Lu Yang had always been the sort to understand one thing and grasp a hundred. Before Liantian Dou had even finished speaking, he immediately connected it to something else he had previously found unremarkable.
Borrowing Wisdom Light.
Whenever he borrowed Dao Tianqi's Wisdom Light to think through especially difficult, highly complex matters, Dao Tianqi would fall into a state of mental stagnation.
Put plainly, he would drool.
It had seemed like nothing at the time. Since his Wisdom Light was being borrowed, it was equivalent to Dao Tianqi thinking in his stead, so it was only natural for his own thoughts to come to a halt.
But from another angle:
Could Wisdom Light truly represent a person's thoughts in their entirety? If that were so, why didn't I, with not a shred of Wisdom Light, drool?
At that thought, Lu Yang immediately realized something was wrong. He promptly told Liantian Dou, who nodded solemnly. "That is precisely the reasoning. But before this, Tianqi was the only one capable of lending his Wisdom Light to others. A single case proves nothing, so we could not make wild guesses."
"However, according to my deduction."
"Tianqi's Wisdom Light should be that external object which oppressed his true spirit and affected his memories," Liantian Dou quietly voiced the final conclusion.
"So that means—"
Lu Yang frowned. "Fellow Daoist Huanyao's Wisdom Light was not actually this exaggerated at the beginning? It was not an innate attainment, but something acquired later?"
"That is not the case."
On the other side, the World Honored One shook his head. "That idiot Huanyao entered the sect at three. I raised him myself from childhood, and his Wisdom Light has always looked like this."
At the same time, hearing the World Honored One call him an idiot again, Dao Tianqi