The Profound Banner floated beside him, eerie light flowing across it.
Chu Mo gazed at the Jade-Communing Spirit Marrow in his hand and gently stroked it for a moment. Then he flicked his finger, sending the marrow into the Profound Banner in a streak of clear light.
In an instant, the eerie light on the banner blazed.
A Spirit-Communing Treasure was utterly different from an ordinary Dharmic Treasure. Ordinary Dharmic Treasures required constant refinement to be wielded at will, but once a Spirit-Communing Treasure nurtured sentience, it could even fight enemies on its own.
There were only two ways to nurture that sentience: the first was through the polishing of time, fostering a thread of spiritual awareness over hundreds or thousands of years; the second was through the catalysis of heavenly materials and earthly treasures, bringing forth an origin spirit ahead of its time.
The Jade-Communing Spirit Marrow belonged to the latter category.
Chu Mo felt the bond between his mind and the Profound Banner grow ever closer, as though a layer of obscuring ignorance had been peeled away, leaving nothing between them.
The Profound Banner, which had previously required his direction to function, now possessed a faint measure of sentience. With just a thought from him, it could manifest its power and independently adjust its tactics against an enemy.
At a slight stir of his will, the Profound Banner abruptly unfurled, becoming a hazy mass of eerie light suspended within the hall, shedding layer upon layer of mysteries.
Chu Mo opened his eyes and gazed at the eerie light, his eyes gleaming.
"It worked."
He beckoned, and the eerie light transformed back into the Mystic Talisman, immediately settling into his palm. There was now a faint sense of something living within it.
"Its sentience has just emerged. So long