Chapter 288

Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang snorted.

【Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang: No one can beat him in a fight, but no one can trust him as a person. A hand of winning cards, played into a complete mess.】

The Qianlong Emperor shook his folding fan.

【Qianlong Emperor: Martial arts are the best in the Three Kingdoms, but his wisdom is not as good as a child's. He has nothing but peerless martial arts, only to end up in a miserable situation.】

Lu Bu had originally been about to explode with anger, but he suppressed his anger when he saw the image of the three heroes fighting Lu Bu on the sky screen.

In the image, he stood alone in front of the formation, his painted halberd sweeping across the army, and the combined efforts of Zhang Fei, Guan Yu, and Liu Bei couldn't do anything to him.

He looked at himself in the image, his chest puffed out, his chin raised.

Number one in the world, this is how it should be.

In Cao's camp, Xiahou Dun looked at the battle records on the sky screen, his face not looking very good.

He had fought Lu Bu at Puyang back then and hadn't won.

Now that the sky screen brought this up, it was like slapping him in the face in front of the whole world.

Xu Chu didn't care.

He was a practical person; if you couldn't beat him, you couldn't beat him, it wasn't shameful.

"Brother Dian, you fought Lu Bu, is he really that fierce?"

Dian Wei said one word in a muffled voice: "Fierce."

Xu Chu nodded and didn't ask anymore.

At the Chengdu training ground, Zhang Fei looked at the image of Hulao Pass, his face also not looking very good.

But he didn't curse, because he really hadn't won that battle.

It was shameful, but he couldn't deny it.

Guan Yu suddenly spoke: "Third Brother, how many times have you fought him?"

Zhang Fei thought about it: "Once at Hulao Pass, twice outside Xuzhou, three times in total."

Guan Yu asked: "Did you ever win?"

Zhang Fei was silent for a while and shook his head.

He hadn't won a single time.

The best result was a draw.

Guan Yu didn't ask anymore.

He didn't need to ask anything else—number one in the world, well-deserved.

But Zhao Yun suddenly spoke.

He said something no one expected:

"No matter how well Lu Bu can fight, he is only one person. Fighting a war is not something one person can win."

The whole place was silent for a moment.

Zhang Fei turned to look at Zhao Yun, opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but in the end, he said nothing.

It wasn't that he didn't want to say it, but Zhao Yun was right.

【Lu Bu's final cause of death: Cao Cao flooded Xiapi, and his subordinates Hou Cheng, Song Xian, and Wei Xu rebelled, opening the gates to offer the city.】

【After Lu Bu was captured, he begged to surrender, was strangled at White Gate Tower, and his head was displayed after death.】

Qin Shi Huang Ying Zheng finished reading this and coldly threw out a line: "He brought it on himself."

"Repeatedly betraying his master, everyone fears him, so he was bound to die; he can't blame anyone else."

Han Gaozu Liu Bang's expression was calm, but his tone carried a chill: "A disloyal person is bound to die without a burial place."

Han Wudi Liu Che sighed for a long time: "Peerless bravery ending in a miserable death; a lifetime of glory is just a passing guest, pathetic and ridiculous."

Yang Jian shook his head, his tone filled with pity, but more with sarcasm:

"Having courage but no strategy, light, cunning, and fickle. A great taboo for a hero of chaotic times; the ending was already destined."

Li Shimin's tone was icy.

【Tang Taizong Li Shimin: If he had known today, why act as he did back then? If he had been loyal to one person, he would have become an unparalleled founding general, so why die miserably at White Gate Tower.】

Zhu Yuanzhang's tone was ruthless.

【Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang: Serves him right! A treacherous villain doesn't deserve a good end; dying at White Gate Tower is very satisfying!】

The Qianlong Emperor put away his folding fan.

【Qianlong Emperor: A peerless god of war for a lifetime, a name of infamy for a thousand years. His martial prowess remains in history, but his character stinks for ten thousand years.】

Cao Cao looked at the image of White Gate Tower and was silent for a long time.

At that moment, on White Gate Tower, Lu Bu was tied up and kneeling on the ground.

He was still begging for mercy, saying he was willing to assist Cao Cao in pacifying the world.

Cao Cao hesitated because Lu Bu's martial prowess was indeed tempting.

Then he turned to look at Liu Bei.

Liu Bei said expressionlessly: "Does the Illustrious Lord not see the affairs of Ding Yuan and Dong Zhuo?"

Cao Cao's face changed.

The image froze at this moment.

Cao Cao closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

That was one of the most difficult decisions he had ever made in his life.

Xun Yu asked softly: "My Lord, did you regret it at the time?"

Cao Cao opened his eyes, looked at the person begging for mercy on the sky screen, and slowly said:

"I do not regret it. This kind of person, if kept by one's side, will sooner or later be a disaster."

City of Chengdu.

Liu Bei looked at his own line, "Does the Illustrious Lord not see the affairs of Ding Yuan and Dong Zhuo?" on the sky screen, expressionless.

He hadn't done anything wrong in his life, and he hadn't done anything wrong in this matter either.

Zhang Fei muttered from the side: "Eldest Brother, that line of yours sent Lu Bu to the Western Heaven."

Liu Bei said something, his voice not loud, but everyone heard it clearly:

"If he didn't die, the one who would die would be Cao Cao."

Guan Yu glanced at Liu Bei and didn't refute him.

In the crack of space-time, Lu Bu watched the image of himself being captured at White Gate Tower on the sky screen:

Kneeling on the ground, face covered in blood, begging for mercy.

The dignified Flying General of Bingzhou, the unrivaled Lu Bu, was kneeling on the ground like a beggar, begging Cao Cao to spare his life.

From pride and arrogance to shame and embarrassment, from irritability and unwillingness to regret and silence, Lu Bu's painted halberd fell to the ground.

The Red Hare horse neighed behind him, as if protesting for its master.

But Lu Bu could no longer hear it.

He looked at his pathetic self on the sky screen, his eyes red, his lips trembling.

"Big-eared thief!"

He suddenly roared up at the sky, "I died at the hands of this thief!"

But after cursing this, he was silent.

Because he knew that the one who killed him wasn't Liu Bei, it was himself.

【Sky screen summary: Lu Bu, the undisputed ceiling of combat power in the late Han and Three Kingdoms, the number one fierce general through the ages.

His martial arts were unrivaled in chaotic times, with no one able to contend; his character was low and unbearable, disloyal and unrighteous.

Brave in the Three Kingdoms, short on wisdom and strategy, fickle and treacherous, profit-seeking.

He reached the top of the Golden List with invincible martial prowess and became a laughingstock for a thousand years with his base character.

A peerless tiger for a lifetime, a 'three-surnamed slave' for a lifetime. Merit, fault, glory, and shame—the verdict of eternity.】

The golden light on the sky screen began to gather, finally freezing on an image.

In the image, a white-robed general wearing a hundred-flower battle robe, one man, one halberd, one horse, stood in front of Hulao Pass.

Opposite him were the million-strong armies of the eighteen feudal lords.

At that moment, he was number one in the world.

But the image shifted, and the same painted halberd was stuck in the wall of White Gate Tower, with blood dripping down the tip.

The person was already gone.

Ying Zheng looked at this scene for a long time and said four words: "A pity, hateful."

Liu Bang, for once, didn't act playfully and added four words: "Pathetic, sad."

The sky screen dissipated.

But everyone knew there would be no more rankings tomorrow.

Because the number one had already appeared.

Gu Shanhe stood up and patted his robes, walking into the hall, stopping at the door and saying without looking back:

"Number one in the world is sometimes not as good as number two in the world."

Liu Bang was stunned: "Immortal Master, what do you mean by that?"

Gu Shanhe didn't answer and pushed the door open to go inside.

Liu Bang turned to find Ying Zheng to ask for clarification, but Ying Zheng had already left at some point.

Only he was left standing in the courtyard, looking up at the sky that had returned to normal, muttering.

"Number one in the world is not as good as number two? Then why not just be number two, why fight for number one?"

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