Survival was a great challenge. It was only after Ruthless stubbornly kept cultivating, happened upon the path of cultivation, and grew strong enough to open her Bitter Sea that the problem was solved to some extent.
A cultivator in the Bitter Sea Realm, even one at Initial Entry, had mastered Extraordinary Power. It was little, but it set her apart from mortals.
Only at that stage could Ruthless finally live a normal life.
She no longer had to worry about food or cold weather.
But how long had it taken Ruthless to go from mortal to Bitter Sea Realm? How much hardship had she endured, how many times had she fallen ill, how many beatings had she suffered...
No one knew the answers to any of those questions.
And opening her Bitter Sea and becoming a cultivator certainly did not mean all her troubles were over.
Cultivators did not have to worry about food and clothing, but they had to seek things far harder to obtain.
Before opening her Bitter Sea, Ruthless had faced the most basic problem of survival: how to stay alive.
Once that most basic—perhaps even simplest—problem was solved, what was there to boast about?
People were supposed to be able to live, weren't they?
Yet Ruthless had struggled for a long time just to achieve something so taken for granted.
After becoming a cultivator, she faced problems far less simple: greater dangers, and far more malice!
What happened when a good-for-nothing whose aptitude for cultivation could scarcely have been worse, who practically had none at all, pushed open the door to cultivation?
How would she feel as she looked at the secret realms and steps that lay beyond? What would her State of Mind be?
To Ruthless, who had only just opened her Bitter Sea, every