After this ordeal, Yuchi Chong had lost heart. He voluntarily asked the emperor to relieve him of his post as supreme commander and proposed going to guard the Northern Frontier. Xue Shengkang made no attempt to keep him and approved his request. The situation forced him to prepare on two fronts: on the one hand, he sent Yuchi Chong straight to the Northern Frontier to strengthen the northern defenses; on the other, the very day after Wanyan Chixiong's assassination, he dispatched Minister of Rites Sun Weiyuan to Black Hu in person, escorting Wanyan Chixiong's funeral casket back to Mingsha City, the Black Hu capital, and explaining matters directly to Khan Wanyan Lüjian. First Prince Xue Daohong accompanied the procession, escorting Wanyan Chixiong's funeral casket all the way to the Northern Frontier before returning. Xue Shengkang, emperor of Great Yong, personally escorted the casket out of the Yong Capital as well. The handling of the affair alone showed how cautiously Great Yong was proceeding. Although Princess Anping of Great Kang had received quite grand honors after her assassination, they still fell a notch short of those accorded to Black Hu.
With Wanyan Chixiong's death by assassination, the attempt on Prince of Yan Xue Shengjing's life in his own residence immediately lost the attention it should have received. Besides, Xue Shengjing had deliberately suppressed the news afterward. Now that everyone's attention was focused on Black Hu's Fourth Prince, he could not have wished for anything better. Ideally, everyone would forget that Huo Xiaoru had tried to kill him. Only then could he send his daughter away without a hitch.
After learning that Hu Xiaotian was involved in the assassination at the Red Mountain Guildhall, Xue Shengjing also grew somewhat uneasy. At dusk on the day after the incident, he visited Qichen Palace