There was a large difference between a just end and an unjust one. He didn't know the full story, of what caused Wei Wuxian to become so burdened, but Ye Zun was sure that such failings were not entirely on him. After all, if he was in a war and the time after, it was certain to have left marks in his mind that were easy to twist, especially in front of people who thought they knew better.

"Yes," Ye Zun replied, frowning down at the flagon of ale. A simple answer, but better than trying to explain the Hallows and what came before.

"Are you sure that you escaped the source, or was it only a parasite trying to use you for it's own ends?"

The Hallows had been forged by craftsmen that used fragments of technology of the ship and pieces of the stars. They could seal and heal and at the same also could strip and damage and control. Ye Zun may not understand them fully but he knew that they saw him and decided he was as much as a threat to them as the torn earth was. Why else would they have imprisoned him?