For a time, many cultivators who were still hesitating raised their hands to offer Xu Taiping their swords.
Among the calls from the Spirit Mirror, many who had offered their swords spoke as though preparing to march gallantly to their deaths.
Not long after Zhang Tianze's call rang out, a voice from Mysterious Wasteland Heaven Thousand Mechanisms City sounded once more through the Spectator Spirit Mirror-
"Mysterious Wasteland Heaven Thousand Mechanisms City hereby swears: anyone afflicted by the Nine Abysses Evil Curse today shall be an honored guest of our city. Unless every last resident of Thousand Mechanisms City dies, the Nine Abysses can forget about harming a hair on their heads!"
In Mysterious Wasteland Heaven, the lord of a great city like Thousand Mechanisms City was essentially no different from a monarch.
And a monarch's oath before the Five Heavens could affect his nation's fortune. That alone showed how much weight the old city lord's declaration carried.
After Thousand Mechanisms City made its declaration, however, Giant Deer City, Jade Soul City, Crouching Tiger City, Heavenly Gang City, and the other cities of Mysterious Wasteland Heaven all spoke through the Spectator Spirit Mirror, willing to use their entire cities' strength to shelter those who offered Xu Taiping their swords today.
For a time, more and more cultivators who had been cowed by the Nine Abysses Evil Curse began offering Xu Taiping their swords.
But what completely dispelled the cultivators' misgivings was the succession of declarations from the great Buddhist temples of Youyun Heaven-
"I, Huiming, abbot of Vairocana Zen Temple in the Cloud Emergence Kingdom of Youyun Heaven, am willing to make a great vow to bear the Nine Abysses Evil Curse in place of every cultivator who offers a sword today."
"I, Guangze, abbot of Prajna Temple, am willing