Without question, although the Spear of Longinus was not the most powerful among the Holy See's sacred artifacts, it possessed the greatest offensive power. It could be called the Holy See's sharpest spear, piercing through all enemies.
Just as Ye Xiwen's hand was about to strike the Spear of Longinus, violent bursts of light erupted from it. Countless laws transformed into runes and exploded forth, crashing toward Ye Xiwen in an attempt to blast him to death.
A powerful force erupted from Ye Xiwen's body. The Demon Summoning Banner within him suddenly flew out, and before anyone could react, it instantly suppressed the Spear of Longinus.
Faced with the terrifying might of a divine artifact, even the Spear of Longinus could not withstand it. It was suppressed in an instant, and all its attacks vanished into nothingness.
Ye Xiwen then smoothly seized the Spear of Longinus in his hand and continuously circulated the Heavenly Emperor Artifact Refining Art. As expected of the Artifact Emperor's supreme artifact-refining canon, it contained endless mysteries, allowing him to pacify the Spear of Longinus at once.
Although the Spear of Longinus contained a powerful will, as long as it was a magical artifact, it could not escape.
At this moment, those Red-Clothed Archbishops were all utterly shocked, completely dumbfounded, as if they had witnessed the most unbelievable thing imaginable.
This was a sacred artifact that the Holy See had possessed for thousands of years. Nothing like this had ever happened before—it had actually been subdued by an outsider. Although Ye Xiwen had merely pacified the Spear of Longinus and had yet to refine it, that alone was shocking enough to them.
It simply overturned everything they had always believed.
A sacred artifact supposedly left to the Holy See by God before he departed the mortal