As night fell, the miners finally got a chance to rest.
After distributing the food, the overseer left, completely unconcerned about the chaos such actions would cause among the "prisoners."
Indeed, terms like distribution based on needs or labor are just empty words here.
——Strength is king.
No matter how high one's cultivation was before, here it doesn't matter; what matters is physical strength.
Because of this, those focused on Body Cultivation naturally had an advantage, as well as those who were "young and vigorous."
Of course, "young and vigorous" is relative — an eighty-year-old Soul Nurturing cultivator is definitely considered old, but at eight hundred years, one Ascending to the Saint Position is in the prime of life.
Here, a few prisoners were recognized leaders.
No other reason than this: they had trained their bodies and could fight ten or even a hundred men at once through sheer strength.
