As the Wealth Dao flourished, the Way of Burial also spread throughout the Primordial World under Randeng's advocacy.
Randeng was the mighty figure who had been invested as the Funerary God.
Ever since Pan Xuan had held the Primordial World's first funeral for the Father God and established the Way of Burial, Randeng had taken it upon himself to spread its practices.
He knew well that, although the Way of Burial seemed merely a rite by which the living bid farewell to the dead, it in fact held the Primordial World's most profound teachings.
It was reverence for life, respect for death, the preservation of familial bonds, and awe of cause and effect.
On this day, Randeng emerged from the Earth Immortal Realm, set foot in the mortal world, and began his journey to spread the practices of burial.
He first preached the meaning of burial in the cities of the Human Race.
Standing upon a high platform, he slowly began, "All living beings experience life and death. This is the constant order of the Heavenly Dao.
"Yet how the living should face the dead, and how the dead might depart in peace-within these matters lies the Great Dao.
"Our Primordial World established the Way of Burial precisely to make all living beings understand.
"The living honor the dead, and the dead shelter the living; attend carefully to the departed and honor distant ancestors, and the people's virtue will deepen!"
He taught the Human Race to establish ancestral temples and make offerings to their forebears.
On each anniversary of an ancestor's death, mortals would burn incense and pay their respects within the ancestral temples, remembering the virtues of those who had gone before them.
The elders of their clans also often recounted their ancestors' deeds to their descendants within the