Welcome to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms podcast.

This is episode 98.

Last time, we killed off a major character for the first time in a long time,

as Guan Yu lost Jing province

and fell into the hands of Sun Quan, who had him beheaded. As you can imagine, this was going

to knock over a whole lot of dominoes, so let's get to it. The first person we need to talk about

is, well, Guan Yu.

I know, Guan Yu is dead, so what more is there to say about him?

Well, apparently we need to tie up the loose ends with his ghost.

Hey, this is a novel, not history, so roll with it.

So Guan Yu's ghost was, understandably,

just slightly peeved about having lost his head,

so instead of drifting off to heaven,

his spirit just kind of hung around the mortal realm,

drifting here and there.

One day, he came upon a mountain called Jade Fountain Mountain.

On this mountain recited an old monk by the name of Pu Jing.

Now, we have actually met this monk before.

Back in episode 33, when Guan Yu was leaving Cao Cao's service to rejoin Liu Bei,

the commander at one of the checkpoints along the way, set up an

ambush to kill Guan Yu at a nearby monastery. The abbot of that monastery was none other than this monk

Pu Jing. Pu Jing was from the same hometown as Guan Yu, and he tipped off Guan Yu to the deception.

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