The thought sent a wave of fear through them all. They even felt as though someone had laid them out on a chopping block!
At once, everyone's spirits sank again!
Fortunately, the city lord was the first to shake off this bewildering emotion. He interrupted their despair and explained, "That's impossible! I think I've figured out what that lord intends. He didn't capture us to use us as sacrifices, nor will he treat us as food reserves!"
Hearing the city lord once again claim that he understood Qin Wuyou's intentions, the family heads all looked astonished and asked curiously, "City Lord, do you truly know what that lord intends?"
"Yes!"
The city lord nodded and said slowly, "You may not understand the Divine Weapon World, which is why you misunderstood that lord's intentions! But I've read accounts in ancient texts. A Divine Weapon Space is a true world formed within a divine weapon. Whoever controls the divine weapon will keep living beings within its Divine Weapon World, using their faith power to raise the world's rank and the divine weapon's rank as well!"
"They say that in ancient times, some powerful artifact refiners could even keep tens of billions of living beings in a Divine Weapon World, using their faith power to elevate a weapon into an immortal artifact!"
His explanation left all five family heads stunned!
Keeping living beings in a Divine Weapon World, then using their faith power to elevate a divine weapon into an immortal artifact!
This was something they had never even dared imagine!
Moreover, this was the first time they had ever heard of anything so astonishing!
Thus, they all regarded the city lord's explanation with a trace of doubt.
Still, they would rather believe that his explanation was true.
They were even more willing