Chapter 243
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Doing a thing like cultivation was analogous to that of a person traveling upstream in a wooden kayak without a paddle. It was a trial against fate—a trial that shouldn't be taken lightly.
If one were to get into the statistics of it all, then only around 1 in 1000 people could make it to the peak of the Body Refinement Realm. And only roughly 1 in 10,000 people could make it to the peak of the Qi Condensation Realm.
Now, this number may seem overinflated to most; however, that was truly a fair probability considering that there were tens of trillions of humans residing within the world of Asterion.
So, with all this in mind, it was completely reasonable that even a 'weak' cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Realm could rule over a small area consisting of a few thousand people.