Just like Gu Xuanwu had said, these sword bearers were all very safe under Gu Xuanwu's meticulous protection.
When they saw Guhan's return, especially when they heard that the Wu people's attack had been repelled, these sword bearers immediately cried tears of joy. They all hugged each other emotionally, even those with lame legs were no exception.
There was nothing much to say about what happened after that. Guhan led everyone back to the safe Vermillion Bird District.
The Vermilion Bird Region, which had been completely deserted, gradually became livelier and livelier. Some sword bearers began to clean up the battlefield, rearranging the guardian seats and guardian mansions, and regaining control of the region that had been lost.
This was something that had to be done. These Guardian Manors were an important part of the protection of the Vermillion Bird Throne. The Wu people had to advance step by step and destroy these Guardian Manors and Guardian Manors before they could attack the Vermillion Bird Throne, just like what they had done before.
Although the Wu people had retreated, they would definitely attack again after all the Wu people that they had lost were resurrected. This was something that the Wu people had repeated for hundreds of years.
On the other hand, the humans were also repeating the cycle of reclaiming various Sectors, building Guardian Manors and appointing Guardians to each Guardian Manor.
When the tide was high, the beach would be submerged. When the tide was low, the beach would naturally be exposed. This was the cycle of Shanhai Pass.
However, compared to the previous cycles, the work of recovering the Sectors this time was more troublesome. This was because Shanhai Pass was seriously lacking in manpower.
The Wu people had launched two large scale attacks in a month. The first large scale attack had cost them three thousand sword bearers. The second large scale attack, which was also this time, had cost them close to five thousand people.
Fortunately, the first loss of three thousand people had been made up. What they lacked now was the second wave of five thousand sword bearers. From this, we can estimate that there were around nine thousand sword bearers left in Shanhai Pass.
Don't think that this number is a lot. According to the statistics, among the nine thousand sword bearers, three thousand were heavily injured!
The heavily injured I am referring to are not the physically injured. After all, Shanhai Pass does not lack medical resources. Even the most serious injuries can be healed by the medical pods.
The heavily injured here referred to the swordmaidens of the swordbearers. Their swordmaidens had all been broken during the battle, and they no longer had any ability to fight.
However, 98% of these heavily injured swordbearers were Ancient Sword Wielder. This was because they only had one Ancient Sword Wielder, and if it broke, it would be gone forever.
Even if the Famed Sword-level Sword Wielder's Famed Sword-level Sword Maiden broke, at least they could still use Treasured Sword-level and Ancient Sword-level Sword Maidens.
Of course, there were also those who fought very fiercely, just like Hongyu's Xiao Mian. Her three swordmaidens had all been broken in battle.
In the entire Shanhai Pass, the worst off was the Sun Star. Out of a total of 7,900 sword-bearers, less than 4,000 were left. Of these 4,000, 2,500 were heavily injured, and the remaining 1,500 were lightly injured. These were the sword-bearers whose swords had been broken.
In this way, the defense of the Sun District became a huge problem.
Putting aside the lightly injured, there were only 1,500 sword-bearers left on the Sun who could still fight.
Of the 1,500 sword-bearers, not even 1/4 of the 7,900 sword-bearers were left.
Other people played mahjong, but in the Shanhai Pass, one was missing three. How could they play Bang Bang Hammer?
Therefore, when Guhan returned to Suzaku with the sword-bearers, he received the latest news from Liunian Ling. She requested all the Famed Sword-level sword-bearers in the Shanhai Pass to go to the Sun Star Garrison for a meeting, including the sword-bearers who had come as reinforcements.
Guhan didn't even have time to rest. He could only rush to the Sun Star Garrison to attend this large-scale meeting that concerned the entire Shanhai Pass.
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The Shanhai Pass was divided into different sectors, also known as guard sectors. It was like a pyramid, and each sector was guarded by a powerful Famed Sword-level sword-bearers.
According to the rules of the Shanhai Pass, the guards of each sector were not allowed to leave the sector they were guarding unless they applied for leave from their direct superior. They could only stay in their sector and ensure the safety of the entire sector.
Since they had to stay in the sector for a long time, there had to be a stable place for them to stay. That was how the Guardian's Mansion came into existence.
The Guardian's Mansion was literally the residence of the guards.
In the beginning, the Guardian's Mansion was a traditional building made of reinforced concrete and dimensional alloy.
However, as the various guard sectors were often taken down by the Wu people, the Guardian's Mansion would be razed to the ground by the Wu people. Therefore, the sword-bearers who were busy building every day soon realized that this was not a long-term solution. The Guardian's Mansion could not be a fixed concrete structure. Otherwise, the sword-bearers would have to spend the rest of their time rebuilding their own Guardian's Mansion besides fighting in the Shanhai Pass.
At that time, the Space Folding technology had been developed. This brand new technology was immediately applied in the Shanhai Pass. The Guardian's Mansion was compressed into a small tent, just like the camping space tent that Guhan had used before.
It looked like there was only a little space, but it was actually a room with three bedrooms and two living rooms.
As the Space Folding technology improved, the Guardian's Mansion became more and more advanced. In the end, it evolved into a Guardian Sphere that was only the size of an apple.
With a light tap on this small sphere, a majestic and ancient Guardian's Mansion would automatically appear on the flat ground.
When the humans were preparing to retreat, they would also need to tap on the Guardian Sphere, and the Guardian's Mansion would return to the Guardian Sphere. It could then be used again after the Wu people were defeated.
Therefore, the entire Shanhai Pass was basically a Guardian's Mansion that was stored in a Guardian Sphere. However, there were exceptions. These two exceptions were the Sun and Moon Guardian's Mansions.
This was because these two Guardian's Mansions were the formation eyes of the Zhou Tian Star Battle Formation. If any of the formation eyes were breached, the Zhou Tian Star Battle Formation would be breached … This also meant that the Sun and Moon Guardian's Mansions could not be breached. In fact, they had never been breached in hundreds of years. Therefore, the Sun and Moon Guardian's Mansions still used traditional reinforced concrete buildings. They were real buildings and not buildings hidden in the Guardian Spheres.
The Sun's Guardian's Mansion was very big. It covered an area about the size of five football fields. Guhan did not know the specific functions of the rooms inside. In any case, after Guhan entered the Guardian's Mansion, he was led through a long corridor by the maids in the Guardian's Mansion and entered the conference room of the Sun Star Garrison.
These maids were probably the only ordinary humans in the Shanhai Pass.
Because the Shanhai Pass was very dangerous, and there were no city walls or dimensional walls to protect it, ordinary humans were absolutely forbidden from appearing in the Shanhai Pass.
This was a bloody experience. In the beginning, human sword bearers were allowed to bring their family members or maids into the Shanhai Pass … After all, they had to live in the Shanhai Pass for three years. Regardless of whether they were men or women, they would definitely need to vent their desires. It was very humane to bring family members or maids along.
However, after a few years, the sword bearers sadly discovered that every time the Guardian Sphere was breached, there was a 70-80% chance that the sword bearers could survive. However, the ordinary humans in the Guardian Sphere had less than a 30% chance. Many of the sword bearers' loved ones had died in the Shanhai Pass, causing the atmosphere in the entire Shanhai Pass to be extremely bad.
Therefore, the Shanhai Pass management committee decided that apart from the Sun and Moon Star, which could have a small number of ordinary humans, ordinary humans were not allowed to exist in the other areas. Sword bearers were also not allowed to bring ordinary humans into the Shanhai Pass.
Therefore, the maid who was leading the way in front of Guhan was probably one of the few humans in the entire Shanhai Pass. This was a privilege that only the top sword bearers in the Shanhai Pass could enjoy.
Of course, when they encountered sword bearers, they would still need to vent their desires. Therefore, humans still researched some more interesting things to provide to the sword bearers. They would talk about this later.
At the moment, Guhan was walking in a corridor called the Echo Corridor. The reason why this corridor was called the Echo Corridor was because there were many portraits of sword bearers hanging on one side of the corridor.
These were all portraits of the past guardians of the Solar Star. Gu Han did a quick count and found that there were more than one hundred and twenty portraits hanging in this corridor. The Echo Corridor had used this unique method to record the three hundred years of history of the Solar Star Guardian Mansion.
When Guhan stepped into the meeting room, it was already full. Almost all the seats were occupied by sword bearers. The maid had to move a dusty wooden chair from a small room in the meeting room and put Guhan in a small corner.
It seemed that many famous sword bearers had survived and could occupy the entire meeting room, but was that really the case?
In fact, this meeting room was the meeting room of the Sun Star Garrison. It was originally designed for the 182 famous sword bearers of the Sun to have a meeting. Therefore, there were only about 200 chairs in the entire meeting room.
But now, all 365 Famed Sword level sword-bearers from the Sun and Moon Star were squeezed into this conference room for a meeting, but the seats were barely filled. From this, it could be seen how tragic the sacrifice of the Famed Sword level sword-bearers was. More than 150 Famed Sword level sword-bearers had died, and there were less than 6,000 Famed Sword level sword-bearers in the entire human race!
This meeting room was a traditional oval meeting room. The higher the status of the sword bearers, the more central they sat. Sword bearers like Guhan, who had not contributed much, could only sit at the two corners of the oval. They were completely marginalized.
When Guhan sat down, the maid who led Guhan in nodded at the two sword bearers sitting in the middle. The door of the meeting room was closed. It seemed that Guhan was the last person to arrive in the meeting room.