Given Wen Yan's demeanor when he fell just now, he was definitely intent on killing them all; how could he possibly be aiding their salvation?
That can only mean that this was not subjectively controlled by Wen Yan.
He thought again about the first Ghost to be freed—it hadn't even been dead for a hundred years. Moreover, after its death, it actually had an opportunity to find a replacement. But since it had only recently died, and the person it encountered was a guard patrolling the sea, it didn't have the heart to act. It even helped the other to a wooden raft, letting them drift back to shore with the ocean currents.
The Long Blade Floating Ghost felt certain that the individual must have accumulated virtue in the past to have been freed before completely losing its mind.
