Sea of Suffering
"HAHAHA! So Uncle-Master knew how to pull this trick too!"
Lu Yang clapped and laughed, while without the slightest hesitation recording with his Divine Thought the entire process of Chongguang's sudden theatrical possession and scheming of Long Tu.
"Uncle-Master's heart is still too black."
"I thought I would have to step in at the end and help him clean up the mess. Turns out he solved it himself. My helping hand back then was not wasted."
Thinking of this, Lu Yang could not help praising him inwardly.
Because Long Tu had not actually been that incompetent.
His main flaw was his complete ignorance of Heart Demons, along with feeding a full quarter of his Divine Thought to Chongguang in one gulp. Otherwise, he would not have fallen so far.
"Strictly speaking, judging from how things were unfolding just now, Long Tu would most likely have helped True Person Demon-Subduer out of his predicament, and Uncle-Master Chongguang would have fallen short at the final step."
"Yet before I could alter anything, Uncle-Master Chongguang adapted on the spot and tricked Long Tu once, causing Long Tu to lose a great deal of Divine Thought. After devouring it, one ebbed as the other flowed; only then could he secretly influence Long Tu with his Heart Demon divine ability, drawing him ever deeper in and finally salvaging the situation."
If Long Tu had made any mistake at all,
it was that he should not have used a quarter of his Divine Thought all at once. He had truly fed Chongguang full; otherwise, Chongguang might not have possessed enough strength to influence him.
The result was one wrong step, then wrong step after wrong step.
At this thought, Lu Yang looked again at the event image within the Sea of Suffering, enlightenment