the soldier who killed Yu Ji 殺于吉之小卒

In Chapter 29 of the Romance, Sun Ce is entertaining Chen Zhen, the envoy sent by Yuan Shao, at a banquet on top of the city tower when he sees his generals going down to bow to the immortal Yu passing below the tower, and in anger he has Yu Ji seized. When Zhang Zhao and the other officials, as well as Chen Zhen, try to stop him, he has Yu Ji put in prison for the time being, and his mother Lady Wu too admonishes him that Yu Ji must not be harmed, but Sun Ce, following Lü Fan's advice, makes Yu Ji pray for rain and declares that if no rain falls by the wu hour (noon) he will burn him to death. When the pyre is set alight, thunder and lightning break out and a great rain pours down, becoming three feet of sweet rain. Romance, Ch. 29 §10–11 · 13–15 · 18–20

When the officials and the people take Yu Ji down from the pyre and prostrate themselves in the water to bow to him, heedless of their clothes getting soaked, Sun Ce flies into a rage, saying that fair weather and rain are fixed by the destiny of Heaven and Earth and that the sorcerer has merely taken advantage of the moment by chance. Drawing his precious sword, Sun Ce orders his attendants to behead Yu Ji at once, and when the officials earnestly remonstrate, he rebukes them by asking whether they all mean to follow Yu Ji in rebellion. When Sun Ce shouts at an armed guard to behead Yu Ji, Yu Ji's head falls to the ground at a single stroke, and a wisp of blue vapor flies off to the northeast. Romance, Ch. 29 §21–22

That night Yu Ji's corpse vanishes, and when Sun Ce sees Yu Ji walking toward him in front of the hall, he draws his sword to cut him down but falls to the ground and loses consciousness. Lady Wu, saying that her son has brought this calamity on himself by wrongfully killing an immortal, has a Taoist offering rite performed at the Yuqing Temple in the commandery, and Sun Ce, unable to disobey his mother's command, goes to the Yuqing Temple in a sedan chair. Yu Ji appears on top of a canopy formed by the smoke of the incense burner and again before the gate of the hall, glaring at Sun Ce with angry eyes, but his attendants all say they have seen nothing. Romance, Ch. 29 §23 · 26–28

Sun Ce, growing angrier still, draws the sword at his waist and hurls it at Yu Ji, and a man is struck by the sword and falls. When everyone looks, it is the soldier who had laid hands on Yu Ji and killed him the day before; the sword has lodged in his skull, and he dies bleeding from all seven orifices. Sun Ce orders him carried out and buried, and when he sees Yu Ji walking in through the temple gate again, he declares that this temple too is a place that harbors sorcerers and has five hundred armed guards tear it down. Romance, Ch. 29 §28

After that too, Yu Ji appears again and again: on the roof, in the midst of the flames, before the gate of Sun Ce's residence and inside his camp. Looking at his haggard face reflected in a mirror, Sun Ce sees Yu Ji standing in the mirror, strikes the mirror and gives a great cry; his sword wounds burst open, he falls to the ground in a faint, and on coming to he sighs that he shall not live again. Romance, Ch. 29 §29–31