This funeral ceremony lasted from day to night, and then until the sun rose the next day, before it finally concluded.
Although the Emperor's burial date was abruptly decided, the necessary rituals could not be omitted, only tailored to special circumstances with slight simplifications. Jiang Li and his two disciples couldn't abstain from attending the funeral for inexplicable reasons; such would have been far too irregular.
Yet, fundamentally, Jiang Li participating in this Great Emperor's funeral itself could very well become a source of dark humor.
Even so, Tianxuan and Gongsun Qingyue gained substantial insights from this discourse.
During the process, they were at times dazzled and entranced, their eyes unfocused; at times, they sang aloud, their voices lingered in the air for three days; at times they hummed softly, their sounds mournful and enchanting, like lament and admiration, like weeping and storytelling, lingering like a delicate thread...
