Chapter 293: Viewing the Diagram
After Zhang Yu entered the depths of his own consciousness, the first thing he saw was two rivers of stars made up of countless bright, glittering points. Facing one another to his left and right, they stretched across the empty cosmos, vast and boundless.
He was slightly surprised, thinking that this was what his visualization diagram looked like.
Generally speaking, because cultivators themselves were living beings, visualization diagrams were mostly manifestations of living creatures. If a visualization diagram was too lofty and remote, it would instead be detrimental to cultivation.
But when he looked more carefully, he discovered that beneath those two rivers of stars floated a hazy mass of turbid qi, within which the rough outline of something evolved faintly into view.
He examined it, and his heart could not help but tremble. Then he looked upward again.
At that moment, he finally understood what his visualization diagram was.
It was the "Mystic Chaos Cicada"!
Those two drifting, dazzling rivers of stars were the cicada's pair of raised, spread wings, while the blurred cicada body below was formed from countless strands of shadowy qi.
The "Mystic Chaos Cicada," also known as the "Mystic Chaos Sky Cicada," was a creature that existed only in Celestial Xia legends. It possessed the power to shed its form and be reborn, changing without limit. Yet he had never seen it in any visualization diagram before, nor had he seen even the slightest record of it.
In the ancient meaning of Celestial Xia, Xia meant cicada, and also referred to the people of Celestial Xia. The flag emblem representing Celestial Xia today bore the Mystic Chaos Cicada-Wing Pattern.
There was one difference, however. In the Cicada-Wing Pattern, the Mystic Chaos wings faced each other, one on the left and