The next day.
Ling Feng gathered once more in the reception hall of the Nine-tailed Fox Village, along with Ying Huanhuan, Xin Qing, Xin Xuan, and the elders of the Nine-Tailed Fox Clan.
As for the other members of the Nine-Tailed Fox Clan, Xin Xuan had not allowed them inside. After all, Ling Feng's identity was rather special.
After entering the reception hall and exchanging greetings, Ling Feng turned to the matter at hand.
"Aunt Xin, I heard Xin Qing say that in ancient times, your Nine-Tailed Fox Clan was a mighty force capable of standing shoulder to shoulder with the Four Hegemons of the Demon Region. But why has it steadily declined since then? Have you ever wondered whether something suspicious might lie behind it?"
In truth, Ling Feng had long known that three Otherworldly Demon Kings were responsible for the Nine-Tailed Fox Clan's decline.
In ancient times, when the great calamity descended upon heaven and earth, the Nine-tailed Spirit Fox, the clan leader of that era, had followed the Lord of Devouring into battle against the enemy. The Nine-tailed Spirit Fox had even used her own body to seal three Otherworldly Demon Kings, vanishing from this world along with the Lord of Devouring.
However, Otherworldly Demons were extremely difficult to kill. After being sealed, the three Otherworldly Demon Kings had joined forces to turn on the Nine-tailed Spirit Fox's will, then used her body to plant a bloodline curse, preventing members of the Nine-Tailed Fox Clan from reaching the supreme Nine-tailed Realm-the Reincarnation Stage.
This had forced later generations of the Nine-Tailed Fox Clan to enter the Ancestral Soul Hall in search of answers, only to fall into the Otherworldly Demons' trap. Countless experts of the clan had been slaughtered by the demons, who sought to accumulate enough