The Mount Tai Trials Academy was built with a single goal in mind—to gather elites on behalf of the government. These elites were selected from the Aurora Academy's branches across the five supercities. Anyone talented enough could enter and receive resources and guidance.0

Zhu Qingyu, Chunyang, and others had all started out as members of the Trials Academy. With the founding of the Celestial Court, the Academy had taken on a new role as its reserve pipeline. 0

Completing the trials of the Trials Academy gave one a chance to enter the Celestial Court. Students and outsiders alike were eligible, but the number of people who actually made it in was astoundingly small.0

Not long ago, word had come down that thirty-six individuals would be chosen to enter the Celestial Court. Their strength could be lacking, but their potential...0