Words kept appearing on the light screens, but Mo Chen noticed three characters on one screen that were especially large.
They were impossible to miss.
Treasure-Subduing Command!
"Treasure-Subduing Command?"
Mo Chen was astonished when he saw the Treasure-Subduing Command. As he inscribed it into a Jade Slip with his divine sense, he recalled his twenty years in the Scripture Pavilion.
Though he had done nothing but menial work carrying books and sweeping dust back then, he had taken the opportunity to leaf through quite a few ancient texts on unorthodox arts.
He had read about the Treasure-Subduing Command in a book called the Myriad Treasures Manual.
Simply put, the Treasure-Subduing Command was an incantation for subduing Treasures.
Higher-grade Treasures could develop sentience, and even cultivate on their own, without anyone specially refining an Artifact Spirit for them.
Treasures also fell into many categories, with different uses and powers, so specialized incantations were needed to subdue them.
Coming across a Treasure-Subduing Command meant his luck with fortuitous encounters was looking rather good.
He wondered whether the Treasure in question was that disc from earlier.
The Myriad Treasures Manual specifically mentioned that the Treasure-Subduing Command was not a universal set of techniques. Different Treasures required different incantations.
They were not interchangeable; learning one Treasure-Subduing Command did not let someone subdue every sentient treasure under heaven.
Each Treasure-Subduing Command matched one Spirit Treasure!
Presumably, mastering this Treasure-Subduing Command would let him subdue the sentient treasure upstairs.
But on second thought, Treasures could only be wielded after forming a golden core. He was still at Qi Refining and could only use Spirit Artifacts.
A sentient treasure was clearly ranked above a Treasure. Better not try to take it.
The spiritual energy inside the Half-Limit Secret Realm was far richer than outside, and this Treasure