Summary Chen Gong is upset with Lü Bu for lounging around listening to Diao Chan play music & sing while Yuan Shu's general Ji Ling is heading to attack Liu Bei's Xia Pi. Lü Bu invites Liu Bei & Ji Ling to his camp for wine & food. He proposes that if he can use a bow & arrow to shoot off the tassel of his halberd which was planted in the ground over 120 steps away that they must stop the fighting & retreat. He is able to do so to the shock of all present. Ji Ling returns to Yuan Shu and Shu is upset & immediately wants to attack Lü Bu but an advisor recommends against it. Sun Ce arrives & informs Yuan Shu that he has taken the city of Lu Jiang from Lu Kang. It was one year ago that Sun Ce's father Sun Jian was killed, so he goes to pay respects at his grave. While there his sworn brother Zhou Yu arrives and the two are reunited after not seeing one another for 10 years. As they are having a meal, Zhou Yu urges Sun Ce to leave Yuan Shu. Sun Ce offers Yuan Shu the Imperial Hereditary Seal if he will let him take 4 of his father Sun Jian's generals (Huang Gai, Cheng Pu, Han Ding & Zu Mao) with him. Yuan Shu agrees. With the Imperial Seal, Shu's officers urge him to declare himself emperor, except for one civil officer who urges against it. Yuan Shu does declare himself emperor anyway. Yuan Shao receives a letter asking him become Yuan Shu's subordinate.

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• History
• Period Drama