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Heavenly Horse

Qianli Ma also called "Thousand League Horse" (Qianli Ma) for their legendary ability to cover that distance in a single leap. The horse is from litterature and is the horse of the army general Kwan Kong in Sam Kok history-legend, and Liu Bei's brother. It is described as a big horse with blood red sweat, it can run very fast and, is able to cover a very long distance continuously.

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