"Hmm... when the time comes, should I call you Junior Brother, or should I call you Junior Sister?"

"Hahahahaha..."

Listening to his Senior Brother’s heartless mockery, the corner of Noctar’s mouth twitched continuously, his face blacker than a lump of charcoal.

"I say, my dear Senior Brother, can you stop laughing?"

"How about next time there’s a matter like this, you go test it. I won’t go, alright?"

"No can do, no can do, it still has to be you." Pureon hurriedly waved his hand, suppressing a laugh.

"I... I absolutely couldn’t act out that kind of coquettishness you have... hahahaha!"

Seeing his Junior Brother getting somewhat angry, Pureon was tactful enough to stop, he waved his hand.

"Alright, I’ll stop messing around."

"Looking at it this way, it’s still that disciple named Taryn Lark whose moral character is superior."

"As for this Knox, he is completely a lecherous scoundrel. We can simply drop him from consideration, right?"

"Of course!" Thinking of how Alex had been caring, considerate, and extremely respectful with a perfect sense of boundaries, Noctar’s eyes were full of admiration.

"That Taryn Lark truly ltives up to his name. He is worhy of being an outstanding talent of the current generation!"

"Not only is his aptitude superior and his abilities outstanding, but to possess such a sincere and kind heart is truly commendable!"

"Senior Brother, I dare guarantee to you, given time, that child will definitely achieve great things!" 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

"As for that Knox..." Noctar’s face instantly darkened again, he gritted his teeth.

"He is a treacherous and wicked person, a shameless scoundrel, the absolute shame of the Divine Blade Sect!"

"If we truly gave the Vault of Divine Sword Heart to him and let him obtain Master’s inheritance, he would inevitably bring disaster to the common people and poison the mortal realm!"

"Senior Brother, if it weren’t for the ironclad law of the Immortal Realm dictating that people of the Immortal Realm are not allowed to murder mortals, I truly would have loved to directly butcher him!"

"Alright, alright, calm your anger, Junior Brother." Pureon comforted,

"The Heavenly Dao reincarnates, and karma never fails. With that brat’s moral character being so vile, it won’t be long before he loses his life to the heavens."

"Since you have determined that Taryn Lark is the suitable candidate, let us place this Vault of Divine Sword Heart into the treasure chest at the mountain peak, shall we?"

"We can." Noctar nodded.

"That Knox was beaten up by me. He is powerless to continue climbing toward the mountain peak."

"The position of champion for this year’s assessment belongs to Taryn Lark and no one else."

"We will hide the Vault of Divine Sword Heart in the champion’s treasure chest as the reward he deserves."

Immediately, Pureon took the Vault of Divine Sword Heart from his robes, waved his hand, and tossed it down from mid-air.

It landed precisely inside the treasure chest at the mountain peak and slowly merged into it.

Following that, the two brothers did not linger. They rode the floating cloud and swaggered away.

...

Meanwhile, on the floating cloud below.

The crowd of elders gathered around the Divine Secret Sphere, every single face incomparably complicated.

They had been keeping a close eye on the light curtain where Knox was, staring at this genius’s every move. However, when passing through a mountain pass, he suddenly vanished into thin air.

The elders didn’t know what was going on.

They sent patrolling disciples inside the valley to investigate, but they reported seeing absolutely nothing.

Then, a few minutes later, Knox suddenly reappeared.

Yet he had been beaten until his nose was bruised and his face swollen, dripping with fresh blood from head to toe, collapsed on the ground twitching endlessly, unable to even stand up.

Watching the genius they had placed high hopes upon beaten into such a state, the elders felt as if their hearts were bleeding.

Torin gritted his teeth and said angrily, "I know!"

"It must be that Taryn who used some treacherous scheme to injure Knox!"

The crowd unanimously looked toward the light curtain where Alex was.

Without Knox as a competitor, Alex was leaving everyone in the dust, he was only a mere few miles from the mountain peak.

He had left the second-place Aya behind by nearly half the total distance.

Hearing Torin’s words, the elders all froze.

Sylra’s face sank, he said coldly, "Torin, do not spit blood and falsely accuse people!"

"My Peak’s Taryn is wholeheartedly focused on his journey. When has he ever harmed that Knox?"

"Heh, if not him, who else could it be?" Torin sneered.

"On the surface, he’s at the First Level of Body Tempering, but in reality, he is clearly hiding his strength, playing the pig to eat the tiger!"

"Just now, he used this exact method to entrap my peak’s Blair!"

"And now he’s used the same method to entrap another genius, Knox."

"The way I see it, he is acting so unscrupulously precisely to monopolize the position of champion!"

Saying this, Torin turned to Aerin. "Senior Brother Aerin, for Taryn Lark to scheme against his fellow disciples is clearly treating the sect rules as nothing!"

"I ask you to immediately issue an order to punish this Taryn Lark and return justice to Blair and Knox!"

Sylra’s eyes glared wide, so angered by Torin’s shamelessness that he blew his beard and glared.

But before he could speak, Loris said coldly, "Senior Brother Torin’s words are incorrect!"

"Whether Taryn schemed against Knox was not shown on the light curtain. None of us can assert it as fact."

"However, Knox decapitating Boris and three other senior disciples was something we all saw with our own eyes!"

"If we are to talk about treating the sect rules with contempt, it was Knox who treated the sect rules with contempt and brutally murdered his fellow disciples first!"

"If we are to punish Taryn, we must first punish Knox. Only this is in accordance with justice!"

Torin said angrily, "Loris, what is the meaning of your words?"

"That Knox is a person of your Radiant Sun Peak. I am speaking up to help you, why are you making things difficult for me instead?"