Perhaps they have been transported to where we were supposed to be.

[ She sounds like a normal cultivator to him, so he's not really bothered by this revelation, but he is bothered by how it makes Xie Lian stop smiling. ]

A soul swap. But an accident of this magnitude...

[ It would be something out of their control, like Tong'lu. That mountain really was causing quite a stir. Maybe there was something else, a more ancient magic, that worked similarly, but had long since been forgotten. ]

I would still find it unlikely. If we are here together, but pulled from different times.

[ Which means, to Hua Cheng, that they didn't come as a unit. ]