The masked elder's voice fell, and the floating black flame halted.
The other six all lowered their heads, their expressions fluctuating between dark and light. After the battle with the Supreme Sect, their dread of the Sword Venerable Fudao reached a new height.
The masked elder continued, "During this period, the main branch's losses have amounted to twenty percent of the congregation, among them seventeen cultivators of the Unification Realm. We cannot determine the life or death of the Vice Sect Hierarch. Do you have any way to ascertain this, Sect Leader?"
Upon hearing this, Butcher Immortal Jing's voice came from within the black flame, "The Vice Sect Hierarch is unrestrained. Even I do not know her whereabouts, but she cannot be dead. Unless a Mahayana cultivator is born in the Nine Dynasties land, and even if there were one, to kill her would be no small feat. Have you felt the suppressive aura surpassing the Mystic Heart Realm?"
