"What? Another Golden Core Stage Cultivator has fallen?" a voice roared in utter fury inside a purple hall.
"Yes, Grand Elder!" another voice, belonging to a female cultivator, hurriedly answered.
"Bah! That makes eighteen! If this goes on, where will the Heavenly Earth Demon Sect's dignity be?" Inside the hall of his cave abode, the Grand Elder's face twisted savagely as he furiously berated the masked female cultivator kneeling before him, a voluptuous woman dressed in black.
"Yes! Your subordinate is incompetent!" the masked woman hastily replied.
"Then have you found anything?" Hearing this, the Grand Elder, Black Old Devil, grew even angrier and snapped the question at her.
"That cultivator is extremely cunning. Every time, they kill and plunder in a different location thousands of miles away, and never strike in the same place again afterward! That is why your subordinate has been unable to track them down!" the woman hurriedly explained. After a pause, she continued, "More importantly, this cultivator is far too powerful. Neither late Golden Core Stage nor mid Golden Core Stage cultivators can escape their clutches. Your subordinate suspects that they may be a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator!"
"A Nascent Soul Realm cultivator? How could it be a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator? Impossible!" The Grand Elder froze at her words, then hurriedly shook his head.
"There is actually another possibility!" The masked woman hesitated before speaking.
"Speak!" Black Old Devil paused, then gave the command coldly.
"After an internal meeting, our Secret Group concluded that this cultivator might be Dong Santong or Li Xiaoya!" The masked woman delivered a startling answer.
"What? Those two?" Black Old Devil exclaimed. He paused, his thoughts racing, then quickly said, "Tell me your reasons!"
"Yes!" the masked woman hastily replied. "First! We all know that once cultivators reach the