After the great battle ended, it did not take long before banners and pennants covered all of Mount Guyang.
The sect's hard-won prestige had been built upon the sacrifice of countless fellow cultivators. Naturally, the Carefree Sect had to properly arrange the affairs left behind by them and give these sect disciples honorable burials.
For this reason, Song Qingming, Song Qingyu, and Huang Siyuan had made a special trip to the sect to see off their old fellow sect member, Jin Ziyuan.
Jin Ziyuan was a cultivator of roughly the same generation as Li Wutong. His lifespan was already nearing five hundred years, yet his cultivation had still failed to break through to the Golden Core Sixth Layer.
Like True Person Guangling, who had sacrificed himself for the sect years ago, Jin Ziyuan had also been a cultivator whose path had come to an end and whose potential had been exhausted before his death.
Knowing that he had no hope of advancing to the Nascent Soul Realm in this lifetime, Jin Ziyuan had somewhat neglected his cultivation in recent years. This had caused his combat ability to decline significantly, allowing enemy cultivators to seize an opening during the great battle at Nanyue Marketplace.
As fellow senior and junior brothers, Jin Ziyuan and Song Qingming had enjoyed a fairly good relationship among the sect elders. Song Qingming truly felt a touch of sorrow at his sudden passing.
Still, for an old cultivator like Jin Ziyuan, whose path had run out of potential, to die in battle for the sect rather than alone upon a sickbed was rather fitting for the fiery temperament he had carried throughout his life.
Thanks to the immense merit he had earned by dying for the sect this time, the sect's Logistics Hall would give additional care