"Seventh Prince, could it be...?" someone said in shock.
Many people stood below the high platform. Though they had not lived in Fengyu City for years, they still knew quite a few of the legendary tales surrounding Seventh Prince Ji Jiucheng.
Compared to the legitimate status of the other princes, Seventh Prince Ji Jiucheng was merely a concubine-born son.
The other princes had been born in the imperial palace, while Ji Jiucheng had only been born in an ordinary mortal village.
It was said that Ji Yunzhou had not yet become the ruler of the imperial dynasty back then.
Once, while traveling south to carry out a mission, he encountered a woman.
Amid the misty rain of Jiangnan, a land of fish and rice, the two had fallen for one another.
Later, Ji Yunzhou left Jiangnan and inherited the position of Imperial Lord.
In order not to tarnish Ji Yunzhou's reputation, that woman quietly left Jiangnan with her newborn child.
From then on, she vanished without a trace.
More than ten years later, a youth named Yue Jiucheng began to make a name for himself throughout the Phoenix Perch Empire.
There was a flood dragon in the deep sea, nine meters and nine in length, which often devoured villagers from the fishing settlements along the shore.
Young Yue Jiucheng held a long spear and slew the flood dragon in a sea of blood. He drew out its tendons, stripped away its bones, and boiled its flesh before the village.
There was a Yin Yang Cult atop an unnamed mountain. They cultivated the art of union and pleasure, drained the essence and blood of virgin boys and girls, and burned, killed, plundered, and pillaged.
They brought calamity upon the areas around Fengxi City.
Young Yue Jiucheng climbed the mountain and