Hassu ordered some of the Demon Hunters to remain behind in the Family Hall to monitor whether any remnants of the Chaos Shadow were still lurking there, while he himself led several elite Demon Hunters, including Bai Huo, and set off with Hao Ren for the Ankatro Family's ancestral resting place.
Under Andal's guidance, they arrived at the resting place's location—the unusually enormous obelisk Wayne had mentioned before.
The obelisk stood in the center of a vast, empty plaza. It rose three to four hundred meters high and had a solemn, imposing three-tiered structure, with each level narrowing inward. At its peak was a huge metal device suspended high in the air. No other buildings could be seen around the obelisk. The empty plaza contained only a few orderly, sparsely distributed golden pillars, with light coiling around them. It was impossible to tell what they were for.
This was the Tanans' family resting place. Hao Ren had originally expected it to be a gloomier place. After all, it was essentially a super-large cemetery. Yet the atmosphere here gave no such impression at all. It was filled with warmth and light, somewhat like a massive landscaped structure. The way this place had been designed showed how seriously the Tanans took funerary matters.
Unlike other races, the Tanans had relatively short lifespans. Though they still lived far longer than humans, they were considered a short-lived race compared with Demon Hunters or Vampires. Thus, their family territories contained such large-scale burial grounds and featured highly formal funeral customs. Funerals were somewhat less important in Demon Hunter culture. Most of them died in battle during their later years, and their bodies were usually difficult to preserve, so their funerals were simple and plain. Vampires, on the other hand, were the race among all the