The World's Number One, Deservedly So

Wang Xuan spread his hands, looking as if he had no idea either. "Yes, the world is vast, and nothing is too strange to exist. Reality is always stranger than fiction—cough, cough. Reality is simply this bizarre and uncanny. The Flying General, who shook the grasslands and terrified the Hu people with his killing, who laughed proudly at Hulao Pass and was the greatest martial general under heaven, was merely a clerk under Ding Yuan."

"If not, then how else did Ding Yuan rise so quickly to the position of Inspector? Lu Bu was a clerk, so naturally he had nothing to do with military merit. To swallow up those achievements in a justified and logical manner, Ding Yuan had to take Lu Bu as his adopted son. But did Lu Bu have the ability to refuse? Did he?"

"Lu Bu was from Wuyuan Commandery in Bingzhou. If he still wanted to make a living in the military and lead troops, he had no choice but to acknowledge Ding Yuan as his adoptive father."

"In all these years, Youzhou in the east first suffered Hu invasions, then Zhang Chun proclaimed himself emperor, with rebellions following one after another. In Xiliang to the west, there were the Qiang people's rebellion, Bei Gong Boyu's rebellion, and the rebellion of Han Sui and Ma Teng. There had never been a peaceful moment. Yet Bingzhou, which was likewise a frontier region, had remained peaceful all these years. During his time in Bingzhou, Lu Bu had not only beaten the Hu people into fleeing in disarray, too terrified to invade the border again, he had also intimidated all of Bingzhou. No one dared harbor the slightest ulterior motive."

"It could be said that with Lu Bu's achievements, making him a Marquis of a Village would