All the members of the Wang Family watched, wide-eyed, as their Patriarch, Wang Daoming, was swarmed by countless attackers. In an instant, not even his bones remained.
BOOM!
In that moment, the thousands of Wang Family members scattered like monkeys when a tree falls. Having completely lost the will to fight, they each tore open the void and fled in all directions.
The Wang Family, once a renowned and powerful name in Celestial Brilliance, was thus annihilated.
The whole affair seemed utterly absurd, yet it exposed the greatest weakness of a large, established family.
The Patriarch is like the lead ram of a flock. Wherever the leader goes, the flock follows. If the lead ram misjudges and leaps off a cliff, the rest of the flock will follow it over the edge.
Countless examples of this exist in the natural world.
A flock of birds following its leader in the wrong direction; a pod of whales following its leader to become beached on the sand...
