(Have) (you) (heard) (anything) (about) (Yi) (ling) (Lao) (zu) 

"Yes, apparently people have been hunting for his spirit for ten years."

(Yi) (ling) (Lao) (zu) (Wei) (Wu) (xian) (invented) (demonic) (cultivation) (a) (new) (kind) (of) (cultivation) (that) (harnesses) (resentful) (energy) (instead) (of) (subduing) (it) 

(He) (used) (it) (to) (help) (win) (the) (war) (against) (the) (tyrannical) (Qi) (shan) (Wen) (sect) 

(Previously) (there) (were) (five) (great) (sects) (instead) (of) (four) (with) (Qi) (san) (Wen) (at) (the) (head) 

(But) (they) (became) (cruel) (and) (dangerous) (and) (the) (other) (four) (were) (forced) (to) (take) (up) (arms) 

(Wei) (Wu) (xian) (was) (considered) (a) (war) (hero) 

(After) (the) (war) (the) (survivors) (of) (the) (Wen) (clan) (were) (put) (in) (labor) (camps) (by) (the) (Jin) (sect)

(Wen) (Ning) (was) (a) (Wen) (who) (had) (helped) (Wei) (Wu) (xian) (during) (the) (war) 

(Wei) (Wu) (xian) (found) (out) (that) (he) (was) (being) (mistreated) (in) (the) (camp) 

(He) (went) (to) (the) (camp) (and) (found) (all) (the) (prisoners) (being) (treated) (badly) (and) (Wen) (Ning) (dead) 

(He) (killed) (the) (overseer) (and) (brought) (all) (the) (survivors) (and) (the) (fierce) (corpse) (of) (Wen) (Ning) (to) (Yi) (ling) 

(The) (Jin) (sect) (was) (very) (angry) 

(Wei) (Wu) (xian) (found) (a) (way) (to) (restore) (Wen) (Ning's) (consciousness) 

(Wei) (Wu) (xian) (and) (Wen) (Ning) (were) (on) (their) (way) (to) (attend) (Wei) (Wu) (xian's) (nephew's) (one) (month) (ceremony) (when) (Jin) (Zi) (xun) (ambushed) (them) 

(Jin) (Zi) (xuan) (attempted) (to) (intervene) (and) (became) (a) (casualty) (at) (Wen) (Ning's) (hand) 

(Jin) (Zi) (xuan) (was) (the) (heir) 

(The) (Jin) (sect) (was) (out) (for) (blood) 

(Wen) (Ning) (surrendered) (himself) (to) (the) (Jins) (to) (be) (executed) (in) (order) (to) (protect) (Wei) (Wu) (xian) (and) (the) (other) (Wen) (survivors) 

(It) (did) (not) (work)

(The) (Jins) (gathered) (the) (sects) (in) (Nightless) (City) (where) (the) (Wen) (sect) (once) (ruled) (to) (collectively) (declare) (war) (on) (Wei) (Wu) (xian) 

(Wei) (Wu) (xian) (showed) (up) (to) (speak) (to) (them) 

(Somebody) (attempted) (to) (kill) (him) 

(His) (sister) (got) (between) (them) 

(She) (died) 

(He) (lost) (control) 

(Many) (of) (those) (gathered) (died) 

(A) (month) (later) (the) (entire) (cultivation) (world) (besieged) (Yi) (ling) 

(Everyone) (within) (was) (killed) 

"Wow okay."

(There) (have) (been) (many) (attempts) (over) (the) (years) (to) (summon) (and) (bind) (Wei) (Wu) (xian's) (spirit) 

(None) (have) (succeeded) 

(Most) (believe) (he) (has) (passed) (on) 

"I'm sure there are more sides to this story but it does seem peculiar if the way you're describing it is accurate that he'd be the only one people'd be after."

(I) (do) (not) (know) (what) (happened) (to) (Wen) (Ning's) (spirit) 

(Nobody) (else) (was) (feared) (the) (way) (Wei) (Wu) (xian) (was) (at) (the) (end)

(He) (created) (an) (entirely) (new) (way) (of) (cultivation) (and) (against) (the) (Wens) (he) (raised) (obedient) (armies) (of) (corpses) 

(Nobody) (could) (control) (him) 

(Even) (when) (he) (was) (on) (the) (same) (side) (as) (everyone) (else) (he) (did) (what) (he) (believed) (was) (right) (with) (no) (concessions) (to) (political) (concerns)

(People) (began) (to) (turn) (against) (him) (after) (the) (war) (before) (he) (actually) (did) (anything) 

"I see."

(I) (will) (not) (say) (that) (he) (caused) (no) (harm) 

(but) 

(what) (was) (done) (to) (him) (was) (unjust) 

"Lots of injustice to go around. So - the entire cultivator subculture is recovering from a couple smallish genocides, that's, uh, rough."

(Yes)

"And nobody else knows how to replicate the Ghost General thing and bring everybody back okay sometime after the political dust has settled?"

(There) (are) (other) (demonic) (cultivators) (now) (but) (none) (as) (skilled)

"What does that boil down to, like, do they not meditate enough - I assume there are more complicated steps someone will explain to me when I have meditated enough -"

(Demonic) (cultivation) (involves) (less) (meditation) (than) (conventional) (cultivation) 

(Wei) (Wu) (xian) (was) (a) (genius) 

(I) (do) (not) (know) (what) (he) (did) (to) (bring) (Wen) (Ning) (back) (but) (I) (assume) (it) (was) (complicated) 

"Huh.

Would he have written it down in a useful form ever?"

(Probably) 

(But) (if) (any) (of) (his) (notes) (survived) (the) (siege) (I) (imagine) (they) (were) (taken) (as) (trophies) 

"No, yeah, I don't mean can one recover a physical copy, I mean psions can learn to see the past."

Oh

(Then) (probably) (yes) 

(Watching) (what) (he) (did) (to) (Wen) (Ning's) (body) (would) (likely) (also) (be) (useful) 

(Do) (not) (mention) (any) (plans) (to) (take) (up) (Yi) (ling) (Lao) (zu's) (work) (to) (others) 

(Most) (people) (would) (not) (understand) 

(The) (Jiang) (sect) (leader) (captures) (any) (demonic) (cultivators) (he) (can) (find) (and) (drags) (them) (back) (to) (Lotus) (Pier) (where) (they) (are) (never) (heard) (from) (again) 

"Maybe I will move to Japan first or something. Anyway, this'd take me a long time unless there's a way to hack psionics with cultivation same as the other way around, but, like, people are dead, and around here people being dead is even more problematic than people being dead in the way I'm used to."

(There) (are) (those) (I) (am) (not) (remotely) (unhappy) (are) (dead) 

(But) (I) (would) (gladly) (see) (them) (live) (if) (it) (meant) (those) (I) (have) (lost) (could) (open) (their) (eyes) (again) 

"If only everyone can come to such an enlightened compromise position."

(It) (is) (unlikely) 

(Sect) (leader) (Jiang) (was) (Wei) (Wu) (xian's) (brother) (once) 

"...they have different surnames, what's the deal there?"

(Wei) (Wu) (xian's) (parents) (were) (friends) (of) (the) (previous) (sect) (leader)

(When) (they) (died) (he) (took) (in) (their) (child)