"Please, Lord Yaozun, don't make things difficult for me. I truly can't bear to see such a beautiful being as you vanish into the long river of time."
As Zhou Fan spoke these gentle words, he tightened his embrace, intending to use the legendary 'Embrace and Kill' technique.
Yaozun felt it increasingly difficult to breathe; her entire Dragon body felt like it would be squeezed into several pieces by Zhou Fan.
"I'll sign, can't I just sign?"
Yaozun raised her weak little fist, pounding Zhou Fan's strong chest, urging him not to be so forceful.
Zhou Fan smiled with satisfaction and sent Yaozun a master-servant contract with extremely strong binding effects.
From this moment on, for a hundred years, Yaozun, as Zhou Fan's servant, shall not, whether actively or passively, do anything harmful to Zhou Fan.
At the same time, she must exert all her strength to execute every command given by Zhou Fan. These commands will not endanger Yaozun's life and will not interfere with anything after the hundred years.
After a hundred years, the contract will automatically be lifted, and Zhou Fan will return Yaozun her freedom.
The specific contents of the master-servant contract were numerous, but the general meaning was this: if Yaozun violated the contract, she would die immediately.
After the two signed the contract, Yaozun also made a Great Dao oath to abide by it. Seeing that Yaozun was so sensible and accepted her loss, Zhou Fan no longer made things difficult for her.
During these past few months of traveling through the Xuanyuan Dynasty, Zhou Fan wasn't happy every moment.
Occasionally, he would also study various slave contracts and master-servant contracts, all in order to make more friends in the future.
Rubbing Yaozun's dark hair, Zhou Fan found a piece of clothing from his Storage Pouch and draped it over her.
The two pieces of light gauze were too thin; with Zhou Fan's observational skills, he could essentially see every subtle protrusion.
Alas, Yaozun was still too tender. Despite her obvious weakness, she dared to be so presumptuous.
Now, she had become Zhou Fan's Dragon maid.
"Yaozun, I'm very happy to be your master. My name is Zhou Fan, what's yours?"
Yaozun put on the clothes Zhou Fan gave her and calmly accepted reality, saying, "I've forgotten. Twenty thousand years have passed. I only remember the person who sealed me in the Abyssal Void, what his Sword Intent looked like. The rest, I've forgotten, and there's no need to remember."
"Oh, and there was a swordsman a few hundred years ago. Just when I was about to break the Seal, he added another sword strike to the sealed sword array, causing me to be sealed for several more centuries. His Sword Intent was somewhat similar to that person from twenty thousand years ago."
"Then I'll give you a name, as a commemoration of your new life," Zhou Fan said excitedly.
"Heh, as you wish, if this even counts as a new life."
Yaozun still held a pessimistic view of the future.
Zhou Fan surveyed the flawless Yaozun and had to admit that Yaozun's Human Race form was dreamily beautiful. Both her figure and her face were top-tier; even with Zhou Fan's current discerning eye, he couldn't find a single flaw.
His gaze rested on Yaozun's crimson pupils. Zhou Fan suddenly thought of an anime he had watched in his previous life. He wiped the Dragon blood from the corner of Yaozun's mouth, speaking gently.
"I'll call you Akame. Do you like this name?"
Yaozun didn't know how to face the man's gentleness. She turned her head to the side and said coldly,
"As you wish."
Seeing this, Zhou Fan smiled and said, "Now, as your master, I'm going to give you your first command."
"Heh, Human, are you that impatient?"
Yaozun's lips curled into a disdainful smile. She knew that the man's gentleness just now was all an act.
"I command you, for the next ten years, you are free to move about. Go wherever you want, do whatever you want."
"Human, what do you mean?" Yaozun hadn't reacted yet.
"The literal meaning. You are free now. Isn't this what you've always longed for?" Zhou Fan didn't need Yaozun for anything right now, so he simply gave his Dragon maid a long vacation.
"Human, you..." Yaozun was speechless. She had never expressed gratitude to anyone else.
"Oh, right, there's still one restriction," Zhou Fan said with a chuckle. "After you go out to play, don't casually mess around. If you really can't hold back, come find me, your master. I'm still very happy to help a Dragon."
"Hey, Human, what nonsense are you spouting? In your eyes, am I that kind of casual Dragon?" Yaozun was a little angry; she felt insulted.
"Are you still a virgin Dragon then?" Zhou Fan asked in confusion. "But I remember the information I learned before, many people said that Dragons are inherently lustful."
"Where did you hear those rumors?"
Yaozun, a Pure-Blooded Dragon Clan member, set the record straight: "Only those unintelligent Dragon beasts and non-Pure-Blooded Dragons can't control the powerful, unique Dragon power within them and rampage around, venting it."
"We Pure-Blooded Dragon Clan have always been very loyal, alright? Many Dragons love only one Dragon their entire lives, and after their partner dies, they never seek another companion."
Zhou Fan heard this and asked, "According to you, if Pure-Blooded Dragons are so loyal, how did those Dragon beasts and mixed-blood Dragons come about?"
"Who cares how they came about? A snake that drinks Dragon blood or eats a Heaven And Earth Treasure contaminated with Dragon Clan Qi will naturally have a Bloodline mixed with Dragon blood flowing within it."
"And it's not like all Dragons are loyal. Some Dragons just like to be unconventional and mess around everywhere. As long as such Dragons don't harm us Pure-Blooded Dragon Clan, we don't care."
Zhou Fan smiled and said, "It seems you still have many memories you haven't forgotten. Are these memories rooted in your Dragon Clan Bloodline?"
"Of course, as ancient overlords and auspicious omens of Heaven and Earth, we Pure-Blooded Dragon Clan definitely have Bloodline Legacy. My Cultivation methods and various common sense are all taught by Bloodline Legacy."
"Then you haven't seen your parents?"
"No, I came out of an egg, born in an ancient ruin."
Akame stopped there, not saying more, seemingly not wanting to bring up too much of the past.
Zhou Fan wasn't in a hurry either. He thought for a moment and asked, "What was your strength before you were sealed? Were you truly a Yaozun who reached the eighth stage?"
"Eighth stage? What eighth stage?"
Seeing Akame's confusion, Zhou Fan informed her of the current Cultivation Realm divisions for Human Race Cultivators and monsters.
The Yao Race Realms from lowest to highest are: Spirit Initiation, Minor Yao, Core Formation, Form Transformation, Great Yao, Yao King, Yao Emperor, Yaozun, Yao Ancestor.
Akame heard this, thought for a moment, and replied, "According to your current Cultivation Realm division, before I was sealed, I was only a Great Yao, equivalent to your Human Race's Soul Transformation Realm, which is the fifth stage."
"However, when I entered the world, the Dark Turmoil had ended less than ten thousand years ago. The Spiritual Qi and Origin Qi concentration between Heaven and Earth were much thinner than now. At that time, the strongest Human Race in Qingyun State was only at the Core Formation Realm. I even went to Central State, and the strongest there was only at the Late Stage of Soul Transformation."
"I was the strongest of the Yao Race in the western part of the Blazing Flame Domain at that time, known as the Heaven-Burning Yaozun."