In the Upper Realm, there is an unwritten saying: 'A thousand-year old family, a ten-thousand-year clan.'
A legacy spanning thousands of years, regardless of its underlying strength, can only be called a family.
Only those who remain immortal through ten thousand years can be called clans.
And the bloodlines of these clans are far more complex than Chu Zheng imagined. Although they all revere the bloodline and maintain this vast clan system, their internal structure is not entirely patriarchal as Chu Zheng expected.
There is another type, the matrilineal clans, where women are the foundation of the legacy families.
These clan bloodlines mostly manifest with naturally born spiritual bodies, and it can only appear in women, such as the Pure Yin Body, Psychic Mysterious Body, and so on.
In these clans, women typically hold power, and they never marry outside the clan, only taking husbands into the family.
