of course, lbh is not thanking sj and rather planning his revenge.

mbj realises that oh, that's sj, and explains that he heard that there was a demon in the sect of a powerful bloodline. the endless abyss opens and sj punts lbh in without another word. the little beast might as well get stronger! he should thank sj!

fast-forward to the iac, where mbj shows up. lbh is hesitant to defend his scummy teacher, but sj has it covered and defeats the ice demon. his jaw hits the ground when sj slaps mbj over the head with his fan. "xiao mobei! what are you doing here?"

shl recognises him and abruptly decides that she left the microwave on at home so she has to take her entire army and retreat. sj naturally has a ton of suspicion thrown on him because of lqg but the war god says it wasn't him so the subject is dropped.

sj decides that isn't his problem and fucks off to the lx caves, at which point he has to break most of lqg's bones to stop him from attacking but at least he's alive 👍 when he exits, he's greeted with jiuzhong-jun's daughter attacking the sect.

then the dream demon meng mo starts poking around. sj opens up his mind so he can enter his dream and then grills him until he spills about what he's up to with lbh.

literal bunhe! he's so cute oml and i love how angry lqg is

right?? i have more ideas but unfortunately the first thing i thought of was that they can bond over qi deviations

i got scared for a moment that he was using his dream powers to torment sj oh lord

i fear that baoshan sanren sj is quickly taking over my head