Ding Ling lowered his head and glanced at the Ascender who had been killed by the blacksmith. His face was smeared with blood, and his features were sharply defined. Yet the more Ding Ling looked at him, the more familiar he seemed. After thinking for a moment, he remembered. Wasn't this bastard Liu Bei?!
"..."
Ding Ling was speechless.
The eldest brother of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, Liu Bei—the founder of Shu in the original Romance of the Three Kingdoms storyline, the renowned Emperor Zhaolie, and a legendary figure of his generation—had actually died at the hands of an unknown blacksmith.
That was truly absurd!
Yet that was the truth, and Ding Ling had no choice but to believe it.
"If Guan Yu finds out that his eldest brother was killed, I wonder if he'll go crazy."
Guan Yu was no longer the same as before. He had been thriving in the Wind and Cloud world, and once he unleashed his saber technique, 'City-Toppling Love,' it could be called a world-destroying attack.
Even if every blacksmith in Guobei County joined forces and summoned their ancestors from the past eighteen generations, they still wouldn't be enough for Guan Yu to cut down with a single stroke.
"Oh?"
The blacksmith raised his head. When he saw the magpie, he let out a strange laugh.
"What a joyous occasion. Even a magpie has come to build a nest at my house. Is this a sign that I'm about to strike it rich?"
Humming a little tune, he buried Liu Bei's head in a pit beside the tree.
Then he went back to forging iron as if nothing had happened.
As for Liu Bei's weapon, he set it aside and immediately sold it to another Ascender at a high price.
That money was