The Last Primal

Initially, the little fox wanted to dodge by instinct. However, she blinked and stayed where she was, allowing Aiden to rub her body gently.

"Little fox,"

Grinning, Aiden said with a playful look in his eyes, "Do you know that when you sleep… you snore really loudly?!"

"Damned brute! How can you say something like that aloud!"

The little fox froze up with an embarrassed expression and turned to Aiden's palm before biting down viciously!

Yelp!

The little fox exclaimed.

Aiden's palm was fine but her teeth nearly cracked as she gasped coldly.

When he saw that, Aiden could not help but burst out into laughter.

Pursing her lips and blinking, the little fox's alluring eyes misted up and bean-sized teardrops rolled around, looking pitiful as if she had suffered great grievances.

Aiden put away his smile hurriedly and fondled her forehead, saying with a fake sternness, "But to be honest, your snoring is unlike ordinary snoring. Yes… it's nicer."

The little fox bawled and broke out into tears.

The little fox bawled and lifted the Fire Blocking Basket with her tiny paws, running away in a huff.

Smiling, Aiden sat down and lay backwards, using his arms as a pillow for his head. Closing his eyes, a faint demonic glint flickered as he fell into thought.

After crying for a little while, the little fox hid in a corner and drew circles on the ground, grinding her brain juices to insult Aiden.

"Stupid man, y-you really suck!"

"Stupid brute, you're a bad person!"

"You're even badder than that stupid dead crocodile!"

The little fox spent her entire life in this underground cave and had never seen the outside world or come into contact with anyone. Although she was wary by nature, she was also innocent and naive like a virgin.

The most vicious words she could come up with were to compare Aiden as being worse than the crocodile.

Even though she had lived for dozens of years, it was a negligible amount of time compared to the long lifespans of demons and her mind was similar to a small child's.

Before long, she was bored.

Turning around, the little fox looked at Aiden instinctively.

His eyes were closed and he was motionless except for his ears which were twitching.

"What is he doing?"

The little fox was curious and tiptoed over, completely forgetting that he made fun of her earlier on.

Because her martial realm was not high enough, she could not hear the sounds coming from the palace above the cave. However, Aiden possessed universal hearing.

Even thousands of feet underground, he could vaguely hear the sounds above in the palace.

The palace had not been peaceful for the past half a month.

Furthermore, the commotion was clearly getting bigger!

All the Martial Master paragons of the North Region might have gathered here with the birth of the Vermilion Fruit!

Although Aiden managed to defend against strong foes of the top righteous and demonic sects singlehandedly when the Ancient One's Palace descended in the ancient battlefield, the current situation was not looking good for him.

At that time, he was a simple Martial Knight realm martial artist and had attained greater mastery of body tempering technique for his draconic physique. He was almost at the peak and was a single step away from forming a core.

At that time, he was comparable to the paragons of the immortal, Buddhist, and fiend sect paragons in terms of martial realm.

But now, he was at early-stage Martial Master and had yet to attain lesser mastery of his Inner Core.

The weakest of the paragons that gathered were at late-stage Martial Master and there might even be perfected Martial Masters!

There was a difference of up to three minor realms.

Of course, those three minor realms did not mean much to Aiden who had both the 'regular' and draconian martial powers.

He was still confident that he could suppress everyone in a one-on-one battle.

However, there's a high chance he might make enemies with all the paragons of the North Region by fighting for the Vermilion Fruit!

At that time, it would be hard to stand victorious against the combined attacks of countless paragons.

He managed to train twin phenomenons and both of them were lost primordial phenomenons.

However, at the end of the day, he only had two.

At that time, there would be hundreds or thousands of Martial Master phenomenons by paragons and that was a destructive power that was unimaginable. He might not be able to handle everything with his spirit energy as an early-stage Martial Master…

Furthermore, there were Martial Master phenomenons stronger than the Soaring Serpent and Divine Turtle as well.

Glass Palace of the nine immortal sects and Malevolent Earth Sect of the seven fiend sects were located in the North Region. If the paragons of those two super sects were to head over, it would definitely be a threat to Aiden!

Of course, there was something else he was wary about.

Would any Martial Grandmasters appear for the appearance of this Vermilion Fruit?

How would things end if Martial Grandmasters interfered?

Aiden's wild thoughts made his eyelids heavy.

He was truly way too tired and right now, the only thing he wanted was to have a good night's rest.

His comprehension on weapon refinement had advanced again as he repaired the top-grade artifact weapons.

"There's another 15 days left. That's enough for me to refine a set of 27 supreme-grade flying swords."

With that thought, Aiden drifted into sleep.

The little fox had just arrived beside Aiden when she saw that he had fallen asleep. Furthermore, there was a strange sound coming from his nose.

It sounded like tigers, leopards, and thunder.

"Humph!"

Pouting, she thought to herself, "How dare this stupid brute laugh at me when he snores so loudly!"

Even though those were her thoughts, she did not disturb Aiden.

She could tell that he was tuckered out.

The breathing and expiration method of the Ancient Primordial Draconification Manual was already infused in Aiden's marrow and would activate instinctively even if he was asleep.

Body Tempering, Tendons Transformation, Bones Strengthening, Marrow Cleansing, Organs Refinement, Orifice Clearing, Core Formation…

The seven stages reverberated within his body, forming a cycle.

His rich Soul Power energy rose and started spreading.

"Eh?"

The little fox watched everything with widened eyes in disbelief.

"Is this scholar a human or demon?"

She could not figure it out at all.

To her shock, she realized that her exposure to the strange energy that was released from Aiden's body moved her martial strength that had been stagnant for a long time!

"Hehe!"

Delighted, the little fox inched forward again and stuck closely to Aiden's arm before starting to train.

…

There was a big pavilion five kilometers away from Great Forbidden Ruins.

Unlike the desolate ruins, this place was lush with greenery and willow trees stood in rows, filled with life.

There were four stone tables in the pavilion.

Beside each table sat three to four martial artists in weird attires. Some of them wore robes, some of them wore armor and others wore tight exercise attire…

More than ten people sat by sipping tea idly with relaxed expressions, discussing with soft voices.

Outside the pavilion, there were more than a hundred martial artists waiting.

Standing outside, all of their expressions were much worse as they looked at the people inside the pavilion with deep fear and wariness.

If Muron D'ohr were to see this, he would definitely be shocked.

Be it the ten-odd people inside the pavilion or the hundred-odd outside, all of them were Martial Grandmasters!

As he had expected, the Martial Grandmasters made their moves for the Vermilion Fruit!

In the pavilion, three people sat around one of the stone tables with badges on their waists that stated Murong, Cadmus, and Taba!

They were from the four gentry clans!

There were emblems on the waists of the Martial Grandmasters sitting around the other three stone tables.

Stellar Moon Sect, Blaze Depth Valley, Heavenly Piercing Sword Sect, Heaven Motion Sect, Seven Kills Sect, Blood Mist Sect, Mystic Firmament Divine Cult, Dragon Tiger Sect, and Shadowless Sect…

Those were nine of the Ten Upper Sects other than Dark Ghost Sect!

The Martial Grandmasters in the pavilion were either from the Ten Upper Sects or the four gentry clans.

As for the Martial Grandmasters that stood obediently outside the pavilion, they were from ordinary sects and factions as well as some unknown itinerant martial artists.

Among them, the Martial Grandmasters of the Great Shang and Great Xia Dynasties stood outside as well, not daring to have any opinions.

Earlier on when the Martial Master army of the Drothak Dynasty was murdered by the Taba clan, the Martial Grandmaster of Great You was enraged and wanted to head for the Great Forbidden Ruins.

However, a Martial Grandmaster of the Taba clan attacked and killed him in three moves!

Up till now, the blood of the Great You Martial Grandmaster's corpse had yet to dry. Laying in front of the pavilion, his body was still warm from his indignant death.

That was not the only corpse around the pavilion.

In the North Region, the combined force of the Ten Upper Sects and four gentry clans was almost absolute!