Liu Province City, Liang Family ancestral grounds, ancestral cemetery.
Cultivators who specialized in the Dao of music played mournful ritual music nearby. With Liang Zhaohuang at the head, the family's descendants stood before the graves and recited the Scripture of Deliverance for the more than one hundred newly buried family members.
No one truly knew whether reincarnation existed in this world. But since cultivation to immortality was possible, reincarnation and rebirth presumably existed as well.
It was said that the Scripture of Deliverance had been passed down by an ascended immortal from some unknown era in this world's distant past. Supposedly, it could deliver souls and allow them to enter reincarnation.
No one knew the truth of it. In any case, over the years, any family with the means would recite the Scripture of Deliverance when burying relatives or clansmen. Whether it worked or not was unknown, but at least it offered comfort and something to pin their hopes on.
Liang Zhaohuang led the clansmen and the students of the clan school in reciting the Scripture of Deliverance thirty-six times, then proceeded to the ancestral shrine at the center of the family cemetery.
The ancestral shrine housed the memorial tablets of Liang Family members. At the very top were the tablets of Saint Duke Liang, his wives, concubines, and the like. The second row held the tablets of Eldest Uncle Liang Xuexin, Liang Xuelin, Fifth Uncle Liang Xuegui, their wives and concubines, and so on. The third row was for the Zhaohuang generation and their wives and concubines, the fourth for the Ruiqin generation, the fifth for the Xiang generation, the sixth for the Zhong generation, and the seventh for the Hou generation.
Originally, the fourth row, belonging to the Ruiqin generation, had contained the most memorial tablets. Yet after