The Ramshackle Spiritual Artifact Kingdom
[There were people in the capital of the Spiritual Artifact Kingdom, but there were even more artifacts.]
[Seeing dark clouds pressing down overhead and demonic sounds drilling into their ears, many people fled into their cellars in terror.]
[But some braver ones still raised their heads to watch, wanting to see what was going on.]
[Before long, a group of spiritual artifacts flew up from inside and outside the capital.]
[Many more that could not fly gathered atop the city's rooftops and in its streets.]
[Swords, sabers, pagodas, umbrellas, rings, staffs, armor, helmets, boots...]
[There were spiritual artifacts of every conceivable kind.]
[They chattered away.]
["Is that the Myriad Souls Banner? That Immortal Artifact with more guts than any in history? The Myriad Souls Banner that opened our spiritual intelligence?"]
["Oh! What a spectacle! That familiar voice! There's no mistaking it—it's the Myriad Souls Banner!"]
["We have searched bitterly for Patriarch Myriad Souls Banner for years. Why has he only shown himself today?"]
[Daqi City erupted in commotion.]
[Not until more than a dozen spiritual artifacts, resplendent with light and emanating an oppressive aura—clearly no ordinary spiritual artifacts—flew beneath the Demon Cloud.]
[Among them was a golden rope. He called himself the Immortal-Binding Rope, an Immortal Artifact that had long been famous across the Five Domains and should originally have been in the hands of the Ten Thousand Dharmas Sect.]
[The Immortal-Binding Rope was now the first ruler of the Spiritual Artifact Kingdom.]
[The moment this guy opened his mouth, you could no longer hold it together.]
["Grand Emeritus Emperor! Since you have returned, why not come down and speak?"]
[Well then!]
[He had directly honored the Myriad Souls Banner as Grand Emeritus Emperor!]
[The Myriad Souls Banner descended slowly from atop the Demon Cloud,