"The Prodigies' Trial of Edge" had been a tradition since the founding of the Great Qian Kingdom.
The words "trial of edge" meant testing one's blade for the first time.
Since ancient times, the capital, Guilong City, had been where high-ranking aristocratic clans and the imperial house gathered. Experts abounded, geniuses abounded, and Lesser Heavenly Prodigies were as numerous as ox hairs.
As for an aptitude like Wang Shouzhe's at the start—lower-grade Class A—in Guilong City, he could only be counted as a faceless passerby. No one would even spare him a second glance.
Only Lesser Heavenly Prodigies with at least middle-grade Class C aptitude would receive a little attention. After all, at that level, so long as they did not lack cultivation resources, their chances of advancing to the Celestial Realm were quite high.
Yet if one wished to truly make a name among the younger generation, one had to at least be a Heavenly Prodigy. And not merely an ordinary Heavenly Prodigy, either—one needed at least upper-grade Class D aptitude.
But that was only enough to make a name for oneself.
If one wished to become famous throughout Guilong City, where geniuses gathered, and command the winds and clouds among the younger generation, even upper-grade Class D was not enough. One had to be above Class B—an exceptional genius even among Heavenly Prodigies.
One had to remember: this was the capital.
In the local commandery cities, there were often only two or three Heavenly Prodigies of the same generation under a hundred years old. Even including the local prince's family, it was difficult to exceed three. Of those, even fewer had strength above the Celestial Realm—most likely only one or two lonely figures.
Yet in Guilong City, there were no fewer than thirty or forty young Heavenly Prodigies