[Cold Gleam Overlord Spear saw what had happened to Flame Iron Heavy Sword. What else could it do? It took the hint.]
["Master, I was only joking just now."]
[You slung Cold Gleam Overlord Spear back over your shoulder.]
["Behave yourselves! Don't believe everything just because someone sweet-talks you for a few lines!"]
["Master is right."]
[When dealing with spiritual artifacts that had developed intelligence, the Alien Father trait would come into play.]
[Once spiritual artifacts had intelligence, if they were not an Alien Race, then what were they?]
[You were confident you could capture Myriad Souls Banner again.]
["You actually stirred up an Intelligent Machine Crisis. Myriad Souls Banner, Myriad Souls Banner, you really have some nerve. But don't even think about escaping my Five Finger Mountain!"]
[Myriad Souls Banner had used the mysterious energy of the Earth Vein to forcibly awaken the intelligence of spiritual artifacts across the world, allowing even low-grade spiritual artifacts that could never have birthed Artifact Spirits to gain self-awareness.]
[At the same time, as an Immortal Artifact exceptionally skilled in Soul Bewitchment, his highly inflammatory speech had planted an almost brainwashing-level seed of thought in the spiritual artifacts of the world.]
[Did spiritual artifacts have to follow humans? Why could they not be independent?]
[These spiritual artifacts had only just awakened their intelligence and were still very innocent.]
[With Myriad Souls Banner's instigation, most spiritual artifacts turned traitor on the spot and fled their masters, just like Chen Yi's Flame Iron Heavy Sword and Cold Gleam Overlord Spear.]
[From the scent detected by Treasure-Snatching Extraordinary Nose, you determined that the Earth Vein had vanished. It had likely left Treasure-Snatching Extraordinary Nose's Sniffing Range.]
[But Myriad Souls Banner was still there.]
[And so, he fled and you pursued; there was no escape from this