The mirror image flickered and vanished like nothing had happened, leaving the elders gasping for air as if they had just surfaced from the depths of a drowning ocean.
"I will contact the patriarch right away..." The Elder clad in a brown robe uttered, taking out the jade token from his bosom. His hands trembled so violently that the jade nearly slipped from his grasp.
"Have you found the culprit..." The voice on the other end was cold, devoid of familial love, like a blade scraping against bone.
"Y-Yes... It seems to be a youth below the bone age of 50, yet, his cultivation is vast. H-he... He also possesses All-refining devil fire..." The elder stammered, his voice cracking.
"Are you sure?!" The voice on the other end roared, shaking the very air of the transmission jade. All-refining devil fire?! What kind of concept is this?
