Human-Demon Devouring Art!
Wei Fan glanced sideways slightly. The name sounded like some heretical demonic martial art.
Zhou Shaobing continued, "The Commander said that back then, the Ning Family relied on this Human-Demon Devouring Art to slaughter demons until all under heaven trembled in fear. Eighty percent of the credit for the founding of Chu Kingdom belonged to the Ning Family.
"At their peak, it was said that even the founding ancestor of Chu Kingdom had to clasp his hands and address the Ning Family Ancestor as elder brother. The Ning Family Ancestor's status was even higher than the founding ancestor's!"
One strange art had forged a family glorious beyond measure, and had even helped establish Chu Kingdom, making even emperors bow their heads.
Only outsiders like Wei Fan did not know such legends. Within Chu Kingdom, however, most people of the martial world knew of the Ning Family's glorious past.
Unfortunately, the height of glory was decline. Today, the Ning Family did not even have a Martial Venerable expert, and had fallen so far that it needed to control gangs to rake in money.
"What happened? How did such a powerful family decline to its current state?"
Wei Fan was puzzled!
For a family this powerful, unless some great calamity had struck, remaining glorious for several thousand years would not have been difficult. Yet judging by the time since Chu Kingdom's founding, the Ning Family's glory seemed to have lasted only a few centuries.
Zhou Shaobing sighed. "The Ning Family Ancestor relied on the Human-Demon Devouring Art to slaughter demons until they trembled in fear. That also earned him the demons' hatred. It is said that during one outing, several Demon Kings joined forces to besiege him and blasted him apart alive.
"After that, Ning Family experts fell one