Kuan Kung of the Novelists: Apart from the imperial affirmation of Kuan Kung's strengths, the Ming novelist Luo Kuan-chung's description of Kuan Kung's perfection in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is also a key as to why he should have been so deified.
若說歷代皇帝的追封是關公神力的有力證明，明朝小說家羅貫中在三國演義中對關公的完美描述，則是使關公超凡入聖、晉身神祇的重要關鍵。