Battle of Ten Breaths, Struggle of Ten Thousand Years (I)

Beneath the earth, the larva of the Wumeng Heavenly Cicada drifted through the earth qi.

The Feather Transformation True Intent originating from the Wumeng Heavenly Cicada had played an incomparably catalytic role in the current situation. That true intent of naturally shedding its shell and ascending had originally come from the Wumeng Heavenly Cicada, a spiritual species of heaven and earth. Its lingering presence was the natural marvel of the cicada molt's "imprinting and preserving consciousness."

The cicada molt's greatest use was that it could reproduce the imprinted consciousness manifested by the Feather Transformation True Intent. Setting aside the Wumeng Heavenly Cicada and speaking only of Yu Ci: although this was merely a special peak state, an accident, a simulation, rootless as a tree without soil, it still resembled feather transformation—from a lowly, ugly larva into a beautiful cicada or butterfly, leaping from the mundane into a transcendent realm.

Was that not precisely the same as the Feather Transformation True Intent?

From the moment Yu Ci became a Wumeng Heavenly Cicada larva, the Feather Transformation True Intent had already begun to exert its effects. It was bound to pull Yu Ci from a "low" realm into a "high" one, perfectly matching his current state. Thus, under the cicada molt's effect, every thread of its transformation left behind a clear imprint, recording the entire process of Yu Ci emerging from his shell like a cicada, becoming a butterfly from a chrysalis.

This "feather transformation" itself was illusory, but its imprints and traces were utterly real.

Without question, this was an incomparably precious experience, imprinted within the Wumeng Cicada Molt for Yu Ci to comprehend, use, and integrate in the days to come.

But that was a matter for later. As for the Feather Transformation True Intent's other current influence—the approaching "great