I'm in the Demonic Sect, but my cultivation techniques are being used for palace intrigue!

Looking at Zhu Jingguang, who seemed to have come to his senses, and the "Yin Yang Lun Zhuan Su Ri Cai Yang Jing" and the "Tian Mo He Huan Zhuan" that used the virtual panel to express his thoughts, he immediately continued to refresh his insights on the virtual panel.

[Heavenly Demon Joyful Seal: "'Great Sun Tathagata's' Buddha light can inherently restrain the sword intent of 'Great Sun Sword Technique'. Under this premise, if you reverse the 'Yin-Yang Reversal Plain Sun Yang Gathering Scripture', you can influence the attributes of the 'Great Sun Tathagata's' Buddha light, which can affect 'Great Sun Sword Technique', and then use this to set up a trap similar to 'Water and Fire in Harmony'..."]

[Heavenly Demon Joyful Seal: "This is no longer a simple clash of the five elements, but rather the Buddha's light of 'Great Sun Tathagata' negating and devouring 'Great Sun Sword Technique' from its very root! In that case... wouldn't it be a natural counter to that person's 'Great Sun Sword Technique'?"]

Upon hearing the words "Heavenly Demon Union Seal", both Zhu Jingguang and "Yin Yang Rotation Plain Day Yang Collection Classic" felt that it was very true.

Yes!

Using Xuan Yin True Water is simply water overcoming fire, which is a suppression at the attribute level.

However, if the reversed "Great Sun Tathagata" Buddha light is used to deal with the "Great Sun Sword Technique", it is like "the mutated Laozi" meeting his "son". Not only are their attributes incompatible, but there is also bloodline suppression!

Faced with this mutated Buddhist light, the Great Sun Sword Technique probably wouldn't even have the slightest power to resist!

That was absolutely a killer move!

"In that case... let's exchange it for the Great Sun Buddha's Light!"

Finally, a resolute look flashed in Zhu Jingguang's eyes after he had made up his mind!

He...made the final decision!

So Zhu Jingguang withdrew his hand from the Xuan Yin True Water and instead walked towards the shelf displaying the Buddha's light.

"Junior brother, outer sect disciples with tokens can only choose magic artifacts in this Magic Treasure Pavilion. Anything else will require an additional spirit stone payment based on its value!"

Just as Zhu Jingguang was taking the "Mahavairocana" Buddha light off the shelf, suddenly, at that moment, an old voice rang out from behind Zhu Jingguang.

Zhu Jingguang was startled and immediately turned around to look.

Behind him, in the shadows behind a shelf, huddled an old man with a hunched back.

The old man, dressed in a faded deacon's robe, was carefully wiping a broken arrow in his hand with a tattered cloth.

"Disciple Zhu Jingguang greets Senior." Zhu Jingguang bowed respectfully.

"I don't deserve to be called a senior, just call me senior brother!" The old man glanced at Zhu Jingguang, then said with a hint of dissatisfaction, "Has the quality of outer disciples become this bad? Even someone like you, at the fourth level of Qi Refining with a weak foundation, can get a token?"

After a slight pause, the old man murmured with some doubt, "But that's not right... The disciples who came in before were of quite good quality! It seems the quality of the outer disciples hasn't declined!"

Then, as if he had thought of something, the old man stared at Zhu Jingguang with a strange look in his eyes:

"A person with great fortune?"

"No! No!"

"He definitely can't be a person of great fortune—with his current cultivation level, if he were, he would have been completely taken advantage of by his senior uncles in the sect long ago. How could he still be alive?"

"If one isn't blessed with great fortune, then one cannot possess such luck. Without such luck, how could one obtain the outer disciple's token with such meager cultivation..."

"Surely some idiot wouldn't be thinking of promoting an outer disciple with a token to a higher position, letting that person access sect resources, and then pocketing the kickbacks?"

"As far as I know, anyone who even considered supporting someone, even without taking a kickback, ended up dead, utterly ruined!"

  

If we rule out the possibility of providing support...

"Could it be... that this person is the lucky koi carp raised by that legendary inner sect master?"

"Judging by the time... it's about time that senior uncle started raising koi fish again!"

"But...it doesn't look like it!"

"Fifty years ago, the previous generation's lucky charm I knew possessed an aura of immense prosperity, almost tangible. How could this person before me compare?"

"However... the might of inner disciples is beyond the comprehension of someone like me, a mere Qi Refining Stage Six Perfection cultivator, half-step into the late Qi Refining stage. Perhaps, with my uncle's cultivation advancing over the years, the koi fish he keeps in the sect are behaving differently than they did fifty years ago?"

"Fine! Fine! Whether he's the lucky one of this generation or not, as long as he's willing to pay the difference of three low-grade spirit stones, I won't ask for more and will just give him this Buddha light!"

"What a pity... I missed out on earning a low-grade spirit stone!"

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Thinking this through, the old man immediately stopped wasting words and said directly, "Just pay the difference of three low-grade spirit stones, and you can take this ray of Buddhist light with you!"

Looking at the old man whose expression had suddenly changed, Zhu Jingguang was somewhat puzzled, but... being able to take this Buddhist light away was ultimately a good thing!

To prevent the other party from suddenly changing their mind, Zhu Jingguang did not hesitate at all and directly took out three low-grade spirit stones to obtain the "Great Sun Tathagata" Buddha light.

After that, Zhu Jingguang left without looking back.

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When the heavy door of the Treasure Pavilion slowly closed behind Zhu Jingguang, making a teeth-grinding scraping sound, Zhu Jingguang finally came back to his senses as if he had been in a different world.

He looked up and saw a sky full of stars.

"I was just thinking to myself that the fellow disciples who went into the Treasure Pavilion to choose magical artifacts took too long, which was a real waste of time..."

Zhu Jingguang gazed at the pale, waning crescent moon on the horizon, a self-deprecating, bitter smile playing on his lips.

"Looking back now, I spent several hours inside, picking and choosing, worrying about gains and losses. Was I really that much faster than others?"

The night breeze was slightly cool, stirring his thin clothes, but it couldn't dispel the burning sense of urgency in his heart.

Having already composed himself, Zhu Jingguang didn't delay any longer. He released a burst of spiritual energy from his feet, and in an instant, his entire body transformed into a wisp of green smoke. Under the cover of the night and the sparse lights within the sect, he sped towards his secluded stone chamber...

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Back in the stone chamber, Zhu Jingguang cast several protective spells to seal the stone door, cutting off all outside observation.

Then, he took a deep breath, sat cross-legged on the ground, and calmed his slightly excited emotions. Then, he flipped his hand and took out the bottle that he had obtained from the Dharma Treasure Pavilion, which sealed the Buddha light of "Mahavairocana Tathagata".

Even through the bottle, Zhu Jingguang could still feel the intense heat emanating from the golden halo inside.