(There) (are) (flat) (outdoor) (areas) (where) (the) (ground) (is) (soft)

"It'll do."

Time passes. She is tutored in the language, mostly by Sizhui and Jingyi while they aren't in classes, and in cultivation, mostly by Wangji. Other Lan disciples with sufficient mastery of Inquiry fill in when neither of these is available. Food continues to be available in adequate quantities and higher quality than that first night, although if she pays attention she may notice that she never has to fill her bowl herself from the communal serving dishes. A few times people come to her to report minor training accidents; nothing major, but better averted if possible. 

After almost a week, Lan Wangji asks her if she feels up to accompanying a night hunt as a precognitive warning system. 

She walks around in circles on soft ground for her meditation, looking ahead the entire time so she can report training accident related interruptions and cheat really hard at gathering spiritual energy. And sure, she'll come along as long as she can be well back from the action given that if someone fucks up and doesn't tell her what's going on she will not be able to run away yet.

That is fine. 

The night-hunt goes smoothly; the class of teenagers Lan Wangji is supervising take down a handful of walking corpses with no injuries and figure out what idiot was robbing graves and prompting corpses to get pissed off and rise from them. 

"Why don't you just... cremate people... if you have a recurring zombie issue."

Walking corpses are easier to deal with than angry ghosts. 

"I guess that answers that. Why do the ghosts get angry about cremations?"

The thing isn't so much that ghosts get angry about cremations, it's that dead people get angry about not having a proper burial, or about having their graves disturbed, and once they do get angry you really want them to be stuck to a shambling rotten meatsack that can only do physical violence and not like curses. 

"...why do they gain the ability to perform curses if freed of their corporeal forms. That's so weird!"

(Beings) (which) (have) (bodies) (are) (to) (some) (extent) (constrained) (by) (physical) (limitations) (as) (well) (as) (benefits) 

(An) (angry) (ghost) (is) (essentially) (pure) (resentful) (energy) (and) (can) (therefore) (manipulate) (resentful) (energy) (naturally)

"I don't suppose this could all be solved with a cultural shift towards it being expected that dead people will not care at all about their interment conditions and instead care about normal things like, uh, having company and hobbies and stuff, a normal person amount and not a curses amount."

(Resentful) (energy) (does) (not) (work) (that) (way) 

(Usually) 

(There) (has) (only) (been) (one) (case) (of) (a) (dead) (person) (restored) (to) (full) (consciousness) 

(The) (Ghost) (General)

"And the Ghost General is, like, okay, just biologically dead?"

(He) (was) 

"...then what?"

(He) (died) (again) 

(Not) (because) (of) (how) (he) (was) (put) (together) 

(The) (Jin) (clan) (executed) (him) 

"Why?"

(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)