Jack Clark pondered, "Population, you mean we don't have enough cultivators."
Hannah Gail nodded, "Exactly. Although the method for body casting has become widespread, resulting in an explosion in the base number of cultivators in the last decade, we've expanded to more than ten million overall."
"Over ten million cultivators, but only just over three million are recorded as having reached or surpassed the Foundation Establishment stage, and that includes those in the military who cultivate only their Qi Blood for operating firepower equipment, standard soldiers."
"Besides, three million might sound like a lot, but excluding a portion stationed within Blue Star's Inner World maintaining order, only about three million enter the mythical world."
"Out of these three millions, a part is allocated for logistics maintenance, production, mineral and resource excavation, so only about two million are actually on the front lines."