Victory is targeted at specific groups.
Looking back at World War II, the conclusion is simple: our victory was inevitable.
But have you ever stopped to think—standing in their shoes, like Li Yunlong and his men, it wasn't that simple. That eventual victory, which looks inevitable from our vantage point, was won one bloody step at a time.
Put yourself in their position. If things were so straightforward, why would someone like Lao Wang surrender? Young Lao Wang once attempted to assassinate the Regent; he wrote in prison about how a sword's sharp edge never fails the youthful spirit.
Have you ever really thought about why?
Consider the historical context of that time. The Japanese were boasting—not just about military might, but about history itself. They pointed to the Song-Yuan transition, when outsiders conquered the central plains; to the Ming-Qing transition, when they swept in from the north. Your enemy didn't just attack you on the battlefield—they tried to break your spirit ideologically, constantly asking: why did those outsiders succeed where you failed? Lao Wang fell for this narrative. He found himself on the wrong side of history without even realizing it, thinking himself a man of action like Hong Chengchou.
Back to that moment in history, the statement "our victory is inevitable" was something realized by many specific people, through their own actions.
Why would we inevitably win? Kong Jie from *Drawing Sword* explained it clearly. He said: "I may have lost battles—you can strip me of my rank or humiliate me—but you cannot humiliate my soldiers. There's no finer bunch of fighters anywhere on earth." Kong Jie saw it. Li Yunlong saw it. The brigade commander saw it. That is the fundamental reason we would ultimately prevail.
Not everyone saw things the way Lao Wang did. Across China, there were many fine people—those who kept the spark alive, so that it could ignite a prairie fire. After a protracted war, we would inevitably win.
Do you see it now? "Ultimately victorious" applies to a specific group of people. Any success or breakthrough is always for specific people, not everyone.
"Ultimately victorious" is something a specific person wins with their life. It's not something you achieve by lying back and letting words do the work. If that person themselves are weak, no amount of outside help—no time travel, no probability analysis, no reading the trends—will save them. If the person themselves are no good, even Jesus couldn't help them.
If you're not capable, giving you money won't help. Wealth will simply pass through your hands, like trying to grip water tightly—it still slips through your fingers.
The old saying goes: a person without wealth in their fate isn't destined to hold it, because they lack the vessel to contain it. The same applies to victory, to making money—to everything. It all comes down to the person.