Recaps

Lu Changfeng arrived at the Shu Mountain Sword Sect, where his presence made ten thousand swords bow and silenced the sect’s sword formations. He followed Xu Yuanzhi to a secluded courtyard to see the patient, whose murmurs came from behind its closed gate.

• Wang Maozhong told the disciples that Marquis Wu’s Magic Sword had acknowledged Lu Changfeng as its master, and they teased him about Lu’s relationship with the princess.
• A chorus of swords rang from the Sword Pool, and the disciples’ swords trembled as Lu Changfeng descended from the sky.
• Lu Changfeng’s arrival quieted every sword, astonishing Liu Qianfan and the Sword Sect disciples.
• Xu Yuanzhi led Lu Changfeng into the sect, and the sword formations let them pass without reacting.
• Xu Yuanzhi brought Lu Changfeng to a secluded courtyard where a patient murmured behind the closed gate.

Lu Changfeng examined Shen Guannan and found that his divine soul was incomplete, then explained four possible ways to restore it. Shen Lingyue asked Lu Changfeng to personally replenish his son's spirit, and Lu Changfeng reluctantly considered the risk of Shen Guannan taking after him.

• Lu Changfeng examined Shen Guannan and diagnosed severe damage to his divine soul, with part of his mind apparently drained away.
• Shen Lingyue arrived and asked whether the Great Vehicle Sect's Rebirth Sutra had caused the injury, but Lu Changfeng ruled it out because Shen Guannan's body and qi remained healthy.
• Lu Changfeng outlined four possible treatments, including reversing the Great Void Divine Sword Scripture, using the Mother-and-Child Bondheart Gu, and replenishing Shen Guannan's spirit with others' mental power.
• Shen Lingyue worried that replenishing Shen Guannan's spirit could let someone influence him, and Lu Changfeng explained that recovery would take slow, careful work.
• Shen Lingyue asked Lu Changfeng to treat Shen Guannan himself, accepting that his son might be influenced by Lu Changfeng if it meant he recovered.

Lu Changfeng tried to heal Shen Guannan by replenishing his spirit, but a hidden spirit body ambushed him with a blood-sea illusion and the Corpse-Shedding Method. Lu Changfeng broke through the attack, while the spirit body revealed itself deep beneath Screen Mountain and recognized him.

• Shen Lingyue chose Lu Changfeng’s risky method of replenishing Shen Guannan’s spirit rather than waiting years for a slower recovery.
• Lu Changfeng entered Shen Guannan’s shattered sea of consciousness and used the Consciousness-Only Sword Intent to nourish it.
• A dormant malice erupted from Shen Guannan’s sea of consciousness, dragged Lu Changfeng into a blood-sea illusion, and tried to imprint the Corpse-Shedding Method on his soul.
• Lu Changfeng used Divine Sense as a sword to split the blood sea and stop the demonic chanting, identifying the ambush as a contingency left by a spirit body.
• Deep beneath Soul Bewitching Valley, an ancient spirit body looked toward the Shu Mountain Sword Sect and reacted with surprise and anticipation at Lu Changfeng’s arrival.

Lu Changfeng restored Shen Guannan’s Divine Soul, and Shen Guannan awoke with a calmer disposition. After recounting the deadly demonic chant and the human skins in Soul Bewitching Valley, he joined Lu Changfeng and Shen Lingyue’s plans to investigate, while showing Lu Changfeng an unexpectedly childlike attachment.

• Lu Changfeng told Shen Lingyue that Shen Guannan’s Divine Soul had been restored, and Shen Guannan soon woke and recognized his father.
• Shen Guannan thanked Lu Changfeng and appeared markedly calmer than before, prompting Lu Changfeng to worry that the soul restoration might have altered his personality.
• Shen Guannan recalled finding twelve human skins in Soul Bewitching Valley and described a demonic chant that had made his junior brothers approach him as if transformed.
• Shen Lingyue said he and Uncle Yin had found no traces in the valley, and Lu Changfeng offered to investigate it with him the next morning.
• Shen Guannan invited Lu Changfeng to stay in his courtyard and displayed an unusually affectionate attachment to him.

Lu Changfeng and Xu Yuanzhi discussed the sinister corpse-liberation technique and the outsiders seeking ancient swords at Mount Shu. When Ding Bailing attempted to steal Shadowless from the sword pool, Lu Changfeng sensed his escape and sent a Wind Rope after him.

• Lu Changfeng told Shen Guannan to study the Sword Sect's classics rather than absorb Lu Changfeng's ideas, and Xu Yuanzhi offered Lu Changfeng a place to stay.
• Lu Changfeng asked Xu Yuanzhi about corpse liberation, and they concluded that Bewitching Valley's method used Daoist ideas to lure victims and consume their bodies.
• Xu Yuanzhi described how Ding Bailing had repeatedly tried to claim Shadowless, and the sword pool's alarm rang as someone made another attempt.
• Lu Changfeng and Xu Yuanzhi reached the sword pool, where Ding Bailing used Shadowless to vanish from the Sword Sect disciples' sight.
• Lu Changfeng detected Ding Bailing with the Eight Formations Diagram and launched a Wind Rope toward him as he fled.

Lu Changfeng killed Ding Bailing after uncovering his eclectic martial arts, then set out to investigate the ancient figure behind him. In Soul Bewitching Valley, that figure prepared a puppet-like force of martial artists, including Yue Longyuan and Fang Wendao, for Lu Changfeng’s arrival.

• Ding Bailing used the School of Names Assassination Technique and burned his essence blood to attack Lu Changfeng, who destroyed him with the Eight Formations.
• Lu Changfeng retrieved the Chengying Sword, returned it to the Sword Pool, and concluded with Xu Yuanzhi that Ding Bailing had followed the Eclectic School’s method of combining martial arts from many traditions.
• Lu Changfeng asked Liu Qianfan to guide him to the Scripture Repository so he could research historical records and Bashu gazetteers for clues about Ding Bailing’s ancient spirit body.
• In Soul Bewitching Valley, an unnamed ancient figure discussed Lu Changfeng’s abilities and said he would come the next day, when the gathered captives would be tasked with dealing with him.
• The cavern held Yue Longyuan, Shangguan He, Fang Wendao, and more than a hundred martial artists from various factions, all standing expressionless and breathing in unison under the ancient figure’s control.

Lu Changfeng and Shen Lingyue traveled to Soul Bewitching Valley to investigate its strange phenomena. Snow Robe sensed that the valley’s Spiritual Qi was unnaturally uniform, and Lu Changfeng suspected something powerful was concealing itself beneath the ground.

• Lu Changfeng set out with Shen Lingyue, who brought the Tai'e Sword and a spirit vulture as their mount.
• At Soul Bewitching Valley, Snow Robe found no distinct treasure glow and described the entire valley as unusually vast.
• Lu Changfeng realized the valley’s Spiritual Qi was too evenly distributed to be natural and suspected someone had deliberately suppressed its fluctuations.
• Lu Changfeng and Shen Lingyue entered the valley and discussed how its hidden threat had eluded earlier searches.
• Lu Changfeng suggested the concealed presence might be drawing everything inward or hiding deep underground, and Shen Lingyue asked if it was beneath their feet.

Lu Changfeng and Shen Lingyue discovered that the ancient ginkgo tree concealed a passage into the lair of the being draining victims’ essence blood and origin qi. The being revealed that its roots spread throughout Soul Bewitching Valley, then attacked with demonic chanting as Lu Changfeng identified it as Shi Jiao.

• Lu Changfeng spotted a hidden opening high in the ginkgo tree, and he and Shen Lingyue found a hollow passage descending through its trunk.
• Lu Changfeng shattered the tree, exposing a cavern entrance and roots stained with fresh blood, and realized the tree had been feeding on the missing victims.
• A voice from the cavern revealed that its owner had become the tree and spread its roots across Soul Bewitching Valley, making the whole valley part of its body.
• The voice unleashed the Corpse-Shedding Scripture’s demonic chanting, disrupting Shen Lingyue’s senses while Lu Changfeng remained unmoved.
• Lu Changfeng challenged the voice’s technique and identified its owner as Shi Jiao.

Lu Changfeng identified the ancient ginkgo’s soul as Shi Jiao, who revealed his plan to possess Lu Changfeng’s body. After Lu Changfeng defied him, Shi Jiao unleashed an army of possessed martial artists, and Shen Lingyue fought to defend them both while trapped in hallucinations.

• Lu Changfeng deduced that the ginkgo’s inhabitant was Shi Jiao, the Eclectic School patriarch, and Shi Jiao confirmed his identity and past.
• Shi Jiao explained that he had transferred his soul into the Ancient Ginkgo Tree and had spent centuries consuming intruders while preparing to possess a gifted human.
• Shi Jiao declared that he wanted Lu Changfeng’s body, but Lu Changfeng revealed he had foreseen danger in the Obstruction Hexagram and insisted he had come anyway.
• Shi Jiao grew enraged and sent over a hundred possessed Jianghu experts to attack Lu Changfeng and Shen Lingyue.
• Shen Lingyue cut down the attackers’ front rank, and Shi Jiao turned their blood and severed limbs into a storm of arrows.
• Lu Changfeng dodged the attacks while Shen Lingyue, disoriented by Shi Jiao’s illusions, defended himself with the Great River Sword Technique.

Lu Changfeng battled Shi Jiao and the Great Vehicle Sect, enduring their poison, spells, and coordinated attacks before unleashing his strongest fire technique. He then revealed Great Qin’s Black Dragon Banner and summoned twelve Terracotta Warriors, leaving Shi Jiao shocked by the ancient artifact in Lu Changfeng’s possession.

• Shi Jiao used blood mist carrying Yin-Yang curse poison to slow Shen Lingyue and sent controlled experts to attack Lu Changfeng.
• Shi Jiao bound Lu Changfeng with Heavy Earth Chains while Yue Longyuan, Shangguan He, Fang Wendao, and the others attacked from all sides.
• Lu Changfeng combined Divine Command of the Six Forces with Mingyi Heavenly Fire to unleash Golden Crow Splits the Firmament, burning several attackers and forcing the rest back.
• Shi Jiao raised a Heavy Earth Wall to shield the surviving fighters, who regrouped and surrounded Lu Changfeng again.
• Lu Changfeng drew the Black Dragon Banner and summoned twelve Terracotta Warriors from the earth.
• Shi Jiao recognized the banner as Great Qin’s nation-guarding artifact, and Lu Changfeng mocked him as an obsolete relic.

Lu Changfeng used the Black Dragon Banner to control twelve Terracotta Warriors at once, turning Shi Jiao’s plan to exhaust him against the valley’s defenders. Shi Jiao then reclaimed his roots and compressed them into a powerful ironwood body before attacking Lu Changfeng.

• Lu Changfeng ordered twelve Terracotta Warriors into battle, each using a different martial art to fight the enemy forces.
• Shi Jiao recognized that Lu Changfeng was controlling all twelve puppets independently and using earth qi from the Black Dragon Banner to keep his strength from running out.
• Shi Jiao abandoned his plan to exhaust Lu Changfeng and drew the roots spread throughout Soul Bewitching Valley back toward the central tree.
• Shi Jiao compressed his roots, earth qi, and accumulated essence into a dark-golden ironwood body and grew his face back.
• Shi Jiao demanded that Lu Changfeng surrender, then sent countless roots whipping toward him.

Lu Changfeng turned the tide against Shi Jiao and the Fifth Realm experts by using his talismans and Black Dragon Banner to destroy their formation. He left every Fifth Realm fighter dead, standing amid the battlefield with twelve Terracotta Warriors behind him.

• Shi Jiao coordinated his roots with Yue Longyuan and the other experts to overwhelm Lu Changfeng, while Shen Lingyue remained trapped by the Qi Poison and Demonic Sound.
• Lu Changfeng was struck by a root, then fired four Golden Crow Splits the Firmament talismans to blast the attackers and scatter their formation.
• Lu Changfeng used the Black Dragon Banner and Central Peace Spear Technique to kill Yue Longyuan and Shangguan He.
• Lu Changfeng blocked Fang Wendao's fire attack with water, then pierced him through the chest.
• Lu Changfeng defeated Li Wuchang, Zhou Yan, Sikong Xuan, and Pei Shuji with the banner's earth qi and his Six Meridian Divine Sword.

Lu Changfeng’s ambush against Shi Jiao failed when Shi Jiao struck his mind with the Great Void Divine Sword Scripture and bound him with roots. Shi Jiao began transferring his soul into Lu Changfeng, while Snow Robe revealed that Lu Changfeng had taken the bait.

• Lu Changfeng sent the Terracotta Warriors to overwhelm Shi Jiao, then attacked with three divine swords and the Black Dragon Banner.
• Shi Jiao revealed the face on his trunk as a trap and used the Great Void Divine Sword Scripture to stun Lu Changfeng, causing the Terracotta Warriors to collapse.
• Shen Lingyue attacked Shi Jiao with the Tai'e Sword, but Shi Jiao’s roots blocked him as Shi Jiao began the Corpse Liberation Rebirth Art.
• Shi Jiao left his ironwood body and sent his divine soul, memories, and cultivation toward Lu Changfeng’s brow.
• Snow Robe watched from the shadows and said that Lu Changfeng had finally taken the bait.

Lu Changfeng revealed that he had prepared two protections against Shi Jiao’s attempt to possess him: the Cave Profound True Light and the Black Tortoise Crystal. After forcing his way into Lu Changfeng’s sea of consciousness, Shi Jiao found the Consciousness-Only Sword waiting for him, and Lu Changfeng admitted he had deliberately lured him out of his tree body.

• Lu Changfeng’s Cave Profound True Light talisman burned Shi Jiao’s divine soul as it tried to enter his body.
• The Black Tortoise Crystal shielded Lu Changfeng and hurled Shi Jiao back, but Shi Jiao forced his weakened soul past the barrier and into Lu Changfeng’s sea of consciousness.
• Shi Jiao found Lu Changfeng’s Consciousness-Only Sword aimed at him, with Lu Changfeng waiting behind it.
• Shi Jiao asked whether Lu Changfeng had deliberately let the roots bind him, and Lu Changfeng confirmed that he had lured Shi Jiao into abandoning his body.
• Lu Changfeng explained that Shi Jiao’s ironwood body could not wield its Sixth Realm power fully, so its attack could not truly immobilize him.

Lu Changfeng defeated Shi Jiao by letting him attempt possession and destroying his divine soul with Consciousness-Only Sword Intent. With the ironwood tree spirit dead and Shen Lingyue treated, Lu Changfeng and Shen Lingyue left the valley on the Spirit Vulture.

• Shi Jiao's memories passed before him as Lu Changfeng's sword intent dissolved his divine soul, and Lu Changfeng gained the Corpse Liberation Rebirth Art.
• The ironwood tree split and fell, ending Shi Jiao's thousand-year existence.
• Lu Changfeng freed himself from the roots and treated Shen Lingyue's Yin-Yang Curse Seal, earning the max-level Stunning Spear.
• Lu Changfeng and Shen Lingyue boarded the Spirit Vulture and flew away from the valley.
• When Shen Lingyue asked what would have happened if Lu Changfeng's plan had failed, Lu Changfeng said there had been no 'what if.'

At a banquet at the Shu Mountain Sword Sect, Lu Changfeng modestly described his self-taught Sword Dao and received thanks from Shen Guannan, who felt a new reverence for him. Lu Changfeng declined the sect’s invitation to stay longer and prepared to leave for Chang’an the next day.

• Shen Lingyue toasted Lu Changfeng for saving Shen Guannan and removing the threat to Bashu.
• Liu Qianfan asked who taught Lu Changfeng the Sword Dao, and Lu Changfeng said he had no master and had only dabbled after obtaining Wind-Raising and Marquis Wu’s legacy.
• Wang Maozhong comforted Liu Qianfan about being unable to compare with Lu Changfeng.
• Shen Guannan thanked Lu Changfeng and promised to repay him, while Lu Changfeng urged him to recover and study the Great Void Divine Sword Scripture.
• Snow Robe begged to stay longer for the food, but Lu Changfeng told Shen Lingyue and Xu Yuanzhi he had to leave for Chang’an the next day.

Lu Changfeng reunited with Luo Qingge in her secluded valley, while the Heaven, Earth, and Human Three Fiends waited through a storm at Langya Ferry for the Eastern Sea Visitor. The visitor appeared in a tiny white skiff gliding steadily across the raging waves.

• Lu Changfeng left Shu Mountain Sword Sect and flew east on Lingbo with Snow Robe.
• Lu Changfeng found Luo Qingge in a secluded valley, and they embraced and kissed inside her cottage.
• Snow Robe was shut out of the cottage and complained to Azure Luan while eating a rabbit head.
• The Heaven, Earth, and Human Three Fiends guarded Langya Ferry under Princess Taiping's orders as a storm battered the coast.
• A tiny white skiff emerged from the waves and glided toward the ferry without rocking.

Xu Chi and Xu Xiao arrived at the Langya landing to demand the release of Liu Ciyuan and Liu Xuance. Xu Chi killed the three Demon brothers and sent a threat to the Princess's Residence before he and Xu Xiao vanished, intending to proceed through strategy.

• Xu Wujiu spotted the two white-robed arrivals and signaled Heavenly Demon Xi Changkong and Earth Demon Li Wuji to prepare an ambush.
• Xu Chi uncovered Yin Wujiu's secret letter, severed his hand, and rewrote the message identifying himself and Xu Xiao while demanding the release of Liu Ciyuan and Liu Xuance.
• Xi Changkong and Li Wuji attacked Xu Chi together, but he killed them both with two flicks of his fingers.
• Xu Chi drained Yin Wujiu into dust, placed the message in the Silent Falcon's tube, and released the bird.
• Xu Xiao warned Xu Chi not to underestimate their opponents, and the two left the Langya landing after agreeing to win through strategy.

Lu Changfeng recounted his dangerous journey to Bashu to Luo Qingge, then asked her to marry him after the matter with Dragon-Slaying City was settled, and she accepted. Luo Qingge also explained that Princess Taiping’s growing power had brought her into open conflict with the Crown Prince’s faction, while Lu Changfeng decided to take matters one step at a time.

• Lu Changfeng told Luo Qingge how he had used himself as bait to draw Shi Jiao out, and she clung to him in fright and relief.
• Lu Changfeng asked whether Luo Qingge would marry him once the Dragon-Slaying City matter was settled, and she tearfully agreed.
• Luo Qingge explained that Princess Taiping’s influence at court had grown and that the Eastern Palace’s ministers were pushing to curb her power.
• Lu Changfeng recognized that Li Lingyue and Li Longji’s factions were bound to clash, but decided to focus on Dragon-Slaying City and the threat from the Eastern Sea.
• Luo Qingge fell asleep in Lu Changfeng’s arms, and he tucked her in and kissed her forehead.

Lu Changfeng returned to Chang'an on the Mid-Autumn Festival to check on Li Lingyue, leaving Luo Qingge a jade pendant and a letter. He found Li Lingyue overwhelmed by political attacks, and she greeted him with an embrace and a forceful kiss.

• Lu Changfeng left Luo Qingge a jade pendant and letter, then traveled back to Chang'an with Snow Robe.
• Jinghong told Lu Changfeng that Li Lingyue was handling state affairs and was in a bad mood.
• Li Lingyue read memorials accusing her of plotting rebellion and reflected that she had never wanted to become emperor.
• Li Lingyue sensed Lu Changfeng's arrival, rushed to the hall entrance, and embraced him.
• Li Lingyue breathed in Lu Changfeng's scent, then kissed him.

Li Lingyue vented her frustration over the impeachment memorials by kissing Lu Changfeng, then asked him to read and discuss them. As they reviewed the court papers, Lu Changfeng found a proposal to give Tubo the Nine Bends of Hexi and reacted furiously.

• Li Lingyue kissed Lu Changfeng in Chenghui Hall, then spent two hours with him before asking him to help read her memorials.
• Lu Changfeng read Yao Chong's memorial accusing Li Lingyue of usurping authority and warned that her power could lead to another Wu Zhou calamity.
• Li Lingyue showed Lu Changfeng her detailed rebuttal, defending her conduct and reminding Yao Chong of her role in securing the Tang succession.
• Lu Changfeng agreed that Li Lingyue's reply was justified, and she set aside the dispute as the Mid-Autumn family banquet approached.
• Lu Changfeng read Yang Ju's memorial proposing that the Nine Bends of Hexi be granted to Tubo as a bathing estate for Princess Jincheng and angrily called him stupid.

Lu Changfeng discovered that Emperor Li Dan had approved ceding the Nine Bends of Hexi to Tubo, and he wrote a memorial for Li Lingyue urging him to revoke the decision. After Li Lingyue departed for the palace banquet, Lu Changfeng received warnings about danger in the Eastern Sea and a threat from two Xu Family disciples, while the Heaven, Earth, and Human Three Fiends were reported dead.

• Lu Changfeng condemned Governor Yang Ju’s proposal to give Tubo the Nine Bends, and Li Lingyue explained that Li Dan had approved it out of guilt toward Princess Jincheng.
• Lu Changfeng wrote a memorial arguing that the Nine Bends were vital to the Great Tang’s defenses, and Li Lingyue took it with her to the palace.
• Li Lingyue left for the Mid-Autumn banquet after Lu Changfeng warned her about her cultivation backlash and told her to use a signal arrow if danger arose.
• Jinghong brought Lu Changfeng a letter from Su Yanqiu warning him of an ominous divination and the Eastern Sea, along with a letter threatening the Princess’s Residence unless it released Liu Ciyuan and Liu Xuance.
• Jinghong reported that the Heaven, Earth, and Human Three Fiends had been killed at Langya Ferry, and Lu Changfeng ordered the residence to guard the two prisoners and began searching its files for information about Xu Fu.

At the Mid-Autumn banquet, Princess Taiping used a memorial and Yang Ju’s confession of Tubo bribery to persuade Li Dan to reject ceding Nine Bends. In the Ten Directions Secret Prison, Lu Changfeng learned about Xu Fu, Xu Xiao, and Xu Chi from Kangjinlong, then dismissed the threat they posed.

• Princess Taiping presented a memorial arguing that Great Tang must not surrender Nine Bends, and Li Dan and Li Longji read it as the officials passed it around.
• Xiao Zhizhong, Cen Xi, and the other chancellors urged Li Dan to reject the proposal and investigate Yang Ju.
• Princess Taiping pressured Yang Ju into confessing that he had accepted bribes from Tubo’s tsenpo to secure the cession of Nine Bends.
• Li Dan ordered Yang Ju imprisoned and his accomplices hunted, then declared that Great Tang would not surrender Nine Bends.
• Lu Changfeng threatened Kangjinlong with making Liu Ciyuan suffer again, prompting Kangjinlong to reveal Xu Fu’s origins and describe Xu Xiao and Xu Chi’s abilities.
• Lu Changfeng dismissed Kangjinlong’s warning that Xu Xiao and Xu Chi would threaten him, and ordered the guards to lock Kangjinlong up.

On the way back from the banquet, Li Lingyue suffered a qi backlash and was nearly killed by an underground assassin, but Lu Changfeng saved her and treated her. The assassin escaped toward the imperial palace, while Li Lingyue recovered and quietly struggled with wanting more from her relationship with Lu Changfeng.

• Li Lingyue told Zhao Lanjun how Lu Changfeng's advice had helped her oppose ceding the Nine Bends region, then suffered a sudden surge of rampaging true qi.
• An assassin burst from beneath the road and attacked Li Lingyue with a steel whip, but Lu Changfeng deflected the killing blow with his Wind-Raising Sword.
• The assassin fled underground toward the imperial palace, and Lu Changfeng carried Li Lingyue back to the Princess's Residence after giving her a Blood Bodhi.
• Lu Changfeng used the Shennong Ruler and Shennong Qi to suppress Li Lingyue's qi backlash and warned her to rest and avoid cultivating.
• Li Lingyue and Lu Changfeng suspected the attacker might be framing Yue Zhenyuan, and Lu Changfeng urged her not to jump to conclusions.
• After Lu Changfeng left to stand guard, Li Lingyue reflected that she wanted more from him than their existing arrangement.

Lu Changfeng weighed the three paths ahead for Li Lingyue as her alliance with Li Longji appeared close to breaking down. He decided he could no longer leave her fate to chance, and their conversation ended with Li Lingyue acknowledging that he saw the danger clearly.

• Lu Changfeng examined the Spirit Rhinoceros Horn he had received for treating Li Lingyue, then considered how the present conflict was beginning to resemble history.
• Lu Changfeng compared three possible paths: Li Lingyue could surrender power, lose and flee with his help, or fight to defeat Li Longji; he believed she would reject surrender and that the other paths carried grave risks.
• Lu Changfeng recognized that his bond with Li Lingyue made him unwilling to abandon her, despite the danger and trouble of helping her prevail.
• Li Lingyue asked why Lu Changfeng was sighing, and he told her he was thinking about what lay ahead for her and the Crown Prince.
• Li Lingyue pointed out that Lu Changfeng had said Li Longji was not behind the assassination, and Lu Changfeng replied that he might be in the future; Li Lingyue acknowledged that he saw the situation clearly.