"Yes, precisely!" Shen Yuan says cheerfully, relieved that his explanation did its job. It's only second time he's given it, after all. "We, and all the other Sleepers, have been moved from our own books to someplace new, as though someone carefully snipped our characters out of the page and pasted them onto a new one. For my part," he continues happily, seizing this opportunity to loredump with both hands, "this is the second time I've traveled between dimensions in this way. I was born in a world with advanced technology but no cultivation, and then traveled -- works of fiction in that world called it 'transmigration' -- into a world where among other things I learned how to cultivate. I lived in that world nearly four years before waking up on the Farthest Shores here. So if Lan Xichen has more questions, I stand a better chance of being able to answer them than many other people he might encounter."