Parting in Life and Death, Song Xinyu's Path of Cultivation

Standing in the family cemetery behind the mountain, gazing at the hundred-odd newly added tombstones, Song Qingming, Song Qingyu, and the other family elders all felt heavy-hearted.

Most of the family cultivators who had fallen on the battlefield were older cultivators of the "Yuan" and "Chang" generations.

Many of them had grown up step by step under Song Qingming's watch after he came to the mountain. Though these clansmen had not achieved any eye-catching, towering merits for the family, every one of them had made the contribution they ought to have made to its development.

On this important day of bidding farewell to all the family cultivators who had died in battle, Song Yuanli and the other cultivators wounded on the battlefield who had yet to recover also insisted on leaving seclusion and coming to the family graveyard to see off these old relatives and friends.

Those who had been grievously wounded on the battlefield yet fortunately survived had likewise taken a turn before the gates of hell. Seeing the tombstones before them now, their hearts were filled with countless emotions.

When Song Yuanli had been injured in the great battle at Jinshan Market, he had remained somewhat unhappy that his severe wounds had delayed his future cultivation.

But seeing this scene now, he gradually came to terms with much of it.

Compared to those clansmen who had sacrificed themselves on the battlefield, the fact that they had survived was already the favor of heaven. What more could they ask for? How important could one's personal path of cultivation be compared with the family's honor and disgrace, or one's own life and fortune?

In the several hundred years since the Song Family had been founded, this was the first time so many cultivators had died on the battlefield. Thus, the