Watching the enormous claw settle perfectly into place and the imprisoning aura around the body quietly loosen, Qin He could not help grinning and clapping his hands in excitement.
This was his first time handling a corpse of such caliber, and his method had further vindicated the Corpse Burners' tradition.
Before burning a corpse, purify it first, so the dead could depart with dignity.
That was the charm of a legacy. Whether it was useful or not, whatever explanations people offered, its most essential step had been passed down.
The ape corpse's right claw had now been restored, but its ruined state remained painfully conspicuous.
More than half its skull was missing, and two enormous holes gaped straight through its chest and abdomen. It was still a broken, ravaged corpse.
Qin He swept his hand, light and shadow shifting around him as dozens of ethereal clones emerged from his body.
Countless nimble figures scattered in every direction, racing toward every corner of the hundred-mile expanse of the Void Domain, carefully searching every heap of ruins and every fissure in the void.
This Ancient Giant Ape had possessed an immensely powerful body. When he fell in that bloody battle all those years ago, his limbs had most likely only been torn off by brute force and his body shattered; many of his severed remains might not have been completely annihilated.
Perhaps they were merely scattered and buried among the ruins of this Forbidden Void, concealed beneath layer upon layer of ancient dust and turbulent currents.
The clones searched swiftly, overlooking no suspicious mass of heavy wreckage.
After just half a day, a sudden mental signal arrived from the clone searching farthest afield.
Beneath the lowest layer of shattered rock in the Void Domain's northwest corner lay an enormous fragment of skull.