Chapter 1005: The Structure Of The Hu Clan
Now that even Hu Dagao was under the control of Lin Wu, Kulung had nothing to worry about. After all, with their status, the commoners would not amount to anything at all. Especially when there was a monster like Lin Wu watching over everything.
While Kulung took care of the city’s situation Lin Wu continued his dialog with Hu Dagao.
“Tell me everything about your clan, its members, as well as the cultivation methods.” Lin Wu ordered.
This was the first set of information that he needed to obtain so that he could further clarify his steps. After getting this, Lin Wu would be able to figure more about the Hu continent as well as link it to the missing history of the Ming Dao world.
With the interfering of the Skull God in the past, it was obvious that a large part had been erased.
‘Seems like the memories I obtained from the avatar of the Skull god truly were just a fragment of the whole. He has done a lot more than what I learned so far.’ Lin Wu understood.
Hu Dagao started from his clan and its members first.
The overall structure of the Hu clan was similar to that of a sect. At the lowest level were the servants, who were either from the servant families that belonged to the Hu clan, or had joined the Hu clan in order to gain some fortune for themselves.
With the Hu clan being the ruling authority in the continent, there was no lack of cultivators throwing themselves to become the servants of the clan. In fact, it wasn’t uncommon for some big merchant or lord of an area to just be a servant of the Hu clan.
Then above the servants were the external branch members of the Hu clan. These were the people that were spread around the continent and were in charge of administration of provinces. Even if they were called provinces, these were in fact the territories of the former kingdoms that used to exist.
The external branches controlled the provinces and ensured that everything was according to the will of the superiors.
Then above the external branches was the main branch of the Hu clan. This was located in the prime land of the Hu clan and was also called as the sacred land of the Hu continent. This had people that were directly linked to the founders of the Hu clan and the original ancestors.
They were differentiated from the external branches by the virtue of their bloodline purity. Hu Dagao said that there were special spirit tools that could determine the bloodline purity of one’s body.
The ones in the external branches were all those that had married outside of the clan many times or those members whose bloodline purity had fallen naturally.
Hearing this Lin Wu wondered just how much inbreeding happened in the main branch of the Hu clan. But then he learned that the Hu clan actually had methods to resolve that.
There wasn’t much inbreeding and the Hu clan had already developed methods to keep their bloodline pure even while marrying outsiders. Women and men of the main branch could marry talented outsiders and the bloodline of their offspring would still be good enough to stay in the branch.
They would then nourish these children with special treasures and let them cultivate the techniques of the clan that could help nurture their bloodline. In addition to this, the children could then be married within the clan to their distant cousins.
This would prevent any bad characteristics from appearing and still keep the offspring strong.
But above the main branch, there was still something stronger. There were thousands upon thousands of members of the Hu clan, but the core members were just a little over a hundred.
The core of the clan consisted of the ancestors, patriarchs, grand elders, high elders, as well as the direct heirs of the clan. Hu Dagao was one such member and thus his authority was quite high.
In fact, he could directly order any provincial branch of the Hu clan if he chose to do so.
This was also how he had expanded his scope of control over the Hu continent, directly becoming the fourth strongest heir despite being tenth in the age ranking.
Coming to this part, Lin Wu inquired about the other heirs that were stronger than him.
And it was a little entertaining for Lin Wu to hear about this too.
Apparently, the strongest heir wasn’t the first heir, but the second one. And not just that, but the second heir was actually a girl. She was the eldest sister of Hu Dagao and was over six hundred years old as of now.
She had also reached the Dao Treading realm and was quite strong.
The second strongest heir was the first heir. He was the eldest brother of Hu Dagao and was also in the Dao Treading realm.
Then there was the third strongest heir, which was the fifth heir. He was also the most reclusive of all heirs and was apparently out searching for some fortune for about thirty years.
Above the heirs, there was the patriarch of the Hu clan, Hu Dagao’s father.
He too was at the Dao Treading realm and was at the Dao Comprehension Stage. He was twelve hundred years old as of now.
Finally above him, there was the Ancestor of the Hu clan.
Hu Dagao had never seen the ancestor in person and wasn’t related to him directly either. The same could be said for the patriarch.
Apparently, the ancestor of the Hu clan was some great, great, great uncle of the current patriarch. The direct line of the ancestor had lost their talent, and thus another line was now the ruling line.
In addition to all this, Lin Wu also got to learn more about the cultivation technique of the Hu clan. It was pretty much on the same level as that of the Long clan, and Lin Wu reckoned they were equally matched in this aspect.
