Review Detail of a_demon_prince in Lightning Is the Only Way

The cultivation system is dumb. You temper yourself by fighting a life and death battle with someone of similar strength and if you survive, you get a little bit stronger. That basically means you just keep flipping a coin and getting stronger while you keep getting heads and you die if you get tails once. There can't be so many strong people with this system as there are in the novel. Exponential decay doesn't work like that. The whole idea of tempering is completely dumb. Nothing aside from being a battle maniac matters, no schemes, traps, information gathering on your opponents, training specifically to fight a certain opponent. And what's this about people not able to find suitable opponents? Even if somebody doesn't want to temper themselves, they still have to defend themselves and fight back if you attack them. How does anyone even live with a cultivation system like this? Like they live for hundreds of years while going into each next battle completely blind with no knowledge of their opponent and no care of their own lives. If these people don't care about their own lives, why would they care about others' lives? What's stopping them from killing everyone they see? That's sure to bring more tempering experiences their way. What a dumb world!