Predictably, Lan Wangji begins immediately to consider whether Wei Ying received any perks when he died. Thirteen years of nonspecific half-conscious agony certainly don't count as perks. Mo Xuanyu was a worse cultivator -- but he, at least, still had the potential to form a new golden core, where that had been sliced out of Wei Ying's first body permanently. That has been a great boon. "Mn," he says, noncommittal.