As soon as the divine decree was issued, the races that had joined the Divine Dao were the first to respond.
The East Sea Dragon Clan was the first to act.
After returning to the East Sea, Ancestral Dragon summoned the Four Seas Dragon Kings.
He dispatched the nine direct-lineage dragons who had carried the coffin at the funeral to dragon settlements throughout the Four Seas, having them personally demonstrate the funerary rites to their clansmen.
Just then, an elderly dragon in the East Sea Dragon Palace exhausted his lifespan, and his primordial spirit dissipated. Ao Yuan personally presided over the Dragon Clan's first funerary rites.
The old dragon's remains were placed in a coffin fashioned from ten-thousand-year-old coral.
A simplified version of the funerary runes was carved into the coffin. The Dragon Clan Water Gods used water as a conduit to wash away the lingering attachments of the old dragon's divine soul.
Then they sank the coffin deep into the East Sea Eye, allowing the deceased to return to the origin of the Four Seas.
The moment these funerary rites were completed, the Heavenly Dao bestowed a faint beam of merit golden light.
Although it was nowhere near as vast as at Father God's funeral, every dragon who participated in the funeral felt that gentle response from the laws.
The water god law deity at Ao Yuan's brow glimmered faintly. He could clearly sense that his Heavenly Dao karmic force had diminished by another sliver.
After the news spread, the Four Seas Dragon Clan followed suit. Dragons whose lifespans were nearing their end or who fell along the path of cultivation were all properly buried by their clansmen with funerary rites.
Whenever a funeral was completed, the Heavenly Dao bestowed some measure of merit. Under the blessing of the