Simulated Journey To The Top Chapter 5: Chapter 5: Rewards

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"..." Du Yuan kept silently staring at the screen until it disappeared and a new one appeared. "That... was a sad end." Covering his eyes with his left hand, Du Yuan decided to take a step back, mentally, and analyse the simulation. There were two things that instantly came to Du Yuan's mind. The First. 'The simulator doesn't show everything, only major and semi major things. Everything it shows is most likely connected.' This was ultimately just a conjecture to be verified when he could see the second simulation, when he breaks through to the strand realm in 7 years.... The second. 'The simulator seems to only respect thread realm and above breakthroughs, even then there were many that were likely not told.' Du Yuan thought so because there were 8 thread realms in the Zhang family and 7 in the Chen family with some near death's doors and some about to break through. Some of these must have died and with new ones taking their place, there was no mention of this. 'So it's not realm breakthroughs in general. It's people.' He turned that over. 'What was the criteria? Me meeting them, no, I probably met scores of thread realm during my clan head years.' 'Then... Importance? To who? Me? My success? The world?' He rubbed the back of his neck and decided to leave this question too. 'Confirmability, the main thing. How do I actually verify any of this?' The breakthrough next month couldn't be trusted, Du Yuan may have not known when exactly Gu Shimei was going to breakthrough but he knew it was this year. After thinking for a while, he couldn't find any concrete answer. What he couldn't do was sit on his hands waiting for confirmation before acting on anything. The rewards screen was still waiting. He'd been ignoring it while he thought. He looked at it now. "That's new." [The simulation has concluded.] [You have been rewarded: Pseudo earth rank combination, blood cloud clones. (1) Myriad eyes faith language. (1) Totem Pillar. (1)] [Would you like to receive them now: <1> Yes. <2> Yes.] "..." Du Yuan stared at the two choices. He looked at the first. He looked at the second. 'Free will,' Du Yuan thought, looking at the two identical options, Then he pressed the second one with considerably more force than a floating screen of light required. The screen registered the click and disappeared. 'Would it just instantly appear in a corner like in the simu...' Du Yuan rubbed his eyes before he once again stared at two books that just appeared. Du Yuan could swear to heaven that they just appeared, like a glitch in reality. Both books were emitting shallow light, one red the other blue. The red one was titled Blood Cloud Clones in a bold and striking way. The blue one was titled Myriad Eyes Faith Language in an elegant and cursive way. After processing the books for a breath, Du Yuan instantly turned around. The Totem Pillar was shyly standing in the corner. In reality it looked even stranger than the description in the simulator, its white body reminded Du Yuan of the tube lights of his previous world. Just much taller and thicker. The light emitting from the books was not limited in any way and was mixing well, thus, when looking at the Totem Pillar it appeared as if the entire stone room was filled with an ethereal purple glow. "This... This does lend some credence..." Du Yuan muttered slightly mesmerized. *** The books were interesting, the Blood clones book was written in an easy to understand language, clearly directed to the clan. The combination required Mastery 7 in the Cloud Chasing, Cloud Shooting, and Scorching blood arts. It also required Mastery 4 in Lake Calming Palm. Its boast of matching low earth rank techniques was certainly a question. 'All of this would take roughly... 5 years? Yeah 5 years, the notes from the many practitioners from the future definitely helps.' The Faith language book was much weirder, it was directed not to other clan members or even to simulation Yuan himself, but to the Du Yuan outside. It contained