Some people seemed to be born for cultivation, and they could cruise along with their training so well that one might even say that their journey on cultivation was entirely smooth sailing.
Such a person would have absolutely become the equal of formidable generals back in ancient times.
The likes of Lu Bu and Xiang Yu had been naturally powerful, so much so that they would have been considered top-notch beings even if they hadn't walked the path of a cultivator at all. When such beings became cultivators, they could easily become walking killing machines unlike any other.
The notion of everyone being born equal simply couldn't be applied to the world of cultivators at all. Some were born with blocked meridians, preventing them from being able to cultivate at all, while others were born with meridians totally free of blockages, enabling them to achieve astonishing progress with cultivation.