Chapter 700 Black Wind King (Third Update)

Black Wind King had never been so humiliated. Enraged, it chased after Horse King with a powerful killing intent!

With his current strength, Horse King is actually no match for Black Wind King, but Horse King is running with the energy of someone reincarnated, greatly unleashing his potential, and for a time Black Wind King has not caught up with him.

The more Black Wind King chased, the angrier he became, and the more he wished he could crush Horse King to death.

Horse King didn't run towards crowded places, probably because it understood that it couldn't really cause trouble for Gu Jiao. It tried to dart into empty, sparsely populated alleys.

As the two horses raced through an empty, old street, a man in blue robes in a carriage traveling in the same direction suddenly lifted the curtain and exclaimed in surprise, "Brother, look what's that!"

The brown-clad youth, addressed as "Big Brother," looked ahead and asked, "That's... the Han family's Black Wind Riders?"

The man in blue said, "It's the Black Wind King, brother!"

The young man in brown exclaimed in surprise, "How could Black Wind King... run into the street like this?"

Black Wind King was the mount of Prince Han, the most valuable horse in the capital. Who didn't know that Prince Han treasured it? How could he let it run away on its own?

The man in blue said, "Although I don't know why, hasn't my elder brother always wanted a steed like the Black Wind King? Since Prince Han isn't here, then perhaps..."

The young man in brown frowned: "Stealing Han Ye's horse? Are you crazy?"

A calculating glint flashed in the blue-clad man's eyes as he smiled at his elder brother and said, "Brother, there's nobody on this street. If you don't say anything and I don't say anything, who will know we stole his horse? He didn't tie it up properly and let it run wild in the street. Even if we don't catch it, can you guarantee that someone else won't? Rather than letting someone else benefit from it, we might as well take it."

The young man in brown looked ahead and asked, "Weren't there two horses just now?"

The two horses were running in a straight line, and the Horse King's figure was blocked by the tall and strong Black Wind King.

The man in blue smiled and said, "Yes, brother."

The man in brown pondered, "Even the Black Wind King couldn't catch up with this horse, so it must be a fine one."

The man in blue closed his folding fan: "Then I'll take both horses!"

The two stepped out of the carriage, used their light-footed skills to leap across rooftops and take a shortcut to get above the two horses. They exchanged a glance.

"Big brother! Here you go!"

The man in blue tossed out a bottle of powder, which the young man in brown caught. He held his breath, took out a handkerchief, poured the powder on it, and leaped down to ride on the Black Wind King's horse.

The young man in brown said, "The other horse is yours!"

"Don't worry, brother! I'm here!" The man in blue followed suit, also producing a handkerchief with medicinal powder and swooping down from the air.

They sprinkled sleeping potion on their handkerchiefs; you can't subdue a wild horse like Black Wind King without some tricks.

As for the other horse, it should also be the Black Wind Cavalry of the Han family. Although it is not as powerful as the Black Wind King, it is better to be prepared with sleeping potion.

The two men each mounted their horses and covered the mouths of the horses beneath them with handkerchiefs so that the horses could inhale the powder as quickly as possible.

Even if the horse struggles, it will still be affected by the drug. The drug is extremely potent; a drop the size of a fingernail is enough to knock out a cow.

However, to their surprise, the two horses were far more ferocious than they had imagined. Before they could even get a firm footing, they were thrown off by the Black Wind King and the Horse King one after the other.

The two almost suffered serious injuries from the fall.

After regaining his balance, the man in blue took out a porcelain bottle.

The young man in brown grabbed his wrist: "What are you doing?"

The man in blue said, "Brother, if the sleeping potion doesn't work, we'll have to use gunpowder!"

The young man in brown said coldly, "Are you using gunpowder here because you're worried that others won't be able to trace it back to us?"

The man in blue said, "But..."

The young man in brown gave the Black Wind King a deep look and said, "Follow me, let's find another place to attack!"

The man in blue smiled and said, "Big Brother is the smartest!"

The two chased after the Horse King and the Black Wind King, but as they continued, something seemed amiss.

"Big brother! They...they've wandered into the hunting grounds!"

The hunting grounds were surrounded by fences, but the two horses were no pushovers; they managed to jump over the high fences.

"What should we do, brother?" the man in blue asked anxiously.

The young man in brown frowned regretfully and said, "What can we do? That's the royal hunting grounds; anyone who trespasses will be executed."

The man in blue said dejectedly, "The duck that was almost in my hand has flown away!"

The horse king was unaware that it had stumbled into the royal hunting grounds. As the king of wild horses, the wild was its domain, so it ventured into any forest it could find.

Once inside the forest, it truly gained an advantage in wilderness survival; even the most complex and difficult terrain posed no problem for it.

Instinctively sensing that something was wrong with the black mud in front of him, he leaped high into the air and landed skillfully and precisely in a safe place.

Black Wind King was invincible on the battlefield, but he was not as keen as Wild Horse King when it came to dangers in the jungle.

It inadvertently sank into a swampy mud pit.

It suddenly couldn't run anymore; its hooves could no longer exert any force.

In the swamp, the greater the strength and the more it struggles, the faster it sinks; in the blink of an eye, the swamp is above its knees.

As Horse King ran, Black Wind King appeared behind him. Curious, Horse King looked back and saw that Black Wind King had sunk into a swamp, a place that Horse King instinctively feared.

It knows it cannot get close.

It hesitated for a moment, then continued running happily forward, ignoring the Black Wind King.

But it stopped after running for a while.

It glanced back at Black Wind King, who was sinking deeper and deeper into the swamp, and saw grief and despair in Black Wind King's eyes.

Black Wind King is not afraid of death, but his destiny is to die on the battlefield, not to be submerged in a pool of mud.

The horse king was so conflicted that it spun around in place, biting its own tail.

In the end, it still cautiously walked over.

Overcoming its instinctive fear of the swamp, it slowly approached the Black Wind King to within three feet of him, the limit of its approach.

Just an inch ahead is a swamp.

It barked at Black Wind King.

Black Wind King didn't move; it slowly collapsed and was gradually swallowed by the swamp.

The horse sniffed it and stretched its head to reach it, but it couldn't reach it.

Survival of the fittest is never easy for wild horse herds; their natural enemies include not only wild beasts but also the dangers of the jungle.

Horse King had no choice but to give up, go around it, and leave the place.

Gu Jiao and Mr. Meng sat in the carriage waiting, while Gu Jiao sat outside.

About half an hour later, the horse king galloped back.

Gu Jiao raised an eyebrow: "Yes, I'm back."

Mr. Meng lifted the curtain and took a look, then breathed a sigh of relief: "They really came back, that scared me to death."

When the horse king arrived at the carriage, instead of obediently putting on the harness as usual, it grabbed Gu Jiao's hem and pulled her out.

After Gu Jiao got off the carriage, it moved across in front of her, indicating that it wanted to carry her.

"Where are you taking me?" Gu Jiao asked.

Horse King spun around in place.

This means they are going.

But Gu Jiao had no intention of riding it. Gu Jiao went to the main gate of the Imperial Preceptor's Hall: "Can I borrow a horse?"

Gu Jiao borrowed a fine horse from the Imperial Preceptor's Palace and followed the Horse King all the way to the royal hunting grounds.

Gu Jiao didn't recognize this as the royal hunting grounds. After the horse king stepped over it, she also—

The fence was too high; the horses in the Imperial Preceptor's Hall couldn't cross it.

Gu Jiao had no choice but to temporarily tie the horse outside the fence and climb over it with her bare hands.

The swamp wasn't far away, and Gu Jiao hadn't run more than a few steps before she spotted the big black horse stuck in the swamp.

After realizing that struggling would only make it sink faster, Black Wind King gave up moving. Even so, it was almost swallowed by the swamp, with only its long neck and a saddle sticking out.

The immense pressure made it difficult for Black Wind King to breathe.

Horse King rushes forth, Black Wind King cries out.

Gu Jiao didn't understand horse language and didn't know what it was calling.

Gu Jiao took a bundle of rope from her small basket, tied one end into a knot, and put it on the horse king. Then she quickly cut two long tree branches and laid them across the swamp. After making sure that both ends of the branches were firmly pressed into solid ground, she stepped on the branches and walked over.

This is very dangerous. If Black Wind King attacks her even once, she will lose her balance and fall into the swamp.

Fortunately, the Black Wind King did not attack.

She went to the Black Wind King's side, threaded the rope under the saddle, and tied a tight knot.

Then she said to Horse King, "Pull!"

It was extremely difficult for a two-and-a-half-year-old Horse King to pull a fully grown Black Wind King that was almost completely stuck in the swamp.

The horse's hooves slipped and it fell to the ground several times.

Every time it falls, it gets back up.

It bore a weight that its age should not have allowed it to bear, and finally, when it was exhausted, it pulled the Black Wind King out of the swamp.

It lay on the ground, panting heavily.

Black Wind King also fell to the ground.

It inhaled the poisonous gas in the swamp and showed symptoms of poisoning.

In addition, there were some sharp objects in the swamp that scratched its belly as it struggled.

Gu Jiao observed the horse for a moment.

He looks like a horse king too.

But it has a saddle and horseshoes, so it doesn't quite look like the Wild Horse King.

Gu Jiao opened the small medicine box and began to clean its wounds.

It happened so quietly at midnight, are you surprised or not?

(End of this chapter)