“After leaving the Void Abyss, I went to the Demon Beast Mountain Range.”
The Yaozun said with emotion, “Twenty thousand years have passed, and there are no Yao Beasts I recognize. The Blazing Heaven Hall, which countless Yao Beasts once built for me, is now nothing but ruins.”
“In the future, when my cultivation recovers, I might go to Central State to take a look.”
The Yaozun said no more. In truth, she had no real goals for the future.
When she was young, she strived to become stronger so she could eat her fill. She fought and devoured various Yao Beasts simply to survive.
After reaching the Soul Transformation Stage, the Yaozun was already one of the strongest existences in the Demon Beast Mountain Range. Due to the Pure-Blooded Dragon Clan’s Legacy, she was not as brutal as other Soul Transformation Yao Beasts, and gradually gained many followers.
Later, she was promoted to a Great Yao Beast, unifying the Demon Beast Mountain Range. Her followers worshipped her as the Blazing Heaven Yaozun. As her strength increased day by day, and she killed several Great Yao Beasts of the same stage who came to provoke her, the name Blazing Heaven Yaozun spread throughout the four western states.
Wielding such immense power, the Yaozun still stayed secluded in the Demon Beast Mountain Range, absorbing Origin Qi and cultivating by devouring moonlight. Occasionally, some short-sighted Great Yao Beasts would come knocking, and she would simply kill them for a snack.
The past was like smoke, often recalled vaguely.
The Yaozun felt a little lost. She suddenly thought of three questions: Who am I? Where do I come from? Where am I going?
“Is the Lifespan of the Pure-Blooded Dragon Clan so long? Can a fifth-stage Dragon live for over twenty thousand years?”
The human and the Yao Beast continued to chat. The Yaozun said, “The Lifespan of the Pure-Blooded Dragon Clan is roughly ten times that of Human Race Cultivators of the same stage. A Soul Transformation Cultivator lives for three thousand years, while a fifth-stage Dragon lives for thirty thousand years.”
“Thirty thousand years? Doesn’t that mean you only have less than a third of your Lifespan left?”
“What are you trying to say, Human?”
Zhou Fan said thoughtfully, “From that perspective, you’re already an old virgin Dragon. My previous address of ‘little virgin Dragon’ wasn’t quite accurate.”
“Heh.”
The Yaozun offered no opinion on the matter, only saying, “Even if I only have less than ten thousand years of Lifespan left, I will still live much longer than you.”
“That’s hard to say. When I achieve Immortal Ascension later, my Lifespan will eventually become infinite.”
“You, Immortal Ascension?”
The Yaozun seemed to have heard the biggest joke. She chuckled, “Don’t you know that ever since the end of the Dark Turmoil seventy thousand years ago, no one in this world has successfully Ascended?”
“Oh, that’s all? No one has successfully Ascended simply because I haven’t reached the Tribulation Transcendence Stage yet.”
Zhou Fan didn't care about such things. He asked the Yaozun, “Have you thought about what price you can pay?”
“I haven’t. I’m not that keen on revenge anymore.”
The Yaozun spoke truthfully. She felt that just lying there and enjoying the scenery was quite nice.
“Why did you suddenly ‘lie flat’?” Zhou Fan was shocked.
“Lie flat? Am I lying very flat?”
Seeing that the Yaozun didn't understand, Zhou Fan explained the core meaning and main idea of “lying flat” to her.
After listening, the Yaozun found it quite interesting.
“Then, according to your explanation, I am indeed ‘lying flat’ now.”
The Yaozun’s rocking chair swayed slowly, adopting a lazy and reclusive posture. “Isn’t this great? I remember seeing descriptions of this state of mind and lifestyle in some Daoist classics I once read.”
“No, you can’t be like this.”
Zhou Fan himself was still working hard to improve, so how could he let his Dragon maid become a ‘lying flat’ homebody?
“Chitong, have you forgotten the person who imprisoned and tortured you for twenty thousand years? Your injuries probably haven’t healed yet, right? Aren’t you going to seek revenge on Lin Xuanye and grind him to dust?”
“Hmm, now that you mention it, I do remember.”
The Yaozun rubbed her abdomen, which still had a small hole, and looked at Zhou Fan, saying, “Do you still have any of the Medicinal Pills for healing that you gave me last time? Relying solely on absorbing Origin Qi for the Physical Body to recover naturally is still too slow.”
“Is that the main point?” Zhou Fan turned his head to meet the Yaozun’s gaze, looking at those pure, red-glazed pupils. After a moment of silence, Zhou Fan stood up and said.
“Wait for me here for a moment.”
After walking next door and asking his Master, the Fairy, for three fourth-stage healing Medicinal Pills, Zhou Fan sat back in the rocking chair and handed all three Medicinal Pills to Chitong.
The Yaozun took the Medicinal Pills and swallowed all three at once, like eating candy.
The penetrating wound on her abdomen quickly disappeared. The Yaozun looked at Zhou Fan beside her, and after a long moment of brewing, her face, which wasn’t very good at smiling, finally managed a smile and said.
“You’re actually a very good person.”
Zhou Fan did not reply. He didn’t know why, but recently he kept thinking about his teenage years.
At that time in the Zhou Family, he and his childhood friend Zhou Mei spent every day together, and they actually had many beautiful memories.
But on the day their Spiritual Roots were tested, he was found to be a useless person with no Spiritual Root. Zhou Mei immediately broke off their relationship that day and never contacted him again afterward.
It was precisely because they had a beautiful past that the eighteen-year-old Zhou Fan became utterly dejected after suffering such a double blow, unable to move on for a long time.
Thanks to Zhou Chenxi accompanying him, Zhou Fan recalled Zhou Chenxi’s voice and appearance, as if she were calling him across time and space to be by her side.
So many years had passed in a flash. With Zhou Chenxi’s Aptitude, her cultivation should have already reached the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage or Late Stage by now.
Zhou Fan wanted to go back to the Zhou Family to take a look. The Zhou Family was located in Huangyan State, which was adjacent to Qingyun State. From the Xuanyuan Dynasty to the Zhou Family, he needed to cross a distance of over a hundred million li.
Even though Zhou Fan’s current Physical Body flying speed had reached the fifth stage, it would still take many years to fly such a long distance.
However, Cultivators traveling never relied solely on their Physical Bodies; there were plenty of travel tools: flying shuttles, Dharma swords, talisman treasures, teleportation arrays…
Zhou Fan’s itinerary for this trip to the Zhou Family in Huangyan State was to fly from the Xuanyuan Dynasty to the center of Qingyun State, then use the inter-state Dharma Array from Qingyun State directly to Huangyan State, and then fly to the Zhou Family after arriving in Huangyan State.
According to the map, a round trip there would take about two months.
It wasn’t very long, a round trip totaling four months. And coincidentally, there was nothing urgent in Qingyun State for now.
“Hey, Human, I’m talking to you, did you hear me?” The Yaozun was a little unhappy. She had been brewing her expression for a long time, but this man wasn’t even looking at her.
“Sorry, I was distracted just now.”
After Zhou Fan and the Yaozun chatted for a while longer, seeing that the Yaozun didn't plan to continue enjoying her free time, he asked her to stay with his women during the time he was not in Qingyun State. If anyone encountered danger, the Yaozun should help solve it if she could, and if she couldn't, she should send him a voice transmission.
The Yaozun accepted this commission, on the condition that her remaining nine years of free time be preserved, and if she wanted a vacation in the future, Zhou Fan had to approve it.
Giving the rocking chair to the Yaozun, Zhou Fan left the room. He went to tell his friends about his travel plans.
The Yaozun still lay in the rocking chair. She planned to get along well with his women after Zhou Fan left, and then ask them why they got together with Zhou Fan and were willing to accept the existence of other women.