Two years later, Ye Nan was nine. The little girl had grown considerably taller, and her features had begun to resemble those of the future Ruthless Great Emperor. Over those two years, Jun Moxiao had taken her all across the Southern Region to feast on everything that flew in the sky, crawled on the ground, or swam in the water. Those were the happiest days of her life, happier even than begging alongside her brother as a child. Even after she became the world-renowned Ruthless Great Emperor, she often looked back on those joyful times.
During those two years, the Feathered Transformation Divine Dynasty had also discovered why its seven experts had inexplicably killed themselves. From the villagers of Azure Dragon Town, they learned that the monstrous prodigy known as the Free and Unfettered Young Master was responsible. An eighteen-year-old at the peak of Dragon Transformation stirred their greed. They immediately placed him on the dynasty's wanted list, declaring that they would capture him and bring him back to answer for his crimes. Their true objective was his blood, which they wanted to use to cast the Immortal Cauldron.
For a time, the Free and Unfettered Young Master's name resounded throughout the Eastern Wasteland. The Feathered Transformation Divine Dynasty even hired people from the Killer Dynasty to capture him.
"Who is this Free and Unfettered Young Master? At the peak of Dragon Transformation at eighteen? That's an unparalleled prodigy! Where did he come from?"
"I heard he first appeared in Azure Dragon Town in the Southern Region of the Eastern Wasteland. His origins are mysterious. No one knows where he came from; he just appeared out of thin air."
"Some say he attacked the Feathered Transformation Divine Dynasty's people to save a little girl."
"You don't know the whole story,