The Last Primal

If what the woman said was to be believed, then that would have meant that the two mighty and fearsome guardian elders have died for absolutely nothing. Their protegé's they have sworn to protect have still died and they couldn't even take revenge at the cost of their lives.

Their murderer, was still free, was still alive whilst they were already on their way towards their hopefully next lives.

Processing all this, Tai Liu had a stunned expression and her mouth was agape for the longest time.

…

In the Fog Infested Valley, a grayish-dark blur of a humanoid shaped blurry streak could be seen. It… or most likely He was speeding forward at lightning speed. This streak was none other than Aiden, who was on the hunt for his last prey, the last survivor of the two arrogant Young Heir's of the two most powerful factions of this gods' forsaken world, Pei Syriac.

Charging towards the entrance of the valley, he was already at the limits of his speed.

He did not fight the golden-robed old man for long. Pei Syriac was already injured and did not have much strength left; it was unrealistic for him to escape the Fog Infested Valley in this period of time.

After all, there were still countless beasts and birds roaming in the valley.

Throughout the way, Aiden made use of his strong hearing, eyesight and senses to track down traces of Pei Syriac.

Right now, the night was extremely dark and the fog was everywhere.

It would be almost impossible for the other martial artists to search for someone since their vision range would be thirty feet at most.

However, it was different for Aiden.  Unlike these mortal little Draconic Skinks, he had much better refined senses. His sight, his hearing, his sense of smell was extremely sharp and he had a large search radius.

He could notice any bit of activity!

The pure-blooded ferocious beasts in the valley were already dead and Aiden advanced fearlessly. None of these demonic beasts and ancient remnant beasts in the fog dared to approach him and they all hid far away.

Before long, Aiden rushed out of the Fog Infested Valley and stood at the entrance, frowning.

He did not see Pei Syriac at all. The guy had vanished completely!

Aiden's eyes flickered and he frowned in deep thought.

In this case, there could only be two possibilities.

The first was that Pei Syriac have already escaped the valley and was long gone. However, thinking about it for a bit more, Aiden felt that the probability of that wasn't great.

In that case, the second, and more likely scenario was that Pei Syriac was still hiding somewhere inside the valley!

It wasn't a simple task if one wanted to hide inside the Fog Infested Valley.

Birds filled the skies and beasts roamed the ground. There was no way a simple Martial Arists -be it at the Martial Master realm or not-, would be able to hide in peace as they would definitely encounter battles and create a commotion.

However, along the way, Aiden did not notice any signs nor did he hear any activity.

"Hmm… Strange…" Aiden muttered to himself. Now that he was alone, he could finally drop the reptilian dialect and mutter to himself in his own, common one.

He murmured softly, pondering about the possibilities.

"Could he truly have escaped? Where to… and how?"

On second thought, Aiden felt that it wouldn't be surprising for a disciple of the mighty Crystal Palace Sect, one of the most powerful factions of this world, to possess some secret life preservation methods.

At that moment, Pei Syriac might have already escaped a thousand miles away from that place.

After loitering around for a long time, Aiden couldn't do anything else and have returned from where he came from and disappeared into the fog.

A long time later, the valley regained its tranquility.

In the blink of an eye, the long night had passed. The sun rose, casting away the night from the valley.

From a recluse cave at the side of a rather inconspicuous hill, a large beast, a white furred tiger, had walked out slowly. Its eyes were dull, the beast looked dispritied and terrible.

It looked sick… It had devoured a small humanoid creature the previous night!

However, for some reason, it did not manage to digest the human even after the night and it felt bloated and uncomfortable.

The white furred tiger ancient beast did not walk far when it cried out and collapsed weakly to the ground with a throbbing pain in its stomach.

*SHING!*

Flashes of blood appeared.

The abdomen of the white furred tiger was suddenly ripped open from the inside as countless organs spilled out of a gigantic hole along with a bloodied figure.

The bloodied figure bent over and started retching miserably. A while later, he reached out and wiped away the blood on his face, revealing a disfigured face that was horrifying like a ghost!

"[Reptilian] That b*stard Aiden! This is all his fault! I swear that I will definitely make you pay a hundred times for the humiliation I suffered today!"

The bloodied figure's gaze was venomous as he said with grit teeth.

He was Pei Syriac who have indeed survived the last night!

The previous night, Pei Syriac predicted that it would be hard for him to escape from Aiden in his current state. Thus, he took the initiative to look for an ancient remnant beast and allowed it to devour him.

That was an extremely dangerous move!

The stomachs of these ancient remnant beasts churned extremely strongly and ordinary martial artists wouldn't be able to handle it. Anyone else, below the Martial Grandmaster realm would have been crushed into sludge.

Also, the digestive fluids of an ancient remnant beast was extremely corrosive and could even melt rocks and ores. If not for the fact that the Crystal Palace Sect's body refining technique the Crystal Body Technique tempered his body so powerfully, Pei Syriac wouldn't have survived the night.

Even so, his flesh was corroded into a bloody mess and he was completely disfigured, almost shedding an entire layer of skin.

Turning to glare at the white furred tiger and its dying eyes, Pei Syriac staggered towards the entrance of the valley and escaped with a cold expression.

He couldn't rest. He had a revenge to fulfill.

…

With the end of the battle of the ruins, the biggest winner of them all was the Azure Myst Sect.

Entering the Ancient Burial Ground ruins with an average sized force of disciples, they had more than half of their numbers still remaining!

If nothing went wrong, these several dozen or so people would be able to return  home to Azure Myst Sect safely with countless rewards to boot!

In the end, Madam Dara received the inheritance successfully and opened up the Central Ziggurat, obtaining countless ancient elixir manuals.

Azure Myst Sect's reputation and status was bound to soar after the ancient elixir manuals were brought back to the sect.

The next day, Azure Myst Sect, and all the other sects and factions that were still alive were ready to pack up and leave the place to return to Ugburg City.

Their goals completed they had no reason to stay.

However, before they could something strange, and unexpected happened.

As the daylight replaced the gloomy darkness, the the skies suddenly flashed with lightning and rumbled with thunder. A terrifying pressure instantly descended upon the Ancient Burial Ground ruins!

Everything went silent!

Time seemed to have frozen.

All the living beings in the Ancient Burial Grounds, as well as in the Fog Infested Valley, be it ancient remnant beasts or pure-blooded ferocious beasts, sprawled onto the ground obediently and their eyes revealed endless fear.

This was a fear that stemmed from the ancient era, something deep-rooted and indestructible.

It wasn't just this particular slice of the world that felt this unprecedented pressure descending upon them, but upon every segment of the world. Every nook and cranny was subjected to the same divine power.

In every corner of this dead world, the successors of the various super sects and clans came forward and looked up in the air in shock.

Countless powerhouses were forcefully woken up from their decades long slumbers and seclusions and came out one after another.

It didn't matter if it was Azure Myst Sect, or any other sisterhood or smaller factions that was either in the Ancient Burial Grounds, or in Ugburg City.

At this moment, every single soul sensed something and arrived on the long street, roofs and midair, gazing into the distance.

The martial artists were dumbfounded in shock. Even the elderly uncle, who was also similar to the two before him, a Guardian Elder and secretly a peak Martial Grandmaster powerhouse, opened his mouth with a look of disbelief.

The clouds were shifting rapidly in the center of the sky!

Dark clouds covered the place and they churned, rotating slowly to form a gigantic black vortex that was extremely shocking.

In that sea of clouds, numerous lightning snakes were packed densely together, forming a dazzling sea of lightning within the sea of clouds.

The closer it was to the core of the vortex, the more concentrated the lightning became! Thunder rumbled and lightning crackled.

It was as though a giant creature was about to descend from the vortex!