Besides these grades of gifted aptitude, there were naturally fourth and fifth grades, and even lower ones. In principle, with more time and greater accumulation, they too should have been able to reach the tenth transformation...
Yet over the course of a human life, the foundations of most achievements were laid in youth, followed by a soaring ascent in one's prime. Only then was there hope of realizing them. Anyone seeking to reach the Earth Rank, or even the Heaven Tier, had to raise their cultivation to the tenth transformation early on. Those people had essentially lost any possibility of advancing through cultivation. Even the tenth and ninth transformations became exceedingly difficult for them, and they could easily sink into the mortal dust and spend their days in mediocrity. There was little point in discussing them.
Fang Qianyuan was undoubtedly a genius of the highest grade. Those mentioned earlier, such as the people from Severed Karma Hall and Hua Wuhen, were first-grade geniuses, as was his senior brother Sun Zhuo. The Wen siblings and the others belonged to the second or third grades.
The accompanying guards who served them and worked for the Wen Lineage, along with the likes of One Nest of Bees whom they had encountered before, were naturally ordinary people of insufficient aptitude. For such people, defying heaven and rewriting their fate was almost impossible without relying on elusive luck and fortuitous encounters.
Yet it was precisely people like these who made up the majority of Spirit Tamers. Those who could be called geniuses were instead the minority.
Li Yan had judged from factors such as talent and background that ordinary geniuses would certainly be no match for Fang Qianyuan. This was somewhat sweeping, but in truth, it was already fairly close to the mark.
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