go home empty-handed and disappointed. Only a small number of people have the chance to get into the initiate training.After the train
Ritian didn't reach that far when he started to freak out. Katya can talk to him in telepathy, and for the second time he's been branded as a murderer. The world won't just quit making fun of him."I should've... brought all my clothes and my things." He stepped on a hole causing him to flail for a moment and fell face planted on the ground. "Damn. Hurts.""I'm sorry." On the crook of his shoulders, the cat hang on for dear life. She didn't even flinch when they crashed. "If I can cultivate again, I will have enough power to help you."Ritian sat and decided to sleep for the day. His head aches on the back. He was too tired to move. Ritian didn't even eat anything this time, the dryness of his throat felt like sandpaper."It will take a lot of time. Would you like me to guard you while you sleep?" Katya's fur was now in an unrecognizable state. The snow-white fluffy creature had turn into a dirty rag. "We've been running for a long time. I think that guy led them on a different direct
Ritian woke up amidst choking and violently shaking. He tried to stand but a paw stopped him from moving. It was one little cat's foot, but the strength almost made him hold his head. "Where am I now?"“You're now safe.” A little girl's voice informed him, “A hundred meters from us are a group of old people intending to capture you.”Ritian gasped. He felt like his problems didn't lessen as the days go by. "What did I do now?""They accuse you of killing Cheel. His body was found clasping a ripped fabric from your inner robe." Wenren emerged from behind. His hand reached for his shoulder but Ritian avoided his touch. "Are you okay now?""Now I know that I will get in trouble once again? I'm delighted. Totally unfazed. Definitely fine. Just peachy." Ritian attempted to stand but his knees trembled. "God, where's the kid who spoke? How come she's here?"The cat waved its tail threateningly. "I am that 'kid.' Sorry for my body's age. I have cultivated for thousands of years, but I slept
Ritian closed his eyes firmly. He can feel the air sweep his hair as Wenren sped up. Ritian can't see anything but the endless black. 'That vessel. Where is it?'How come he can't hear anything?"Wen, where's that Vessel?" He didn't move even a centimeter, afraid of surprising Wenren that could lead to their fall. He looked like a stiff puppet between Wenren's arms. 'Like a dead weight.'A sigh went past his ears. The breathless voice said, "Here, Ritian."He opened his mouth in shock. "Wen... I hear him talk to me just now. He..."Wenren tightened his grip on his waist. Although blindfolded, his other senses was magnified. Ritian can percept that the guy slowed down a beat. "Don't mind it.""Do you wish to know me more, Ritian?" The vessel's voice sometimes belongs to a man, then a woman. It became distracting how the sentence started with a male voice then ends up with the sultry tone of a teasing lady. "I know you so well. I can understand you, since you, yourself don't come from t
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