Guilong City, also known as Shangjing City or the imperial capital.
It had always been the political, military, economic, martial, cultural, and even trendsetting center of the Great Qian Kingdom. It could be said to be the heart of the entire Great Qian Kingdom.
As such, it was also an excellent place to make a name for oneself and climb upward.
Every year, countless ambitious young experts, as well as powerful clans unwilling to remain local strongmen forever, came here, seeking to make something of themselves in Guilong City.
Yet the vast majority arrived full of enthusiasm and returned defeated and dispirited.
Only the tiniest fraction could barely gain a foothold in Guilong City. Then, through generation after generation of growth and accumulation, they would eventually become part of Guilong City itself.
For that reason, those living in Guilong City often possessed an innate sense of superiority and were somewhat prouder and more arrogant than local powerful clans.
The sudden emergence of Great Heavenly Prodigy Liyao had swept through Guilong City's younger generation with invincible might. While her fame soared and she blazed like the noonday sun, she also shattered the pride in the hearts of Guilong City's younger generation and deeply provoked them.
Many young prodigies began striving with renewed determination, entering a period of bitter cultivation.
Especially the young Prefecture Prince Wu Zhixing, who had been beaten unconscious on the spot. His elders had been pressing him to cultivate every day, showering him with heavenly treasures, spiritual pills, and miraculous medicines as though they cost nothing. All for the day when Wu Zhixing could wipe away his former humiliation and prove to the world that the imperial family remained the strongest.
Meanwhile, Shangguan Yunque of the fourth-rank Guilong Shangguan Clan had also kept a low profile, spending every