Half a month later.
King Yongtai's funeral took place as scheduled.
Qin Hao personally closed King Yongtai's coffin and helped carry it.
King Yongtai's final resting place was set atop the Sacred Mountain, the highest peak outside the Holy City.
Even in death, King Yongtai could still look out over this Earth Doppelganger—the land he had loved enough to give his life for.
The Storm Sovereign, Illusion Master Lingyan, Azure Li Lord, Lord Zhenheng, and the others had stayed to see King Yongtai off one last time.
Jing Hong, Sikong Xuan, Marquis Chiling, Marquis Yanshan, and many others were there as well. So was... every resident of the Holy City.
The vast procession blanketed the sky and the Earth Doppelganger. Everywhere one looked, there were people.
Mu Ziqing followed behind Qin Hao. Qin Yuntian, Qi Yuelan, and the other Qin Family Disciples were farther back, along with every elder and disciple of the Myriad Phenomena Hall.
Three days earlier, Qin Hao had brought Mu Ziqing out of his Self-World. After more than ten days of cleansing by the World Spirit, her Divine Body had naturally advanced into an Ultimate Divine Body.
More importantly, the cleansing had pushed Mu Ziqing's cultivation forward. She was on the verge of reaching King-Sealing Creation.
That was an unexpected delight.
For now, though, King Yongtai's funeral mattered most, so Mu Ziqing was in no hurry to break through.
Atop the Sacred Mountain.
"Farewell, King Yongtai."
"King Yongtai is immortal!"
Everyone bowed as Qin Hao and Jing Hong placed King Yongtai's coffin in position together.
King Yongtai's was not the only coffin.
Many Warriors and Creation cultivators of the True Martial Continent who had fallen in this battle were also laid to rest atop the Sacred Mountain.
"In the Star Sea, no powerhouse lasts forever."
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