Apart from fewer than a hundred members of the Ning Family who could take to the air, every other member, including all the women, children, and elderly... sank with the buildings to unknown depths underground...
In other words, everyone in the Ning Family below the Embryonic Breath Realm, and even quite a few Martial Artists in the Embryonic Breath Realm, had been swallowed up! Everything had happened so abruptly, disaster erupting at their very elbows, that they had no time even to struggle!
Ning Suifeng stood in midair, tears streaming down his aged face.
That day, the Ning Family shed their tears across the sky together.
After communications were finally restored, the very first message he received was: "Manor Lord, plague has broken out at several Ning Family estates outside the city..."
This plague had come strangely. Black spots had inexplicably begun appearing on many Ning Family members at the estates. At first, they were only tiny specks, about the size of sesame seeds; but they spread rapidly, and wherever they spread, the flesh rotted.
The hospitals were utterly helpless against it, unable to do anything.
The only conclusion they could offer was: a hereditary disease exclusive to the Ning Family bloodline, caused by a genetic deficiency, with no medicine or treatment that could save them.
One relatively fortunate thing was that this plague-like disease was not contagious.
It occurred only in those of the Ning Family bloodline.
Chapter 272: Doomsday for the Ning and Meng Families
Once this strange Ning Family disease had rotted the flesh to a certain extent, the black spots on the back would often form a shape resembling a ghost's face.
Then the blackened areas would begin to itch. If they could not resist reaching over to scratch, they would claw off great patches of