He shrugs lightly, they all used to be able to do a lot of things, he's sure. Even if he couldn't cultivate properly before, he'd still had his talismans. Now he was barely more effective than the average man. If that.

"Mm, that's it. A friend of yours has it, or did, when I met him. He got it completely wrong though!" Unrequited, what a bunch of nonsense!

The man still looked confused, so Wei Wuxian tried to explain what was difficult enough for him to wrap his head around.

"Right, anyway, so there's two of us. We're both Wei Wuxian, just. Different. Our histories are similar but diverge in places, so we figured we're from different worlds. Lan Zha- ah- It's the same for Lan Wangji as well. Soul-twins maybe? I don't know if there's actually a word for it."