Grandpa's sudden words left all three of us present wearing stunned expressions.
Grandpa actually had a book on Curse-Suppression Art?
Although curse-suppression techniques were considered a "heterodox path" in this day and age, that was because they originated from a branch of witchcraft and were primarily used to harm people.
Very few people still knew how to use them, and even fewer understood them.
Yet anyone who knew of them would instinctively fear such arts.
Their power lay in killing without leaving a trace, bringing calamity and misfortune upon someone from afar.
The Grand Duke's Golden Coffer recorded this: when King Wu campaigned against King Zhou, only Marquis Ding refused to pay court.
The Grand Duke drew a portrait of Marquis Ding and shot arrows at it.
Marquis Ding then fell gravely ill and never recovered...
This was the earliest record of Curse-Suppression Art. It was terrifying indeed.
In the South Seas, there were three infamous evil arts: hexcraft, gu sorcery, and Tong Sorcery.
If one traced them back to their ancestral origins, they all bore traces of witchcraft-based curse arts.
It was simply that they later incorporated things like Maoshan techniques and were kneaded into new branches and methods.
Today, the most widely known curse-suppression practice was the "beating the little man" ritual popular in Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan.
And that was merely the most basic minor technique within Curse-Suppression Art, and even that had been passed down incompletely.
If Grandpa truly had a Curse-Suppression Art manual, that would be terrifying.
But on second thought, it seemed unlikely.
Although my grandpa had roamed the Shanghai Bund in his youth, he had only been a lackey collecting money for some big brother, and he wasn't even part of our line of work.
Could he really produce such a high-level