Shanhai Pass was a name that sounded extremely terrifying to the sword-bearers.
This was because there was a 40% chance that one would die at the Shanhai Pass frontline.
This wasn't a joke. The Shanhai Pass frontline was a huge meat grinder. Every year, more than a thousand sword-bearers would die there. This was because these sword-bearers had to face 12 living desolate-grade Yuan Kou.
The Twelve Zu Wu of the Primordial Era, an existence that only existed in legends before the Apocalypse, had forcefully descended into this world two hundred years ago. Furthermore, it wasn't just one, but all twelve of them.
However, they were different from the other Yuan Kou. The other Yuan Kou at least had some awareness of friend and foe. They knew that their main targets were humans.
However, these 12 Zu Wu seemed to have gone completely mad. All living creatures they saw were their targets to kill.
Therefore, the first to suffer wasn't humans but the Hero Alliance, whose base was in the northeast of China. This was the base of a small Yuan Kou faction formed by over a hundred Meteor Grade Yuan Kou. Under the attack of the 12 Zu Wu, a total of 30 heroes returned to the dimensional vortex.
The remaining heroes escaped quickly, fleeing to the Martyr's Palace to seek protection. What followed was the most tragic period for Yuan Kou. It was said that a total of four million Yuan Kou died under the 12 Zu Wu's indiscriminate attacks.
If it wasn't for the 12 Zu Wu's movements gradually approaching Beijing City, Beijing City would definitely be more than happy to see these 12 fellows clean up Earth's trash.
Unfortunately, Beijing City was on the path that the 12 Zu Wu had to pass through. This was a battle that humans couldn't avoid.
In order to defeat the 12 Zu Wu, humans had made a lot of preparations. They had even taken the initiative to send Jiandi to negotiate with the other Yuan Kou factions, requesting that Yuan Kou send desolate-grade Yuan Kou to help.
In the beginning, Yuan Kou was naturally unwilling. However, humans threatened that if Yuan Kou wasn't willing, they would evacuate all the citizens of Beijing City and allow the 12 Zu Wu to destroy the city. Then, they would collectively flee to Yuzhang City. This was because, according to calculations, the 12 Zu Wu's next target was the Eastern Celestial Court.
Although humans and Yuan Kou were mortal enemies, humans and Yuan Kou had no choice but to work together to deal with a threat like the 12 Zu Wu. It was said that Yuan Kou had sent out four desolate-grade Yuan Kou, while humans themselves had sent out three Jiandi. At the same time, humans and Yuan Kou's most elite forces were deployed to set up defenses at Shanhai Pass, forming the legendary Zhou Tian Star Battle Formation. After an earth-shattering battle, humans and Yuan Kou's elites suffered heavy casualties. Fortunately, the high-end forces, Jiandi and desolate-grade Yuan Kou, did not suffer any losses.
However, it was precisely because the high-end forces cherished their lives that the 12 Zu Wu did not die. They were only trapped by the Zhou Tian Star Battle Formation. They were trapped until now, 200 years later.
Humans and Yuan Kou used the entire northeast of China as the formation's base. They used 365 large Zhou Tian Star Star Banners as the base and 14,800 small Zhou Tian Star Banners as the trunk to trap the 12 Zu Wu.
The 365 large Zhou Tian Star Banners were managed by 365 famous sword-bearers, while the 14800 small Zhou Tian Star Banners were managed by ancient sword-bearers. The entire human world had to send so many sword-bearers to maintain the existence of the Zhou Tian Star Battle Formation.
Sometimes, holding the Star Banners was not enough. Each sword-bearer was responsible for the stability of an area. Any Wu people who appeared in that area had to be killed immediately. If you did not kill them, they would kill you.
Every year, more than 1,000 sword-bearers would die in this kind of battle, which was equivalent to 1/15 of the total number of practitioners in the Zhou Tian Star Battle Formation. Once the number of deaths in the Zhou Tian Star Battle Formation exceeded 1/10, a fatal flaw would appear in the Zhou Tian Star Battle Formation, and the 12 Zu Wu would break out of the Zhou Tian Star Battle Formation. At that time, humans did not have the basic conditions to negotiate with Yuan Kou like they did in the past. This was because almost all the Yuan Kou forces had moved their lairs to the void. The 12 Zu Wu were not interested in going to the void to find the Yuan Kou. They could not wait for the 12 Zu Wu to break out of the formation and completely destroy humanity.
Therefore, to maintain the existence of the Zhou Tian Star Battle Formation, the Sword Committee would allocate quotas according to the number of sword-bearers in the eight base cities every year. Each base city had to send their own sword-bearers to Shanhai Pass to maintain the existence of the flesh and blood mill.
As the most powerful base city, Yan Jing was naturally allocated the most quotas. After all, Shanhai Pass was the closest to Yan Jing!
Almost half of the quotas were from Yan Jing.
Every sword-bearer who was allocated to Shanhai Pass had to stay in Shanhai Pass for three years. After three years, a new sword-bearer would appear.
According to the statistics of the Sword Committee, only about 60% of the sword-bearers could survive the three years. In other words, the death rate of the sword-bearers was as high as 40%.
No matter how selfless the sword-bearers were, they would instinctively feel fearful when facing the frontline of Shanhai Pass. Each of them would rack their brains and do everything possible to avoid being allocated to the frontline of Shanhai Pass.
Therefore, the Shanhai Pass Management Committee became the behemoth that these sword-bearers had to face.
As the name suggested, the Shanhai Pass Management Committee was the organization responsible for the allocation of the frontline of Shanhai Pass. This organization was formed by the spirit sword bearers in the eight base cities. Every month, they had to take one or two days out for a meeting to discuss and argue over the quotas that their city had allocated, as well as to decide which sword-bearers should be sent to the frontline of Shanhai Pass.
Therefore, it could be said that the life and death of the majority of the sword-bearers were in the hands of the Shanhai Pass Management Committee. Big Bear used the frontline of Shanhai Pass to threaten the sword-bearers, which could indeed make the sword-bearers feel fearful.
"So, you have connections in the Shanhai Pass Management Committee?" Guhan asked curiously.
"Listen up, the chairman of the Shanhai Pass Management Committee is our Big Bear's sworn brother. They grew up wearing the same underwear and have a good relationship. As long as our Big Bear says the word, he can immediately send you to the frontline of Shanhai Pass!" Big Bear's underling shouted aggressively.
"I don't think so!
I'm the sword-bearer of Yuzhang City. Your Big Bear can at most threaten the sword-bearers of Yan Jing City. How can I be threatened?! "Guhan asked with a smile, looking as if he didn't care about Big Bear's threat at all.
"You don't understand!"
Big Bear's underling continued to play the role of a commentator. "It's very easy for our Big Bear to send you to the frontline. As long as the chairman speaks to the spirit sword level sword-bearers of Yuzhang City and agrees to exchange three quotas from Yan Jing City for one quota from Yuzhang City, your committee will definitely push you up without hesitation. It's not like this hasn't happened before. There have already been three or four ungrateful sword-bearers from other cities who were sent to the frontline of Shanhai Pass by Big Bear. We don't need one more."
The meaning of Big Bear's underling was very simple. When it came to the allocation of manpower, Yan Jing City was willing to help Yuzhang City allocate three more quotas in exchange for a compromise from Yuzhang City. They would appoint a certain sword-bearer from Yuzhang City to the frontline of Shanhai Pass.
For the sake of their own base cities, almost all the committee members would agree to this exchange. There was no doubt about it.
"I see. It's indeed a good plan!
You're indeed a beast! "
Guhan's face still looked as if he didn't care. "Well, since you've finished threatening me, you can leave now!
Don't disturb my meal! "
"What?
You don't even dare to fight? "
Big Bear's anger finally showed on his face. Just as he was about to threaten something, the door of the private room was suddenly opened. Then, waiters in cheongsam came into the private room with five or six plates of meat dishes, placing hundreds of dishes on the table.
"You ordered all these?"
Big Bear couldn't help but be surprised when he saw so many dishes, but he quickly regained his composure.
"Hmph, today, Big Bear must compete with you. The six of you go up and eat as much as you want.
If you can't even compete with others in terms of eating, then you'll be like that idiot Jia Sanbiaozi just now. If you want to find someone to break his leg, understand? "
"Yes!"
The six subordinates responded in unison. Then, their faces revealed drooling expressions at the same time. They actually encountered such a good opportunity to eat Xu Fu Ji's natural pork.
In fact, even without Big Bear's order, they would have eaten as much as they wanted. As the saying goes, as long as they didn't die, they would continue to eat.
Therefore, even without Guhan's consent, the six subordinates shamelessly sat at the dining table. They each picked up a plate of braised pork and were about to stuff it into their mouths.
"You're not allowed to eat Qingpin's meat. Guhan didn't say he would let you eat it!"
Qingpin stuffed two pieces of braised pork into his mouth, then picked up his greasy and chubby little hand. He rushed in front of one of his subordinates like lightning and stuck his little hand directly into his eyes.
The subordinate screamed, covered his eyes, and fell under the table.
"Third Bro!"
Seeing this sudden situation, the other five subordinates were stunned. Then, they rushed forward in a flurry, wanting to take revenge for Third Bro.
"Idiot!
Idiot!
Eater Thief! "
Facing the siege of five people, Qingpin nimbly jumped on the table. Every time he jumped, he would jump in front of one person. Then, he would do the same to the first person and poke the other person's eyes until they bled.
However, what made people click their tongues in amazement was that when the poor man jumped on the table, he didn't even touch a single plate or knock over a plate of pork.
After all, these things would eventually enter Qingpin's stomach. She was reluctant to give up these delicious foods.
After a short while, all five of his subordinates were lying on the ground with their hands covering their eyes. They were rolling around and wailing in pain. Judging from the small amount of blood on their bodies, unless they regrown their limbs, these five or six people would definitely be blinded.
"Good, good, good!
Young people are really aggressive. I dug a pit for you, and you jumped in. "