The thirty-odd streaks of bright light descended, all falling into the Pure Spirit Abodes within the various worlds of the lower layer. They were swiftly accepted inside, where they blossomed with boundless radiance.
As Zhang Yu watched, every one of those thirty-odd Pure Spirit Abodes caused the heavenly dao transformations of the Mystic Chaos Cicada to sink continuously downward. This was equivalent to gaining roughly thirty more lower-layer worlds for its use at once. The process of drawing upon the greatest power had undoubtedly taken a great step forward.
Yet all these changes were concealed by the Origin Capital Mysterious Diagram. Other than the three of them, no one could witness them.
The three waited for a while. Seeing that no further change arose, they knew the matter had been settled.
Zhuang said, "Yet under the permeation of the High One's power, the Pure Spirit Abodes may be made whole, and it is highly possible that intelligence will arise within them. These many Pure Spirit Abodes may all be regarded as Pure Spirit's reflected incarnations. So long as one develops intelligence, it may spread from one to many and transform the rest."
Zhang Yu said, "That may be possible, but there is no need to worry about it now."
Even if their intelligence could be completed, it would not arise at once. It would require a long period of evolution.
On the other hand, if these Pure Spirit Abodes were severed from Celestial Xia, then so long as they existed in the future, they would also exist in the present. Intelligence could arise almost instantly. But now that they were bound together with Celestial Xia, they could not cross beyond the present and reach the future.
There was another reason as well. The Mystic Chaos Cicada differed from the Clear