Qin Siyang frowned and asked, "What task?"
The Star Ray did not answer directly. He merely sighed. "It's all the Second Domain Master's fault for being so shortsighted. He refused to leave his domain to take my trial, and even tried to use the power of gods to kill me, ruining a perfectly good situation. Otherwise, he would have had a very good chance of winning, and I could have completed my task alive."
"But in the end, I failed."
"My father cares a great deal about saving face. If he finds out his son was such a disappointment, he might scatter my remains himself rather than let me be buried in our ancestral graveyard."
"Lord Holy Star Ray... you have ancestral graveyards too? I thought that was a cultural custom unique to humans."
"Because of bloodline inheritance, concerns about family and ancestors, while not universal values, are far from uncommon."
The Star Ray explained, "Identifying with one's family is a sign of socialization, and one of the common evolutionary paths toward civilization. There's nothing surprising about it."
As his horizons broadened, Qin Siyang had encountered all sorts of strange things. Though this was his first time hearing about the internal affairs of a race of gods, he found it understandable.
After all, in his previous world, many animals lived in groups and had developed their own forms of socialization.
There was nothing wrong with Star Rays having ancestral graveyards.
The Star Ray added, "Besides, we have fairly close cultural ties with humans."
"Giving you my corpse should help you with quite a few things. In exchange, I hope you'll bring news of my death to my kind."
"But you've been here for decades. Don't your kind already know you're dead?"
The Star Ray still did not answer Qin Siyang's