"Arian!!" Gideon came straight to Arian after the barrier had gone down. He had just returned after bringing Ahmir to a nearby inn. But when he reached here, he saw that Arian was lying unconscious on the ground.

It was unimaginable that even Arian would loose out against the Bone and Devil Sect's disciple. He put his hands over Arian and checked his condition. He got outraged when he saw that different types of poison were wreaking havoc inside his body.

He forcibly injected his Qi and tried to stop the poison from spreading. Then he took out some pills from his ring and fed them to Arian. After doing all this, he could see that Arian's complexion was looking a little bit better.

"Elder, what happened to Arian? Is he okay?" Abby was panicking. She could have never thought that both of her senior brothers would get injured.

Gideon didn't respond to her, but turned back and looked at Davion with prying eyes. "You are too ruthless. How dare you use this vicious poison? There are at least ten different types of poison mixed in it."

He released his full Golden Core aura trying to pressurize Davion into submission.

Davion who kept back his blowpipe felt some force trying to make him yield.

"Eh!, is this the so-called coercion that the main characters in the novel used to experience after meeting a strong villain?"

"The main character would then have a breakthrough and manage to impress everyone. But this coercion is far too weak."

"It might be suspicious if I manage to act as if nothing had happened. So, I should put off a show."

Making up his mind, Davion was about to fall on his knees but suddenly the coercion went away.

"It's enough, Gideon." Thaddeus came infront of Davion with a face full of smiles.

"You were hiding too deep. You even managed to learn the Dark Domain spiritual art in a few days. Not only that, you had a spiritual artifact. Even a middle stage Qi refining cultivator was not your match."

"It's because of your teachings." Davion bowed and praised Thaddeus.

"Thaddeus, you dare ignore me?" Gideon was very furious.

"What do you want, Gideon? Do you want to fight?" Thaddeus looked at Gideon and showed his dominant side.

"You gave your disciple a venomous spiritual artifact. Not only that, those darts were too poisonous. If I were a few minutes late, then my disciple would have perished here. I want an explanation." Gideon didn't want to back away.

"Oh, you want an explanation? Then what about the explosive-orb that you used to blow my disciple?" Thaddeus slowly released his Golden Core aura.

"You.." Gideon was speechless. The reason why he was so angry was that their sect has not won a single round. The only remaining disciple was Abby, who was only at an early stage of Qi refining. So, there was no hope in beating Davion who even managed to beat Arian.

So, it looked like their sect would rank last in this Conference. Feeling humiliated, he didn't want to talk anymore.

"Don't think your sect is safe just because you managed to rank higher than us, Thaddeus. You still can't save it."

"Let's go, Abby. Carry Arian on your back. We are leaving. It's useless to stay here." Gideon left the Conference and Abby who was carrying Arian followed behind him.

Seeing Gideon leave, Thaddeus should have felt happy. But those last words from him made him feel very uneasy.

While he was thinking, a voice from behind woke him up.

"Congratulations, Thaddeus. It looks like your sect has finally won after a long period of time."

It was the voice coming from the middle-aged lady.

"Thank you." Thaddeus bowed and greeted her.

"It looks like you have gotten a fine disciple." She praised while looking at Davion.

"Haha." Thaddeus forced a laugh. But deep down he was still thinking what Gideon wanted to say.

He didn't have the mood to stay here much longer. So, he bid goodbye to her and left the conference with Davion.

After they left, the middle-aged lady looked at the disciples and shouted, "The Flame Blossom Sect couldn't defend their ranking against the Bone and Devil Sect. So, they have fallen in ranks and the Bone and Devil Sect will take their place."

"Now, it's the turn of the Plum Maiden Sect to start challenging. Let the conference continue."

In this way, the conference continued and the battles happened as usual. But in one of the stands, Edgar was sitting there with a gloomy face. He banged his right hand on the stand. The whole stand started shaking.

Seeing this, the other elders didn't try to stop him. They knew that Edgar was very furious. Edgar had paid them with spirit mines in exchange for the grounds of the Bone and Devil Sect. Now, the Bone and Devil sect have managed to rank up, Edgar cannot take that ground due to the rules made by them. historical

Indeed, this was a waste of resources for Edgar, but their sects have obtained considerable benefits. Since they got what they wanted, they didn't want to get involved in this mess. So, they looked at each other and kept silent.

Edgar looked at these old fogies, who kept silent after obtaining benefits. Seeing this he cursed inwardly. "F**k, I can't depend upon them. I should do this myself." He stood up and left the Conference.

Seeing him leave, the elders could finally catch their breath.

"It looks like Thaddeus is in trouble.." This was everyone's thought.