While the Righteous Sword Sect's people were rocking their brains to understand why they were going through such scrutiny, the other powers were deciding on how to handle it.
After all, the Blade Villa and the Azure Mountain Domain were both requesting that as part of their help against the Devil Cults, while the other two requested it as a payment for the offense.
Four different powers, with all valid reasons were trying to take that chunk of territory from the Righteous Sword Sect, whether they were in border with the territory or not.
As a matter of fact, due to the geography of the Black and White planet the only power that was close to territory was Blade Villa, and the other three were separated by at least another Domain.
Still, that wouldn't put them down in requesting that territory no matter what, for that reason 4 armies were stationed in front of the Purple Membrane territory.