Volume 1, Chapter 4: The Nine Heavens True Dragon Manifests in the Sky, Shaking the Entire World!-Domador de Feras: Criaturas Femininas se Revoltam? Então Treinarei a Deusa Dragão dos Nove Céus!(Imperador Celestial)

At this moment, Lin Yao finally understood why Han Yanran had consistently tried to prevent him from forming a contract with the Dragon Maiden. Han Yanran’s actions were motivated both by concern for his well-being and her own selfish interests.

Currently, Han Yanran and Zhu Zhihan were locked in a heartfelt embrace, their emotions laid bare. After such a long time spent together, the two had long since come to view each other as sisters. As Zhu Zhihan continued to weep tears of joy, Lin Yao seized the opportunity to check her status using the Beastmaster talent he had awakened not long ago.

[Name: Azure Profound Dragon Maiden]
[Potential: SSS-Rank Beast]
[Level: 1 (Abnormal Status, unable to level up!)]
[Evolution Progress: 0%]
[Dragon Origin: 77% (Dragon Origin severely damaged!)]
[Talent: Unavailable while Dragon Origin is below 80%!]
[Skills: Unavailable while Dragon Origin is below 80%!]

Evolution Paths:
[Option 1: Dragon-Nourishing Hundred-Treasure Soup. Brew using 100 materials, including Cloud-Pattern Coral, Sky-Space Crystal, Pink Coral Beads, and Purple-Veined Scallops, to restore 3% of the damaged Dragon Origin.]
[Option 2: Dragon-Nourishing Incantation. Use the ancient Dragon-Nourishing Incantation to treat the beast continuously for forty-nine days to restore 3% of the damaged Dragon Origin. Attachment: Ancient Manual of Dragon-Nourishing Incantations.]
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After checking Zhu Zhihan’s status with his Beastmaster talent, Lin Yao felt confident. With great anticipation, he approached her and said, "Let us form a beast contract."

Even now, Zhu Zhihan could hardly believe that any Beastmaster would be willing to contract her. After a moment of hesitation, she bit her moist red lips and said, "Please, let us form a slave contract."

There are generally three types of contracts between a Beastmaster and their beast: the Symbiotic Contract, the Beastmaster Contract, and the Slave Contract.

Under a Symbiotic Contract, the Beastmaster and the beast share their life force; they are partners who live and die together. Under a Beastmaster Contract, the Beastmaster exerts strong control over the beast; if the beast dies, the Beastmaster suffers severe backlash, and vice versa. Under a Slave Contract, the Beastmaster has absolute control, with a master-slave relationship; if the Beastmaster dies, the beast dies, but if the beast dies, the Beastmaster suffers no harm.

After Zhu Zhihan proposed the slave contract, Lin Yao nodded slightly and placed his right hand on her smooth, snow-white forehead. Then, to the utter disbelief of both Zhu Zhihan and Han Yanran, Lin Yao formed a Symbiotic Contract with her.

At that moment, both Zhu Zhihan and Han Yanran felt that Lin Yao must have gone mad. Forming a Symbiotic Contract—a life-sharing bond—with a Dragon Maiden whose bloodline was severely damaged and whose strength could not improve was equivalent to throwing his life away.

Lin Yao’s actions left Zhu Zhihan completely overwhelmed. Beyond weeping uncontrollably, she did not know what else she could do. Her original fate had been that of a defective Dragon Maiden, an unqualified beast. Even with the protection of her sister Han Yanran, she would sooner or later be butchered by the upper echelons of the Beastmaster Association to be sold as materials. If it weren't for her uncle, Han Qu, misappropriating funds from the association to buy her two years ago, she would have already been reduced to a pile of dragon bones and a vat of blood.

Yet now, not only did Lin Yao not look down on her for being an unqualified beast, but he had also gone as far as forming a Symbiotic Contract with her. She was deeply touched and had no idea how she could ever repay him.

Han Yanran was also at a loss for words. Initially, she had worried that Lin Yao might treat her sister poorly. Now, however, she felt nothing but trust for him—an unconditional, absolute trust. Her father had misappropriated 300 million in funds from the North Wind City Beastmaster Association to save Zhu Zhihan’s life. The Imperial Capital had responded by stripping him of his position and detaining him. Her father's actions had also affected the senior members of the North Wind City association, who pressured their family to repay the debt while simultaneously seeking buyers to harvest Zhu Zhihan for parts. Through the Han family’s desperate efforts over two years, they had managed to scrape together less than 100 million.

But now, Lin Yao had cleared the 200 million debt in one fell swoop. The matter was essentially resolved, and her father would soon be free.

What Lin Yao wanted, of course, was the trust of Han Yanran and Zhu Zhihan. He turned to Han Yanran and said, "President Han, I need to purchase some materials for raising my beast from the Beastmaster Association."

Han Yanran was curious why he would bring this up now, but she replied earnestly, "I will give you the lowest price within my authority. What do you need?"

Lin Yao didn't answer directly; instead, he walked over to Zhu Zhihan’s desk, wrote down a list, and handed it to her. Han Yanran examined the list, her beautiful face clouding with confusion. "Cloud-Pattern Coral, Sky-Space Crystal, Pink Coral Beads, Purple-Veined Scallops..." After quickly scanning the 100 materials, she asked, "Why do you need these?"

Lin Yao did not lie to Han Yanran, though he did not tell the full truth either. "President Han, my family possesses an ancestral recipe for nourishing dragons, which is what this list represents. I would like to purchase these materials, and if possible, have the Beastmaster Association brew them into a medicinal soup for me. If all goes well, Zhihan’s condition should improve significantly after she drinks it."

Lin Yao’s words surprised Han Yanran once more. If this were true, his previous actions made perfect sense. Possessing an ancestral recipe and being confident in his ability to restore Zhu Zhihan to a normal state explained why he had the audacity to form a Symbiotic Contract.

After a moment of thought, Han Yanran said, "I will arrange it immediately. However, these materials will cost you at least 75 million. Are you sure you want to buy them?"

"Yes," Lin Yao replied without hesitation.

Han Yanran nodded and went to make the arrangements. An hour later, she returned holding an explosion-proof sealed container. Inside, about 100 milliliters of pale golden liquid swirled. She shook the container and said, "This is the essence extracted from the soup brewed according to your recipe. It is non-toxic and harmless, but I cannot guarantee it will work for Zhihan."

"It will definitely work," Lin Yao said with total confidence. He took the container, unscrewed the lid, and handed it to Zhu Zhihan. She drank the essence without a second thought.

The next moment, golden light erupted from her entire body. Her severely damaged Dragon Origin began to recover at a speed visible to the naked eye. When her Dragon Origin restored from 77% to 80%, countless powerful figures across the globe witnessed a truly shocking celestial phenomenon.

Above the Great Zhou Empire, the phantom of a Nine-Heaven True Dragon manifested in a blaze of golden light. Not long after appearing, the phantom roared and soared into the sky, ascending ninety thousand miles in a single bound!

Witnessing this phenomenon, the world's powerful figures understood that a beast with the potential to break the SSS-rank shackles and evolve to SSSR-rank had been born, and it had happened within the borders of the Great Zhou Empire!

In an instant, the world was shaken. It was not just the human empires that were stirred; the alien races invading the Blue Star began to make emergency strategic deployments.