Yet there are those born into wealth and privilege who use these very advantages to relentlessly temper their skills in every domain, rocketing straight to the status of protagonists, while ordinary people can only watch their dust in despair.
Meanwhile, a mortal wishing to leap upward into high society and rank among the aristocracy must endure all manner of hardships, constantly sharpening their abilities. At life’s critical junctions, they must seize opportunities, abstain from lust, banish greed, curb anger, and conquer delusion. They must withstand the scorching heat of summer and the freezing cold of winter, stomach the stench of rotting pork meat, endure the humiliation of crawling between a man's legs, and balance steadily on a wire ball. Only after experiencing all of life's trials and looking back would they realize...
It had been padded with four whole paragraphs of fluff!
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