Chapter 144 – And The Guild Establishment Token Goes To… (1/2)

Even horses had their pride. The Hellfire Stallion was thoroughly incensed upon hearing that Fatty intended to use it as a gift.

“Neiiiiiigh…” The Hellfire Stallion roared with fury and rammed its hooves against the ground with a thunderous crash. It was trying to rock Fatty off its back.

“Behave, behave. A good horse is a horse that behaves,” Fatty hugged the steed’s neck tightly and spoke noisily by its ear.

Hearing Fatty’s words, the Hellfire Stallion’s rage burned so fiercely that the feeble fire on its body began to blaze up as well. Fatty let out a painful wail and sprang up from the horse’s back, hitting his head on the turtle’s shell above.

Fatty fell and plunged to the ground with a heavy thud. The stallion’s eyes gleamed at this. It didn’t hesitate to rear back and rap its front hooves on the ground in front of Fatty.

“The heck! Why beat a man when he’s down?” Fatty turned his body to dodge the Hellfire Stallion’s trampling. At the same time, he slithered around and seized the chance to mount the stallion again sneakily.

“Do you submit?” Fatty lightly knocked his fist on the Hellfire Stallion’s head and asked.

His answer was a long, furious neigh. However, Fatty couldn’t attack it for real. Since the horse didn’t have much health left, it might just drop dead after a few attacks.

“You can even subdue a horse. Money Grubber, how about I come and help you?” TenStepOneKill suddenly spoke up. At the same time, he tapped his finger on the Yin Yang Manual, shooting a white light at the Hellfire Stallion.

“TenStepOneKill, you’re courting death!” Purple Bell acted even faster than TenStepOneKill. The Hellfire Stallion looked quite pretty as it was covered in flames with a strange diagram decorating its body, so it was the type of horse that young girls like Purple Bell fancied. Purple Bell naturally wanted to stop TenStepOneKill from killing the horse.

A black light streaked out from Purple Bell’s Yin Yang Manual and collided with the white light. After banging into each other, both of them vanished. Purple Bell angrily turned to TenStepOneKill with the manual ready before her, wanting to attack him. TenStepOneKill laughed brazenly and moved back a few steps.

Boom!

A thunderclap suddenly echoed. Shouts of panic instantly rang out from the outside.

“Lei Ting, it’s Lei Ting! He isn’t dead yet!”

“Oh my god! All that attacking still couldn’t kill him?”

“Ruuun! The Celestial boss has risen from the dead!”

“What? Lei Ting has come back to life?” Fatty exclaimed. Even TenStepOneKill lost his calm and quickly ran out from under the turtle shell to watch.

“Neiiiigh,” the Hellfire Stallion let out a long neigh and no longer bothered with Fatty. It galloped out from the turtle shell with Fatty still on its back.

After the thunderstorm had passed, a figure appeared in the blue sky. Indeed, it was Undead Marshal Lei Ting who had just died earlier.

“Corps Captain Lei Ting,” Libya was nursing his heavily injured body, but he dragged his dragon spear forward with great difficulty and paid his respects to Lei Ting.

“Greetings, General Libya,” Lei Ting nodded in the sky.

“Honorable Corps Captain, for the sake of Black Tortoise City’s safety, we had to take action against you. I offer my deepest apologies for your suffering,” Libya said.

“There’s no need to blame yourself. All of this was a scheme stemming from the Phantasm Ghost King. I have to thank you all for helping me clear my head,” Lei Ting smiled. “Since I died for Black Tortoise City, I naturally can’t let my own hands destroy it.”

“Corps Captain, is there anything that you’d have us do?” Libya sighed in relief when he heard these words from Lei Ting. He knew that the crisis was now officially resolved.

“I feel reassured now that Black Tortoise City has people like you guys,” Lei Ting looked around at every NPC in the field. After a while, his eyes rested on the Hellfire Stallion, stating, “Hellfire.”

“Neigh…” The Hellfire Stallion kept neighing. Fatty suddenly discovered that tears were streaming from the corners of its eyes.

“Hellfire, I’m about to disappear for eternity. I can’t take care of you anymore. You should choose a new master for yourself,” Lei Ting said.

He’s letting it choose its master? Fatty straightened his back, “Honorable Corps Captain, as you can see, Hellfire and I look so well together. Please entrust it with me.”

Whoosh. The Hellfire Stallion suddenly reared straight up. Fatty was caught off guard and got knocked off the horse’s back.

The surrounding crowd burst into laughter.

“Corps Captain, I am the holder of the Yin Yang Manual and the newly-appointed Yin Yang Inquisitor that will soon rank up to Yin Yang Magistrate. As far as I’m concerned, Hellfire is most satisfactory with me,” TenStepOneKill stepped forth.

Aside from these two, several hundreds of people also recommended themselves and promised to Lei Ting that they were the most suitable owner for the Hellfire Stallion. A mid-rank yao mount could only be encountered when the stars were aligned. Therefore, everyone wanted it.

“What do you think?” Lei Ting looked at the Hellfire Stallion.

“Neiiigh…” The steed turned his nose to the sky where Lei Ting stood and neighed at him. Shortly after, it threw itself at the giant turtle’s leg.

“Don’t!” yelled Purple Bell, who was keeping her eyes on it the entire time.

“Behave, don’t waste your own life,” Fatty pulled the steed back by its tail, while TenStepOneKill stood in front of it to block it.

“Do you want your head or your tail?” TenStepOneKill threatened the Hellfire Stallion.

“TenStepOneKill, you are horrible!” Purple Bell stepped over. She gently careless the horse’s mane and consoled it in a soft voice.

“Little miss, Hellfire will be in your care from now on,” Lei Ting said to Purple Bell, smiling lightly as he did so.

“Ahh, really? Thank you, Uncle,” Purple Bell was so delighted that she spewed out a random address.

“Uncle?” Lei Ting gave a pained smile. Afterward, he gazed in the direction of Black Tortoise City and muttered, “I have to go.”

“We respectfully bid farewell to the Honorable Corps Captain,” all of the NPCs present knelt down and solemnly sent him off.

“Farewell, Black Tortoise City,” Lei Ting whispered. Slowly, his body turned to ashes and vanished.