"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)

"Gosh. So why is Sect Leader Jiang so, uh, vehement, these days, exactly?"

(I) (do) (not) (claim) (to) (understand) (Jiang) (Wan) (yin) 

(but) 

(He) (blames) (him) (for) (the) (death) (of) (their) (sister) 

Nod.

(Even) (if) (you) (reconstruct) (the) (technique) (which) (bought) (Wen) (Ning) (a) (few) (more) (months) (it) (may) (require) (a) (comparatively) (intact) (body)

"Yeah, that would limit its usefulness, but plenty of random people must die of old age or - oh, man, I'm surprised I haven't already come down with a bunch of local diseases, I hope I wasn't carrying anything when I arrived -"

(?)

Huh, he can just music up a question mark by itself, cool. "Uh, contact between separate populations can sometimes cause disease outbreaks because groups have resistance to the diseases that are usually around them but not to others. Since there's just one of me and I wasn't sick when I got here, I'm probably in more danger than you, but I think denser populations also wind up with more local diseases and I'm from a densely populated city. It could be fine though."