Hearing Liu Lei's words, Guhan did not answer for a long time, so Liu Lei repeated what he had just said. "From now on, you are my disciple."
This time, Guhan was completely annoyed. Two days ago, he had shamelessly asked Wuzhang Shifang to accept him as a disciple, but Wuzhang Shifang had very arrogantly said that he had to get first place in the 8-Academies Tournament before he could become his disciple.
In the end, in just two days, an Immortal Sword Tier sword wielder had taken the initiative to say that he was willing to accept Guhan as a disciple.
To be honest, in terms of the quality of a master, Wuzhang Shifang was better than Liu Lei.
Firstly, Wuzhang Shifang was ranked fifth among the Immortal Sword Tier sword wielder, while Liu Lei was only ranked eleventh. In terms of strength, Liu Lei was not as good as Wuzhang Shifang.
Secondly, Wuzhang Shifang was young enough. He was only in his early fifties. With the physical quality of an Immortal Sword Tier sword wielder, as long as he did not die in the hands of Yuan Kou, it would not be a problem for him to live for another thirty or forty years. In that case, Wuzhang Shifang could protect himself for thirty or forty years.
In contrast, Liu Lei was already old. Looking at his physical condition, it would be difficult for him to live for another three or five years.
Thirdly, Wuzhang Shifang had Hao Tian Jiandi behind him. At a critical moment, he might even be able to form a relationship with Jiandi. This would make his safety much more reliable.
However, Liu Lei was a loner, and it was said that his relationship with Sword Immortal Baiju was only so-so.
Although there were so many benefits to becoming Wuzhang Shifang's disciple, in his heart, Guhan was more than willing to become Liu Lei's disciple … Guhan had always been a proud person, and Wuzhang Shifang's test made Guhan feel a knot in his heart. However, because he could not find a second Immortal Sword Tier sword wielder to get to know him, Guhan had to endure Wuzhang Shifang's test.
However, things were different now. Sword Immortal Liu Lei had actually taken the initiative to take Guhan as his disciple. His attitude was more than ten times better than Zhang Shifang's. Naturally, Guhan was willing to take Liu Lei as his master … However, before that, Guhan still wanted to know why Liu Lei would suddenly take him as his disciple.
"Senior Yun Xiao is too kind. Guhan is overwhelmed by the favor!"
Guhan first gave a deep bow to Liu Lei, and then said, "It's just that Guhan really doesn't understand, how did Guhan receive Senior's favor?
Senior, please tell me the truth. Otherwise, I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep at night. "
"Kid, are you afraid that I, Liu Lei, will harm you?"
Liu Lei cursed unhappily. "Fine, there's no harm in telling you, lest you have any problems with me, your master, in the future."
"Kid, do you know what the Difficult Sword Era is?" Suddenly, Liu Lei asked Guhan this question.
"Difficult Sword Era!" When Guhan heard these four words, information regarding the Difficult Sword Era quickly appeared in his mind.
The so-called Difficult Sword Era referred to the gradual decrease in the number of sword bearers in history. The new sword bearers could not keep up with the dead sword bearers. At the same time, there was a severe shortage of high-level Jiandi sword bearers. This era was called the Difficult Sword Era.
Generally speaking, there were two criteria to determine whether an era had reached the Difficult Sword Era. The first was that the number of new sword bearers was less than 10%, and the second was that the number of Jiandi sword bearers was less than two. If these two criteria were met, it could basically be determined that the era had reached the Difficult Sword Era.
Just like the ancient book "The Drama of the Three Kingdoms", the general trend of the world would be divided after being united for a long time, and united for a long time.
It was the same for the Difficult Sword Era. Every two to three hundred years, humans would inexplicably usher in the Difficult Sword Era.
Before today, humans had encountered a total of three Difficult Sword Eras … Thinking about it carefully, didn't the last Difficult Sword Era end 230 years ago?
In this way, the timing matched.
When Guhan suddenly heard that the Difficult Sword Era was about to arrive, his expression changed. This was an absolute secret to the Sword Council. It was a secret that no one could tell. Once the news of the Difficult Sword Era was spread to Yuan Kou, humans would definitely face a tragic war.
"Senior, it's better for juniors not to know about this kind of thing!"
Gu Han did not want to know about this news, because once he knew, he would definitely be on the Sword Council's watch list. There might even be people monitoring his communication all the time to prevent him from divulging the news of the Difficult Sword Era.
"It doesn't matter. You are my disciple. You are qualified to know about this!" Liu Lei seemed to want to tell Guhan everything he knew.
"In fact, according to the statistics, the growth rate of the sword bearers last year was -6.87%. Although this year's statistics haven't come out yet, according to the statistics of our Yuzhang Sword Council, the growth rate in the first half of this year has dropped to -7.8%. It is estimated that it will break through -8% this year!"
"And now, there are only two Jiandi, Long Shi Jiandi and Haotian Jiandi. In other words, the whole world will officially enter the Difficult Sword Era in less than five years!"
"The whole world will officially enter the Difficult Sword Era in five years at the latest!"
This sentence instantly exploded in Guhan's mind. Guhan could never imagine that the Difficult Sword Era would start from next year. This was the news that humans were most unwilling to hear. This meant that in the next 20 to 50 years, humans would face the greatest suffering in 300 years.
Yes, the Difficult Sword Era was the most difficult era for humans. Because of the large decrease in the number of sword bearers, humans had to give up a large number of strongholds outside the cities because they did not have enough strength to defend these strongholds. If they forcibly divided their manpower to guard these strongholds, they would only lose their already limited strength.
Therefore, humans simply chose to give up the strongholds outside the cities during the Difficult Sword Era and focused on defending the various base cities.
They were looking forward to the end of the Difficult Sword Era.
Corresponding to the Difficult Sword Era, the Yuan Kou would enter a very active state. They would seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to launch a tide-like attack on the human base cities.
At that time, most of the base cities would only be guarded by the pitiful Immortal Sword Level sword bearers. Once they were attacked by the flood or desolate-level Yuan Kou, it would simply be a massacre.
Every time the Difficult Sword Era occurred, there would be news of a few base cities that could not hold on. The cities would be completely breached, and a large number of sword bearers would die. Almost all the civilians would die.
Yes, when the sword bearers could no longer defend the city, they could use the power of the sword lady to escape to another base city.
However, the civilians could only be heartlessly abandoned in the city's shelter. If they were lucky, they might be able to hide in the shelter for a few decades, waiting for the Difficult Sword Era to pass.
If they were unlucky, they could only die.
Oh yes, by the way, 99.9% of the civilians were the unlucky ones.
There had been a total of three Difficult Sword Eras. During the second Difficult Sword Era, Yuzhang City, which did not have any Emperor Sword bearers, was unfortunately breached. All the humans in the city were basically killed. Only some of the family members of the sword bearers were moved to Yanjing City in advance, which saved their lives.
When the Difficult Sword Era passed and Yuzhang City was restored, it took a full 100 years to encourage fertility before the population returned to normal.
Therefore, the Difficult Sword Era was a disaster for the sword bearers. For the civilians, it was even more of a disaster.
"How could it be? So fast, there were no signs at all!" Guhan mumbled to himself. Everything had happened too suddenly.
"The signs have been there for a long time. Five years ago, we foresaw that the Difficult Sword Era was coming. However, at that time, we estimated that there were still about 15 years before the Difficult Sword Era.
Unexpectedly, in less than five years, the time has advanced by a whole third. We are about to welcome the arrival of this terrible era. "Liu Lei let out a long sigh.
"What's more frightening is that Haotian Jiandi might not be able to hold on for more than five years. At that time, the entire human race will only have Long Shi Jiandi, and that is Jiandi. Even in the previous three Difficult Sword Eras, during the worst times, we humans had two Jiandi. However, now that we have entered the Difficult Sword Era, humans will only have one Jiandi."
"This time's Difficult Sword Era will probably be the Difficult Sword Era with the most casualties in human history." Liu Lei's eyes were filled with endless worry.
"Among the eight base cities, Yanjing City has the deepest heritage and produced the most Jiandi.
In the previous three Difficult Sword Eras, Yanjing City had the protection of a Jiandi. Therefore, Yanjing City did not suffer too much during the Difficult Sword Era.
But this time, even Yan Jing City has lost the protection of the Sword Emperor. If things go wrong, the people of the Chinese bloodline might have to bear a terrifying calamity. "
"Why are you telling me this!?"
Guhan raised his head and stared at Liu Lei. "These things are not things that an ancient sword wielder like me should know. Senior, why are you telling me this?"
"First of all, let me correct a mistake of yours. You are no longer an ancient sword wielder. You are now a treasured sword wielder!" Liu Lei was actually in the mood to crack a joke.
"You asked me why I am telling you this. Let me tell you, because I think highly of you!!
In other words, I think highly of the Military Governor! "
"Military Governor!"
Hearing this name, Guhan suddenly raised his head and looked at Liu Lei in disbelief. How did he know that he was the Military Governor?
"Don't be surprised, Guhan."
Liu Lei patted Gu Han's shoulder, "This old man's greatest pleasure is to grind dungeons in 'Sword Maiden Online' and get shards and whatnot.
Coincidentally, I have a good friend's son who was tricked into joining the Yaoguang Sword Faction. It's not difficult to know that the Military Governor has a Heavenly Sword.
It just so happened that you sent this message to me. This is fate! "
Hearing this, Guhan was speechless. It turned out that he had delivered himself to Liu Lei's doorstep.
However, just because of his identity as the Military Governor, did Liu Lei think so highly of him?
No matter how high his achievements were, they were only achievements in the game and had nothing to do with reality. Why did Liu Lei think so highly of him?
There must be something that he was not clear about.