A video of me fighting through stage 6 and its boss: The Sealed Great Magician, Byakuren Hijiri, without dying, bombing or using the UFO system.

This stage is seen as one of the most difficult in the series. Byakuren is the main reason for this; she has a lot of horribly difficult attacks. Even her easy attacks can become challenging with bad RNG. I think I got lucky with this, mainly on Devil's Recitation. Came close to dying twice. Even then, I never had a run before this which went below 4 miss. I should have needed hundreds of restarts more but oh well. If you plan on doing this perfect yourself, I'd recommend using the SpoilerAL table, Cheat Engine table, Boss Rush patch and LFS patch for practice. I'm technically cheating here; I did this replay with infinite lives and power loss on death disabled, though since I didn't die none of these made a difference here.

Help with difficult attacks:

GOOD OMEN "NIRVANA'S CLOUDY WAY IN PURPLE":
Very, very difficult attack which is pure dodging. You can safespot the first half of the first wave by sitting under Byakuren but this is only useful with Sanae B due to Byakuren's bigger hitbox allowing Sanae B to shotgun. I was still doing practice of this when I got this run. Every attempt I did of this, if I died I timed it out. This combined with the Boss Rush patch makes for an easy practice method. As for dodging, general rule of thumb is that if you can see a gap, you can probably go through it. RNG is vital here. You'll have an easy time if the droplets form lanes but it's basically impossible if they're spread out.

2ND NONSPELL:
More difficult dodging mixed with streaming. The lasers are aimed generally and can't be streamed normally. Keep an eye on them; a laser can spawn a bit ahead of you and cut you off so it's sometimes necessary to go unfocused. I go unfocused quite a lot since dodging the fireballs is hard enough without needed to keep watching something else. Funen1 has an alternative strategy for this which means you don't need to dodge as many fireballs but I couldn't figure out how to do it consistently.

LIGHT MAGIC "MAGIC MILKY WAY":
You want to dodge the stars horizontally and the curvy beams vertically. I was awful at this since I often didn't look at the stars carefully enough or I got cut off by a curvy beam. My spellcard history is deceiving though. I was getting much better when I got this perfect. Still nearly clipped a star at the end though.

GREAT MAGIC "DEVIL'S RECITATION":
The wiki's unofficial comment on the hard mode variant of this holds a lot of truth. "The less impressive looking bullets are the killers." Keep a close eye on the bullets that stick to the sides then come at you. They're supposedly aimed but I couldn't figure out a way to use this since the timing seems awkward. Learn the bubble hitbox and don't be afraid of getting close to the lasers and bubbles. I got lucky here. Nearly went face first into a bubble at 4:27 then nearly got sandwiched by 2 smaller circles as the attack was ending at 4:37.

FLYING BOWL "LEGENDARY FLYING SAUCER":
This is mostly aggressive dodging though I did think out a strategy for the occasional wave. The 3rd purple wave and 1st light blue wave I do slightly off centre because I kept getting trapped. I pause on the 1st wave of the 2nd set of purples 5:31 because this makes the red waves easier (or something like that, I definitely didn't just blindly copy other people :V). Couple of retarded dodges in this attack too (eg at 5:29).

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