"A hundred thousand cultivators who had refined their Divine Sense have died!?"
This number was astoundingly high.
It should be known that to refine one's Divine Sense is tantamount to embracing an entirely different concept.
Those who had not yet refined their Divine Sense were engaged only in basic societal production, ensuring the normal functioning of a sect's foundational level.
Their existence was akin to foundational keystones, continuously filtering out those beneficial for the development of the sect who had refined their Divine Sense.
This layer then, through the production of Spirit Stones and by filling in some key departments that required Spirit Stones for their operation, allowed the sect to function and, in turn, cultivate more of its management, core, and ruling layers, until ultimately forming the entire structure of the sect.