The Sovereign did not reply immediately. Instead, he lowered his head and paced back and forth beneath the Tree of Life, seemingly struggling to make a difficult decision.
After a long while, he looked at You Yexiang and asked, "Aunt, the age-old custom of Grand Primordial Palace has always been to store the deceased in their intact bodies within mausoleums. If I issue a decree that all deceased individuals in the Great Yan Empire must be processed through 'tree burial'—meaning all corpses are brought here to be devoured by the Tree of Life—will the royal family, the aristocracy, and the commoners launch a fierce opposition?"
"Actually, I've long wanted to suggest that the Sovereign have the dead cremated!" You Yexiang bluffed with a straight face. "The territory of Grand Primordial Palace is only so large. The mausoleums and public cemeteries of the various races alone occupy a massive amount of national land. If this continues, the entire Grand Primordial Palace will turn into one giant graveyard!"
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