Chapter 34: Lady Cai Overhears a Conspiracy; Liu Bei Leaps His Steed Across Tan Creek
At the site of a mystical bronze sparrow, Cao Cao commissions a grand three-towered platform designed by his gifted son Cao Zhi. In Jingzhou, Lady Cai’s plot drives Liu Bei to flee by night. Warned by the scholar Yi Ji, he rides for the swollen Tan Creek, where his steed De’lu miraculously bounds thirty feet across the rushing water. As pursuers close in, Zhao Yun’s timely arrival ensures Liu Bei’s daring escape, cementing the legend of his leap across Tan Creek.