"Nothing. I just find the way the legacy was left behind rather strange. It wasn't preserved in scriptures or rune bones, but in a... burial cave like this. Do you usually dig through the ground and mountains like this to find legacies?"
Di Yi looked at Xiling Beast Mountain's Venerable Taowu as he asked.
"Oh, you mean that. No, that isn't how it works. It's just that our Beast Mountain's legacy is rather unusual," Venerable Taowu explained.
According to him, this was not a burial cave, but should instead be called a Zang Cave.
In ancient times, Divine Saints believed that after death, they should return to heaven and earth. Whether humans, animals, or plants, all were laid out in the wilderness, without a mound or marker, following the course of nature.
Later, however, coffins and outer coffins appeared, though no one knew where they originated. Gradually, Divine Saints changed from laying out their dead to burying them, with the sense of interring them amid the grasses.
Moreover, as time continued to pass, burial completely eclipsed the meaning of laying out the dead, even acquiring many other meanings. It blended with concepts such as graves and tombs, eventually evolving into a culture.
Of course, although Xiling Beast Mountain accepted this cultural shift, they were close to the West Mausoleum, after all, and adapted to local conditions. Their ancestors had all been laid directly in the wilderness, and naturally, they could be no exception.
"So that's how it is." Di Yi nodded. If that was the case, certain ways of passing down legacies in this newborn world were not incomprehensible.
After all, the beings who left those legacies did not consider the places where they died, or "slumbered," to be graves. Instead, they regarded them as heaven and earth, as nature.